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THE_FIRST READER... By

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Great Britain's

VOF TRUE EXPERIENCE." By Sir : _ Mead, $3.50.

New York, Random House, $3.

+. SIR GERALD CAMPBE situation, in his new book, “Of “We are down, and some

{| not remain down and out once we regain our resilience. ...”

: in Greece so glaringly revealed how { |... tha big burden of keeping the Medi- | terranean in the western orbit was | being shifted from Britain to the United States.

our mutual interests, of Britain's dependence, and of American distrust. As British minister and special assistant to the British ambassador

during wartime, he traveled all over the United States and Canada. He has heard the criticism divected toward Britain; the suspicion “that we did not pull our weight

resentment because Britain, through Sir Neville Chamberlain, had to appease Hitler at Munich because ft was militarily weak; the knowl-

kinship with Britain, despite the

- stitutions, » s »

“MARRIAGE is not for us,” he agrees, but “something akin to a

for by the needs of two natural allies, who wish to preserve the practical democracy that has served them so well. We have just had a close shave, says Sir Gerald; we are not as many

the rule of law. : “We want leaders now to prevent democracy from degenerating into

There was a leader, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Is there only one Eisenhower in the wide world?” s » F J SIR GERALD’S manner is sane, eon appreciative without

being patronizing.

' He has been closely associated with ‘Americans since 1920 when he became consul general at Phila-

delphia. * Later he served in San Francisco

(A Regular Weekly Feature of The Times) = +»

| - Sir Gerald Campbell is aware of |

edge that the midwest does not feel

English origin of many of our in-|

business partnership” seems called

as several other races; we believe |

the wrong kind of fifth freedom. |.

Harry Hansen

English Peer Sizes Up

Situation as

Down, but Not Out'

Gerald Campbell. New York, Dodd

“BANNER BY THE WAYSIDE." A novel. By Samuel Hopkins Adams.

LL, sizing up Great Britain's True Experience,” says-calmly: think that we are out, ‘If we

* were underdogs, we should have vast numbers "to champion us, but we are like dogs which have had their day. ... But 1 am as firmly convinced as I am of anything, that we shall |

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{bany and other towns in the 1830s]

He wrote this before the situation with such plays.as “The Gambler's

Fate,” “Husband at Sight,” “Te | Misprized Wife,” and similar thrill-| | He has also found descriptions of {canal boats that carried all sorts of | merchandise, including the new| {novels of the hour. THESE and other historic mat{ters are- worked into his story, {which deals with the adventure of ia’ foundling, Endurance Andrews,

in .the fleld of public information| called Durie for short, who be- "AMERICAN PLANN

'tard, of Harvard's class of 1831, {who is sweet on the girl and pursues | {her through more than 400 pages. | | Mr, Adams’ dialog is explosive

comes an actress, and Jans Quin-| | |

{ple often seem more like a carica-| tures of the Americans of a century ago than actual citizens. But making allowance for the mannered writing, you can get good {entertainment out of the tale and! even evoke an understanding of! what life was like when Livington and Fulton’s Clermont still .made| {regular trips up the Hudson from |New York to Albany.

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ILLUSTRATOR — touis Le- | Vier Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. |gound is the fact that those of us econom:

| st, who has been appointed

staff artist at the: Whitike-

‘and the Thalia Dramatic Co., which | |regaled the people of Rochester, Al- |

| Louis LeVier, 413 N. Delaware |

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INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE — "Tracks in Winter," by Francis Speight, from the

Encyclopedia Britannica collection of. contemporary American paintings. Will planning.

change the familiar aspect of America?

3 New

land Rodgers. New York, Harper,

ly Published Volumes Point Up : Old Dilemma: Planning vs. Greed

ING: PAST—PRESENT—FUTURE." By Cleve.

$3. ¢

But his suggestion that our sky- |

scrapers should be bigger and!

