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...Marquand's current novel in the form of a memoir is really very nice. However much the codfish aristocracy may affect to ignore it, or to be very politely amused-but-still-uncomprehending, it has accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
Gold, Silver, Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Serious minded people might dig up several quotations like the well-known one of Professor Marquand to the effect that the Harvard Stadium is architecture, that of his own university, very satisfactory engineering. Scientists might be called in to measure the wear and tear of the last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals...
...about the card sharping son of a British lord; Joseph Hergesheimer's Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire's somewhat fragile son; Good Morning, Major, in which J. P. Marquand accentuates a melodramatic moment in the old army game; Meridel Le Sueur's Persephone; Sherwood Anderson's Another Wife; these stories would finish ahead of the field in any literary sweepstakes. All the other stories are good ones...
...detail. "John Keats" by Amy Lowell is a monumental work which has created much discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in a light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak...