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box 35/11
14. Little els
given in English, but M. Maurois made of them a
raised to Heaven united in love and death, is told
French book, which has here been translated into ex¬
with tenderness and beauty and with a steady progres¬
cellent English.
sion of incidents. Miss Beauclerk has managed to in¬
M. Maurois treats this enormous, and, as the un¬
vest her tale with a translucence in which reality and
certain and varied character of modern biographies will
unreality melt into a shimmering whole. Background
show, almost uncharted subject with admirable and
and incident, enwrapped in tender sentiment, glow
often beautiful lucidity, and he never fails to arrive
with subdued color. The book most successfully creates
at a gvaluable conclusion.H gives us many
and sustains an atmosphere, and makes momentarily
admitble objectivestandards, whch zyere badly needed,
plausible a world in which angels play their part in
vieh b# be judged and
1
„ra
the affairs of men.
LITTLE NOVELS
WIIITEOAKS OF JALNA
By. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
BP MAZO DE LA ROCHE
Price 82.50
Price 82.50
THE little novel, short enough to sustain one intense
emotional pitch throughout, yet long enough for
(ISS DE LA ROCHE is thehluther# bamous
the development of amazingly complete characterization,
IVI novel. Jalna, one of the encting best selters of
has come to be considered both here and in Europe
1927, which Nas awarde-th#frst Atlantic Mogthly
the perfect, the typical, Schnitzlerian medium of ex¬
prize of S10/000##fbr ihe mott intexesthg noutl of
pression. Many of the best of these novelli have
any kind, scht, orVdescription.
already appeared in English translation and the present
To the seteral hundred thousand Che feld it, che
volume adds ten more to the list. These ten are a
prize-winning Jalna becahne ahe symbol as well as the
further contradiction of the hasty, however enthusias¬
setting for ghat strange- Canadian family. stbh —
tic, estimate of Arthur Schnitzler as merely the inter¬
Whiteoaks iho liteuAhd still live—wich a kinf of¬
preter of the suave, the modern, and the sophisticated
Victorian ni#eVin ihe Ont(rio ewaldschesse
in love. His early plays were the starting point for
In her new novel, Whiteoaßs ##loba, she deals
this superficial judgment but in reality he has been
with the furter historv of th sanfd violently indiv¬
concerned from first to last with the individual in
idual familyjwhozej Miort and reactions were of
his reaction to psychological environment. His central
absorbing intéles##to the readers of Jalna—which, by
characters are forever absorbed in what other people
the way, has Heen translated into a number of languages
are thinking of them or what they must think of
and done into Braille for the blind.
themselves. They are driven to suicide, to murder,
The author was born in Toronto, Canada, of
and to despair in their attempts to establish in the
French, Irish, and English ancestry. For many years
minds of others or in their own minds, some desired
she lived on her father’s stock and fruit farm on the
image of themselves. The recognition of one part of
shores of Lake Ontario. Her education was private.
consciousness, the observing self, as separate, merging
Miss de la Roche spends as much time as possible
actually withthe outside world which must be Vplayed
away from city life. Her favorite sports are sailing
up to“, gives to Mr. Schnitzler’s work a duality of
and canoeing. Some curiosity has been aroused by her
patterns which with infinite skill he plays over against
unusual first name. It is Spanish and masculine; an
itself with tremendous gain in the tragic futility of
only child, she was named for a friend of her father.
his continually driven characters. For all this pre¬
occupation with the subtleties of personality, the little
novels never neglect the story as story. It is surprising
ON THE ANVIL
what tight, definite plots can be achieved in such short
sketches. This particular collection offers a fairly wide
By L. I. CRAWFORD
range of subjects and presents the author at very nearly
his best in some, and very far from it in others.
Price 82.50
These are little people the novelli tell of, but how
(R. CRAWFORD'S story spans a generation, the
significant the strange play of their gigantic shadows!
IVI jife of his hero from birth to the day he gazes
upon his son in bis cradle much as his father had
looked upon him nearly twenty-four years before. It
ASPECTS OF BIOGRAPHY
is a cyele that begins in Chile and ends in England,
By ANDRE MAUROIS
and takes the World War in its course. The book
(Translated by Sydney Castle Roberts)
is interesting and effective throughout, but nowhere
more charming than in its first third wherein is por¬
Price 82.00
trayed the life o“ a Chilean family of wealth and
breeding—or perhaps it were better to say of a family
CTCA WELL-WRITTEN life, M. Maurois ob¬
resident in Chile, since Tim Stavely's grandfather
k serves, 'is a much rarer thing than a well¬
was Prussian, his mother the result of the union be¬
spent one.“ It is fitting that M. Maurois, who has
tween General Von Schulenberg and a Chilean, and
himself added to these rarities, should tell us how to
his father an Englishman. Mr. Crawford’s depiction
add to their number, a subject which has not been
of the well-regulated household and his characterization
greatly discussed.“
of its members are admirably done; the personalities
This is from The London Times’ comment upon
stand out distinct and veracious, the small incidents
this very readable volume. It goes on to say:
have life and interest, and the atmosphere of the home
The present book has been made out of a series
with its harmony, its sincerity, and its purposefulness
of six lectures given at Trinity College, Cambridge,
is completely realized. And when the story moves on
on the Clark Foundation. The lectures were first
e
box 35/11
14. Little els
given in English, but M. Maurois made of them a
raised to Heaven united in love and death, is told
French book, which has here been translated into ex¬
with tenderness and beauty and with a steady progres¬
cellent English.
