“How can I describe to you the excellence of this young writer ? He has an ear for talk; an eye for the beautiful and a sense of the comic. He writes simply and he never shows ofi. Yet he is as subtle as the devil.” [John Betjeman in a review of The Goose Cathedral.] “The skill and intensity of the writing make peculiarly haunting this cry of complaint on behalf of bewildered Man.” [Pamela Hansford Johnson in a Daily Telegraph review of The Image of a Drawn Sword.] “It has delighted me. Mr Brooke has given me two treats I love: the opportunity of reading good prose and the privilege of borrowing sometimes poet’s eyes, sometimes of watching human nature through eyes certainly acute.” [Desmond MacCarthy in a review of The Militmy Orchid.] “It could not have been written more delicately or sensitively.” [Sean O’Faolian in a review of The Scapegoaln] “Jocelyn Brooke’s writing is imaginatively unique. This I have found from the first. In The Image of a Drawn Sword he shows an advance in power seeming to pass, within the course of the story, from one dimension into another. Seldom have naturalism and fantasy been more strangely merged . . . Mr Brooke is a great writer.” [Elizabeth Bowen.] “Mr Brooke has genuine gifts of characterisation and of catching a mood, in particular the mood of affectionate reminiscence slightly sharpened by embarrassment . . . The first half of ‘Gerald Brackhurrt’ . . . is a brilliant and exciting performance, one of the best I can remember on the theme of getting to know a person.” [Kingsley Amis on Private View in The Spectator.] “. . . a delightful and melliflnous style . . . a joy in this dark age of puritanism.” [Times Literary Supplement on Przivate View.) “]ocelyn Brooke is a civilized and witty writer who seems to me, in his analytical approach to society, to have much in common with Anthony Powell.” [Eric Keown on Conventional Weapons in Punch.] “An acutely perceptive critic with many a string to his bow and a strong historical sense . . . Art exploited as a mere pretext: that is the under- lying theme of Conventional Weapons. I can think of no other novelist who has dealt with the subject so ruthlessly, with such skill and controlled imagination . . . Mr Brooke has ploughed his English corner of The Waste Land between the two world wars with a dexterity that compels our harrowed admiration.” [Harold Acton on Corwenrional Weapom, in a two-page review in The London Magazine] Produced for Bertram Rota Ltd. and published by them at Bodley House, Vigo Street, London, WJ. \ a U70 « > :'Q A CHECK LIST OF JOCELYN BROOKE HIS WRITINGS TOGETHER WITH SOME APPRECIATIONS Books and Pamphlets by Jocelyn Brooke Six Poems. jfocelyn Brooke, Oxford, 1928 Limited to so numbered copies, signed by the author Notes on the Occurrence of Orchis Simia Larnarck in Kent. The journal of Botany, November, 1938 One of a small number of copies ofiprinted A New British Species of Epipactis. By B. J. Brooke and Francis Rose. The journal of Botany, April, 1940 One of a small number of copies offprinted December Spring; poems. john Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946 The Military Orchid. The Bodley Head, 1948 The Scapegoat. The Bodley Head, 1948 American edition published by Harper £3)‘ Brothers, New York, in X949 A Mine of Serpents. The Bodley Head, 1949 The Wonderful Summer. john Lehmann Limited, 1949 The Image of a Drawn Sword. The Bodley Head, 1950 American edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 1951 The Wild Orchids of Great Britain. The Bodley Head, 1950 Limited to x,r4o numbered copies, of which 40 were signed by the author and specially bound in white parchment. 12 sets of sheets were sold to the Collectors’ Book club for issue by them in special bindings The Goose Cathedral. The Bodley Head, I950 Ronald Firbank. Arthur Barker Ltd., 1951 The Elements of Death and other poems. The Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, I952 No. XII in the Poems in Pamphlet series The Flower in Season. The Bodley Head, 1952 Elizabeth Bowen. The British Council, 1952 One of the series of supplements to British Book News, which was later called Writer: and Their Work The Passing of a Hero. The Bodley Head, 1953 Private View; four portraits. james Barrie, I954 Aldous Huxley. The British Council, 1954 In the Writer: and Their Work series. A revised edition was published in 1958 The Dog at Clambercrown. The Bodley Head, 1955 American edition published by The Vanguard Press, New York, in 1955 The Crisis in Bulgaria. Chatto 67' Windus, 1956 Conventional Weapons. Faber and Faber, 1961 American edition published by The Vanguard Press, New York, in 1961, as The Name of Greene Ronald Fit-bank and John Betieman. The British Council, I962 In the Writer: and Their Work series Books Edited by Jocelyn Brooke The Dcnton Welch Journals. Edited and with an introduction by Jocelyn Brooke. Hamish Hamilton, 1952 Denton Welch: Extracts from his Published Books. Edited and with an introduction by Jocelyn Brooke. Chapman 89' Hall Ltd., 1963 Books with Contributions by Jocelyn Brooke Bedales Poetry; an anthology of verse written by boys and girls at Bedales School. Bedales, 1927 Contains two poems by Bernard J. [Jocelyn] Brooke Orpheus; a symposium of the Arts. Volume I. Edited by John Lehmann john Lehmann, I948 Contains The Scapegoat ( from a work in progrzn) by Jocelyn Brooke Coming to London. Edited by John Lehmann. Phoenix House Ltd, I957 Contain: Coming to London by Jocelyn Brooke John Bul1’s Schooldays. Edited by Brian Inglis. Hutchinson, 1961 contains Prog. Co-Ed. by Jocelyn Brooke The Wind and the Rain; an Eater book for 1962. Edited by Neville Braybrooke. Seeker G2’ Warburg, 1962 Contains Surrey by Jocelyn Brooke Periodicals with Contributions by Jocelyn Brooke Jocelyn Brooke has contributed to a wide range of periodicals including Horizon, The London Magazine, The Listener, The New Statesman, The Times and The Times Literary Supplement. Two are worthy of special notice. One is The Ray, a magazine published by the pupils at Bedales while Brooke was at school there. It ran for eight numbers, the first being issued in 1925 and the last in 1928. Brooke was a contributing editor. No. 5 contained a parody by him, Afterward: in the Library, which was “suppressed” by the school authorities. The other is the double number of Adam International Review (Nos. 297-298) published in 1961 and devoted almost exclusively to Brookc’s long critical article Proust and joyce ; the care for the prosecution. Appreclations “Mr Jocelyn Brooke is one of the most interesting and talented of contemporary writers . . . We are left as delighted by the hundredth performance as we were at the first. It is magic—conjuring—oi' which we never tire: an example in short of what is called ‘art’ . . . As a discursive travel book it seems to me in no way inferior to Norman Douglas at his best.” [Anthony Powell in a full—page review of The Dog at Clambercrown in Puncl1.] “. . . In this fourth autobiographical-fictional itinerary, the ways are more enchanted and twisty, the scent kecner than ever. Here is a writer possessed by the magic——the voodoo——of childhood . . . Mr. Brooke is a pleasure to read—a highly individual pleasure.” [G. W. Stonier on The Dog at Clambercrown in The New Statesman]