Books: Aldous' Acquaintance

Aldous' Acquaintance

TEXTS & PRETEXTS—Aldous Huxley— Harper ($2.50).

Most authors keep notebooks. In them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will...

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