In Fables for Our Time, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more lessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will. The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.

Contents:

• Mouse who went to the country
• Little girl and the wolf
• Two turkeys
• Tiger who understood people
• Fairly intelligent fly
• Lion who wanted to zoom
• Very proper gander
• Moth and the star
• Shrike and the chipmunks
• Seal who became famous
• Hunter and the elephant
• Scotty who knew too much
• Bear who let it alone
• Owl who was god
• Sheep in wolf's clothing
• Stork who married a dumb wife
• Green isle in the sea
• Crow and the oriole
• Elephant who challenged the world
• Birds and the foxes
• Courtship of Arthur and Al
• Hen who wouldn't fly
• Glass in the field
• Tortoise and the hare
• Patient bloodhound
• Unicorn in the garden
• Rabbits who caused all the trouble
• Hen and the heavens
• Excelsior
• Sands o' Dee
• Lochinvar
• Locksley Hall
• "Oh when I was..."
• Curfew must not ring to-night
• Barbara Frietchie
• Glove and the lions
• Ben bolt