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on. in that Charles

pot of money.

DeVoto, the two-gun

and his miece’s husband, had ruined the firm

for “Mark Twain in Eruption,” he included.

Webster, head of his book-

to 500” | Mr.

ory”, and show that “the scapegoat for

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Mark hoped Grant would

THAT he would put writing aside

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‘Bam as a lad in Hannibal, Mo., and | ] of the stir when he decided study —“in a river town!

great honor to have a pilot family.” » » " ‘and mocked her attempt to tell ‘him the story of Moses in the bull

‘rushes, and she resented his calling

niece resented being called “Trundle Bed Trash,” which seems to have : a Missouri word for poor relations. SERA Mrs,

did not look like her Cousin James,

worked into the character. Twain ‘helped young William Gillette get a part in the play, “surreptitiously” because his mother was unaware of it. When Mrs. Webster left Hartford, Gillette accompanied her on the train, and she sald, “I expect next

actor.” And when next she saw him, “50 or 60 years later,” he was

don't rush for seats,

| general's memoirs.

’ | We commend this golden age to the attention of authors. - »

: lof pictures is most rattling good. Man,” | But you’ must knock ‘out one of - them—the ; memoirs | Kissing the girl at the camp meeting. mustn't go in--don't forget it.

the camp meeting:

| disgusting thing, and pictures are sure to tell the truth about it too plainly.” So Mark was a censor, too.

Twain “was an advanced thinker of his day on everything but love and marriage. When Maxim -Gorky came to. this country Mark Twain was one of the first to welcome him, and one of the first to drop him when it transpired that Gorky had brought along his mistress.”

simple as that. on the dinner for Gorky, but to his ‘friends he denounced the touchiness of his countrymen.

Paine, he said to Dan Beard: “Gorky has made an awful mistake. He might as well have come over hére in his shirttail.” Little Brown, $4.) ° so»

"THE RAMPANT REFUGEE" By

one who was impounded by the Japs and suffered the discomforts of

for $250,000 to $300,000 damages. | Shanghai should look on this as an amazing experience and write about

Royalty was not paid on list price, but was & percentage of the firm's’ or $1 per year.

lly 50 per cent or over.

"In one letter Twain shows his|, eagerness to cut from -‘“Huckleberry Finn” a picture by E. W.p Kemble that might have been offensive to the taste of the period.

He writes Webster: “This batch

lecherous: old . rascal It is powerful good, but it “Let's not make any pictures of

The subject

won't bear illustrating. It is a

a. 8 = MR. WEBSTER thinks Mark

But the situation was not as Mark did hedge

According to Albert Bigelow

(Atlantic-

+ Kathleen Carlislé. Dutton, $2.75. IT SEEMS incredible that any-

surveillance in Manila and

literary sheriff from 5 lands, dug up some of Mark Twain's un-|

TODAY'S STACKUP— Indianapolis’ Best-Selling Ratings

Ayres’, Block's, Stewart's and the Meridian Book Shop give the following titles current best-selling ratings:

NONFICTION “Washington Tapestry,” By Mrs. Raymond Clapper. “The Egg and 1.” By Betty MacDonald. “Anatomy of Peace” By Emery Reves. “Soldier of Democracy.” By Kenneth Davis.

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sier writing, Dr. McCulloch was physician and friend to James Whitcomb Riley and many other authors. ,

collecting correspondence, telegrams, first editions, banquet programs and other mementos of literary men.

GREAT MEN HE'S KNOWN. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch looks at part of his collection of autographed portraits of writers and statesmen.

Friend of Famous Literary Men Blames Too Many Amusements for Decline in Indiana Writing.

By HENRY BUTLER, Times Book Reporter HAVE too many amusements nowadays.” That's the explanation Dr. Carleton B, McCulloch, retired physician and one-time close friend of the Hoosier literary giants, gives for the decline of Indiana writing.

Dr. McCulloch, who hasn't

20 years, is now vice president and medical director of the

|And Our Side On Education’ | “DEMOCRATIC: ‘EDUCATION."

| By Benjamin Fine. New York: | Crowell, $2.50.

| THE GREAT virtue of Mr. {Fine’s book on higher educa{tion is that ‘it has already | stirred up, and will stir up more, J} Mr, Pine, education editor of |The New York Times, boldly plunges into the seething academic teapot with the question: Shall the democratic or the aristocratic point of view. govern our colleges? “Democratic Education” was the subject of a spirited interchange in The Saturday Review of Literature for Dec. 20 between Mortimer J. Adler, representing Their side, and Ordway Tead, representing Our side. (The present review impartially assumes that you and I are| democratic.)

