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...memory of seagoing Novelist Joseph Conrad, who died 25 years ago, Novelist Christopher Morley took to sea from Manhattan with an old teakwood ship's steering wheel. Salvaged in Tasmania from the hulk of the barque Otago, Conrad's first command, it was in Morley's keeping on its way back to England for permanent display...
...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
Modified Raptures. Not everyone cheered. Some critics choked on his whimsy, and youngsters just out of college or World War I found their own spirit more faithfully mirrored in F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Morley's faithful coterie held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a sensitive nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read...
Once more their patience has been rewarded-but not so amusingly this time. Christopher Morley's new novel, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself, is a long epigram-studded footnote on the life of Richard Tolman, a literary agent who commutes and ruminates between his Long Island home and his Manhattan office. His story is a memoir found after his death...
...postscript to Richard's story, written by Neighbor Sharpy Cullen, reveals something intended to carry walloping significance for the reader: Richard Tolman's real name was Toulemonde-everybody. It is doubtful that this information will prevent all the survivors of Mr. Morley's withering crossfire of literary quotations, rhymed commentaries, reflections on women and craw-sticking puns from realizing that in the latest Morley novel they have been fed a fuzzy allegory that pretends much and says little...