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WMODERN WOMAN: THE LOST wed © and Dr. Marynia F. Farnham.

ony RO 4 ; Norman , Cousins decided modern man wes obsolete. He was obsolete jong’ before that. Modern

: hospital and former state director of the child health field unit. Between them they have concocted “Modern Woman: The Lost Sex.” This is quite a package. Authors tundberg & Farnham approach the problem via psychoanalysis and

, but their conclusions yt uive os the Tait of

: as housewives. are functionally little more than wastrels, in metropoli-

tan areas seething into afternoon

expensive torically unprecedented numbers...

' Many of these are neurotic as well

as parasitic and men often find them Soucally unrewarding as

egular Weekly Feature of The Times): pe kl

Government

gen y to Protect the Home om Woman—'The Lost Sex’

SEX." By Ferdinand Lihdberg|

New York, Harper, $3.50.

novel, ‘Andromeda. (Holt, $2.75). Takes its name from a freighter that leaves Singapore after ‘the Japs have sunk the Repulse and the Prince of Wales and invaded Luzon. Headed for Australia, with two passengers besides the crew

Bane and a New Jersey girl named Nancy Paget. Nancy affects the feelings of several men,’ including John Flemming, the young chief mate, and Mr. Bane, the puzzling explorer.

this - trip. . Chiefly it's John Flem-

1 [Aside from some of her

rapidly.

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“THE RELIGION of a Vagabond,” by Thomas Dreier. Brief bits of ad-

opens his book with a quotation from himself beginning: “As writer I have only one desire—to fill you with fire, to pour into you the distilled essence of the sun itself.” Must -be atomic writing. (Harper, $2.) “Under a Willow Tree,” by Arthur R. -Macdougall Jr. Stories in the Maine vernacular about fishing for

with Dud Dean the chief talker. Pictures by Milton C. Weiler. (Coward-McCann, $3.)

'Rammed-Earth House" “RAMMED-EARTH HOUSE,” by Anthony PF. Merrill. Intro. by Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture. “What rammed-earth

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the workings .of black (Little, Brown, $3.)

REMINISCENCES — Bowers Pens

— an explorer named Alexander

Naturally |

. It isn't Nency who is in danger,

ming: Except for Bane this ship carries some pretty decent chaps. I don't want to spoil the story, but | {I've rarely seen a young woman So | eager for experience as Nancy. stagy dialogue, the story moves along!

vice about doing good and being wp) CIMER STREET." generous and kind. The , author | By Norman Collins. New York,

trout, hunting deer and black fox, |

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“U.S. Camera, 1947 Full of Shockers ONE ‘of the first double-spreads you meet in‘ that section of the Tom Maloney-Edward Steichen opus, U. 8. Camera, 1047, devoted to the finest photographs, is Mar« garet Bourke-White's shot of the results of the August riots in Cale cutta. A number of human hodies are lying in a street and vultures the size of turkeys are-feasting on them, while other vultures ait ex-

pectantly on the roofs. , this would come under

‘news pictures, which take up over

Co Like Meeting Old Friends

A ‘novel.

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{London life in mean streets. por-|

{traying shabby characters with a i { humor. The ‘bulky Victorian novel has |since ‘become as typically British las Yorkshire pudding, and drudg-

‘sh | - | {both ‘ends meet have become fa gance

| “PAVEMENT, ST: PAUL'S, LONDON"-—An etching by Joseph Pennell (American, | 1860-1926), presented to Herron Art museum in 1926 by the late Carl H. Lieber.

llins' Novel {Second in 'Dunkerley’ Trilogy

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“DUNKERLEY'S." $2.50.

; By HENRY BUTLER THE PECULIAR fascination of English novels is hard

A novel. By Howard Spring. New York, Harper,

to describe.

John Woodburn, reviewing Phyllis Bentley's “The Rise of Henry ' Morcar” (Macmillan) in the Saturday Review of Literature for Dec | DICKENS started something when ' 21 deals with the problem more ably than most of us can. Mr. Woodburn's distinction between novelists who get the atmos-

phere, the feel, of England into th

set Maugham, who often seem. to = have roots no deeper than the itouch of compassion and good shallow soil of international draw-!with Isambard Phyfe, Sir Daniels

ing-room society, is valuable. But any analysis of .the appeal

of British fiction must leave much | typical trigi-comic self-made Cock-| unexplained. Our American cul- ney you so often encounter in Eng-

eir pages and those, like W. Somer- = .