IN THIS ial purple trunks, is aristocratic education, whose finest flower (fer~ tilized by busy bees from Chicago university) is 8t. John’s college, Annapolis, Md. At St. John's, stu- | dents all study the 100 so-called | best books representing the intel- | lectual legacy of 2000 years of | Western history. In the other corner, wearing, maybe, a farmer's jeans, is democratic education, symbolized by Antioch college, which tries to fit the curriculum to the students’ needs. Between the extremes are all sorts of compromises. " . =» MR. FINE'S book is a valuable treatise for gnxious parents, being brief and clear. Well organized, it presents a short and reliable account of American highér education, past and present. And it has|

practiced medicine for some

In the golden age of Hoo-

» » . HIS HOBBY for years has been

We have too many extraneous things. People just don't stay home

around. There isn't the time; there isn't the leisure for reading there used fo be.”

But the limiting of reference to Negro higher educat phrases in 240 pages ol fext is a

population so easily.—H. B.

A Chance for

2 28 HIS OFFICE walls

lined with.

[Ray Millholland Party Feb. 27

holland, Indianapolis author, at 10

Lawrence Epps the book shop, ,

ries the subtitle: “Labor and Management in the American System of Free Enterprise.”

“Blue Chips Haggerty” stories published in The Saturday Evening Post.

navy in world war I, Mr. Millholland served aboard a subchaser. After the war he wrote “The Splinter Fleet,” mocording to Mr. Hill the only world war I book on subcorner, wearing imper-| pacers,

‘BLACK MAGIC— ‘Hex Practices Going On for A Long Time

magic as ignorant superstition.

revelations of current “hex” practices in Indianapolis may strike some readers of The Times to civilians and civilian ways is as amusing, but unimportant.

{rely on vaccination, penicillin and | ® helpful index, no small virtue. _ |,);p0) theymometers rather than to two oP charms and spells may forget ©lthat witchcraft is as old as hu-

problems of 10 per cent of the the majority of mankind. i

hair or some fingernail parings |trom your intended victim may seem merely funny. But to the primitive

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m. Feb, 27.

on wien ** Civilian Life gam. "HOW TO BE A CIVILIAN." By

Morton Thompson. New York, "Doubleday, $2. )

- THERE'S a hard road to civilian life for the soldier, Morton. Thompson says, but if you see the funny side of it yore more than half way across. So Morton outlines how amusing it can be, in “How to Bé a Civilian,” not omitting a lot of useful advice. And Charles Pearson, for. merly Yank artist, draws. pictures of G. Is in all sorts of civilian predicaments. . . Getting into civilian elothes i a tough tussle, the a and learning how not to jump out of bed at reveille is worse. But there are a few compensations, such the absence qf salutes. “There will be officers you. will feel like saluting. as long as you live. I myself know of five . , But when the G. I. is out of uni form he can take things ’easy.

Mr, Millholland has had 30 of his

A chief machinist’s mate in the

#" MM » “CERTAIN situations are bound to arise,” writes Mr. Thompson. “There will be the timeqwhen you meet your former captain in ‘an elevator and he says, ‘What floor, please?’ F “There will be the time when the ex-WAC first loole leans across a counter and looks you straight in the eye and says, ‘Can I help you, sir?’ Those, says the author, are ‘delectable’ situations. f “But when the former captain and the girl enter your store to buy something, they're customers, so, ‘Who's leaning over the counter at this point?’ ”

IT’S EASY to dismiss black

And so Miss Donna Mikels’

» ” ” TRYING to get the soldier used

{Mr. Thompson's major object. { Civilians, he assures the G. ls, are much like other people; they will | meet honesty with honesty. But' it is a wrong tactic to walk | up to a. civilian girl and say, “What {do you say, Jack?” Much better,

Those Of us educated enough to

nights. . | manity. “Consider the automobile (and 1|Serious weakness. Fs = » Ravises Mr. ‘Thompson, is this hope you mention this). People get| However difficult the situation| wmoRE important, witcheraft is) "0 d°8: in their cars and go skipping may be, you can’t overlook the! gnq always has been “science” for| Pardon me, but would you tell . me where X street is?” And ace

