Book Reviews by Eudora Welty

I have just finished reading Eudora Welty's reviews collected by Pearl McHaney under one title A Writer's Eye. The book collects all sixty-seven of Welty's reviews of seventy-four books. They are really beautiful. As Pearl McHaney puts it "Though they are in her own view, a minor chapter in her life's work, Welty's reviews are as sensory-laden, as thoughtful, and as well crafted as her stories". I can not agree more. I really enjoyed Welty's review of Nine Stories by J.D.Sallinger. Any student of William Faulkner should read Welty's reviews of Intruder in the Dust and Selected Letters of William Faulkner by Joseph Blotner. I checked the article on the photographs taken in Russia by Henri Cartier-Bresson, on the collection of Russian Fairy Tales and my only complaint is that she has not reviewed more books. I would love to know what she thought about some. Such an intelligent, knolegeable, tactful and sensitive lady of letters! I should probably work on copyright permission for translating of some of the reviews into Russian.