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Of Love
: "ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL." By ‘Brace, $2.50.
: WBLACK FOUNTAINS." A novel. By Oswald Wynd. New York,
: Doubleday, $2.75. ’
WHEN I READ that Winston Churchill, the author of
Richard Carvel and The Crisis
of a white-haired librarian who had been a girl working in one of those brand new Carnegie libraries when his books
were best sellers.
. “He made women swoon,” she said, “by merely letting
his hero touch his lady's finger-tips, and, in the last chapter, celebrating her inevitable surrender with a chaste kiss.” And that tells how far we have eome- from the golden daHiance of his novels, which were = always well-mannered and smoothly written, and yet could make the female reader hold her breath.
~ > » ® ALL sensations are relative, and his émotional crises were as effective as anything in today’s novels.
‘Biggest blow novel readers ever had.
8 certain amount of satisfaction in ft, for it forecasts the eventual eclipse of some of the cheap writings that today clutter the book:
FIRST READER... By Harry Hansen nt Novel's Emphasis yenerous Quantities’ Puzzles Critic
E. M. Forster. New York, Harcourt,
, was dead I recalled the words
the old order and an informer, for a companion. - ® » OMI'S emotions are badly disturbed by the war. Her lover is killed early in the campaign. When influence . is brought to have her marry Ishii Sagami, she agrees. His father, the Baron Sagami, is slated to be foreign minister. Ishii's| uncles is a Buddhist abbot deep in political intrigue, who.-depends on his nephew to help him. : As the war progresses the abbot speeds the “resistance in peace” movement, by means of which the Japanese hope to re-establish their power.
amiable protest against the no everything for the children. » » » .
" . - BUT Ishii is susceptible to liberal ideas and Omi has great influence with him. It is out of this post-war of the
While the author makes Omi a woman for whom the reader has deep sympathy, he also embodies a warning to the Americans, to remain vigilant sgainst secret planning by Japanese militarists,
emancipators of womenkind. For in “The Doctor Has a Baby”
Does your baby holler? Let it
#* at the emphasis put on love. .It may be Churchill novels, or it
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Try keeping the baby awake all day, so itll be tired and sleep at night. The kid's got to learn what day and night are for.
the multiple-feeding routine that destroys sleep? Let them train the baby as early as possible to get along on three normally-spaced meals per day. Never mind what books or grandparents say. Advice, indeed, is what young parents get far too much of. Why is it, Mrs. Barkins queries, that the very sight of an infant calls forth so much unsolicited folklore? Why is it. so- many people not actually burdened with the care of a particular baby are - hungrily eager to proffer counsel? The doctor in Mrs. story is, of course, Mrs. B: husband. She herself is an attorney, though she hasn't had much chance
NOTRE DAME POET—John Frederick Nims, associate professor of English at Notre Dame university, whose volume of collected poems, "The Iron Pastoral." will be published next Thursday by William
Barking’ Barkin's
SHACKLES OF MOTHERHOOD—One of the Burmah Burris drawings for "The Doctor Has a Baby" illustrating Evelyn Barkins'
Story About Doctor's Baby Debunks Modern Childlore
"THE DOCTOR HAS A BABY." By Evelyn Barkins. Illustrated by Burmah Burris. New York, Creative Age Press, $2.50.
EVELYN BARKINS may in time be hailed as one of the great
about infant care which reduce mothers to slavery.
injury. Does the baby sleep peacefully all day and raise cain all night?
. ARE PARENTS enshackled by
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LOVE DOES IT—
|Has Solidity’ And Depth -
“MARY HALLAM." A novel. By ps Ertz, New York, Harper, 2.75. .
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By HENRY BUTLER THE BEATING England . has been taking all winter from the forces of nature adds melancholy interest to British fiction.
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Hallam,” a British Book society selection, is British in its leisurely pact, its unhurried workmanship. Mary Hallam might have been an excellent pianist if a taxi accident had not injured and stiffened her hand. (This narrative dJevice of the musician frustrated by inJury, which also appears in Howard Spring's ~ “Dunkerley's” and the British film, “The Seventh Veil,” may wear thin through repetition.) =" " - DENIED self-expression through music, Mary is further thwarted by her stepmother's restless, insatiable ego. - Letty Hallam, the ~ |stepmother, attracted by Ferdinand ‘| Walsh, who shows interest in Mary, sets her own cap for him. As a result, Mary temporarily cheered by Ferdinand's attention, sinks into neurotic melancholy. A visit to Paris as guest of Letty’'s American friend, Maud Warren accidentally involves Mary in a dreadful dinner-for-two scene with a lecherous middle-aged Russian. Following her escape from Monsieur Karsky’s clutches, Mary decides to go away by herself.