The business of getting a lock of company this by tipping your hat. “Tip your hat by starting a high« ball, when you reach your hat brim you grab it and remove your hat from your head for an instant or

his Is: My Beloved,” By Walter nq though he makes no claim

Benton. pls oy ¢ to being a serious writer himself, Alinsky. verse, such as “On the Road to

“David Ross.” By Fred Kelly.

v ody of Ki 's “Pleasant Valley.” By Louis Brom- Paraguay,” a parody pling

“Mandalay.”

it with a jaunty air, but that's what Kathleen Carlisle7 does in “The Rampant Refugee.” Maybe. its just an attitude assumed since Mrs. Carlisle reached these shores in the hospitable Gripsholm; maybe it's her natural bent. At any rate it's original When she departed, leaving her

British-born husband behind, even

the Jap commandant, Hayashi, was

,i disturbed.

“I cannot understand . you,” he said, gravely, shaking his head. “You'd leave this camp while your husband stays behind, being a Britisher. Have you no loyalty?” “I didn't even blush. "‘I can't wait,’ I said, beaming happily. The

jcommandant shook his head again

and looked sad. said.

‘Very queer,’ he

| “That night was a gala one for|"TH

Lyngwha.” . .. Very different from the sad experiences reported by other pris-

5 a Be toners were those of Mrs. Carlisl "SAM enjoyed banter and teasing | i : $ | she bamboozled the Japs in Ma- |

{nila by wangling a paper from the Danish consul testifying that she | jiely

. ther “Old Hoss” just .as another| Ws Danish. Her little girl Ginka |

shared her imprisonment.

In the United States Mrs. Carlisle worked for five months at the Ti laboratory at Wright Webster was in Hartford field, Dayton, having “a vague sort when “The Gilded Age” came to of skill at typing. The technicians the ' theater there and was dis- for whom I worked sensed autoappointed to find that Col. Sellers] matically that I wasn't the kind to

| armament

| be directed along any course.” ,

[ nicely.

Review Books on

‘Race Problems Readers interested in intelligen

time 1 see you you'll be a famous| discussion of race problems will find

| lanta university.

.. 0 8 Containing scholarly articles on AS FOR the ill-fated publishing| race ‘and culture, “Phylon” has . house, it made about $50,000 a year| valuable section devoted to review for a number of years and paid the| of books and periodicals dealing widow of Ulysses 8. Grant $200,000 with race problems. in one check as royalties on the!

With distinguished Negro an

| white scholars as contributors, the quarterly review is 35 cents a copy

++jcatt carr whose mannerisms Twain had| That seems to sum things up iy be ol

| much good material in “Phylon,” a “Lots of things come to pass if you | quarterly review published at At-

field. rion, FICTION DR. McCULLOCH, serving as “The Black Rose” by Thomas toastmaster, read “On the Road to Costain, Paraguay” at a farewell dinner to | “The Zebra Derby.” By Max Meredith Nicholson at the Athletic Shulman. club; Sept. 6, 1033. Mr. Nicholson “Arch of Triumph” By Erich |was about to assume his post as Remarque. minister to Paraguay.

When asked why fewer people seem to be writing nowadays, Dr.

“Before the Sun Goes Down.” By Elizabeth Howard.

“The Gauntlet.” By James Street. “The Turquoise.” By Anya Seton.

Men Who Drilled for Oil

Restless and Picturesque

E WILDCATTERS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF OIL HUNT-| ING IN AMERICA." By Samuel W. Tait Jr. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press. $3. ALTHOUGH Mr. Tait calls his book “an informal history,” the {informality is in manner, not content. For here is an absorbing and authoritative story of some of Amermost picturesque gamblers, the men who drilled for oil in unplaces. In his prologue, Mr. Tait says a diagnostician might find all those

restless “wildcatters” suffering from Tells How He

“that fashionable modern ailment, | Aided Hearing

essential hypertension.” Never content to settle, always restlessly eager to explore new "WAYS TO BETTER HEARING." fields, the wild- 4 By Lowell Brentano. New York, Franklin Watts, $1. Lowell Brentano, author and former publisher wrote “Ways to * | Better Hearing” after he overcame his 70 per cent loss in hearing to

and other great novelists. “Now we have movies and radio.

| |

| ica’s

with them a frontier roughness that made oil towns more pic- % turesque and less

respectable than towns dependent Mr. Tait such an extent that-he can hold his on more stable Ta own with those ‘who detect a

t|and permanent industry.

