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‘With Great Understanding
‘CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY." A- novel.
York, Scribner. $3.
‘MESSAGE FROM A STRANGER." A novel. By Marya Mannes, .
. New York, Viking Press, $2.75. ‘. "HERE IS A remarkable
story of how a fine, deeply
‘elt novel grew out of an author's thinking about the prob-| ms of ‘his homeland, 10,000 miles away. roms] Alan Paton, a South African, came to the United States
o study penal institutions. In Fairfax, Cal, he met a sym-| ||
athetic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Burns, He began tell-|
2g them about the fear and asisunderstanding that di.ides a handful of white rul-
als, alcoholics: and hers, us-and millions of black men 3 hook Joc
outh Africa, and suddenly he ww he could tell it in a novel, a, iory of how suffering united al .mpile Zulu preacher and an Engsh farmer, t Mr, Paton's California friends | rged him to get it written. So 4 wrote, in between visiting in‘itutions here and in Canada. hey got in touch with publish- #. They decided the manu:ript must be typed, so he sent to them and it broke open in ansit and was delayed. i "so. JTHE CHAPTERS finally were rped and sent East separately, nd there was only one afternoon fore, sailing time for Mr. Paton % confer with the editors at
ought to have a much bigger welcome than we give to new! novels about tiresome homosexu- | But | “club has seen fit to give: it the support of its great circulation.
It is mot a great book, but it Is a moving one, and one of the few in which human compassion’ is expressed simply, directly, as a human need.
It is written in an idiom that must approximate the groping of the Zulus, suggesting innocence in a world of guile. The author|
tive directness that IT have to rub my eyes and say: “This can’t be| a novel; it makes no attempt to mystify!” : » ~ WE ARE glad Alan Paton wrote this story out of his abund-
cribners, who were getting a lit- = ‘winded themselves. Such was the origin of “Cry, ‘‘e Beloved Country,” or at least + { the manuscript; the experience
nd. (The fact that it deals with a ‘range people, with habits and
here prom a Stranger.” Miss Mannes
ime-serving ulu pastor lark’s Ch ondered rete sufferings ‘‘ou've met nothing ' urg, the city where young people isappear, to rescue his sister ‘ertrude, who makes illicit lquor nd lives in low djves. She agrees y return home with him and her ttle «He finds his brother ohn, & politician, who blames 1e1lis of his people on the white ian’s control of gold that the atives dig, but who has com-
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‘(tells her experience in" the first
ant experience and love for his | fellowmen. We need more such stories, for the lift that they give [the spirit—books without bitterness, that combat evil with understanding, not with exhibitionism. > u - - » " v ” - . - JUST HOW and to what purpose the dead can communicate with the living is a subject of perennial interest to some, and it crops out once more in an entirely new form in Marya Mannes' first novel,
treats it as a logical experience, without any table-rapping or befuddlement, and produces a sophisticated love story.
Olivia Baird was a writer and
person, seizing the reader's interest in the first’ sentence with:
‘When Olivia died she was mar-
ried to a man named Corning,
but ‘some years before she. had
humanity in the abstract, and had two children by him.
Brian, editor for a publishing house. The story has to do with
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thinks about her, successful in this story-telling. Of greater moment is the illumination of personality,
and the emotions, seen with the
objectivity that death,
memory well separated and there is never any confusion. Written with éxemplary clarity, it is good reading throughout.
