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Invention and Interpretation
Codman, Florence | December 4, 1929 issue

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The article discusses two books, "The Bird of God. The Romance of El Greco," by Virginia Hersch, and "Horace Ll'alpole and Madame du Deffand. An Eighteenth Century Friendship," by Anna de Koven. After the anxious inquiry for fact and the careful endeavor to record it accurately comes the indulgence after research, the definition. The transition from interpretation to invention is usually too subtle to permit accusation, only when the facts are too strained does the bubble burst. Hersch with the smallest amount of data invents a personality; De Koven with abundant evidence postulates an amazing contradiction.

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BOOKS; BIRD of God. The Romance of El Greco, The (Book); HORACE Walpole & Madame du Deffand. An Eighteenth Century Friendship (Book); HERSCH, Virginia; DE Koven, Anna; LITERATURE
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