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EGYPTIAN DAY-Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace...
Princess Marthe Bibesco is a civilized European. But Princess Bibesco thinks Egypt mysterious. That land of monuments and tombs makes her feel a little uncomfortable. Says she: "We are not very civilized, people of little value, of few possibilities, content to put handles of silver on the coffins of our great men and then believe we have made fools of ourselves over them." Egyptian Day is a notebook: that is to say, there is little padding...
...sense of Egypt's mystery pervades the book. Like many thoughtful travelers through dead and still incompletely under stood civilizations, Princess Bibesco feels that Egypt's statues know more than they will tell." Egypt is not of interest except to a few devoted amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have...
These brusque commands the leader of a Rumanian robber band addressed, last week, to the occupants of the last of some dozen limousines to bear guests home from a dinner at Castle Mogoshoioa, sumptuous summer palace of Prince Jan Bibesco and his spouse, socialite authoress Princess Marthe (Catherine Paris) Bibesco...
...Anthony Asquith is the son of the late great Earl of Oxford and Asquith by his second wife, Margot Asquith. He has one sister, Princess Bibesco...