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SATURDAY, AUG. 30, 1047

(A Regular Weekly Feature of The Times) ¥HE FIRST READER . . . . By Harry Hansen

Two Author Friends Call For Idealism, Leadership To Solve U. S. Problems

"THE STAIRWAY OF SURPRISE," by William Rose Benet, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, $3.50. "AMERICAN MEMOIR," by Henry Seidel Canby. Boston, Hough ton-Mifflin Co. TWO EMINENT WRITERS, long associated in editorial work In New York, have published two sane, constructive, hopeful books within a few days of each other. : One is Willlam Rose Benet, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, whose new poetry is offered in “The Stairway of Surprise”; the other is Henry Seidel Canby, critic and chairman of the board of the Book of the Month club, WHOSE. “AMEEIOAT | "rr ——————— — Memoir,” a personal pilgrimage of what is clean and decent has offers sure anchorage to those heen outraged by boosts for books

BLUEGRASS BROMIDES— Kentuckians

Won't Like ‘We'll Sing’ "WE'LL SING ONE SONG." By Olive Carruthers. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, $2.75. By EMMA RIVERS MILNER KENTUCKIANS ARE entitled to | resent Qlive Carruthers’ story about their state. Nevertheless southerners and people of the north likely will read it in great numbers. The very entertaining book, “We'll Sing One Song,” was released this week by the Bobbs-Merrill Co. Obviously, the writer has taken her title from the Stephen Foster song about the “dark and bloody ground.” But to make sure the reader will not miss a morsel of the atmosphere, she somewhat heavy handedly lays the scene in a town called “Bluegrass.” » ” ” y ARTHUR CARRUTHERS drives a chariot of many horses through the,

floundering in the literary back-|.i...t perverts and lecherers, read wash. [Henry Canby's calm, heartening| Mr. Benet is a brother of the .pnerican Memoir” Mr. Canby late Stephen Vincent Benet and y.. never professed ominiscience; long has been active as a poet and|,gither hag he bullied his fellows a gp] oF the Sa uring Review in reviews, He held fast to his n fact, he has » 35 books since 1913. His new poems | Michorage in 3 sworn period, but : rents: ms | MS mind remained open and his| show his Vide 2 en a, ton | est for discovery unchecked. | about love an ro wp - of | His book deals with underlying poems inspired ys . pom 8 (ideas rather than quirks of person-| the Rains ud i A ality. Some of his views will bear erty and os a [reflection The nets, both am Aan " f A ' Hemingway—"He likes anyone Sraphen, . Sune Ee dt with life in him and does not care ONA. . poeiry, how he uses it. Hemingway is no to give free play to their exuber- | oqlist at heart and certainly not| Sie fn Shop wilkings. oe TVET philosopher, His personality, his : moods and his temperament color| brothers have been patriotic in the| ov erything he writes. Morally he best sense, Seng AINeSiCHuiNG/yy quite irresponsible. “It is the wih a Secenlt Jegard rat irmn sensual. not moral, man that in-| £h'a and asp.rakons. {terests him. ; 1 believe that William Rose Benet writes sharply|y,mingway has come to doubt his Ne Was Of ur lime vo Nelineony of life without principle.” er Dos Passos—"He invented a kind wages a stern battle against totall-| or yterary television, calculated to

{intricacies of her story about the] |state across the Ohio. But she] [holds a firm line over each shift of ; : | attention from one to the other. iv ? , : In the end, she brings her chariot I, U. AUTHOR—D:, Oscar O. Winther, of the Indiana university history depart- Jo u sivas) with every character . * " . ment, looks over the proofs on his latest book, "The Great Northwest: A History, It does seem a bit obvious, howwhich is to be published next month by Alfred A. Knopf. Dr. Winther's book deals |ever, to conclude to the sound of|

with the Oregon country which now comprises the states of Oregon, Washington and |the radio playing “My Old Ken-|

'The World's Great Madonnas

Arouses Warm Response og 0 | "THE WORLD'S GREAT MA-

Maus. Bros., $4.95. A LITERARY CRITIC once confessed that a certain book aroused within her such a warmly human response that she instistively pressed it against her cheek as she finished reading it. J , A volume to inspire just such sentiment is “The World's Great Madonnas” by Cynthia Pearl Maus formerly of Indianapolis, Miss Maus’ book contains reproductions of paintings, poems, songs with scores and pottions of literature which have been cherished for genStations by different races and na-

" . ” THUS, TO adequately review the book would mean to sum up an extensive record of mankind's appreciation of Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ. . For this five-pound anthology conos WW tains 114 full-page art reproductions GROTTO MADONNA —- (With as many art interpretations, Karl Muller's "The Madonna of |239 poems, 60 stories and 62 hymns, the Grotto" is reproduced oa carols, lullabies and folk songs with full-page illustration in Maus’ explanatory notes.

