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A Few Sidelights on a New Literary Work From Richmond

THERE WERE TWO PIRATES." By James Branch Cabell,

5 ‘New York, Farrar, Straus. $3.

’ GOOD MORNING, CLASS. This morning I am latest book by James Branch

to speak to you about the ‘Cabell, “There “a comedy of divisi ion.”

Were Two Pirates,”

going

which the author calls

| “Ig that Branch Cabell, teacher?” "No, indeed. Branch Cabell wrote only after James

Branch Cabell had completed his life's work, the books about Manuel. But apparently James Branch Cabell still has something to add. It is hard to believe that once the books by Mr. Cabell rocked the very toundations of our

culture. “How was that, teacher?” It happened long before John Steinbeck glorified dust, Class. Mr4 Cabell, a Richmond gentleman, had been quietly embroidering since 1904, writing such cheerRivet in Grandfather's Neck” and “The Cream of the Jest” when he turned out a romance called “Jurgen.” This delighted the critics, the cognoscenti and H. L. Mencken. Suddenly, without warning & vice society brought action against it for undermining the morals of the community.

» = = “OH TEACHER, it must have been terrible, Was it?” ; , I was unable to say. I read it with a microscope and ultraviolet rays, but couldnt find the : Moreover, Messrs. arl van Vechten, Carl van Doren, Rascoe, Sinclair Lewis and other estimable literary men championed Mr, Cabell as the purest of the pure. “What happened, teacher?”

the denunciatory, and yet, so complete was my affection for the indomitable old gentleman that I blew out his brains in a warm glow of admiration.” “WHY DID Mr. Cabell write like that, teacher?¥ He felt the dictionary was for use, not a doorstop, Gasparilla had loved a lithe and winsome signorina named Isabel de Castro, On one occasion he was robbing a chip when Isabel appeared as the wife of an elderly don; moreover she was now a squat, homely, pudgy, kindfaced housewife. As Gasparilla said, “the loveliness which I left in bud has now reached a stupefying maturity.” Don Diego was all for turning the lady over to the pirate, but Gasparilla sidestepped the temptation in a chapter of neat crocheting.

” . » “WHAT HAPPENED then, teacher?” I doubt that I should explain in detail, Don Diego lived in St. Augustine and had a green stone capable of performing wonders, and Gasparilla went to St. Augustine to see him, attired as a peddler after burying 20,000 pesos. After burying money, Gasparilla explained, “I am forced to dispose of my employees. “I am compelled to defend myself against their possible lack of sound moral principles such as would prevent them from returning in secret

WARTIME TREND Fictionalized

Mr. Cabell was exonerated and his sales soared. However, many readwere ted. For in that era, in the 1920s, words often used to conceal thought. -We more fortunate in our day. | Words are no longer used for conceslment. Open covenants, openly arrived at, is the literary rule, meaning, we never draw the shades,

to make off with my property, The monotony of these unavoidible precautions is becoming tedious.” “Teacher, isn't Mr. Gasparilla {rather long-winded for a pirate?”

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Ld » » IT 1S hard to say whether Gasparilla or James Branch Cabell is the long-winded one. Personally, I suspect Mr, Cabell. He has an ob-

for the neighbors know everything.

ject, an ideal. Here is Mr. Mencken

xussi fF 3 oe

vn plaining it, on the jacket: “His

ie SRR AA Te i RR Were Two Pirates.” re Mr, Ca-| a first-rate bell exhibits once more the style| “Do you think he .is successful,| that made him famous. He pre-| teacher?” tends to be editing the diary of a| Not wholly. And if you are worbuccaneer, Jose Gasparilla, who ried at how the other half lives, operated off the coast of Florida don’t read Cabell. and retired well-heeled. At the age| “Would Studs Lonigan under-| of 27 said Gasparilla took over a stand him?” Spanish sloop of eight guns by the| I don't think so. - Neither would simple method of leading a mutiny.| Mr. Cabell understand Studs LoniSays Gasparilla, in the words of gan. But someday literary hisJames Branch Cabell: “To the last torians will say both were a part of words of our deposed captain, in|America, in the days before someparticular, I listened with rever-| body accidentally dropped an atom ence; they were biased by disap- bomb, while carrying it to Fairfield | proval; they bordered even upon'to show it to the United Nations.

