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...Riverhead" is a novel both sensitive and powerful. It has profited by the battles waged by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis for the freedom of literature; and shown that the novel has at last come into its peaceful own. "Riverhead" will probably be read and enjoyed, as the novels of Thackeray and Jane Austin are today, when most of its contemporaries are forgotten
...Spectator nominates a Worst Book of the Month: Chaucer, by G. K. Chesterton; inaugurates an English Men of Letters Series by reprinting from the London Daily Mail an advertisement written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll is born, and every time a fairy trips over a bluebell, his remark breaks into a million pieces. Some of them turn into Nippys. . . . The jam is very whimsy and is made of fruit which has been peeped at by rabbits very early in the morning...
Although Mr. Wyndham Lewis has to a certain extent gone out of the field of his other work in "The Enemy of the Stars," he is still essentially the controversialist. The two characters. Arghol and Ramp, unreal as they seem, express in a convincing manner the ideas of Mr. Wyndham Lewis, ideas that were way ahead of their time of dealing with the conflict between Labor and Capitalism...
...Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously. At last, one day last week, a police launch brought Bertram & Klaussmann ashore at Wyndham, nearly deranged by suffering. Blown off their course in the night the flyers had landed near Drysdale, thinking it was Melville Island. They had a few biscuits, no water...
...from 1907 to 1922 he was considered England's best by not a few for not a few reasons. Such prestige did his magazine have, so much literary loyalty did its editor inspire, that literati contributed mostly without pay, among them Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Wyndham Lewis. Editor Orage's special genius lay in discovering new writers, helping them develop themselves. Over 40 famed writers-including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, the Brothers Powys, Rebecca West, Storm Jameson-got their start in his paper...