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“THE GOD.SEEKER." A novel. By Sinclair Lewis, New York: Ran-| | 3 dom House, $3.50. : Tein § "POINT OF NO RETURN." A novel. By John P. Marquand. Boston; "Little, Brown, $3.50. a, By HENRY BUTLER ea] SINCLAIR LEWIS has been disappointing his readers in recent years. : : "The God-Seeker,” Mr. Lewis’ 21st book, has even ‘less power than “Kingsblood Royal,” which had the merit, of dealing. vigorously, though somewhat fantastically, with: the problem of racial bigotry. : It's a reviewer's sad duty] Nay The Galeri, cave sshecls, are yang!

strian his-|in Westchester County) and ‘ry-| a Extremely Rede : “fing to meet alarming bills on} c ovel. #

Charles’ $11,000 salary. Nancy = ” [tries to needle Charles into asking| | MR. LEWIS this time hasithe bank president - whether | ‘chosen to write about wild Min-|(harles or his closest competitor, nesota of a century ago. HiS{gmooth-talking Roger Blakesley, central character, the God-seeker,!is going to inherit a vice presiis young Aaron Gadd from Mas- dent's job recently * vacated sachusetts, a carpenter oul [at official's death. :

builder by trade and a soul- sw 8 . especially arranged for children. o searching volunteer missionary to} THUS BALDLY stated, the

the Minnesota Indians by con-| theme io pure soap opera Um vol Nays Veteran Writer Turns Out Handbook Aaron's father, Uriel Gadd, was | something of the fragrance of the|

gue of those prodigies of New|cake you can wim win and st. R @myinisces——{On-Opposing Communism

that perhaps y | were worse than any written de-; scription can’

gift of Mr. and Mrs, Eli Lilly. to Herron Art Museum. It dates from the Chou Dynasty, 1500 B.C.

talent for capturing the talk and the attitudes of genteel suburb-| anites. He brings alive the mutually. irritating. dialog about so-.

Bingay. Indianapolis, Bobbs- York; Morrow, $4. THE ASSASSINATION of Archs|-~ Beak. Editon. Phe Clevetans Press.) DI TONG scvcw wn " seem, When Aaron as a {must be an endemic disease of - Cs {country-club-set couples. Wh Je _— | In clear, easily-read prose, Mr, turning point of civilization, Mal- {one of the rare thinkers who op-{Smwi thes Fas stray setter pup p’ |[Marquand can evoke a whole day colm W. Bingay, editorial director Poses communism for reasons that

i woes. On that followed {in the life of his hero. He can ot the Detroit Free Press, saysmay be submitted without dam-|tnem him everywhere, :

|deseribe the subtle ballet of com- { « ’ r lin ‘his new book published this'age to the rules of logic. Helour own stupidities. Uriel decided {petitors’ bucking for promotion. p |states his reasons clearly and elo- ~~ a having a dog

He can make entirely understand- | : 8 : was sinful as well as wasteful of (able the rituals of business con-| Mr. Bingay has been a news- quently in “There's Freedom for

food. : . In one of the novel's grimmest Harvard Club, lond book, “Of Me I Sin” is a scenes, Uriel commands Aaron to; “Point of No Return” is divert- ; drive the dog away with a club./ing reading because it's : Aaron wa | Urfel hobbles or LEE reporting. But it misses troit and the world during that > | to the rack, takes down the shot-|Deing more than excellent time- half century. .° ~ |many persons of considerable/might best be served by the ungun, opens the door, and while killer suitable for magazine se-| “The chaimwreaction that start-|influence oppose communism pridled ‘pursuit of private inthe dog is #risking In hopeful | rialization simply because it's not ed. at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, solely “because it is a threat to|terests. Slae, bows - the, creature's Bead Oa, ts Clyde | closed one book of history ang/tR€Ir own power and privilege.| Dr. McGuire insists that the deoff. ’| d w volume, the 8 “ But it’s Aaron's. older brother|Mass., his native town, stin seems | PCL cn wah being written describe such men as “conserva-|society a barbarous indifference who leaves home in a rage then.ino better than he should be for|, =~ 4." coch red bi 5t each|tVe” a word that implies a tem-|to human life. In view of the Aaron remains for a time, gets/the career he has. " | generation,” he writes: perate course directed toward the unbelievably cruel .and piously - converted from cider-| The “point of no return” is his a preservation of the social order.|practices which blacken swilling and loose talk with the wirining the promotion coincident- RE un Er, We CAROL Butt tint 46 THOUGH. Mr. Bingay's book is

village younger set and heads ally with arriving at middle age. bstituted conflict for comwestward as a missionary. There's not much indication that the st “for the passage of ma- THEY are often guilty op have Su ity Billet 10 s. Charles ever would have been| tiona} “characters from President adopting, for immediately gainful y

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be recommended as a

: for--both political {story of the story of Bingay, De-|jeaders.

