Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1947 — Page 16
* npvels on Negro-white rela-
Tau BOARD." A n . Merrow, $2.75,
Tabi Lippincott, $4. ONCE MORE Nevil Shute
ject of color prejucize and
‘When men are judged r doesn’t outs’ This is the first of two
ovel. By. Nevil Shale. New York,
E-MEMORY OF CERTAIN PERSONS." By John Erskine. Phil: »
rings the bell with a straight | ard narrative that marches right to the heart of a complicated situation. In “The Chequer Board” he tackles the
reduces the problem of Negro
white" associations—even’ marriage—to its simplest | &
as human beings, he implies,
Grace Trefusis, and she objects,
Eventually Dave tries to kiss i
and when the news gets to the| !
SOCIAL PROBLEM— : Book Gives Slum Lesson
| “THE CHILDREN." A novel. Howard Fast. New York, dy Sloan & Pearce, $2.50.
THE HORRORS of slum child hood in a section where the youths of Italian, Jewish and Negro back-|’ grounds vent their racial hatred on one another, is the basis for the short novel by Howard Fast called |’ “The Children.” The tale, a series of violent incidents compressed to their essentials, is told from the point of view of Ishky, the little Jew, who is browbeaten by Ollie, the 1l-year-old bully, and takes part in various fights and competition, doing his share of injury toward others. The story reaches a climax when a half-witted lad, emulating Ishky, falls off a roof, and the boys string | . up a Negro lad whom they have worsted in a fight. ay » ® THE compression of words and actions practiced by the author gave the tale an explosive force. In a preface Mr. Fast relates that he wrote it while working 12 to 14 hours a day in a factory where he earned $11 a week. It was published by Whit Burnett
THE SOUL OF PARIS—Notre Dame cathedral, which typifies the mellow antiquity of the French capital.
{DARING LIFE— rot ay
No Shackles .
"THERE WAS ONCE A SLAVE." By Shirley Graham, New York, Messner, $3.
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER FREDERICK DOUGLASS was born: a slave, but’ his mind and heart knew no shackles. Shirley Graham tells his story in her new’ book, “There Was Once A Slave.” Because of the distinctive contribution the story makes to an age of tensions, the author was given the Julian Messner award” for “the* best book combating intolerance. in America.”
. x = \ FROM the. recorded episodes of Frederick Douglass’ daring and courageous life Miss Graham has spun her stirring tale. She makes the reader feel keenly the excitement and suspense attendant upon her hero's escape from slavery into freedom. She tells how Frederick Douglass was Obsessed from childhood with the idea that he must learn to read. |For knowledge . makes one free, he thought, and the printed word is the key to Knowledge. Equally intense as his own desire to read
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flons that the Literary Guild will| white officers, they charge him | § “« x» was his effort to teach as many of send to its subscribers within .a|with rape. #4 in Story Magazine in 1937 and his race as possible to dé so. In ther. . The = =» DUERER WOODCUT—'""Descent of the Holy Spirit," wood- |promptly banned in Lynn, Mass, C di A ! S h + ! P I B k tact, Douglass always was concerned few months of each o or Mr. Shute emphasises Dave's 800d, ‘onoraving, made between 1509 and 1511 by Albrecht Duerer of [after which “the ban spread over anal Oo Ss, aul s 00 {for other Negroes, and felt that his ht ors it gm {s| manners and consideration, and, by | Nuernberg, most famous of all engravers, as final scene in his series [New England. 4 ‘ : {Plirpose was inseparably bound with trast, the boorishness of the, of 37 woodcuts depicting the life of Christ. Called the "Little Le. : » Re | Paris Charm theirs, : major subject treated by novel- COD oe ro MR. FAST says also: *I wrote it §_OQFT FQ Qa sn» i whites, | Passion,” the series is complete in the Herron Art museum collec- okt of biitertess and: hate for what y HE WAS a friend of Lincoln and
res oe 1p fr me, vo Penzance, and report on what has happened to them.
Thus, in its larger implications, e story suggests that war forcibly reaks down conventional barriers, pening the eyes to reality.
nan, takes it for granted. When Mr. Shute tackles the Leisurier story, he tells it wholly
in black and white—and I am not
{rying to pun .
