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When still a litle girl, the sisters, Gretchen enjoyed siting on the top of a long flight of stairs ‘and watching the dinner

parties giver by her parents, “Thus “From the Top of the Stairs”

to have been written for the fun of remembering, not to put down. the names of famous musicians and singers, although the house of Walter Damrosch, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and of the New York Symphony society, was never without them,

IT BRINGS close %o us an intimate pictare of Mr. and Mrs. Damrosch at home. fhese two gifted New Yorkers, vitally alive to the best in musical and intellectual circles, had private lives, even though they shared so much of them with the public. In their views they were not always in agreement. Mrs. Finletter recalls, with glee, that they argued often at the dinner table, and “these arguments ranged all the way from William Howard Taft to how low a picture should be hung.”

J “MY MOTHER was the daughter of James G. Blaine, the great Republican leader. She therefore had a corner on political questions and on the whole won in this field. “My father went undisputed .in the realm of music. But there was a great no man's land between these two areas . . . interior decoration, religion, food, education, relatives. «+ +1 was 50 used to disagreement that when 1 began visiting my friends I kept waiting for the scrap to start. “At first the quiet meals seemed wonderful and like a Beautiful set in a play and then I would become homesick.” ’

DINNER at the Damrosch's. There 4s Dr. Damrosch, keeping the com-

aes « « « By Harry Hansen er Gives Intimate,

I Met Conductor

looks back on the not-so-very-long-ago and rean race and be invisible oneself gives one a strange sense h § power. It is especially interesting to study another generation and observe its foibles.”

of Home

STAIRS." By Gretchen Finletter.

R, daughter of Walter Dam-

second of the four Danirosch

marvelous in “The Dollar Princess,” and when Irene and Vernon Castle became the rage of New York and everybody, from 8 to 80, took to dancing. “Nothing could stop them, nothing could hold them down,” writes Mrs. Finletter. “And then, from 8 to 80, the ladies began to bob their hair.”

& 8's i WALTER DAMROSCH has described some of the musical events of his long and remarkable life, and Tschaikowsky's diaries also have mentioned: his visit to New York at thé invitation of Dr. Damrosch, Mrs. Finletter adds some entertaining details. Tschaikowsky had come to conduct at Carnegie Hall and “frequently dined at my parent's home, and my father often described to us his gentle conversation, which was permeated with a kind of sadness.” In the following summer (Mrs. Finletter does not provide dates) Dr. Damrosch went to Cambridge university to attend the presentation of honorary - degrees to five composers: Saint Saens, Boito, Grieg, Brusch and Tschaikowsky. That is an event to remember,” in these times!

» » » “AT THE great banquet in the evening,” writes Mrs. Finlettef, “Tschaikowsky, next to whom my father sat, described a new symphony which he had just finished | and which was different in form from anything he had written before. ““The last movement, said Tschaikowsky, ‘ls an adagio and the whole work has a program. “'Tell me the program, begged my father,

“MA -TREASURY OF STEPHEN FOSTER." Foreword by Deems Taylor. [Ilustrated by William Sharp. Historical notes by John Tasker Howard. Arranged for piano by Ray Lev and Dorothy Berliner Commins. New York, Random House. $3.95.

By HENRY BUTLER Times Books Reporter MORE THAN any other American melodies, Stephen Foster's give a sense of time and change. Those tunes were nostalgic even in our parents’ generation. In preworld ‘war I days, they gained in poignancy as people desperately tried to sing their way out of growing confusion. And today, more than ever before, “all de world am ad and dreary.” The tunes thus illustrate an outstanding American paradox: The

past and hope for the future. In a way, we are a nation of split personalities, with our nobler loyalties turning our, thoughts backward and our ambitious, competitive, often ruthless, drives pushing us orward, % » » LJ STRENGTH and lyric genius have made Foster's songs outlive most other musical products . of 19th-century American sentiment (“Ben Bolt,” “Listen to the Mock= ing Bird”). Foster himself could turn out songs like “Willie My Brave,” on the eye-moistening theme of the shipwrecked lover. But his best output rises above lugubrious subjects, such as consumptive maidens who- die young (the “Juanita” sort of thing). And his musical rightness redeems some of his more sentimental verses. The “Treasury” is a handsome volume, with the illustrations by { William Sharp admirably conceived to re-create the background of the songs. John Tasker Howard's notes on each song relate it fo phases of Foster's career.

