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Garland of Bays is a big book. Extremely long (670 close-packed pages), it covers scenes of English provincial life, college, intrigues in literary circles, skullduggery, betrayal, seduction, rape, theft, hanging-a dismal record enlivened by the excitement of the story. Author Jones, a young professor at the University of Wales, pictures Greene as a kind of talented Elizabethan Anthony Adverse, thoughtless enough to drift into trouble and courageous and quickwitted enough...
...holes, posted almost daily by husky young caddies, schoolboys and even a Chicago housewife out to prove that 144 holes from dawn to dusk was nothing extraordinary. When a Northwestern University freshman played 301 holes, putt-putting around on a scooter bike, J. Smith Ferebee, nettled by such theft of his thunder, announced that he was embarking on a golf marathon to end all golf marathons: 600 holes in four days-a minimum of 72 holes in each of eight different cities (two a day) from coast to coast...
...plot, subordinated as always to dialogue, deals with the theft or attempted theft of a constable's helmet, a notebook containing sundry libels, a silver creamer, and Anatole, the master chef...
...THEFT! WPA REEKS...
...Door of Life. Although the. squire bears a healthy son without too much trouble, there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another turns out to be immoral, the butler hates women, his substitute is a drunk and a maid is discharged for theft-that readers are likely to forget that Author Bagnold is picturing the fortitude of English mothers, not the corruption of English domestics...