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...byR.F. DELDERFIELD 638 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...almost hear the anticipatory sigh going up from book clubbers, jolly olde Englanders, lending-library faithfuls and everybody's Aunt Sally across the land: another good read from Delderfield. To Serve Them All My Days, a chronicle about life in a British public school, is certainly that. But a good read is not necessarily a good write...
...point may be irrelevant. Delderfield, an Englishman who died at 60 last January, qualified in publishing terms as a phenomenon, which by all accounts-and accountants-put him beyond criticism. He was a Victorian three-decker novelist born out of his time. After a middling career both as a provincial journalist and a London playwright, he settled down in the 1950s at the age of 44 to what he conceived as his true calling: "To project the English way of life in the tradition of Hardy and Galsworthy...
...other celebrities, dead or alive, include Eugene Ionesco, Nobel Poet Miguel Asturias, Federico García Lorca, Donald Barthelme, Willie Morris, R.F. Delderfield, Anne Sexton, Christina Rossetti, Ernest Gaines and Nathaniel Benchley. Some of their juvenile works are included below...
...Drums by R.F. Delderfield. 253 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.95. The author has had two more or less adult books (God Is an Englishman, Theirs Was the Kingdom) on the bestseller lists. This one skillfully concentrates on a slightly different audience, using a story about class consciousness, a camp follower with a heart of gold, courage, and coming of age in the British army's retreat from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. A discreet amour in a moonlit glade is an agreeable throwback to the decorous ways of Horatio Hornblower...