ROLLICKING READING

Dr. Clipyard's

Tips on Mysteries |

"DESPERATE CURE." By Ruth

. * Fenisong. New York, Crime .s W |did not see him. {man recalls the time when shrieks w, Arnold on the problem of trusts. | Life ls Hectic Club. $2. WRITERS like A. E. Van Vogt| «x |were capitalized and says “The| T | : and E. E. Smith are particularly] LET'S TR another memory- | Thirteenth Chair” remains the best : ' "Penro ' i By DREXEL DRARE skillful craftsmen in this respect. |tickler: of all the Sir? mains ao vest Tarkington 5 |

threatening to sneak into her| severely scheduled life. To that we you dave an swiingl,,, added a second jolt when a pick Sothite hook, for ones you do| Vealthy woman patient died of * : {poison and “her husband, a social it's an even bet you won't put iti. aintance of Dr. Carr down until you have finished the | fo 1sely accused of murder, ving Satie ail Famer ot © | tottering equilibrium, she had a brand org ce b chat shrewd lawyer friend who was able Thorne Barnaby to straighten out villainous kinks. has written a rollicking satire that|pg, jo hresenting a shrewd solupokes fun at the flower of Southern|y;, of 4 finely knitted murder puzwomanhood and the dignity of | sje, this is a gripping character deSouthern tradition, and jibes at the lineation woven into a stirring emohypoeritic' factor in the Hippocratic, 1 4rono { oath. ’ 5 » | THE STORY concerns one Dr.| Willie Clipyard whose rather shaky | hold on an acting assistant professorship is a Kentucky medical college doesn't provide him with enough funds to enjoy life to its|

Milton K. Ozaki, New York, Ziff Davis, $2. THE FREQUENCY with which Justine, Chicago beauty salon operfullest Sten. hlle in the dump,’ among his patrons gave the police Willie discove ' ®la complicated problem when he

owe Griek yal. puts shuttle 10 Wie was murdered. Professor Caldwell, wor d discovering this well | Tllled in practical use of psycholonamed potion are many and hilar- | &* and his assistant, Bendy Brinks, {competent in handling women, gave |Lt. Phelan of Homicide the help wd into o eenary Foie po he needed, after a second murder, hand Jy 235 (tg solve the riddle, Here is intro-

lady-love, Dr. Clipyard travels q ced a .uniquely efficient trio of

northward to interest a labor union |p pder sleuths, with colorful plot

in a little invention ot le designed unraveled in enjoyably crisp narfurther their prod "| rative, His sojourn in the offices of a| y

New York labor baron proves to! . . De one of the book's more amusing | Duell Will Publish The Great Challenge’

“The Great Challenge,”

» » s ENOUGH of these little tips con

’ highly novel in an in-| & Pearce. y ‘ al style that skillfully mixes| A" COmpanion volume to

‘century elegance with modern

n evening of entertain- from 1040 to 1946.

Erskine Biography Will Be Published

“The Memory of Certain Per sons,” an autobiography by John Erskine, is announced for. publica

Co., Philadelphia publishers.

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Was | are careful to use only logical prob-

For- | 1ems and are doubly careful to solve tunately for the woman physician's them logically.

» » "THE CUCKOO CLOCK." By ronient development to forecagt his

Louls

. of the pages of this| Fischer's book about the politics of | ad and merry book. Suffice it to the war and the peace, will be pub- | say Mr. Dogbolt has written a lished next month by Duell, Sloan

Science Book

Is Fascinating

"ADVENTURES IN TIME AND: SPACE." Edited by Raymond § - J. Francis McComas. New York,' Random House. $2.95.

By RICHARD LEWIS ONE OF THE literary by-products of the war was its stimulus to a relatively obscure variety of fiction| which has come to be known to its, coterie of enthusiasts as science-|

fiction. Just what science-fiction is or

from ‘a literary viewpoint is a mat- | :

jects the scientific potential of today as the reality of tomorrow. The results are sometimes fascinating. The reader is invited to enter not simply a world, but a cosmos of space ships, super-beings, interplanetary wars and mutations of the human species. | " =» ” { “ADVENTURES in Time and Space” is a collection of some of | the best science-fiction of the last’

ogy to enable this sometimes bizarre literature to gain the comparative respectability of the public library. Two other anthologies have appeared since the war, but “Adventures in Time and Space” is by far the thickest volume. Apparently its editors hope it will do for sciencefiction what the “Omnibus of Crime? did for detective fiction 20 years ago—that is, enable it to take its place in everybody's bathroom or den. The coming of radar, rockets and the atom bomb, which are old stuff to the science-fiction fans, gave the

spectability - by confirming ‘ the propijcies of writers in this field. » » » FOR YEARS, it has been a cultlike field, with organizations of adherents having regular meetings to evaluate stories, suggest plots or simply get together for a glass of beer. It overflowed from the pulps and

years ago. Buck Rogers is descended from a serial by Philip Nowland which appeared in & science-fiction magazine in the late "20s, “Alley Oop's” time machine is a familiar vehicle to science fictioneers who know all about a time machine except how one could be made to work. » »

” JULES VERNE, the late H. G.

