Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North has been a subject for novelists, since it took place slowly and unobtrusively and since it involved the transplanting of people who were still tied emotionally to the regions they had lost. Last week the uprooting of one Southern family formed the subject of a brooding, sympathetic novel by a young Virginian whose seriousness of purpose had not been revealed in his earlier books. Born in Lexington, Va. 35 years ago, Charles Wertenbaker began his career as a novelist with a lively story of adolescent cain-raising called Boojum!, followed it with another cut in the same pattern, Peter...
...readers the most unpleasant aspect of No Mean City is likely to be a note of hypocritical horror that runs through it. Writing as if the poverty-stricken masses they describe belonged to some savage tribe heretofore unknown, the authors solemnly state that "their novel deals only with one seam in the crowded life of the Empire's second city." They add that Glasgow is making a determined effort "to rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers...
...material from an entirely new angle, the author has left to us, the contemporary sons of Harvard, and to our successors, a book of rare charm, a history which is lightly written yet accurate, familiar but not impertinent. From start to finish it reads like a first rate novel...
...entire period of the Conference, consisted merely of papers delivered by outstanding scientists on the researches they have been currently pursuing; the first-named section, on the other hand, which did not start until the second week of the session, took the form of a well-integrated and novel plan for consolidating the various branches of learning concerned with the study of mankind as a whole...
LOST MORNING-Du Bose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Skillfully-constructed, smoothly-written novel about an artist whose success turns sour under the pressure of difficulties with his wife, his daughter, the small fashionable Southern city where he lives...