Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 29

TIMES, Sunday, Jan. 25, 1976 rAYElTEYIlLE, ARKANSAS Edited By Bill Williams Ligkthearted Tale Of Two Innocents By VIRGIL TAI.BOTH THE COUNTS GIKI.S, by Edna O'Brien (Penguin $1.05) This is lighlhearlcd story of Us'o Jrish country girls who KOALA FOR NEIGHBORS KOALA, YEAR OF THE By H. D. Williamson (Scribner's). After enjoying this extremely well-written the reader probably would agree thai he'd rather have a koala for a neighbor than some people.

Koalas may look kind of funny but they are considerate. As II.D. Williamson observes: "They do not try to get into the roof spaces of houses to live there. or, worse, die there; Uicy clo not 'eat' rosebuds or fruit or vegetables or dig holes in lawns or scratch' up garden beds; and, except in the mating season, they- seldom raise their voices," Despite these fine qualities, koalas have been killed by Ihe millions, soriVe shot for their pelts, others "wiped out by the rca( destruction of their habitat," The koala, however, is an enduring --as well ns endearing -liUlo animal and the species has managed lo survive and in crease in number whenever il has been able find a "tree island" an area not taken over for farms or housing dJ velopnicnts that contains the eucalyptus leaves it needs to live on. Jit "The year of the Koala" fourth in a series about the University creatures who share this planet included a with man Williamson describes monlb-by-monlh the life of a band of koalas, dwelling primarily on a dominant male called Boorana and a female named Talgara.

What Williamson tias to say about these little animals is'most interesting and written in a lucid prose IhEit flows along as smoothly as Ihe year of koala passes, IN SEARCH OF ANIMALS leave home to meet the challenges of life in a convent school and finally in big city. Cailhleen a scholarship to the convent. Her girlfriend, Barbara comes along as a paid student. The two innocents' soon learn the ways of' the outside world up getting expelled from Ihe convent. Returning home they are sent to Dublin with strict orders to bcliavo themselves.

Finally, Barbara goes lo a sanatorium with TB. Caithleen falls in love with a rich married neighbor. Their a a i consists of fleeting momcnls together. They plan a big weekend away and Caith- Icen spends heartbreaking afternoon waiting at a rendezvous for her lover who doesn't show. Edna O'Brien has written a series of a with Cailhleen and Barbara as central characters.

The author has of conveying the feelings of "girls arid as one reviewer put "is good at putting the reader inside the of woman. This story is a lale of bawtli- ncss and innocence, blended just right to make good EXPEDITION TO THE POLE AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, by H.P. "Lovecrafl (Ballentine $1.50) "At the Mountains of Madness" is the story of an cxpe ditton into the Antarctica. Specialists from Miskatonic in Massachusetts biologist, geologist, engineer, physics professor and meteorologist. The team also THE WHISPERING LAND, by Gerald Durrell CPenguin Durrell baa made numerous expeditions lo Africa and South America in search of animals for zoos.

After several years of searching out rare specimens for other zoos, he decided to establish his own zoo. This book Is about his searches in South America on the windswept shores and tropical forests. Penguins and elephant seals vie for attention along with an absurd family of foxes who perform a ballel with a roll of toilet paper. We find the author trying lo trap a vampire bat, using his own toe for bail. Fortunately the venture didn't work, Filled with humor and fascinating of wildlife this book is for anyone who likes animals.

Problems abound from taking care of the animals when caught or traded for from the natives to celling them through customs and on i wav to his zoo. included several graduate slir dents and skilled mechanics. They took along four Dornicr airplanes. The- expedition begins like most with reporls by telegraph and radio to Miskalonic. Gradually however, a touch ol horror sets in when they fine Ihe bodies of creatures dead frozen in an ice The il is concluded lived before man emerged on a The narrator tells of finding a frozen city of the Old Ones and of exploring it after a strange attack on the camp.

While be and another man 3s away, it is atlaeked by survivors, or thawed out beings, and everyone, and the sled dogs are killed. The two men crank up a Dormer and fly to the aeons dead city where they trace the coming and the final demise of its inhabitants. They are almost killed loo by a Shaggolh, a brainless creation of the Old Ones. What makes "At the Mountains of Madness" such a horror slory is the language. It has few if any of the (ricks of 'mystery writers.

Lovecrafl wrote it straightforward 8 allowing the mystery lo build lor the reader. 11 is a long novel- cite''rather than a novel. Included in this HPL collection is "The Shunned House, The Dreams in the Witch House and The Statement of Randolph Carter." Live It Up BY H. MCCARTY Chaplain of the Raiorbacks Everyday Low Price. Dillon's Supr-Trim Beef Chuck Blade Pot Roast, (U.S.D.A.

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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service ot his country, but he that stands now will deserve Ihe and thanks of every man and woman." Washington decided to move against the British Army al Trenton. They had to cross the Delaware River to do so. By then the riyor was in full flood Massive sheets of ice driftei down from upstream. Militarily speaking the Delaware was impassable. One officer wroti "it will be a terrible night fo the troops, Vv.il I have heart no man complain." The watch word of the operation was "Vic tory or trail to the bank of fhi river, was with bloat men who wore broken shoes, or no shoes.

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"Use your -bayonets," ordered Washington. "I am esolvcd to take Trenton-" THE ATTACK on the unsuspecting enemy lasled litlle more than half an hour. The results have lasted two hundred ears. This is the kind of "resolve" Americans must possess if are to make 1976 a stepping stone to greater things. Our souls are being tried.

No one must complain. We must see afresh our great priority of vie in honor, integrity, justice (leaih (o keep il from slip ping away. It seems "terrible" days are ahead of us. The "enemy" facing us now is our own sloth and moral bankruptcy. Ou bailie will be more awesomi than that one of long ago.

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