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PRINCE OF FOXES, by Samuel Shellabarger; Hamish Hamilton, 12/6. ASHION, which made men shave and women suffer corsets, has decreed that there should be historical novels. Dr. Shellabarger has a firm grasp of the magic formula. He has set his story amid the city states of Italy in 1500. He has dotted it with authentic Italian and French phrases, peppered it with sword play, spiced it with beautiful, amoral Renaissance women, and inserted, in the right quantities, famous names, historical colour, comedy, villainy, and violence. He has written it in flat prose, without undertones or implications. He knows what demands he must satisfy in this particular field of commerce, and the skill he possesses has been directed entirely towards satisfying these demands. There is no doubt he has suc-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 19
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