Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1947 — Page 14

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In the mountain fastnesses of the Italian boot, in Lu-| eania and Calabria, there are human settlements never

FIRST READER, .. By Harry Hansen

hrist Stopped at Eboli

Human

Document by Carlo Levi “CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLL" By Carlo Levi. New York, Farrar,|

touched by the progress of civilization. Here the women, de-

prived of men long since gone to America, brew love potions; ere the tax collector, unable to find something to seize, | Peasants, weak with malarial

levies on pigeons and goats. germs, become deathly over night; children are eured of worms by incantations;

CARLO LEVI was & lone man

from Mars until his sister came to | visit him in Gagliano;

then the

spies and counter spies keep watch! Lo "oo cacred sense of com-

over one another's lapses and! is a saying in this that Christianity neve there, because at Eboli. And in describ-| locality and its people in| t human = document, | anti-Fascist who was to Lucania, calls his work

“Christ Stopped at Eboli.” # ¥ » | CARLO LEVI is a physician, sinter and man of culture with a European reputation. He opposed

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munality” manifested itself in the ni | friendly greetings of everyone. He r actually had blood connections here | {on earth and toothless old creatures {mumbled: “A wife is one thing, but |a sister's something more.”

he passed along the street

with his sister, women spoke benedictions

from their doorways: ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you!" That village of 1200 had sent 2000

of its men to America—some of them lost foréver. Hence it did not

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WHITE HOUSE BACKGROUND—Seaqulls on a spacious Washington lawn, one of the numerous illustrations by Francis L. Jaques for "Spring in Washington." »

Washington Diplomat

Reveals Thoreau Traits

|"SPRING IN WASHINGTON." By Lsil=J. Halle Ji. lllustrations by | Francis L. Jaques. New York, William Sloane Associates, $3.75.

i “THE GOVERNMENT has no department that takes cognizance of | life itself: it posts no watchers out of doors to sniff the wind and inform | those within of eternity.” From an assistant chief, division of special inter-American affairs of the state department, such a comment is refreshing. Louis J. Halle Jr, who writes in the Thoreau vein of outdoor life in and around the nation's capital, | ————— has not allowed a career in official-'

stance three hours looking for a

the inian war and Mussolini's | matter when women left behind | dom to blind him to the beauty pest.

“courts, after holding him “in the infamous Regina Coeli prison in Rome, exiled him to Gagliano, | in Lucania, in the instep of the Tialian boot.

{had illegitimate children. Illegitimacy under such condtions was no disgrace.

“THE father’s identity is no long-

“1 felt as if I had fallen from neler so strictly important, a matriar-

sky, like a stone into a pond,” e plains Dr. Levi, as he saw about him the pinched faces of village people who engaged in a constant renewal of old resentments, who were thieving, dishonest, violent and superstitjous, and yet human beings who responded to kindness and helpfulmess that they had never known. = . IF MUSSOLINPS Fascists had jot exiled Dr. Levi, we would never had this compassionate and book to place beside Douglas’ “Old Calabria.” do essays on old houses ringing on mule paths With Dr. Levi we enter’ doors, sit at the

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ex- | chal regime prevails.” | passed by the women were obviously interested in him; their thoughts were of cohabitation. Yet no woman dared enter a man’s house with- | enthusiastic out escort; it was not fitting. ¥

When a man

In his quiet, philosophical man-

and wonder of seasonal change. | He writes: “An instant later I His “Spring in Washington,” with was looking straight down upon beautifully-drawn illustrations by three half-fledged nestlings in an Francis L. Jaques, is largely about/open cup among the leaves.- The his observations of spring birds. sensation that filled me at that mo{What with the Potomac and its ment could not have been more {marshes, the innumerable shade overpowering if I had trees and Rock Creek park, Wash- through the shrubbery to find the |ington offers sanctuary to a great end of the rainbow.” {variety of wildfowl. A keen-eyed, | MF. Halle’s prose, quietly musical, hunter armed with conveys the kind of delight in na{nothing more lethal than binocu- ture many of us have lost through (lars, Mr. Halle spends a good Lit|too much immersion in city life and

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For Anglers

By John Crowe. The: Sports.