Wells and Aldous Huxley were some dria + { A" ! * of the more notable pioneers in this|8one out of that window! bring returns. Inventor Ss Basic ii ape “Bars or no bars, you're not go- eee . . A na Whe i Ge ee ra ol Ala v 3 sac HE NEN al TRUBROE Hite ot pg ts C.om lesser lights, although the field is| YOU expect. . can s e happy reminfscencesl,, =" ENTORS!

wide open for originality and enterprise. Verne visualized a trip to the moon and attempted to forecast how it could be accomplished in terms of the science of his day. Wells imagined a time machine, a war between worlds and extra dimensions. Huxley invented a brave new world of the future, setting the pace for the sociological and economic twists of science-fiction stories today. Recent writers have evolved skill-|

[ful techniques of telling a story with|SaW

a plot a thousand years in the fu-| ture, weaving the plot about a|

fantastic environment so expertly the only Holmes worth recalling was that the reader accepts the environ-| Gillette's and that future genera.

ment of the story as credible, l

They and Anson MacDonald, Robert Heilein and Lester del Rey do some of the best work in the field with the science fiction problem story.

conflict—war, race prejudice, dictatorship—and project them into superscientific environments. They

They also take great pains to | predicate their environments on | sound scientific data, otherwise | their critical host of organized | fans %ould trip them up.

"oR ” | SOME WRITERS have gone be- |

vond the mere prognostidation of | mankind's mechanical and techno-

|intellectual, social and economic | evolution, In some of the lesser works in the field, familiar plots are hashed and (served up simply in futuristic set-

{ator, had discarded lady-loves from | tings. The 18th century pirate of liam Van Narvig's backstage story | yy Mark Schorer, will

the Spanish Main turns up operating a space ship on the JupiterSaturn run, with the Space Patrol beating the asteroids for him. This is not high class sciencefiction, according to the experts, It achieves that status only if the author makes it clear his pirate got that way when a loose cosmic rdy hit him behind the left ear, converting' him into a social problem.

pulp fantasy.

scientific fact or a reasonably good

Among the best writers in the fleld are research scientists them,selves, who write for extra cash or for relaxation. Their appearance

r. ‘ " Fischer's “Men and Politics.” “The D2 made the “true” science fiction

Great Challenge” covers the years)

story as exacting a piece of litera- | ture as story, The result, has been some amaziiy; prognostication, was visualized years ago, ahd some! {of the better yarns reportedly came | close to being exact in predictingAn |

| what’ it is supposed to represent ¥

ter of opinion. The best of it pro- |g"

| we

15 years. It is not the first anthol-| w

the privately-printed limited edi-|giiation tions into the comic strips several|,. ., with the gas lights glowing

Young ballerina , . . “Melina Darde,” drawn in 1878 by Edgar Degas. From “Les Dessins de Degas,” second series, Paris, Demotte, 1923. (Courtesy of Herron Art Institute.)

Collection of Mystery Plays Will Revive Old Memories

"13 FAMOUS PLAYS OF CRIME AND DETECTION." ‘Compiled ~ “by Van H, Cartmell and Bennett Cerf, Introduction by John Chapman. New York, Blakiston, $3.75.

THERE ARE certain words and situations that, once they have been recorded on the stage, stick in the memory. Can you ever forget literature a big boost toward re-| thy

ese:

“Bella, what are you up to?” “Or is it I who am mad? Yes,

that's it. It is I. Of course, it was|give you the jitters, and yet it

a razor. haven't 4? . Now it is. growing. things. . .

Dear God—I have lost it, | I am always losing Remember that one? A in a Victorian

tense | living

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — © Edgar Degas Drew This Picture in 1878

Have you gone mad, my husband?’

