Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1949 — Page 8

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TF IE TES BOOK PAGEL. + Russell-Janney Puts His Into Tangled Verse

“THE VISION OF RED O'SHEA." A

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‘Miracle

RUSSELL JANNEY, having made the gratifying

covery that miracles can be profitable in an extraordinary degree, has arrived at what practical people describe as a| i That is to say, he proposes to continue in| | the miracle businéss. He has a new one on tap this week

sound decision.

for his happy readers, this time in rhyme—or nearly so.

Title of Janney's remark-| to the temper of a new)

able venture into the realm snd not altogether satisfactory]

of poetry is “The Vision o

Red O'Shea.” If this—ah—jingle- 3 jangle-jingle must be described] THERE are six stories in this as a narrative poem, it will be ’ necessary to point out that .1gf thing of a singie unit 4 seems designed for recitation in Stevens, a county attorney, ap-| a lunatic asylum, For it has about US it such frayed and erratic tender-| : ness, together with a sort of off- Called Jefferson, hand violence, that the happier

element in Bedlam must find in |

poem. By Russell Janney. New

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the stuff of which they make With mystery.

sense, If Mr. Janney's feet get badly

Gavin Stevens solves each mys-| tery, though not in the sense of the mystery story sleuth, for the wisdom built into his character

ter, his head, nevertheless, Is at|, ‘wv. or is of a high order.

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death. Mrs. Roosevelt obvious aly had deep affection for her

with toon (* a Ne o/been fruitless,

Most of the stories are written

pan with much more simplicity than, “lis the author's habit. However, in| ithe title-piece, he drops back into! |stylistic methods by employing| designed

com plex, meticulously sentences of considerable length. |And in this story Gavin Stevens iis fully characterized, so that his lown impulses are no longer a mystery to the reader. e-. ” » 1 HAD NOT long ago a letter m a reader who informed me .had made him sick by “slobbering and fall all over yourself on pvery k published about Roosevelt” 1 gathered from his long, though not too erudite message, that he is a man made irrevocably sad by eves ast Parr sonable vi 0! , S80 I must be careful here not to wound the sensibilities of my devoted reader further. I, therefore, advance with great caution my belief that “THIS I REMEMBER,” by Eleanor Roosevelt (Harper, - $4.50), is a straightforward, honest and inspiring book. And ‘because of the au‘thor's unmistakable and intelligent objectivity, it is likely to become an extremely valuable historical document. The book covers the period 1921 until the President's

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band, and she understood i as strength, He never discarded his hope for.a better life for all men , but he did enjoy AS ® game. Mrs. Roosevelt never the wish to in-

as well

goes to/terfere in the affairs of govern- ful privilege in the nor to influence her hus-|

you will not find elsewhere. Very much aside from this, it is a wholly absorbing plece of work. - . » . . THE TRAGIC, moving story of Ignaz Philipp Semmelwels, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, is told In a beaut written novel by Morton Thompson. - It is titled “The Cry and the Covenant” (Doubleday, $3.50). Semmelwels was a Hungarian {physician who was unable to put ‘aside’ pity before entrenched

friends and lovers may medical ignorance which 100

| years ago, made. itself the: jealous

and listen to juke-box music; [enemy of scientific progress.

with a tommy-gun. And that's all; that's the end, the sweet, miraculous end. Ob, Note to H $

‘OF THE BELLS?" You made it

into a movie, presented it with a straight face and reaped a mighty He did dollars. 1 double-dare

«reward. in. dollars, 1 double-ds — you {0 do it with this one.

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occupied with the sources of violence .in the human family in “KNIGHT'S GAMBIT" (Random

“TTOUSe, $7), BUT THIN Book 1s riot {Dis Work...

his probing into hidden and often sinister human motives; despite his study of the more dangerous and incorrigible of human impulses, he manages very well to present a vivid picture of present

- day society in the deep South

will be seated in the corner

day! ber Mr. Janney's “THE MIRACLE

Hortified by the knowledge that four among every 10 women confined in childbirth to Vienna hospitals were doomed to die as

Semmelweis devoted his life to discovering its causé, and thus finally ridding the world of it succeed in determining its cause, but his failure to con-

m, This is a story written with deep and sympathetic wunderstanding for ‘a great man and terizations. are excellent. Modern women will

“fread it--with- a deep sense of

gratitude in living in an age when his tremendously important discovery has been wholly accepted and applied.

