Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have material mighty enough for his greatest virtuosity. Ask any Manhattanite who is the world's greatest conductor and the answer, almost infallibly, will be Arturo Toscanini. Ask a Philadelphian and the answer will be, just as surely, Leopold Stokowski. Hence satisfaction, as blissful if not quite as novel, attended the first Philadelphia Orchestra concert given last week, a day after the Philharmonic...
Author Edmund Wilson admires Marcel Proust, shows it in this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died, his own abilities ebbed. He set a bone awkwardly; his practice limped thereafter. Moving...
...plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Way Home, were commercial failures. Ultima Thule is the completing volume. Written in a rich, loamy, colloquial...
...Significance. Hierarchical reminiscences are not novel but, in some cases, entertaining. Such is the case with Frances of Warwick's book. Her self-centred, upper-class attitude makes itself pleasant and charming. The Victorian era, now assuming historical prominence, she pictures with fervor and delightful intolerance...