Books: Portrait of an Outsider

Evelyn Waugh and His World Edited by David Pryce-Jones Little, Brown, 248 pp., illus., $12.95 Evelyn Waugh has been dead now since April 1966 but, with the recent publication of parts of his diary—carefully edited with British libel laws in mind —the great satirist has managed to strike a number of rapier and hatchet blows from be

yond the grave. I can remember looking around me at White’s a few months ago and spotting several of the minor targets of his wrath. I also remember wondering if their fellow member, Evelyn, had ever really fitted in at this most exclusive of St. James’s clubs. Probably not, for there is a natural ease and grace about most members of White’s which even Waugh’s most ardent admirers have never claimed for their idol.

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Evelyn Waugh and His World Edited by David Pryce-Jones Little, Brown, 248 pp., illus., $12.95 Evelyn Waugh has been dead now since April 1966 but, with the recent publication of parts of his diary—carefully edited with British libel laws in mind —the great satirist has managed to strike a number of rapier and hatchet blows from be

yond the grave. I can remember looking around me at White’s a few months ago and spotting several of the minor targets of his wrath. I also remember wondering if their fellow member, Evelyn, had ever really fitted in at this most exclusive of St. James’s clubs. Probably not, for there is a natural ease and grace about most members of White’s which even Waugh’s most ardent admirers have never claimed for their idol.