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LAUGHTER IN THE NEXT ROOM (400 pp.) -Sir Osbert Sitwell-Little, Brown...
Kindly, Cynical. Seven years ago Sacheverell Sitwell and his brother Osbert and sister Edith sued for libel (and won) when London's Reynolds News declared that oblivion had claimed them and "they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." Sacheverell Sitwell's latest reminiscences make it clear that the comment hurt. But it is a whole school of writing, or even a whole civilization, that is remembered with a kindly and cynical smile, and The Hunters and the Hunted suggests that there were values within it which the present might consider before consigning it to oblivion...
...London, the literary Sitwells' Sir Osbert Sitwell won the Sunday Times's literary prize of ?1,000. "This occasion is particularly gratifying to me," said the happy winner, "because from my earliest days my two chief characteristics have been vanity and avarice...
Tower Duty. Eventually, Sir Osbert persuaded his father to let him give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were...
Writes Sir Osbert: "The air of our ancient civilization had then a lightness about it that has now everywhere vanished, if not forever, at least for several centuries. The fruit was ripe, and we were eating...