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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STARS ON THE SEA-F. van Wyck Mason-Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last...
...Wordsworths; The Romantic Rebels: Byron, Shelley, Keats; Poor Splendid Wings: the Rossettis) it is also a reminder of Biographer Winwar's uncommon skill in portraying the pre-Wilde period. At its best, her book does for the decadent flowering of England's Nineties what Van Wyck Brooks did for the flowering of New England...
Small, bright, Russian-born Jenny Iphigenia Ballou got the idea of doing Ella Wheeler Wilcox several years ago when she and her husband were living near the Wilcox place at Short Beach, Conn. Her witty book obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level...