Books Wanted

EXPERIENCE AND ITS MODES by Michael Oakeshott. J. Liddingion. Balliol College, Oxford.

RECONSTRUCTION by Macmillan . GUILTY MEN by Cato WIGS ON THE GREEN by Nancy Mitford. 60, Victoria Road. Northampton NN1 5E0

OLD CALABRIA by Norman Douglas. Box 684.

TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA by Mary Kingsley. Any edition. Box 686 AIR POWER IN WAR by Lord Tedder. Two Copies required by A 0 Peters. 10 Buckingham Street, London WC2. Tel. 01 -8392556 SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES edited by Fred Urquhart one edition published pre 1939. slightly revised edition published after 1944. J. M. Wright, 3 Glebe Crescent. Stirling.

Required urgently a good cony of Ron Jenkins "ASOUITH". Box 686.

SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS by R. S. Troup. 2nd Edition. OUP 2 copies. P D. Ellis, 23 Homers Croft. Greenleys. Milton Keynes, MK12 SOB.

COMPLETE BOOK OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL, David Ewen, 1971. Surrey, 14 Church Lane, Southampton. JOURNEY TO A WAR by Auden/Isherwood. Faber. 14 Church Lane, Southampton.

ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL'S Critical Heritage Series: Volumes on Wilkie Collins, Stephen Crane. Defoe, John Donne, William Faulkner, Fielding. Gissing. Hawthorne, Henry James, Joyce, Kipling. Meredith. Swift, Twain, Wells. Whitman, Wilde. Box 683.

GIOVANNI DI PAOLO by John Pope Hennessy (Chatto & Windus). THE HERMITAGE World of Art (Thames & Hudson) Box 681.

LIFE & TIMES OF THOMAS CORYATE by Michael Strachan (OUP). P. A. Horton, 12 Herga Court, Watford W01 3PA.

CLASSIC MYTH AND LEGEND by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. MYTHS OF BABYLON AND ASSYRIA by Donald Mackenzie. THE LORDS OF THE ISLES by Isobel Grant (MacLehose, London) Box 681 DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Recent moderate. Box 680.

VOLUME TWO: JUNIUS (letters of). Published 1812. William Lock, 11 Castle House. Caine. Wiltshire.

SOUTH WIND by Norman Douglas and TRIVIA by Logan Smith. Craig. 'Gossway', Kirtlington Oxford.

DANTE 'THE DIVINE COMEDY' with original Blake drawings. Printed by Heritage Press New York. Box 679. DOCKERS by David Wilson. Fontana Press. Jones 01-445 5006. 17 Oakleigh Park North, London N20. THE PENGUIN BOOK OF LATIN VERSE. Alex H. Paterson 21 Hillpark Ay, Edinburgh EH4 7AT POO POO AND THE DRAGONS by C. S. Forester. LIGHT OVER LUNDY and RAVEN AMONG THE ROOKS by S. P. B. Main. Hancock. 263 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. BRENSHAM TRILOGY by John Moore Box 673,

RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT. Marcia MacDonald. 27 Green Sr., London W.1. 499 8760 or 734 8080. ENCOUNTER MAG. (1954 Feb), (1955 Apr, Jul, Sep. Nov), (1963 Feb), (1964 Jun, Sep), 11966: Apr, May, Jul, Sep). J. Bergseng/Overlararev 6B/22367 LUND/SWEDEN. LIFE OF GEORGE BUTTERWORTH. (Privately printed) : THE FIGURE IN THE MIST by Elizabeth Coxhead; JANE THE TORTOISE by Constance Hogarth : Dr Ruth Gipps, Allfarthings. Hemitage Road, Kenley

FABIAN BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLET, "The Webbs" by Margaret Cole. Box 676 HISTORY OF FRENCH COLONIAL POLICY 1870-1926. S. H. Roberts, Coles, 103 Alcester Road South, Birmingham 14. THIRTEEN SERMONS by The Rev, John Owen D.D. London 1756. SPEECHES DELIVERED UPON THE CASE OF E.B. Haitopp & G. Mostyn to the Title of Baron Vane of Harrowden". London 1836. C. Hartop, 32 Kingswood Cl, Eaton Norwich, NR4 6JF. Norfolk.

