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Camptown had 4,276 homes and they were all the same. Each living room had a picture window and a real wood-burning fireplace. Upstairs was an expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½. Each front door was flanked by the advertised "shrubbery"-two arborvitae bushes. All the floors were linoleum-covered, all the walls were plywood, and all the lumber was green...
Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...
...Hundred Kings (for the background of which 65-year-old Author Costain rummaged through the attic of his own Canadian youth) jogs along on the track of a mild mystery: Who are Hero Ludar Prentice's father & mother? In 1890, Ludar, age 6, arrives alone in Balfour, Canada from England, wearing a sign on his back: "This is Ludar Prentice. He has no money. He is going to his father Vivien Prentice at Balfour, Ontario, Canada. Be kind to him." Since Ludar's father, himself a new arrival from England, has just committed suicide, and since Ludar...
AFTERNOON IN THE ATTIC (135 pp.)-John Kobler-Dodd, Mead...
...Lighter Side. Two new books answer most of the questions about Addams and his work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...