TOO MANY BENDS
ROUND MANY A BEND, by Austin Lee; Jonathan Cape, English price 12/6. AUSTIN LEE is one of the ex-clergy ' determined to entertain us. He has been a curate, a vicar, a chaplain, a chef, barman, schoolteacher and _ editorial assistant. The sort of jobs that any New Zealander takes in his stride he makes much of (his family divides the world intc Decayed Gentry and Rising Gentry). He says he was an unsatisfactory parson "from the ecclesiastical point of view" because he was allergic to shams, humbug, hypocrisy, cant and all the things organised religion thrives on. Ah, well, the C. of E. has been doddering along ever since Henry VIII’s time, and will perhaps survive the loss of Mr. Lee just as the R.A.F. did when he deserted in 1940 and went to Exmoor "living under an assumed name." The best part of the book is when he taught at a modern Dotheboys Hall. In its way the whole narrative is rattling good fun and it rattles on for 221 pages. Mr. Lee sounds
lke a conceited ass.
D.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 14
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