=! similar

{be a Jew. ‘ | complex of subtly hostile attitudes,

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|PROBLEM—

Book Attacks [Race Prejudice

‘Gentleman's -Agreement"’ Raps Anti-Semitism

"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT." A novel. By Laura Z. Hobson. New York, Simen- & Schuster, $2.75.

a ~“NOBODY ever says, ‘The Americans killed Lincoln,” a‘ character in “Gentleman's Agreement” observes, \ With such fundamental and searching com - ments in her dialog, Laura Z. Hobson attacks the problem of prejudice — specifically, of. antisemitism, Like nearly all proble “Gentlé-

Mrs. Hobson man's Agreement®-is more successful as counter-propaganda than as

novels,

It reads well. It's But it

a work of art. trenchant and convincing.

Goffin,

American Musi merican musi "MUSIC COMES TO AMER. ICA." By David Ewen. New York, An Ton & Heath, $3.50. :

“HORN OF PLENTY! THE STORY OF LOUIS ARM. STRONG." By Robert Goffin. Translated from the French by James F. Bezou. New Yark, Allen, Towne & Heath, $3.

TWO ASPECTS of American mu|sical history are set forth in new books “by David Ewen and Robert

Mr. Ewen's “Music Comes to America” is a clear and readable survey of professional music iff this country from the 18th century on. Mr. Goffin’s accolint .of ‘Louis Armstrong, besides being a picturesque biography of the great trumpeter; traces the origin and development of jazz style, which has been enormously influential.

” ” nn IN MUSICAL appreciation, Amer{ica is not many years beyond ‘ts one-time ignorance of and hostility toward serious music.

_ SATURDAY, MA!

Two New Books Portray =

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FEDERAL AID? — David Ewen, who advocates government aid to music in his new book, "Music Comes to America.

{like Theodore Thomas and Leopold Damrosch and their followers to change the musical picture. Progress | was aided by-“private subsidy, since first-rate music, orchestral or, operatic, tended to cost more than # earned. Mr. Ewen sketches the history of

tends to be. I think, a trifie lopsided | Miracle, as Mr. Ewen points out, is the great American orchestras, the

in its attempt to isolate the problem

of prejudice from the social background that breeds prejudice. ,

8-88 . THE STORY “i§ simple: Philip Schuyler Green, who has written many feature articles as Phil Green, is invited by a big-time magazine

“to write a series on anti-semitism.

To .get some sort of orientation, some new angle, Phil pretends to He then runs into a

even in the woman he loves. until] Kathy. re-arranges her

"LAND OF PLENTY: A SUMMARY OF POSSIBILITIES." By Walter It isn’t so long ago that two New conclusion possible.

Dorwin Teague. New York, Harcourt, Brace, $3. in the latter part of the war”; the rather than flexible, and his peo- "WHEN THE CATHEDRALS WERE WHITE: A JOURNEY TO

COUNTRY OF TIMID PEOPLE.”

the French by Francis E. Hyslop Jr. New York, Reynal & H

cock, $3. By HENRY

BOOKS ON PLANNING have a certain melancholy irony.

By Le Corbusier. Translated

BUTLER

They tell us what we could do, what we should do, to make natural

resources serve humanity instead of

vice versa. t

But, they leave in the mind the sad reflection that men are their own worst enemies where rational programs are concerned. Resistance to change, obstinate clinging to habit, smug satisfaction in branding,

planners as “visionary”—all these things, plus the insatiable greed of special interests, block progress.