H X On the jacket is “The Sistine MaVe World's Great Madon- |gonna by Raphael and ne Ya

ispiece, appears “The Nativity” in stained glass by William R. Jack. A full introduction follows; definitions of religious symbols and indices. ” » ” MISS MAUS is a world traveler

» Plot Is Thin and long-time student of religious

i “ art in all its phases. She comDEAD TO THE WORLD. Bv piled and edited another anthology avid X. Manners. Philadelphia titled “Christ and the Pine Arts.” David McKay Co., $2. {She lived in Indianapolis ‘for many HERE'S A mystery novel that is years and was the first dimector of really a mystery novel. | young people's work for the United AS 5.malter of fact, after read. | Christian Missionary society. While whe here, she was active in the Inter ng it I'm still not sure “who done Nos Literary club and other organ-

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. DONNAS." , By Cynthia Péari New York, Harper &

|tucky Home.” |daho. | It is probable that Kentuckians | [their foolish traits much oftener| than their admitable ones. Lookner, $2.75. . {the most part good but also posYOUTH 18 ALWAYS brash, noisy and disrespectful of .authority, 5¢5ed of the usual human frailties. , ‘ar-Ao. we it.” Unti] I skimmed All these strictures apply to youth as it brags, talks, loves and Jears of ure 5 ue oho well. Bot I : i back through; despairs in Vance Bourjaily's first novel “The End of My Life.” This e Biven Uncers.an was even a little uncertain as

- ree pees ipsa eee — {will resent “We'll Sing One Song”| Ar y Rules Cool Wild Youth \because the characters dramatize ! : . . r | n e n oO I e {ing back over the book, there does y {not seem to be very many normal Youth is hungry for love, covering up its uneasy physical desires with | Por | | lippant banter. Youth talks with the loud deep voice of inexperience |, WELLS WICKAAY, one. of ihe is the first story of army life in| —— ja WO lcm, tie 34] Ie to just what had happened. , | . The disconcerting thing about!

"THE END OF MY LIFE." By Vance Bourjaily. New York. Scrib [persons in it—men and women for but deep inside it is often afraid -of the dark. (two heroes, does find himself after | which the light-hearted gaiety of tempt to perpetuate the legend of |

izations. (E.R. M) *

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tarians, regimenters and equalizers. The poems end on a strong note. The fervor of the old progressives, the men who fought all abuses of democratic life and tried! to keep opportunity open to the! many, rings in the lines of his

poems. » ” ~

THE BOBER second thought of a Judicious critic, Henry Seidel Canby, in “American Memoir,” offers a ray of hope to those who abhor the violence and crude realism of] current books and hope to see the imagination function once more. Mr. Canby thinks that “out and out realism, while it contains invaluable elements for a literary diet, seems to be short of vitamins for the nourishing of the imagination.”

put the new background of noise, movement and confusion against which Americans were living into

out its plot. , . . But I doubt whether his books have enduring quality.” Gertrude Stein—"“Her admirers, if they were real writers, took nothing from her but a fresh view of

without losing my temper.” Thomas Wolfe—"He could not stop writing once he began. His work is autobiography, raised to fiction. In sheer size of imagination as well as body, the biggest of them all.” . Mr. Cranby's book will go on a special shelf that I reserve for works that interpret our time and cheer the spirit. On it stand Bliss

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words. I still cannot read her| |ty__paul Nett! of Indiana uni- |

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youth runs head-on into the cold, nonparticipation. It lets you feel in yerear, aod JSertanly. ihe ac-|ipeeq to the World,” is that a hard repression of army discipline that you're at war voluntarily. . . * 'nardl fits the ane ay ana y| great portion of it is a dream] ind meets what, in the deep seri- | 8 a = lot y C0Ce “Or mos sequence of Jim Hunt, author of ousness of the chief actor, is death., THEY WIND UP in Italy, where {detective fiction now mixed up in| Actually it is a term in the hoose- they hear the lowdown {a murder himself. BOW.

