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Professor Fleming has preserved the original text and index complete, so that we may know exactly what Loeb said and what he thought worthy of reference. Fleming has also supplied notes at the end of each chapter to bring the reader up to date on technical material. Such notes take the edge off Loeb's scientific dogmatism when, as is often the case, he is wrong...
Author Humphrey is a man of supple mind and ingenious fancy; he is also the unobtrusive master of a wide-eyed, self-deprecatory style that again and again sweet-talks the reader, step by reasonable step, right to the brink of the preposterous^and then tumbles him into laughter. He does it with a loving touch that leaves no bitter aftertaste: the Ordways come up smiling...
Since this is exactly as dreary as it sounds, the reader may wonder why Harper & Row gave its 1965 Harper Prize to the book. Oddly enough, the award seems a good bet. Bryan is not a vivid writer, but-the character of Wilkinson aside-he is a sound one. His scenes do not sting, but the reader sees them clearly. Time after time in the novel, there is a feeling that if Wilkinson would only go home and soak his head, the party might still develop into something. Bryan's writing suggests the early work of Louis Auchincloss-competent...
...garden in Through the Looking-Gloss, which Alice couldn't penetrate because even the most promising path "gave a sudden twist and shook itself" and led her right back to the door. As Alice learned, the only way in is to go blithely in the opposite direction. The reader who does the same may get some fun and a certain impalpable sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village near the sea who wants only to build himself...
...John Hersey, partly because the book encapsules an acute contemporary controversy in an ingenious historical allegory. The controversy is the race question, and the allegory supposes that millions of white Americans are forced to experience what millions of black Americans have experienced during the last two centuries. The reader is invited to see how the whites like it and to conclude that turnabout is unfair play...