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A Regular Wednesday Feature of The Times THE FIRST READER . . . By Harry Hansen

Drums Beat in Sean O'Casey The Poverty or

“DRUMS UNDER THE WINDO York, Macmillan, $4.50.

THOSE WERE lively days in Dublin when Sean O’ Casey was a strong young man, able to ‘carry a hod of bricks

higher than anyone and yelli young Ireland.

He's 62 now, and the years haven't covered his bitter memories with rosy tints. Nor has he forgotten to smile at

the antics of those who were dear to him, An Irishman

cannot forget poverty or injustice and Sean O'Casey saw plenty of both, Thus the third book of his autobiography, “Drums Under the Windows,” becomes the chronicle of his youthful, eager, spirited maturity, when “his body was in fine alignment with his mind.” | ‘There is no recent autobiography so rich in feeling and expressive prose, as those who read the earlier volumes, “I Knock at the Door” and “Pictures in the Hallway,” will agree. In it he will picture his dying brother or his burdened mother with both compassion and realism; he will turn to quote Shaw, the heckler on Dublin’s streets, or show a fishwife berating William Butler Yeats for his plays in the Abbey theater.

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THE INDIANA

Dublin: Can't Forget

Injustice WS." By Seen O Casey.

New

ng for the Gaelic league and

Deborah Seeks A Better Life

"DEBORAH." A novel. By Marian Castle. New York, Mor: row. $2.75.

By ELIZABETH STRAIN OPENING in the 1890's, “Deborah” carries its heroine through three| generations, And Deborah, a ifelike heroine, carries her reader or with her through the changes in her, career. When the man with whom she is in love, a collegé graduate, laughs at her ignorance, Deborah sets the

pattern for her ® life, SHE 5 Ba The daughter of a poor Dakota Miss Castle farmer, she resolves to get a col-

lege degree and set herself free from) the limited experience of her par-|

—— under the windows and the banners cried: “Burn Everything Except English Coal” has never seemed so close. The reason must be that Sean O'Casey still feels the tension of those days. His hard words will anger some but of his human sympathy and pity for the poor there is no -question.

» » H On Pulitzer Prizes 80 THE Pulitzer pfize commit tees decided to give no dward for the best American novel or the best ok of poetry of 1945. Well, gentlemen, I know exactly how you feel, I've been a judge of various contests myself. The choice can be bewildering when books have nothing in common but type-pages and binding. But it is better to be human than Olympian, and unless you are runcash, the award

Jim Larkin and Padraic Pearse,| wouldn't have hurt you.

the strikers, and the constabulary, the citizen army and all the turmoil of those years just before the first world war are in these pages, and the old bitterness Sgajict the clergy is there, too = » » SEAN O’CASEY was a passionate partisan of teaching Irish in the

schools, but the Gaelic league, with|

its rush to talk Gaelic, stirred his laughter at times.

Perhaps you are departing from tradition and saving up for a masterpiece. In that case you may have a long wait. Your drama award, “State of the Nation,” is commendable as far as it goes. The play is on a timely subject and a good job of craftsmanship; beyond that it stands no chance of being remembered. n " » THE AWARD for biography,

When Douglas Hyde was shouting | country without a tongue,” Sean | agreed. But it amused him “to see Gaelic leaguers drag a timorous native speaker from his home, waiting for him to get his coat on, shoving him where he didn’t want to go, amid the clapping of white | hands, mixing his tatters with the| elegant array of tweed suits, high)

white collars, poplin ties. |

Sean still resents bitterly the runaround given Dr. Michael O’Hickey, teacher of essential Irish at Maynooth college and dropped by the archbishop. O'Hickey carried his complaint to the Rota in Rome, and

was turned down, and Sean speaks.

his mind on the well-intrenched Irish clergy, accusing them of cowardice in the face of disapproval from the higher church authorities. | To O’Hickey, who “ended his last proud years in poverty and. loneliness” this bode is dedicated. " ”

“hardly |

‘Son of the Wilderness,” by Linnie | Marsh Wolfe, is so safe that nobody is even going to say Boo! to you. | It is the story of John Muir, by a California librarian and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in July. My review said: “This is a sort of family portrait: of John Muir. Mrs. Wolfe, being a librarian, could not let any minute detail escape her. As a result the career of John Muir is not dramatized. “This is not meant as a criticism of the author’s thoroughness and good taste. It is a criticism of the chronological method, which, while accurate, moves horizontally and hence takes no notice of monuments.” % Ld » THE AWARD for history, Age of Jackson,” by Schlisnger Jr., redeems the other) choices. This book is scholarly and forcefully written. It | brings to notice a new writing talent. It owes much of its pertinence to the author's interpretation of]

“The

THE YOUNG O'Casey played| the past in the light of today's

many parts. dying brother Tom of the Dublin

He comforted his] problems.

