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...Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25). Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18). The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...DUKE OF GALLODORO (232 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribners...
...Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...
...Aubrey West's opinion, the world has never done better than chancery. Today there is a solid group of distinguished Britons who want to return to it. Under the leadership of such enthusiasts as Sir Sydney Cockerell, former director of Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum, and Lord Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), Lord Great Chamberlain for Edward VIII, West believes that Britons may soon be writing a fine Italian hand once again. Among the modern models they could imitate...