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To limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slushypipp | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Lear was a professional expatriate of the Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slushypipp | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

She sat upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slushypipp | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

† The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slushypipp | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

While Manager Grippo continued to stare long range, the Tiger, who had built up a creditable reputation on his crushing punches, patted Bettina with no more force than a pussy cat's paw. In the eighth round, just as the Beaconites were beginning to yawn, the magic worked. Bettina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grippo's Grip | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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