Tom Brown's Body
L. SIMMANCE attempted the -~" periodic style the other night when chose for his regular 3YA reading excerpts from the "History of Rome," by Arnold, of Rugby. The Doctor, whom most of us remember from Tom Browri’s Schooldays (which we read before experiencing our own) as a fiery and passionate being, given to presiding gauntly over his pupils’ deathbeds and religious ecstasies, here conducts Hannibal and his elephants over the Alps with a singularly undramatic mellifluity. In fact, its rolling calm comes very near indeed to incongruity with its subject; but, either on its own merits or by virtue of Mr. Simmance’s voice, which is well adapted to this style of prose, it here achieved a sort of beauty, that of clear and polished statement, despising both realism and drama. Nevertheless, it should be taken in small doses, to avoid the soporific.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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144Tom Brown's Body New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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