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When Gabrielle Roy's novel Bonheur d'Occasion (Accidental Happiness) was published two years ago, Canadian critics called it the best book yet written about French Canadian working-class life. In less than a year it sold some 8,000 copies. That achievement made it a Canadian bestseller...
...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
Conservative 19th-Century art has been sensationally bullish. Auction examples: Millet's Paysanne Revenant du Puits, $30,000; Turner's Fishmarket, $15,500; Boldini's Ladies of the First Empire, $11,000; Rosa Bonheur's En Forét, $8,000; a Corot landscape...
Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club, famed hangout of U.S. meatpacking executives, got a notable gift last week. The gift: the 1½ by 3 ft. original sketch of Rosa Bonheur's nobly galumphing Horse Fair. The donor: doggy Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, niece of John D. Rockefeller...
...distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...