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...fairy tales are for children. And some of the most popular (e. g., W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions) are laid in a realistic setting no naturalist could carp at. Dr. Gion's scene is a modern town, presumably German; its characters do not pretend to be anything but flesh & blood, but its effect is definitely fairy-taleish. A quiet book, of oldfashioned, deferential sentiment and gentle resignation, it should appeal to readers who want a change from "real life...
...DOCTOR GION-Hans Carossa-Ballou...
...Gion was still a fairly young man, but he had been through the War and wanted no more tension; his practice was sufficient and not too exacting. For his most interesting patients medicine could do nothing. Cynthia, who lived just above him, was a young artist of genius who worked out her unhappy conflict into sad clay figures that looked like embryos. Emerence was a beautiful peasant girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would...
...former member of the French Foreign Legion has remarked, "predominantly it is composed of men of violence, bums, morons of vile habits and booty-hunting louts." But La Légion Etrangère has, with great courage and rigid discipline, conquered a great part of the French Colonial Empire, second largest in the world. Last week the unsavory but effective Legion celebrated its 100th Anniversary-or rather...