W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident is going the way of the Holy Roman Empire, as a triple-barrelled misnomer. First of all it stopped being a mutual society, and acquired shareholders. Then, armed with their money, it set out for the mother country on a shopping spree,...
Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, by Joan Could. Random House, February 2005. $25.95 Joan Gould's summaries of fairy tales, while accurate, shed no new light on the stories. Instead, her generalizations and conclusions...