And whether he wishes it or 10 Appear This Month

not, he has conveyed here a South

~ Glanzman, and will contain a

| Pocket Books this month will that has long, n, “The Pocket ras” by Henry

YiSimon and Abraham Veinus. The

Hlustrated by Louis,

thematic guide. ; Another November selection! (will be Theodore Dreiser's “Sis. | ter Carrie,” edited and abridged,

Wb (Maswst Gelsmar.

lh Texas Recipes Offered

{with a critical introduction by

Publishing Date Set

Randofn House will publish, ov. 16, “A Taste of Texas” by Jane Trahey, which

and they become somesince Gavin

in all of them, and the in each case, is a town in Mississippi. Each story deals with murder, or with some. sort of violence, and

a result of the dreadful malady,!,

"Pocket Book of Operas’ My

|| required preparations. V] the

exhibition of Chase's work.

has been lent by the Boston Museum

of Hoosier painters, did of Fine

hase Saw Venice . =~ =

this Venetian scene ‘in 1877. It

Arts to Herron Art Museum for the current big

Editor, New York World

man and sylvan.

a patriot.”

and the “ever resourceful” lum-| ber barons who ask “only to pel allowed to serve you, free of in-!

eral encroachment.” Even Peattie has enough sense to modify outrageous remark tence, |

statements are isolated perversions of the truth. If a more viciously erroneous! Picture of the slaughter -of one of | our principal resources has ever! been. published except in pamphiets inspired by the lumber in-/ dustry, it has not been my doubt! to see the book. = . » A

TRUE, Peattie has inserted a

few sentences which indicate that! 4 anyway ./he knows the shocking truth, but for Ne. grant deal of In| rer to toll It Tra aio. be

final chapter gives a faint glimpse ‘of the rapine which continues un[der our very eyes, plus a mild Iit{tle pat on the back for our Forest Service and National Park Service which are fighting a val-| lant, up-hill battle to save a very modest percentage of the national iwoodlot, : i | But where are the ringing {words that should come from a {naturalist and conservationist of | {Peattie’'s supposed stature? Where the marshaled facts and

|ers, endan

| millions

y {concerns are continuously Says Donald Culross ‘Peattie: tempting to steal parts of the “About the trees of -his country, pitiful 16 per cent of our forests I believe that every American is/guarded by the Forest Service; {that logs as large as those we

Sarcasm? Not all. For the next/comb the eastern forests to ob-| 200 pages this alleged conserva-/tain are wasted by western lum-| tionist sings his slightly shrillber companies; that as much as) lyric to the noble trees and the/25 per cent of any given tree is| greens and deciduous trees: legitnoble explorers and the noble/ wasted in stump, top and saw-| pioneers with their flashing axes dust. : oi

» > - : THE FACTS are that our prime t 1 vie, acquisitive,

If you want to know what is

’ "Pop" registers annoyance at being in his monolog, in one of Bill Mauidin's drawings for his autobiographi-

cal “A Sort of a Saga," story of

an adventurous boyhood in the Southwest. (Sloane, $3.50]

stinging invective which might! -

let our children and our chil magnificent - forests . and lumber) resources about which Mr. Peat+| tle writes such sentimental prose? | | If Americans has the sturdy . yo which. Peattie is! never tired of ascribing to them, they do not need the pap, sap

{and soothing syrup which he

}

4 - * » "WHAT ARE the facts about the American “heartwood”? The facts are that the “patriotic” public, which flips -lighted cigarets from windows of their speed-|. ing cars, seems to be utterly complacent about the two billion feet! of timber destroyed by fire every year (enough “to build a five room house every 100 feet on both sides of the road from New|

