![]() ![]() Mott’s book is a history of the American mind as it expressed itself in magazines.” Well, I think that sentence is important as both style and perception. ![]() He has tried to get into the inside of a man meaning to make a million francs in real-estate and of a woman meaning to be correct in love.Īnd take the first sentence of the review reprinted here, of F.L. ![]() He has observed the stupefying manoeuvres of sex and money. He has been interested in the changing shadows on a wall and the transmutations of twentieth-century industry. I quote, as an example, sentences from his Scribner’s review, March 1934, of the novel Passion’s Pilgrims. As Eli Siegel comments on a book, his own writing is beautiful. They have his discernment, his oneness of clarity and subtlety, passion and ease.Īlong with containing some of the important criticism in America, they also contain some of this nation’s important prose. Whatever the subject, whoever the author reviewed-whether someone famous, like Theodore Dreiser, or someone little known-the reviews have, for all their brevity, Eli Siegel’s greatness as critic. He discussed novels, biographies, books on history and America, literary criticism and mind. Siegel we see some of the tremendous scope and depth of his knowledge. We reprint here his review in The Book League Monthly, August 1930, of a book on the history of American magazines. There were those, for example, that appeared frequently between 1931 and ’35 in the noted Scribner’s Magazine. The commentary by editor Ellen Reiss begins:įrom the late 1920s through the mid ’30s, Eli Siegel wrote many book reviews. Through the history of American magazines-movingly told of in a review by Eli Siegel-can we know the human mind better, including our own? And through two poems (one about Napoleon), can we see the world more truly and like it more? Yes! Read “ Literature, the World, & Aesthetic Realism,” the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: ![]()
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