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Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...Channel, but that is a soldiers' affair. In the warrens of Whitehall there is the war of the ministries and the boys who have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford to politically...
...melancholia. Yet they have happy moments together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy of moments when he, a Minister, has nothing to do; from the whole importunate, crazy world in which he, tired, lonely, and rather fat old Sam Raingo, must play so exhausting a role...
...genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them: Sam's dour man-of-all-work, Wrenkin; Andy's idolized, pious old mother; Sam's business factotum, Swetnam; a mystical middle-aged...
...LORD RAINGO,-Arnold Bennett-Doran...