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AN IRRESISTIBLE SATIRE
The humour of this remarkable satire is irresistible. The truth concerning Sir Edward is gradually revealed by fantastic touches and sly suggestions, and with a manner so correct as almost to put the reader off his guard.
Although the subject of this Æsopian biography is drawn in such a way as to suggest now one and now another familiar figure in modern life, yet these fleeting and shadowy resemblances are in reality an indication of the archetypal nature of Sir Edward; he is not a caricature but a symbol; not any particular individual but a composite type—a materialisation into one grotesque shape of the drifting ideas and false ideals of a muddled civilisation.
The narrative gathers into its net both big and little fishes—a heavy haul. But people who regard Western civilisation as the final word in social wisdom should not read this book: or perhaps they should. Anyway, everyone else should.
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PARISIAN PORTRAITS
BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
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