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ARCHDEACONS AFLOAT. By C. A. Alington, Faber and Faber, London. , [JN his latest novel Cyril Alington, the Dean of Durhatn, relates the fictional doings ("adventures" would be rather too strotig a word for such a leisurely narrative) of two Archdeacons, travelling incognito for the sake of relaxation, during a pleasure cruise through the Mediterranean to Greece; The date does not seem to be defined, but it is clearly not in very recent times, since the sole example of unrest in Greece is supplied by a romantic brigand who kidnaps one of the Arelideacons and some of his fel-low-travellers and holds them to ransom, from which comparatively agreeable predicament they are rescued through the agency of a code-méssage which the second Archdeacon, by virtue of his classical and Scriptural education, is able to decipher. This story is written in a quaintly archaic style, reminiscent of Victor Whitechurch, with determined attempts at a mild and clerical form of humour and with frequent digressions to permit the author to impart irrelevant information on a wide variety of topics. There is an evident desire to edify and instruct as well as to entertain; but the total effect, though infantile, is by no means unpleasant.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 23
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203DEAN AS NOVELIST New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 23
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