Walter Dorwin Teague provides a P |good example of our dilemma in his it can be “Land of Plenty” chapter on hous- that street- : “We can provide millions of as we get income from those sium | the air. ' | tenements” is the composite atti-| {tude of owners, i | were discarded by later generations desperately need for our education

ing. houses” is his chapter heading. ” = = SIDE by side with Mr. Teague's| glowing picture of mass-produced homes selling at around $2000 is

_|all-too-familiar description of the pasiness sense.” lobstacles now delaying that pos- draws diminishing returns, as when iss Riri po des union the éntire community has to bear | a jreaitors, bu: g es—a whole the expense of slum-bred crime and | Rodgers fits planning into our total! 1 1 army of forces hostile to pre-fabri- disease. The value of books on cultural scheme gives vdluable per-' Dreiser. Short Stories {cation stand between us and a ra- planning, and there can't be too spective. Ea axle of the housing many of them, is in showing peo-| without studying the entire society. “The

sibility. Building

still waiting for homes are get-| ting no younger. ! Mr. Teague’s admirably informa- |

and New York, experiencing the | worst years of the depression here. |

Samuel Hopkins Adams has lived te for years on a farm near Auburn, E44 N. Y., with the original Erie canal a only a short distance away. g The legends. of the countryside, as i well as the documents stored in the : | state historical collections at Albany, have bewitched him as they do Walter Edmonds. :

and

last

Guernsey which’ specializes in magazine

awards

studis, Chicago,

book illustration. Graduate

of Herron Art school, Mr. LaVier was one of three winners

June . of Mary Milliken

for “travel and study

given by the school.

| able now are all too prone to regard | : lanning’as a ‘good thing, provided riers, mineral deposits, fertile soil— post-war legacy of world-wide repostponed. “Let's fight the role. of all these becomes !sponsibility. Prejudice is only part widening project as long clearer when you see America from of the picture. It's a symptom. i

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HISTORICALLY,

=” planning has

Greed, however,

Representing the European school |

which has greatly influenced and!

in peculiarly horrible accidents. |

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THE GENERAL reader may find

the most lucid and stimulating of | the three books. Using the airman’'s-eye view, Mr. Rodgers shows how American economic and civic development followed patterns predetermined by geography and

planning. People who are comfort- | Natural resources.

Navigable rivers, mountain bar- |

Mr. Rodgers’ thesis that the Founding Fathers’ careful plans, in

our 19th-century period of

careful examination. - » = i AND THE manner in which Mr |

You can't study planning

ing people, a point Mr. Teague also

‘of modern design and architecture, makes.

All three books belong on or

[tive book, Cleveland Rodgers: study been influenced by men like our lege reading lists, I should say. All: lof “American Planning” and Le own Frank Lioyd Wright, Mr. Le three should be read. to bring the |

Corbusier's somewhat more fanciful Corbusier has plenty of unconven- matter home, by Indianapolis citi-

“When the Cathedrals Were White” tional ideas.

all three leave the reader reflecting

Like other Europeans, he is fas-

sourly on American thinking about! cinated by American skyscrapers.

Shirley Graham, Prize Book

few years ago he discovered ing evidence in Albany of a 4 foetus, whi¢h ‘had been an te scanda] over 100 years ago.

Were reported United States. n

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SHIRLEY GRAHAM, Indiana- | the forthcoming biography of Frederick Douglass, !

“There Was Once a Slave,” will

Julian Messner $6500 award for the

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| best book combating intolerance in America, will speak tomorrow on! *The Living Words of: Frederick Douglass.”

» = 2 SHE WILL be guest of honor also | a luncheon meeting Monday: tnoon at Phyllis Wheatley branch lot the Y. W. C. A. as Miss Graham's new book, latest! {of three biographies of great Ne- | |groes, is a Book Find club selec-| tion and is . PUBNCALOn +by Messner, Her other { writings include “Dr. George Wash[ington Carver; Scientist” and “Paul | | Robeson; Citizen of the World,” bi-

| ographies for young people. ” "8 ; | BORN in Evansville, Miss .Graham graduated and received an M. A. degree from Oberlin college. | {She has studied at the Sorbonne /in Paris and the Yale university

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a Julius Rosenwald Foundation fellowsHip for creative writing. Her father, the late Rev. D. A. Gréham, was formerly pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church in Indian‘apolis’ Her mother now resides in 4! Richmond.

