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The evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize pet.
ELEPHANT HILL (245 pp.)-Robin White -Harper ($3.50).
The story of this battle is not only the $10,000 Harper Prize Novel of 1959 but something of a prize in itself. Author White was born on an Indian hill station, where his American father was a missionary; as a result, he speaks with the tongues of both Indians...
As she scuttles back and forth between her American in-laws and the Indian claimant, sister Beth finds a romantic solution that makes everyone happy-so happy that Elephant Hill's Dickensian climax reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding...
Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is...