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...Author has written her tale in a manner that seems oldfashioned, courtly, Victorian when compared with contemporary styles. At times reminiscent of her friend, David Garnett, she has none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes...
...GRASSHOPPERS COME-David Garnett-Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...David Garnett's books a Meaning lurks around the corner, but it will not bite you, it is muzzled, and it will not show its head unless you whistle for it. The Grasshoppers Come begins and ends with a description of the migratory habits of grasshoppers or locusts; the story is about airplanes, a long-distance flight...
...Shap trudged off through the desert to find help; Jimmy sat and waited. They never came back. After several days Jimmy nearly despaired. Then clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements...
...Author- David Garnett's father Edward was a critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come...