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Humor v. Sorrow. The same garnished taste spoils the plays La Sainte Courti-sane and Salome, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and even De Profundis itself. The fairy tales are still charming to read, though they, too, present a problem: peopled with Disney characters who serve only to make bittersweet, intellectual points, they are neither for children (who prefer Grimmer stuff) nor wholly for adults, but perhaps only for people in those in-between years that British Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien (TIME, Nov. 22) so happily calls the "tweens...
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