ELSIE ultimately finds happiness

inumber one yves-man. Christened {plain Sam Fife, Isambard is the

: tural heritage is full of attitudes, lish novels, Regardless of (alent ing clerks, yearning landladies and not just of sympathy, but of rev- {and painstakingly acquired learnboarders trying desperately to make | erence. British novels often have a/ing; he can never entirely defeat

erry-and-biscuits kind of elewhich makes our bourbon-

imiliar elements of the novelist's | and-soda plainness seem crude.

repertory. Today's trip to Old Lunnon is

Collins. { ss = =» located in a rundown part of southeast London,

saying it is on the wrong side o

{were chosen to avoid suits for

Three Books

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.|needs is public confidence” Tells called “Dulcimer Street,” by Norman | how to build houses out of soil.

| | {

| Preceded by “Hard Pacts,” Which tl, that there are too many characTheir names might have been|y nave not read, “Dunkerley’s” ISiters for the size of the book. (246 invented by Dickens; but probably |, ced as the second volume in pages). You get a sense, as from

i 1a trilogy concerned with the libel. They include Josser, Verriter, | * n “-e Battlebury, Percy Boon, Mrs. Viz- sir Daniel Dunkerley's publishing | that personalities are dealt with zard, Mr. Squales, Mr. Purdy, Rev. empire, Headlam Fynnes, Veesey Blaize and |

Mr. Barks of Barks, Barks, Wedder-

” » I WISH I could say I got a Jot more out of Howard Spring's “Dunkerley’s” than reminders of other novels about Britons. Mr. Spring's “Fame Is the Spur” and “My Son, My Son,” both seem in

¢ | retrospect to have had a good deal

the tracks. Reading the -story is more substance. _|like meeting old friends.

rise of

Starting in 1885 with

“Hard Facts,” a Manchester penny journal, Sir Daniel has branched

ithe curse of his background. { Alec is about to start a new life {with Hesba Lewison, novelist and 'successful contributor to !‘Dunker'ley’s,” when his father, Fred, still a ino-good drunk, comes back into the Ipicture about 1896 and threatens | blackmail. What happens to Fred and Alec both, in a cinematically ‘lurid episode, concludes the present | volume, elt i : . = = { IT IS HARD to assess “Dunkerley's.” I think one major difficulty

' Jules Romains’ “Men of Good Will,” {only in passing. You also get a kind of soapiopera sense that these sketchy epi{sodes ‘might continue indefinitely,

, editors thought more of it as art.

‘Wonder whether the house of

Harper will give a literary tea for Authors Lundberg and Farnham?

2 ” » {IT SEEMS to me the authors have focused on woman as the key to “the malady of our times,” just as another author might decide that capitalism, or drinking too much ice water is responsible for our cockeyed world. They see woman shirking the duties of a mother and

cultivating “the masculine compo- |

nents of woman's nature.” They beHeve the modern home is filled with bickering as a result of woman's rush into the marts of trade. However, the ancient home does not seem to have been full of bliss either. Didn't Socrates have to put up with Xanthippe, who was not a career woman? The remedy? Support for the home. “The home is in such poor condition that it merits a special government department devoted only to its affairs and to the afthe sadly battered women

fairs children in it.” 8 . t, dear authors, the govern- |

ment can’t even balance its budget. | : What sort of example could it set |MT- Bowers said,

