Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undaunted by the bared fangs of "huskies" a la Jack London, the glaring orbs of crouching timber wolves, the "heap big Injun" chiefs whittling with wicked knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...
...GREEN FOREST?Nathalie Sedgwick Colby?Harcourt Brace ($2). The "green forest" herein is a world of the spirit which Shirley Challoner entered one day at a concert with David Findley, a young doctor. Between them sat Shirley's husband, heavy and lit eral. Shirley and David could not have each other then because Shirley was going to have a baby. Years later, at the time of this story, Franklin Challoner is buried but his daughter keeps David and Shirley apart again. She drags Shirley to Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement...
...brings up a problem about sensitive women. A sensitive woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut...
Preservation of a portion of one of the most noted tracts of primeval forest in this part of the country was assured by Harvard's purchase of 20 acres on Pisgan Mountain, Winchester...
...GREEN FOREST-Nathalie Sedgwick Colby - Harcourt, Brace ($2). (To be reviewed in a future issue of TIME...