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...CONFIDENT YEARS (1885-1915) 627 pp.)-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
...judges* happen to "like very much, for any reason at all." Among books so chosen: The Battle h the Payoff, by Ralph Ingersoll; Inside U.S.A., by John Gunther. But the method, or lack of one, has also given B-o-M customers The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell...
...Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society. Even such greats as F. van Wyck Mason '24 and Robert E. Sherwood '18 are not up to what presumably is their best...
PROUD NEW FLAGS (493 pp.)-F. van Wyck Mason-Lippincott...
Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...