Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea is another matter. In general, the book has been well received. Says Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of The Literary Review: "It is as a social description, done with a power that beats into shape a turgid style, that one must praise Black Oxen...
...lived for some years in Vienna, and her present home is in New York. Among her earlier books are: Patience Sparhawk and Her Times, The Conqueror (a romantic biography of Alexander Hamilton), The Splendid Idle Forties, Tower of Ivory, Mrs. Balfame, The Living Present, Rulers of Kings. Black Oxen is probably her best work...
...Black Oxen-Gertrude Atherton -Boni...
Gertrude Atherton writes a novel, Black Oxen, dealing with literary New York of today. What is this literary New York? Who are these log-rollers and back-scratchers of whose activities many of us hear, yet whose actuality we are prone to deny? go into the Algonquin some noon. Anyone can do it. Here you will find the famous "round table" at which sit the supposedly elect. Perhaps you will see Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, whose Six Characters in Search of an Author has been reckoned one of the artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...