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MADAME DE POMPADOUR (324 pp.) Nancy Mitford- Random House...
...Little Hut (adapted from Andre Roussin's play by Nancy Mitford) was a great hit in London, where it ran for three years. In traveling to Broadway, it has suffered a decided sea change; it has almost the look, in fact, of something that fell in the water...
...proved again that he has the richest comic sense among living writers in English. His Mister Johnson, the story of a young African clerk who wanted too much from life, was just about the most satisfying novel of the U.S. year, though first published in England in 1939. Nancy Mitford's gift for cultivated malice came shining through in The Blessing, a comedy of Franco-British manners, and a little book called The Young Visiters, written 51 years ago by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford, proved to be just as good fun as when British readers first discovered...
...takes Author Mitford a lot of maneuvering to outwit Sigi's determination to have at least as many fathers as Georgie. If, in the last few rounds, the Mitford inventive power shows signs of weariness, this is no doubt due to her having fought the early ones with so much carefree audacity. The Blessing is her seventh, and best, novel (runners-up: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate), and its overall gaiety more than makes up for the fact that its British nannies, French lovers, ECA Americans, etc. are not so much fresh creations as types lifted...
...when very few good novelists even try to be debonair, Nancy Mitford brings it off. The Blessing has as much weightiness and social significance as a good meringue...