Word: collier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MONKEY WIFE (259 pp.)-John Collier-Doubleday...
...nearly a century since man was urged to think of himself as the relative of apes rather than of angels; if there were a question in the matter, said Benjamin Disraeli, he was "on the side of the angels." British Novelist-Humorist John Collier is sardonically on the side of the apes...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...
Just Another Intellectual. Collier's japes with apes begin with Alfred Fatigay, a tired African mission schoolmaster who leaves Boboma on the Upper Congo to return to England and marry his fiancée Amy, an intellectual sort of girl. For company he takes with him "a well-grown, sagacious, fine specimen" of a chimpanzee named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start...
...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...