Word: seidel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Seidel Canby...
...Chairman, M. Morrill, Mildred Marcus; H. J. Freedman, Josephine Freedman; A. H. Ellis, Florence Levy; M. J. Koleman, Helen Koleman; E. J. Berman, Rose Cohen; H. Meirowitz, Anne Seidel; A. E. Sopers, Anne Herwitz; H. Hoffman, Rae Hoffman...
...Critics. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, of The Literary Review, calls Faint Perfume " one of the interesting books in the history of American fiction." Heywood Broun remarks in The New York World: "We do not know any modern novelist who has achieved such admirable compression." Other commentators have protested at the "happy ending." But the book has generally been received as a masterpiece of its kind and as in most respects greatly superior to tne much-praised Miss Lulu Bett...
...easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby,_ of The Literary Review, regards it as " a new Pilgrim's Progress." His praise is not quite unqualified, but he says of Mr. Anderson: "If we are to have an American Hardy...
...CRITICS.-The scientific probability of Mary Zattiany's rejuvenation has caused considerable discussion. Such cures have been affirmed. Whether they are sufficiently established to warrant Mrs. Atherton's use of the idea is another matter. In general, the book has been well received. Says Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of The Literary Review: "It is as a social description, done with a power that beats into shape a turgid style, that one must praise Black Oxen...