Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1947 — Page 8

novel. By Mannix Waker, (A Regular Weekly Feature of The Times) And Sensitive Aw: Joi. Posi Meng.

Horrors of Nazi Camps

Told in 'The Other Kingdom’

“THE OTHER KINGDOM." By David Rousset. Translated and with an introduction by Ramon Guthrie. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, $2.75.

MOUNDS OF corpses were not the worst horror of German concentra« tion camps, That is one important conclusion of David Rousset's “The Other Kingdom,” to be published Monday by Reynal & Hitchcock. Formerly a Paris correspondent for Time and Fortune, Mr. Rousset founded an underground newspaper during the German occupation of

IN

” ~ » THE PERVERSE, Glass” world of the camps, impulse took the place of integrity. inal prisoners, gullty of theft, rape, black-market operations and similar crimes, rated higher than political | prisoners and were accordingly per-

worst sadlitic tyrant when he achieved power. Such a.one was Franz, the big, {blond Austrian, whose idea of a {good time was to throw hunks of bread on the dormitory floor and then blackjack the Greeks, Russians and other starved prison ers when they fought for the rare morsels

Poles,

“Looking~

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SEARCH— 'Steeper Cliff’ Well "Written

"THE STEEPER CLIFF." A novel, By David Davidson. New York, Random House, $3. By RICHARD LEWIS There is a new book out toda called “The Steeper CUM" whic presents a fine new writer with a rare gift of story-telling It is an exquisitely written rOmance of barometric sensitivity con-

pation Germany. The protagonist, Andrew Cooper, is a journalist. Well a sports reporter. He becomes the victim of a strange obsession with overtones of schizophrenia, while working with military government in Bavaria. He learns of a Germah, a nian about his own age, a journalist, who sounded off for decency in the shadow of dictatorship and violence, then disappeared. Cooper becomes

{has a childlike innocence of hard

“THE LONELY CARROT."

A BIG OLD mansion, : large, eccentric family suddenly poor, a quick decision to take paying guests. These are the ingredients of Mannix Walker's, new novel, “The Lonely Cafrot,” which Dodd, Mead and Co. will publish Monday. Mr. Walker locates his mansion, Weéllover, on Maryland's eastern shore, certainly a placid environment. He describes his complicated family of uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces as being unspoiled by city sophistication. Even Uncle Roderick, nominal head of the family and regarded as the cleverest, since he had at one time read for the law,

fact. -

“5. # . UNCLE RODDY never understands why the big crops of asparagus and tomatoes grown on the

RATTRAY ix 1 19, or The Lonely Carrot’ Is Good Reading for Your Vacation

"CARROT" MAN—A jacket caricature on "The Lonely Car-

rot" depicts Aldshor Mannix Walker as part carrot, part man.

Paris. The bulletin eluded the] Wello a adiols \ Mr. _| mitted by the grim 88. guards to {obsessed with the notion that he farths of Wellover and adjoining esGenapo, but Roumet wis: ar lt {ze th litical prisoners. “ tates fall to show any profit. He traveling, as she preciously phrases rested for attempting to organize |'¢rTor ep Pp must find this man, whom he comes tisfies the family. I by it, “Incognita”; a dogmatic foreign { Those criminals who became leaders to identify as his German alter ego. sa es e family, however, by correspondents who: * " the

anti-Nazi groups within the German | army. “The Other Kingdom," Sunsialed by Ramon Guthrie, is the product | of 16 months in Buchenwald and | other German concentration camps. | » . .

Americans a notion of the hideously spectacular features of | the German prison camps. Bodies piled like cordwood, ovens full of human bones—such things are ghastly But they represent only the of a dreadful process. One may judge from Mr, Rousset's book that the process was worse than its conclusion.

who died in the camps before and during the war, process had dehumanized them. “Dehumanized” is an easy word. David Rousset’s brief study of the camps explains in considerable detail what the term signifies. De-

food henchmen. | not law. Mr. Rousset puts. much: blame on the 88, who were the incarnation

