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...course, impossible to give any detailed criticism of all the essays the little volume contains. Perhaps the most delightful of all is Philip Guedalla's conception of the world if the Moors had won in Spain. He gives Baedeker descriptions, Reuter dispatches, and chapters from spurious histories on the rise of the Moorish civilization. Hilaire Belloc is pretty sure that steamships and locomotives would be still figments of diseased imaginations if Louis XVI had escaped at Varenne's. Emil Ludwig gives a very interesting description of Germany if the Emperor Frederick had not died of cancer in 1888. Unfortunately...
Young Comrade Litvinov. The stock control of Lena Goldfields Ltd. is held by a small group of U. S. and British tycoons who maintain the privacy of their identity. Board Chairman of the company in London is Herbert Guedalla, cousin of elegant British essayist-poet-biographer Philip Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week...
...Since Miss Wethered seldom bothers to play in tournaments any more, the British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm...
Longfellow, distinctly out of fashion at the moment, wrote sententiously to the effect that lives of great men all remind us we can make our own sublime and departing leave behind us footprints in the sands of time. By substituting "wives" for "lives" sprightly Guedalla makes wicked point to the dreary platitude, and proceeds to silhouet six Victorian wives against the conspicuous background of their husbands...
...such stuff are the women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...