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Husk & Fangs. The two novels on display, Love's Cross Currents and Lesbia Brandon, both deal with the frustrated yearning of a young man for a close relative-a girl cousin in one case, a sister in the other. Swinburne, who alone of all Victorian writers belonged to the top aristocracy, has no trouble handling those extra comic confusions that come naturally in a society where everybody seems to be related to everybody else. When he is being funny-for example, minutely recording the malicious troublemaking of an old gorgon ("all husk and fangs") named Lady Midhurst-Swinburne...
Both stories are shadowed by raw autobiographical overtones, which Editor Wilson, as a licensed Freudian critic, delights in. Swinburne, clearly, is the original of the repulsed lover in each book. The girl is his real-life cousin Mary Gordon, whose rejection of the poet was one of the turning points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister...
Massachusetts' Barbara ("Toni") Welch Gibbons Peabody, 40, got her political schooling from her father, Morris A. Gibbons, who has been a member of Bermuda's colonial parliament for 40 years. Says "Chub" Peabody's cousin, Rosemary de Suze: "Toni is a marvelous cook, she is a marvelous seamstress, a marvelous mother and a marvelous wife. She will tackle anything and do it well." Sniffs a Boston society editor: "Chub would never have made it without her." He met Toni early in 1944, when he was stationed at a submarine base in Bermuda. Toni, a green-eyed blonde...
Died. Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 75, British theoretical physicist, head of the standard-setting National Physical Laboratory from 1938 to 1949, Charles Darwin's grandson, cousin of Pioneer Eugenicist Sir Francis Galton, and an outspoken advocate of eugenics himself; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England...
Bundy tells reporters that he certainly cannot be held responsible for his cousin's article in the Post...