® "8 Gd , ON A MISSISSIPPI steamer different—artist, explorer, phyal- Wittiam McKinley to Gen. Dwight P urposes. 3 short-sighted policy) The authors plea Is for. g re

for St. Paul, Aaron meets a Hoo-/cian, missionary. 80 if he's D, Eisenhower, who he claims to TO HY aces Somer Ee ws sier. Learning that Aaron is-from “stuck” with his vice presidency, have spotted early as presidential | / dious means of destroying their the expression of man’s moral

Massachusetts, the man com- he's still doing better than most timber, the principal characters 5 . f or 230 oe, Sa ORE Bm Je Bll 1 Be spapi Poe] wich, acs Lhe hands commit 1 ba or he nd cesspool of pride and vice and thought he might. : | The book is a running argu-ior Marxists effective tools de- vidual, whether he be powerful volupting! Thank God, I come; With tremendous abundance of ant over the relative ability of signed Aor the destruction of industrialist or humble worker. from Indiana, which is bad:careful detail“in recording the ,.ysnanermen of Mr. BIngay's human liberty EW enough, reeking with every vile ambitions, ‘snobberies and fears on, and the young reporters and, ‘The state perverted to private HE believes that with Amercorruption, but a whale of a lot/of the aell-heeled, Mr. Marquand g4itors of today. interests” says - McGuire “ends ican leadership the moral comsanctifieder than New England!" consclentiously smothers any wo.4 war I was also the turn-/by devouring private enterprises.” | munity may be extended through-

Mi the a ny jury there might be. ing point for journalism. It! The author is basically opposed out .the world by establishing a

with buxem#uldah Purdie, the | |. x school teicher; Her wafm, em NOVO z= 4 nine proximity contributes to his =~ S spiritual | But Huldah cant win same ON Emotions daughter “of an Indian woman : anda wealthy Scotch trader. i soon asiMr, Lewis’ sequence

a jcangnt Amegican newspapers with to communism on purely moral Western Union of democracies. orks but few “who understood grounds. He .opposes it because/He also believes that the invest+t world-affaifs, he writes. - iit places political fealty to the'ment of American dollars in Bingay started as a $2.50 a state above moral responsibility backward areas, together with {week reporter, who was kept from to humanity, and because it de- free access to trade everywhere, {college by an editor who told him, prives men of the means of ful- Would be in the interests of “A WREATH OFROSES.” Anovel.|"You are too valuable here and|filling their spiritual needs. world prosperity. By Elizabeth Taylor. New York; You have too great an .opportu-| In short, he sees Marxism as, But he warns that this may of events starts prodding. Aaron vA £43 . | nity. College ruins a man for the substituting politic: for morality|be successfully accomplished only ? P & ROP ds {newspaper business.”

land a dictator for God if leaders build into the universal out of his rut as a missionary, ORDINARILY Camilla would] The dictator. alwavea ; ’ 4 . ys a fantastic/ pattern a genuine morality based where he doesn’t seem to be ac-ip,ve given Richard only flitting| OF THIS

This ancieny Chinese” ceremonial vessel in the form of a particularly life-like bronze goose i# a |

by| to 500 A.D., and currently is on view in the museum's exhibition of “Birds and Beasts in Art".

