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...novel is semiautobiographical, as its publishers hint darkly, then one can understand the author's readiness to be as garrulous in recalling his wounds of the spirit as an old soldier describing the carnage at Appomattox. That the book is carefully written???and perhaps for that reason especially appreciated by Britons, now in rebellion against the loose writing of the day-there is no doubt. But there is the feeling of words too long sought, too painstakingly chosen. For example a stream "wimples...
Jack London knew odd corners of America?but the America he knew has already altered. And the others who have tried of recent years have used the slick technique of the magazines or dropped into easy burlesque. The epic remains to be written???and it will not be an epic of easy circumstances. Too many of our moderns of promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?...
...years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written???the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content?one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent...
...There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?a highly melodramatic plot to sugar-coat the pill?and, as usual with Mr. Hughes, the pace of the narrative carries the reader along. The Great American Novel still remains un-written???but Within These Walls will undoubtedly make a lavish and spectacular film...