The importance of the book has

Fusiliers by calling the Anglican| ,oun a5 this has been more widely

rector to the outraged anger of recognized.

It was published in

Tom's Catholic wife, Agatha. “The|gentember by Little, Brown & Co., pint tumbler in the midst of a|, 4 was a selection of the Book

pub’s glow, or the half-gallon can

at home were Tom's own guiding |

star.” He had to lead his sister's husband to Bedlam, where the mind played strange tricks on men.

He. fell in with Millie when she | “was in a mood to make a ragged

fifer play her a merry tune so that she could dance before a lion and unicorn on a gate and spit at them to the delight of the crowd. All| these were episodes of his ‘young | days.

Find club.

'Saroyan Novel

‘Appears June 3 William Saroyan’s latest fulllength novel, “The Adventures of Wesley Jackson,” will appear June 3, according to Harcourt, Brace & Co., the publishers. Described as fotlowing the picares-| {que novel tradtion, the book is | concerned with _the experiences of

‘encouragement,

Arthur M.|

original, |

ents,

< ” » u SHE WORKS hard, but circumstances allow her only a year at college, Returning home to teach school she is more determined than ever to achieve “culture.” In spite of her prodding, her husband, a collége graduate, never is very successful. When his death leaves her with three small children, she marries a road builder—a man with little education but who makes a good living. In spite of opportunity and Deborah’s relentless urgings, none of her children wins the degree she yearns for. Her son dies during the first world war, and her daughters, scorning their mother’s life as cultural leader of a small town; go to Chicago for freedom. ” » » AFTER HER husband's death, Deborah finds herself with a small granddaughter to support in the midst of the depression. The two return to Deborah's childhood home, and Linda, to whom Deborah was able to give little but love and eventually is the one who realizes her grandmother's fondest desire. This story of an American girl's striving for a better life is well ‘paced and well written. The reader never becomes lost in a maze of detail in any phase of the story. And, despite the span of years it covers, the story is held together, not only by Deborah and her ambition, but by the recurring surge of youth's love of freedom and impatience with the standards of an older generation.

TODAY'S STACKUP Best-Selling Indianapolis’ Ratings

« Ayres’, Block's - Capital,

Meigs,

'SOUND of YEARS'—

Miss Modell Shows Skil

In New Novel

"THE SOUND OF YEARS." A novel. By Merriam Modell, New York, Venture Press (Simon & Schuster). $2.75.

AFTER 12 years of marriage, Arthur and Ellen Cole are happy and settled. Their 4-year-old son, Michael, is a normal problem-provoking child. Their other vexations are mainly maid service (It's wartime in New York) and the boresomeness 01 in - laws, chiefly Ellen's family. Ci r cumstances bring into their | life Ellen's 17year - old {llegiti~ mate daughter, Brigitta. Ellen hasn't seen the girl since Brigitta was 4 weeks old. Brigitta belongs to a half-forgotten past, to Ellen's long sojourn in Europe back in’the late 1920s.

Miss Modell

. » n BRIGITTA’'S foster-parents, the Heywards, who seemed so prosper= ous and dependable over -in Stuttgart, have fallen on evil days. For a private and terrible reason; it's imperative for Brigitta to get away from them. When Michael is sick and the Coles can't get a nurse, Brigitta

comes to stay with them. Her German-trained housekeeping and cooking make her well-nigh in| dispensable. { But even though Arthur, after long and painful discussion, is resigned to accepting Brigitta, there

remains the problem of what. the Winters, Ellen's mother and father, will think. { | ARTHUR'S career as a lawyer | depends a lot on the good will of people who might be alienated by malicious gossip. And that recurrent question: “What will. people say?” rears its hideous head. You can guess at the ultimate tragedy about three-quarters-way through the book. But, and here