"LYRICS" by Oscar Hammerstein II published by Simon & Schuster, C1948-1951. D. M. Barker, 12 Green Lane. Northwood, Middlesex_ Tel 25343.

MY JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD by Northcliffe. GAILY, GAILY by Harold Brecht, D. C. Flintham. Western Mail, Cardiff.

THE LONG TRAIL: British soldiers' songs of WW1. by John Brophy and Eric Partridge. Rev. ed. Andre Deutsch, 1965 Beele, 85 Tiverton Road, Loughborough, Leics.

OFF TO PHILADELPHIA IN THE MORNING by Jack Jones. Wanted urgently. Richard Booth, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford. PRE-WAR ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL books, annuals, handbooks and pre-1952 programmes bought by collector. 37 Hemdean Road, Caversham. Reading, BOOKS BY OR ABOUT, fierce, Boswell, Bulgakov, R. F. Burton, Chesterton, Gogol, Or Johnson, Melville. Saroyan, Stout, Swift. Twain, Wells. Edmund Wilson. Any editions. Box 674.

CRUISE OF THE ANNIE MARBLE. C S. Forester, Farnham Common 3919 THE FLIGHT FROM REASON by Arnold Lunn, J. P Chamcellor. 69 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey TW9 39H.

Frank Buckland in his Curiosities of Natural History (1857-72) has many references to the Zoo, and, in some respects, Mr Blunt might be regarded as something of a follower—though at a respectful distance. He has the same passionate concern about the animal kingdom and a sharp eye for the curious. To him, the Garden of Eden represents the first nature reserve.

Meanwhile, on our present earth, he records that beavers are partial to plum pudding and leopards to lavender-water. He notes that dolphins can leap thirty-five feet and humming birds fly at a speed of fifty-five miles an hour. In a chapter devoted to giraffes, he summons Dr John son, Thomas Hood and Buckland to pass on their observations: then there are his own digressions about a last century Austrian operetta, concerning a giraffe in Vienna, and others about French giraffomania and an abortive attempt made in Paris to cast a gas-lamp in the shape of a giraffe with a lantern swinging from the neck. He also relays the information that their long legs make them liable to house maid's knee. No one should take at facevalue the book's sub-title 'The Zoo in the Nineteenth Century'. Instead, the author ranges about the centuries, choosing what he will. Thus Evelyn's description of the capital's first rhinoceros in 1684 as 'a greate coach overthrowne' is quoted on one page —and, on another, Belloc's: 'You have a horn where other brutes have none ...' Be fore telephones had dials, a London budgerigar that could ring Harrods is men tioned, and, in a footnote, tribute is paid to a twenty-four-year old chimpanzee whose imitations in a Florida amusement park vary from Pop-Eye to Richard Nixon.

Strangest of all is the story of the two gorillas in California's Sacramento Zoo, whose Director, noticing their failure to breed after nine years together, believes that the cause may be ignorance of the facts of life and who has accordingly commissioned the Basel Zoo to make a 'gorilla blue film' to instruct them. 'The results of this intereking experiment are not yet known.'

Inevitably every history of the Zoo has its quota of anecdotes about the Royal Family. When William IV handed over the animals in his menagerie at Windsor Park to the Zoological Society in 1830, a tradition of patronage was begun which still continues. The President of the Society today is the Duke of Edinburgh. Many of the stories about royalty repeated in these two books will be familiar to Zoo-enthusiasts—but here is one, presented by Dr Vevers, that I have not come across before. 'In 1934 the Queen, when she was a child of eight, was taken on a tour of the Society's other zoo at Whipsnade, which had been opened three years before. After she had been shown it, tea was served from tables that had been specially decorated with red roses. Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, the Secretary of the Society, picked up one and offered it to her. But the Princess refused it. 'I'm York', she said.