The Key West citizen., 1952-12-11
KEY BOOKS
BY A. do 7. cINeRAs

Unfortunately, however, the
prose which interlards the photo
graphs suffers badly from adjec
tivitis and sentimentality. These
are both probably the result Of
the authors seeming deliberate
avoidance of the very sound sur
vival of tthe fittest thread which
runs through all nature.
This reviewer remembers once
when she saved a startling from
the mouth of dog. She kept the
bird on the balcony outside her
bedroom window, and eventually
when his wing was mended, he
flew away. She was all for birds,
and all against dogs. A few weeks
later she heard a tapping on the
tin roof of the balcony. 1t wasn't
the grateful starting returping, but
sparrow slapping the remains Of
life out of a half dead locust.
This experience is a usual one,
and Mr.. Campbell's persistent slip
ping into sentimental attitudes
about nature just doen't hold under
close examination. He frowns on
killing of deer for mans food, but
he probably doesn't hesitate to eat
steak. Yet the slaughtered cow
was as in love with his meadow
as the deer with his forest. And
even the lowly cabbage cells are
as alive under a miscroScope as
those of an animal. It is just that
a vegetable, excepting the tumble
weed, doesn't get away from its
base.
Mr.. Cambell should get hold of
the nature writings Of Thoreau and
Joseph Wood Krutch or even Bam-
bi and give them several careful
readings. He has a genuine feel
ing for nature, and an eye for its
beauties. A man like this shouldn't
let his potentialities be buried in
adjectives and sentimentality. His
readers can accept the truth about
nature as they can accept the
beauty. because they are part Of
il.
(THE BEDSIDE CoRoNET, book
of articles from Coronet Magazine,
published by Doubleday Publishing
company, S72 pages.)
This is q Coronet magazine that
goes on and on. Anybody who
likes the periodical win enjoy
reading article after article on
everything from love and the
middle-aged male, 10 q wife in the
throes Of a nervous breakdown.
The book is something like a
large frigidaire full of small
cheeses and hors d'oeurves ready
for midnight snacks. And appro-
priately it Is called the bedside
coronet. Almost anybody could
keep from nodding before he had
eaten at least one Of the 20 offer
ings down to the last sentence.
He may even have a little mur.
der and mystery in his small meal,
for there are Bodies at the Auto.
mat, the Mystery of the Murder.
ed Tourists" and another discus.
sion Of the Eternal Mystery Of
Mayerling" among the offerings.
Dale Carnegie is pitching again
for the extroverts, in his dishing
out Of the simple secrets of public
speaking, and Eddie Riehenhacker
says that be believes in PRAYER.
Harpo Marx explains again has
brother Groueho and Claiming Pol.
lock describes the rich rewards Of
work. Frank Buck has come more
to say about ilngles, and Alfred
Hitchcock about the wise man Of
Kumin.
And Of course . LOT Of the old
favurites are revived in new fea.
tare twirls, The late John Barry.
more. the late Jules Verne and
TIE late FlorsnR ziegtield.
This Is q good gift selection Scr
Cousin Aclbegt whose tastes have
become dim over the passing yearx.
for Mrs. Malone two doors. up
who Is TOO nervous to settle ccaa
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