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...SIXTH OF JUNE (351 pp.).-Lionel Shapiro-Doubleday...
...those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team...
...Claudius; Claudius the God; Sergeant Lamb's America, are far better than most good-novelists' novels, but they matter little to Author Graves. What does matter is his poems, which year by year have so grown in number that now, in the latest volume, Collected Poems 1955 (Doubleday; $4.50) the hand-weeded best of them take up nearly 300 pages...
ELINOR GLYN (348 pp.)-Anthony Glyn-Doubleday...
...PHILADELPHIA FATHER (256 pp.)-Cordelia Drexel Biddle, as told to Kyle Crichfon-Doubleday...