» » » PROFOUNDLY depressed and suicidal, she goes to a little seacoast town in Brittany, where she is one day rescued from an attempt to drown herself. During her ensuing illness, a young English radio engineer on vacation, Alan Garstin, is brought to see her. Their friendship leads to Mary's returning home with Alan, where she can be useful in helping care for his mentally-clouded mother.
= ” » RESPONSIBILITY and growing love for Alan (they are married {before long) banish Mary's selfcentered neurotic illness. And there is a sort of poetic justice in the contrast at the conclusion between Mary, now triumphantly happy with her’ Alan and two sons, and Letty, sacrificing her home in pursuit of some new infatuation. Not a sensational story, certainly, but a singularly satisfying novel. It has solidity and depth and the skill that comes with long practice. “Mary Hallam” is Susan Ertz’s 11th book.
tion that parents should sacrifice
she challenges nearly all assumptions
holler, barring, of course, illness or
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| “PARENTS ARE PEOPLE"— | Evelyn Barkins, author of "The | Doctor Has a Baby,” who insists that parents are people too.
went on a brief vacation, leaving
Novel Is- Girl's Diary “Pamela Foxe,” a first novel by Dorothea Malm, formerly an editor -|of the Ladies Home Journal, will be published by Prentice-Hall July 21, with a/first printing of 40,000
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to practice law in the course of tak- the child in somebody else’s care. ing care of three children. Mrs, Barking does more than
copies. Miss Malm’s first major work, the nove] is described as the
2 x» merely debunk parenthood. Through
diary of an 18th-century young
“YET in a novel love is the maJor emotion.” Tt reflects “the constant sensitiveness of characters for each other” and “has no parsllel in life.” Mr. Forster. thinks it discloses the novelist’s own state of mind, and the illusion of permanence. We ought to add that it also follows a literary fashion. . Mr. Forster proved that other interests could be just ;as powerful when he wrote “A Passage to In-
HER BOOK concerns Lizzie, the first arrival. It's a witty, sometimes poignantly realistic, account of a struggle for mastery. Who was going to be boss, Lizzie or her parents? If the neighbors, the inlaws, the wonderful books on in-fant-psychology and all the rest had triumphed, Lizzie would have been Her Majesty. In fact, she got that way every time the Barking’
A Southerner Pays Tribute To Negroes’ Spirituality
"GOD'S CHILDREN."
New Library Additions
Forthcoming additions to the Random House Lifetime Library include Burton's “Arabian Nights,” plete and unabridged in three volumes; “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen” in two volumes, illustrated in color; “Basic Writings of St. Augustine” and “Selected Writings of William Dean Howells.”
By Archibald Rutledge. Indianapolis, Bobbs-
its responsibilities and worries, sie 207 : shows what a family comes to mean. She shows how adults them- |
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LURID STORY— ‘Steppenwolf’
Bares Neuroses
Throws Light ~, On Nazi Mind
"STEPPENWOLFR" A -novel. By Herman Hesse. Translated from the German by Basil Creighton. New York, Holt, $2.75.
THE FIRST American edition of “Steppenwolf” since 1929 should attract attention. ! For this novel by Hermann Hesse, Nobel prize winner in 1946, is a
fantasies.
selves learn to grow up when they have to help their children through the growing process. | “The Doctor Has a Baby” is much too good for brief description. If any book has bestseller qualities, this one certainly has.
‘The Amboy Dukes" Off Press Thursday
“The Amboy Dukes,” Irving Shulman’s novel about Brooklyn juvenile delinquents, will be published by Doubleday next Thursday.
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dia,” although the emotion there] Merrill, $3. still had to do with that sensitiveness of characters for each other By EMMA RIVERS MILNER of which he spoke, Times Church Editer rn IN THE VERY beginning of his book, “God's Children,” author
lication date as Jan. 7, The Times!
