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...Author? Son of a Yorkshire schoolmaster, John Boynton Priestley still talks in his broad, matter-of-fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News...
...says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will read! But if they are of no value the most enthusiastic eulogists will not be able to keep...
Author Larsson's care to write objectively has made his story a little toe matter-of-fact, his people a little too typical. But, as is often the case in such chronicles, the minor characters are worth the price of admission...
...stand with his hands raised to the heavens and his back to the audience--if that is his conception, it is certainly a weird one. Mr. Byer's sense of the melodramatic nearly ran away with him and Miss Margaret Lang gave a surprisingly sour-faced and matter-of-fact portrayal of Death. Mr. James Tower, in the part of Lewis the Loving, needs a gentle reminder that love is neither complacent, simpering nor awkward...
Author Kantor's single -eyewitness method shows to best advantage in the earlier phases of the battle, when the action is comparatively simple and concentrated. Some of his vivid pictures of tired, dirty, wounded men, of galloping batteries and matter-of-fact sharpshooters are unforgettable. Later, when he has to describe a two-mile battle line through the eyes of one spectator, he falls back on impressionistic violence that results in confusion. By & large Long Remember is a brilliantly exciting piece of historical fiction, a book that many a reader will remember long...