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...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
GALLYBIRD - Sheila Kaye-Smith - Harper ($2.50). Tale of 17th Century England, complete with black magic; sequel to The End of the House of Alard and Superstition Corner...
KAYE-SMITH (Sheila) The End of the House of Alard...
...simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye-Smith's books: Sussex Gorse, Tamarisk Town, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband, Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, she would not follow him to London. She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there...
Recently, I have been traveling a good deal on trains, and watching the books men read in the smoking cars. On a fast train to the West the other day, I noted The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye-Smith, A Room with a View (pocket edition) by E. M. Forster, The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy, The Reckless Lady by Philip Gibbs "and a book called After All, whose author I could not discover. From this odd group I shall attempt no generalizations. Certainly a higher class of novel than one would expect. On the train...