The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-04-30
KY Books
BY A. de 7. Gingras

by William Tenn, collection of Fl
short stories, published by Simon
and Schuster, New York City, 1856
pages.)
Ambitious editors and publishers
find every excuse for getting to-
gether a collection of short stories.
They use the sea or ghosts, dogs
or the Victorian era, as the rea.
son for printing stories in the
same volume. They collect the
tales of one author, or Welsh au-
thorS, or authors writing at the
fin de steele.
Editor William Tenn, who is a
regular contributor to science fic-
tior and fantasy magazines, builds
his collection around unusual chill
dren. The author has long been
annoyed with current proSaic
world where children read books
with such unappetizing titles as
How Many Vitamins In a Fork
full of Broccoli or "A First Book
About Floors for Boys and Girls. "
Inspired by a repulsion for the
matter-of-fact, Author Tenn tees
off editoriaIly with 1.-THE Rocking
Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence.
The hero of the yarn is the kind
of a boy who would find a well
come in any household. By rock
ing on his nursery rocking horse,
in a mad and earnest fashion,
Paul can tell the horse who will
win the derby or the Lincoln races.
E. M. Forsters, 1.-The Story of
a Panic" is about lad, Eustace,
who has something Of a Baccha-
nalian faun about him. Truman Ca
pote in his inimitable lush prose
dishes up a real wierdy in a
pesky little girl, Miriam" Dress
ed effectively in the clothes of
other generations, and asking for
candied cherries and white roses,
she sets about to annoy a widow
lady for the course of ten fine
print pages.
adam and Eve and Pinch
Me" by A. E. Coppard offers a
little chap named Gabriel who
manages to trouble his paternal
parent before he is born. H. H.
Munro gets into adolescence with
a very funny story about prank
PLAYED by a young lady of fifteen.
Richard Matheson'S story Born
of Man and Woman" has a sug-
gestion Of Kafka. A boy some
where in the mental realm be-
tween an idiot and a maniac writ
es pages in a diary describing his
life chained in the basement Of a
house. Graham Green in The End
of the Party" doubles the unusual
in his tragic story of boy twins.
Because the collection is made
on the basis Of a title which no
editor seems to have thought Of
before, none of the stories have
been over.anihologized. Most of
the 21 tales have never appeared
before in collections. And most Of
them are well worth re-reading.
which is the best reason for the
inclusion Of a book in . personal
library.
(CLIMATE OF EDEN, played BY
Moss Hart. III pages, and SEVEN
YEAR ITCH, a romantic comedy
by George Axelrod. 149 pages.
both published by Random House,
New York City,
The reading Of plays is much
neglected intellectual and artistic
pleasure.
/ The public expects 10 find Shak-
espeare, Moliere and Shaw avail
able for reading in book form. But
It is only recently that several as
tute publishers have decided il
was remunerative 10 make current
Broadway hits Immediately avail.
able to the reading public.
Moss Harris Climate of Eden
was first presented at the Martin
Beck Theatre in New York last
fall. Based on Edgar MitteIhal-
rer's novel Shadows Move Among
Them" il has an unconventional
charm which makes Il pleasant to
read as well as 10 see.
The setting is q clearing hack
eds cut OF the luxuriant foliage of
the jungle Of British Guiana. The
principal figures in The store are
the Rev. Gerald Harmston and his
family. The Rev. HaFmsson is a
most unusual cleric, and gathers
to himself the wisdom 81 the ma
tivex. as well as attempting 10
suggest TO them some Of the wis.
dom Of the world from which he
came.
A triangle develops when q new
conner comes 10 the community,
an attractive young man. The
ether angles 81 the triangle are
the ministers tTo daughters. Oil
via ard Mshle Olivia i : psyche
ard irritating fourteen. ard Mabel
Is beagssfai ard tender young
lady who has already. VITA her
father's consent had q serious