Osbert Lancaster

Artist and author. OSBERT LANCASTER employed both his talents in his delightful parody of the Crusades, The Saracen’s Head, which the Atlantic serialized in 1948. Now in his new book, There’ll Always Be a Drayneflete, of which this is an abridgment, he is satirizing those oversimplified booklets of rand England in which the local historians take such pride. This is straight-faced comedy as the English love to play it. Mr. Lancaster is the author and illustrator of several books, including Progress at Pelvis Bay and Classical Landscape with Figures.

English artist and writer, OsBERT LANCASTER came down from Oxford in the early thirties and studied at the Slade School. Later he became the art critic of the Observer and a cartoonist for the Daily Express, and so embarked on the, writing and drawing which hare earned him a dual reputation. During the war he lived in Greece for eighteen months in a semiofficial capacity, and the notes and sketches he made, at that time have recently appeared in his new book, Classical Landscape with Figures. Now, in wholly different vein, he devotes himself to the adventures of William de Littlehampton. the reluctant Crusader.

English artist and writer, OSBERT LANCASTER came down from Oxford in the early thirties and studied at the Slade School. Later he became the art critic of the Observer and a cartoonist for the Daily Express, and so embarked on the writing and drawing which have earned him a delightful reputation. During the war he lived in Greece for eighteen mouths in a semi-official capaci ty, and the notes and sketches he made at that time have recently appeared in his new book. Classical Landscape with Figures. Now, in wholly different vein, he devotes himself to the adventures of William de Littlehampton, the reluctant Crusader.

A British artist and writer, OSBERT LANCASTER lived for eighteen months in Greece in a semiofficial capacity at the close of the war. Sketching and taking notes as he traveled, he has brought to his forthcoming book, Classical Landscape with Figures (Houghton Mifflin), of which this is a portion, a love of Greece and its inhabitants. His line drawings are as lively as his prose, as readers will know who have followed his cartoons in the English daily press, his contributions to many periodicals, and his books. Home Sweet Homes and Pillar to Post.

A British artist and writer, OSBERT LANCASTER lived for eighteen months in Greece in a semiofficial capacity at the close of the tear. Sketching and taking notes as he traveled, he has brought to his forthcoming book, Classical Landscape with Figures, of which this is a portion, a love of Greece and its inhabitants infectious to the beholder. His line drawings are as lively as his prose, as readers will know who have followed his cartoons in the English daily press, his contributions to many periodicals, and his books, Home Sweet Homes and Pillar to Post.