Though Dorothy Parker notoriously disliked A. A. Milne's 'Winnie the Pooh,' her scathing review, from 1928, did nothing to stop the book from becoming a classic.
The above lyric is culled from the fifth page of Mr. A. A. Milne’s new book, “The House at Pooh Corner,” for, although the work is in prose, there are frequent droppings into more cadenced whimsy. This one is designated as a “Hum,” that pops into the head of Winnie-the-Pooh as he is standing outside Piglet’s house in the snow, jumping up and down to keep warm. It “seemed to him a Good Hum, such as is Hummed Hopefully to Others.
And it is that word “hummy,” my darlings, that marks the first place in “The House at Pooh Corner” at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up. It is to be feared that Mr. Pettit chooses too delicate a point and too sweetly lustrous a surface for his writings. After all, you really can’t improve on the old board fence and the blunted bit of chalk for such things. A dogged preciousness in the telling only makes the old stories seem the older.
It is difficult to keep from adding to the scrolled chapter-headings of “Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou” a final one: “In which the reader learns that tripe is tripe, even though it be served with every recommended precision of elegance.”
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