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...immense achievement. Sir Charles Petrie provides no such brief, brilliant survey as does G. M. Young's Victorian England. But if The Victorians' outlines are fairly wayward, its details are often engaging. And parts of it go farther than usual afield-to Victorian Ireland and Scotland, for example. Prostrated by the terrible famine of the '40s, Ireland became so needy that even the highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen's neglect as Scotland gained from her affection...
Ewan MacColl is the best folksinger. This opinion is supported by both of my friends. With Peggy Seeger he has recorded a great number of albums for Folkways: "Border Ballads"--songs of the Scottish wars; "Bothy Ballads of Scotland"--a collection of songs found in bothies, which are the lodging-houses of ploughmen on great estates; and (this time on Tradition) "Classic Scots Ballads"--a collection of just that. Another Scottish folksinger is Jeannie Robertson, who is what they call "an auld dear," and who is billed as "The Greatest Scottish Folksinger" on a Prestige International recording. The accent makes...
More Than a Rich Sport. This quick action was typical of a newcomer who, since invading England in 1959, has kept Fleet Street jumping. Thomson picked up dozens of newspapers of all sorts, from Scotland's Caithness Courier (circ. 6,000) to England's big Kemsley chain. Editors and publishers goggled at the sight of the gregarious Canuck who told risque stories in a deliberate and successful effort to crack the British reserve, and rode in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac to the subway tube-to be met at the other end by a chauffeur-driven Rolls...
Danny Kaye Tells Six Stories from Faraway Places (Golden). One of the world's most inveterate collectors of tales offers some fine new ones from Scotland, Ethiopia, Sweden, Russia, Viet Nam. Narrator Kaye is as good as he ever was at making his gaudily disjointed visions flower in the listener's mind...
...hardly more than a garden and Hell hardly more than a grotto. It was not so much that Walpole couldn't penetrate Dr. Johnson's mind as that he couldn't stomach his manners. Boswell, despite his talents, remained something of an upstart from Scotland. Walpole-who always arrived ceremoniously as a guest-could only sniff at someone who banged on the door as a stranger...