THE LONG WEEK ENDRobert Graves & Alan HodgeMacmillan ($3).
This is a sort of criticaster's view of Britain's two decades between wars. Unlike Frederick Lewis Allen's headline-hopping Only Yesterday, which had the pleasant, white-flannel air of Commencement Exercises for the end of its period, The Long Week End is almost fiercely opinionated. More often sarcastic than affable, it is edged to the point of bad manners as well as bad history. Yet strong opinions are appropriate to a mature review of those times.
Veteran Graves opens sourly by speaking his mind on the abysmal cleavage...
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