Farewell Victoria Author:T.H. White This quiet elegy to Victorianism, written in lovely, limpid prose, is as much a panorama as a novel. Mundy was born in 1858. He was stableboy and then groom to one of the feudal county families; he fought in Africa; he was coachman to an eccentric countess; in his old age he drove a hack. Mundy died serenely at eighty-three, and during his long ... more »uncomplaining life he had seen the face of the world change without markedly feeling its effect. By swift, deft touches, by his own editorial comments, Mr. White revivifies that dead world and demonstrates the extent of the change. Though hardly exciting, his book has a tranquil, nostalgic