OSWALD WYND has been |Archibald Rutledge awarded the Doubleday prize novel from a new and original viewpoint. award, which, carries $20,000, for God's Children” are the black *Black Fountains,” an intelligent, Rutledge’s plantation, Hampton, and
first-rate story of the battle of lib-|¥hom he comes in contact, Hampton is located on the Santee river in
_eral-minded young Japanese|South ‘Carolina, against military traditions. | Mr. Rutledge considers his apMr. Wynd, 33 years old, lives in|Proach original and new because he . Bdinburgh. He was born in Tokyo devotes his pages to the Negro as of Scottish parents, educated in an a worker. - He is not concerned with American school there and had a |him as an artist, nor does he dwell year: in high school at Atlantic|UPon him as a lazy, superstitious City. : person’ with laughable, easy-going " .During the war he went to Ma-|¥ays, a8 playwrights and fiction ijpva on -BFItish intgence werk FIMELS Often do rein $ a #2 8 aad Te TS R04 became 3 Japanese prisoner in|" By rr seems to this reader that ; Mr. Ritledge’s approach is new and original because he talks with so! much humility of his “black hench-| men.” He seems to look up to them because of their skills and because he, has learned 80 much from them. A high point in the book is the chapter in religion, the one frpm which the book takes its title, In it the author pays tribute to the spirituality of the Negro: “All my life it has been my privilege to be instructed” spiritually by: Negroes. St. Joan, amid the roaring fagots, looked upward saying only, ‘Blessed Jesus’ Théte is enough in those words to lead humanity to redemption. But I ‘would place beside them the ‘last {words of my beloved Prince Alston, 8 Negro who was my comrade for {40 years. » -
% 8 = : .. BLACK FOUNTAINS is primarfly the story of the love and liberal faith of Omi Tetsukoshi, daughter of a Japanese banker who was sent to the United States for her education and here accepted dem.ocratic ideas, In love with her native land, she is depressed by the road it is taking. After she returns home her ideas offend the authorities and at the demand of the police she is sonfined to a house on a hill with only her old nurse, an upholder of
» ” ” ! » HE DIED when his family had a great need of him, when he was happy, when he did not wish to go. ‘Now," he said calmly, ‘I am going to my heavenly home.” r
TABLE 28 Pages of Photographs a LAMPS The valor of the Negro’ comes in py | Cuina base. witn {for full treatment as the author
tells how he rises to the unusual and crucial occasion. His quality as & sportsman who knows the creature world of field and Stream also fills a chapter, _ ; A special feature of the whole ook are 28, full-page photographs Of the Negro in the cotton field, ging he church bell, at leisure, qd y.. , i
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informs the reader that he is writing about Negroes
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Amboy Dukes” Jan. 11. The publishers call attention to the growing concern about delinquency as making Mr. Shulman’s novel especially timely. —————————————— ‘Strange Fruit’ In Popular Reprint “Strange Fruit,” Lillian Smith's controversial novel, will appear in the $1 Forum Books series of the Word Plblisn#ig Co. next Tuesday. With more than a million copies
people who live and work on Mr. also those of the community with
ing its popular-price debut. Other titles in the Forum Books series scheduled for Tuesday release include “Portrait of a Marriage,” by Pearl 8. Buck, ‘Edna PFerber's autobiograph, “A Peculiar Treasure,” and “Wild Calendar,” by Libble Black.
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YLLUSTRATOR — Noble Bretzman, Indianapolis photegrapher, who took the pictures for Archibald Rutledge's
Bods Chiron Chilean's Book Published
- “House of Mist,” by Maria-Luisa Bombal, Chilean author now living in the United States, will be pub-
Negro will "be, I have no knowledge,”. concludes the author. “I only know that the strength and beauty and glory of our country, as we know it today, have been in part ‘due to a race originating in the Dark Continent, long held in slavery and now free to work out its own destiny.”
Publish One-Volume ‘Study of History’ D. . Somervell's one-volume abridgement of “A Study of His tory,” Arnold J. Toynbee's classic work, will be published next Thursday by Oxford University Press, For the first time, according to the publishers, the gist of the huge and eostly six-volume . historical study will be accessible to readers hitherto unable to purchase thel| Toynbee work,
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\Moosier Murder Case Retold in Magazine
A celebrated Hoosier murder case, retold in “Front Page Detective” for April, and five mystery volumes are among latest Dell publications. The Puckett case at’ Richmond, 1042-43, is revived by Jack Harréll, writing in Dell’s mystery magazine. The new Dell 25-cent pocket vol umes are: ‘The Devil in the Bush,” by: . Matthew Head; “Fire Will Freeze,” by Margaret Miller; “If a Body,” by George Worthing Yates; “Double or Quits,” by A. A. Fair, and “The Man ‘Next Door,” by Mignon G. Eberhart. Tn
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IT GIVES some notion of how far
the - sophisticated German mind, |
back about 1927, could go in pathological reverie, product of the typical German conflict between discipline and desire for freedom. And it throws some light an the high Nazi mind, as more recently described in Curzio Malaparte's
| “Kaputt,” which could savor Bach
and Buchenwald with almost equal relish. The title derives from the central character, Harry Haller, who imagines himself half man, half
to the point of genius, Haller sets)
part reality. ‘The result is a story comparable to, but more lurid than, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” that famous inter-war German movie.