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chromatic arrangements,

type. (Courtesy of Eli Lilly & Co.)

MR. HOWARD'S biographical introduction gives due mention to Josiah K. Lilly, who presented his unique collection of Fosteriana, formerly housed in Foster hall on the N. Callege ave. Lilly estate, to the Stephen Foster memorial in Pittsburgh in 1937. A word about the Lev-Commins arrangements. They are authentic in being naively simple and largely diatonic. That's as it should be. Foster's contemporaries might have been bewildered by richly such as

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Simplicity of Piano a. "Marks |Yolume, 'A Treasury of Stephen Foster’

Stephen Collins Foster, sketched by Joseph Muller from an ambro-

Fabien Sevitzky's treatment of the melodies, » » » ANOTHER good feature of these piano arrangements is their facility. Almost anybody whose right hand knoweth what, the left hand doeth can play them. But modern aural appetite, stimulated by the influence of composers like Gershwin and of sophisticated popular-song arrangers, may find the simplicity (suggestive of old, square, slightly-out-of-tune

pianos) unsatisfying.

PREJUDICE. KEY—

Writer Urges Better Society

“AND IF | WERE WHITE: A Reply to the If | Were a Ne-

gro Series." By Chancellor Williams. Washington, Shaw Publishing Co. 50 cents.

THIS EXCELLENT pamphlet hy a government economist and former educator deserves wide circulation.

“‘That, I shall never tell anyone’ replied Tschaikowsky, ‘But I! shall send you the first orchestra score and parts.’

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pany interested, never letting woman get him into a corner to | how she adored musicidns. “He Washed up on a sofa ney and Harding wife Cecil-—"“He stood of mirror looking at “handsome ruddy "soldier-of-for-reflection with an obvious sat‘which we above “Cibo

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Harper Prize Novel Contest

The 1947-48 Harper Prize Novel contest, just announced, will mark the 25th anniversary of the Harper Prize Novel. Judges in the current contest, which will close June 1,-1947, are Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune; Joseph Henry Jackson, literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Glenway Wescott, who won the 1927 Harper prize for his novel, “The Grandmothers.” All manuscripts and all letters about the contest should be addressed to Harper Prize Novel contest, Harper & Bros, 49 E. 33d st., New York, 16 N, Y.

Guild Makes Selection Glenn Blough's “The Monkey With a Notion,” illustrated by John De’ Cuir ‘and published by Henry Holt & Co., is the Junior Literary guild selection for October. It will be released Oct. 3.

CAN'T LIVE HIS OWN LIFE

Flor |\Cartoonist Edits 3d Book

"|“I Meet Such People,” announced

that Tschaikowsky had died of cholera; -but. one week later the score and orchestra parts of the great. symphony No. 6, the Pathetique, arrived from Moscow for my father. Through the years audiences when listening to this profound and moving work have had to ponder for themselves what the program was that Tschaikowsky intended but never revealed.” Rehearsals at home, visits to the Hippodrome in its glory, an amateur performance of Bluebeard, and a picnic—in telling of these matters Gretchen Finletter retains so well the wonder . of , little girls that Louisa May Alcott simulated in her stories, By the way, Mr. Damrosch didn't really like picnics. “He wasn't neutral. He simply had a pessimistic approach to the whole idea.” A regular Téffow, yes

Publication of Two Music Books Planned

Two books on music are announced for publication next Tuesday by Dodd, Mead & Co. “Music for Your Child,” by. William Krevit, is described as a handbook for parents, telling how the study of music can be made | both enjoyable and successful and | especially treating the .problem of | the belligerent or unenthusiastic child in regard to the practice hour.” Mr. Krevit writes from a teacher's experience. “The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians,” originally edited by Oscar Thompson, will appear in its fourth edition, revised by Nicholas Slonimsky. According to the publishers, the entire 2400page volume has been brought up to date,

New Pocket Book Titles Announced

Latest Pocket Books received by The Times Book Page include six popular titles. Now in the 25-cent reprint series are a pocket version of Roget's “Thesaurus,” edited by ©, O. Sylvester Mawson and Katharine Aldrich Whiting; “The Passionate Witch,” by Thorne Smith: “Cluny Brown,” by Margery Sharp; “Silvertip,” by Max Brand: “The Emperor's Snuffbox,” by John Dickson Carr; and “Home Sweet Homicide,”. by Craig Rice.

