The personality of Lawrence of Arabia has not yet lost any of its fascination. Cape announces a volume, edited by Lawrence’s brother, which will consist of personal impressions by about seventy of his friends. This is to take the place of a formal, official biography. The profits of the book will go to the Lawrence estate for charitable purposes.
Modern novelists, according to Cecil Roberts, are rich in invention, but they seem to be somewhat weak in humanity. They fail to create universal figures, those gifts to all time in which Dickens and Thackeray and Trollope were so prodigal.
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Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 13
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