Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...
Although Morgan has been the subject of many a scientific memoir, U. S. readers got their first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A good introduction, it traces the grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also...
...MEMOIR OF AE-John Eglinton-Macmillan ($3.50). Simple, direct, sometimes moving, biographical essay on the late George William Russell, whose career as a distinguished Irish poet ran parallel to his less happy life as an ardent, unpractical, outspoken politician...
Last week this untrustworthy monster was the hero of a rambling, repetitious memoir by her onetime commander. Filled with cranky asides about war, the British, the flu, spies, religion, written with a heavy-handed humor, Take Her Down nevertheless gives an entertaining picture of submarine life. While the L-9 was being towed with seven other U. S. submarines to the Azores, en route to the War zone, during a hurricane her towline parted; a fire extinguisher tore loose, sprayed the torpedo room with a white sticky froth; both magnetic and gyroscopic compasses were smashed, most of the crew were...
...DREYFUS CASE-Albert and Pierre Dreyfus-Edited by Donald C. McKay- Yale University Press ($3.75). Vivid record of the 19th Century cause celebre; contains a detailed account by his son of Dreyfus' four-year imprisonment on Devil's Island, an unpublished memoir by Captain Dreyfus covering the period from his second conviction (1899) to his acquittal in 1906, together with numerous letters from prominent Dreyfus partisans...