Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sent out with a patrol to Certain Death, Colman stalls for time in the tent of an Arab chieftain who turns out to have been an Oxford classmate. In a sequence which should induce Hollywood to investigate England's famed Victorian society novelist further, the Arab remarks: "You remember our soccer games? Well, we shall play soccer, on horseback. And you, ho-ho, shall be the ball...
...against outrages that would indeed have cried aloud to heaven in peace, but might now rank as trifling irregularities." As in so many contemporary German novels, Injustice is the theme. The story opens with a minor but significant example. Bertin, who in peacetime had been a well-known German novelist, is now simply a near-sighted private in the Army Service Corps, gets into serious hot water for giving some thirsty French prisoners a drink. Thenceforward he is a marked man, is relentlessly persecuted by his superiors, given dirty and dangerous jobs, punished for no reason, refused leave...
...Great novelists live with their characters; lesser ones pay calls. Not a great novelist but a good one, Sylvia Thompson is an adept at taking her leave, never embarrasses her characters or her readers by staying with them too long at a stretch. Third Act in Venice, her latest (and ninth) novel, is a brilliant exhibition of her episodic power, her knowledge of how to be absolutely tactful though relatively true...
Author Garland was a young (31) writer in Boston, "a novelist, holding a keen interest in positive science," when he was approached by a friend who was a spiritualist, asked to join a circle for the investigation of psychic phenomena. When a skeptical professor of physics also agreed to join, Garland went along. Thereafter, in many a darkened room (and sometimes in a daylit office), he heard, saw, felt many a queer thing. Scientifically curious, he kept records of the seances he attended. In Forty Years of Psychic Research he has rewritten those records into a "plain narrative of fact...
...Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would have made him, but he is strong enough to make some impression even on the minds of those who "read history not with their eyes but with their prejudices," to use the words of Wendell Phillips. The novel is full of the large air of Thomas Jefferson, the Amis...