He likes, admires and is amused (but not bemused) by his subject, who is a sort of Eagle Scout of American letters. He does not pull his punches, because, it seems, there are no hard ones he wants to throw. He has performed a splendid exercise in scholarship and literary analysis, and the result is fun. Elledge is fair, respectful, thorough, entertaining, skillful and unpedantic. Russell Lynes, former managing editor of Harper's Magazine, is the author of ''Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow,'' ''The Tastemakers'' and other books. A gold medal from that children's publication sealed his occupational fate. He explored on his bicycle, and he started early to write about what he saw and heard for St. His family was prosperous, if not rich, and he spent his childhood in a spacious Queen Anne house with wide porches and a corner tower. He was born in 1899 in Mount Vernon, a New York suburb, when that town was still about half country and half living quarters for commuters. A squirrel, a seedling or a spider web delighted him equally. A mouse was a mirror to little Elwyn Brooks White, the youngest by a long shot (five years seemed a long shot) of six children, a shy, affectionate and private child with a nose forever poking into things and an eye for capturing and keeping what he saw. White's affinity with mice (he had a pet mouse when he was a small boy) was more than a child's fleeting interest in animals because they are little, timid with people and resourceful when they are on their own. The three of them were still sealed like sliced bacon in plastic. White's spider book, ''Charlotte's Web,'' and ''The Trumpet of the Swan,'' the one about the mute cygnet whose father swiped a trumpet for him from a music store. He hadn't got around to it yet, for it was still boxed with Mr. I borrowed a copy from my 3-year-old grandson. Little family of New York that so discombobulated children's librarians and delighted almost everyone else. It was nearly 40 years ago that I first read ''Stuart Little,'' the story about the dignified and adventurous mouse born to the Frederick C. (Andy) White, a very nice and very gifted man, Scott Elledge says, ''White's long and interesting literary association with mice started early.'' I was inclined to say, ''Oh, rats!'' But my literary association as a reader with Mr. NEAR the beginning of his nice biography of E.
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