Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just in time for the Christmas trade, this tiny book contains perhaps the nearest thing to piety in Mencken's writings. It is a moral tale, told in the Sage of Baltimore's redolent and contented prose. The story-originally printed in the New Yorker-attests to the triumph of Christian reflexes over heathen among the bums of Baltimore 45 years...
...TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER (162 pp.) -Margaret Lone-Frederick Warne...
When the little girl was 35, she had the audacious idea of sending an illustrated story about a rabbit to a publisher. Six publishers promptly rejected it. With a second streak of audacity, Beatrix drew out her small savings and had The Tale of Peter Rabbit printed at her own expense. Then she resubmitted it to the firm of Warne & Co.; who, this time, accepted it. "I have not spoken to Mr. Potter," wrote Beatrix timidly to her publisher, "but I think, Sir, it would be well to explain the agreement clearly, because he is a little formal, having been...
Peter Rabbit was followed, in the next few years, by two more Tales-The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Then stern Father Potter called a halt. "I have had such painful unpleasantness at home," wrote Beatrix to her publisher, "that I should be obliged if you will kindly say no more about a new book." When Publisher Norman Warne, who had fallen head over heels in love with his shy little author, responded with a proposal of marriage, Mr. Potter was horrified. He forbade the marriage on the grounds that no daughter of his should marry "trade...
Mice with Parcels. She went back to her nursery. During the next ten years she wrote and illustrated all but a few of the 27 now-famed Tales. Beatrix Potter was deeply aware, says Author Lane, "of the realities of nature . . . and the laws of nature . . . are nowhere softened or sentimentalized in any of her stories"-though they are often made humorous. Ginger, the cat who runs the grocery store in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, will sell his groceries to any animals except mice. " 'I cannot bear,' said he, 'to see them going...