New Napoleon Novel

To Be Published Oct. 4

A new historical novel about Napoleon, “Tell Your Sons,” by Willa Gibbs, will be published Oct. 4 by Farrar, Straus, According to the publishers, Miss Gibbs has spent 15 years of study in in orge# to find “a fresh psychdlogical approath to the Napoleonic mentality and the Napoleonic morality.”

Gurney Williams, cartoon editor of Colliers, has edited his third collection of cartoons from Collier's,

, Straus & Co.

for Oct. 21 publication by Farrar,

Mr. Williams sifts current. idcas, | some good, some preposterous, on how to improve race-relations. His con clusions are su b stantially in agreement with the important ones reached by 3 Gunnar Myrdal, |] in his voluminous “An American Dilemma.” Students of prejudice frequently state that prejudice is more the fault of the holder than of the object. If a majority group is plagu by any sort of insecurity, it tends to seek & minority group as scapegoat (Nazis and Jews; Califesnians and Mexicans, Japanese, “Oakies” et al.; southern poor whites-and Negroes) ” » »” WHERE Negroes and whites work side by side, without galling inequalities or job insecurity, prejudice tends to vanish. One_ special situation might be added to the general situations Mr. Williams describes, In at least one army hospital I knew, Negroes and whites shared the same wards. (Under army regulations, active-duty troops are segregated.) In the hospital, men were judged by their personality, not by their color; Yet you would sometimes hear in small white groups expressions of preju|dice against Negroes in general, {even though an uneducated south{ern white might be on friendly terms with Negro Jack or Negro Bill.

Mr. Williams

o » » THAT distinction between the

near and ‘far, the concrete and the abstract, is possibly the biggest bar to better relations.

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‘Boston, Little, Brown. $2.50.

AT THIS TIME when all the from the shops,

talgic memories of’ the good old

be entitled Fit for a King, although

title because it was in larger type and the word food was-so big it approximated a shout, s - » THIS WORK, edited by Ramiel McGehee, seems to be a reprinting “especially for those hungry souls who have

_lclamored for it during the four

years Col. Armitage was in the army air forces.” Well, here it is; and not a word about substitutes.in it. The other book, just as inviting, but closer to earth for typographic ‘and gustatory reasons, is Sheila Hibben's American Regional Cookery. Sweet potato rolls, yum! yum; Strawberry Bavarian cream from New Jersey— poundage! Noodles. with scallions a la Staten Island—well, no, not for me, Sheila. I always take my noodles sans scallions, ” n BACK TO the Armitage book. Mr. Armitage runs to yellow. jackets, without a sting. He used them for the George Gershwin book, too. His volumes are always extremely legible and their title pages look like those charts you see at the optician’s. Collaborating with essays are Elsa Armitage, Marie Beynon Ray, Louis Untermeyer, Frank Conroy, Abbe Ernest Dimnet, Crosby Gaige and the late Bob Davis. Therg, are surgical photographs of pepper, artichoke, kale and eggplant that will reappear in your worst dreams. 5 ” n JUST TO whet your appetite needlessly, 1 list a few quotations from the Armitage book: Mr. Armitage on American hotels

“What destruction they have done ito the art of cooking and to public

Mr. williams is ‘correct, I think, taste will never be wholly known.” in attributing most of the trouble Well, they have ruined home-made to the entire society. Our society |pie, for one thing, Mr. Armitage.

is complex, lopsided, functioning badly. Take one thing like the.current Indianapolis housing shortage,

{with its by-products of irritation

and anxiety. Or take the economic condition of the South, in bad shape ever since the victorious Union treated the defeated Confederacy like a conquered province. Everywhere you look, past and present, you see a multitude of maladjustments that breed conflict and misgndersianding. ” IMPROVE the * one society, Mr.

Williams urges. Return to .the principles of Christianity, which, as

he points out, have often been followed better by mon- Christians than by Christians. As everybody but the diplomats realizes, we have passed the stage where we could choose whether we'd act like intelligent people or not. Mr. Williams’ good counsel is on the “either” side, together with all other intelligent, humanitarian proposals for bettering society. “Operation Crossroads” is on the “or” side. Is it later than we ‘think? -—H, B.

