Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1949 — Page 8

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FIRST READER. Reber Minfon : ‘Master of the Girl Pat’ ells Fabulous Story.

‘Capt. Dodd Orsborne

“MASTER BF THE GIRL PAT." By Capt. Dod Orsborne. Edited by Joe McCarthy. New York, Doubleday, $3. "ON THIS SIDE-NOTHING." A novel. By. Alex Comfort. ‘New « York 4 Viking, $2.50. : R : SUPPOSE you were facing a tiger 13 feet away, your rifle slung across your back, what would you do? Suppose you had been sailing a schooner without food for 15 days and a passing ship refused‘to feed you because you looked like an escaped convict from Devil's Island, what would you do? = N ak The answer to these and many other questions involving impossible situations can be found in “Master of the Girl Pat” by Capt. Dod Orshorne, the autobiography of a British adventurer, Joe McCarthy, former editor of Yank, who did most of Capt, Ors-

borne’s. writing for him, swears the fabulous exploits told ad infinitum in the book actually happened. : ; Not to k you in sus any longer, Dod stood still Pe as he las come, Sonfused, bitter faced the tiger, too scared to| 2nd With no sense of move. Finally the tiger turned his

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is not uplifted by his experience. ere is no easy answer tw Shmul's problem—to find peace and decency in the world today. And unlike Mr. Koestler, Mr. Comfort does not use characters to project ideas. It is rather the other why ‘round. ‘Ideas illuminate Mr. Comfort’s characters. But he might learn something about plotting, .suspense and dramatization from Mr. Koestler. Too often the reader is let down by Mr, Comfort’s sudden changes of pace. If he would keep the drafts open under his fire, Mr. Comfort might write some truly great fiction. :

he could do was curse the ship's captain and continue sailing. He and a sorry crew finally landed, yes Mr. Ripléy, on Devil's Island! ” » .

DOD began his career at the ‘age of 14, when he ran away from his home in Aberdeen to join the Navy. At 21 he got his master’s papers; the t ship captain in the British Merchant Marine. I suppose a psychiatrist would call him unstable because he never stayed with any one ship very long. As he says, he was always running away from som and getting into trouble. At the time of the Spanish Civil

Brian Ielignce omer. Hs) Books Relate General's Life

"THOMAS: ROCK OF CHICK.

that his adventures on “The Giri| AMAUGA." By Richard O'Con. Pat’ b ; Jo New York, Prentice-Hall, * Although he tends to make light |, ¥% hough * wont|"ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA."

* By Freeman Cleaves, Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, $3.75. . IT I8 84 years since George Henry Thomas won the so-called “perfect” battle of the Civil War and achieved the only annihiliation of a Southern army by any Union general. In that four score and more years Federal generals who won fewer battles and made

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By HENRY THE DISASTROUS decline of

subject.

been heard from. Hungary now joins the ranks in “The

Hungarian novelist and play{wright Lajos Zilahy- who, it's Ipleasant to report, is living safely in. New York. With the aid of what I assume to be an excellent translation from the Hungarian by John Pauker, “The Dukays” is one of the more vivid and readable modern novels in the historico-socio-logical class, as Polonius might remark. # a» IT HAS elements in common with such different books as Rob-

ert Briffault’s angry, sensational

more mistakes than Thomas have been subjects of biographies and critical studies. But “Old Pap,” the idol of the Army of the Cumberland, only now comes into his supply held up. OWn in two biographies which in many Ways complement each

ri loyal to the Union. He paid for “Master of the Girl Pat” that in many ways, one in parthough it may strain your cred-|ticular being that his Confederate ulity, “18 a highly entertaining|sisters turned his picture. to adventure story. Dod makes you| Wall, .

on top. Sh, » » » o ga” IN THE DECEMBER iss f un» a “Rock of Chickamauga.”

“Thomas:

moving book, written with more novel as a literary form is not/dramatic dash and Mr. Cleaves’ dead. He suggested that whereas|the more scholarly. the great novels of the past have necessarily is much duplication, been principally concerned with the contrasts and clashes of dif- read both with profit. ferent classes of society, the novel |

have dwindled so. |Gen. Rosecran’s army.. But ‘his An excellent ‘example of the 8reat battle was at Nashville

novel of ideas is “On This Side| When he crushed the dashing Nothing,” by Alex Comfort, a|Gen. Hood and killed, wounded

: Jiacticing physician and one of or captured all except 9000 of

ngland’'s more talented young|some 55,000 men the Confederate “The Powerhouse,” his leader threw into that last desfirst novel, was a long grim story perate battle in the West." Gen.

which deplored the irresponsibility| Thomas’ stoke at Nashville has SE, a lmerant now 1925" was published last Tuesof the average man during a war, been called Napoleonic. Of ‘the; ... the Queen and Augusts,| day by Macmillan ($3.50).

