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Taming Leviathan
Krutch, Joseph Wood | May 8, 1929 issue

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This article discusses the book "Herman Melville," by Lewis Mumford. The author has written an extremely interesting biography, but no study of Herman Melville is likely to satisfy all his admirers. His life and his works are strange facts which resist the efforts of his pattern-maker and he eludes the understanding of his biographers almost as successfully as he seems to have eluded his own. The most conspicuous virtues of Mumford's book are a fluent ease and a perpetual ripple of intelligent comment. Its greatest defect is a certain lack of power. Its remarks are always in good taste and it is always gentle, which Melville certainly was not.

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HERMAN Melville (Book); MUMFORD, Lewis, 1895-1990; BIOGRAPHY; CONDUCT of life; VIRTUES; AUTHORS
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