1939-01-22 [P F-4]

FAULKNER EXPOUNDS REALITIES BOOK EDITOR OPENS HER MAIL ' Does Unforgettable Writing in Dramatic Tales; Veteran Hunter Returns From Vacation to Find Correspondents Have Been Busy; Offers Charming Book on His Favorite Gems Sport; Member of Omnibook Staff Makes Protest; Verses From Nazi Are Collected Speeches by Talented Young Writer Quoted By Mary-Carter Roberts. book about It. and the result Is that WASHINGTON’S moie than one shining spirit has M.-C. R. they are the same thing as to say THE WILD PALMS. By Willia-n By BEST SELLER LIST come to dullness In print. The WEEK’S 10 BEST SELLERS IN that a double entry bookkeeper and Faulkner. New York; Random thing Three weeks ago the reviewer, in to do, in such a case, Is to the OTHER CITIES. Shakespeare have the same occupa- House. Week Ending buy these columns, gave notice to her book—for that the brave Boston. tion because both use pens. Both January 18, 1939 helps ad- readers that she was forthwith about As far as the reviewer can write, of course. Therefore are both make venturer who, by his gay courage, Fiction—“All and FICTION. to take herself a vacation. She This Heaven writers? Mr. William Faulkner is a man has helped us all—and then not read out, •Rebecca” (Du Maurier).— must have phrased it badly, she Too.” Rachel Field: “Rebecca,” it. It would be a very good And the reviewer would *• who, if confronted by a brick wall, Doran. general realizes now. For, on returning to Daphne du Maurier: “Three add. griev- Doubledav, rule. that F. van Ma- ing she must be so harsh to Mr. would prefer battering the obstacle "All This and Heaven, Too” her desk, all fresh and renewed Harbours,” Wyck But with little Mr. Knauth's publication when he has (Field'.—Macmillan. Corrigan it again, with the depressing memory son; “The Yearling,” Marjorie down with his own head to been so climbing be well to read at a Kinnan aimiable himself, that, of all "My Son, My Son” (Spring).— might least of a year’s best sellers wiped quite Rawlings; “Wisdom's over it or around its end or as the digests, the one which deals in walking Viking. part—as much, anyhow, makes It away, she found, to her surprise, a Gate,” Margaret Ayer Barnes. how can — fiction is the worst. For. with those to using any other method of "Man’s (Malraux).— plain flying take hold on number of letters ex- Non-fiction “Benjamin pas- Hope” gratifying that deal in a boy's mind and dominate his ar- Franklin,” Carl van informative articles There is no Random House. pressing regret that she was Doren; sage. question about it; whole existence. only, there is at least the “The Sword in the Stone” Corrigan, from ranging to leave The Star. It seems “Fancy This,” Jack Frost; "Lis- justifica- he loves for its own sake. the time he took tion that they serve those seekers difficulty (White).—Putnam. his first flight, and that her statement about the vaca- ten, the Wind,” Anne Morrow Now the reviewer before there was for information who, in their turn, would not say “Royal Regiment” (Frankau). long coined the tion had been read to mean resig-. Lindbergh; "With Malice To- word “air-minded,” was air-mind- ward serve them. But the digest which that Mr. Faulkner is lacking in ac- —Dutton. nation. Some,” Margaret Halsey; edness’ self. He went without all “Alone,” Richard E. Byrd. cuts up a work of fiction has no In over NON-FICTION. Well, the reviewer can only say, complishment. battering the things which young people, for such ground of extenuation. It is “With Malice Toward Some” the If she took her his various literary walls with his the most part, today consider theirs perish thought! Chicago. applying the short-cut method to (Halsey).—Simon & Schuster. departure from The Star she could, Fiction—“All This works which have been brow he by right, in order to be able to oper- and Heaven written To-’* intrepid has, unquestiona- “The We Watch” no a on the Federal Ramparts ate some “crate” or other. As fast doubt, get place Too,” "Rebecca,” “Wisdom's delectation of the taste and the a and a bly, technique skill. The (Eliot).—Reynal & Hitchcock. Writers’ Project, and there is, of if a as he earned any money he put it Gate,” "The Yearling,” “My intellect; man had snapshots reviewer even “Listen the Wind” course, something maliciously satis- would say that of | (Lindbergh). into a plane. He was hopping back Son, My Son,”*Howard Spring. of famous paintings run before him —Harcourt Brace. fying about the idea of being sup- * all writers who habitually overcome and forth across the country for Non-fiction—“Alone,” “Ben- on a band as he ate his breakfast, "Puritan in (White). ported from the taxes of working their material by main strength and Babylon” years before he flew backward into jamin Franklin,” "Listen, the with the end in view that he improve —Macmillan. newspaper men and women, former "With Malice his violence he is one of the most im- fame, as persistent a winged crea- Wind”; Toward acquaintance with art, it would "Benjamin Franklin” (Van colleagues, instead of paying those Some.” “I'm a pressive. You get more violence, ture as a migratory duck—and as Stranger Here be about the same thing. Doran).