York to Chicago.”), i

facts are that up to the! of the depression forests! were being slashed at a rate which was roughly four times as fast as they could be replaced. The facts are that the greedy. careless, ignorant destruction of our irreplaceable virgin timber has greatly hastened the already tragically precipitous loss of top

Job-Objective Courses Day and Evening

All courses offered here are | to prepare men and women specifically for businéss positions. And, the fact that many of Indiana's leading bus- | iness firms prefer I. B. C, graduates, there's a promising field awaiting those who make the This is

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of Indianapolis, The others are at Marion, Muncie,

Hdren's “children: enjoy “the once =} =

ladles out in such large and nau“(the truth of his discovery killed WILLIAM FAULKNER is pre-|™

gered wild life and de-|

of acres of desolate

destfuctive|

Story of Shocking Waste in Forest Treasure Ignored in Lyrical Praise of Lumber Barons

"AMERICAN HEARTWOOD." soil, lowered water tables all over endangered forests ) By Donald Culross Peattie the country, increased flash Plundered Pianet,” by Fairfield OsH hton Mifflin, Boston, $3.50 {floods and low water in our riv- born; “Road to Survival,” by WilQUGirion Mili, FOSion, 32wl liam Vogt, and the slightly outBy STERLING NORTH, Book |stroyed tax structures across dated, but still deeply significant, ! |“Rich Land, Poor Land,” by Stu-|

read

; _. |brushland which once grew for- art Chase. THE INFORMED reader will est giants, : x h | view with angry astonishment! The facts are that pulp forests! historical” essays on John Smith, | the - first “sentence in this book are being fed by the square mile Ro . which purports to be a monograph into the hungry maw of the! Jonn Marshall and others are at

i . {best well polished chestnuts and, upon American timber, both hu- comic magazines; that private .t worst, sentimentallzations of

As for the rest of this book, the| Ly Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Roger Williams, William Penn,| 9isti

the truth which seems to be dragged in by the hair to round out a volume. Now and then Peattie is at his {old best; he fs interesting when he describes the uses of various woods, informative when he shows the belts of varying ever-

{imately tuneful in his descrip{tion of the forests in autumn and {the chemistry of the flaming [leaves.

“the pathetic fallacy,” that is, he ascribes human emotions and | characteristics to trees, just as {he reverses that soft device in

But, alas, none of his mia, ToANY happening to our gravely, ecribing the “nobility” of trees to human beings " .

‘Pop’ Annoyed

Taken as a whole, this is an

man who knows as much about the American sylva as Peattie should after all his years of study.

eral effect of making Americans even more complacent than they already are about our imperiled

~{ forests: In brief, it is a narrative

so vague, badly focused, ill-pro-portioned and ‘that most readers will be unable to see the forest for the trees.

Writes Story of War

“The Story of the Mexican War” {by Robert 8. Henry will be pub(lished by Bobbs-Merrill Nov. 21. Mr,” Henry's new book, like his {“Story of the Confederacy” and “The Story of Reconstruction,” is a book for Civil War fans, military tacticians and students of history.

“Our |

It will have the unfortunate gen-|

distingui Indianapolis-born | soldier and diplomat, has written "My Three Years in Mos. cow," a candid and authorita- | tive study of U. S.-Russian re- | lations during the “cold war," to be publi by Lippincott | early in January.

3d Guild Selection

For Miss Goudge

“Gentian Hill” Is the third book {by Elizabeth Goudge to be chosen

ous two are tian Hill” tells about a long-lost daughter, ‘an orphaned boy, kindly farmer and his wife, a mellow old doctor, and a mysteriious abbe who live on the Devon coast in the days of Napoleon

{lishes the book Jan. 9. { 3 a ——————— ‘Keough Novel Due | Theodora Roosevelt Keough, the |daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archi{bald Roosevelt and granddaughtér- of President ‘Theodore fret has a first novel ready for

publication next March “by Cre-|

jative Age Press. The book is “Meg” and will appear first in 4 French edition in December. Anne |Green has translated it into English.

New Movie History

{Pictorial History of the Movies,” by Deems Taylor, Bryant Hale

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