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small chance for mercy. Why, asks Kumalo, is there his- suffering? It must be beause “the tribe is broken”-—and ndividuals are no longer respon-
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There is the age.old cry of the/reer in Banking.” by Dorcas E
Tgrarian, as a tightly erganized, (Campbell; “The New Economics,” ® ~ndustrial. civilization bears down'an anthology-of.25 appraisals. by of Keynes’ THEOrIes, edited by “Seymour oes
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{leading economists
THIS PARABLE of the sim- Harris; “Say It With Figures” a
hle-hearted Zulu parson, and the study of statistics by Hans Zeisel. | and “Television Primer of. Pro-| _
_Melp and understanding he gets LN the duction and Direction,” by Louis| ©
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“THE WORLD'S GREAT LAKES." By Ferdinand C. Lane. New! York, Doubleday, $3.50. FERDINAND C. LANE, author | of. “The . Mysterious Sea,” now comes forth with another readable and informative book, “The World's Great Lakes.” Using size as his criterion for inclusion, Mr. Lane devotes his new book to discussing the 42 lakes in the world which have areas of 1500 or more square miles. After introductory chapters on how lakes are formed and filled, the author examines, continent by continent, the great lakes including even the dead or periodical lakes of South Australia. f Largest of all lakes, he says, is
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the Caspian Sea, with its im-| imense area of nearly 170,000 Square miles. The smallest in Mr, Lane's list is the Lake of the
“Woods, onthe —intefnationaH
{boundary between Minnecota and| | Manitoba. » ” » y THE IMPORTANCE of lakes to mankind cannot be overestimated. They are natural reservoirs. If they become silted up, jor lose their area or are “robbed” {by “rivers cutting new outlets, they may become part of a dismal picture of increasing aridity. Possibly Mr. Lane’s most significant chapter, “Man Intrudes Upon the Stage” deals with water-wastage and the deforesta:
Novel About Publishing House Has Fairly
ing what Frederick Wakeman's advertising.
Hearse.” Batire can be informative, and from Mr. Gorham’'s keenly drawn picture of the executives ‘of Hutchinson, Inc, the publishing firm, you get a new sense of the emptiness and intellectual dishonesty of certain types of career men.
s » = AS MR. GORHAM’S hero, Rich-
“The Hucksters” did for radio
Perhaps, after all, that's the best feature of “The Gilded|when he’s reasonably sober or
“I died on Nov. 1 1946, in New brass of Hutchinson, York City after i brief illness” marvels at their pretensions.
idoddering old Oliver Hutchinson en te of Max Aronson, lana’ the ‘bankers by getting. the
Her real love, however, was sistant to the president at $30,000
her attempts, after death, to|success, rumored by his under straighten out Brian and make|lings to be on the skids.
THE DEVICE of letting Oliviajare the only ones who pay more overhear friends talking about{than lip service to integrity. Even her after her death, and of com- Eliot , municating with Brian as helirritate his superiors, snubs a be able to make next year proseems most really able new author and ‘keeps|vided you ingratiate yourself
comes after $6500 job.
ard Styles Eliot, surveys the high Inc, he
There's Randy Goode, president at between $50 and $75 thousand --a& man who has delighted
firm to make big money, regardless of literary excellence. ' There's Dixon Whitelaw,
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~-studiously correct in attire, attitudes, accent, but despite his
OF BOOKMEN—Charles O, orism, who describes the hu1 At a staff meeting, Eliot and man foibles back of the di one or two other junior executives fied facade of a great publishe ing house in "The Gilded
himself, fearful lest he Hearse.”
the promising manuscript from | with the higher echelons. the attention of Hutchinson, Inc.| Eliot's wife, Mary, the talented
of the(Eliot figures that the fight he'd|Boston Irish girl who has a betintangibles that govern conduct/have to put up to get the book|ter
» job than her husband's, is considered might jeopardize his similarly demoralized by the life . they lead. In earlier years when Saying “yes” in a variety of|they were both struggling on
though " ways is far safer than making small salaries, they were intense a hougs oe Joy 1 fu) of suggestions, Eliot has learned. the new experience and the old - -
ly devoted to each other. Now, » in the course of the 24 hours Mr. ELIOT also has - learned; as Gorham: describes; they have bit-! other- novelists’ heroes have| ter quarrels. Wounded pride learnéd, that success in New| leads them both to seek other
York is relative.—It's not-what partners—in--momentary, disilluyou're making at the moment sioning affairs, ; that counts—it's what you may, Although Mr. Gorham’s Richard
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"THE GILDED HEARSE." A novel. By Charles O. Gorham. New York, Creative Age Press; $2.75. rep By HENRY BUTLER CHARLES 0. GORHAM'S novel about a composite, mythical | New York publishing house has had a good deal of advance praise. The book is hailed, for example, for having done for publish-
Eliot is supposed to be remarkably... intelligent .. and. . able, - he seems to me one of the least sympathetic heroes in recent fiction. His idea of a soul-satisfying binge
a bar frequented by Czechs (this is back in 1938, the Munich period) and yell “Sieg, heil!" Even
merely hung over, he thinks nothing of calling Mary a “shantyIrish so-and-so.” ¥ » . THE 24 HOURS of business intrigue, dissipation, adultery, sordid conversation and fights Mr. Gorham depicts has. most of the ingredients of other recent city-life| novels .with reasonably shock-content. I believe one of
like. that kind of thing, that's the kind of thing they like.” But it seems to me that Mr.