sion of incidents. Miss Beauclerk has managed to in¬
M. Maurois treats this enormous, and, as the un¬
vest her tale with a translucence in which reality and
certain and varied character of modern biographies will
unreality melt into a shimmering whole. Background
show, almost uncharted subject with admirable and
and incident, enwrapped in tender sentiment, glow
often beautiful lucidity, and he never fails to arrive
with subdued color. The book most successfully creates
at a gvaluable conclusion.H gives us many
and sustains an atmosphere, and makes momentarily
admitble objectivestandards, whch zyere badly needed,
plausible a world in which angels play their part in
vieh b# be judged and
1
„ra
the affairs of men.
LITTLE NOVELS
WIIITEOAKS OF JALNA
By. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
BP MAZO DE LA ROCHE
Price 82.50
Price 82.50
THE little novel, short enough to sustain one intense
emotional pitch throughout, yet long enough for
(ISS DE LA ROCHE is thehluther# bamous
the development of amazingly complete characterization,
IVI novel. Jalna, one of the encting best selters of
has come to be considered both here and in Europe
1927, which Nas awarde-th#frst Atlantic Mogthly
the perfect, the typical, Schnitzlerian medium of ex¬
prize of S10/000##fbr ihe mott intexesthg noutl of
pression. Many of the best of these novelli have
any kind, scht, orVdescription.
already appeared in English translation and the present
To the seteral hundred thousand Che feld it, che
volume adds ten more to the list. These ten are a
prize-winning Jalna becahne ahe symbol as well as the
further contradiction of the hasty, however enthusias¬
setting for ghat strange- Canadian family. stbh —
tic, estimate of Arthur Schnitzler as merely the inter¬
Whiteoaks iho liteuAhd still live—wich a kinf of¬
preter of the suave, the modern, and the sophisticated
Victorian ni#eVin ihe Ont(rio ewaldschesse
in love. His early plays were the starting point for
In her new novel, Whiteoaßs ##loba, she deals
this superficial judgment but in reality he has been
with the furter historv of th sanfd violently indiv¬
concerned from first to last with the individual in
idual familyjwhozej Miort and reactions were of
his reaction to psychological environment. His central
absorbing intéles##to the readers of Jalna—which, by
characters are forever absorbed in what other people
the way, has Heen translated into a number of languages
are thinking of them or what they must think of
and done into Braille for the blind.
themselves. They are driven to suicide, to murder,
The author was born in Toronto, Canada, of
and to despair in their attempts to establish in the
French, Irish, and English ancestry. For many years
minds of others or in their own minds, some desired
she lived on her father’s stock and fruit farm on the
image of themselves. The recognition of one part of
shores of Lake Ontario. Her education was private.
consciousness, the observing self, as separate, merging
Miss de la Roche spends as much time as possible
actually withthe outside world which must be Vplayed
away from city life. Her favorite sports are sailing
up to“, gives to Mr. Schnitzler’s work a duality of
and canoeing. Some curiosity has been aroused by her
patterns which with infinite skill he plays over against
unusual first name. It is Spanish and masculine; an
itself with tremendous gain in the tragic futility of
only child, she was named for a friend of her father.
his continually driven characters. For all this pre¬
occupation with the subtleties of personality, the little
novels never neglect the story as story. It is surprising
ON THE ANVIL
what tight, definite plots can be achieved in such short
sketches. This particular collection offers a fairly wide
By L. I. CRAWFORD
range of subjects and presents the author at very nearly
his best in some, and very far from it in others.
Price 82.50
These are little people the novelli tell of, but how
(R. CRAWFORD'S story spans a generation, the
significant the strange play of their gigantic shadows!
IVI jife of his hero from birth to the day he gazes
upon his son in bis cradle much as his father had
looked upon him nearly twenty-four years before. It
ASPECTS OF BIOGRAPHY
is a cyele that begins in Chile and ends in England,
By ANDRE MAUROIS
and takes the World War in its course. The book
(Translated by Sydney Castle Roberts)
is interesting and effective throughout, but nowhere
more charming than in its first third wherein is por¬
Price 82.00
trayed the life o“ a Chilean family of wealth and
breeding—or perhaps it were better to say of a family
CTCA WELL-WRITTEN life, M. Maurois ob¬
resident in Chile, since Tim Stavely's grandfather
k serves, 'is a much rarer thing than a well¬
was Prussian, his mother the result of the union be¬
spent one.“ It is fitting that M. Maurois, who has
tween General Von Schulenberg and a Chilean, and
himself added to these rarities, should tell us how to
his father an Englishman. Mr. Crawford’s depiction
add to their number, a subject which has not been
of the well-regulated household and his characterization
greatly discussed.“
of its members are admirably done; the personalities
This is from The London Times’ comment upon
stand out distinct and veracious, the small incidents
this very readable volume. It goes on to say:
have life and interest, and the atmosphere of the home
The present book has been made out of a series
with its harmony, its sincerity, and its purposefulness
of six lectures given at Trinity College, Cambridge,
is completely realized. And when the story moves on
on the Clark Foundation. The lectures were first
e