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POLIS TIMES

By HENRY BUTLER Times Book Reporter FOR FAR too many people, last Friday was just another May 10. But for students of ideas, lke Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt.of the Indianapolis. Hebrew congregation,

that date has great, if grim, significance,

On May 10, 1933, the Nazis, flushed with their seizure of power in Germany, lighted huge bonfires of' books they wanted forgotten. “They sought to destroy ideas hostile to their own,” Rabbi Goldblatt said yesterday in an interview. “They wanted to erase history prior to the Nazi ‘New Order.”

» » ” HE READ me a brief section of Stephen Vincent Benet's radiq script, “They Burned the Books,” first produced in 1942. The portion he read described the impoverishment of education by thé destruction of books. It depicted what might happen even.in this country if freedom of thought and expression were abolished.

‘Books May" Be Burned But Not Ideas,

“Books freedom”

+ « + Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt in his

promote study, whose bookshelves contain many titles the Nazis banned and

burned. ,

message that challenges intelligence and conscience,” the rabbi said. » » . “UNDOUBTEDLY, throughout history many books have been sup-

pressed. But I don't belleve you

climb the ladder of civilization. “Books are an important part of formal education. I would judge that their significance seems to be growing, what with an increasing number of courses in great books

| motives of profit involved in the re« _ {printing of classics, I can’t

sv rosnts of cass a healthy sign,

AND EVEN though ther may

feeling that. publishers are. 8 so motivated by some degree of ideals “During the war, our an and women got millions of papers bound volumes of good, even great, literature. Undoubtedly a lot of GI's acquired a taste for good reads, ing.” 4

Rabbi Goldblatt healthy sign the a 3 pamphleteering going on. x » » » AS ONE of numerous examples, he cited “The Races of Mankind,” by Ruth Benedict and Gene Welt fish, first prepared for distribution to the armed forces, but later with ' drawn because of sectional political opposition, Now available in Public Aftalss pamphlets, the 31-page written and amusingly illustra

comes Miss Modell's extraordinary | skill in managing interplay of per-| sonalities. | While you know what will prob- | ably happen, you can’t imagine the trivial, vanity-inspired decisions! that make the tragedy inevitable. | When those minor things happen, you can see that they're plausible. ” n 5 THOMAS HARDY made great use of trivial, ironic circumstance. ! {Any number of critics, from George! Moore to W, Bomerset Maugham, in that .daringly satirical novel sup-

“Cakes and Ale,” Hardy for putting people at the! mercy of mishaps, such as the letter | under the door and also under the]

Meridian, Sears and rug in “Tess of the D'Urbervilles.”

Stewart's give the following| Maybe even Hardy, if he'd lived |

titles current best-selling]

ratings:

NONFICTION

“My Three Years .With Eisenhower.” By Capt Harry C. Butcher. |

to read “The Sound of Years,” might agree that the critics have]

something. Blind accident, which | j Hollywood has certainly over-| exploited — for instance, “Love

| Story, ” with Charles Boyer waiting | [on top of the Empire State build-|

“The Egg and 1.” By Betty Mac-| ing, while Irene Dunne gets hit by|

Donald.

a car on Fifth ave, a quarter- =mile}

“Peace of Mind.” By Joshua Lieb-| below—is easy.

man. “Solo in Tom-Toms.” Fowler.

By

Gene

On page 281 of Miss Modell's novel, Brigitta, reporting a phone) conversation, ‘riles Ellen's vanity

“Man-Eaters of Ruwaon. ” By Jim| and stirs latent jealousy. From then

Corbett.

on the pattern of events is differ-

“Earth Could Be Fair. ” By Pierre| ent from a it ight have been.

Van Paassen. FICTION

® THAT'S THE — things are. They don't always wind up

“The Snake Pit. » By Mary Jane| tragedy, but they do produce plenty |

Ward, “Proving: Ground.” Lowden. “Gather Ye Rosebuds.” By Jean- | nette Covert Nolan, “The Foxes of Harrow.” By Frank| Yerby. “Arch of Triumph.”

