Volume 13, Number 4 · September 11, 1969
Good Camper
By Matthew Hodgart
Ronald Firbank: A Biography
by Miriam J. Benkovits
Knopf, 300 pp., $6.95
Five Novels
by Ronald Firbank
New Directions, 342 pp., $7.50
Mrs. Bedley means that the book is out of the circulating library, but it seems that Firbank has been 'out' recently, at least in the United States. Miss Benkovits notes in her bibliography that last year only two volumes were in print, neither of which included his masterpiece, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli. This can now be found in the reprinted New Directions collection (1949), together with The Flower Beneath the Foot, Prancing Nigger, Valmouth, and The Artificial Princess, with the old Introduction by the late Osbert Sitwell. The ladies' comments have their point: Firbank is by no means a coarse writer, but all his books are full of delicate innuendo.
Review, 1138 words
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