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LORENZO IN TAOS By Mabel Dodge Luhan
For students of D. H. Lawrence this book will be chiefly of value for the letters from Lawrence. which it contains and the circumstantial background to some of his most important work that it defines. It was at Mrs. Luhan's invitation that Lawrence went to New Mexico in 1922, and this book, Lorenzo in Taos (Seeker, 10s. 6d.), is mainly concerned with the period of activity which produced The Plumed Serpent. It is more about Mrs. Luhan than about Lawrence, and for the reader un- schooled in the intricacies of *the biographical maze which has been planted around the facts of Lawrence's life it has the merit of a vivid and competently written account of the enigmatical relationship which existed between its author and its subject. One is grateful to Mrs. Luhan for not presenting Lawrence as a mythological figure, though her narrative is sometimes tinged with a psychology which seems unreal and a quality of intuition which is too personal to be articplately communicated.
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