... A POINT which seems to be missed by most modern novelists is that members of a business partnership are apt to see more of each other than they do of their wives and families. In the firm of Williams and Pilkington this was even more so, as both partners belonged to the same club and, since one of them is married to the sister of the other, they saw quite a lot of each other at home as well. ...

... A ROMANCE coming to a man and woman mature in years may sometimes be endowed with the deepest poignancy; it can touch the heights of which the young can only dream, that is, if it escapes being ridiculous; it may possess a spiritual quality that has little affinity with the high passion of young love. Such was the experience of Ramer Maria Rilke, the German lyric poet and mystic, and of Magda ...

... QUITE apart from his writing, Charles Dickens was one of the most interesting characters of his age. He was possessed of well-nigh demonic energy; in the exuberance of his comic genius he was a master of exaggeration; his quarrels, his love-afiairs, and his inexhaustible curiosity went to the making of a man who will never fade completely from the world's grateful memory. Hesketh Pearson sums ...

... WHAT sort of a man was the great John Pierpont Morgan, that grandee of Ameri can finance, in his day the most influential banker in the world, whose enormous transactions in the last years of the nineteenth century and before the First World War were the talk of the Western World? John K. Winkler's lively Morgan the Magnificent, published in 1931, was entertaining enough, but it was hardly a ...

... FITZGERALD'S UNFINISHED NOVEL The Story of a Hollywood Tycoon Just as Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis won fame as recorders of the American scene, the former in clumsy if vigorous native prose, the latter with no less genius and a little more polish, so did F. Scott Fitzgerald carve a niche for himself in the giddy '20's. Fitzgerald set down as he saw it the America of Harding and Calvin ...