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Brian Moore, an old boy of Saint Malachy's College, Belfast, which may or may not resemble Saint Michan's, is now a Canadian citizen living in Montreal. He showed mastery of his craft with his brilliant first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (TIME, June 18) and his second proves the feat no fluke. The danger for this potentially important novelist is that his success will encourage him to become a specialist in virgins—male and female—and in a country apparently heavily stocked with both types.
* Familiar by name at least to the boys of Saint Michan's from Antony's lines in Julius Caesar
"You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse."