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...HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. 447 pages. Atheneum...
...span of 40 years, Sir Harold Nicolson wrote 28 books of history (The Congress of Vienna), biography (King George V), fiction (Sweet Waters), essays (Good Behavior) and travelogues (Journey to Java), as well as countless book reviews and speeches. But nothing that Sir Harold has ever produced is so likely to win him a permanent place in British letters as this volume culled by his younger son from his personal notes and correspondence...
...reasons are clear enough. Nicolson, now 80, is among the last of a vanishing species of Englishmen-a cultivated, gregarious, urbane, multitalented man who was a diplomat, politician and bon vivant, as well as an influential critic and writer. From 1930 to 1964 Nicolson sat down each morning after breakfast and typed out an unsparingly candid account of what he had done, seen and thought the day before. In October 1964, when his son Nigel began to winnow through the notes, he found about 3,000,000 words...
...problem of not being "ordinary" and yet not seeming too aloof-of lowering the barrier between sovereign and subject and yet not "staining the mystery," as Sir Harold Nicolson put it-is probably the greatest public relations problem of Britain's royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove...
...work of their European counterparts as pedantic and isolated from contemporary currents. Yet since most of the scholars are at the top of their fields, there is little jockeying for prestige and plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort of paradise," says Literary Historian Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 72, former head of Columbia's English Department. And Philosopher Morton White calls it "a cosmopolitan island in the middle of suburbia, a place of refuge in which every moment is precious...