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Witch-Hunt Hysteria,

In 3 Instructive Books

“THE SURE THING." A novel. By Merle Miler. New York| Sloane, $3. : 1

“THE DEVIL IN MASSACHUSETTS: A MODERN INQUIRY INTO| THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS." By Marion L. Starkey. New| York, Knopf, $3.50."

“THE ASPIRIN AGE: 1919-1941." Edited by Isabel Leighton. New York, Simon & Schuster, $3.95. | By HENRY BUTLER THREE NEW BOOKS touch on different aspects of witch-hunt-| ing, past and current. : They are Merle Miller's novel, “The Sure Thing,” about a State! Department employee who runs afoul of the security investigation; Marion Starkey’s concise story of the fantastic 17th-Century witch-| hunt in Salem, “The Devil in Massachusetts,” and Isabel Lelghton’s| anthology, “The Aspirin Age:| m= 2

ments of a Caribbean Negro serv-| | ant girl, | Mr. Miller's novel, begun before, When the teen-agers were the height of the un-American, ostened with discipline, they activities investigation, gives & dreamed up the idea of hurling clear fictional picture of how & accusations of witchcraft, first] minor bureaucrat’s past assocla-|at Tituba, the servant, and later tions may be dug up as damming at other members of the commu-| evidence fatal to his career. {nity. With unanimity and skill the Herron Art Museum. Miss Starkey's Salem story is a that even Miss Starkey can’t OR

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{They complained that their vicAnd at least one chapter In... were tormenting them by)

Miss Leighton's anthology: Phils horatt. Life Si aT d | Btong’s “The last Days of Bacco| por some reason hard for us| Ite urveye and Vanzettl,” revives the venge-it, understand, the shrieks and, y ful atmosphere in which radicals|convulsions of the girls were ac-| I REHISTORIC MAN: THE were persecuted in this country cepted by the courts as more re-| GREAT ADVENTURER." By after World War I. {liable testimony fhiap he teh i Charles R. Knight. New York, p le in all three calm, courageous denials made by | ppleton-Century, $5. a hie A ns instruc-|the accused. The girls did the Appleton-Century, $5

Wha y accusing, and when the defendtive sada. 1 Mves rn anta were brought to trial, ha. y _ Cleveland Press Book Editer of indi ual case girls made sure none would ol PERHAPS no one ever will be

in Washington, there's no denying| “3 .rome™ The technique (able to fix precisely the time when

brilliant_acount_of hysteria arty put on. an. act in. < = Early Man's Pleads For Peace War Horrors

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the country-wide spread, of the « stmple enough. Whenever aman stepped beyond the circle of passion for snooping and accus-i, .. ..nt's or a witness’ state-|beasts to acquire the strangest of!

ing. Like a precocious kid with/, o¢" contradicted the girls, they all human attributes, the ability his Junior G-Man badge, amateur| 14 a1] have fits. |to reason. This mysterious develgroups want to set themselves UP) 1, that way, the girls had the opment, it seems likely, was acas little ex-officio Justice Depart-ginister satisfaction of sending|companiéd by the acquisition of ments, 20 undoubtedly harmless, some- conscience, and certain spiritual Considering our frenzied waves times valuable, members of the hungers which directed him of - enthusiasm - over. fads and community to the gallows. What [toward primitive religion. Stopped th hysteria es the girls’| That he lived in a dreadfully ly wise, Reading/error in nning to accuse gavage world and not only surng Fwwial Yr in judgment Wealthy and important persons. vived it, but greatly increased his should be good medicine, - {Somehow Massachusetts suddenly numbers, speaks well : pulled {itself together, and the . no»

witch trials stopped. MR. MILLER has got in ohh Miss Starkey confines her study ground floor with “The Sure

to the sequence of Massachusetts u,, hag now so intensified and Thing.” Undoubtedly other nov- events, omitting discussion of the | hecialized savagery that he may ols will be written about the whole! history. of witchcraft. For those, .e ofr the ability to destroy troubled era of loyalty-purges and interested, I might mention here |, ,o. ing hunting as soon as Post-war Margaret A. Murray's “The Witch 8 spy-hun has blown out of Wash-{Cult in Westsrn Europe” (Oxford, LA » atmosphere Clarendon Press, 1921), not in-| THE STORY of mankind is alington's hot, heavy tty close to cluded in Miss Starkey's bibli- ways an interesting one, and while Right now, we're pretty ography. la good portion of it must yet be the turmoil, even though a few ISABEL a HTON'S ebiles | speculative, numerous devoted sci-

writers, like Bert A in “Washington Witch Hunt,” haveition of articles on important inter- | vie L war events, written especially for | CONStantly find new facts which

shown what can happen to a pre-|w n {either certify or reject earlier SR Aire AB nore than | speculation. You will find one of stories. These fascinating essays the best books on the subject to represent not only good writing be published in some time in “Prebut also careful appraisal of past historic Man: The Great Advenevents in the light of subsequent |turer,” by Charles R. Knight. knowledge. ' s = = Hoosiers will turn immediately! THIS well-written and alto-

not just 4 matter. and having/to “Konkave in Kokomo,” an ac-igether comprehensive book Is

of something

a chance to EUEWer your accus- count by Robert Coughlan, Ko-ihandsomely illustrated by. the

s ’ komo native, of the spectacular guth d tain 1 - it's a | author, And certain lessons are ers. Yar waits than oat: es-(1923 Klan demonstration there. {implicit in the work which, if matter of being ref office late] Wiliam McFee's “The Peculiar applied, may be found useful to corted to some ‘grim {Fate of the Morro Castle” i8 a|modern man. After a complete

discretions you'd almost cOM- t's a story.of incredible careless: pletely forgotten. : riess and inefficiericy—one of the The publisher has asked re- worst performances of the Ameriviewers to omit mentioning thatican merchant marine at its lowbeen & member est point. ‘