for housewives? #8 = = Sea Story Entertains

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burn & Barks, which, you may ut His “Dunkerley's,” a more-or- with just enough said -about each readily guess, is a Bm of lawyers. |jess “quality” monthly magazine, ! character or combination of charei : lis edited by Alec Dillworth. : : : HERE IS. THE faithful, unimagi-| ,jec and his sister, Elsie, are |e RR a font 19 Sugtadh Sues a native employee, who has put in 42| among the central characters in the decided “tune in next week” feeling years with one firm without ever, cent novel. Children of a dread- gpont the conclusion shaking the hand of his employer, f,) grink-besotted pair in the Man-| 1 can't decide on the consistency has finished two more books and is!and who, upon retiring, gets a mar-| chester slums, they both have some- | o ay Spring's A ne A working on a third, he revealed | Ple clock from the staff and a. check thing of genius—Alec for literature, |p rq for example, who seems at/|

|for 25 from Mr. Battlebury. | gs; i | today. His best-remembered. book | 0 2: pounds ee Rave IY [Elsie for Tue. ile first to be a bounder, then turns | His “The Tragic Era,” up & mest-egg for a cottage, but| IN A FIGHT with some man (is 0° sumeine like Py Sin Bui The Ft. Wayne resident and well- | before they can use it Mrs. Boon's it social-climbing Theo Chrystal? | frous nis od io De known figure at Democratic con-|thieving son, Percy, is up for mur- The read is never sure) over Eisie’s SPC Tenrosis seem a ventions in the 1920s said one of (der, and Josser nobly pays the honor, Alec accidentally stabs Elsie og the completed books is a vol- lawyers. lin the right hand. That's the tragic| WHAT SORT of ume of personal reminiscences cov-| Here, too, is that old standby, the ‘end of Elsie's promising career asic the Rev. A oo actualy. ering politics, journalism, and lit- middle-aged landlady who expectsia violinist. : ing himself to become & bishop? erature. President Roosevelt, whom | to marry again—in. this case Mrs.| Parenthetically, it's a little diffi- | Maybe the third volume of the (Mr. Bowers knew even before he Vizard, whose name is an inspira- cult to understand the passage de- series will make all these matters | was governor of New York, plays a tion. After she has Mr, Squales scribing Elsie at a concert listen-| jeqr large part in the book. | practically signed up he slips out ing to a violin concerto: “The grave | Meanwhile, “Dunkerley’s” There. is, however, “no thought{and marries another widow and discourse of the instruments flowed to me notably chiefly for the Sremn of publishing this now,” Mr. Bowers thus becomes the character who, through her, and, as limbless men (pleasant nostalgia British novels said. {in every other novel since Pickwick, on a battlefield are said to feel use provoke with their geographical, The second completed work is one | faces the inevitable suit for breach jin the leg that has been severed, ‘cultural and even culinary referof “Spanish memoirs” based on Mr. of promise. {so Elsie found her fingers, stiff and lences (in spite of the lamentable | Bowers’ - diary as ambassador to! When George Orwell can say that impotent, contributing to the music facts about British cooking). | Spain. this is one of the few novels of last that engulfed her.” - | There are descriptive passages | “The memoirs cover every phase year worth reading, we may assume| Presumably it would be the fingers containing Mr, Spring's customary |of my six years as ambassador,” that the drought of 1946 was felt in of the left hand that would react sensitive and poetic writing. But “including, of England, too.—H. H. to violin-playing. las a novel, “Dunkerley’s” is episodic

By FREDERICK OECHSNER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 18.—U. S. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, historian and former newspaperman,

|course, the three years and a half | {and discrete. blose the war there and the is: | N : # } . ——————————————— nificance of the maneuvering.” B k R M / i y ihn en ew DOO evises areriqa Publishers’ Weekly lished, since in a sense it is-the| ‘Marks 75th Year

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It has great merit as such, but above that it must make us think about" the misfortunes of the human race. We are now able to see actual scenes of demoralization and degradation, the result of our inability to live together in peace and to feed everyone everywhere. . . » : LOTS OF pictures of events in 1946 make me feel pretty low in spirit. Yet these things happened. Here we see the haggard Nazis at the Nuernburg trial; Mussolini and his mistress in their coffins; bodies floating on a roof beside the burned Hotel LaSalle.. Here is the half. witted stare of young Heirens. But some of the lesser events are almost as shocking. ' -The spectacle of a baby being born in a St. Louis hospitil adds nothing to knowledge or art; it is simply another symptom of the exhibitionism of our times. - ” - THE EDITORS would like to have their pictures carry a message,

them.

