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Harvey Curtis Webster

Book Reviews

Summer 1964

Without a Peer

By Harvey Curtis Webster

The Modern Novel in Britain and the United States by Walter Allen. E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.95. To evaluate properly a book such as this one by Walter Allen […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1963

Farce and Faith

By Harvey Curtis Webster

Night and Silence Who Is Here? by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Charles Scribner’s Sons, $4.50.  Presuming you do not know Pamela Hansford Johnson’s work already, if you wish to get an […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1963

Comedy and Darkness

By Harvey Curtis Webster

Morte D’Urban by J. F. Powers. Doubleday and Company, $4.50. Toward the end of “The Prince of Darkness,” the Archbishop tells Father Burner: “Today there are few saints, fewer sinners, […]