{Knight has this to say: - “A genuine understanding of {the truth will not include an all{embracing interest in things ma-

of the American Communist Par-;— One thing I'd forgotten about terial. but will seek to relegate to ty back in 1938, when Munich{the Morro Castle was the epi- | their proper position. all factors y » idealists think ode” when the mayor of Asbury [entering into the life of a human made some young (Park. N. J.. where the fire-gutted. |Peing, placing high. in the category was bankrupt. Park, N. J, where the fire-gutted, liberal democracy ht |cOrpse-strewn luxury liner went an appreciation of those finer Disclosure of that point might aground a short distance off|qualities with which man is so anex the suspense, the Publish-| ; ore, tried to keep the hulk as a [Uniquely and richly endowed.” er says. A isightseers’ attraction. . in I disagree. Tt strikes me as high ""50 0 oni butors to Miss aired this subject, opton's admirable volume. 3 Saroyan Plays thoroughly. We're better informed 4: Gene Tunney, recalling his D 0 . F | than we were 10 or 15 years ag0, fonts with Jack Dempsey; Hod- WUE ut in Fa and today few sensible persons gino Carter, who discusses the ; 8 i } -_ would make the mistake of firt- pribe.cajolery-force techniquqe of‘ illam Saroyan will have a ing with Communist organizers or Hyey Long in seizing control of new book of plays on he Harjoining the party. Louisiana; Morris Markey, on ‘ourt, Brace lst $a fall. The It's easy to forget the prolonged “The Mysterious Death of Starr Volume, a collection of three fullfrustration of depression years Faithfut’--a first-rate murder- {length plays, will be entitled ‘that made many idealists angry thriller, in: case you've forgotten, Don't Go Away Mad and Other enough to want revolution. Some jas I had, the 1931 news stories; | Plays” and will be published in of them unwisely became Com- and \ Roscoe Drummond, ° who November. munists, not realizing how they |write endell Willkie: A Study| The setting of the title play might injure their future. - in Courage.” is a hospital. “Sam Ego's House’

Mr. Miller's Brad Douglas was ————————————— is a comedy about the Great one. Even though he repudiated ‘Play-A-Bed' Author American Dream; and in the arty ‘associations before the) . [third play, “A Decent Birth, A PY ves out (he couldn't stand COMpiles New Book {Happy- Funeral,” Mr, Saroyan the eternal doctrine and Moscow-| Frances W. Keene, whose “Play- has written an allegory of marwh | A-Bed” books have proved a help| dictated changes of opinion), he| iriage, birth and death. had made a fatal error. His next, to parents faced with entertaining) —————— mistake was concealing the brie children housebound by rain, ill- Eliot. Sh d Wi past affiliation when he got a | ness; boredom; or -other- acts of: 10 +2 N8IWOO0 in government job. |God, has written a new volume, Bancroft History Prizes Should an otherwise loyal eciti- “The - Pencil Fun Book,” which gen be forever plagued -by a Will be published jointly by The blunder of that sort? As Mr. Mil- | Seahorse Press and Farrar, Straus ler develops the theme, Brad has on Sept. 1. Designed for boys and to suffer not only loss of his job, &irls between the ages of 7 and but also the kind of newspaper 13, “The Pencil Fun Book" conpublicity that makes it well-nigh tains games, puzzles, mazes, dot impossible for him to get another Pictures and many other activi-

for distinguished writings - in American history are Samuel Elliot Morison, author of “The Rising Sun in the Pacific,” and Robert E. Sherwood, author of “Roosevel and Hopkins.’

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job—even makes people stare. at ties calculated to divert children’s - he BWaide Are Made annually him in the street, or cut him cold artistic impulses from the deco a tou bia o 5 ol nd in his apartment house elevator. ration of wally and woodwork Frederic Bancr ot : rmer ih . FBI operatives who show into more useful, and less de. "Toderic Bangroft, forme ra-

Brad's wife a snapshot of Brad rian of the Department of State

talking to his previous wife introduce suspicion and strain between the couple. And all the heartless mechanism of Civil Service,

bureaucracy, which probably-ds Lewis Gibbs follows his “Sher! even worse than the Army .or dan: His Life and His Theater”

: (1948) with “The Admirable Lady Navy, operates to rob. Brad of Mary: The Life and Times of confidence and serenity, leaving } . him almost as scared as a victim | lady Mary. Wortley Montagu of the Soviet-NKVD. 1(1689-1762)," a blography of a When we've settled down and great lady of fashion, drawn from acquired saner perspective, we'll her own letters and from research see these things more clearly. inthe works of her contempoMeanwhile, Mr. Miller has done a fares. Morrow publishes on fine job with his often startling| rt. subject.

structive channels Biography of Great Lady of Fashion By Elsie, the Borden Cow

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r » » A GROUP of hysterical) teen= age girls set off and sustained the Salem witch panic of 1602, Miss Starkey tells us In “The Devil in Massachusetts.” Bored with life under the repressive Puritan regime, they had found diversion in watching the voodoo experi-

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{as Nazi Germany and Soviet Rus-| : . {sia carefully suppress the disil-| . {lusioned and bitter testimonials Agnes Rogers’ new picture lof their shocked, broken and| book, "Women Are Here to blood-splattered young men. Thus, Stay," will be published by the aggressive nations most in Harper & Brothers on Sept. ¥ need of mellowing are deprived of a such books as “The Naked ana| 1he book touches on practically | th » - all phases of women's interests e Dead” and “Day Without | . : End” while the relatively peace-| inthe. United States during the ful “democracies are made yet! last 50 years, with women’s premore peaceful by their publica-|. occupations pictured and

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