NEWSREELS, picture magazines | Of Nazism, what with their black

and graphic descriptions have given uniforms, death’s-head insignia and grap Tore | fanaticism. Mr. Guthrie's introduce

tion cites a typical 88. gesture: Dora, & subsidiary of Buchenwald, where the prisoners worked in 12-]

shared with prisoners,

SUMMING up the experience. he other political Rousset comments: “The decomposition of a society and

the Mr,

stole from the common and tobacco to reward Authority was whim,

hour shifts in underground passages without. ventilation or water, end | | 88. Christmas present to the prison[ers was a splendid Christmas tree, II et up in the middle of the parade { ground, which the prisoners were For the conclusion meant {allowed to admire for several hours

release for the estimated 15 million at 8 time—standing. in formation, | att = ~naked, with the thermometer

Meanwhile the | Skirting zero.’

store of their

“At

the |

AMERICAN 'BRONZE—"Playfulness,”

ah carly brome in classical chyle by Poul - Manship, contemporary American sculptor, on view for the summer with other sculptural works at Herron Art museum. The Manghip bronze has been lent to the museum by Miss Lucy M. Taggart, vice president © of the Art association of Indianapolis.

W. H. Auden's Poem, 'The Age of Anxiety, Makes Current Literature Seem Unsatistying

"THE AGE OF ANXIETY: A BAROQUE ECLOGUE." By W. H.|

Is soon forgotten; we celebrate

What ought to HKappen as if it

” » un » HIS SEARCH is compelled by guilt arising out of a traumatic childhood experience. Once he and a companion were attacked by buldeath when he tb wash away his guilt in the war, never having fired a shot. A con-

queror now among defeated bullies, he seeks absolution,

ought to have been.

his cloven personality.

with a vast amount of ‘skill.

has taken.

lies who beat the companion to

Cooper has never had a chance

His fascination with the German, Adam Loren, is rooted in the thought that here’s the man he And so he pursues the phantom, the heroic man, the other half, perhaps, of

#" n ~ MR. DAVIDSON has spun a dif4 ficult and dramatic inner situation But his solution of it, it seems to me, falls far short of the plane his book

There is a good deal of the mental flagellation in this book so com-

explaining the problem as “profit and loss.” When, on bad advice, he invests the family fortune in a Baltimore oyster - canning plant that goes bankrupt, he makes the brilliant suggestion that Wellover take summer boarders “at exorbitant rates.” An ad in the Baltimore Sun does the rest. A Mr. Botticelll from New York is the first arrival. He brings ‘two sinister-looking, close-mouthed associates, and seems extremely reluctant to discuss his affairs. Money is no object with Mr. Botticelli, so long as the family leave him and his sidekicks alone.

" = » * as MONEY seems no object with

other guests: A woman: journalist

European or Asiatic situation at the dinner table; a desperate, unsuccessful young man who is pouring his entire savings into one last summer before his intended suicide, and other wacky characters, including Tatiana Lvovna Johnson, Russianborn wife of a rich American. It is Tatiana who eventually rescues the family from poverty by suggesting large-scale carrot-grow-ing. ‘Other absurd things happen, such as Mr, Botticelll’'s gradual transformation from “New : York gangster to eastern-shore respectable land proprietor. “The Lonely Carrot” asks no questions, solves no problems. It's just good, entertaining reading, especially appropriate for vacation.

Local Expert Expects Little From New Lincoln Papers

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The opening of Lincoln’s private papers in Washington next Saturday is not expected to disclose ~~ many hitherto unexamined papers of Lincoln's own. | That's the opinion of Montgomety 8. Lewis, Indianapolis Lincoln

Auden. New York, Random House, $2.50. | By HENRY BUTLER - “THE AGE OF ANXIETY,” W. H. Auden’s latest volume, may seem to have limited popular #ippeal. For that reason ¥nd because of its extraordinary merit. the poem deserves space usually given to best-selling novels and hook-club notices. |

of all the classes of that soclety, ti 0 p 3 Mirieiion fon meant not merely the in the fetid stench of destroyed

torturing and degrading social values, they came to know. at

of individuals. Much more, {t was! : first hand, an immediate. reality the t e tanaplanting of normal Human like an ominous shadow threatening

bei: to fantastic, un EM unbelievable the entire planet with a fate In . which all men must share, The evil

mon on daytime radio serials, for instance, where people are continually torturing themselves with fears and frustrations. Mr. Davidson at-one time was ai: radio script writer after having|’

were done,

Are blinded by our boasts. Then back they come, *

The fears that we fear.” Part IT of the poem, “The Seven’

