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...other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense" is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad. David Garnett's "Sailor's Return," an amusing and well written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph" is one of the most pleasant and vivid stories that has appeared for some time, and will make everyone hope for more novels by Margaret Kennedy. D. H. Lawrence...
Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...SAILOR'S RETURN-David Garnett-Knopf...
There is an indefinable quality in David Garnett's genius. No one explained the charm of Lady into Fox; no one will quite explain The Sailor...
Return. The story is simple enough. In the late '50's a plain and hearty British sailor returns to England with his wife-the daughter of an African king-and their baby. They establish themselves in a village pub. The sailor tends bar; the alien princess is his cheerful helpmate. The village reaction results in tragedy. The baby is consigned, through friendly sailor hands, to Africa, perhaps to become a prince again-his mother never knows. The new proprietors of the pub permit her to become the drudge-of-all-work in her old home. Just that...