Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family...
BREAD AND A SWORD-Evelyn Scott- Scribner...
Readers of Evelyn Scott's The Wave (1929) were much impressed, ranked it among the best Civil War novels vet written. Her books since then have been a continuous disappointment. Last week she annoyed, depressed and bored nearly everyone in sight with a 488-page novel "on the artist and the creative problem." Bread and a Sword was Evelyn Scott's third exhaustive mangling of the same unpopular theme; readers cheered her announcement that it was likely to be her last word on the subject...
With great earnestness, no sense of humor, an entirely undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling...
...Southerners, the War between the States. Historians refer to it as the Civil War. But what plain folks called it while it was going on, few Northerners or Southerners or historians can now tell convincingly. To roll back time 75 years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly the same news...