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DUMB-ANIMAL?Osbert Sitwell?Lippincott...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...Author. Edith Sitwell, sister of Osbert (TIME, March 3, 1930) and Sacheverell Sitwell, adult enfants terribles of literary England, is middleaged, skinny, wraithlike; "in early youth took an intense dislike to simplicity, morris-dancing and every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting, and has continued these distastes ever since." Other books: The Mother and Other Poems, Clowns Houses, Bucolic Comedies, Sleeping Beauty, Elegy on Dead Fashion...
This is a mystery story in the modern, Osbert-Sitwellian manner: besides the mystery it contains much acute and polished conversation on morals, literature, life; a complete satirical sketch of tourists shut up together on a liner; criticisms of art and nature; and what might almost serve as a guidebook to Granada, Spanish setting of the famed Moorish Alhambra...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...