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...until well past the middle of the book, the party is dreadfully sober, bull in the kitchen and all. The funny people stand around with glasses in their hands, and the funny events occur, but the reader never feels the giddiness that good farce and a certain kind of intoxication can produce: the sensation of having temporarily mislaid the horizon and of knowing you can locate it again with no trouble if only that calf will stop licking your face...
...pages when Atracta, having been fired for nonfeasance of breakfast, goes to law against her former employer and for a wonderful moment seems likely to be granted a large chunk of his estate in judgment. But the whirling begins too late and stops too soon. By this time the reader has begun to suspect that, soberly observed, Irish cuteness can be annoying...
...which will eventually run to 40 volumes encompassing the whole of man's arts. Lavish in its illustrations, the present volume catches all the expressive, primitive power of Oceanic art while detailing its surprising variety and the age-old magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks will catch more than a glimmering of what astounded and enthralled the eyes of great artists as different as Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Brancusi and Matisse...
...gelding-smacker (saddle), this volume ranges over the life of the West, devoting whole chapters to its outlaws, reptiles, guns, big game, songs and legends. The text is informative, the paintings and drawings, by Remington, Bierstadt, Russell and others, are splendidly direct and realistic, and much of what a reader might have taken for shaggy Western lore turns out surprisingly to be unvarnished truth...
...facts for four-color fanfares. This is a welcome exception. The text is both sound and readable, and the 300-odd illustrations, most of them by contemporaries of Napoleon, serve quite magnificently to convey the age's arts, manners and personalities to the eye and mind of a reader...