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Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And...
A Young Lady of Fashion tripped from between gay board covers this spring, ran up the scale of her unrestrained amours and crescendoed into nine U. S. editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with...
Undoubtedly modern life has much in common with the glittering sophistication of the Augustans. The past few years have witnessed an astonishing revival of interest in Pepys, Congreve, and the Johnson circle, while pre-Raphaelites, transcendentalists, romanticists go unread. Indeed the present has little sympathy with many of the ideals...
"I would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li T'ai-Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan. Nor do I despair of students who, at times, unbend. They may become lovable conservatives, pillars of state, like Samuel Johnson and Pepys.
LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he...