Volume 25, Number 3 · March 9, 1978
Too Little Waugh
By Robert Craft
Evelyn Waugh: A Little Order A Selection From His Journalism
edited by Dorat Gallagher
Eyre Methuen, 192 pp., £5.95
This first anthology of Evelyn Waugh's reviews, articles, prefaces should have been more comprehensive, if only to display more of his variety. The editor's comments betray reservations concerning present-day interest in some of the unselected material. He need have none. Thanks to such developments as Idi Amin and the Arab occupation of Britain, Waugh's views seem much less rabidly reactionary now, and in fact are being embraced by the liberals whom he once attacked. Moreover, his journalism is never dull—unlike his diaries, which he did not choose to publish—and the writing is a continual delight. For marksmanship, and elegance as well as economy of language, no one currently reviewing books even approaches the standard of the best in this too slender volume.
Review, 1632 words
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