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...LITTLE PRINCESSES (314 pp.) -Marion Crawford- Harcourt, Brace...
...bedtime when the new governess arrived. The little girl sat up in her bed, looked the lady over, and spoke her mind: "Why have you no hair?" Miss Crawford had hair and proved it by taking off her hat. She also had tact, wit and a will beneath the hat, and proved it thereafter in one of the toughest assignments in the British Empire. For the next 16 years (until 1949), "Crawfie's" job was to teach the outspoken little girl and her tart-tongued sister their respective places - as royal princesses of the world's greatest monarchy...
...Little Princesses, Governess Crawford tells the story of her long visit with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. She tells it cozily, as might an old servant chatting over the teacups. She also tells it a bit breathlessly, as might a woman whose secrets have been burning a hole in her tongue for 16 years. Yet she tells it on the whole discreetly, as befits one who knows that what she says is certain to get back to the people she's talking about...
...than a Court Circular. But it is written in a much more affable style, and since the book concerns one of the world's best-loved families it is almost certain to become a bestseller. The best of the book is a small body of anecdote that Author Crawford retails with all the backstairs skill of an experienced court attendant. Items...
...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...