Books: How Now, Brown Cow?

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL by JAMES HERRIOT 442 pages. St. Martin's Press. $7.95.

What the world needs now, and does every so often, is a warm, Grated, downhome, unadrenalized prize of a book that sneaks onto the bestseller lists for no apparent reason other than a certain floppy-eared puppy appeal.

However, it is only partly because warm puppies—along with cows, horses, pigs, cats and the rest of the animal kingdom—figure as his main characters that James Herriot's memoirs qualify admirably. Dr. Herriot is a country veterinarian who has practiced in the Yorkshire...