Word: eipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first selections of the committee are as follows: Florence Ayscough's "Tu Fu, the Autobiography of a Chinese Poet"; P. Eipper's "Animals Looking at You"; John Livingston Lowes' "Of Reading Books"; Gilbert Murray's "The Ordeal of This Generation"; and L. W. Reese's "A Victorian Village...
That is the answer which Author Eipper gives to Berliners who ask him, "Why do you go to the Zoo every morning...
ANIMALS LOOKING AT YOU-Paul Eipper-Viking...
...Author Eipper's special plea is that animals in zoos be given space. Like Noah, he also insists there should be two at least of every kind. He concludes: "I have written this book to show, not why or what, but how animals really are. . . . You will find . . . documents of reality, just as are the photographs that reflect life in its pages. . . . Brothers of Life, great and small-the animals look...
Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...