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...Very Reverend Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, 60, Dean of Chester, genial husbandman of souls: "I lived as a boy in the middle of a great hunting country. Hounds and pink coats still give me a sort of tingle. But the best part of me knows that it is all barbarous and brutal...
...TWILIGHT?Count Edouard Von Keyserling? Macaulay...
RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay -Boni & Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give...
...Rupert and Oliver Proudlock who finished second, eighth, and twelfth last year, is conceded an excellent chance to repeat its 1925 triumph. Penn State and Harvard, however, have well-balanced teams that should make the six-mile race a struggle all the way. Yale pins its hopes on Captain Macaulay Smith, a brilliant runner who captured the individual crown...