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This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
...piano, a trio of skillful balladeers and their accompanist, who provide a harmonic counterpoint of period music to the proceedings. The actors read letters, poems and memoirs by and about royalty, together with historical reminiscences and profiles sketched by hard-eyed courtiers and literary greats from Malory to Jane Austen...
...Barton in The Hollow Mockery are Mr. Max Adrian, who fancies he is amusing as an effeminate and disgusting ambassador of Henry VII; Miss Dorothy Tutin, who fancies she is an actress, and proceeds to read a sketch of the Kings of England by the fifteen-year-old Jane Austen as if it were the work of Baby Snooks; and Mr. Paul Hardwick, who is plain enough. Musical interludes are provided by Mr. James Walker, a harpsichordist,--Mr. Barton, luckily, seems to have been unable to devise a way of making the harpsichord funny--and by three gentlemen of indeterminate...
...Richard Poirier (still here, thank goodness), who must rank high on anybody's list of people with important things to say, demonstrates, in a paper on Twain and Austen a critical method he has been exploring for some time (and in which he will give a course next year), that of comparing European and American authors in an effort to understand the differences between the two societies and their literature. His is a difficult and not always clear argument, but those who follow it to the end of its considerable length will be amply rewarded...
Stand or Fall. Chief gainer in the Cabinet shuffle is dependable, tough-minded Richard Austen Butler, 59, promoted from the Home Ministry to the newly created post of First Secretary of State, becoming, in effect, heir apparent to Macmillan. But the fact that Macmillan has named "Rab" Butler to the No. 2 Cabinet post does not mean necessarily that he will ever obtain No. 1 Since he is now even more closely tied to the Prime Minister and his policies. Butler's political fortunes largely depend on Macmillan's remaining more or less successfully in office. The vacant...