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BACKSTAGE VAGARIES Ballet Folks' Life Amusingly Caricatured

"SIX CURTAINS FOR NATA. SHA." A novel. By Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon. Philadelphia, Lippincott, $2.50.

18 THE ARTISTIC temperament partly a matter of language? There are times when it seems so. For, whatever the vagaries of Hollywood characters may be, it's inconceivable that English could render adequately the whims and caprices of European ballet people. And that's why the language of “Six Curtains for Natasha,” much of it, especially dialog, in Frenchifled or Russified syntax, makes this admirable satire on ballet terggerament come alive.

” " » “WE ARE the friends bosom,” a ballerina will comment, having reached a momentary armed truce with a jealous rival. In straight English, the statement would be too literal. It would -make an Arenskaya on a Dourakova seem to be a liar, But the Arenskayas, the Dourakovas, the Natashas are not liars. Each is ambitious, and with a

the background, devoting all her female, feline energies to her daughter's career, each ballerina has to learn’ to stand on her own toes. She has to face the career short, the cdmpetition ferocious (to imitate the dialog).

” ~ » WITH PLENTY of over-serious books on ballet, “Six Curtains for Natasha,” is a lively and welcome spoofing. Natasha, wife of Stroganoff, tries desperately to achieve six curtain calls as a member of the Stroganoff ballet company in St. Petersburg. After several tragicomic flascos, she deserts Stroganoff and goes with Mamoushka ‘to Paris to join Diaghilev. In a series of flash-backs, Stroganoff tells the story 35 years later to a - potential backer. Financial struggles, family rows, word-battles (Stroganoff quarrels with Natasha in her dressing room — “She snatched up her fur coat and strode into the corridor. The mamoushka ran out after her. ‘Natasha,’ she wailed. ‘Come back. You are but in your corset.’ ”) and all the trials of ballet are handled in deftly

would write as It didn't

that someone genial a thriller today.

held your interest right through. Earl Derr Biggers wrote the story and George M. Cohan fashioned the play. Perhaps one of the most popular of mystery plays was “The Originally, Mary Roberts

black-bombazined “mamoushka” in|

Experience

"THREE PARTS SCOTCH: AN INFORMAL AUTOBIOGRA. PHY." By Guthrie Burton, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50.

By HENRY BUTLER J. R. WILLIAMS, cartoonist featured in The Times, draws a series captioned “Born 30 Years Too Soon.” Maybe there's such a thing as being born 30 years too late. If Guthrie Burton, for example, had been born in 1912 instead of 1882, she might have missed some of the best influences and experiences she describes in her autobiography. Even allowing for the conservatism of advancing years and the rose-colored glasses of retrospect, American society is not what it was when Mrs. Burton was growing up. » » » BORN of three parts Scotch ancestry, in Tunkhannock, in the northeastern Pennsylvania hills, Ruth Guthrie Thompson early felt the Wordsworthian effect of that terrain: “I have seen in this country only in North Carolina such moving mountain landscape; landscape of which the traveler is an immediate part, comforted by his own blending with what he looks upon. It is not the same thing as the feeling one | kas in California and Nevada where .the mountains defy the personality of the beholder.” As one who grew up in Mauch Chunk, Pa., in the same region and also on the Lehigh Valley railroad, I know what Mrs. Burton is talking about. » » » : HER INTEREST in musié and literature, her talent for verse and her evident imagination and wit | brought Mrs. Burton many friends. She has known well such diverse people as Ambrose Bierce and Wwilliam Gillette. And though she

given remarkable examples of second sight), the tone of the autobiography is generally objective. Some of the best passages of the book deal with her second husband, the late Prof. Richard Burton, whose

dwells at some length on what 1 scoffers might term occult fancies ‘(her daughter, Jean, she says, has| 3

. SATURDAY, AUG. 24, 1946 s of Yesteryear |

With Rose-Colored Glasses

Of Time and the Susquehanna river . . . Autobiographer Guthrie Burton,

MRS. BURTON'S humor I somes times find to be the jest without the smile, in Coleridge's phrase, That may be partly because she was nurtured in the humor school of Max Adeler, whose “Out of the Hurly Burly” once seemed to be the funnest thing in print. I think she over-writes her humor, delighting in words like “horrendous.” That word, like the, “mirabile dictu” that was always good for a laugh in my own high school days, is strangely, nostalgically dated.

