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...WALTER SCOTT?John Buchan ?Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart's, pat for the Scott centenary...
...rain is due, schedule the dance for that day. (The dance is seldom held the same day in successive years.) But the medicine men must be able to forecast rain at least nine days in advance. To the second question answers vary. Some say that the rattlesnake is a coward and will not strike anyone who handles it confidently-an explanation doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that the Indians have a potent secret antidote for snakebite. Others suggest that the snakes are goaded to strike at bits...
...ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann. On April 12, 1836, Manhattan had something to talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann ($2.50). THE RIPENING-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). HOT WATER-P. G. Vodehouse- Doubleday, Dor an ($2). WHEN THE GANGS COME TO LON- DON-Edgar WTallace-Crime Club ($2). Another posthumous Parthian shot from the late great detectifictioneer. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT-Emi- lie and Georges Romieu-Dutton ($3-75)-Rodomontadinous French biography of one Mary Ann Evans, writer...