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...make a universal tragic figure of a common scold is no ordinary wordster. Irishmen know Michael McLaverty, 42, a teacher in a Belfast parochial school, as one of their finest contemporary writers. U.S. readers, because of the strong local coloration of most of McLaverty's stories, have been slow to take...
...reading the drab little close-up of "real" life by someone signing himself "Enoch Arnold Bennett" could possibly see The Old Wives' Tale ahead. Max Beerbohm's A Defence of Cosmetics would seem to condemn its youthful author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best...
...Speak out, wordster! 2nd T.R.: Last night, eleven o'clock, when I had read Macbeth's review in TIME, its tongue...
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