us. Steve Pickett, Wells’ best friend on the and co-hero, was born to poverty as TT a |American army: |Wells was born to riches. The| THERE'S A thin line between! IT HAS the gaiety that FP. Scott| “The American army stinks,” '€ader rejoices in Steve's success,|, real action and the d Fitzgerald put into “This Side of says the American serge his determination, his influence in| e dream— geant. near i So thin that the reader 1 Paradise,” but what it tells is pain-| coo o10. «a bunch of amateurs the community. Then in the very| eader lays the ful for serious Americans. For it| ’ "last pages, Steve is killed, seemingly book down still unsure if all the! shows youths without responsi-/* ++ I I had it to do over again, needlessly. | people killed in the dream ended bility or serious aim, mis-educated I'd rather spend the time in a clean | MURDERS. meons’ine sulls. di {9D ead of very HEH alive, fellows. who have soured on the jail. It's a great career, the army. | » . e story is about a detective-| world before they have known it. |For pigs. If I ever have a son and |orces 2 Tonal uigue alll novelist attempting to trail a mur-| Happily, not all our soldiers were/he wants to join the U. S. SYA Shite mi a oh del ret Who gots Sluiged and tossed moral defeatists, {Tl do him a big favor. I'll say ‘turn; { u 0 drown. In his i : {because a mulatto girl does not re-| unconscious state ok] Vance Bourlaily is 25 and a your back, my boy’ and when hely ‘pi’ omection, And the inevi. over ious 3 he travels back senior at Bowdoin, picking up the does, I'll kick him in the spine and table northerner nak ¢! past events and suddenly rethreads of study he dropped in cripple him so he won't be able to| cc.” 0 0 Yeon tey oe I Nl Me ldentity. of the killer. 1942, when he joined the American make the physical.” fs : . | | Field service and served in Egypt inn in spite of local prejudice. | REGAINING consciousness he

He adds that “It is evident that, co «Threshold in the Sun.” and! in this confused age leadership is q4 8 un, oa

* » {Carl van Doren's “Three Wi as [F L f the crying, the shouting need. And! Bren OF Cs ami Y t e

1 sdent $5 th {Anyone interested in New York's| it should be equally eviden © literary history will find Mr. Can-

{Perry's “And Gladly Teach,” == Book Recalls and Syria. He returned in

tq Skinners, : Pechonglorany Soe In fact, many of the basic events uses this information to track down! J 4vi2 develop. 1s final recklessness 1S presented on Miss Carruthers’ very the culprit—sure eno sam { with a handful of notes on his ex- yielding to the pleading of a vlond wide wanvas have furnished the bo ulhe oT R hig ugh e guy|

perience, {hospital aid who wants to see the for novels about th : s e South since! At best the pl i He was inducted into the in-|g.one They see the front, but a (1865. | reading ye Dn, Is Shin nd. he

Clubs Expanded

Expansion of the Teen-Age Book clubs organized last year in three Indianapolis high schools was announced today by Martha Huddleston, director of the project. Clubs were organized -in Broad Ripple, Decatur Central and Warren Central high schools to stimulate more interest in reading among young people. The project will be resumed in September and a monthly publication featuring coverage of books and world affairs will be issued. Last year the project distributed more than 600,000 books to 90,000 teen-agers in the United States Hawaii and Puerto Rico, ho?

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historically minded that the vitamins of idealism have been part of the diet of every great leader whose career shows good will ward men. . . . Realism is the best corrective of fanatical idealism and too emotional romance. But it is not good soil for the kind of imag{nation which can give a° disillusioned society a push out of a bad present, and the courage to try to make a better future.” That's what we have been trying to say here, but Mr. Canby, with his wider experience and sound scholarship, says it so much better. Moreover, he offers proof that the barometer is about to change. When the universities begin lecturing on a literary movement, it's practically

over, says he. “When the scholars ATTENDED WITH GREAT LABOR + gpspECIALLY

in our universities praise realism as the long-fought-for goal of American literature, I become skeptical’ This is an important statement, since it comes from the chairman of the board of editors of the Book of the Month club, which leans to ward romantic themes, “The Snake Pit,” “The Wayward Bus” and “The Hucksters” have been some of the less admirable choices of the book

clip. In his book Mr. Canby ex-|-

plains how the judges %ry to attain a concurrence of opinion, though not necessarily agreeing in full . . » IF YOUR EARS have been deafened by the tom-toms of the publishers; if your values have been unsettled by the insistence on economic determinism; if your sense

