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...murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a "bloody bookworm" named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopædia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast. He was much happier browsing through this library than he was lathering the "filthy faces [of] nasty old men" in a slum barbershop (his first job) or eating "sawdust and chips" at "the wrong end of a planing machine...
LOOK OUT FOR LIZA (245 pp.)-Faith Baldwln-Rinehart...
...said middle-aged George to his young wife Liza, "look exactly like a kitten." Liza purred, and all was well. But then George died and there was nobody to pay attention to Liza's "small pointed face" and "soft vulnerable mouth" and "miniature . . . French bust...
Look Out for Liza is the 65th novel by pert Author Baldwin, 56, who for about 30 years has fizzed fiction like an inexhaustible literary pop bottle. Almost every drop of it has been eagerly lapped up by the women's magazines...
What follows his escape is a mad chase on locomotives through the slumbering countryside, a scene with all the peculiar virtues of the Keystone Cops, the drawings of Punch's artist Emett, and Liza crossing...