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One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

Now Gavin Maxwell's Ring Of Bright Water has widened to enchant the world.

New York

-- The performances of the Comedie Francaise are the most important recent events in the New York theater.