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...EDMUND CAMPION (239 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
About a thousand copies of Waugh's book, printed in England, were sold in the U.S. a decade ago. Now that Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is a best-seller (558,000 copies), Little, Brown has published Campion for the first time in the U.S. Lending-library ladies will find little in it of the Waugh they recently took to their breasts...
...rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
...clerk, bewigged and begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...