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...Author Maurois wrote Ariel: The Life of Shelley. Thereafter interest in the "new" human biography did not dwindle. When Author Maurois recreated another life, that of Disraeli, more copies of it sold in the U. S. than of any other non-fiction book...
...play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself with "dramaturgy" rather than "show business," as would befit the son of Author Philip Littell (onetime editor of the New Republic) and the product of well-mannered Groton School (Groton, Mass.), where boys who read Shelley and play Mozart are often encouraged. Now 33, Robert Littell's youth included Harvard and the U. S. army of occupation in Russia and book reviews for the New Republic and many a big talk with famed Walter Lippmann, philosopher-editor of the New York World. In addition...
...William was a poet and a mystic who spoke the truth in strange symbols, who spoke frankly about God and Jesus Christ and Shelley, taking them all so seriously that he seemed often to blaspheme. The simple villagers, understanding, caressed him with their sweet Devon accent, but their patroness, wealthy spinster, bristled with gossip about him. Alarmed for her daughter, Mary's mother discouraged William's presence at the manor. Hurt, miserable, William withdrew...
...Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient...
...mercurial and far more alive than those whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom to go among the troops of esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with the works of Shelley and with the accounts of antique murder trials; her closets contain dresses from Paris; she has had two husbands before Mr. Benét; the daughters of one of them are now grown...