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Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama; cloying religiosity...
...artist is a selfish person whom we like, and the philanthropist an unselfish person whom we do not like."—:A. Clutton-Brock...
...Clutton-Brock has the slightly academic point of view of the illustrious but conservative paper for which he writes. The Baroque is to him anathema; and Boucher, but an insignificant follower of Watteau. Luckily he ends with the nineteenth century. One is frightened at what he would have done with the twentieth. And yet there is some good criticism...