SOURCE: "Christopher Tietjens: His Life and Times," in The New Yorker, Vol. XXVI, No. 32, October 7, 1950, pp. 126, 129-30.

An American novelist, biographer, and critic, Basso is best known for Sun in Capricorn (1942), a novel which, like much of his work, explores the societal structure and cultural mores of the American South. In the following review of Parade's End, he calls the tetralogy "a minor performance," asserting that Ford was unable to create a convincing portrait of a politically conservative character.

Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford, is an omnibus collection of four books that make up a single novel, along with an introduction by Robie Macauley. The titles of the books, as they originally appeared, over a period of five years (1924-28), are Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up—, and The Lost Post. The author, who died in 1939 and who was one of the...