~ . » “THE OTHER KINGDOM" {s an attempt to describe and evatuate | that society. It's not primarily a horror book. Indeed, Mr Rousset stated to his translator a curious paradox: The German camps were not so bad as people think, but at at the same time they were “infinitely worse.” What outsiders understand as meaning—thes normal, accepted significance of things, whereby we

fs not past.

far outweighs any military triumphs. It is the gangrene of a whole economic and social system. tamination still spreads far beyond the ruins of cities.” The danger of that contamination Certainly Mr. Rousset's book needs reading and pondering, Ras being one of the most intelligent and keenly analytical reports yet written of the dread diséase the Nazis started in Germany.

Its con-

—H., B,

grapples with central problems of "Can simple expression convey important ideas?” Newspapermen are under constant pressure to write clearly and 4imply. They must write so as to be understood by the majority of readers. By comparison with newspaper style, Mr. Auden's compact, highly-

charged writing, even in his prbse foreword and transitional passages,

It isn't easy reading. That fact may restrict its circulation. But it;

this era, and I raises the question:

newspaperese, deserves careful reading for compactness of meaning. With the rest of the foreword, it sets the stage for the ensuing long conversation. The four characters are: Quant; an obscure clerk in a New York shipping office; Malin, ‘a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian air force; Rosetta, well-paid buyer for a big. department store, and

Ages,” a modern elaboration of an ancient theme, and Part III, “The Seven Stages,” are full of profound observations, Quant says of life: “There's a white silence Of antiseptics and instruments At both ends, but a babble between And a shame surely.” Part IV, “The Dirge,” Part V, “The Masque,” and Part VI, “Epilogue,” in a crescendo and decline of intensity, further explore life as

been a newspaperman. I think a good case might be made on how both media, the literary outhouses of America, corrupt writing.

» » » BUT LET SOMEONE else take up that cudgel. that “The Steeper Cliff” very nearly resolves itself into a cliff hanger. What saves it is Mr. Davidson's slick and facile writing, sensitive perception and fine insight. The author knows his occupation

thoughtful |

My only point is|

scholar, whose “Legends That Libel Lincoln” was reviewed in The Times Book Page Oct. 26, 1946. Mr. Lewis, who has devoted many years to collecting and studying Lincolniana; believes the Emancipator’s most important private papers already have been examined. “The vast majority of Lincoln's papers were opened by Robert Todd Lincoln to Nicolay and Hay when they were writing their biogy. Lincoln scholars doubt

