GENTLE LIFE
A RIVER OF STARS, by Elizabeth Hamilton; Andre Deutsch, English price 12/6. ‘THE author has chosen her title well for this quiet, reflective autobiography of someone to whom very little has happened; but for whom events are in any case less important than emotion recollected in tranquillity. It is the unprotesting statement of a born spinster, loving the memory of her father; most aware of other men in two inspiring .teachers at the University, where she was obviously a fervid Classics student; more at home with philosophy than with the world of action; born, too, to teach. One feels that the writing came harder. It is the product of fastidious rejection and selection, nostalgically evocative of childhood and adolescence, and superbly fitted to portray the | maturity of acceptance of the common-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 14
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136GENTLE LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 14
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