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doing literary work, after years of paint
ing.
Stefan Zweig is too majestic a figure in
European literature and particularly in
the field of biography to require reinter
pretation with the publication in this
country of his study of “Marie Antoi
nette.” Combining historical research
with profound psychological intuition,
Zweig has seemed to make recognizable
for the first time the tragic woman whose
death marked the end of an epoch in
France. Zweig is the outstanding example
of the scholar-artist in European letters.
He yields to none of the superficialities of
such men as Andre Maurois, Emil Ludwig
or John Drinkwater. When he writes a
biography, he seems to be diagnosing
mankind rather than any one man—or
woman.
The son of the late Louis Marshall
finds himself included in a list of the ten
most important writers of the year be
cause of his record of eighteen months in
the far North. 1119 “Arctic Village,”
written without any pretentiousness, is
nevertheless an important contriubtion
to ethnography. Fascinating because of
its intimate and ocnvincing descriptions
of types, informative because of its doc
umentation, "Arctic Village,” by Robert
Marshall, is a handbook that can he
used for many years to come for a study
of the mind of the isolated village.
It is noteworthy that out of the ten
authors listed above, only three may
he called Americans. They are Ehrlich,
Lowenthal and Marshall. Ludwig l.ewi-
sohn would he the Continental, even if
he hadn’t lived for the past decade in
Paris. The other six are definitely Eu
ropean. Is one to interpret this as an
other indication of the poverty of Jewish
men of letters in America? Or is it
purely coincidence? Hut Feuchtwangcr or
Zweig or Kastein or Albert Cohen has no
counterpart in the United States.
A swift glance at the fiction output of
the year discloses the following: “Union
Square,” a Literary Guild selection by
Albert llalper, which was overpraised as
a chronicle of life around Manhattan’s
Fourteenth Street; “The Pascarella Fam
ily,” by Franz Werfel, which lost much
through the author's discursiveness;
“Young Woman of 1914,” by Arnold
Zweig, who tried to picture the pre-war
generation in Germany with less than
complete success; "The New Bridge,” an
extremely well done novel by Meyer
Levin, dealing with types produced by
America’s depression; Virginia Hersch’s
“Storm Beach,” an interesting but fragile
history of a Southern Jewish family;
“Main Entrance,” a ridiculously inade
quate and presumptuous story of middle-
class Jews; "Imitation of Life,” Fannie
Hurst's poorest novel in years, the story
of a woman who was cheated of life in
her concentration on a livelihood; “A
Young Man of Fifty,” an excellent novel
by Rose Feld. Any review of a year’s
fiction that failed to mention Robert Na
than's “One More Spring" would be
guilty of unforgivable ignorance. Nathan
is this reviewer’s favorite American nov-
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elist, who is able to distill in his brief
novels more of the spirit of America
and of men than practically any of his
contemporaries. In addition, he possesses
the simplicity and the chiseled conciseness
which is unique with him. Inasmuch as
Nathan is an author on the Knopf list,
it should he pointed out that no other
Jewish book issued by that house is re
ferred to in this review, for the reason
that Knopf seems uninterated in the Jew
ish reading public. It he added, how
ever, that nothing published this year by
Knopf deserves placement among the first
ten hooks, with the possible exception of
“One More Spring.”
In the non-fiction field, the following
are of more or less interest: “Quaker
Militant,” Albert Bordell’s remarkably
penetrating biography of John Grecnleaf
Whitter, a work that is destined to revo
lutionize this generation’s view of an
American poet; Hector Holitho's unim
portant biography of “Alfred Mond: the
First Lord Melchett,” “Rebels and Rene
gades,” a series of scholarly and defini
tive studies of revolutionaries and of their
associates who turned their backs upon
them, by Max Nomad; “Blessed Spinoza,”
Lewis Browne’s popular hut hardly sig
nificant biography of the philosopher;
“Hula Matari,” Jacob Wassermann's
psychological account of the man who dis
covered “darkest Africa”; “Zola,” a poor
biography by Henri Barbusse; the ex
tremely interesting account of “William
Fox,” by Upton Sinclair, who explains
the difficulties as well as the origin of
the ex-movie magnate.
Although there is no point in listing
all the had hooks of the year, a reviewer
would he neglectful of his duties if he
did not mention “The Jews Come to
America,” by Masserman and Baker. Of
all the slushy, synthetic, ignorant histories
of the Jews in America, this is the least
intelligent. A competent account of the
rise to power and the aims of the Nazis
is provided in James Waterman Wise’s
eclectic “Swastika: the Nazi Terror.” The
important non-fiction books of the year
include “The Cauldron Boils,” Emil
Lengyel’s study of conditions in Poland;
“The Stage Is Set,” Lee Simonsons views
on the theatre; “Music of Our Day,"’
La/.a re Saininsky’s critical examination of
modern musicians; "Stalin’s Ladder,”
Elias Tobenkin’s nunlerate views on Rus
sia; “Abortion,” Dr. A. J. Rongy’s pioneer
views on the necessity for the dissemina
tion of birth control information; "Inse
curity," a study of the psychological and
sociological diseases caused by industrial
certainty, by Abraham Epstein, and "The
Land of Promise,” Edmond Fleg’s poetic
remembrances of a visit to Palestine.
The above list does not pretend to be
complete. It aims, however, to deal with
such hooks as the average public reads.
From such a bird’s-eye view of the year’s
hooks, one may gain the impression that
the product is unusually excellent. But it
should he remembered that for every good
book published during the year, there are
at least five others which are equally
poor.
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