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...THIRTEEN CLOCKS (124 pp.)-James Thurber-51mon & Schuster...
...Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...
...least 3,000 Harvard men will flock is New York today and tomorrow for visits lasting up to two weeks. For their convenience, and to tempt others, the CRIMSON lists below some of the attractions which help make New York the hedonists' paradise it is. As James James Thurber notes: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead." This moral applies to Gotham better than to any other place is the world...
Probably the biggest difference lies in the illustrations. The bright spirit of "The White Door was carried well by the Thurber drawings; the darkness of "The 13 Clocks" is expressed in a series of excellent drawings by Mare Simost, mostly in varied shades of purple and black...
...enough of this contrast. "The 13 Clocks" is another magnificent book, with all the sparkle of Thurber at his best. Amid the humor and the horse play there are lines of great beauty ("The Princess Saralinds. . . were serenity brightly like the rainbow." "Somewhere a clock dropped a stony chime into the night") One can enjoy this story for its verbal felicity alone...