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Thus Virginia Woolf, in Orlando, described Britain's legendary Great Frost in the reign of King James I. Last week, no birds froze in flight, no peasant girls were pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm...
...connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...
REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) - Maxim Gorky-Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others - Dover...
Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
...more readers to appreciate her peculiar talent. She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what she is trying to show...