Both volumes are faultlessly
translated.
PEOPLE, by _Pierre Hamp_; translated by _James Whitall_
(Harcourt, Brace, and Company). Among the poets and prose writers who
have emerged in France during the past ten years and formulated a new
social and artistic philosophy, Pierre Hamp is by no means the least
important figure. He has already published about a dozen volumes of
mingled fiction and economic comment which form a somewhat detailed
history of the French workingman in his social and industrial relations,
but "People" is the first volume which has yet been translated into
English. His attitude as revealed in these stories is full of indignant
pity, and he gives us a series of sharply etched portraits, many of
which will not be forgotten readily. He does not conceal his
propagandist tendencies, but they limit him as an artist less in these
stories than in his other books. Mr. Whitall's translation is excellent,
and conveys the author's rugged style convincingly.
LITTLE RUSSIAN MASTERPIECES in Four Volumes, chosen and
translated from the Russian by _Zenaide A. Ragozin_ (G.P. Putnam's
Sons). This collection is valuable as a supplement to existing
anthologies because it wisely leaves for other editors the most familiar
stories and concentrates on introducing less known writers to the
English-speaking public.
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