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writers whose names aren’t so familiar— and whose stories and poems are now rescued from obscurity. One of the finest is a novella-length adventure by Allen French called “Sir Marrok,” and it’s a wonder this tale isn’t better known. Another story is “The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey”—the only children’s yarn ever written by William F. Buckley Jr., and one of only two in the collection that wasn’t originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine.

The whole enterprise harks back to a time when our culture was driven more by the written word than the frenetic image—before there was a Cartoon Network or a Super Nintendo. Even comic books aren’t as popular as they once were; we can argue over their merits (I happen to think they have a few), but the anti-comic crowd must admit that at least kids have to engage in the discipline of reading them.

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writers whose names aren’t so familiar— and whose stories and poems are now rescued from obscurity. One of the finest is a novella-length adventure by Allen French called “Sir Marrok,” and it’s a wonder this tale isn’t better known. Another story is “The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey”—the only children’s yarn ever written by William F. Buckley Jr., and one of only two in the collection that wasn’t originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine.

The whole enterprise harks back to a time when our culture was driven more by the written word than the frenetic image—before there was a Cartoon Network or a Super Nintendo. Even comic books aren’t as popular as they once were; we can argue over their merits (I happen to think they have a few), but the anti-comic crowd must admit that at least kids have to engage in the discipline of reading them.