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...Bird's Nest, by Shirley Jackson...
...title obviously taken from the old riddle: Elizabeth, Lizzy, Betsy and Bess All went together to seek a bird's nest; They found a nest with five eggs in it; They each took one and left four...
...vogue this season. In A Garden to the Sea (TIME, April 19), Philip Toynbee split his hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...
...this point The Bird's Nest* promises some interesting psychological explosions...
...racing axiom has it that a thoroughbred always returns to its best form. In The Lottery and Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson gave signs of being a writing thoroughbred, but The Bird's Nest marks only scattered returns to her best form...