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' * Romance of Stamps’ | : “The Romance of Stamp Collect- born author of “He used the idea in “Canal Town.” in&™ by Ernest Kehr, stamp news ‘Within six months two similar cases editor of the New York Herald in contemporary Iribune, is announced for fall publication by Crowell. With photo- address a meeting at 3:30 p: m. tographic illustrations, the book is de- morrow in Senate ave. Y. M. C. A. MR. ADAMS has continued his scribed as “a complete story about Miss Graham, winner of the delving in the old records and come| postage stamps,

AWARD WINNER—Shirley Graham, of "There Was Once a Slave" and winner of ‘the Julian Messner $6500 award for the best book ‘comba

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Handbook Lists Literary Awards

"LITERARY PRIZES AND THEIR "WINNERS." Edited by Anne ' Richter. New York, Bowker, 3.1 ’

ONE GOOD FEATURE of “Literary Prizes and Their Winners” is a six-page list of contests open to American writers,

With fiction awards often in the thousands of dollars, and with a few more munificent Hollywood prizes for sure-fire novel successes, the list should prove interesting to young authors. The admirably printed handbook lists, in addition to Nobel prizes and their winners, Américan, British empire, European (including~8candinavian and U. 8. 8. R.) and Latin American awards; In a year-by-year record of prizes and their winners, the mahual pre-

r|sents-a valuable tabloid history of

recent world literature.

zens concerned about the present | and the possible future aspect of this city.

Priest's Life Told in Novel

| "PERE ANTOINE." A novel. By Edward F. Murphy. New York Doubleday, $2.50. » = s “PERE ANTOINE,” by Edward F Murphy, tells the story of how a priest in 18th-century New Orleans

learned to inspire the love of his .

| parish. . When he first came from Spain he was a martinet, browbeating others and even threatening them with the inquisition. * In ‘time he changed and toward the end he is the saintly, beloved leader and others are misunderstanding his gentleness. The author, himself a priest! teaches in a- Jesuit college for Negroes in New Orleans. ; | “Non-Catholics will be interested {in - the tolerant attitudé of Pere Antoine to the Protestant Bible; wher called ta- task hy. bis superior (tor--gdawing the -tosk to be dis- | tributed, he says: “All I could think | of was what a blessing it would be| to have the good book in so many homes. So many of my people are! too poor to afford a Bible. And] anyway, even though the Calvin {version is different from the Cath'olic, it contains many wonderful| things, believed by Protestants and Catholics alike. , . . If men really lived up to the things they believe | in common, there wouldn't be much | chance for the things that divide them.”—H. H.

| | |

Wins Science Prize NEW YORK, March 15 (U. P.).— Prof. Clyde Kluckhohn of Harvard university today was awarded the! $10,000 McGraw-Hill. Science Writ- | ing prize for 1947 for his book, “Anthropology and the World Today.”

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| York skyscrapers were hit by planes | What occurred to me, in reading

Mrs. Hobson's timely novel was not

THE Air travel, it would seem, has!just the ugliness of prejudice and from enough geographical hazards with the crime of loose talk. Far more| itch. out the addition of man-made ones. shocking, I think, is the triviality | and childishness of American so-|

cial ideas, from which notions and

{ Mr. Rodgers’ “American Planning” | expressions of prejudice stem. Two

wars have gone over our heads

and still, in the words of the prayer, there is no health in us. . J »

PREJUDICE of any sort is connected with American indifference to humanity at large, American infantile unwillingness to assume our

Novels like ‘Gentleman's Agreement” may do some good. I hope so. But the kind of fiction we

would require immense powers of

" been opposed by plain, old-fash- money-grubbing and grabbing has perception and analysis. Publishers his ioned greed masquerading as “sound not been often stated. It’s worth are propably just as hungry as the, {public is for a novel or novels both' §

timely and great.—H. B.

