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| te THE FIRST READER oei.BY Harry Hansen Van Doren's Book Traces 1 Colorful History of Our \ ° Heritage—The Constitution
“THE GREAT REHEARSAL." By
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EVERY
Carl Van Doren. New York, Vik-
AMERICAN child is supposed to read the
Constitution of the United States before coming of age. Some do, many don't. Some have it explained, in part,
by their teachers. I last read
it 10 years ago, when extreme
New Dealers were talking about scrapping it.
The Constitution is the read document of the American people; it is consulted chiefly by specialists. . » ” » NOW Carl Van Doren makes an at to interest readers in the of the Constitution by publishing “The Great Rehearsal.” The Book-of-the-Month Llub has sent copies to approximately 375,000 subscribers, hoping, no doubt, that most of them will read the book through. Approximately 50,000 others will buy the book in bookstores within the next few weeks, Even so, that's only a small proportion of the - population,
. > CARL VAN DOREN'S book tells how the 55 delegates met in , in May, 1787, and worked over the Constitution;
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% your interest will be | caught by ihe picture of Berja- ma “my mnie "rh eles min Feamkdio, aged 81, sitting unity of eloquence.’ under De ase. Vrhanaty wih hope Carl van Doren's book ft Sy American. both ne - than noth- selt-anmuitll te ar
THE START—Carl Van Doren, who has written about the beginnings of American: democracy in "The Great Rehearsal.”
the| Were made he went boldly to the
most discussed and the least |
to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the- public repose by premature speculations.”
first session of Congress adopted
amendments to the Constitution. They . were property owners, military men, lawyers, even a few slave-holders. Yet they planned for the common welfare. One of them, Hamilton, had ideas for a much stronger central government, but when the compromises
front to argue for the completed draft against the entrenched land barons of New York State. Yet a recent book; “The Democratic Spirit,” dropped Hamilton out completely; The spectacle of these men working for the common interest is the very essence of democracy. s = = THE TITLE, “The Great Rehearsal,” suggests that this be read as a preface to world organ{zation. In part, it applies. But the men who made the Constitution talked the same language and had the same economic aims.
pressure groups, the old method of checks and balances suff disastrous setbacks, " ” . THEY WERE shrewd cians, these federation men. were, as Carl van Doren lawyers who did not use the lan-
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New Wallace Book Due on April 13 *
Henry Wallace hae delivered to Brace-
They didn’t even provide for the| freedom of the press until the
the Bil] of Rights—the first eight!
hear it, and it’s gone,” he said.
have been lent by the Onondaga Silk Co. of New York.
NO GARDEN SPOT -— "Back Yards," an oil painting by the Chinese-American artist Dong Kingman, is one of 20 ails lent by the Midtown Galleries of New York for a novel exhibit at Herron Art ‘Museum through Feb. 29. Accompanying each painting is a sample of silk fabric whose design was inspired by the painting. Fabrics
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("THE ART OF JUDGING MUSIC." By Virgil Thomson. New York, Knopf, $4.25. . OGY By HENRY BUTLER AS ANY one knows who has tried to write about music, the art | is perhaps the most difficult of all the arts to describe, One reason for the difficulty was suggested to me by Roy Harris, American composer, who was here to conduct the premier of “The Quest,” especially written by Mr. Harris for Fabien Sevitzky, at the Indianapolis Symphony's Pension Fund concert Jan. 29. In an interview later recorded|™ — in The Times, Mr. Harris said 1944 to 1047. It includes opera, music—particularly new music— Symphony and recital reviews, is hard to contemplate. “You besides some extended comments , jon the state of music and
Collection of Virgil Thomson's Columns Proves His Keen Musical Knowledge
. |and loving to her alcoholic, philhusband, Deem.
. | neglect and humiliation, culminat-
"A Powerful Indictment’
Writer Flays |
Mental Case Treatments “THE STUBBORN woop” A novel. Sy. Sly Havin. Chicago, Ziff-Davis, $3. confront: a re-
te ; Pr he other is the story ftself—a story of a devoted wife of a pros- . 5 »
MONICA PRYSTAL is faithful
After she suffers incredible torments ‘of ing in a miscarriage, Monica comes nervously
her committed to two stitutions and finally, to
Deem., Let's leave the story simmering on the back of the stove while we give a look at the indictment. Mary Jane Ward did a good job mental in
a Man Be Mad.” ss * =
THE INDICTMENTS can't be
Unless a critic has the leisure and the ability to study new scores until he knows them al-
some valuable columns comparing American with European taste and practice. A brief review of a book so full
most as well as a conductor has 1 a to, his judgment of new music/0f Information and opinion can °
and|follows two earlier books: “The sian. ‘And he can be fairly rugged
about prejudice.
