Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL-Edward Morgan Forster-Harcourt, Brace (82.50). Author of A Passage to India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels...
...Significance. The parents of genius usually invite more speculation than its children. But its children have supplied Author Kennedy with the material for two novels. Just as in The Constant Nymph she studied reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against...
...returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling and normality. The result of this is a novel that proves little. Nevertheless, handicapped by the mediocrity of his theme, Author Webster, who as a novelist is no beginner, achieves a story which is characteristically well-built and worth reading...
...appurtenances of a genuine history book. Not only has it a Latin quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
...take from the subject much of its inherent moralizing. Professor Phelps discusses in turn education, old age, health wealth and bovine contentment and their relation to the universally desired happiness, with a result that the 50 pages of the little book contain almost as many interesting and withal surprisingly novel ideas...