Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power. Like the earlier volumes, The Specter is crowded with philosophic and political speculations, with scenes of suicides and bitter intellectual quarrels, with an oppressive boredom, which is the one sensation Clim Samghim feels strongly. Although The Specter is not likely to impress U. S. readers as a novel, the massive work of which it is part may well stand as a record of Russian intellectual life, for if Clim Samghim lacks reality as a human being, he responds like a barometer to changing pressures in stormy Russian politics...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...
Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
...might have been inspired by the powerful social movement at the time of the Civil War, that he might, for a few years, at least, have been a real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...
...PAST MUST ALTER-Albert J. Guerard-Holt ($2.50). Divorce tragedy, ranging through Iowa, California, Paris, a Swiss sanatorium, as seen through the eyes of an editor's precocious ten-year-old son. A first novel, written at 20, by the precocious, 23-year-old son of Stanford's Professor-Literary Critic Albert L. Guerard...