Bringing together medicine and spirituality for end-of-life care

Fire, this book argues, has been the central ecological factor in the making of the European landscape, an abiding symbol of Western civilization, and a forge for ideas about nature from the Neolithic to the Cold War

In the foreword to JAMES THURBER’S first, slim volume of drawings, Dorothy Parker recounted how hecklers had found the Thurber women to have no sex appeal, to which the artist replied, “ They have for my men.” This certainly applies to the heroine of his new cocktail party, Mrs. Groper. Readers wanting more of Thurber are advised to consult his most recent and popular book, THE YEARS WITH ROSS.

The son of an Ohio farmer, Louis BROMFIELDwent to Cornell in 1914 to study agriculture. It was the First It World War, in which he served as ambulance driver and liaison officer, which turned his thoughts to literature. His first four novels were written in France from his lovely place at Senlis. But in 1933, his book The Farm showed that his thoughts were returning to his home country in Ohio, and when in 1939 he bought his family home, it was with the incentive of revivifying the run-down, eroded acres which he has transformed into the fertile fields of Malabar Farm today. This is the first of two installments from his forthcoming book.

Brought up in Colorado, a Harvard graduate and a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University, PETER DAVISON joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1956, after several years in New York publishing. In his leisure time Mr. Davison writes poetry, which has appeared in the ATLANTIC and other magazines. He here appraises some of the books of verse that have been published during the past year.