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...Children's Hour (by Lillian Hellman) is still, after 18 years, vivid and powerful. Into her tale of a child's fiendish lie that shatters tbe lives of two young schoolmistresses, Playwright Hellman packed a great deal of sheer vibrant theater. But for all the child's whispered charges of Lesbianism and her grandmother's shouted ones, The Children's Hour is something more than shocking, as it is something more than tense. Despite its heightened stage qualities, it cuts sharply back into life-to the monstrous power of gossip, to the sick, psychopathic nature...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of 16th century Yorkshire (TIME, Sept...
BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
...said to be chasing. Angela put aside all suitors, however, for she had given her heart to the poor. Her profits, she decided, should go with it, and she turned to Dickens for advice in her philanthropies. For more than 30 years, through all the hurry of his vivid career, Dickens found time to investigate most of the many appeals for her aid; he was, in short, almost a full-time social worker as well as a major novelist...
Incidents in the chequered career of books in Boston still provide vivid case histories, however, for anyone's censorship file...