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...writing at all, which is the case with a multitude of his fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American annals than those in the collection Gold and Iron. There are few better novels than The Three Black Pennies. Those who consider some of Hergesheimer's characters passionless must seek his emotion in words. He often characterizes a screen as lovingly as a woman. Nothing is so inanimate as to be stone to this high priest of the senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Dresses Well | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon River...

Author: By G. H. Maynadier ., | Title: Current Advocate Not "High Brow" | 3/31/1916 | See Source »

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