1. Biographical Briefs.
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BOOKS ,AUTHORS - Abstract
This article focuses on several books, "Dostoevsky, the Man and His Work," by Julius Meier-Graefe and translated by Herbert H. Marks, "Charles Dickens: A Biography From New Sources," by Ralph Straus and "John Wesley," By Abram Lipsky. That a great critical work upon Dostoevsky is needed appears incontrovertible. Yet, though good minds have attempted it, none has succeeded. One hardly knows what to admire most in the book "Charles Dickens," its deftly manipulated scholarship, its thorough but never maudlin sympathy with its subject, its style both exuberantly Dickensian and adroitly waggish. "John Wesley," though written in a commonplace style, this is a shrewd, businesslike, and eminently fairminded book. Lipsky has no bias whatever; he is interested solely in the personality of John Wesley and the tremendous effect that personality made upon the world.
- Published
- 1928