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That sentiment, written by British Author Hilaire Belloc, may well be echoed by the authors and publishers who send some 60 volumes per week to the TIME Books section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards...
...BELLOC: A BIOGRAPHICAL ANTHOLOGY edited by Herbert Van Thai. 386 pages. Knopf...
Pity poor Hilaire Belloc, to whom the opposite has happened. Most of his 100 or so books are out of print, and he is remembered, if at all, for his failings: as a gruff, belligerent polemicist, who wrote biased history and ceaselessly propagandized for an eccentric mode of intolerant, muscular Catholicism...
This engaging and intelligent collection of snippets from his work, gathered to commemorate the centenary of Belloc's birth, suggests that it is time to revise the reputation of this half French but wholly British Superman of Letters...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...