Book Club Selection “Thunder Out of China,” by Theodore White’ and Annalee Jacoby, the first book to be published by William Sloane Associates, has been made a November Book-of-the-Month club selection, inally entitled “A Point in Time,” the book will be released Oct, 24.

Again: “In my profession as an impresario, I-have known some rare examples of gastronomic eccentricities among the celebrated. Mary Garden, on tour, lived on little else than Waldorf salad and white meat of chicken. Anna Pavlova was the despair of all dining car stewards. She never "did get to eat, “I have been present when Antonio Scotti and Enrico Caruso displayed their finesse and prowess at both making and eating miles of .spaghetti’ “And I shall not forget the night in a Pullman drawing room when Chaliapin tore apart and relished the major portion of two turkeys and two bottles of champagne following a concert.”

y 8 i, FRANK CONROY remarks:

“The one sensible reducing diet: Eat what you like but eat less. Pre-

prandial cocktail guzzling is, to a Frenchman, as outrageous a practice as getting drunk to make love. He has too much respect for his sensory system to commit so foolish a blunder.” By the Abbe Ernest Dimnet: “The dining room is not a gym. When, formerly, people gave dinners for the purpose. of enjoying their friends’ company,

six at a time.

“Then it was almost impossible |g to escape the combined efforts of = host. arid hostess to create unity of | K Long and mood round their ta-|f*

No Meat These Days, but Here's Good Menu fo Follow

The Merle Armitage Book of Food." Edited by Ramiel McGehee. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce. $5.

"AMERICAN REGIONAL COOKERY."

By Sheila Hibben.

fine cuts of meat have disappeared

itt seems cruel and ironic to put before us two excellent books devoted to the preparation of food and the art of dining. " Perhaps the intention is to provide escape reading, teasing our nos-

days before the Democratic narty

began monkeying with the laws of supply and demand. One 9 the books, {a most attractive volume, seems to

“It was when hostesses out of

I was the first under the impres-|sumptuousness or for the sake of sion that the subtitle, The Merle| | Armitage Book of Food, was the

convenience, began to invite 18 or 20 people that table conversation became a souvenir of the past.” ” ” » SHEILA HIBBEN’S American Regional Cookery is packed with recipes that belong to specific localities. But the ingredients are generally available, Mrs. Hibben detests “patented foods” and thinks “our palates must be awakened to old and.simple pleasures” if our -appetites are to survive. She suspects “the hullabaloo of the new.” I agree with her. The deviled lamb kidneys from San Francisco sound inviting. And calves liver in sour cream (North Dakota) is something I should like to sample. Roast oysters asgthey do them in Savannah, Ga.; fried chicken baked in cream from New Jersey, blueberry pie from Maine, vanilla cookies from Connecticut and graham muffins and apple muf-

(fins from Iowa—I'm right back in

my boyhood. - Here are the dishes common sense dictates. Wonder if those good days of a well-rounded Wholesome meal will come back with the present gang in Washington?

Book Illustration

“Black Dogwood Blossoms , . . Edythe Hope Genee,” a brush-and-ink illustration by Don Bland-

| ing for his new book of verses

| and drawings, “Today Is Here,” quite enough |

to be released next Tuesday by Dodd, Mead & Co.

Book Tells Miracles Of Modern Surgery

“The New Science of Surgery,” Frank G. Slaughter, M. D., uled for publication Monday by Julian Messner, Ine. Dr. Slaughter's book is described by the publishers as a clearly and authoritatively written accoupt of “modern miracles in surgery.”

Short Story. Planned

“Snow on the Mountain,” a volume of short stories by David Cornel DeJong, will be published next Thursday by ‘Reynal & Hitchcock. Three of the 18 stories have been published in O'Brien's “Best Short Stories” and three as “O'Henry Elia Stories.”

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VIRGINIA. SAGA— Factual Story Revives Old

Williamsburg

“THE RANDOLPHS: The Story of a.Virginia Family. By H. J. . Eckenrode. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER MANY HOOSIERS trace relationship to the “most representative family of Virginia” to judge by the lists, of ‘“Randolphs” telephone and city directories. The discovery that someone bears the same name as your own always intrigues the imagination. Indiana Randolphs, then, will ind much to interest them in the Virginians’ genealogy whether there is, a kinship or not. “The Randolphs, The Story of a Virginia Family” by E. J, Ecken-

lover of the early history of our country. It is composed of fact, not fancy. The material was recorded after long and painstaking research into old books and documents. It reflects all phases of life in historic Virginia.