conduct our dally ives, vanished in is electric with meaning. ; that the collection to be opened Ll — the prison camps. In place of the : im aw Bible, Hg Cnlisten un She Bay init is and as it might be. German; He KBOWs his peolovell next week will bring to light much When Go usual sequence of expected rewards IT'S A LESSO SOM . NO REVIEW, certainly no review | 11e Only character who never rings : new material of the sort,” Mr. conference, h and feared puishments we learn tion. If the newspaperman, un Each has his own frustrations.|i, newspapers, can do full justice to quite valid is his protagonist, R TT Lewis says. His execu from childhood, a whole new struc- editorial pressure; must wilte Shop Quant’s is the frustration of fail-\npy Auden's intelligence, imagina- Andrey Cooper. NA” will be d SKEPTICAL—Montgomery S. “The collection may be largely redecorating ture of caprice was set up. The and clearly, then he mus sare nd | re: Malins, a sense of purpose-itjon and technique. His alliterative The Steeper CHIT" will vel | Lewis, local expert on Abraham | letters and papéiigifrom other peo- governor's sa prisoner who had been kind to his fit human events into a-clear ant lessness; Rosetta's, a thwarted|yerse has the Anglo-Saxon vigor and Nked, 1 think. Its a Ars nove | Lincoln, doubts whether the ple, and the chances are that most ‘ when the gov fellows while he was working to simple pattern. But human ev dream of - marriage and idyllic | or «“Beowulf.™ Tt is made the vehicle | It Certainly ‘presents a new writer 5 of the material will be found to Keeper” when atialff pover : became tHe land human be are. Dever country life, and Emble’s, the be-ot profound and subtle insights|¥el Werth reading. Lincoln private papers, to be | eq) with the civil war years, rather The house Brenner simple or clear, Su at the news- wildering gap between the séxual|yhich take the reader out of the a —————— opened next Saturday in Wash~ | yan with Lincoln's early life,” Mr larly importa ” ¢ = * |paperman writes for the majority of | success his youth gnd. good 100ks routine of daily circumstance we H. Allen Smith's ington, ‘contain. sensationally | Lewis concludes. ) about the ene his readers becomes a kind of fic-| can bring and “the kinds of suc-|..y reality. N B k S h d | d new material. ernor” is. T tion, Simplifying leads to. distort- | cess which have to be earned.” di ew DOOK ocheaule : bli to be done. | ing For thoughtful readers, “The Age| H. Allen Smith's new book sched- Another Book Tell Bi iography Lists Although : “ STARTING WITH silent solilo-|of Anxiety” is a release from and |uled for fall publication by Double-|/ANOTNEr DOOK 1€/s Mr. Auden's “Age of Anxiety.’ dre. ; p | g Book on. City Histo the shadows which is our age, our universal Jules, Jie Stoup Ee mid sogeLner Sito of Fe actual world where|day is entitled “Lo, the Former How to Rear Children * Observinssthe ty Histor y cen - < publicity is t 1 atter. Some | y the mellowing ence Q r ime is real and .in* which, there- Egyptian!” new book of advi : to vo , / 08 ign Te nLaYy eoms ey exchange reflections, like’ fore, poetry can take no interest,” According to the publisher, the rN ko a Re ] Young Jona), Wie Mary Cain ai Mus Be UL OWATTS fort from our favbrite columnist or geetta's eomment : ; I use Mr. Auden’s own concluding title refers to that part of Illinois| malik About Children,” by Elizabeth ar ha A atone mit One { commentator—the familiar phrases Lies and lethargies police the|Phrases. | called Little Egypt, where Mr. Smith | Bradford, to be published Aug. 18 of the city's listory doesn’t have An All- Indianapolis Quartet) of prejudice, the reassuring, know- world This great modern poem makes | | grew up. The book is described py Prentice-Hall. Entitled “Through the Years” and to be done. v, it-all voice. Deep down in us is the In periods of peace. What pain most current diterary output seem |as a “hilarious account of a senti-| The mother of two children, Mrs. avallable on ‘request, the book ist mintite detail knowledge that tings are connect- ___ taught cheap, easy ant unsatisfying. | mental journey” home, a trip which| Bradford conducts a daily radio 4 ecutive office

ed in ways we do not see. Tragedy I Tr

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program of advice to mothers over

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SURVIVOR—David" Rousset, |in China affects us, just as the loss M k - | | | station WCSH in Portland, Me. history of the city and its people. : French journalist and author of |of a local factory's market in some Intensity ar S QO Nove Reissue Autobiography ‘Sus’ Is Sel d HIS REPU] “The Other Kingdom," who sur- |distant state may affect Indianap- Helen Keller's great autobiogra- Guide do Good Food us. Is Selecte that from a vived 16 months in German [olis employees. f Romance i n Normandy pr ig Suny o iy De In co-operation with Gourmet As Book-of-Month a little wi us en re-issue y u ay, y Because of

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prison camps, losing 95 ‘pounds

Film Books Offer Two New Titles

THE WAR CAN'T be laughed off or forgotten, Mr. Auden's characters in his poetic dialog—three men and a woman who meet in a New York bar—have all suffered war damage. Not always directly, but no less

"THE WHITE BULL" A novel. By Henry Blanchard. New York, Doubleday, $2.50. On a 1937 holiday in Normandy, William Gerard, American pianist

older daughter, Jenni (Genevieve). And that's where trouble begins. Love isn't enough in provincial France; a prove in advance his solvency,

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“Gus the Great,” by Thomas W. Duncan (Lippincott), will be the

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