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...Scarborough has just written the perfect handbook and guide to the English mentality and its offspring, to be used by the American in the manner of a guide book to a Zoological garden, and by the Englishman as a looking glass. He is an American journalist who has braved the agonizing spectacle of English illogical self-deception in every sphere of British activity and inactivity and has been able to write down his observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years...
...title suggests, Mr. Scarborough has a thesis. He says that despite the fact that the Englishman does things by absurd roundabout methods, following antiquated ideas, the results are on the whole satisfactory and if they are not, the Britisher can, by his famous process of self-hypnosis, make himself believe that they are. This system of blundering about in a world of obsolete laws, political contradictions, and mid-Victorian conceptions of industry and trade is a tragic setting for a book, and even the numerous amusing anecdotes and descriptions of the Vagaries of the British mental process cannot make...
...Scarborough has a thousand opportunities for poking fun at the Englishman and his 'constitutional right to be uncomfortable.' He is in all a scientific observer, not a physician, but he is occasionally affected with mercy for the Englishman, whom he loves with a love based on understanding. The Britisher who builds his concrete house first and then bores holes in it for pipes and wiring, who decides to repair a highway on the day before a bank holiday receives no 'pooh-poohing' ridicule at his hands, only honest criticism. But his love does not carry him away to an optimism...
...Englishman of robust John Bull type greeted fragile Ambassador Andrew William Mellon and other U. S. pilgrims to the opening of the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon last week, booming with a throb in his deep bull voice, "From my heart welcome, welcome home...
...Author- At 15 Englishman Aldington (born 1892) had made up his mind that writing was the life for him, married a writer [Imagist Poetess Hilda ("H. D.'') Doolittle] to make doubly sure. But the War made a soldier of him, left him shell-shocked for nine years. This interim he filled up with separating from his wife, writing verse, translating some 20 volumes from French, Italian, Latin. Greek. Now, recovered, he spends as much time as possible in France and Italy, thrives on writing books about human vanities more, shocking than war's shells...