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...FRANCOIS VILLON, A Documented Survey- D. B. Wyndham Lewis-Coward-McCann, Edwin V. Mitchell ($5.00). Chosen by the Literary Guild for September...
...this operetta in the present manner, we have brimming beakers, tavern brawls, heralds issuing defies, and vagabonds made kings for a day, wooing beautiful ladies pursued by grasping Brugundian nobles. Francois Villon once again lives as the Robin Hood of France; Louis XI consults his astrologer; bibulous rogues hoist their beakers while their voices are raised in fulsome drinking songs; Scottish Guards march boldly; and court ladies make one regret the passing of gallantry in favor of equal rights...
That premier of journalists, Defoe, when misfortune cased his sturdy limbs with the tiobers of the pillory, invoked his muse and made some cash thereby. And Francois Villon was a poet though a picaroon. So Gerald Chapman, writing heroically unheroic couplets in his cloistered corner of Connecticut, has precedent preponderous--even more precedent than the verse demands...
...Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
This book on Villon is quite separate from Beebe's translation of the Frenchman's work, "The Great Testament", which is now listed for future publication by B. J. Brimmer. It is the third volume published by Beebe in recent years, his other works being "Fallen Stars," and "Corydon and Other Poems." A few copies are on sale at the Dunster House Book Shop...