Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976
The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice
By P.B. Medawar
The Patchwork Mouse
by Joseph Hixson
Anchor Press, 240 pp., $7.95
'Can the leopard change his spots?' the prophet asked (Jeremiah, 13: 23), clearly not expecting to be told he can. Nor, indeed, can mice, except under the rather discreditable circumstances now to be outlined.
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