His second book is brief, but still| battle it has been said thdt’ the a war story in a sense and still{true story of it might be told by relentlessly grim. . {putting Gen. Thomas's battle In .a North African city shortly orders in the past tense, so well before the Germans are driven did his plans work out. out, the Jews are. belhg sealed off The General died at his desk. In in barbed wire ghetto whenithe Presidio at San Francisco, a Shmiil Weinstock is smuggled in|letter defending himself from a by boat from Europe. Not sure newspaper attack half written in why he has come, he moves in a|front of him. Same through the burning of the| s—————— tto, the death of his father ' d brother, his own jailing aur.| New St. John 5 Novel g a murder investigation. | Robert St. John's new book on

S&F Israel, “Shalom Means Peace,” HE IS AN ALIEN Jew and not will popular,

be. published Feb. 10 by of the Jew transcends national-|to date Mr. St. ism. For hin the Jew is any be-jon the embattled leagured human, not just a mem-|in “From the Land of Silent

ber of a race, He finally leaves People.”

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John's reports

new children's book Edith Thacher Hurd Tibor Gergely. "Five Little Fire. Simon & Schuster's 25.cent Little

Virginian Hike Robert E.[“THE REIGN OF QUEEN go the 16th day they reached land, Lee, Thomas chose to remain/ TORIA." By Hector Bolitho.|

Feuchtwanger's !‘Buccess”

fascinated novelists of many countries, = . Over here, enjoying what some gloomy prophets think may be our own last prosperous fling, we've read French, British, German and even American novelists who made that decline and fall their

__|not too surprisingly, Upton SinNot all countries hitherto have . 4g iy me ye iy

Dukays,” \generations in the dynastic career a new novel by the expatriate of the Dukays, wealthy land-owning family in} Hungary. His two protoganists are Kristina, the elder daughter whose life is centered on World War I, and Zia, the much younger daughter, who is reaching mgturity, after a shocking failure in marriage, World War II.

to tell about the Dukays, but to explain their relationship with the soclety that sustained them gomewhat remote, thought still (their Ararat castle, not far from Budapest, had nearly. 100 rooms and a staff of 58), Mr. Zilahy gets both his heroines into the and sometimes trashy “Europa”|thick of history. Kristina falls and “Europa in Limbo”; Jules Ro- hopelessly in love with Archduke mains’ “Men of Good Will"; Lion Karl, later king of Hungary. Zia, sometimes startling characters: and, as a skilled amateur photogra-

Disastrous Decline of Europe Described In Forceful Novel of Hungarian Family

"THE DUKAYS." A novel.. By Lajos Zilahy. Translated from the Hungarian oy John Pauker, New York, Prentice-Hall, $3.50.

BUTLER : Europe in the past 50 years has

Mr, Zilahy tells the story of two

an immensely

at the beginning of Since his purpose is not merely

Trace Reign. Of Victoria

Writes of Youth

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{terribly embarrassing habits;

ipher, takes a portrait of Mussolint with a big grin instead of his professional scowl. Kristina, frustrated in love and disillusioned by the false security that quickly followed the murderous blunders of ‘the first war, drifts into the Riviera gambling set. Zia, after her brief and bitter marriage to a Venetian prince with lounge-lizard morals and no brains, finally achieves some happiness with a second husband, a Hungarian scientist. # w rv THESE FEW phrases can merely hint at the material Mr. Zilahy has packed into his 800 pages, He describes the Dukays, past and current, often with anecdotes too sharply related not to be true. As you read “The Dukays,” you often get the impression of listening to an extremely well informed journalist. Most American readers. will find the anecdotes and allusions

fascinating. But it’s safe to guess that any Hungarian familiar with the era described in ‘The Dukays” could identify some of the

originals. . The novel is packed with lively,

Rere, the half-wit son, first-born child of Countess Klementina Dukay, with his good intentions but

Mme Couteaux, French governess of little Zia, who unwittingly

ance and songs. ‘Zia fares better with her in-

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Tells Story of

Soviet Flier "LAND OF MILK AND HONEY."

By W. L. White, New York, Harcourt, Brace, $3.

THE average Russian does not care for the American Communist and fellow traveler who thinks the Soviet Union is a wonderful place to live. That Is the

America.

W. L. White in “Land of Milk and Honey.” It is not an attack

mocracy. It is the simple story of a young Russian told in the same easy style as Mr. White's “They Were Expendable” “Journey for Margaret.” Vasili Kotov was a child of the revolution, who was selected for technical training because of his clean record of adherence to Communist edicts and his intelli-

and

gence. He was an airplane en-

gineer, and when the war with Germany broke—to the surprise of the Russian man In the street who had been told the Germans were Russia's true. friends — he became an army flier.

