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...STRANGE LIFE OF CHARLES WATERTON (231 pp.) - Richard Aldington -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores the maze more thoroughly, but still finds no adequate explanation of the man who was unquestionably one of the 19th Century's strangest freaks...
...Aldington's Casanova found Henriette -the one real love of his life-in a Venetian canal, where she was drowning. He rescued her, but before he could even sear her lips with a kiss she was whisked home. When he finally found her again she was in a hotel bed. After exchanging commonplaces, they set up housekeeping without benefit of clergy. But one day, for no apparent reason, Casanova was arrested...
Flirtatiously billed as "the story Casanova didn't dare to tell," Romance actually has no basis in the 18th Century swoonster's Memoirs. In place of truth, Author Aldington offers learned period sets (descriptions of settecento fortune telling, bills of fare, gambling), plenty of escapes and japes, ructions and seductions...
...Aldington obviously meant it to be hammock reading, and no more. But except for a few writing tricks, and a display of erudition, no summer reader would recognize it as the work of the man who wrote World War I's bitter Death of a Hero, or that first-rate biography of Wellington, The Duke...