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WHAT ARE WE TO Do?-John Strachey -Random House...
...life was both disappointed and disappointing, it was lively and varied; if for that reason only, both of last week's biographies make interesting reading. A little carried away himself by the brilliant instability of his subject's period, Author Jones adopts the method of Guedalla and Strachey, devoting much space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore...
...because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
...THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIALISM - John Strachey - Random House...
...THEORY AND PRACTICE or SOCIALISM - John Strachey - Random House ($3). Handbook of Marxism, together with an excellent guide to involved works of Marx and Engels, by the author of The Coming Struggle for Power...