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...fast at week's end, and readers got a good 75? worth. Among the familiar universal themes of love, life, courage, birth and death, the magazine tucks in such old-fashioned surprises full of simpler merits as a bit of verse called The Rift by Walter de la Mare...
...GREEN MARE (234 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...
...personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare of Marcel Aymé and The Wicked Village of Gabriel Chevallier a fun-and-games attitude toward sex sets the tone, so that even the most serious consequences of immoderate passion are summed up with nothing more stern than a sympathetic shrug...
...even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a more sardonic, more pointed comment on the human comedy. The Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly for granted. Also taken for granted is the family feud between the Malorets...
...three wives, whose offspring schemed to-obtain the succession. His father Talal was an un happy, unstable man who beat Hussein's mother and denounced his own father Abdullah as a British puppet. The old King took to the young princeling. Hussein galloped on his blooded Arabian mare through the hills of his grandfather's summer place near Jericho, and hunted small game with the rifle that Abdullah had given him. One of his grandfather's aides taught him to fence with a scimitar in the slashing Arab style. "My boy," said the King, "I want...