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...WESCOTT (Glenway) The Grandmothers. Mint in dust Wrapper. New York...
...Author. Like the people she writes about, Elizabeth Madox Roberts is Kentucky born & bred, though she has more "learning" than most of them aspire to. Contemporary of Wisconsin's much-touted Glenway Wescott at the University of Chicago, after taking a Ph.B. there she went to Manhattan, worked at writing. Critics fell over themselves to praise her first novel, The Time of Man, have continued to bow gravely in her direction. Unmarried, calm, grave, handsome, Authoress Roberts, 46, lives at Perryville, Ky., plans to write many another grave, calm, handsome Kentucky tale. Other books: My Heart & My Flesh, Jingling...
Considering the modern scene Author Wescott, like the late Gospeler David Herbert Lawrence, finds little to say in favor of contemporary men or their pursuits. "We modern private persons have got out of the habit of being absorbed in what we are, . . . and for that matter in what we really want. We have to make an effort to feel ourselves and to know ourselves by envying and competing with others. We use our imaginations, [not] to penetrate what is real and there before our eyes . . . but to evolve fictive compensations for pseudo-desires in excess of our faculties ... by which...
Beyond the veils of psychological difficulties, of men less seeking to satisfy desire than in search of desire to satisfy, Author Wescott catches glimpses of economic difficulties now & then. With so much trouble dead ahead, one looks for less complaint, more cure. But the only cure offered is the one proposed by Tolstoy's peasant, who, when Tolstoy interrupted his plowing to ask him what he would do if he knew that the world was next day coming to an end, scratched his head and answered, "I would plow...
...Author. Though born of farmer stock (Kewaskum, Wis., 1901) Author Wescott's family "has aristocratic rather than middleclass prejudices; it does not hoard up its sons for the sake of the family fortune, but regards it as a duty to make gifts of them to 'the State.' "... Intended by them to be an ecclesiastical offering, though his own ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which...