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...from the back fence of literature, the comic strips have suffered an intellectual hiatus. One syndicate was ready with Barnaby, a cheerful little psycho whose daydreams, and all the characters in them, came to life; but where Krazy Kat breathed a sort of smoky, city poetry that anyone could sniff, Barnaby and his friends mumbled social parables that a lot of well-wishers soon wearied of puzzling...
...With a Loud Sniff." Centerpiece of The Young Visiters is Mr. Alfred Salteena, "an elderly man of 42 ... fond of asking peaple to stay with him." Staying with him, in fact, when the story opens, is "quite a young girl ... of 17 named Ethel Monticue," whose "blue velvit frock had grown rarther short in the sleeves." Mr. Salteena and Ethel are at breakfast when a letter arrives from Mr. Salteena's friend, Bernard Clark, inviting him to come and stay and "bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with...
...Yale, where the first-year class totaled 148 for the same year, now students soon get to know everyone in their class, and eventually the whole school. This intimacy promotes a friendlier atmosphere which Yale students praise as "fine group spirit" and which Harvard men are likely to sniff at as collegiate...
...kids, report the adults, really get into the news-to sniff, chew, scratch and crumple. Some are careful cover-to-cover "readers," while others digest only a few pages. One tot, we were informed, is not happy with anything but the current issue...
George Barker's novel is the story of a sick young dog who would rather sniff in his misery than get well. As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one. Nevertheless, The Dead Seagull has a clinical interest of its own as a crude dissection of evil...