® » . IT WAS in Romania and Hungary, two of the “decadent” capitalistic countries, where he saw that the average man had much more of the fruits of his labor than in Russia. . “Land of Milk and Honey” is the story of the people and things that struck him strange in America and a comparison of the land of his choice with the land of his birth,

“Ithrough bawdy, earthy South-of-\" You can even be arrested .for y d laughing at the wrong joke, but Russians still laugh, Mr. Kotov

. our MEM! THOSE ANGLES tell much of| accomplished in over 400 uninThomas whose life is thoroughly spired pages what Strachey man-| handled by Richard O'Connor in|aged to do brilliantly with much Rock of Chickamau-|less strain. and by Freeman Cleaves in| The Reign of Queen Victoria

Mr, O'Connor's is the faster/monarch in a

While there| This is done in a fairly objective a manner. But when Bolitho writes

student of the era will might/about the old queer he uses a Gen. Thomas won his name Wise old woman. 1

of today must deal with the clash When he stood tight with his of ideas, because class differences cgrps at Chickainauga and saved opinionated but conscientious side |

'[“Indiana: An Interpretation,” has

New York, Macmillan, $5. Inevitably, . any biography of| Queen Victoria will be compared ° to Lytten Strachey's classic work| in the field. Hector Bolitho has

traces the life of the young light romantic vein. Later we are given a portrait of the middle-aged queen:

|soft pencil to delineate a kindly, | : Vera Brittain writes about the impact of World War || on ‘a typical Brifish youngster, Adrian Carbury, in "Born 1925." ‘Miss Brittain's new novel continues the chronicle of youth vs-war begun in her famous "Testament of Youth." "Born

ow» { HER STUBBORN, ‘prejudiced,

is completely ignored. Also overlooked is the part Played by the mentally superior Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. . Author Bolitho adds little to what is already known about|: Queen Victoria. He does, how-

Empress of Prussia, ahd a series of letters from the Prince Consort to his old tutor. Bolitho has also made ample use of the 19th century files of the Hart-

Adolescent Study To Be Published

of adolescents and their moral

. |struction in French folklote than

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A kind of “Middletown” study)

reports, at themselves did her elder ister, Kristina. Nurtured on polite evasions, the Kristina at'14 was made Le respect for the government. nant by a village lad employed as instructor at the

Mr. Zilahy has written more skillfully than some of his competitors in the engrossing field of recent historical fiction. His editorializing and philosophizing

built in one alone.

less obtrustive, than you com-|other country,” cludes: ¥ novel.

writers have observed: The awakfor

{empt from social conscience came Probable vehicle

before any of the well-bred rich|his “Books Into Films” realized anybody had dropped alin last Saturday's Pu mat®h. Weekly. Perhaps he under-emphasfizes’ one casual sequence, ieh writers generally tend to neglect in recording the progress of destructive revolution. The blessings of science decrease the death-rate without correspondingly increasing the per-acre food yield. It's high time (in fact, it’s almost past deadline) for a - big novel explaining the world in terms of hunger rather than ha-| treds.

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Post Prints Article By Ex-Times Writer

John Bartlow Martin, formerly of The Times staff and author of!

his first Saturday Evening Post article in this week's issue. ' Under ' the title "What the Miners ‘8ay: About John. L. Lewis," Mr. Martin's article is a pepo of conversations with miners in the little soft-coal town of St. Michael, Pa, i His book on Indiana was published last year by Alfred A. Knopf. }

Signs Book Contract Malcolm Bingay, Detroit news. \paperman whose “Detroit Is My |Own-Home Town" was published (by Bobbs-Merrill, has signed a {contract with. the Indianapolis firm for a book of memoirs to be called “Of Me I Bing” scheduled for apripg publication.

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Langston Hughes, distinguished t. is co-editor with Arne Bon of "The Poetry of the Negro," the first anthology of its sort in 10 years and a recent Doubleday publication. Together with new work by important young poets, the book contains also much newly translated verse hitherto unavailable in English. | A sixth volume of Mr. Hughes’ own poems on Negro subjects, “One-Way - Ticket,” was pub-

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"THE SORCERERS." A novel. By Rudolph Kieve. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, $4.

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lished last Monday by Knopf.

Local Literary Club To Hear Forbes" Talk

E. Gilbert Forbes will address the Indianapolis Literary Club

Great Waterway.” Spéakers and subjects for the

Francis H. Insley, “Malory’s Arthur,” Jan. 31.

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an interesting picture of the {forces of conflict in Germany be{fore the first world war is “The |Sorcerers,” by Rudolph Kieve. {The chief protagonists are an {idealistic Jewish planter and a {Junker, who are neighbors and {business partners in western

Monday on “Mississippi Mud: Our Gerriany. The Junker's brutality .

and his insistence on using Polish slave labor finally. result in his breaking away. characters are

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