The white - Americans have, warned the townsmen that Negroes
{friend . that
Aside ' from good story-teliing, The Chequer Board should have a|
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WHEN 1 remarked to a mutual John Erskine had witten his autobiography he said, “What, again?” He was alluding to the informal, personal element that bulks large in| “The Complete Life” and other books by this genial author, teacher, | musician, librettist and vestryman,| who has done many: things wel in his 67 years, and still has had| plenty of time for the enjoyment | of living. His new work is called “The Memory of Certain Persons” and possibly tells more about the men and women Mr. Erskine has known, |
: and their influence on him, most entertaining and thought-pro-| 0 z ® = = But it is by no means neutral, THE DEVICE of the interlocuter, for the man who writes with the who tells the story of other men, is always an obstacle, but Mr. Shute gets around it by putting the ex-| FC © periences of each man in direct | 5° rn Jackie Turner HERE is an account of Mr. service corps hE Erskine’s years at Columbia; of his with apiinters in his cranium. He|fble ministration. of the Jul a a ack mar its * graduate school, during which * ao avestigaies. hia’ Ward mates,'D, foundation came io the sup-| after the war. port of the Metropolitan Opera. "Also in the ward was D ol ME_Britue sseats Be a Bernet, paratroop corporal, who was for murder because he had used |3*7® of Gatti-Casazsa. a sando’ training too well Mr. Erskine is grateful to Ed; | Basins & Wtlepmaker Wo Weulied la he Oy Then there was Morgan 183,000,000 to $1500, in one ineo Siasics), bl Sor ping American {tan ~._ | talent a chance ng. Jesser breeds” with & middle- 7 class Englishman's contempt. Finally, there was Dave Lesurier, an American Negro, who tried to cut his throat because he had been accused of rape, although he had merely tried to kiss a girl. H E J »
are unclean and that they bark
when they want their victuals. » = »
THE townsmen find them well- | mannered and the landlord of ‘the! pub is especially friendly to them. The white military police harass them when they walk out with
English girls.
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‘has been announced by the Chris-| | pletely alien territory in your. trip] elists and publishers were relieved
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tion. A current exhibition of 18 of the prints at the museum will
_continue e through A April 13.
DEBUNKING HISTORY — Far Western Historian Pairs Humans Against Lake
"THE GREAT SALT LAKE." By around the south shore of the : lake | writer when he nikde his story | towards Nevada.
in the Amer-| edited by|
Dale L. Morgan. ican Lakes Series,
Bobbs-Merrill, $3.75,
By HENEY BUTLER BACK IN 1938, I drove through |
part of the Far West with a friend |
“If we hadn't been taught all
ease of a conversationalist [that Pilgrim junk,” she remarked has SR Raed in education,{acidly, “we might have Jeurned |} Ta hate failed io ake Great with which he has been associated | something more about the Spanish | Mr. Morgan's history is ‘mainly jana French explorations in the qencered with human beings versus For most of us, knowledge of the ne chapters, “Three Lives.” .tells one-time Great American desert pout George Frary, Judge Wenner is scanty prior to the 19th century. ang his family and Alfred Lamliard institute of musical art and Hence a book like Dale L. MOrgan's|poyrne, who were among the earliest “The Great Salt Lake” is a valuable | |pioneers to establish residence on {corrective to the persistent notion | various. Salt Lake islands. Those
that American history is mainly al creation of pioneers ward from’ the “Atlantic colonfes.’
d ,» =
UNFORTUNATELY, legends are|
ward Johnson not only for paring more abundant than documents think, to read about it, look at it, (from | concerning pre-19th-century far-|if we're lucky, but keep a fairly
western exploration. Baron Lahon- | , & late 17th-century explorer in| 25 West, published in the Hague! in 1703 a report he said he got | from Indians about a great. salt | 1ake. Like earlier reports from the { Conquistadores, this one is hard to | evaluate, Mr. Morgan says. Something like accurate knowledge of the region was not available before { the first quarter of the past century. | Mystery shrouds the past of Great {Salt Lake. The present lake is a | mere salty residue of gigantic prej storie lakes, one of them, Lake { Bonneville, approximately the size |ot Lake Michigan.
{ have Milo ‘M. Quaife. Indianapolis (when he looked down upon the Utah | valley? History, of course, plus the marvelous energy and persistence of the Mormon settlers, vindicated
cultivation, tree-planting
| who deplored the New England bias gigantic scale have redeemed the valley- from its one-time aridity.
west- ‘more intimately {Han anybody hase
our society does to children,” and adds that if he wrote it today he would have to “examine far more completely the source which these children reflect.” . i
and the lesson of degradation, as :
‘influence under these conditions, | is implicit in the telling. It sug-
{convey its own message. —H. H.