» ” » THOSE who have visited restored Williamsburg and returned to tell glowing stories of its beauty, and those who are. planning trips to view it, will seize upon the chapter Dr. Eckenrode has devoted to it. He brings the old community to life, peopling it with men and women who worked hard at living, who took their pleasures with zest, who sinned, suffered, died and were buried there. The Randolphs are associated with other early settlers whom you admired when you were studying your nation’s history but about whom you have thought but little since. Dr. Eckenrode does not rush ahead with his account of the American Randolphs without giving their setting abroad. First of all, he sketches in their English and Scotch background. ¢ ” » . “THE RANDOLPHS came over from England to Virginia after it became certain that Virginia would be a successful colony, that is, near the middle of the 17th century,” he writes, . “The Randolphs were not adventurous; they were solid, industrious citizens bent on making their way in the new world. They were the type that succeeds.” The founder of the family -in America was William Randolph of Turkey Is. Of him and his progeny the author says: “William of Turkey Is. and William’s descendants generally were strong-bodied and firm-nerved- men and women. They were generally full-fleshed; they ate well; they drank wine and rum but not too much; they hunted, played at cards sometimes, they bet at races. But usually they were businesslike, devote dto the high duty of getting on in the world. » » » “GENERALLY the .Randolphs have been of this type: average human beings with average mentality and somewhat mere than average satisfaction with themselves. Such is the recipe for success; to be average (or not too much above average) mentally and physically and with more than average selfassurance, The self-assurance is natural and proper enough; it was the reward of the Randolphs for being the most representative fam- | ily of Virginia.” They are all here, the Randolphs | —John who was knighted; Peyton, the first president of the continental congress; Edmund, governor of Virginia, attorney general of the United States and Washington's secretary of state; George Wythe, secretary of war under Jefferson And to make their saga more vived; Dr. Eckenrode includes 24 photographs of old oil paintings and portraits.

New Book Streamlines Shakespeare Reading

“Shakespeare Arranged for Modern Reading,” a streamlined version of the Bard's plays, is due to appear {next Thursday under the Doubleday (imprint. | Edited by Van H. Cartnel] and | Frank W. Cady, with Rockwell Kent [illustrations, the new book sum|marizes the plays and poems, leavling intact the celebrated lines. Obscure and obsolete passages are omitted.

Novel Shows " ia

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Romance Is Different" “Russian Romance Is Different,” {by Nellie M. Seeds, is announced |for Oct. 18 release by Island Press | Co-operative, Inc. The novel-is-described asa non- | political story about an American girl's experiences in Soviet Russia.

Plan Cheaper Pyle Book Ernie Pyle’s “Brave Men,” famed best seller and Book-of-the-Month club selection, will be published this month in a $1.39 edition by Grosset & Dunlap. The book as originally published sold at $3.

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IT'S FIRST RATE— Book Groups

Doctor Yarns

"A TREASURY OF DOCTOR STORIES: By the World's Great

Authors." Edited by Noah D. Fabricant, M. D., and Heinz Werner.” New York, Fell. $3.

RIGHT OFF the bat, there are two things to say about this diverting anthology—one favorable, one not so favorable, . Favorable comment: an anthology with a “leitmotif” has a great advantage over just any old anthology. With a common theme; the stories stick in your mind better. Slightly unfavorable comment: Too much reading of doctor stories, like too much reading of “The BMome Physician” or even “The Home Veterinarian,” can start up those nagging, ulcerative symptoms in your gastro-intestinal tract. Some of these stories can give you the kind of peristaltic palpitations you get when you have to make an after-dinner speech (that dinner never has any flavor) or nerve yourself to ask the boss for a raise.

