SOURCE: "Italy and England Appear in New Fiction," in The New York Herald Tribune Books, May 21, 1939, p. 6.
A highly respected American literary critic, Kazin is best known for his essay collections The Inmost Leaf (1955) and Contemporaries (1962), and particularly for On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American prose writing since the era of William Dean Howells. In the following review of The Medals, and Other Stories, he finds the stories for the most part tiresome.
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