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COLLECTED POEMS-C. Day Lewis- Random House ($2.50). Poems and an essay by another young English paladin, peer and pal of Poets W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender (see below...
...much by attrition and force of numbers as by Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...
...Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...
Tears for so splendid an old paladin seemed more than vain, yet they were not lacking, last week, when the nine doctors left the Marshal's room, after examining their patient with especial earnestness...
...citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment to Tiflis and later Reval. Thus the President of Russia is of the honored Revolutionary Old Guard-a paladin of 53 whose sufferings have given him the look of 65, unless one notices that only his beard and not his hair is white...