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  2. A Big New Life of Dickens: Definitive and Brilliant

    THE APPEARANCE OF WHAT SEEMS LIKELY TO REMAIN FOR years the standard life of a major author is in itself a major event. It is hard to imagine in what way a biography on such a subject could legitimately surpass Edgar Johnson's enormous work, only now made ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,033 words
  3. ESSAYIST and FEARLESS CRITIC--

    IF THERE WERE a LAUREATESHIP OF THE CRITICAL ESSAY AS THERE IS OF POETRY, SIR DESMOND MacCARTHY might with confidence have been nominated for the honor. Now he is dead; and we may see something of the justification for his claim in "Humanities" (MacGibbon & Kee, London : pp. 222 : Australian price 25). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,425 words
  4. SIR DESMOND MacCARTHY

    "THERE WAS NOTHING OF the sentimental cynic about Desmond MacCarthy. His firm grip of fact made him recognise ...

    Article : 248 words
  5. The Enigmatic Paganini: A Character of Legend and Fantasy

    This man with the long black hair and the pale countenance opens to us with his violin a world which we had never imagined, except perhaps in dreams. There is in his appearance something so supernatural that one looks for a glimpse of a cloven hoof--or an angel's wing ! This was Nicolo Paganini, as he seemed to one anonymous German reviewer--Paganini, a fiend ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,141 words
  6. BEHIND THE FIGURES OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE

    I WISH I HAD A BETTER MEMORY FOF FIGURES. I DO. NOT, OF COURSE' refer to the kind of figure which at my advanced age it is wiser to forget though, in these Bikini days, so difficult to ignore, but to the statistical stuff which one is always coming upon in books. ...

    Article : 979 words
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