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THE CLASSIC CARTOONS edited by William Cole and Mike Thaler. 336 pages. World. $8.95. A collection that synthesizes the wit of the U.S., Britain and the Continent, though with a heavy reliance on The New Yorker and Punch. Just about all the old favorites are here, from Arno to Price...
FAREWELL TO STEAM by David Plowden. 154 pages. Stephen Greene Press. $8.95. An elegiac account of an age defeated by oil and jet engines-the lake and river steamboats and the great locomotives that opened up the continent.
Durrell (rhymes with squirrel) is as fascinated by queer animals as his brother Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) is by queer people. In previous books, he has sought them out in such odd corners as backwoods Uruguay and Sierra Leone. This time he journeys to the "attic of the world"-Australia...
Suspecting that Australian mosquitoes now carry a relatively harmless strain of myxomatosis virus that imparts immunity to more deadly strains in the rabbits it infects, the geneticist has been seeking-another virus carrier. But his search has been plagued by misfortune. Impressed by the European flea, which has successfully spread...
For millions of ordinary Christians, there is no real reason to worry or debate the Trinity, the Resurrection or any other doctrine. Billy Graham does not want to tamper with what the Bible says or find new verbal "packages" for what the creedal formulas profess. "In my evangelistic crusades," he...