Basni

Abstract

There is little that I can write about this 49-page volume of verse fables. They seem to be about issues and personalities of the day in 1951. I wish particularly that I could list the visual artist, because the line drawings here are detailed and well done. They offer a curious mix, for example, of animals and human clothing or of animals and human implements, as on the cover, where three animals are joined around a table by a pencil, shovel, telephone, and eyeglasses. Uncle Sam is a gorilla holding an atomic bomb on 13, and I can recognize gorilla in the fable's title. Notice also Colorado in the title on 5.