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...believed in 1911 (so Sir Osbert was given to understand) that in the coming war the Horse would come into its own. But Sir Osbert loathed horses, especially the one he had to ride. "When the Commanding Officer used to send for me, as he often did-and, I may add, with no view to congratulating me on my efforts-this agile and vindictive beast would often set off towards him at the fastest gallop, meanwhile, by one of his tricks, causing me to measure my length in the intervening wastes of snow and sand, and there abandoning me, would...
GREAT MORNING (360pp.)-Sir Osbert Sifwell-Little, Brown...
...Osbert Sitwell, who will be 55 in December, is now on Volume III of a five-volume autobiography. He writes with the assurance that, whatever may happen to English aristocracy, the cadences of his prose are not likely to perish sooner than those of Walter Savage Landor or Sir Thomas Browne. Great Morning is a tribute from the worldliest of the artistic Sitwells to the most Arcadian period that any Englishman can remember: the last years of the peace that ended in August...
...Osbert's previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...
...notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English aristocratic peculiarities...