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...they do in the vaster schemes of Trollope. In Crampton Hodnet (written around 1940 but prepared for publication only now by Pym's literary executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests, the warmth of a musquash coat, the bedtime balm of Ovaltine, the ultimate taste test -- does one take China tea or Indian...
...Miss Morrow, however, is different. In Jane and Prudence, she is a masterly drawn comic portrait: a coolly calculating woman who hides her ambition behind the lowered lids of humble gentility. In this book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination...
...CHIEF, Lance Morrow -- OCCASIONAL PROSE, Mary McCarthy -- RANDALL JARRELL'S LETTERS, edited by Mary Jarrell THE SOONG DYNASTY, Sterling Seagrave...
...Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Occasional Prose, Mary McCarthy -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild -- A Vanished Present: The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater
NONFICTION: The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Henry James: Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild -- A Vanished Present: The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater...