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SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL -Arthur Bryant-Macmillan ($3.50).
Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a delighted posterity, the present-day world can never take him with half the seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand...
Not "the amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his...
Luckily he had Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was...
Pepys naturally made plenty of enemies, and they used the Popish Plot conspiracy of Titus Gates to get even with him. Accused of implication in a political murder, he was arrested, imprisoned in the Tower, faced with trial for his life. With characteristic energy he methodically tracked down every piece...