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...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...
...Author Belloc, Catholic historian-essayist, is not satirizing mystery stories; he is having a happy holiday. Only an Englishman can fill so many pages with a simple story and have so much fun doing it. The 25 illustrations by G. K. Chesterton suggest what Bud Fisher might have scribbled at the age of eight; are amusing...
...story of Tristram and Isolt--of all medieval stories--seems modern imagination. Wagner, Swinburne, Hardy, and Belloc have all retold it, each changing it somewhat to suit his own purposes, but treating it always for what it is--one of the greatest love stories in the world. And now that such an important poet as Mr. Robinson, in the third of his Arthurian poems, has retold it once again, it is a matter of considerable interest to see with what success he has done...
NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET-Appleton ($2.50). Only experts are allowed to work on Joy Street- such writers as Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, Rose Fyleman, Hilaire Belloc, Compton Mackenzie, Laurence Housman, Hugh Chesterman. Mr. de la Mare's contribution concerns John Cobbler, a Wiltshire boy who was turned into a tench. Mr. Belloc, in verse, confesses himself a votary...
...Scribners ($2.50). "The usual rabble of fairy godmothers", armored knights, rubicund policemen, aunts, bears, sponge cake and "the biggest giant that ever gianted" infest this compendium. It is entirely concocted by British authors-Sir James M. Barrie, P. G. Wodehouse, A. P. ("Punch") Herbert, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, Algernon Blackwood, Cynthia Asquith (the editress) and many another...