Books: Guerrilla Jehad

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MY THIRTY YEARS' WAR—Margaret Anderson—Covici-Friede ($4). Margaret Anderson is 40. For 30 years she fought, she avers, a holy war for Art. against Philistinism; now she admits it was a guerrilla jehad, not so much a conscious fight as constant reaction. Like Poet Robert Graves (TIME, Jan. 6), she wants to get the memory off her chest, then try something else. Says she, aptly: "I am trying to become a new human being." Famed among left-wing litterateurs and artists as founder-editor of the late Little Review, Margaret Anderson started life as the...