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...they are smart, China's political leaders in Beijing will force its military to respond in kind. Prior to the festivities in Qingdao this week, Admiral Gary Roughead, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, visited his counterpart in Beijing, Vice Admiral Wu. There, the two talked up the two nation's cooperation in combating Somali pirates, but that wasn't the real point of the meeting. For years, the Pentagon has been frustrated by China's secrecy over its military budgeting and its intentions. The U.S. brass simply doesn't believe Beijing when it says its defense spending...
Died. William Roughead, 82, Scottish lawyer who seldom practiced because he was too absorbed in masterfully chronicling classic trials and crimes (mostly murders); of a cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia; in London. A chapter in his Bad Companions, recounting a celebrated 1810 slander suit that followed a vindictive schoolgirl's false accusation against her two spinster teachers, was the inspiration for Playwright Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour. Fact-Writer Roughead was called by Novelist Dorothy Sayers "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
HILAIRE BELLOC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS PROSE & VERSE (283 pp.)-Selected by W. N. Roughead-Lippincoft...
...Voices. W. N. Roughead's anthology gives readers a glimpse of Belloc in his multifarious prime. Only a glimpse, because much of Belloc's most influential, characteristic work (e.g., his vehemently "Catholic" histories of France and England; his major assault on industrial society, The Servile State) could hardly be squeezed in. But present in all its glory is Belloc's great range of tone-a diversity of poetic styles that travel all the way from nimble, sarcastic diatribes against the faults of "us poor hobbling, polyktonous and betempted wretches of men" to what his friend Baring described...
...gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London...