This book has about as little joy and hope in it as any I have ever seen. There are some encouraging portents; but they are few. For one snow scene, there are many broken and maimed bodies. (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5.75.)

= . * POET'S CAMERA is a book for reflection. In it a poem, or part of one, is placed opposite a full page photograph. The picture may show a tree, a flower, a statue, a vista or the surface of the moon. The editors, Bryan Holme for photographs and Thomas Forman for poetry, hope the combination of idea and picture will create reflection. : While the general effect of the book is to stimulate lofty thoughts, the result must be subjective. A handsome book, but some of the photographs seem less appropriate than others. (American Studio Books, $5).

» . . BAALBEK, PALMYRA, is one of those books of splendid photographs by - Hoyningen-Huene, for which David M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins has written a historical account. The monumental ruins of these two great Syrian cities invite the camera as well as the archaeologist’s spade. Both were conquered by Rome and have extensive Roman temples. Palmyra grew rich on the caravan trade and Zenobia was its last great independent ruler. Marble ruins photographed

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Lippincott, $2.50.

. THE DESIRE to extirpate evil No one can con

to redress wrongs immediately—not ‘spread inequalities and injustices It I were dictator, the reverie runs, I could act right now to solve problems in international politics, housing, inflation, poverty and a host of other diMiculties arising from shortsightedness, laziness, habit and stupidity. “ » »

ON THE one hand are human beings, often no more effectual than primates in the monkey-house. On the other hand are machines of mathematically predictable efficiency. With resources and techniques

“|capable of solving most practical

problems, people foolishly muddle along. : Should they not be compelled to behave intelligently? That is the theme of Rex Warner's new novel, “The Aerodrome,” a far-reaching satire that sometimes suggests Swift's account of the Houyhnhnms, a & =» ON THE outskirts of an all-too-human English village, full of snobbery, servility, hypocrisy, drunkenness, sexual intrigue and a host of other traditional evils, is the aerodrome. 5 The aerodrome is efficiency triumphant. Under the austere rule

ously-trained, = perfectly-disciplined organization has developed. Aviation is only part of the air force program, for the air vice marshal bas specialists in every department of political and economic life ready to take over the entire country when the time is ripe.

» » ® :

society for its inefficiency, its waste, its stupidity. ‘These are merely symptoms. It is against the souls of the people themselves that we are fighting. It is each and every one of their ideas that we must detest. The race which we, of all people, are now required to protect is a race of mbney-makers and sentimentalists, undisciplined except by forces which they do not understand, insensitive to al] except the lowest, the most ordinary, the most mechanical stimuli. Protect it! We shall destroy what we cannot change.” » - * FOR REASONS -of his own, linked with the obscure parentage of Roy, the novel's protagonist, the air vice marshal seeks to destroy

-itime with its accretion of uncritical

loyalties and emotional ties. Men must be-forced to be free, said Rousseau in a famous paradox, which finds an echo in Carlyle’s statement that among the Rights of Man, the right to submit, willingly or unwillingly, to government by the wise and strong is paramount. Mr. Warner's air force is akin to the Nazis, minus, of course, the peculiarly German nonsense. More than that, however, the air force symbolizes any power-hungry revolutionary movement, right or left wing, that will not tolerate human delays. Arbitrary power, however intelligent the planning behind It, ultimately must deny or destroy human values. - » . » THE SUBTITLE of “The Aerodrome” is “A Leve Story.” For it

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Theme of Warner's Novel |THE AERODROME" A novel.

By Rex Warner. Philadelphia,

can become a passion. ‘

template : current society without a nerve-racking impulse to do something about lies, greed, evasion of responsibilities, Hence the dream everyone has toyed with, the dream of having power

just personal grievances, but wide that affront “human intelligence,

Warner's writing, and despite the succession of perSonal episodes and vividly-described events, the book has a curiously generalized quality appropriate ‘to the theme. It is absorbing and instructive. And I think it merits the enthusiastie critical acclaim it is getting. —H. B,

PHILOSOPHY» Truth—And What Is 1+?

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