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...BLESSING (305 pp.]-Nancy Mitford-Random House...
...Nancy Mitford's favorite characters have the candor and abruptness of people well into their third or fourth glass of champagne. The hero of The Blessing, Airman Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, of the Free French, is clearly one of Novelist Mitford's favorites. He is, in fact, a woman's dream come true: handsome, rich, brave as a lion, bewitching as a magician. It is thus a serious tactical error when the unimaginative Hughie Palgrave invites Charles-Edouard to look up his fiancée, Grace, in London...
Like many classics, this work, first published in 1678, has been read for generations only by schoolchildren and scholars. Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford's new translation is an attempt to prove that it deserves a larger audience. Translator Mitford has tackled an almost desperately lost cause, for the chief interest of the book is still a curiosity interest: The Princess of Cleves happens to be the first novel that is recognizably "modern...
Cynical Aphorist. As Nancy Mitford remarks in her lively introduction, the same cannot be said of Madame de Lafayette, who, after marrying a provincial boor and bearing him several children, spent the remainder of her life on the edges of Louis XIV's court engaged in an endless quest for preferment and place...
...matter how hard he tries, scholarly Dr. Mitford M. Mathews can never remember much about what he reads; he is too busy covering slips of paper with odd words that catch his eye. Over the past 25 years, he has jotted down 50,000 of them and filed them away for future reference. This week U.S. readers with $50 to spare will have a chance to judge the result: Lexicographer Mathews' two-volume Dictionary of Americanisms, the first dictionary of words coined by Americans...