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JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
...annual appearance here a few days ago serves once more to remind us that here is a novel experiment in music. Several years ago, when Dr. Archibald T. Davison took charge, college glee clubs were as negligible as could well be imagined. The literature available to them included "The Owl and Pussy Cat" and "The Bullfrog on the Bank," with "Kentucky Babe" thrown in for the classical taste, and it included very little else. In fact, most people regarded college glee clubs as in the same category as measles epidemics and grasshopper plagues--as afflictions sent by God, that...
Dartmouth was put in a position to score in the ninth when Owl, Indian second sacker, reached first base when Ullman booted a ground ball. Hudgins advanced Owl with a perfect bunt, which only excellent fielding by Spalding prevented from becoming a safety. Elliot lifted a long fly to Rogers in center field for the second out, and the stage was set for Bjorkman's sensational drive...
...moping owl does to the moon complain...
...world who talks animal language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg, the Cat's meatman. The book is excellent propaganda for the prevention of cruelty to animals...