_Walls Rise Up_ (1939) is a kind of _Crock of
Gold_, both whimsical and earthy, laid on the Brazos River.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER is as dedicated to artistic perfection
as was A. E. Housman. Her output has, therefore, been limited:
_Flowering Judas_ (1930, enlarged 1935); _Pale Horse, Pale
Rider_ (1939), _The Leaning Tower_ (1944). Her stories
penetrate psychology, especially the psychology of a Mexican
hacienda, with rare finesse. Her small canvases sublimate the
inner realities of men and women. She appeals only to
cultivated taste, and to some tastes no other fiction writer
in America today is her peer in subtlety.
EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES died in 1934. Most of his novels--
distinguished by intricate plots and bright dialogue--had
appeared in the _Saturday Evening Post_. His finest story is
"Paso Por Aqui," published in the volume entitled _Once
in the Saddle_ (1927). Gene Rhodes, who has a canyon--on which
he ranched--named for him in New Mexico, was an artist; at the
same time, he was a man akin to his land and its men. He is
the only writer of the range country who has been accorded a
biography--_The Hired Man on Horseback_, by May D.
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