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...THOMASINA (288 pp.)-Paul Gallico-Doubleday...
Paul Gallico has written a highly sentimental novel about a cat-and there is no one quite so sentimental as a 200-lb. ex-sportswriter (a type who can weep real tears over a carload of redundant wrestlers). Gallico's cat Thomasina should go down in literary history as an outstanding example of the pathetic fallacy, i.e., the attribution of human emotions to nonhuman objects. There are whole libraries of books that follow the fallacy like blind bird dogs-books about elephants, Teddy bears, toads, and even, in one notorious case (E. B. White's Stuart Little), mice...
Ginger-colored Thomasina is the pet of a vet named Andrew MacDhui in a little Scottish town called Inveranoch. Thomasina is actually part-narrator of this book. She is a guid Scots puss and purrs with a burr; before Author Gallico is through with the unfortunate beast she does everything but carry a Harry Lauder cane and sing I Love a Lassie...
...with one of America's most prominent business figures, he did not even try to argue it past his researcher on his own say-so. He got the man at the other end of a three-telephone hook-up-read the statement to him-let his doubting Thomasina hear the okay with her own ears...
...WIND-Frieda Lawrence -Viking ($2.50). Until Frieda Lawrence published her testament this week, it must have seemed to her that every Tom, Dick & Harry, Thomasina and Henrietta had had their impertinent say about her late greatly-discussed husband, David Herbert Lawrence. Perhaps it would have been more dignified to keep silence when so many hastened to speak, but Frieda Lawrence has never stood on her dignity. "I did not want to write this book," says she. "I wanted to give Lawrence my silence." Then, with refreshing candor: "Do I want to blow my own trumpet? Yes, I do. . . . I will...