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...with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others, a feeble gait, a corseted carriage...
...music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...
...Significance of Author Woolf's last novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. Mrs. Dalloway observed the classic unities of drama, concentrating on one woman, one day in her life. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers...
...Woolf is the youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen. She married Leonard Sidney Woolf, literary Editor of the Nation and Athenaeum, in 1912. They live at Hogarth House, an old place in Richmond, spending their quiet time alike at gardening and fine writing and printing...
...GLORIOUS ADVENTURE-Richard Halliburton-Bobbs-Merrill ($5). *TO THE LIGHTHOUSE-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...