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...Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper ($3). THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY - James Truslow Adams - Scribner ($3.50). MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA - Bernard De Voto - Little, Brown ($4). MEMOIRS OF HECTOR BERLIOZ - edited by Ernest Newman - Knopf ($5). MEMOIRS OF PRINCE VON BULOW - Vols. Ill & IV - Little, Brown ($5 each). MEN AGAINST DEATH - PAUL DE KRUIF - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND - Anonymous - Liveright ($3). A NEW DEAL...
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...Bank efficiency which characterizes the Boston Herald is not to be found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production of humorous human-interest stories for every front page; there is an influence extending even from Washington Street to Cambridge which makes the headline "Many Years a Baker in West Roxbury" read...
...noted author replied in answer to a question as to why he had commenced his latest undertaking, "except to amuse myself. As you know, my book is the result of Mr. Ernest Boyd's suggestion that my acquaintance with frontier society might be serviceable in the explanation of Mark Twain. It was originally intended to be one of a series of short biographies, to be known as the 'International Men of Letters Series.' The articles, however, were never published, and I, therefore, decided to continue my work, with 'Mark Twain's America' as the result. Although there is no guiding...
...Mark Twain is personally concerned," Mr. DeVoto continued, "I have endeavored to prove that he is a man of literary importance. Although he is today one of the most widely read of American authors, nevertheless, I do not believe he has received the recognition he deserves from the literary critics. However, I have given no proofs to substantiate my argument of Twain's importance, but have based it entirely upon fact. Being fundamentally opposed to all flat literary questions which are absolutely personal, I have also endeavored to suppress the man's personality...