Miller's somewhat similar “That Winter,” reviewed on this page last week, has a good deal more human depth. ;
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tion and farming practices which have hastened erosion. We are in danger of a water famine in the ascertainable future, Mr. Lane says—a comment which should be {of especial interest here in Indi(ana, whose water resources are |slowly dwindling.
t+ -Like many other conservation-|.
ists, Mr. Lane heartily approves of the TVA and the government's plans for the much-opposed Mis-
isto get plastered.and then go to!souri - Valley - Authority. Flood-
control is essential, he says, if we are to avoid the ultimate spread of desert areas. Once a desert gets started, it may defeat every attempt to halt its progress, as ruins of . once-populous ancient cities in the Sahara and elsewhere amply demonstrate. Also like other conservationists, Mr. Lane deplores the expending of our resources for destruction, citing the $2 billion the atomic bomb cost and suggesting
high/the amount of water-conservation
work which could have been done for that sum.
+ Article Summarizes
Progress of Race
“THE NEGRO WRITER and the Southern Scene,” by Hugh M. Gloster, is-the leading article of last month's issue of the Southern Packet, a literary review published in Asheville, N. C.
Dr. Gloster summarizes the history of the Negro’s contribution to. American creative literature, noting the gradual leveling of old-time barriers against the Negro's treatment of any but iracial themes.
OF MIDWEST-—Martha Ostenso, whose forthcoming novel, "Milk Route," concerns life in a small Midwestern suburban town. Miss Ostenso's new novel will be published Feb. 23 by
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focus upon white characters in 19th-Century Louisiana and were published without reference to the| Dr. ‘Gloster, author of “Negro| Voices in American Fiction,” be published next
Communications Center of the department of language and literature at Hampton Institute. Edited by George Myers Steph-
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To Be Ready Feb. 23
A new novel by Peter De Polnay, author of “The Umbrella Thorn,” will be published Feb. 23 by Creative Age Press, Inc. | The forthcoming book, entitled “The Moot Point,” is described {by the publisher as both “a psy-
- (chological study involving mur-
[der” and “a novel of character.”
"Days of Promise’ Due 'On Sale April 12
“Days of Promise,” Louis Stevens' novel about a Kansas family from the Civil War to Munich, will be published by Prentice-Hall | April 12,
Mr, Stevens’ first book in 10
(years, “Days of Promise” is de-, scribed by the publisher as “an
epic of grassroots democracy.”
New Book Due April 13
April 13, the anniversary of) {Thomas Jefferson's birthday, willl}
| be publication date for the first volume of Dumas Malone's four|volume biography, “Jefferson and {His Time” (Little, Brown). |
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Yankee Sea-Traders | DONALD BARR CHIDSEY, {author of "Panama Passage,” {which has sold a total of 585,000
{copies, has written “Stronghold”:
[& novel of the Connecticut coast {in_the early 19th Century, | To be published Feb. 19 by Doubleday, “Stronghold” con-
“Tens, ‘the Southern Packet 1s pub-/ 0» ihe. exciting. and, ‘violent
lives of Yankee sea-traders,
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{Death of Gandhi
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL! about GAndhrs “death and its signifieance for India and the world is being written by George |E. Jones for inclusion “in his {forthcoming book, . “Tumult in | India.” ’ Representing Mr. Jones’ interviews and investigations in India as “correspondent for the New York Times, “Tumult in India” is {scheduled for publication March (15 by Dodd, Mead.