—Viking. taxes in the simple, unromantic Nash. that is to say. in a page of Faulkner unnoticed by the general public. Myself,” Ogden So it does not matter that Omni- "The World Was My Garden” How such fashion to w'hich one has become ac- than you do in a couple of pages of many young fellows are New York. book choses works which are (Fairchild >.—Scribners. WILLIAM FAULKNER, customed. But they do say that anybody else. You can there, one wonders? Is that where popular. Indeed, the better the practically Whose latest has the new is to be a Fiction—“All This and Heaven the romantics us novel, “The Wild, Palms,” just been published Congress going see him as you read, surrounded by among are to be books, the worse the crime of mutila- adven- found—while the by Random House. bit tough about remembering the Too,” "Rebecca,” "Three Har- malignant hosts of writhing paren- unnatural quality of the conventional souls tion. And then—again—when did dear old Forgotten, and, too. the re- bours.” “The Yearling.” “Royal theses, slippery adverbial clauses, turers. The hero is pallid and the agitate for security (the young!) and popularity become the criterion of. viewer has a long-standing habit of Regiment.” Gilbert Frankau. heroine a chromo. talk of larger doles and worth in literature? The is dancing semi-colons, blocky syn- unemploy- — public ment insurance? working pretty hard when she works Non fiction "Listen. the onyms and sentences, The book on the whole is an im- practically always wrong in the page-long at all, so that she might not fit well Wind”; "Benjamin Franklin,” struggling with them as with a It is, as said, books which it likes; if it does like pressive performance. THE MAN WHO MADE THE Brief Reviews of into the gentle, dreamy scheme of “We Saw It Happen,” 13 cor- Books a it likes it nightmore, disdaining any victory in effect. It produces good one, for the wrong deafening PEACE. By Stuart Hodgson. New the Projectors, welcome her tenderly respondents of the New York W'hich is It is an awesome that numb which one reason—for the sins within it. rather easy. acquiescence York: E. P. Dutton w’ould. So she Times: “With Malice Toward Co. though they certainly than the merits. So the reviewer vision, too. But nobody is likely to notices sometimes after hearing too reiterates, the As Some,” “The Importance of This is a brief of Neville Biography. tion by Harold Rugg, editor; perish thought! comes back to the first sentence of claim ever that it is a restful a noise. As always, with Mr. biography thing large E. long as The Star allows her, she will Living,” Lin Yutang. the of Chamberlain, culminating in a dis- WOODROW WILSON LIFE AND George Axtelle, Hollis L. Cas- Mr. Knauth's letter. She is not to read this literary gladiator. It Faulkner’s work, question a Barkis for cussion of his conduct in the Czecho- LETTERS. Stannard well, George S. Counts, Paul R. remain, very being San Francisco. offended at his her Miss, be- is, instead, absolutely exhausting. whether a reader can believe him or By Ray calling slovakian latest BAKER. New York: Hanna, Pickens E. Harris, L. willing. cause she is a Miss. The same In his present book he has used not is beside the point. He believes trouble, Europe's Doubleday, Fiction—“All This and Heaven goes headache, in case have Doran & Co. Thomas Hopkins, William H. just tne same, sne is not sorry tnat for her of the word his familiar turgidity to expand and himself. And he has the force, for yoti already Too,” “Rebecca.” “The Year- application Mr. of Kilpatrick, J. Paul Leonard and the misunderstanding arose, for the to Omnibook. expound the realities behind two the moment at least, to ride down forgotten. Chamberlain, The seventh volume of Mr. Baker's ling,” “Wait Until Spring Ban- digest course, has been greatly in the public life of the Caroline B. Sachry. New York: glow she got from those above-men- such events as might be reported in any kind of mental opposition. former President, cover- dini,” John Fanti; “The Long * * * * eye since that time, and the D.

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