To Be Ready March 25

Best Short Stories of

What rubs salt in the ple the ultimate dollars-and-cents You can't change city or country- Theodore Dreiser” will be published y of scientific common sense. side without, to some extent, chang- March 25. by Cleveland's World

Publishing Co. With an introduction by Howard Fast, the new volume will be the “first comprehensive one-volume colléction” of Dreiser's short stories, according to the publishers. The 349-page book will retail at $2.75

Not! in-| farther apart will draw criticism. | tellectual furniture is the hopeful

| that appreciation has progressed so [rapidly: It's not so many years since Drdla’s “Souvenir,” Raff's “Cavatina” and similar salon music | satisfied. 8. 2208. Lhe. smallest, most | sophisticated minority of musical | appetites. | Science has helped art in this | fleld. Radio and the electric | phonograph’ with full-length sym- { phonic recordings have made Bach. Beethoven, Brahms, ‘Wagner, Cesar Franck and more modern composers - familiar as the parlor music writers used to be. Less than 100 years ago, American concerts were expected to be musical vaudeville, with such items as elaborate piano variations of “Yankee Doodle” highly prized. Mr. | Ewen cites Antoine Jullien's or|chestral tour, whose biggest ap-plause-getter was “The Fireman's Quadrille” involving a simulated stage fire, men in firemen's uniform, a hose and real water. ~ » »

IT TOOK determination and artistic integrity on the part of men

CLUB GUEST—Frad C. Kelly, author of "George Ade’ Warmhearted Satirist” (Bobbs-Mer-rill), reviewed in The Times Book Page for March I, who will be guest of honor at an Indianapolis Press club reception at 8:30 p. m. Monday. (From an oil portrait by A. &. War. shawsky.) -

Farrar to Publish

F. D.-R. Book Contracted Lewisohn Novel

son. The first authorized American

Doubleday announces the signing

of a contract with James Roosévelt ®ditiQn of Ludwig Lewisohn’s novel,

{for a book concerning FP. D. R. and | li | the men about him, to be published (Published March 28 by Farrar, following

either next fall or the spring.

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UP FRONT— Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with

sands of hungry-7agged, battleweary prisoners. news’ item); It is drawn by. Bill Mauldin, whose "Up Front" will be published ‘Monday in the. Bantam Books 25-cent repr Mt series.

: Relig | victopy, are bringing..in thous:

‘The Case of Mr. Crump,” will be

| Straus & Co. Previously published in several { European languages, the novel has been withheld from American publication for legal reasons. It is described as Mr. Lewisohn's most wpowerful novel.

3d Book on States “The Evergreen Land,’ a biography of Washington state by Nard Jones, will be published March 31 by Dodd, Mead as. the third volume in that publisher's “Sovereign

LJ States” series.

{great music schools. The 1020's era (of virtuoso conductors is over, he | believed, with increasing emphasis fon the music itself rather than on erratic, astounding interpretations,

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| posers and performers (except a {handful of headliners) get, he ad- | vocates government subsidies to add music, |, : - n » » MR. GOFFIN, contributor of ar(ticles on jazz to Esquire and au- | thor of “Jazz: From the Congo {to the Metropolitan,” tells the hu{man as well as the musical story of Louis Armstrong. French writers have been- pioneers in recognizing the genius of some great jazz musicians, particu larly Negro musicians. Free from the baneful influence of American (folklore, which depicts Negroes as born comedians, French crities have taken the Negro artist seriously. There was nothing laughable ee Amos 'n Andy-ish about Louis Armstrong's childhood and boyhood

{of landing for a period in a reformatory, Louis learned to play the ‘cornet in the band. Without. that | skill, he might have remained a {coal-wagon ~ driver or similarly menial employee earning just | enough for a nightly plate of red {beans and a weekly gin spree ending in love or razor-play. New Orleans band experience led {to Chicago, later to New York and | Europe, where “Satchmo” achieved {his greatest triumphs. Prosperity {brought problems—personal ones, {and plenty of them. Mr. Goffin is invariably the sympathetic, under{standing biographer jm these episodes. , . ;

fiction-style, of his subject's attitudes and emotions may seem occasionally implausible, his book is nevertheless interesting reading.

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