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...Cleland, professor of preaching at Duke University Divinity School and preacher to the university. Last year Dr. Cleland delivered the first Frederic Rogers Kellogg lectures at the Cambridge (Mass.) Episcopal Theological School. His subject: preaching. Last week the lectures were published under the title. The True and Lively Word (Scribner; $2.50). "They are offered." writes Cleland in his fore word, "as an ecumenical gesture, delivered to Episcopalians by a Presbyterian who works [at Duke] for Methodists...
CARNIVAL BY THE SEA (327 pp. Si grid de Lima-Scribner...
...house of Scribner got from Kenneth Grahame, secretary of the Bank of England, a manuscript entitled Mr. Toad. Publisher Charles Scribner II was doubtful of its success. Author Grahame's previous juveniles (The Golden Age, Dream Days) had been about children, whereas Mr. Toad was about animals, with nary a child from start to finish...
...Publisher Scribner was unduly worried. Retitled The Wind in the Willows, the Book of Toad has proved one of the sturdiest juvenile successes ever known. In Britain alone it has sold 1,338,000 copies; in the U.S. it has never been out of print. Year in year out, it keeps its appeal in literature's most competitive, most unpredictable market. For children, as an editor of juveniles noted recently, "are the most difficult of all readers to write for . . . The editor's real job is to help the writer bridge the chasm between the child...
...Toad's Mockery. In The Wind in the Willows (newly reissued by Scribner, with illustrations by Ernest Shepard; $2.50), Grahame deals with sensible animals whose aim is to enjoy life to the full. Mr. Rat, who lives in a well-furnished hole in the riverbank, is just like any middle-class bachelor with a riverside bungalow-except that he is sensible enough to spend his days boating instead of in an office. And his friend Mole is the same kind of fellow...