HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.[[2]] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814
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“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets; Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois; Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
+ Ath p838 D 17 ’20 110w Booklist 17:68 N ’20 The Times [London] Lit Sup p762 N 18 ’20 70w
HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS). Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
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The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs. Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with touches of satire.