® = 3 . IN M'S neurotic quality, the book also suggests Thomas Mann in his and the Magician” or “Death In Venice” moods. It's morbid and unhealthy, but it's also instructive. It makes De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English OpiumEater” seem pure and vigorous by contrast. fa : Sick German minds are quite difof insight into the difference.
Harpers to Publish
‘World Affairs! Again
post-war resumption of the annual publication, “The United States in World Affairs,” with the 1946-47 volume scheduled for next summer. The annual volume is’ prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations, publisher of the quarterly review, “Foreign Affairs.”
TYPICAL "PREFAB"—A four - room - and - bath unit of the Colony Home line, :manufactured by Pre-Fab Industries of South
Treatise for the Home Buyer Discusses Ready-Built Houses
. PROSPECTIVE BUYER." By Raymond K. Graff, Rudolph A. Matern and Henry Lionel Williams. New York, Doubleday, $2.75.
PREFABRICAYED HOUSES are likely to become the center of hot controversy in the building industry before long. Arguments already are warm. Prefab proponents charge the building industry with . being - obsolete and wasteful. Opponents. cite . prefab
Hence “The Prefabricated House” is timely. By Raymond K.
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selecting and | adapting the site and safeguarding | the investment. A valuable feature |1s the comprehensive guide to man- | ufacturers of prefabs. | Coplously illustrated, the book is a clear and authoritative discus|sion. It makes no extravagant | statements, such as sometimes have {been made about the low cost of ‘the assembled house. It's the kind of book prospective buyers of homes should see before ‘they make hasty decisions.
‘Champagne Cholly’ Is Due April 25
“Champagne Cholly: The Life and Times of Maury Paul,” by Eve
Brown, the gossip-columnist’s former secretary, will be published April 25 by Dutton. Best known under his nom de plume, Cholly Knickerbocker, Maury Henry Biddle Paul chronicled New York society, for better or for worse, during 20 years.
BER (BACK TO ROUTINE— . Vidal's Army Hero Returns
ToCivilianLife
“IN A YELLOW WOOD." A novel. By Gore Vidal, New * York, Cutton, $2.75,
“ » “ GORE VIDAL'S novel about the war-time Aleutians, “Williwaw,” which appeared last summer, ‘showed great promise: for a writer {in his early 20's. Now Mr, Vidal writes about a
veteran's problems in. return-
ing to civilian life, He takes ' his
Robert Holton through 24 hours of a typical New York day, describing Holton's decision between
Mr. Vidal two alternate roads before him in the yellow wood. Working at a dull job in a brokerage office, Holton sees little ahead but more money * [to compensate for the dreary routine. :
» " . A CHANCE to break away comes when he again meets Carla, with whom he had had an affair during his army days in Italy. She is the only “woman he has deeply loved. Loving Horton, she wants to diyorce her none-too-good husband. Carla and Holton can marry and live very comfortably on her money. But such a life, Holton thinks, would cost him his integrity. He must make his own way, despite the wearisome prospect of a brokerage career. And before the night of re{union with Carla is over, he has
| finally decided.
” . n . THE SIMPLE story is told with the economical writing that made “Williwaw” remarkably effective, Unfortunately, Mr. Vidal's subject is intrinsically less interesting this time. So is the background, for while the Aleutian islands have a grim fascination as described in Mr. Vidal's terse style, New York is only partly conveyed. By a process of selection other young writers
{have tried on the city, Mr. Vidal
makes New York seem monstrous and frustrating.
» " ” ALL OF HIS characters, with the possible exception of Jim Trebling, army buddy of Holton's who finds ' Holton changed and subdued by civil life, are bored, lonely, dissatisfled. Mr. Vidal's care in" selecting sordid details, as well as a few highly sordid characters, is somehow typical of the young writer who can turn out chapter upon chapter of gloom and then, after working hours, proceed to enjoy the experience of being alive. “In a Yellow Wood” is doubtless
‘Pressure Cooking’
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“Pressure Cooking: Ida Bailey, Allen's Guide to New Flavor, Nutrition, Speed” is announced for publication next Monday by Garden City. The forthcoming book, a Garden |
more than 700 recipes employing | {the new-style pressure cookers.
a transitional novel. Mr. Vidal
‘certainly has talent, and readers
¢ “Williwaw” will expect more substantial things from him in the future, :
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