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There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June...
THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A DRAYNEFLETE (70 pp.) - Osbert Lancaster - Houghton Mifflin...
...town of Drayneflete is not to be found on the usual maps of Britain for the very good reason that Osbert Lancaster made it up. To British Cartoonist Lancaster, nonetheless, Drayneflete (on the "limpid Drayne") is like so many real English towns that it might as well stand for the average. In a series of witty drawings tracing its development from Roman times to the present, Lancaster shows just how it got to look the way it does, and how it may look when the town-planning bugs get through with...
...Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...
Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...