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...Privilege in these circumstances is not inconsistent with its history. The privilege has its origins in prosecutions for political and religious dissidence. Its sources may be found in the Inquisition of the thirteenth century (Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages) and in the sixteenth century persecution of the Puritans in England (Maguire, Attack of the Common Lawyers on the Oath Ex Office as Administered in the Ecclesiastical Courts in England...
Four years ago Writer Stockly read another man's story which changed his life considerably. The story was Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls. "I thought there must be something to this bull fighting," he said, and began to read more on the subject. "I became an aficionado by literary means." Then he did it the real way, took six months' leave of absence to tour the bull rings of Spain. He now takes his summer vacations in the winter to see the fights in Mexico...
...Ferber in her bestselling Giant, the state produced three of the most widely talked-about books of the year: Madison Cooper's Sironia, Texas, a 1,731-page Texas-town saga which seemed to prove that Ferber's view had been right in the first place; Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country, singing Lea's love of his Rio Grande country, north & south of the border; and The Devil Rides Outside, by Texan John Griffin, in which a young American finds his own City of God in a French monastery...
...book, The Wonderful Country, Author Lea comes a cropper at that traditionally exacting hurdle, novel No. 2, Because The Wonderful Country is an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion, it is easy to respect it and wait with interest for No. 3. Lea's wonderful country is, of course, the Southwest, in particular "where Texas and New Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason...
...Author Lea has really written a good old-fashioned western, full of dead-shot marksmanship and a man's love for his horse. Neither Brady nor anyone else in the book is a successfully developed character, but with all its weaknesses The Wonderful Country is still a western plus. What is extra comes in Author Lea's fine descriptive writing, a love for the West that is conveyed with grace and dignity, an authentic sense of place...