» ” MR. TAIT outlines the spread of ofl-drilling westward from Pennsylvania, through Ohio and Indiana, then Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and on to the west coast. Time has wrought great changes in the oil map. The author finds it hard to realize that his Hoosier home town of Montpelier was ‘ever an oll center. * The admirable division of his book into chapters, each covering some important phase of oil his-

watch ticking at 10 paces. He describes how the victim of bad hearing can improve with and without mechanical aids, and includes chapters on lip reading and speech improvement. The book has 96 large size pages, bound in paper.

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be an insurance policy to old age. The average age of 55 authors living: at the end of 1044 was 60. Anfl the average age at which the authors published their first novels

tory, makes it easier to read, And 14 pages of historical photographs, a number of helpful diagrams and an excellent index increase the book's value.

autographed photos, and his files full of fascinating literary corre-| spondence, great fund of anecdotes writers. One concerns Riley.

night. He was having a time carving a duck and struggling with the joints.

“Written on the Wind.” By Rob- McCulloch said, “There are too ert Wilder.” many amusements—too many pas“The King’s General,” By Daphne | times. Novel In March Du Maurier. ® 8 ® “Brideshead Revisited.” By Eve-| “IN THE old. days, everybody| Maggie Owen Wadelton (Mrs. lyn Waugh. used to grow up on Dickens, Scott Thomas Wadelton), Indianapolis

McCulloch has a! about

Dr,

“I was at Riley's for dinner one

“Suddenly he said, ‘Doctor: Did you: ever stop to think that the strange thing about carving a duck is that the gravy so seldom matches the wallpaper?’ ”

First Wadelton

writer, is departing from the reminiscent pattern of her earlier books in her first novel, “Sarah Mandrake.” Announced by #4 Bobbs-Merrill for March 11 publication, “Sarah Mandrake” concerns an old country xiansion, Mandrake house, supposedly : in Dutchess County, New Mrs. Wadelton York. The house is ingeniously haunted by a ghost tliat never gets explained, according to the publishers. 3 Mrs. Wadelton’s earlier books, “Maggie Owen, Her Book” and “Maggie No Doubt,” were mainly whimsical family. recollections. Also on Bobbs-Merrill's March list .is “Antioch Actress.” a new novel by J. R. Perkins, author of “The Emperor's Physician.” Scheduled to appear March 8, “Antioch Actress” has been selecled by the Religious Book club as its April book.

Name Prize Contest Judges

The names of judges in the Random House servicemén's prize contest have been announced,

best manuscript dealing with re-

and Harry E. Maule, editor, renresenting the publishers.

Hollywood

“THE TURQUOISE." A novel. By

of “Dragonwyck” has a lot of in-| James George Frazer.

cause she has a mysterious Celtic| ing Place,” Lippincott, 1942), con-

| ignorant Mexicans. At 17, she meets 'a, handsome, Irish medicine .vendor|

Chosen to select the $2500 prize winner in the competition for the

turning veterans are Bill Mauldin, Joe McCarthy, formerly of Yank,

The deadline for contest entries

(mind, a part of the person is the | person: If you work harm’ to a lock {of hair or fingernail parings you. {work harm to the person you got them from. s » ” } Anya Seton. Boston: Houghton ONE OF the most famous descripMifflin, $2.50. tions of nmgic as primitive science is in “The Golden Bough,” by the THIS NEW novel by the author great British anthropologist, Sir

gredients Hollywood might dust off,] Read about 100 pages of the onepurify and make into another lavish volume edition of “The Golden technicolor production. | Bough” (Macmillan, 1940) and you'll It's about Santa Fe Cameron, begin to understand how this sodaughter of a Scottish immigrant | galled thinking ‘works. surgeon and a beautiful Spanish” Magic fascinated the late William girl in New Mexico of the 1850's. | Seabrook, whose life, according to Her father calls her “Fey,” be-| his own candid admission (“No Hid-

gift of second-sight. He dies when! tained a long series of “Lost Weekshe is seven years old, never having Ends.” recovered from grief over losing his wife in childbirth. = # »