PERSONALITY

Teen-Agers Offered Tips

"PERSONALITY PLUS." By Shelia John Daly. New York, Dodd, Mead, $2. i

TEENAGERS get plenty of ade vice, but not often from a teenager,

Here's Sheila John Daly, a freshe man at Rosary college in Chicago and already a newspaper columnist, writing a good, clear, sensible book on appearance, deportment (ine cluding table EF manners), dates, gE studies and a va riety of things that concern high-school youngsters. In language youngsters can easily understand,

low. and what on unforgettable mas- Rinehart's first published book, it

saging it gave your spine!

comes the clipped speech of a man |y,ried versions, has been one of the with a nasal twang:

men, thinking you're sure of anv-| the wolf from Mrs. Rinehart’s door | body in this room, and three bars if all her other writings failed to]

That was “Angel Street,” Bat.”

{was called “The Circular Stair|case,” in 1908. Avery Hopwood | helped with the play version, which THEN, out of the distant past, | ppear ed in 1920. The story, in its

{finest literary properties of our “Why, you surprise me, gentle-| generation, and it could still keep

comical fashion,

caricature in mellow lines. think is the best feature of the novel is its sustaining the gently kidding tone throughout. effort to make Natasha" seem so effortless—H. B.

5 8 8 CARICATURE, certainly, but What I

It took a lot of “Six Curtains for

career as a brilliant and sympa- she gives wise thetic teacher was enlivened by un- counsel on what usual episodes like his publicity jobits do (or to avoid doing) if a girl for Warners’ “Midsummer Night's| or a guy wishes to be popular. The Dream” film. gist of her message is that kindness

» rd ” > : land consideration, plus care abo TOWARD the conclusion of her | npearance and some intelligent

story, Mrs. ‘Burton utters some stric-| : oti ’ ; planning of activities, can make a Yyges on the “feshly school” of lot of difference in a teenager's writing- And though the attitude! etimes troubled years. may recall Tennyson's bitter re-

Miss Daly

marks on the same subject in

~ ” ~. THE TRUE science-fiction piece until the age of 25, Mr. Van Narvig usually requires a more sophisti- 18 now an American citizen, cated treatment than the mine run made his most recent trip to Rus- | It has to account Sia in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel | for itself by dealing strictly with|in army intelligence.

“Thert are so many ways, Mr.[of theater fans, especially when Larrabee, that I hardly know|they are those contained in “13 Fawhich one to choose. . . , I'lljmous Plays of Crime and Detecchoose at once, Mr. Cragin, and tion.” And although the business my choice falls on this!” “Track 'im by the cigar!” » = » FAMOUS, of course, William Gil- its novelty and some of the situa-|i lette's Sherlock Holmes moving out! tions in “The Cat and the Canary”

Veiller exploited in

of the Maxim silencer that Bayard |tions, patents and related matters, “Within the|“The Inventors’ Law” in 1912 has long since lost|proposes new means for assuring

“Lacksley Hall 60 Years After” (“Set

22 oa thaamalden £ ies walonkS nde MAGNA OE Dr Ze, 7 CHARTA." By Edwin Hopkins |Mrs.' Burton that stark, strong Rew York : din Hopkins re ‘| realism is not necessarily synony- ' f «93. |Imous with description of bodily IN 351 CLAUSES covering inven-| functions. What I find admirable in the Magna Charta”|character that emerges from these ages is the vitality, the integrity, nventors their basic rights. | the control. The book is a welcome Mr. Hopkins covers a lot of terri-| relief from current post-war ab-

of the clutches of Professor Moriar-| creak on their hinges, the court-|tory, from attacks on monopolies to| sorption with neurosis.

ity’s goons—only they didn't call room scene in “On Trial” and the proposals for controlling atomic | them goons when that famous play | tough talk in “Broadway” retain energy. His book, with its mixture | was first presented in New York’s(their freshness better than the of history, economics, politics and Garrick theater in 1899. Once I tear-pullers such as “East Lynne”| technology, may strike some read-| william Gillette's revival and at|and “Rip Van Winkle,” which were ers ther time Robert Warwick as!included in “S. R. O.” a hook about | hensive. f

ano Holmes, but the memory insists that | “the most successful plays.” |

= » a EVEN mystery plays reflect the tions are poor, indeed, because they changing fashions.

