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Here he praises the saguaro, the prickly pear and the wicked cholla cactus with all the exuberance of a convert. His companions are no longer Columbia University students, whom he once taught as Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, but creatures of the Sonoran sands -road runners, elf owls, jack rabbits, Gila monsters, tarantulas and scorpions...
Readers will hope that Author Krutch never carries this line of thinking to its extreme conclusion-or else he might find himself spending most of his time cavorting with flocks of elf owls. That would be neither so enjoyable to himself nor so profitable to the world as the writing and reading of his delightful books...
...infant or an elf; I let her choose her books herself, But, since you ask me, I should not Give her a race horse, or a yacht, A billiard table, or a course Of easy lectures on divorce, Though none of these should I describe As dangers to the British tribe. Nor should I draw my child's attention To certain bits I will not mention In Holy Writ, in Shakespeare's plays, And other works of olden days. I should not give her Law Reports (O dear, the things they say in courts...
...citizen will hardly be familiar with zarfs (cuplike stands for small coffee cups), yauds (work horses) or vugs (small rock cavities), and he may also be surprised to learn that a varus man is bowlegged, that an od is a theoretical force, that a peri is a type of elf...
...snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas" or the "elf of plants," and she discovers apples "with flesh so fragrant . . . they can perfume a dining room...