" Every lover of cats should own this book...the best single treatise on the cat, spiritually rather than biologically considered, that we have ever seen." --"Chicago Evening Post"
" "The Tiger in the House" is absolutely fascinating. As a matter of fact, it is a treasure house. The little scraps of literary gossip in it alone make it absolutely indispensable for anyone who likes to explore the hedgy bypaths of an author's life and thoughts. I wouldn't be without it for anything." --"Chicago Tribune
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" At last the cat has a book worthy of him...luxurious, regal, self-certain, and complete." --"New York Evening Post"
Carl Van Vechten wrote " what many think the two best books about cats ever published, "Lords of the Housetops" and "The Tiger in the House,"" --"The Chicago Daily Tribune"
"Every lover of cats should own this book...the best single treatise on the cat, spiritually rather than biologically considered, that we have ever seen."--
Chicago Evening Post "
The Tiger in the House is absolutely fascinating. As a matter of fact, it is a treasure house. The little scraps of literary gossip in it alone make it absolutely indispensable for anyone who likes to explore the hedgy bypaths of an author's life and thoughts. I wouldn't be without it for anything."--
Chicago Tribune
"At last the cat has a book worthy of him...luxurious, regal, self-certain, and complete."--
New York Evening Post Carl Van Vechten wrote "what many think the two best books about cats ever published,
Lords of the Housetops and
The Tiger in the House."--
The Chicago Daily Tribune
Carl Van Vechten (1880--1964) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, graduated from the University of Chicago, and moved to New York, where he lived happily ever after.
Stephen Budiansky is the author of ten books about history, science, and nature. He is a former national security correspondent and foreign editor of the weekly newsmagazine
U.S. News & World Report. As a Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment he co-authored a classified study on the role of smart-weapons technology in warfare. He is also a former Washington Editor of the international scientific journal
Nature. Stephen Budiansky is currently a correspondent for
The Atlantic Monthly.