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...Minister of Finance for old Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
...place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards...
...Author. Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...
...solid work" Mr. Strachey betakes him and his gangling bones to the country, to escape, not so much the London noises, as the distracting society of Bloomsbury literati-VirginiaWoolf, Clive Bell, Osbert Sitwell (TIME...