by's book filled with illuminating Judgments on the place of Green- | wich Village in our recent past: the | professional side of book reviewing;

the battle of the ideologies and the|Pook of children’s poetry, not for|

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| "THE CARELESS CLOCK." B/,|fantry, served in the Pacific thealer| German machine gun kills the 2 #8 a | Mark Van Doren. New Yorg®0d Japan and was discharged Injyiond and when Skinner is clapped | BUT THE AUTHOR's lack of in=| William Sloane Associates, $3.|FcPruary, 1946. He is a son of Monte ii, jail that is the end of his life. [Slght into the real heart of Ken. ' |P. Bourjaily, former manager of A: jaast he thinks so. |tucky offends this reviewer, who

“THE CARELESS OLOCK” is a! United Feature syndicate. | As for young Bourjaily, he's back | Was born and brought up there.

children but about the expe of having them and of Derenoe | mbulance group assigned to a ning, as this book proves. (H. H,) read her book because of a {man relationship we call a fam-|British unit in Syria rattle about - ly. |in the pages of Mr. Bourjaily’s The book is illustrated by Waldo novel: Thomas Galt, called Peirce with pictures neither ordi- Skinner; Robert Lacy, called Freak; nary nor prettified. | Benjamin Berg, who believed in the Many of Mark Van Doren's coming revolution and Rod Manjac, | verses about the subject have ap- Who went “queer” and deserted be-| |peared previously . in magazines Cause he couldn't overcome his ab[ranging from the Ladies’ Home DOrmality. {Journal to Sewanee Review. Nine-| Skinner's head was “full of [teen of them appear in this book|!deas, full of mischief, full of

[spread about it. throughout the South. And persons without southern background or knowledge of the section will enjoy it unhampered. For after all, the story possesses {the quality of sustained interest. And that is what carries the reader through-the pages of any- book.

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u ” » | i vad FOUR YOUNG Americans in an at Bowdoin, His life is just begin- (Even 80, I believe Kentuckians will v righteous indignation which wiil|distribution both of its publications

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for the first time. words.” The finest dream in| {Skinner's head was of his pre-war love aflair with Cindy in “a little! NOTABLE is apartment in the Village.” It's all “Down Dip the Branches.” It's'set forth here, like a romance of Interesting to try it to the tune! the 1920s. There is the deep seriousof “Aunt Rhody,” a ballad popu-i ness of adolescence:

“Time's running out, Cindy, Per-

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“Cervantes,”. a new biography of {the author of “Don Quixote” by, Aubrey F. G. Bell, was published ‘ecently by the University of Oklahoma Press at Normdn, Okla. The publication of the new’ work coincides with the 400th anniver-

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lently, has the quality of bringing it’s as If we only had three weeks.” on

you back nostalgically to the mld-| dle of your own family life. (D.M.)|

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Steinbeck Story er 3 Hilgs Troi CARELESS. . CLOCK . . . which were a few tex Ss, most | ' " — Abridged in Omnibook lot Hemingway and Fitzgerald, some | Sketches by Waldo Pierce il- which Lippincott will publish S | John Steinbeck’s “The Wayward modern library stuff, things Cindy| |.cirate "The Careless Clock." 10 a A og ish su. Bus” (Viking Press), a Book-of- had to have were “The Prophet,”| = 1 of poetry by Mark |by Willard Mullin, Scripps-Howard the-Month club selection last Eliot, Yeats, Housman, Tagore, a) , “n cartoonist : Pps March and a consistent best-seller, battered copy of “Winnie the Pooh,” | an Joon. : is abridged in the August issue of three books of Henry Miller's, which | {Omnibook magazine, {they ‘foufid in the closet.” | Other current abridgements in| Doesn't that remind yoy of F.| [the pocket-size magazine include Scott Fitzgerald and the days so ."Return to Night” by Mary!long ago? Renault (William Morrow); Irwin | Skinner refuses “to take this war | |Edman’s ~~ “Philosopher's Quest” seriously. It's just a big joke. If} (Viking); Frank Leslie's “There's get killed it's the biggest joke: of | {a Spot in My Heart” (Simon & a]l.” But Benny detéffnines to enlist | Schuster), and Carlo Levi's “Christ |i, the American army. He gets Stopped at Eboli” (Farrar, Straus.) philosophical: “No human being is an exception to humanity, skinner. | And this ambulance deal is an at-|

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