{mention only a few points. Mr. Thomson, who lived in Europe long enough to know what he’s talking about, finds the top American orchestras, especially the Philadelphia, way beyond the European in brilliance and technique. But he deplores the Amerfcan’ practice of striving for enormous tonal effects. He notes sadly the tendency of stu-| American choral organizations always to get bigger rather than smaller. He prefers, for example, the Robert Shaw Chorale versions of Bach to those of the much big-| {ger Bethlehem Bach Choir, . » . HE HAS both an ear and a vocabulary for different styles in musical performance, He can tell version of the talk Mr. Thomson |you with rare precision just how gave at the Harvard Symposium the Franco-Belgian school of vioon Music Criticism last May. It|lin-playing differs from the Rus-
may be little more reliable than that of most other hearers,
un » 3 VIRGIL. THOMSON, music
critic of the New York Herald-
latest book,
derives its title from the revised
¢ of Music” (1939) and “The in his phrases about singers who Bal Scene” (1945). {try to surpass their vocal limitapg BRA tions and consequently become THE BOOK is a’ collection of shriecky and wobbly, : Mr, Thomson's columns written] One of the best features of “The
'Eagle at My Eyes' Absorbing Treatment of Prejudices
"EAGLE AT MY EYES." A novel. permanently antagonized the oldBy. Norman_Katkov. New York, [°F People toward Gentiles.
n Doubleday, $2.75. “EAGLE at My Eyes” was sub-
PEOPLE get serious and have mitted before publication to sevmeetings and pass resolutions eral hundred readers with different backgrounds, according to the In the meetings and the reso-|publisher. Doubleday quotes di-
_INFORMED—Virgil Thomson, music crific of the New York Herald-Tribune and author of "The Art of Judging Music," a book revealing wide musical learning.
Art of Judging Music” is an 18page index you can use to refer to Mr. Thomson's comments on hundreds of composers, conductors and performers. Hoosiers will be glad to read his commendation of James Pease, Indianaborn bass-baritone, who, incidentally, is returning 'to the Crossroads to give a recital for the Matinee Musicale Feb. 27. And his review of the Indianapolis Sympiony's first Carnegie Hall concert Dec. 6, 1944, though it pans some of the compositions on the program, speaks of Dr. Sevitzky as “a sound musician, a leader of force and refinement.” y » - ~ A MR. THOMSON'S prose i8 always clear and expressive. The columns vary, of course, as reviewers’ ‘moods are apt to. Some are more trenchant, witty and satirical than others. But there's neither meanness nor vague,
rhapsodic vaporizing in any of
lutions, the good-hearted - verse comments, some. violently
Anthology Announced Bobbs-Merrill are announcing! a new Edward Wagenknecht an-| thology, “The Fireside Book of!
Romane," to be published March just got out-of church-and cursed
The forthcoming collection Is) |described by the publisher as containing greatest tales of love and mystery and adventure.”
|Plans Sixth Printing |
The W. B. Saunders Co. of of
publishers. {ual Behavior in the~ Human | Male,” by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey jand associates of Indiana Univer-| | sity, is planning a sixth printing of the book. The new printing’ {will bring total number of copies; ‘In print close to 200,000. |
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pants decide prejudice is a bad Pro. some violently con.
them.
“The Art of Judging Music” hass
thing.
. | I'll leave to the high brass in! more than momentary value. vel
|laughed off—certainly not in In|diana, where appropriations for {mental “hospitals are notoriously Ww. low. Miss Harvin points out in the reporting side of her novel, which side is pretty
written. ‘Now again for the story: Miss hasn't convinced me Monica used or
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tions from the best in literature) Miss Harvin credits her with, why didn’t she wise up sooner?
umph over vicious male skullduggery gives away a lot.
VALENTINE—This
ers of the New Yorker,
drawing of a Steig, captioned "People Are No Damned Good" and reprinted from "The Lonely Ones,” published 1942 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($1.50), is that publisher's 1948 Valentine. The same firm has pub. lished five other volumes of Mr, Steig’s drawings, familiar to read.
