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...Llppincott; $3.95). Knowledgeable readers of Muriel Spark's novels admire such crystalline structures of malice as Memento Mori and The Ballad oj Peckham Rye partly for the economy with which they are built. Avoiding bravura writing as she would a vulgar display of pound notes, this Scotswoman sits composedly among her characters, goading them by silence and an infrequent equivocal smile to disclose their sins. Rarely does the exposure require more than 200 pages, and at the end of a Muriel Spark novel, most readers find themselves wondering why other writers must babble on and on to twice that...
...twelve stories. The Cardinal's Third Tale makes its Gothic point with perhaps the neatest and most ironic flourish. Lady Flora Gordon, a handsome Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind...
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...Scotland's Moira Paterson, the British Women's Amateur golf championship, over England's Frances Stephens, one up on the 38th hole after being five down on the 23rd; at Troon, Scotland. Miss Paterson is the first Scotswoman to win the British title since...
...British high court last week upheld the conviction of a Scotswoman charged with practicing witchcraft. To jail for nine months, technically as a violator of a 1735 law forbidding "conjuration of the devil and evil spirits," went 46-year-old Mrs. Helen Duncan, a spiritual medium...