FEY GROWS up with a family o

» » » ’ SEABROOK’S volume, “Witch|eraft: Its Power in the World To-| gl day” (Harcourt, Brace, 1940), brings forth sensational material, It is, I may add, not too reliable. and travels eastward with him.| A remarkable book on the hisSome time after their marriage, he|l0TY Of Witchcraft (net for young deserts her in New York {readers) is Margaret Murray's “The : Witch Cult in Western Europe” After the birth of her daughter, Rup Hak 1921), According to this

she meets Simeon Tower, a Wall (Oxford, ' Street speculator of the Gould- | 200K, witchcraft, bitterly opposed Pisk era whom she marries. And for | DY the medieval church, was a stub{born survival of pagan religious

a time, Fey is on top of the heap] in the ornate, luxurious society of Practices. New York in the 1870's. / en Mikels revealed in her stories on TRAGIC circumstances finally|joca] “hexes;” the magic practices drive her and her aging and sickly are connected with queer religious husband to New Mexico, where sheets. finds the peace of mind she had| what's going on in Indianapolis sought vainly elsewhere. has been going on in the world since Miss Seton writes sensitively and jong pefore the Christian era.—H. B. vividly. In “Turquoise” she has hit ————————————————— upon a combination of character and settings that should make the| book highly popular.

‘OSS 'Sub Rosa Due Feb. 25

New Generation Of Readers

The Indianapolis public library system has one of the five largest juvenile circulations in the United | States, according to American LiREYNAL & HITCHCOCK have association figures, announced Feb. 25 as the publica-| Local annual circulation of chiltion date for “Sub Rosa,” an inside dren’s books is 23% books per

services. |to age 14. The authors are Stewart Alsop, Of the total Indianapolis 1945 and Tom Braden, who served with | circulation of 2,209,000 volumes, 57 the British army, transferred to the per cent were juvenile books. American army and eventually were Library authorities interpret this assigned to the OSS. as meaning that a new generation Their story concerns the grad-|of readers is being developed rapid-

leave it off altogether.

” ” . IT IS not surprising that, as Miss |

story of the office of strategic| capita of the school population up,

That's the police way of starting a conversation. » » » “IF the civilian seems friendly you are on your own. ... She eiyils ians of any age will marry provided someone asks them, but~You soon will find that most of them exercise a remarkable discretion in who they let ask them. “It's a big continent, and they. haven't run out of she civilians for years and years, and there's more than enough to go around. Take it easy. At least, first take off your skis.” » ” ” WE COMMEND Mr. Thompson's chapters on how to approach a job and why soldiers who visit the psychiatrist are not to be ridiculed. The advice, to be tolerant and helpful, because war has been a cruel, uprooting influence, is excellent. I can only hope that Mr. Thompson's object, to give G. 1's good advice in an amusing way, reaches the right men. It is more tham. likely that his book will interest citilians who, like myself, will recall that he wrote, “Joe, the

the fun and not the earnestness. It's hard to be both humorist and professional adviser —H. H.

Writer Keeps

'In the Swim'

BENNETT CERF, publisher, colyumist and raconteur, has & mountain story in his “Back of

Omnibook. Here it is, without quotes: James Ullman’s excellent novel about mountain scaling, “The White Tower,” which was abridged in last month's issue of Omnibook, filled his publishers at Lippincott’s with a passionate desire # do a little climbing on their: own account.

volunteered .to lead a group of them up a trail in the Ramapos. Near the starting point, they came | to a turbulent stream. | “Don‘t let this one frighten you, | poys,” called Ullman cheerfully. “We'll have to cross worse ones before we reach the summit. Just follow me.” Mr. Ullman there-

ual development of a workable ly in the community.

upon fell in up to his neck.

system of American espionage. It tells how the OSS staff of some 12,000 .persons was eventually built up and how the hush-hush missions

was last Nov. 30.

This Week . . .

» » . BORN IN Montpelier in 1898, Mr. |was 38, {Tait attended Wabash college from 1918 to 1018, and won his law de- ¢ gree from Bt. Louis university in + S .

1032. An editorial writer for the, St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the 1920's, he contributed political articles to

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the American Mercury from J925 to for BOOKS 1933. He was a contributor to the ; April, 1926, issue of the Mercury A . which detailed the operations of the|] = Make Your Valentine Indiana Ku Klux Klan and which , Gift a Book

was banned in Boston. - 1| The son. of an oilman, Mr, Talt has never lost interest” in oflprospecting. His plans for the near future include the drilling of a well

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