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...Posket in question is the magistrate in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "The Magistrate." He is a man of some consequence who has just married a widow during a three-week recess from court. This would be all right, except for the fact that the good lady has lopped five years off her age in order to capture him. This simple subterfuge, in turn, would pass safely, but for the fact that she has had to reduce reduce her son's age by five years, too, in order to maintain the ruse...
Died. Mme. Julie Bienvenue Foch, 90, widow of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Allied Generalissimo in 1918; in Paris...
...visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...
...London one day, Charley does visit the recommended widow, and as she opens the door he faints at her feet. Widow Nancy, it turns out, is Rose's half-sister and living image; but Charley, still living in the past, decides it must be Rose playing a malicious game. In time, Nancy breaks the grip of his memory, and Charley learns that she, too, can be the rose of his heart...
Thirkell fans are sure to enjoy County Chronicle, in which two nice girls land two nice husbands, a brave widow is spliced to a gallant bishop, and pudgy babies are born and crow in almost every chapter. But students of the contemporary novel are likely to be far more fascinated by Author Thirkell's indefatigable struggle to bring old Barsetshire up to date while simultaneously keeping it out of date...