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Chuck Jones is a newcomer to the juvenile genre, but in his field, cartoon animation, he is second only to Disney. Here, Jones has abandoned Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner for Rikki-tikki-tavi and The White Seal (Ideals; $4.95 each). Part of the success of these slim volumes lies in...
Besides Chautauqua's lake, on which a splendid paddle-wheel steamer still chugs to and fro, a literal-minded divine long ago built a grassy, 60-ft.-long scale model of the Holy Land. It is now much joked about, and years ago, according to Novelist Theodore Morrison, Rudyard...
Engel's own literary projects for the summer include Northrop Frye's The Great Code. Mather's translation of The Thousand Knights and One Knight, Irving Howe's edition of The Portable Kipling. The Letters of Oppenheimer, and a rereading of Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters.
Says British Bookman Sir William Rees-Mogg, a former London Times editor: "Rare books make rich men wise and wise men rich." So rich that the venerable London firm of Francis Edwards now advocates a kind of leather-bound mutual fund. For a minimum of $1,000-plus a 2...
It soon becomes apparent whence Tuchman's own inspiration comes. "Poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians, and sometimes they have given history a push," she writes in her opening piece. Throughout the collection, she turns again and again to poetry, quoting Emerson, Kipling, Longfellow, Tennyson...