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WHETHER you go after trout next Thursday with a cane pole and a can of worms or all the fancy tackle .you can carry makes no difference in the appeal which John Crowe's encyclopedic “Book of Trout Lore” holds for the angler, It's a book that even the ‘greenest’ trout fisherman can understand and one that holds plenty of inspiration and practical data for the veteran angler. While it is written especially on trout fishing, every angler will profit by the obsérvations which Mr.

ngs. » ® » IT'S a book which may well serve as™a primer for the beginning angler and as a source of discussion Tor all anglers in those sessions around the campfire. It's appearance is timely with Indiana's trout fishing season to open May 1 and the conservati ment’s announcement that over legal-size trout have been released in the cold-running streams ‘of northern Indiana this week, » = -

IN THE slightly more than 200

{sents an amazing amount of in- { formation without lapsing into the | pedantic manner that loses the {reader's interest. His | suggestions is presented largely as ‘personal experiences and observa[tions in a conversational style yet with the ring of well-founded | knowledge. i Regardless of whether the read{ing angler agrees with all of Mr. Crowe's conclusions and recom{mendations for successful trout I fishing, he cannot fail to respect | the study and the understanding {of the art which are revealed in |the succeeding pages.

| pages of the book, the author pre-|

“THE BOOK OF TROUT LORE." | man's Library, New York, A. S.|

Crowe has experienced on his outi )

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. Ce. ge Fine Fiction "WEB OF LUCIFER." A novel of the Borgia Fury. By Maurice Samuel, New York, Sout $3. By SEXSON E. HUMPHREYS NICOLO MACCHIAVELLIL, the Florentine who wrote that duplicity was the chief tool of .politics, has had a resurrection in the.fiction of recent months.

i | First it was Somerset Maugham's

“Then and Now.” Now it is Maurice Samuel's “Web of Lucifer” Macchiavelll was a principal character in Mr. Maugham's book. In Mr, Samuel's he is an impor-

tant supporting character. The chief historical figure in “Web of Lucifer” is Cesare. Borgia, who

BEAUTY CONTEST—"The Judgment of Paris," Flemish Renaissance tapestry depicting the famous event in Greek mythology wherein Paris awarded the golden apple to Aphrodite, won Helen and indirectly started fhe Trojan war. Woven by Jacques Guebels, who was active in Brussels from 1540 to 1590, the tapestry is a recent gift to Herron Art museum from Mr. and Mrs, Royer Horace Brown of Indianapolis.

‘Purple Testament’ Reveals

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ner, Dr. Levi tells his story, never |of ais spare time searching out the sedentary work. To kim, nature is! THE READER is drawn through holding himself superior to these hiding places of the shyer birds, still, in Wordsworth's phrase, ala series of chapters dealing Migs

isolated Italians. He believes the |like the veery, spending in that in- feeling and an appetite. natural history, trout stream in-

peasants -should receive the land,|— TY sects, trout foods insec : ts, trout f other than ts, now held in large estates. He thinks | equipment, approach, bait, dry and

the state never will do justice = Novel of Six Sole Survivors wet fly fishing, spinning and dap-

the peasants; hence they leave for | ping, fly-tying, water, weather and

ET somes Admirable Light Reading [oom conn

they asked him to stay. “I'll come and Slegical Serssions.

jue) Mt hn The author's realization of the d . | "ADRIFT IN A BONEYARD." A . vagaries which beset the angler is = = » - - novel. By Robert Lewis Taylor.

o : : given in the preface when he IF YOU go, you'll never come, \j.,, York, Doubleday, $2.50.

Attitude of War Veterans

"THE PURPLE TESTAMENT: LIFE STORIES BY DISABLED VET. ERANS." Edited by Don M. Wolfe. Preface by John Dos Passos. lllostrated by Leonard Pearl and Leonard Sansone. New York, Doubleday, $2.50.

By HENRY BUTLER

FROM SEPTEMBER, 1945, to February, 1946, Don M. Wolfe taught English to a group of 53 disabled veterans at a Washington, D. C,, university. The veterans, men and women from 30 states and ranging in age from 19 to 45, were preparing to become veterans’ counselors. “The Purple Testament” is a collection of the stories they wrote in Mr. Wolfe's class. It may well turn out to be one of the most important books of world war IIL For one thing, it covers vastly more experience than an individual could have. For another, it is un- 8 = a doubtedly more representative of |. “THE PURPLE TESTAMENT,” veterans’ attitudes than would be a now being distributéd by Doublewhole volume by one writer, how-| 4. o non profit basis, deserves ever Bienen. eh wide circulation. According to the

for these sons and brothers and sisters of ours to give their lives for.”

