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Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
...Realist...
...Harvard Law School, treats the achievements of the great judge in legal history, with especial reference to his monumental work on the English common law. Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School assumes another point of view in his article entitled: "The Call for a Realist Jurisprudence...
...producers and their part in the general trend of the theatre, Mr. Brown writes of David Belasco, the Barnum realist and showman. Winthrop Ames and his dramatic gentility and Arthur Hopkins whose sincerity leads him into many pitfalls. In this lection of the book one feels that there have been many omissions. Those men who are considered are given adequate and illuminating analysis, but they certainly do not present a complete picture of what is actually going on in modern theatre production...
...known John Marin 22 years. . . . He is a realist, a colorist, an artist and a poet. He is important because he has taken water color painting which has always been a minor art, and made of it a major medium...