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...STRANGERS - Elspeth Huxley -Harper...
Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...
...although Author Huxley views the natives' misfortunes with sympathy, her sympathy with the whites makes Red Strangers a tragi-comedy rather than a tragedy. The final scene (after two generations of British rule): A young Kikuyu farmer takes his first ride in a plane, trudges boastfully home, pleased with himself and the white bwana, determined to name his forthcoming child Aeroplane...
Following its publication, Huxley edited a pacifist pamphlet, in great part a restatement of the book. But what else has he done, what is he doing now? Is he by any chance preparing a novel, foreshadowed in Eyeless in Gaza, of an unattached man? There is no such character in fiction, he claims. Or is he merely continuing with the practical work of the pacifist movement? Had he been very active during this period it seems probable that he would have gotten into enough trouble to make the news, and hence have appeared in your pages. Has he been suppressed...
...Neither suppressed nor underground is British Author Aldous Huxley, now living in Pacific Palisades, Calif. His nearly-completed novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, is scheduled for publication this fall. A realistic fantasy, it tells of a rich man who tries to prolong his life scientifically, eventually reverts toward...