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...GREAT MISCHIEF (247 pp.)-Josephine Pinckney-Viking...
Christopher Morley wasn't there when his fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges chose Josephine Pinckney's Great Mischief for March. That leaves the blame to be split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts...
...experience: God. To this unending effort to know God, man is driven by the noblest of his intuitions-the sense of his mortal incompleteness-and by hard experience. For man's occasional lapses from God-seeking inevitably result in intolerable shallowness of thought combined with incalculable mischief in action...
Cried Czechoslovakia's Dr. Adolf Hoffmeister: "A campaign of hatred has been launched against men of different faiths or colors-not merely if they are black, but especially if they are reds. This irresponsible freedom of misinformation is doing untold mischief...
...Great is a roisterous, freewheeling and often very amusing story about a four-flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...