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...fictional device is 16 pages of gamy verses, supposedly in Burns's own handwriting and sewn into a copy of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the notorious anthology that the poet made to amuse his drinking companions). Max Arbuthnot, a goatish old Edinburgh lawyer with a fondness for '27 port and women of about the same vintage, undertakes to sell the smoldering and hitherto unknown holograph for his impoverished sister. He shows it to a fey, gloomy poet nicknamed Yacky Doo, who amuses himself alternately with a beckoning death wish and with Arbuthnot's married daughter...
...daughter has a lover's quarrel with Yacky Doo. Pettishly she steals the priceless Burns manuscript, then gets drunk and loses it-or so it appears. Soon, throughout Edinburgh, copies of the verses are falling like fig leaves. The barometer of conventional morality falls dangerously too. Everyone burns but few marry; Arbuthnot himself corners a young wench in his office, and clerks on the floor below watch anxiously as plaster flakes off the ceiling...
...latest volume of the delightful Yale University series, The Private Papers of James Boswell (seven published, eight or ten to come) opens in 1769, when Boswell is a fast-rising, 29-year-old Edinburgh lawyer. Thanks to his bestselling book, The Account of Corsica, he is also a writer perhaps better known on the Continent than Sam Johnson himself. Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved. When he visits London in 1772 without his wife, he is tempted by "a variety...
Married. Antenor Patino, 65, Bolivian tin tycoon, one of the world's richest men, who chased (1954) his daughter to Edinburgh, spread money at all levels, from cab drivers to lawyers, in a celebrated but futile effort to prevent her marrying Londoner Michael Goldsmith; and Italian Countess Beatriz di Rovasenda, 47; both for the second time; in London...
...Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh last week, Argyll, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and Salesman of Argyll Socks in all the ads, was trying to shed Duchess No. 3. Fortnight earlier, the Duchess of Bedford's sister was divorced by Earl Cadogan (who owns one-quarter of London's arty Chelsea district...