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Biased Reporter. The Time's mourning grain of sand turned out last week to be plump, bearded Dr. Eugene Horsfall-Ertz, 53, jovial headmaster of a boys' school in Sussex. Dr. Horsfall-Ertz, whose hobby is history, has set himself the sizable task of cleaning up Richard's bad reputation. Like some other scholars, Horsfall-Ertz has come to the conclusion that Richard has been grossly maligned by history, that he did not murder the little princes, and that, all in all, he was one of the best, kindest and wisest kings in England's history...
...LIFE OF GEORGE SAND (482 pp.)-André Maurois-Harper...
Hostess, mistress, mother of Nohant was the famed George Sand, the beautiful woman who walked like a handsome man. It was far more than her literary eminence that drew the brilliant men of a generation to Nohant-though she fascinated a wide public with what she wrote, and left collected works that ran to 96 volumes. Her personality and the world she built around it were of such fascination and complexity that scores of guidebooks have served only to complicate the intricacy. France's André Maurois has now written a biography that is both the finest study ever...
Female Don Juan. Maurois' title, Lélia, is taken from the partly autobiographical novel of that name that George Sand wrote in 1833 when she was 29. By then, she was already a popular author, a doting mother of two children and an emancipated hybrid who wore trousers and smoked cigars. But, above all, she was a woman who sought sexual satisfaction as vainly and desperately as her male counterpart, Don Juan. "When I was with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy...
This terrible impotence ("This marble envelope," Sand called it) affected so many lives that it is still considered a small but essential feature of French history. Sand's enemies declared that in her struggle to overcome it she devoured men like an insatiable ogress. She imposed her own frigidity, they said, as a punishment upon the other sex, never happy until she had reduced her lovers to a condition as hopeless...