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...TREE (192 pp.) - Aubrey Menen - Scribner...
...There are three things which are real," Indian-Irish Author Aubrey Menen once wrote, "God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...
...Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls and our bodies destroyed, by men who boast that they are above right and wrong...
...Buntism incurable? Many people, including England's witty Irish-Indian novelist, Aubrey (The Prevalence of Witches) Menen, answer with a firm yes. They point out that 1) Buntism has attacked men and women from the beginning of recorded history, 2) there is reason to believe that Buntism is fundamental to life itself...
Sergeant Bunt is by far the most endearing and best drawn character in this scandalous novel-perhaps because he is a figment of Author Menen's vivid, jocular imagination. Most of the other characters in The Abode of Love have not this advantage. They are real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded...