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...know if this young man is going to marry Princess Elizabeth nor do I care a damn. I might reply to the sentimental view that she ought to marry an Englishman and a 'commoner' by arguing that her background being what it is, the kind of commoner she would be most likely to marry is one of the Tory guard officers with whom she goes dancing, or possibly the son of some prominent Munichite or former Fascist. It might be different if the poor girl had not been so carefully sheltered from contact with ordinary working-class...
...public is getting this classic job for two bits because eleven years ago a young Englishman named Allen Lane decided that the people who shopped at Woolworth's would just as soon buy good literature as bad. Penguin Books, London, which he founded, was enormously successful, at first with reprints, then with new books. Recently Lane hired Scholar Rieu to edit a series of classics in new translations. This is his first, and it is good...
...does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...
Frenchman Jacques le Moyne and Englishman John White returned with watercolors to inspire stay-at-homes. A Fleming named Theodore de Bry engraved their paintings in 1590-91. Now all but one of Le Moyne's originals have been lost, and only the engravings remain...
Always concerned with the relevance of personal psychology upon political events, Koestler dissects the Arab-British-Jewish triangle and finds that the British colonial administrators, "not the best type of Englishman," feel uncomfortable and ineffectual in their dealings with the legalistically impeccable but personally over-intense Jewish leaders, represented in the book by the Zionist Executive member, Glickstein. The British naturally favor the Arabs, over whom they feel comfortably superior along "the white man's burden" lines, and whose colorful tribal customs and indifferent air appeal to their more romantic nature. Koestler's British Commissioner admits to the "impartial observer...