Some 26 extracts from the New Yorker and other magazines, along with the Master's drawings, all go to prove that he is no one-dog man. He writes about pugs, spaniels, airedales, collies, bull terriers, scotties, foxhounds, poodles and bloodhounds, as well as others whose are not so clear cut, and he returns to Ohio to add to the frolic and frenzy of his own earlier days with Mother and the family. Dogs there are who bite, who run households, dogs who make a career of getting lost, those who raise families, those he has owned, known or done research on. Of the last there is the Albert Payson Terhune collie that was killed by a tourist, the Roosevelt dog that topped priorities aboard a plane, the bloodhound that was dog show champion and others, but there are stories of the terribly peculiar things that happened in the Thurber household when four footeds were forerunners of trouble. Respect and affection accompany his drolleries and a nicer way to go to the dogs you can't imagine.
Pub Date: Sept. 28, 1955
ISBN: 0671792199
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: Oct. 11, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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