'2nd February, Wednesday.
I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He is another of those authors who make me wonder why the ordinary reader wastes time on cheap rubbish. Here is a book, one of hundreds, which is as entertaining, as quick moving, and dramatic as any one can desire, and yet I doubt if it can hold place with B.M. Bower, Ethel M. Dell, Elinor Glyn, Zane Grey and the other tripe-mongers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to the days of "Premier and the Painter" which I read by chance of the Indian Ocean--a copy with covers torn off and two pages missing.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham: 23.5.33
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]
5. We then proceeded to the subject for the evening "The Jew in Literature", which was dealt
with by eight readings and some discussion of several of them. It proved to be rather a vast
subject, & there was considerable disagreement as to what really are the racial characteristics
of the Jews, and there is an even greater indefiniteness in the Secretary's mind as to what the
Club collectively thinks on all this. It must suffice then to give a list of the readers and their
readings.
Mary E. Robson an extract from Du Maurier's Trilby describing Svengali
Howard R. Smith from Heine, in the Temple
Shakespeare, on Shylock's love for Jessica
George H. S. Burrow two XIII Century ballads, Sir Hugh & The Jew's Daughter
Mary S. Stansfield from The Children of the Ghetto
Edgar B. Castle from F. W. H. Myers's St. Paul
Victor W. Alexander from Frazer's Folklore of the Old Testament
Sylvanus A. Reynolds, the Jew's Tale in Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Howard R. Smith from Hilaire Belloc's The Jews'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary S. Stansfield Print: Book
‘A cheap dinner and so to King’s Cross an hour early to get a Corner Seat … I
read some Israel Zangwill as far as the Midlands. Then … slept. I woke up as
we were rounding the Coast by Dunbar. I saw nothing waiting to meet me at
Waverley Station, so I went into the Hotel and breakfasted hugely.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him
enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of
Revelations in his outbursts of revolting sensuousness … varied occasionally
by really beautiful passages, but he is far more witty than St. John the Divine.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto" is his best.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton Sorley Print: Book
