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...Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely to Mr. Dooley and once again, he had observed sadly, "the show that Boston should have had is being held elsewhere." Initiator of the exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England). An old friend of the Prendergasts, Mr. Brooks not only suggested the show to the Addison Gallery's Curator Charles H. Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting...
...been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott's journals clears up any remaining doubts about...
...CAIRO GARTER MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Gunrunning and big-scale murders in Cairo (with the murderer putting a lady's garter on each victim's arm) make this most recent story of Captain North's adventures an intelligent, fast-paced thriller...
Last year's Pulitzer Prize winner in history, Van Wyck Brooks, '08, will come here during commencement week in June to be orator of the annual exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...collection of 41 essays ranging in subject from the English countryside to the paintings of Peter Breughel, from God to gypsies, Earth Memories is not the best example of Powys' writing. But its shortcomings are more than redeemed by Critic Van Wyck Brooks's eloquent introduction to the book, which pays a high tribute to Llewelyn Powys the writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness...