The Book of Cats Author:Edited by George MacBeth and Martin Booth "The Book of Cats" is an anthology of the best of man?s poetry and prose, painting and drawings inspired by the enigmatic cat: Wodehouse and Kipling, Eliot and Poe. Put together by a pair of cat-loving British poets, the book is an adventurous (and literary) affair. It moves elegantly through the doings of P. G. Wodehouse's Webster, Eliot's Maca... more »vity and Growltiger, de la Mare's Sam ("Broomsticks"), Saki's Tobermory, and W. W. Jacobs' "The White Cat." There are marvelous detours through Sartre, Aldous Huxley (describing the "human truths" any aspiring novelist can find in cat behavior), Fielding, and Dorothy Sayers (a charming exasperation about feline persnicketiness). The illustrations (115 black and white, 16 color) run a glorious gamut from the wicked hunter in Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights to Charles Addams' sybarite with mouseskin rug. The entire collection strikes a note of genial and unforced sophistication.« less