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...SCORPION ON STONE by Gwyn Griffin. 219 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...fashionable fatuity to pity the poor underprivileged natives. But these spirited stories by Gwyn Griffin, a white novelist (Something of an Achievement) who has spent most of his life in black Africa, are ironically concerned with the poor white man who survives as an unwelcome guest in lands where he once was master. Composition Piece examines through a black man's eyes "the new, post-war group of colonial administrators, liberal in opinions, immensely tolerant, who want to lend one books and dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history...
...WALK HOME (205 pp.)-Gwyn Jones-Norton...
...poets to rhapsodies and courtiers to either folly or matrimony. Endowed with broad brow, straight nose (admired by Englishmen in both their hounds and their women) and what 17th Century Poet Robert Herrick termed a "swan straining, faire, rare stately neck," isolated beauties from Charles II's Nell Gwyn to Lady Hamilton have shared with Edwardian Actress Lily Langtry the brow, the neck, a mass of lovely hair, and skin like an English rose...
SOMETHING OF AN ACHIEVEMENT, by Gwyn Griffin (284 pp.; Holt; $4.95), suggests, as do a great many other contemporary British novels in this, the sahib's foulest hour, that the Pax Britannica was kept by boobs, boors and brutalitarians. British Novelist Gwyn Griffin is a onetime army officer in Africa who showed in By the North Gate (TIME, April 20, 1959), that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire...