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BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
With quantity production, Mr. Sabatini has quite naturally developed some degree of standardization. And while form some points of view this may be highly desirable, if adds little to the interest or individual perfection of his later novels. He cannot, it seems, fail to tell a good story, but the smoothness and polish of "Scaramouche" and "Captain Blood" are noticeably lacking in "Mistress Wilding". It is true that the hesitation with which the story begins hesitation, that is in point of style rather than in action--gradually wears off as the author warms to his work; but at first...
...score of style, we may be doing Mr. Sabatini a horrible injustice. "He may have intended "Mistress Wilding" to sound slightly unfinished, to correspond to the manners of the time and place of which he wrote. He has unquestionably succeeded in creating another rousing, entertaining story, with enough local color and background to make a very definitely agreeable impression...
...Rafael Sabatini three years ago was all but unknown in America. Since then, with the publication of "Scaramouche", half a million copies of his books have been sold: As witness of his great popularity Houghton Mifflin Company are to issue a uniform collected edition of his works in thirteen volumes of short stories based on historical themes, and two important works of history. Sabatini's latest book, "Mistress Wilding", is a colorful romance of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. A review of this new Sabatini novel will, we hope, appear in the CRIMSON Book shelf shortly...
Wednesday evening in the same hall Rulon Y. Robinson, tenor, well known here, and Carlo Sabatini, Viennest violinist, will give a concert of old airs and songs of Bax and Ireland on the one hand and of a Sonata of Haendel, a Concerto of Dvorak and miscellaneous violin pieces, on the other...