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Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the...
. . . Huckster Kinsey's book is strictly for the birds, and for the bees in his bonnet as well.
It looked as though, in its professor of zoology, Indiana University had a man who would enjoy fame only in the narrow circle of gall-wasp taxonomists. But in 1938 some undergraduates asked Dr. Kinsey about sex adjustments in marriage. Then he was off. He forsook the birds, bees & flowers...
A rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last...
In spots, Author Aswell catches the seamy side of his native Delta country pretty well. But most of the time, The Birds and the Bees reads like a book that knows its destiny all too well-not the library shelf but the drugstore rack.