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...ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT, retold by Joseph Bédier; translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld; illustrated by Serge Ivanoff (172 pp.; Heritage; $6). If 13-year-old girls still come in the shy, quiet variety, this prettily done-up edition of the old Celtic tale should be an ideal present. It is full of sadness and magic, and it rings (as Padraic Colum observes in his introduction ) with the voice of the singer and the sound of the harp...
...that the Socialist welfare state, instead of liberating the mind from economic concerns, has actually committed its favorite sons to a slavish preoccupation with wealth and the good will of the master class. The special irony of that situation is expressed in the novel's epigraph from Hilaire Belloc...
...today among the British as a form of "upper-class folk art," but its great age was the late Victorian period (C. S. Calverley, Lear and J. K. Stephen), based on a common Oxbridge education. In this century Macdonald loyally finds U.S. parodists better than Britain's best (Belloc, Chesterton, Beerbohm, Connolly notwithstanding), and the best of these in The New Yorker school (E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Peter De Vries). The reason: that magazine, with its "peculiar combination of sophistication and provinciality," provides the necessary "compact cultural group." "The old lady from Dubuque," it seems, now digs Jack...
...exception that proved the rule, in spades: Hilary Belloc, son of British Author-Historian Hilaire Belloc, was letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part...
...Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...