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Walter Elder

Book Reviews

Autumn 1955

That Region

By Walter Elder

The Bride Of The Innisfallen and Other Stories by Eudora Welty. Harcourt. $3.50. A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor. Harcourt. $3.50. Miss Welty’s […]

Art and "Symbolic"

Summer 1953

This May Be the Book

By Walter Elder

FEELING AND FORM. By Susanne K. Langer. Scribner’s. $7. For one thing this is a thoroughly satisfactory essay about Art and the arts. Even if it were no more than […]

Fiction

Autumn 1952

The Unsayable

By Walter Elder

He had planned to be writing on the board as the young men came into the classroom. He was prepared to listen to them complain, but not to watch them. […]

Fiction

Autumn 1951

The Divorce

By Walter Elder

Of all the family, Wesley liked his sister, Alice, the best. His parents were so busy being the occupants of the Tuttle home place, and therefore subject to constant attention […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1950

Venus Attended by Muses

By Walter Elder

Venus Observed by Christopher Fry. Oxford. $2.50 “There isn’t any reason / Why a sentence, I suppose, once it begins / Once it has risen to the lips at all […]

Fiction

Summer 1947

Roses Are Red

By Walter Elder

Miss Stanbury sat at her desk in the back of the primary room of Junction City school almost as she had sat at this time of the morning for the […]

Fiction

Autumn 1946

You Can Wreck It

By Walter Elder

George Thomas Lincoln and young Paul were friends and partners this summer. George had been working on Paul’s father’s farm since his return from the Clayton hospital, and now that […]

Fiction

Summer 1943

Her Own Affair

By Walter Elder

It was not a good day for fishing, but it might be a good day for sitting on the pier. A fishing pole was a good thing for keeping the […]