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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCARLET TREE (381 pp.)-Sir Osbert Sitwell-Little, Brown...
...Scarlet Tree is Vol. II of Osbert's autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had dared publish half its secrets, the Sitwell trio would have screamed with rage, summoned their solicitors and sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits...
...hundreds of perfectly respectable artists were unsure of their feelings and unable to remember their dreams. They preferred looking at a tree to painting it. They were the abstractionists...
...poor boy can find are careless loves. Like all Saroyan's "little people," he dreams of many "higher things," including a son as yet unconceived. Finally, in London, he finds "his girl"-an epitome of those vacant people who tinkle brightly through Saroyan stories like Christmas-tree bells...
...shouting's about . . . that's Christmas come, that's the Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven, that's the song and the dance, the old river laughing, the ocean all happy, the wind full of kisses, the sky open arms, the tree jumping for joy, the rock all humming, the night gone whispering, the day come strolling...