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Tonight's lecture at the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock by Dr. John Haynes Holmes on Mahatma Ghandi should be more than worth-while. I would not miss such an opportunity to hear an eminent Occidental divine discuss an eminent Orientals saga...
...pleased was L'Academie Francaise with this French Forsyte Saga that Author Henriot received a prize. It is nice reading for Galsworthy enthusiasts...
...maintained a certain aloofness from the ridiculous. And now his eroticism of the book which, unbelieving and unregenerate to the country, has earned a prize of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars should going precise attention. True, he is not the first to remark the trend toward folklore, toward the saga which is so patent to observing eyes. But in defining as good, as strong. "Wild Geese." Miss good, Miss Martha Ostenso's first novel he professor a firm, belief in the esoteric simple, a belief which will always continue the fundament on which drama must be built...
...comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common sense. And if she must bury herself, it must be in real life, exactly as the American saga is doing. That the new saga lacks humor is pathetic but too evident to remain surprising. So Mr. Sherman points the only path to creative heights. It lies among the uncluttered hills, upon the uncluttered plains, in the cluttered hearts of the simple people. In truth, the future of the American...
...much more to the story of the Smiths, and it is a good story. They and colorful contemporaries live in the book, continuously and visibly. Their author does not psychoanalyze or otherwise distort them. She has employed, with notable poise and richness, the formula of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga against a thoroughly U. S. background, Chicago. Residents of that vigorous commonty will discredit their citizenship by failing to read this excellent chronicle of its childhood. Other nonreaders will miss a sound, satisfying novel...