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...fathers are simply too unsure of themselves to write really rattling letters to any son past the age of twelve. Significantly, the best letters toward the end of the book are the ones written to small children, including the notes from Kenneth Grahame to his four-year-old son Alistair that were the genesis of The Wind in the Willows. "My Darling Mouse-Have you heard about the toad? He has vanished and everyone is looking for him, including the police. I fear he is a bad low animal...
...ALISTAIR HORNE...
...PRICE OF GLORY (371 pp.)-Alistair Horne-St. Martin...
Verdun was the most destructive and in many ways the most crucial battle of World War I, a war that, as its 50th anniversary nears, is just now beginning to generate in Europe the same post-mortem re-examinations that the U.S. Civil War centennial recently unleashed here. Author Alistair Horne, an ex-Guards officer and British intelligence expert, has stitched together scores of eyewitness accounts by generals and common soldiers to make vivid sense of the battle's indescribable confusion...
...Ministry of Works' chief restorer, Alistair Stewart, thinks that the 16th century paintings of the Passion were commissioned by Henry. Other panels were covered with a blackened 17th century overpainting of inferior quality. It was when the restorers X-rayed these for the 16th century work beneath that they found traces of an even earlier work. Stewart attributes the 16th century paintings to one Lambert Lombard, who, in blotting out the paintings already on the canvas, used a coat of solid color that actually preserved at least part of them. The restorers feel they have uncovered as much...