No publication of recent years has caused such eager and immediate discussion as Mr. Sinclair Lewis's: Intest novel "Elmer Gantry," which is the culmination of the author's} attacks on American complacency} and ignorance stressed in bite," IND."
Reviewers con: most ruthless revelation that Mr. Lewis has made of what goes on Behind the scenes in American Mr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the "Saturday Review of Litera ture," one of New York's leading literary journals, calls Gantry—the main character' of the novel—a "drunken football rough neck, who throughout his career as a Baptist preacher and revivalist Methodist organizer remains a hypocrite and libertine."
Excited comment has been aroused by the book which, as Mr Canby' points out, docs hot attack the Church or religion, the weight of Mr. Lowis's satire falling on an educational system which permits such an ignorant boor to teach theology and Christianity.
Word comes through Martin Seeker, the publisher, that the fourth: edition in England of "Power," "Jew Sus," by Lion Feuchtwanger has just been printed. The unanimous praise of the critics has made thi: book the outstanding success of th terary season in London, Few people had more experience of the Court of Victoria than Lady Ponjsonby, both when in personal at-Htendance on the Queen and afterward the wife of her trusted Private Secretary. A volume entitled "Mary. Ponsonby" containing some "of her Letters and Journals edited, with a memoir, by her daughter has ben published by Mr. Murray. The book gives a very attractive account of Jong, varied, and eventful life in highly interesting surroundings.
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