But, let us think, Macomber died happy in his triumph over the buffalo.
Macomber sets out next day to vindicate himself by killing buffalo. His wife immediately sleeps with the professional hunter who has killed Macomber is hunting in Africa and turns coward when his first lion charges at him. Neither short nor happy, and it is a good example of the pattern. The first of these is one of the four not collected, it is Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" and "The Light of the World"-the last, he adds, a story that nobody else has liked. They are "The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber," "In Another Country," "Hills Like White Elephants," "A Way You'll Never Be," "The
Is a monotony of feeling, which the marvelously exact prose only accentuates. Certainly, in spite of the variety of killers, gangsters, soldiers, bullfighters and big-game hunters, there is some monotony of subject-matter throughout the book-or better to say it But where it was only the surgery that seemed to interest him, there si now, I think, a growing tendency to realize the importance of the patient, and in this way the subject-matter Hemingway's stories is that he can now cable them. There was nothing to do about him, Hemingway writes, the planes would get them sooner or later but the cat knew how to look after itself, and "that was all the good luck the old man wouldįrom 1921 to 1938 it has been the same short story, love and pity and pride and loneliness concealed in a brief reportage of the cruel facts. His only trouble is that he had to leave his animals behind, two goats, a cat and four pairs of pigeons, and It is about an old man evacuated from San Carlos and on the way to Barcelona. The last story was cabled from Barcelona in April of this year. It is about a day of deer-killing and whisky-drinking, ending up with love-making, Later it is to depend almost entirely on dialogue. The story is developed through introspection. Influenced by Gertrude Stein-there are whole paragraphs in which the rhythms of "Three Lives" (1909) are duplicated, almost line by line-the simple repetitive static of The first story was written in 1921, called "Up Hemingway hopes to have produced on Broadway but, since it reads well, he prints it first. With four new stories and a three-act play about the war in Madrid that Mr. THE FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIESĮre are reprinted the contents of "In Our Time," "Men Without Women" and "Winner Take Nothing," OctoHemingway's Play and Stories By PETER MONRO JACK
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