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...Middle Western towns?Babbitt?calling other people babbitts? being called a babbitt? The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction?goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses??? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters by Franklin K. Lane?by Walter Hines Page?fat, interesting volumes and no time to read them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Pot-Pourri | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...POCKETFUL OF POSES???Anne Parrish?Doran ($2.00). A delightful first novel, intelligent, humorous and civilized, concerned with the first twenty-odd years or so of the life of Marigold Trent, whose " guiding impulses " were " politeness and a feeling for the dramatic." She posed to herself, her relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment?and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Free Country | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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