MR. OSBERT SITWELL
In "Those Were the Days" Mr. Osbert Sitwell looks back, in a mood of urbane detachment, over the first 23 years of this century. He takes the Monipessons —the wife, Joanna, a poor relation in a typical upper-middle class family, and the husband, Jocelyn, an earnest free-lover and simple-lifer with a small but secure post in London. Joanna and Jocelvn battle along. Each new fad infects them, each new celebrity counts them among his admirers. They have love affairs, but pay their way and are respected. Nowadays they would read Marx and he ready to bear angry placards through the streets; then it was Eton and the Ivory Tower. How well Mr. Sitwell handles such a theme. With how much wit and understanding. His satire is always amusing, especially in the chapter, "introducing Esor."
"Those Were the Days." by Osbert Sit well. (Macmillan.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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