“Who are you?” .dramas.” A shriek was well placed “I was just about to put that|/by May Vokes in “The Bat” of 1920. | question to you.” “How'd you get in here?” “Through the door.” “You lie!” There's only one key|and by 1926 the gangster plays had here in my pocket.” was a spooky business. “My dear sir,

the lock and my key fits the lock,| turn. But, as the editors say, “it is |

there are evidently two keys to|hard to believe that in a period ok es American literary leaders who |

See?” |when mystery and murder stories a. 8 » ; in book form are selling four or] ACTUALLY the play, “Seven Keys| five times better than they ever did to Baldpate” proves by its title before, there should not be a single| that there were seven, and if you play of this genre on the Broadway | recall that popular story from the| boards.” Hist—don't despair. There | good old days you must also wish may be a new one tomorrow.—H. H.

Backstage Story Study of William Blake o Be Published Soon

4 . T On Russia Coming “William Blake: The Politics of

“Behind the Iron Curtain,” Wil-| vision,” a study of Blake's though

ish of Russia, will be published in Oc-| be publisned | tober by Ziff-Davis. Sept. 9 by Henry Holt & Co.

| The publishers describe Mr. Van| Mr. Schorer, who has been work- | Narvig's book as “a revealing pic-|ing on the coming volume since {ture . . . including who rules Stalin, | 1941 when he was awarded a Gug-

i the operation of Russia's black mar(ket, the unvarnished facts ar | Cenheim fellowship (renewed in

the secret police and the politburo.|1942) to undertake it, has been a Industry, agriculture, labor unions | Blake student for 10 years. He is and the press are also searchingly | associate professor of English at | analyzed.” jCaittornin university, Berkeley, Cal.

Born in Russia, Publishes Book

On Job Training

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where he lived

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lattacks on monopolies for smother-| ing inventiveness will please readers John * Chap-| who see eye to eye with Thurman|

Lauded in Editorial

In 1922 the sliding panels and subjects of an editorial, “Some Tall [clutching claws of “The Cat and| Oaks Fall,” in the September Book [the Canary” chilled the spectators, | Reader, now on the stands.

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as over-ambitiously compre-|

But such matters as the trenchant |

Please send me the following books

Booth Tarkington is one of the (or charge my regular account).

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Commenting on Mr, Tarkington's

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BOOK DEPARTME

The editorial also discusses two |

have died during the year: Theo- |

dore Dreiser and Arthur Train.

'Peace of Mind' Goes To Seventh Printing

” u ” AND while Miss Daly’s advice is almost identical with what parents are apt to give it may | tating qualities | sometimes has. | for Miss Daly to recommend writing thank-you notes after week-end visits, but it's another thing when mother keeps harping on the subject. “Personality Plus” should be a valuable ‘addition to the teenage girl's bookshelf.

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“Educating for Industry,” by Wwil-

hypothesis. |

the high class detective

The atomic bomb

New Book by Graves Is Headed for Debate

“King Jesus,” by Robert Graves, a novel about the life of Christ, will be published next month by Creative Age press. \ Described as Mr. Graves' greatest novel, the book will be “hotly debated,” according to the publishers.

liam F. Patterson, will be published Monday by the industrial division of Prentice-Hall. The first book on the current problem of “on-the-job” and apprentice training, it is subtitled; “Policies and Procedures of a National Apprenticeship System.” Mr. Patterson, who is director of the Apprentice Training service of the U, S. labor department, was

To obtain any book reviewed on this page write or phone LI, 4571.

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Political Anthology Will Be Published

assisted in writing the book by Marion H. Hodges, research director of the- International Brother-

gar 32 Malt drink 33 Label 35 Fail to hit 36 Son of Seth

43 Portuguese coin 45 Girl's. toy 47 Feminine name 48 Paradise

! “Running the Country: An An-|

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tion next month by J. B. Lippincott |

its use.

Scholar, musician and noveiist, | 50 Millionth Book | Dr. Erskine has served as professor| With the publication next month of English at Columbia university of “Past Imperfect,” Ilka Chase's | and for a time as head of the Juil-|auto Hard school of musie in New York, will issue its 150,000,000th book. ; fo ow ! vid

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|general terms its manufacture and

biography, Pocket Books, Inc.

thology of American Politics in Action,” edited by A. N, Christiansen

lished Sept. 12, by Henry Holt & Co- * With 100 or more contributors, the 1000-page book covers many phases of American political life,

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and E. M. Kirkpatrick, will be pub-| Satire on Society : “Through Purple Glass,” Letitia

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hood of Electrical Workers.

Preston Osborne's satire on Boston society published last month by

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