Why is Brigham Young alleged to said: “This is the place,”
the prophet’s judgment. Irrigation,
on a
BUT EVEN the mightiest efforts
c he lake. One of his most interest-
UNEXPLAINED —R. DeWitt
Miller, who writes plained legends concerning sea serpents, ghost ships, vanished continents, psychic phenomena: andthe dike in Foegatten Mysteries,"! to be published fext: Thursday by Cloud, Inc., of | Chicago ($2.50). Mr.
‘hardy souls probably knew the lake
{kriown it since, They leaned to Jove it. Most of us would be pa 1|
Miller formerly contributed a column | under the same title 10 Coronet |
|sate distance. For the lake is still magazine.
| formidable, as Mr. Morgan emphal-,
The story has tremendous power, | graphs of the °
{Paris will remember Mr. rare ability to convey the atmosphere and texture of Parisian life. {Everybody knows that the Rue de la Paix or the Avenue de 1'Opera are only two of the many aspects of Paris, and that life on the lesser streets -is richer in human values than life on the boulevards.
bookstands along the bankments. | There are views of tiny, side-| of unex- |sireet cafes reminiscent of one I| “specialized” | {in “vins, bois. et charbons” (wines, | an odd, typically |
| knew
}wood and coal), | Parisian combination Sf» merchan- | lise.
and New York, Ziff-Davis, $5.
WHAT CONSTITUTED the charm of pre-war Paris?
“PARIS.” Photographs by Fritz Henle. Text by Elliot Paul. Chicago
helped to elect him to. the presie dency. He also knew well other giants of his time; Gladstone, Peel, Ingersoll and Garrison. The aboli-
Words are inadequate to convey that.charm, and ordinary photo-!tionist paper, the North Star, was
‘Vues de Paris” kind lack depth.
founded by Douglass and John
Hence the Fritz Henle-Elliot Paul "volume of pictures and text fills Brown of Harper's Ferry fame at
with comment so understanding nd |gests that Mr. Fast was a better) appreciative as Mr. Paul's.
Readers of “The Last Time I Saw Paul's
= » . MR. HENLE'S photos, many of
them candid shots, show types of Parisians, from bankers to river boatmen on the Seine, from sturdy | peasant women selling vegetables| in Les Halles (equivalent of our
ity market) to old crones at their Seine em-
in 1927, which
3 Shee Sin » = »
MR. PAUL'S text
{ aginative reconstruction of what!
'ically demonstrates.
3 New Mysiary
"THE LAST OF PHILIP BANTER. York. Dodd, Mead & Co., $2.50.
McKay Co. $2.00.
2 "COLD BED IN THE CLAY." By Dodd, Mead & Co., $2.50.
The lake is still mysterious, be-
i sides being probably the most tem-!
| peramental of American lakes. Its
unpredictable year-by-year fluctua-|
{tion of level, which has doomed many a scheme for bathing beaches and boat docks; its sudden, dangerous storms;
*NO-COMPLEX TYPE"'—The | islands—all its aspects and phe-| no-complex, or uninhibited type | "Omen? make it unique. by. Lucille te FEE of child, > draws, by Con EVEN its dimensions are seldom Wi | ° J Id |accurately reported, since the almost in," illustrated satire on chi {imperceptible slope of its shores]
{produces huge variations in area {with only slight variations in level. | Add to these things the forbidding |
terrain that surrounds the lake— —
{mountains to the southeast, salt flats (complete with dazzling glare (and mirage illusions) to the" west, more stark mountains to the north.|
5. — A ‘total You ‘drive. from the ‘broad. clean] stréets of Salt Lake City, with its
| beautifully kept parks, out to a com- |
its weird, inhospitable |
w = #
2 By DONNA
y lot- the-mill whodunit.
GUILT-RIDDEN—Raskolnikov, the murderer, tormented by feelings of quilt in "Crime and Punishment." This is one of Ruth | Gikow's ‘illustrations for a new | reprint of Dostoyevsky's great | novel which also includes an introduction” by Alfred Kazin, (World Publishing ( Co., . $1).
| supposedly self-written, which he | finds on his desk. l is that “Confessions”
than a review of the past.
| teresting. ! Bardin’s Percheron,”
last novel, “The Deadly |
Libel Suit Against Writer Thrown Out| “terror “> “mE TOWN" is,
| the intriguing tale of rhurders ga-|
Times Special {lore in a prim oid New. England
NEW YORK, Aprjl 5. — NovAL: first Tt Was oY “i pin ‘the
"TERROR IN THE TOWN." By Edward Ronns.
