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Books in Brief
May 12, 1926 issue

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The article gives information about the books, "Wenn die alten Türme Stürzen," by Ernst von Wolzogen and "Die Heimtückischen Champignons und Andere Geschichten," by Gustav Meyrink. Ernst von Wolzogen merits and defects are still those of his whole output, a marvelous story-telling instinct, a joyous gift of humor, a touch of epic power, but an inability to keep his narrative constantly on the move, an exasperating fashion of exciting people's interest in an approaching event and then disposing of the event itself, when it finally arrives, in an indifferent phrase or two, a mercurial turn which robs his books not only of steadily advancing action but even of unity of spirit.

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BOOKS & reading; WENN die alten Turme Sturzen (Book); DIE Heimtuckischen Champignons und Andere Geschichten (Book); VON Wolzogen, Ernst; MEYRINK, Gustav; LITERATURE
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