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NATURES ANDIWORK— icing. French Biographe Loud in Praise of Middle West
“FROM MY JOURNAL." By An-
dre Maurois. New York, Harper, "$2.75. . WHEN a Frenchman says of an American: “He'is a friend of France,” he is enrolling him in his family. The bond that unites Americans to France is based on sentiment, on memories of good
{times, on respect for French. art’
and culture, But we don't say of a Frenchman: “He is a friend of the United States,” even if he likes us. I think the reason is that no one of us assumes responsibility for the United States. The nation is too large. We are pleased if a Frenchman likes New York, but
for none of us can get sentimental about a continent. : Yet we ought to recognize that some Frenchmen are friends of America, and be grateful for that. Andre Maurois is a fine, generous friend of America. He has penetrated beyond the smoky curthe Hudson. He has actually] found life worth living in Kansas | City, Mo. After six years, off and on, -in the United States, Andre Maurois returned to France conscious of a growing culture in America, aware that this is not a dollar civilization, pleased with the way streets and houses were laid out in Missouri, and mystified at some of the distortions Hollywood puts into the movies. You can read about this in his book, “From My Journal,” just out. : Pe AE WE BY THEY WERE STILL saying “Poor Harry Truman!” in Missouri when Andre Maurois took up life there. That was when A. P. Whitney was vowing vengeance from the Brotherhood of Trainmen. Mr.
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To Subscribers Only “CAN ANYTHING Be Done for American Radio?” leading article of the Jan. 31 Saturday Review of Literature, is. a stimulating discussion of present and possible future broadcasting. ; Written by Rolf Kaltenborn, son of H. V. Kaltenborn, the commentator, the SRL article proposes. nonadvertising “subscription radio” as a supplement to the much-criticized, commercially dominated network programs. » = ” MR. KALTENBORN’S proposal
William Benton, chairman of Muzak Corp. Under the plan, subscribers would pay fiye cents] a day to their subscription sta-
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what he thinks of Chicago doesn't’ matter to New. Yorkers.. We: identify America with a locality, .
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- LIKES MIDWEST — Ande Maurois, eminent French writer. who expresses his love for the American Midwest in "From My. Journal."
City in 1946. “Fifth Avenue host. esses think of the Middle West as a jungle populated with noth. ing but Babbitts,” he writes: “Nonsense! There are no more Babbitts in Kansas City than in New York. The conversation of cultured men here is just what it is in the East. But life here js more tranquil; one does not leap from cocktail party to eocktail party; one has time to read , , »
“My professor's salary is lower than that of an Ameéritan railway engineer,” writes the professor, But he loved the place. He con. sidered "Kansas City “one of the loveliest cities on earth” gH. hoped French geographers would devote volumes to the growth or American citizens. He coined a phrase: “Better a garden in Kan-
is had “elected to Sas City than a park. in Utopia.” Maurol had lee Wait-till the Chamber -of Gon.
{merce grabs that, 1 » » » SATURATED with: Balzac, he
Comedy,” one that might take 20 years to write but would establish |the author as the greatest Amefi. \can novelist of all time. Mr. Maurois was in the United States long enough’ to discover that the movies do not represent the American public. “Tastes and demands are attributed to them
lieve that he encountered the intolerance and inflexibility of much of our conventional thinking—matters that affect the box offices of the movies. Here you may read also about
Mr, Maurois’ home-coming in France and of his visit to Swit-
is based on the plan suggested by zerland, land of milk and honey,
where the people are worried because they have been so prosperous. They cannot forget that just over the border there is want and hatred. It was in a little Swiss town that he heard a frank appraisal of Bing Crosby’s film “Going My Way” which was being show thers. Did the people like it, he asked. “No, sir, not at all. They all said ‘Kitsch! ” “Which means?” “Sentimental nonsense.”—H. H
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