Novels
Have Lots of Murders:
" By John Franklin Bardin,
{well as of complete lack of parental a need. There are many other illustrated books on Paris, them far nore costly, Few combine excellent, imaginative photography Doigtas attic.
some of one time found sanctuary in the
s ist whose volume of reminis-
himself right explain to a freee.
lluminates| horn tourist, | the candid shots with tactfully im- moments in the city's daily ‘life.
| the people are, what they are resentation of thinking. It explains, as Mr. Paul | | might - observe in those first fas{cinating days of a visit to Paris. | Better than any formal guidebook, standable.
'Roeburt Novel Story New OF Newspaperman
i
(by John Roeburt, radio mystery-
cences, (Knopf, $4) was reviewed in The Times Book Page March |, will be heard in recital at 8:30 p. m. next Wednesday in Indiana uni- | versity auditorium at Doom {fon
Douglass’ term as minister te | Haiti comes as one of the last great scenes of the book, Miss Graham's biography of one of the greatest pion emanci« pation through education is an im. iy addition to this year's
%%
Henry's Trains’ Clear and Simple
"TRAINS." By Robert Seiph Henry. New edition. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, $3.
AMONG RECENT BOOKS oa railroading, Robert Selph Henry's “Trains” has several advantages. This concise history of American railroads is clear and simple in style, so as to appeal to adults and juveniles alike. It is abundantly rand well illustrated. And unlike some of the umes on the ect, it is not Po ~{fifi{tive fn price. ~ - The 1947 edition represents a fifth large printing of the book, Evidently no new,material has been added since 1943, the year of the last edition. This may strike some readers as a serious lack, since post-war competition between railroads and airlines apparently is hastening improvements in railroad service.
AUTHOR IN RECITAL—Jo-
eph Szigeti, celebrated violin-
"With Strings Attached"
> a
the significance of
The entire book is an artful
what anybody
it helps make Paris underH. B.
Barrymore Biography Is April Pocket Book
Gene Fowler's biography of Joha , “Good” Night, Sweet
“Seneca, U. S. A,” a new novel |Barrymore Prince,” is among the April Pocket
Phi ladélphia. David script writer, is announced for Book titles. {May 15 publication by Samuel| Other new reprints in .the 35-cent : - (Curl, Inc, of New York. series include: “Wife for Sale,” by Ruth Sawtell Wallis, New York.| The book is described as an|Kathleen Norris; “Father Malachy's
MIKELS
“THE LAST of Philip Banter” is a complex psychological novel
{which comes under the Heading of a “mystery” novel only by virtue of Hyde Book Approved | containing a homicide. Beyond that it bears little similarity to the run-|
lattack on anti-Semitism, and in-
| Miracle,” by Bruce Marshall; “The
volves a newspaperman’s search for | |Night Life of the Gods,” by Thorne
security changing America.
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! 1 {Christianity in the Roman Empire,’ | The story Seals with She Sania eoidiets of a young advertising | | published last fall by the University [short stories, “A Curtain of Green” {executive who is driven estruction by a series of “confessions, lof Pennsylvania Press, has ‘beenland “The Wide Net,” both out of
tions of events to follow, rather | two imprisoned. In addition to fast action and a| K'S BOOKWORM “The Last of Philip Banter” is a fair plot, the novel is replete with BLOC S © | little too involved and not very in-|characters—Professor Dexter, It's a poor successor to|specializes in observations embar-
rassing to the women in the novel;
{dozen others.
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| Clare,” by a Minneapoiis newspa-
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women an | escaped maniac. But when. the
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‘NOTRE BAME, Ind. April 5.— A third printing of “Truths Men Live By,” philosophical study by the Rev. Dr. John A. O'Brien, professor of religion at Notre Dame university, has been authorized by Macmillan, the publisher. Dr. O'Brien's, book, which then|
and perspective in a Smith; “Before the Fact,” by Francis Iles, and “Murder Out of Turn,”
iby Frances and Richard Lockridge.
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share of suspicion. A newcomer, the bride of a scion of the community’s leading family, fights the murderer and the “ghostility” of the staid littie-fish-ing town to unravel the true story of the crimes. The novel is good reading, with several particularly hair-raising Passages.
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