But Mr. Marquand has great .oc \g | SING," By Malcolm W."THERE'S FREEDOM FOR THE BRAVE." By Paul McGuire. New

| Merrill, $3.50. i By EMERSON PRICE |placed -upon his monstrous am-

cial and financial necessities that ;... werdinand, the spark that! PAUL McGUIRE, native Aus- It is important to notgthat the set: off "Norld War 1. was the/tralian and political economist, is author does not see Aotalitarian-|, something deliberately tanst or Commu-| se for our social J he sees “an inevitable result. of

» gon or SOCIETY having largely aban- hook which will tell tourists where | fer r luncheon at the paperman for 50 years. His sec-/the Brave” a wor at _pHghtiqoned the moral disciplines, helto go, what to 40 and what to buy” rented > Pape han 1 y hatidbook [gees totalitarianism rushing into|in the West Indies. But he proves ~industrialithe vacuum. The disciplines were no match for his own resolve and, A thrown off in the notion, easily|about midway shelves that ob-| It cannot b€ gainsaid that|acquired, that the general good, jective to several exotic, dramat-

It is the grossest inaccuracy to (cline of religion re-admitted to|celebrated brother, Evelyn. Thus

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® » » EDITOR, Pat Baker, . complishing much besides giving 1 3 {egoist, recognizes no God save his/upon the principles of Christian

Mr. Lewis a chance to write down the results of his own historical research, things look up. Aaron ‘ elopes with Selene in one of the

absurdest passages Mr. Lewis yet

has written, |

_ Married to Selene and settled)

in the building business in fastgrowing St, Paul, Aaron drops all the spiritual anguish Mr. Lewis wrote about in earlier chapters. Aaron and Selene start one of

those patent Sinclair Lewis routines of the happy young couple. becoming prosperous. Fried oysters and champagne for supper

and contemptuous notice. To her he says, “If men like baker had gown judgment. While he brings tol ity.

he seemed “stupidly handsome, not been so limited in their educa-|pig high office all the sins and like an American film star.” She|tion andcultural development, I'vices and frailties of humanity had convinced herself she cared would never have had a job or algenerally, there is no appeal trom) little for men anyway; certainly/chmnce to advance in the first'his decisions; no restraints are this one seemed most unlikely to/place.’” frre - : change her. But he did. He and circumstances, : {| As Elizabeth Taylor tells Camil- Cleveland's crack that the people la's story in “A Wreath of Roses” supported the government,

not » je To she reveals herself a novelist of the government the people” Te- Weird in War

uncommon distinction. She com- porters were a hard-drinking,)

bines the rare qualities of insight poorly educated lot who were so "FISHING IN TROUBLED WA.!

into people, of effortless skill in|amazed at everything they saw, TERS." By picturing them “and the scenes that they carried this amazement, ! they move in, with an exceptional into the columns for an amazed: gift. for dramatic” narration, public. 5

Wilbert Mcleod Chapman. Philadelphia, Lippincott, $3. ’

In that period, when the people y ' . 1 ey “were still applauding Grover Hunt for Eich Versatile » ! Po :

Unless something of this nature is done, it seems: clear humanity must face spiritual starvation and physical death.

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Of West "THE SUGAR SLANDS." By Alec

Waugh?” New York; Farrar, Steals, $3.

yz . warm scented breezes and a lush;

tropical moon overhead might well be irresistible to most North {Americans. And there may have

{talizing in the mid-February release of Alec Waugh's concoction of (ravelog and romance, “The Sugar Islands.” At the outset, Waugh commits himself to writing “the kind of

ic stories of islanders he knows ultimately. ‘ Waugh writes in the remarka{bly candid vein of his own more

there are some shocks for the more moralistic reader, as when he describes how he aide a companion in the seduction of a third man’s wife and laconically

| HE LURF of a sandy beach, |

S|. TWENTY, -OUESTIONS = Guy Kibbee will be the guest of the panel of Fred VanDe«

WIBC 7 p. m. LABOR SITUATION — Discuse sion of the current labor situation [by union officials, William Green, president of the AFL; James B, ICarey, secretary-treasurer of CIO; Harvey W. Brown, president of ithe International Association of Machinists; George M. Harrison, vice president of AFL. Elbert Thomas (D. Utah), chairman of Senate committee’ on labor and public: welfare, will act as moderator... . WISH 7 p. m.

SPIKE JONES SHOW — Gene Tierney will be the gliest on the first program of the new time period... . . WFBM 7:30 p. m.

BASKETBALL TOURNEY — Final game of the Indianapolis semifinals. . . , WIBC-WIRE-

Guernsey Van Riper Jr., one of Bobbs-Merrill's - editors, has written "Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sand Lots,” the first sports subject to be added to the publisher's 43-volume "Childhood of

Famous Americans Series" for

|dismisses the treachery by ex-| |plaining “I'd never liked the hus{band much, anyway.” —After—a good -deal -of straying |from the path, Waugh concludes with a hasty, almost gulity birds-| eye view of each of the “Sugar |Islands,” strétching from Flor-| ida to Venezuela. -All in all it's| as interesting and certainly as amazing a travel book as you |are likely to pick up this year. hs

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"AMERICA DIVIDED." By Arnold and Caroline Rose. New York, Knopf, $4. ~ ANYONE with illusions about the “unity” of this country—and the word “unity” was kicked around a bit during the recent presidential election—might with profit read “American Divided” by Arnold and Caroline Rose. -

young readers.