By Leone

By Erich

“Here he was, & ripe young man | Pvt.- Wesley Jackson and his fel-| Remarque.

and had never yet seen the poor satisfied with bread . . : never a|

flower on their table, never. more Wins

than a faded newspaper to ‘ake the bare table look a richer thing;

low G. Is.

Fellowship

Arthur H. Schlesinger Jr. author

never a safe plate to lie when|0f “The Age of Jackson,” Pulitzer

sickness tossed us down. . . . the living God! These damaging lies of life would have to go!” » ” . THE TURMOIL of streets, when the driims

Dublin's

rolled !

By | prize_winner and May selection of|

{the Book Find club, ‘has been|

awarded ‘a Guggenheim fellowship,

[for 1946. The fellowship will cover | Mr. Schlesinger’s “The Age Roosevelt,” now in writing.

‘Murder for Mi 'Who-Dun-lts'

Collection of

“MURDER FOR THE MILLIONS."

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York, Frederick Fell.

illions’ Is

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Edited by Frank Owen.

A MIKELS

SOME OF the best short stories of 29 big names in the “who-

dun-it” section of the literary world have been collected into an an-|

thology aptly described as “a harvest of horror and homicide.”

“Murder for the Millions” is a

crime-feast for readers 'vho eat up|

the offerings of favorites like Dashiell Hammett, William Irish, James

M. Cain, Louis Paul, Eberhart, " 5 » FOR THOSE who like a dash of mysticism in their murder, there are two Sax Rohmer offerings. Off the beaten track of “supernatural”

murders is a hort piece by Gelett|

Burgess, while Vincent Starrett proves mystery stories can be different. There's even a section for radio mystery fans. A radio-script, “Mind Over Murder,” by Nelson Bond presents a fast-moving mystery and at the same time illustrates how musical arrangements and sound ef-

fects are woven in to make murdeér| |

via the alr waves more effective. a lh. #8 AND ALSO in the different category is one of “Damon Runyons best shorts. His story about a “freezing” on the Gay White Way

"would be more at home in a humor

‘anthology, but its a pleasant relief

after TENOLE some of the more , Exim offering ‘All in ony ‘the book could be

Sulied a" eolupleta; solloction of fie

C. 8. Forester, Ellery Queen and Mignon G.

James

In crime anthology . . . M. Cain, whose “Dead Man” Is one of 37 stories in “Murder for the Millions.”

stories of outstanding popular myg‘tery writers—almost.” We say “almost” because for some reason we're unable to detect, Raymond Chandler, undoubtedly one of the coun-

of |

try's top flight mystery writers, is not presented. wh

Folk Writer's

Work in English

The "first general selection .n English of works by ‘Sholom Aleichem, great Yiddish writer, is | announced for June 17 publication | by Crown Publishers. Translated by Julius and Frances Butwin, the collection will include 27 .of Sholom Aleichem's stories under the title, “The Old Country.” Monday of this week marked the 30th anniversary of the great folk writer's death.

Publishes Critical ‘Study of Crane

The Bodley Press of New York announces the forthcoming publication of “Hart Crane: A Critical Study,” by Brom Weber. Considered the greatest American poet since'Walt Whitman, Crane is included in numerous anthologies. Mr. Weber, an instructor at New York's City college, recently edited a collection of Hart Crane's prose writings,

‘The King's General’

Proves Best-Seller

Doubleday & Co. report Daphne du Maurfer's “The King's General” as a record-breaking best-seller, even topping Miss du Maurier’s previous novels. “The King's General,” a story of romance and intrigue in England's 17th-century civil war, reached the million mark in sales only six weeks after publication. It has continued to sel from 500 to 2000 copies a day.

| of complications. What I find especially admirable lin “The Sound of Years” is the way Miss Modell masterfully bends |

| these day-by-day human conflicts |

to the purposes of fiction. It takes!

full responsibilities of chance re-| marks, irritations and jealousies.

piece of work—well conceived, well organized. It shows a great deal of intelligence, discrimination and sense of direction.—H. B.

Change of Title

Lantern Press reports a change of title of Frank Owen's new anthology of stories for teen-agers. Previously entitled “The Junior Companion,” the collection, to be published Oct, 15, will be called “Teen-Age Companion.”

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