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CECIL RHODES-Sarah Gertrude Millin -Harper ($3.75) When a friend asked Cecil John Rhodes how long he expected to be remembered, he replied, "I give myself 4,000 years." Thirty-one of his self-allotted years have gone, and Rhodes is already a colossus-like myth. Authoress Millin's biography restores some of the edges to his human outline; she leaves his image something more than lifesize, but strips the marble pediment and shows clay feet...
...against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally discredited. Though he lived to within a few months of the end of the ensuing Boer War, Authoress Millin says Rhodes had no finger in its bringing about, never believed it could actually happen...
...Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford-founded in the pathetic belief that they would cement the bonds of Empire, bring back the strayed U. S. colonies to England's spiritual fold, encourage transatlantic handshaking generally. Reason why there are so many U. S. Rhodes Scholarships, says Biographer Millin: he thought there were still only the original 13 States in the U. S., assigned two to each (in 1929 modified by Parliament to twelve from each of eight U. S. districts...
...ARTIST IN THE FAMILY-Sarah Gertrude Millin-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Every family likes to think that one of it's children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream...
...Author Millin, who knows her South Africa, has flayed artistic egotism with gentle skill...