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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1930
Page
10
A 17 year old prodigy Nathalia Crane shows signs of becoming a national literary problem. She is praised for works such as Two Witnesses and Mount Zion with Mrs. Greene also authoring Letters to a Niece and Baron von Hugel's letters. Publication date October 28.
Book notes discuss Thomas Gray and Alps influence with humor and insight. It cites William Lyon Phelps and various topics from socks to ambition. It mentions Gwendolen Greene and a forthcoming book about Messalina revealing Imperial Rome life.
Answers listed on the page include Horace Walpole's England author and the sole English diary, Norman Foerster, John Galsworthy's latest novel, the leading Black poet of Blues, the Proust translator who died recently, and the notable novelist of Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow who died.
Stark Young's The Street of the Islands collects eleven finely written sketches set in Spain Italy Texas and the South. The prose captures atmosphere and place but character portraits feel broad and dialogue sparse though moments of strong writing emerge, notably the Land of Juan de Dios segment with Remedios.
Frank M. Canton, author of Frontier Trails, is cited as the originator of Owen Wister's Virginian. The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby is noted as the first Englishwoman's diary still in existence.
Fragments from Emma Bell Miles poem Columine describe a flirtatious figure dancing with winds around a rocky barn. Vivid images show a blue dress for bees and a scarlet frock to please a hummingbird. The speaker notes absence of suitors and reflects on airy folly atop granite ledge.
Richard Maslock surveys W. Somerset Maughams Cakes and Ale a tale about novelists and the secret of Edward Driffield once a celebrated Victorian figure. The author presumes a measured approach as he reveals the hidden past of Driffields barmaid wife Rosie without sensationalism.
The biography portrays Pauline Bonaparte as the prettiest and most lively of the Bonapartes. It describes her thwarted marriage to her first love, Josephine’s objections, and her lifelong pursuit of her brother's wife with enduring hostility.
Alfred Bishop Mason is linked to The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby. The list highlights a humanist advocate, NC professor and author of The American Scholar. Mentions Forsythe Change, Langston Hughes works, Scott-Monecrief, and D H Lawrence as related figures or works.
Review of John Wexley drama The Last Mile in book form. Discusses death row setting at a state penitentiary, six condemned men led by John Mears, their revolt, psychological tension, sharp dialogue, and a standout passage conveying despair and desire for life.
Dutch author Hendrick Willem van Loon presents a biography built around an imaginary great ancestor of Rembrandt van Rijp. The book frames the painter within his era and life, a project started twenty years ago. A. Chace at Chapel Hill and Dr. Locke comment on magazines and reviews.
Pooh expands from literature to real toys for American children. The bear is pudgier with a sophisticated nose tilt and inspires nursery accessories hangings party novelties and decorative items based on Milne characters including Winnie-the-Pooh marionettes lamp shades trays and dishes.
Teale in The Book of Gliders breaks down gliding in simple terms. It covers gliders and soarers, explains suitable sites, and provides detailed glider construction guidance.
Dr Alain Locke author of The New Negro letters about The Agora, a new literary publication edited en rich. He writes regarding editorial direction and potential inclusion of Negro literature in the periodical, signaling support from a leading Black intellectual and the broader cultural project.
Publishers increasingly favor attractive bindings as bindings themselves mean little. Readers prefer inviting covers and durable bindings to drab paperbacks, finding a well bound book more pleasant to read and keep.
A poetic fragment questions the unseen voice within stars and thoughts. The speaker wonders if the addressee is flesh or book, a smouldering leaf, or a force that burns thoughts and scars the mind, ending with a cryptic attribution to IOHN MEBANE.
Yvonne Dufour, author of a novel about international marriage, receives the Dutton Prize Book for October for her work Monique.
The Music Notes column reports upcoming events by the Gordon String Quartette led by Jac ques Gordon with Ganini and Alexander Broailovsky opening the New York recitals. It also notes Bohumir Khryl’s band at the high school auditorium and recalls a Charleston Jenkin's Colored Orphanage Band performance that delighted a Greensboro reader.
Edith Moore Sherrod sang a group of songs at the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs district meet in Thomasville a few days ago. The Presbyterian choir performed well and the program drew praise for its quality and appeal.
Henry Adams, whose Letters have just been published, is noted as among the few Americans to greet Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. Agnes Rothery tours South America, choosing that continent over Iceland or Alaska.
A review of Emma Bell Miles's collection Outstanding Nature Poems in which the Tennessee mountain poet is praised for realistic nature portraits and lyric simplicity. It notes Bird Voices and other groups Unplucked Flowers Autumn Flowers and Flower People, acknowledging Thoreau influence, while citing meter flaws but overall lyric appeal.
A richly illustrated up to date guide that also tells Venetian history architecture and painting. Illustrations by Nelly Ericksen W K Hinchliff and O F M Ward with many full page color plates.
Recents books include Whistler's Room by Al verdes exploring comradeship in a German hospital. The Conqueror by Ger trude Atherton offers a dramatized Alexander Hamilton biography. Romance by Request by S M Emery promises what its title suggests. Adventures in Dish Gardening by Patten Beard notes a fresh angle. Saint Johnson by W R Burnett marks another tale from the Iron Man author.
Harold Nicolson omits the h in his surname, Anne Douglas Sedgwick travels to this country, Rafael Sabatini is due around October 25, Roland Pertwee may visit this winter, and Phyllis Bottome plans to cross the Atlantic next summer as part of a literary wave.
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