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‘an entertaining “The Loved One” re. on p OF (barges, calésons, the uses of yellow clay versus concrete, and{want to be cooped other matters that engineers neither. os know about—and you will appre-|four walls. clate after you read this fight to = |Tégain the lost land. : there is a plaque on alloud to be borne; neighbors upwall’ that sums up 15 months!astairs rap on the fioor; tenants of distress: “Walcheren drowned to free Europe.”

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scribed in a novel, which must deal with individuals. Here, then, is a civilization preisented in the acts and agcomplishments of a sturdy, robust,

indomitable will to live of the

This is the story of the fight do down an eternal enemy-—the sea. Everything the Dutch possess, in their homeland, has been wrested from the sea. When you carve the foundations of your home out of sand and seaweed, you love them and fight for them. . rx »

THE DUTCH of the island of

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: breach flooded Walwas no small job of re- .' Even the British had, said: “The whole keeps pouring in there. against the

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mans: “That dike of yours is ing to

be a set of toy blocks, is a dung-heap already.” fought over mattresses, fascines

it makes you proud, once more

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{rows Mussey, is a salute to the Dutch. (8imon & Schuster, §2.95).!

saw them taking a recess. "The, water doesn’t take time off,” he! declared. “We're at war with the water, and in a war you go on|

He Argued technics with Kiage- BACK AND FORTH flow the {nitter acchsations: “You couldnt {stay home even one night!” . . . rificing hero, but Mr. Camus takes WAfter a man works hard wll Rieux’ ‘own estimate of what

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% » ~ ~ IT IS a laconic story, with no fine trimmings, but an integrity that wins the heart. It may not be the most decorative fiction, but

Wf the mighty comeback of ‘the human race in its fight against

The new 1048 printing of the Encyclopedia Britannica has just been released, according to Walter Yust, the editor. This new | for marriage in this book; and, if

| printing marks the 180th year Of | not marriage, the next best thing,

with disastrous results. ‘The men!

are cornered, sullen, if married; a 40-year-old bachelor is a victim of mother-love. The only marital risk, Frank Malone, runs from the advances of the audacious Irma; unfortunately it is not solely re. spectability, but a coldness toward the female that affects Frankie. { ‘The simplicity, even the comSharacger of these people, speaks ; they are not caricatures or misfits, they blend into the vast population that fills old houses on mean streets, but some of their sons and daughters will move on to better things.

| continuous publication of the ref-! erence work and is the 18th new | | printing of the Britannica in. the

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"TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER." A novel, By Betty Smith, New York, Harper,

$3.

lives in crowded Brooklyn write “Tomorrow Will. Be :Better,” a story of a

folk-story of Margy Shannon, the little $12 & week mail order "house clerk, and the problems tiof her married life; of her girl

ago. This is

chum Rennie, Irish Protéstant,

who couldn't marry Salvatore in : (holy church because her mother

objected and had to compromise on. an emergency. ceremony at City Hall; of Margy's mother, Flo, caught in an alliance wi Shannon,

the

and was willing to make sacrifices to gel them, and who, in the and, also wanted love, . . There are furious ar ents petween Flo and Henny Shannon who made a start in life ‘hopefully and got no farther: “I was pushed out when I was 12,” ex{plains Henny:

{ dollars a week.

{I can get. I'm’ stuck. lstuck till 1 die.” 3 a»

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day.” . . . “And after a woman '|works hard all day she doesn't up nights, ‘All day 1 look at the I might as well be inarried to that door.” | Soon the voices become teo

downstairs beat on’ the ceilings; the pigeon fancier on the roof yells over the ledge; all the neighborhood knows the Shannons are jawing at each other again.

a mother often faces a dead end and dreads a daughter's early marriage with similar prospects. | She dreads the loss of the girl's ‘lweekly ‘pay envelope, too; girls, {when they reach 18, want to pay board only and keep the rest for clothes.

» » » BUT IT'S the girls who cry

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BETTY SMITH dips anew into her memories of workingmen’s

| France, where the author ‘is in-

“Get a joo. my jold man said. Get any Kind of a job just so it brings in a few And Tve been| working ‘ever since, not what Ii want to work at, but anything And T'm

In Betty Smith's Williamsburg

J pony wagons.

