Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times Mr. Cutler's style is vivid, but too often he breaks the effect of continuity by the copious use of long parenthetical comments, and too often the reader is reminded of the author's presence. His fondness for allusions and vague metaphors frequently spoils an otherwise delectable description, making it seem heavy and out of place. Mr. Cutler has succeeded best in his portrayal of the two extremes of character, the proper Clemency Vane, who looks ever backward to her ancestors, and Michael Hare, whose only hope and happiness is his grand-daughter. As a story the novel...
FIERY PARTICLES-C. E. Montague -Doubleday ($1.75). The English author of Disenchantment, one of the editors of the famous Manchester Guardian, here turns his hand to fiction. He shows a vivid and versatile talent in writing two Irish sketches, three stories of the war, a newspaper tale, a literary burlesque, a story of mountain climbing and a shuddery horror tale. Mr. Montague shows humor, irony, sympathy. He understands the soldier as well as Kipling, though his sympathies do not run to war. He is never impersonal: he intrudes in the story with ironic or humorous remarks. The book...
Where the true merit of the book lies is in a remarkably vivid picture of mine life, and labor-union complications. The hero of the story refuses to join the union with the result that all the men in the mine turn on him to break him. We often enough hear from capital of the great power of labor, and from labor the opposite story, but in this instance we see a conflict between the man who takes pride in his work, and the men who want to get by, both representing labor. The description of the finale, the uprising...
...revolt against the growing use of the Morse code in literature is not, then, prompted by a feeling that the public is being cheated of worth-while sentiment. The English students objected (if they seriously objected at all) to the sloppy writing which permits a few dots to replace vivid language. Effective as the imagination may be the pantomime of snapping one's fingers can hardly rival a few hearty words in expressing vigorous emotion of any sort...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll...