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Walter L. Myers

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O, the Hobby-Horse

We greet them heartily enough but often with a slight, uncomfortable restraint—these boys who, donning the uniform, have invested themselves with a maturity beyond their years, and these men whose lives war has simplified to a singleness of purpose [...]

The Moving Why

Father and Son. By James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press. $275. For Whom the Belt Tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.75. Sergeant Lamb's America, By Robert Graves. New York: Random House. $2.50. Embezzled Heav [...]

The Novel and the Past

It is not altogether by chance that artists in narrative continue to use the past tense and make no serious attempt to break the monopoly of the present tense held by smoking-room stories, scholarly resumes, and similar artless products of the urge o [...]

The Novel and the Simple Soul

It may be that an apocalyptic last analysis of souls will find all of them simple; but for present earthly purposes it seems reasonable to assume that souls, being closely related to the personalities of their possessors, are not merely simple but co [...]

Studies for Delight

The Novel in Motley, By Archibald B. Shepperson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $3.00. Pamela's Daughters, By Robert P. Utter and Gwendolyn B. Needham. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. In point of entertainment it might seem at firs [...]

Englishry and Artistry

The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy. By H. V. Marrot. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5.00. It is well that the letters of an eminent man should be published soon after his death. Though they may not be needed to combat "the iniqui [...]

Psyche and Zeitgeist

Huropa. By Robert Briffault. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.75. The World from Below. By Jules Romains. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $3.00. When Tennyson inquired rhetorically, "What know we greater than the soul?" he voiced a f [...]

Life, Literature, and Books

Joseph and His Brothers. By Thomas Mann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. The Oppermanns. By Lion Feuchtwangcr. New York: The Viking Press. $2.50. The Well of Days. By Ivan Bunin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. Passion's Pilgrims. By Jules Romai [...]

The Novel Dedicate

In the prosecution of any wholly rigorous Five-Year Plan, no one will be more likely to give trouble than the Comrade Novelist. All would be well if he could but content himself as alert chronicler, discreet amateur philosopher, serviceable propagand [...]

Of Units and Unities

The Waves. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. All Passion Spent. By V. Sackville-West. Garden City: Double-day, Doran and Company. $2.50. Maid in Waiting. By John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50. Th [...]

Fantasy With a Difference

Orlando—A Biography. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Point Counter Point. By Aldous Huxley. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. An air of strangeness declares the kinship of numerous and diverse pre [...]

Make-Beliefs

The Sound and the Fury. By William Faulkner. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. $2.50. Harriet Hume. By Rebecca West. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. The Way of Bcben. By James Branch Cabell. New York: Robert H. McBride a [...]

Isn’t Life -

A Note in Music. By Rosamund Lehmann. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $2.50. Cakes and Ale. By W. Somerset Maugham. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.00. The Edivardians. By V. Sackvillc-West. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company [...]