“Our English Heritage” by New Sci $ Gerald W. Johnson, will be added Pell ence Stories to Lippincott's “Peoples of| egrini & Cudahy. will pub. America” series Mar. 23. The book lish a new collection of science studies the impact on American fiction, “The Other Side of the history of the English language Moon ” . - and English institutions. ©“ [jeth Apr. 4 The Lous Dest ;

i . book will contain 20 stories. Writes of Ohio (i

Harlan Hatcher, author of “Lake Erie,” has contracted with Bobbs-Merriil to publish this spring “The Western Reserve,” a history of the development of northern Ohio from the days of

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Here the authors, both experts {in sociology, explore, the causes | land consequences of racial and! [religious prejudice and its social {meaning to both majority and minority groups. Their book deals {with the Catholics and the Jews, "the Negroes, Japanese, Chinese

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guests and no more talk about what the Book of Revelations means.

As the story moves inevitably] They lived on free lunches in| PERHAPS not one man in a toward its climax of terror, you saloons, but “with all its eco- thousand among those who fought! i — | feel impelled to step into it your- nomic faults, the old editorial i the early stages o v | Mr. Lewis takes time for a few self, to try in some way to warn caste system did develop some the Pacific Fin hat iy sulirionl erate ueetiet, Hturatic Camilla of the danger tn walt truly great reporters. These were effort was made. to supplement io wins ; 5 n 8 oe not too|, Wreath of Roses” is a literary men—the very few—who 80 loved hig diet of spam, corned beef and etfective, since his:novel is.stringy| , 4 emotional. event. journalism that they stuck to it| vienna sausage with fish and miscellaneous and poorly! eet set——— |With no thought of monetary re- The story of that attempt—a - organized. ik . (ward but only for the thrill of moderately successful . # x . ‘Guide for Co-Eds |‘the game',” Bi rit | K uetesafn) one ia; JOHN P. MARQUAND never j'the game," Lingay -writes, {told in “Fishing in Troubled bas hit the Nr of Mr. 2 a. Dutton's will publish on May 8 “We were a generation of over- waters, by Wilbert McLeod Chap-! best writing, but that's partly| pro Sn ide) bh or there a cE um sa a. o.- 20Y : “Viman” a guide book for girls there were giants among us,” says because Mr. Marjuand has con-|going to college, by Elisabeth Ann this veteran who. Was & SPOFts|scroc) an iector Orta] centrated on the anxieties and|fudnut. illustrated by Marjorie editor before he was 20 and city!sity of Washington, was ass ed pathetic frustrations of the well| Baurnschmidt. $n editor of the Detroit, News at 24. ,¢ a civilian during the se Enel

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In that field, where he has be-| . Se . 4 come, 80 to speak, the commuter's | David Garrick Biography Out Henry James, : ¥ Mr. Marquand| Ras few rivals. And even if “Point of No Re-|

| » . . i . "w | DR. CHAPMAN, another pro-| Pert, has written "The Art of fessor and three GI's assigned to| Fish Cookery,” which Double. (the project wangled an Australian day will publish next Tuesday. turn” is almost! jHawies from Army authorities in| According to the publisher, the as disappointing oumea and set out on an expe: " + ' oe raPpoimting E [dition to the Solomons. | Doct “Selle of ha. folklore and fans as “The : a, { Their adventures ‘with weird! . ) ond with every God - Seeker” fa] h \specimens of fish, marine equip- imaginable kind of fish, while for Lewis 'fans,| {ment that tended to break down making clear the best wiy to it's relatively a! {at erucial moments, and the Me-| CE i mech etter job) {lanesian natives provide an enof writing. | {tertaining story, Mr. Marquand - | y : q Mr Mar | And they produced thousands Juande latent novel Jets. {ie |of pounds of edible fish for Army in pattern he has made familiar.| land Navy mess tabl A There's the intelligent and sensi-| Lal ro war es ii! wud

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