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NINETEEN MILLION ELEPHANTS AND OTHER POEMS (115 pp.)-Helen Bevington-Houghton Mifflin...
...Helen Bevington often does no better. What makes her one of the pleasantest poetasters around, and Nineteen Million Elephants one of the year's happier books of light verse, is the wise, warm humor of an occasional poem. Some of them are bookish little pieces, with a humor as quiet and decorous as low laughter in a library. Example...
...Poetess Bevington, a small-town girl (Hornell, N.Y.) who now teaches English literature at Duke University, is generally at her best when she shakes the dust of the library and gets back to herself - as she does in Kissing Games...