PY sourpuss recluse by William
“THE SAINT AND THE DEVIL." By Frances Winwar, New York, Harper, $3.75.
the glory of her king, and the Lord to whom even the king owes obedience, in Frances Win-
Peo: war's new study of historical
| JOAN OF ARC, innocent and inspired as of old, rides again to
Joan of Arc Rides Again In 'Saint and the
Devil
characters, “The Saint and the Devil.” The man who plays the part of the devil is Gilles de
But if Monica all along had the de sense (fine taste and nice rere; |i ise Winwas: has made him
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And I think the soap-opera-ish character, conclusion of virtuous female tri- his downfall
Pp “THF. STUBBORN WOOD,” signed. His “Mystery-of the Siege
Rais, marshal of France, one of the cruelest men of France, Joan lived at a time when men around her and the king “had no more- morals than a pack of wolves.” The feudal age was built on the toil and sacrifice of the common workers. The lords wrangled with one another and abused the peasantry. Cruel treatment, torture and violent death were so common that people took them as a matter of course. 3 ». r ~ AGAINST THIS black period’ in man’s history stands the ¥igure of the girl from Domremy, coming forward to lead her king to be crowned. Her shining faith has never been impugned. That it won over the tough soldiers is a matter of history. How she was betrayed before the gates of Compeigne is also ol rd.
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JOAN : Winwar, who has written a new treatment of the Joan of Are ‘story in "The Saint and the Devil." a historical study of the Maid of Orleans and/Gilles de Rais, marshal of France. "
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utive offices, Cleveland 3, O.
Then they leave the meetings
the critics’- corps the chance to/learned plenty from it, and ex-|like ita predecessors in the field,
of Orleans” was a play of 20,000
Book on Flight Due
George W. Gray's “Frontiers of Flight,” the story of the research
“some of the world's|tary
and, like some of us who have
a flat tire or a leaky pen, they lose the thread. They're back in civilian clothes, and the momenniood of readiness to do or die for .an ideal is gone. Meetings and resolutions have no more relation to the. real prob-| lem of prejudice than my home town church oyster suppers had to the real problem of religion.
make big pronouncements on Mr. pect to learn more, aided oy that|deserves wide reading. But I|verses, in which a youth played
Katkov's book. For my taste, it's!first-rate index. And while some real, it's true,.it's beautifully done./of us might amicably disagree What's more, it's absorbing. For|with some of Mr. Thomson's Judgonce, the old cliche is accurate— ments, I think no one will dispute you can't lay the book down. Read his excellence as a reporter of it and learn something from it. I music.
personally am grateful to Mr.|
| Mr. Thomson's beok, through Katkov for tackling the Prejudice its national circulation, should do problem in" the best way, the hu-{greéat good both for music and for man way, the only way.—H. B. ul Journalism.
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think the indictment is more important than the story. —H.B.
Book Reveals
Soldier's seve
"NEVER A GREATER NEED." Poems. By Walter Benton. New
carried on by the National Adlvisory Committee for Aeronautics before and during World War IL will ‘Be published Feb, 23 by Knopf.
Shift Publishing Date
the part of Joan, while he played himself.
He used 500 performers, clothed and. fed at his. own expense. This play-acting took place when, as Miss Win'war says, he should have
been reconquering France for his king. Thé 15th century had| “A Mask for Privilege” Carey strange events to record. McWilliams’ forthcoming study of
wa. | anti-Semitism in America, will be MISS WINWAR. who Has read Published Murch 12 by Little,
. » ”. SCIENTIFIC and humorless books have been written about all this. It takes a first-rate novel like Norman Katkov's “Eagle at My Eyes” to give the prejudice problem human dimensions.