Ld tJ kJ BUT THIS “Treasury” has enough variety to offset any slight disadvantage. Opening with Stephen Vincent Benet’s “Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates,” .the collection continues with‘ Ben Ames Williams’ remarkable study, “The Nurse.” Mr. Williams explores the mind of a child-nurse who loves, intensely and jealously, each new infant she's hired to attend. There's a curious psychological parallel between the story and the recent Kansas City kidnaping. A hospital nurse is the subject of Ring W. Lardner's “Zone of Quiet.” Inexhaustibly long-winded, the nurse starts immediately violating the surgeon's order of quiet for his convalescent patient. In Lardner's marvelous transcription of semi-literate grammar and syntax, the monolog about girl-friends and boy-friends is something the patient luckily survives. 2 » » PEARL 8S. BUCK’S “The Ertemy,” a remarkable story of a Japanese surgeon’ who saves the life of a wounded American sailor washed up on the coast of Japan, Somerset Maugham’s “Lord Mountdrago,” with overtones of psychiatry and telepathy—these are two more of the 35 excellent offerings. With such authors as Conrad {Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, Irvin S. Cobb (“Speaking of Operations”) {and Ernest Hemingway, the “Treasjury” gives a survey of first-rate fiction on medical subjects—H. B.

Book Placed On Reserve List

“Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” by Eric Hodgins, has been made a Book - of - the - Month club reserve selection. Originally scheduled for Sept. 30 publication by Simon & Schuster, the book has been postponed. The publishers describe the book as “the story of everything that -happened between the time Mr. and Mrs, Blandings started to buy an old farm house and its acreage for $11,000 and when they shelled out what they hoped was the last of the $56,263 their dream home eventually cost.” Illustrations are by William Steig.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1946

ABRUPT ENDING— Jane Mortis" First Novel

Is Distinctive

"WOMEN, INC." A novel. By: Jane Kesner Morris. New York, Holt. $2.50.

By DONNA MIKELS IN “WOMEN, INC. Jane Kes~ ner Morris has painted a composite picture of .the women who make up a magazine staff. As a novel “Women, Inc.” ends a little too abruptly, leaving the feeling that there should be a few more pages. As a portrait of the interwoven lives of women whose bases of operations are typewriters, rather than kitchen stoves, it's more a complete unit. ; “Women, Ine.” is net the run-of-the-mill career girl novel. It takes one small segment of the business world of women, and dissects its inhabitants, character by character. The first few chapters are occupied solely with characterizations,

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jwith only a hint of a plot.

EVEN AFTER “the novel moves into, a neither too weak nor too strong plot, the people of the book continue to travel in their own separate orbits, In most books the characters either motivate the plot or are deeply embroiled in it. In this novel the action moves around principal characters as unsuspect-

ing as the traditional “innocent bystander.” Our only difference with the

author is her habit of imaginine people into the action of the Pg ent in such a manner that Mf reader must backtrack to see if Peggy is really at the musicale, or if Minnie is or is imagined to be at the staff conference.

” ” DESPITE this, “Women, Inc.” is! a good first novel. It achieves a. distinction in that it treats women | in the business world as just that, | rather than trying to cast them as | frustrated females or predatory! manhunters.

COSMIC COMEDY—

‘Mr. Adam’ Is Very Popular

"MR. ADAM." A novel. By Pat Frank. Philadelphia, Lippincoft. $2.50.

By C. JAMES SMITH IMAGINE, for a moment, that the end of the world is imminent. Not a sudden end—just a slow dying out of humanity. That, in brief, is the story of “Mr. Adam,” a satirical novel by] Newsman Pat Frank. A young reporter, looking fof” na trouble, stumbles on the fact that after .a certain date, no res tions have been made in any 1 ternity hospitals in the country. ; only is this country, but all over the world. An accidental atomic explosion which wiped out an entire state, responsible. The rays released by the blast have sterilized all men.

” Ld ” THE EXTINCTION of mankind! seems certain, Then Homer Adam turns up. Working deep in Colorado lead mine at the time o the explosion, he has been insulated against the rays. The government plans to make him ‘public property No. 1, while the military want to make him top secret. With a laugh in every line, and with: seriousness underlying the humorous extravaganza, Mr. Frank holds a mirror up to the great American public. - He pokes fun at § elected representatives, diplomats, § military brass, and many popular institutions. He has written a cosmic comedy set in print to the tune of fast reading.

More Club Picks Book By Notre Dame Priest

“Truths Men Live By,” a new book by the Rev. Dr. John A. O'Brien, professor of the philoso of religion at Notre Dame univ sity, is the first selection of the Thomas More Book club. i Published by Macmillan, Fr. O'Brien's book is now going into a 4 second edition.

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