jvelli’s book,

.lits sturdy sons to the United States.

writes: “Angling is by no means as back,” they said. “You're a Christian, a real human being.” “ADRIFT IN A BONEYARD" is It is a refreshing book, inviting Robert Lewis Taylor's hilarious fanus to think about the problems of an | tasy about the only six survivors old land that has given so many of of the Great Storm of the 1950's. Pred Robinson, New York adver-

predictable as golf, or as baseball, or as pitching horseshoes. When the quarry is alive, subject to and

; publisher, all money received beIT ISN'T entirely about the War.| , o iiication costs will be di-

There are sections of home-tOWNn yideq among the 53 veterans who governed by infinite variations of reminiscences, some candid auto- have written the book. wind, water, light and rain, and the biographical sketches, Kumorous Of Indiana interest is the inclu-

served as the model for Macchia“The Prince.” Macchiavelll was Florentine ambassa-

. 'dor to Cesare Borgia's court.

LJ » » » MR. SAMUEL'S book i§ an attempt to answer the Borgia riddle. This is the century-old aggument of whether Cesare Borgia was a great prince or an ogre. The result of Mr. Samuel's scholarly research is that he was both. Mr. Samuel tells stories of “the Borgia fury,” as he subtitles his book, which buttress in the peader’s mind the historical judgment that Cesare was corrupt, cruel and faithless to his friends. But he also documents the reasqps for which not only Macchiavelli but young Borgia's own subjects believed him a great ruler. “Web of Lucifer” is a historical novel. As history it is sound. As fiction it is enthralling.

G. Bernard Shaw Novels At Popular Prices

Appearing for the first time at popular prices, “The Selected Novels of G. Bernard Shaw” and “The Selected Novels of Henry James” have just been published by Garden City at $1.98 each. The Shaw volume contains three long out-of-print favorites, “The Irrational Knot,” “Cashed Byron's Profession” and “An Unsocial Socialist.” Tour of James’ most characteristic novels are included in the James volume.

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Teen Age Club Lists

5 Book Selections

April selections of the Teen Age Book club, sponsored by Pocket Books, Inc., include five familiar ttitles. “Alexander Botts — Earthworm Tractors,” by William Hazlett Upson; “Country Lawyer,”

. |by Bellamy Partridge; “Men Against

ithe Sea,” by Charles Nordhoff and

JRDAY, APRIL 26, 1947 |THE BORGIA CASE—

|Good History,

‘any preco and weak £20 Some anybody. stifling. cret police to those wi

ancient evil Devout.

other circumstances of environ-| bitter indict- | Sion of stories by two Hoosiers:|James Norman Hall; “Wuthering tising man, his wife, Martha, “their ment, there can be no formula for anecdotes and a few {Anthony Paul Coulis, Hammond, Heights” by Emily Bronte, and

maid, Nora McCluny, and Nora

its pursuit. That pursuit can be Ments of what one writer (Edward ang Carl Thomas Welch, Terre “The Phantom Pilly” by George

‘SECRETARY'S STORY—

Famed Snob's

Life Related

"CHAMPAGNE CHOLLY: THE “ LIFE AND TIMES OF MAURY PAUL By Eve Brown. New York, Dutton, $3.75.

' UNDER the pen-name of Cholly

son Osgood are driving toward New York when the weird and deadly electrical storm hits Westchester county.

till later do they pick up faint radio calls from somewhere in Eu-

preparations for the first few months ' of isolation have to be quick. It is imperative that they lift what they need from New York

They find themselves alone ( ot)

rope) in a vast charnel house. Their |

stores before, as Robinson delicately |

WOMAN WITH SKULL—

scientific nevertheless if a man is O. Podell, St. Paul, Minn.) terms Haute.

willing to accept the premise that|“The Runaround That Hurts,” much more than chance is in- title of his story of treatment ac-

volvey, corded veterans seeking employ-,

ment and housing. Pyle's Travel Column

As Mr. Wolfe explains in his il-| * luminating introduction, the often To Be Published May 26. | gruesome stories of combat and “Home Country,” a selection of death had a certain therapeutic Ernie Pyle's pre-war columns about| value for the writers. Some stu- . . America, will be published May 26 dents were unwilling at first to] by William Sloane Associates, Inc. write of their most ghastly expe-

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