York, Knopt, $2.50. IF YOU think that all poems | about the war have to be full of violence and tough talk ysu are mistaken; Walter Benton's work
Mr. Katkov, who is a feature-
writer for the New York World+!-
Telegram, has ‘given the Jew-
- | Walter Benton's: cycle of
Bo Awswer te Previous tussle Gentile conflict the best fictional cteriologist: EITETIRIS JERR] \reatment I've seen in a long time; ENT ERIE DARE TIALLINI His novel makes the best-selling, — . ATOR SOR EIMELISTE] Hollywoodized “Gentleman's HORIZONTAL VERTICAL IRIANBISTIIRI DICER] Agreement” seem artificial and ~ 17Pletured | Aba =H ISFNSHE] wooden by comparison. “| : ‘bacteriologist “a or OID PST In his story, Jewish Joe marries 11 Esteems ve RIBIAISIEY Protestant and soclalite Mary.| 3 Greek letter pet Complications follow. That's the, 12 Keep ; 4 Symbol for - RIES] plot, but it's no “Able's Irish] 14 Encourage “erbium TIOINITLL Rose” deal, with its shallow farce. 15 Challenge $ Interpret bed It's serious business—so serious 17 Norwegian 6 Czar 24 Quagmire 42 Scottish that I couldn't take the space here capital 1 Kaght of the 25 Anger sheepfold to discuss it adequately. lephant (ab.) 26 Small child 43 Either a 5's oh ayagiian state 4 Indian 27 Aeriform fuel 44 Roll ONE POINT Mr. Katkow ve god 9 Crate 28 Morsel 45 Openwork stresses 16 that the prejudice and 20 Lampreys 10 Formed into a 29 Native metal tabric the conflict are not one-sided. His| 21 That thing mound 32 Showers 46 On the , hero Joe's troubles are due at| 22 Eye (Scot) 11Swift 33 Capers sheltered side least as much to Joe's mother’s 23 Opposed to 12 Legal point 35 Lure 47 Coin intense, vindictive, Old World bit- A eredit 13 Proboscises 36 Rent 52 Him ‘terness as to the attitudes of Mary| . . 16 Universal 40 Ardor 54 Symbol fés' Simpson's family and friends. HS 27 Merchandise language ' 41 Apportion iridium | - Joe's father, reminiscent of Wil-| | = EES to 30 British . 5 © |llam Manners’ rabbi father in| RL : , account money “Father and the Angels,” has wis- | 31 Arrive (ab.) dom and kindliness, but he is al-| torm most unique among the elders of] 3 Syotvied ‘their community. Memories of] 37 Any pogroms and persecutions have " i : - rr rene | Dass pola : Reprint Morley Novels | | Two of Christopher Morley's best-known novels, .“P on Wheels” and ‘‘The Haunted Bookshop,” will be reprinted in a single volume by Doubleday Feb. [= |19 ($3). { Book on Hypnotism EDITING RARE BOOK—Dr, John Robert Moore, professor of | To eo Ager af COlsh at Indiana University: sxamines the .1U library's copy of | : Nariel Doloa's - be Aation: nf ' new treatise on’ hypnotism and t 704) - "Essay on the Regulation of the Press” (London, | its use in psychoanalysis, by Ber-| , ‘OU ) One of three existing original copies of the essay. Dr. Moore - nard Wolfe and Raymond Rosen- | has been invited by Luttrell, a learned society of Oxford Univer op nd, ay Ye Suniisted Motiday fv and, to edit the little-known essay by the author of ""Robfin ' pt ‘ M508, . IRI
lic no longer associates love-
reading, that the pub-
making with rapture and wonder; you are confronted with the steady demand, since 1943, for
tured love, “This Is My Beloved.” Modern it is; of course, but also full of tenderness, beauty and tears. :
. » . NOW MR. BENTON has published a new book of poems, “Never a Greater Need,” which won't disappoint his loyal admirers. For here again is a group of poems about the love affair of a young soldier on leave, as well as a nostalgic memory of lost love—‘“tender-eyed, 19,” whom he now remembers without passion “as a runaway child is recalled on
the principal authorities on Joan's career, does not offer a new ver. | originally scheduled. sion, but prefers to dramatize the _ . wan most logical one. " 8he lets Joan speak for herself,| at the:same time portraying her| sympathetically and admiringly.| She does not describe the trial at| Rouen with the detailed testimony’ used by some writers, nor does she do much arguing about points of The author has written similar| studies of literary characters, and! books about the careers of Keats, | Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and | Wadsworth, the Rosettis, George Sand and Walt Whitman have come from her pen.—H. H.
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the eve of Christmas.” But added are the reflections of 2 poet—not a “seer or evangelist” --on the terrible destruction of the war. And herein Mr, Benton differs from those of his buddies who write In terms of violence, hate and profanity. . 8 =» i HE CAN work beauty into his imagery and still evoke a strong emotion against war in the heart of the reader. Foor he is the thinking man who wonders why this death, this waste of treasure. All the “little nobody-people who got in the way and died without or hope” are as those who died in ‘the chambers, for those who kn stand™ * "1H
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