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This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
DERELICTS - William McFee - Doubleday, Doran...
Chief Engineer Spenlove is a garrulous, ironic, goateed alter ego whom William McFee invented in 1920 in Captain Macedoine's Daughter. Last week Mr. Spenlove ambled forth again. As in The Harbourmaster and The Beachcomber, Derelicts is the story of Mr. Spenlove telling a story. The listener is again a rich American woman passenger (this time on a luxury cruise to the West Indies), whose incredible patience really entitles her to be called the story's heroine...
Derelicts is only superficially a sea story, only superficially a novel. It is really a slow-motion stalking horse for McFee's very positive views on the relationship of social classes, particularly...
Since becoming a U. S. citizen after his retirement from the sea to Connecticut in 1925, big, blond, 57-year-old William McFee has brooded constantly over the misfortune that Americans (unlike Englishmen) have no solidified caste system. As a result, he says, the U. S. masses are forever filled with diseased aspirations to ape the rich, and the U. S. rich are forever uneasy in their "fear of revolt and the destruction of their ordered existence...