“the plague is coming!” and every time I opened a new

repellent. Imaginary dangers call for imaginary precautions. It turned out that the scourge meant was “The Plague,” by Albert Camus, and that it already had achieved ‘wide popularity in

fluenci; the direction of ‘postwar ting. It was a plague, of presumably the same bubonic character, that led a group of Italian youths and ladies to shut themselves up in a azzo near Fiesole and entern ‘themselves with the stories transcribed object was to forget the plague. . » -

ALBERT CAMUS embraces no such opportunity for anecdote; he is concerned with a terrible pestilence in Oran in the 1940's; and its impact. on the citizens who endured it, / : His novel, however; is not a tale of horror or heroism; it is al-

'The Plague’ by Albert Camus

No Tale of Horroror Heroism

"THE PLAGUE." A novel. By Albert Camus. New York, Knopf, $3. FOR A NUMBER of weeks booksellers, librarians and reviewers have been getting anonymous warnings through the mails that

This device of book pramotion had me properly on the alert,

by Boccaccio. Their thi

package I went through the: mo-

tions of putting on rubber gloves and spraying the air with &|

only in ‘a few cases does he:describe the progress of the disease, and then without deep feeling. We are told that the. people sink their individual ambitions in their collective destinies; that they go about their business without enthusiasm, covered by. an “airless shroud.” When the plague diminishes they return, to their personal lives and the ‘proud egoism and injustice of a happy people.”

8. ‘We are told that human love is essential and that the citizens are united in a common experience of mankind, the “certainties” of love, exile and suffering. But Mr. Camus does not prove this, any more than the priest proves that the plague is a punishraent for the sins of the town. » al E J

most sclentific in - its deflating

{and far from using all the oppor-

th the luckiess tunities for wringing thé heart

{with a chronicle of tragic sulferof life, a often abstract, a tale such as doctors might tell one another between appendectomies.

ing and’ loss objective a

4 » » ” WHAT, THEN, is Albert Camus trying to tell us, and ‘why has it made such a bjg impression in France? : The omniscient story - teller, who ' knows all, would : live packed the tale with details and documentation. The Camus chronicle is sparse and circumscribe.

chological apparatus now so. popular would have turned the human subconscious inside out. Mr. Camus prefers to report

only the extérnal behavior of men. The naturalistic writer would ~~ have explained = the

plague in terms of social influ. ences and changes; Mr. Camus’ society is practically static. A ” » » HE TRIES to reduce the experience to what one doctor, Rieux, observes and what anather. man

theroic, limited in his medical

{takes place—the logical action of human’ beings, common d Y, which consists in doing one’s job. When the plague spreads, after first being observed In rats, the gates are closed and the citizehs of Oran shut off from the world. Their reaction’ is not violent; the imminence of death does not lead to wild orgies, but rather to a tightening of belts, a determination to see things through. # n . MR. CAMUS does not take us into homes darkened ‘by sorrow;

concern with human beHavior,! { {brings up the question why this| {should have achieved such wide

The author who leans on the psy«|

writes in his diary. The doctor is|Sept.. 17 by. Appleton-Century-2 hard worker, modest but not Crofts, Inc. )

knowledge. In any other novel he would have been the self-sac-

suffragette.”

THE UNDRAMATIC, inconclu-| sive character of this story!

popularity in France. Perhaps! 'the confidence that human beings will face the logic of events, will hold out whatever comes, sinking their ® egotism in their common welfare, is welcome news

reference to the human will: “What's natural is the microbe; all the rest, health, integrity, purity, is a product of the human will,” is approved in a land torn by political dissension. For Americans “The. invites reflection on rather limited evidence. The fact that men live and work coolly amid adversity is not. a major discovery. How to prevent plagues and wars | before they occur would seem more important! But that is beyond the scope of Albert Camus’ novel.—H. H.

”

'This Same Flower’

To Be Published Soon

“This Same Flower,” the forth-| coming novel by Jeannette Covert Nolah, Indianapolis author, has

had its publication date set: for

Mrs. Nolan's novel is described as “the story of a young girl's adventures in the Chicago of 1911 where .she becomes involved

But we are not shown|

to Frenchmen. Perhaps the brief] ee— -

Thoreau Biography Due in October

“Henry David Thoreau.” a new

biography by Joseph Wood Krutch, is announced for publication ‘Oct. 4 by William Sloane Associates.

The first volume in the American Men of Letters Series, the Thoreau biography will be :followed Oct. 18 by Emery Nefl’s

book, to be published Oct, 2 by town’ of St. Paris, O., during his was building up an internationally

BOOKSELLER-AUTHOR—Correcting page proofs of his forthcoming book, of reminiscences, "Pony Wagon Town! is Ben | Riker, manager of the L. S. Ayres & Co. book store. Mr. Riker's | ee Bobbs-Maerrill, concerns the little |

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