RECOLLECTIONS OF THREE REIGNS(509 pp.)Sir Frederick PonsonbyE. P. Dutton ($5).
Sir Frederick Ponsonby was "a courtier to his fingertips." Three British sovereigns Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George Vemployed him as private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and...
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