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...still be found French chateaux bordering colonial farmhouses, Moorish palaces nudging Scottish castles. And the old-style breed of Main Line aristocrat can still be found, holding on. In The Saving Grace, Novelist Mc-Cready Huston conducts a guided tour in the manner of a regional John P. Marquand. At the windup, Novelist Huston's poor but honest working girl has sidetracked her Main Liner into matrimony without even trying...
...critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet grudge or Marquand Jr.'s compulsion to renounce loudly the world of wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether it be laid to ignorance of any other setting, or correctly, I think, to his maturity, is refreshing in its calm acceptance, rather than scorn or worship...
...course, Bentinck-Smith had some good men working for him: Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Santayan, Charles Dickens, J. P. Marquand, and Cleveland Amory, to name just a few of the eighty odd. The editor's brief introductory notes place each contribution in its proper historical setting...
...home town of Newburyport, Mass., Novelist John P. (Point of No Return) Marquand, 59, was "resting comfortably" in a hospital after suffering a heart attack at his Kent's Island home...
John Phillips Marquand, novelist...