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...MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...
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