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Civilization Shattered

By . War Is Pictured ’ , In Grim First Novel |

“THE SHELTERING SKY." Directions, $2.75. : By EMERSON PRICE A STRANGE and powerful first novel-—one -of of the year—is made available during the final weeks of 1049. It is in many ways a dreadful tale, and certainly not one calculated to elicit happiness in the reader, but it also carries with it a profound commentary upon modern civilization. . Title of the book SHELTERING SKY,” by, While there is much in the book Paul Bowles (New. Directions, that may be found offensive by the reader who wishes to avoid $2.75). It is a story in which we 4 recitation of the more unpleas-

find civilization, with its by pro-|,n¢ aspects of life, it .is not a ducts of war and destruction, story any reade

A novel. By Paul Bowles. New York, New

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| : Sn ow ness takes over the mind of Kit THE Moresby.

ethics; we see it bringing about/more from this author. T the dissolution of language to 5 sureness about his such a degree that the author's|marks him as a man with authencharacters are quite unable totic talent of a very high order, understand each other, or to communicate emotional feeling with

any sureness. {select perfect gifts in books. For Thus, the silences, the empti-|this reason, another list has been ness and the deep anguish in the compiled for your convenience in soul of Porter Moresby are incom- selecting such gifts. None of the prehensible to his wife, Kit, for|titles mentioned here appeared in she has nothing in her own soul/last week's column, but all of

WITH Christmas nearly one week away, there is still time to

the best | A St

with which to measure his ef-them were published during the

forts at expressing them. |current year. The list follows: Kit 1s, indeed, a genuine prod-| “THE WORLD IN THE AT-

men have ruthlessly broken the ner, $2.75). Morris here explores

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"Dogs oF Destiny"

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Bernard rescuing a child is the subject of one of Paul Brown's drawings for Fairfax Downey's “Dogs of Des tiny," companion volume to Horses of Destiny." It is a re. cent addition to Scribner's juvenile list ($2 50). .

Stanley Young Gets New Post

Stanley Young,

foundation, will

work that! next month.

here 18 the duties of managing director : | You i LE pa icv) You Are Invited... 1 0 N G H . . . on the CIRC

A native Hooser from Green

castle, Mr

Young has

at Williams Col

to Macmillan

Myr. Young uct of her age-—an age in which | T10,” by Wright Morris. (8crib-| Times and other publications.

He also has

Hickory”

ihg is, In all truth, merely sav-/that has vanished from the earth. [produced on Broadway,

agery disguised by the formal-|It is the story of a native’s return. ities of what we choose to call “THE BIG WHEEL,” by John

civilization, {Brooks (Harper, $2.75). Present Atavistic impulses have 850 day methods of newsgathering as throttled her more human sensi- practiced by certain news magabilities that she even misunder-izines is the subject of this vastly stands lust in men to be the €X- entertaining and remarkably conpression of their affection, Ivincing novel,

a since savagery has cone, Miller {William Sloane A##o- Tm “MtHennium and Utopia,” into complete domination, how-iclates, $3). AH angry Merle Mil-|j,st published by the Uni t aver turtively, her life is largely ler exposes in a clear light the’ = Fooisned by the University governed by | nha -8yS-|evils of the fern Washington °F California Press (83.50), a. = , ‘witch hunt. Such-—anger as this Ernest Lee Tuveson suggests that “These she- the becomes a cleansing force. 6 [dea of progress has a religi= _. other, in order to fi “MASK OF GLORY,” by Dan ©us- background rather than a

fad Ri

seen by a young Cleveland Ma-!

tragedy.

EN ARM by Nelson Algren; (Doubleday, $3). With this pow-| erful story Nelson Algre ‘emerges as one of the nation's

Port Moresby. t leading novelists. The place 1s hand, ie oy deny his ral Chicago. The work is redeemed heritage, and unable to find a|from utter sadness by a fully place for ‘it in modern society, realized quality of pity which has determined to seek a more dominates the entire book.

, is nevertheless incappenetrating beyond the —obvious. One lately encounters with increasing frequency..

journey by Mitchell Wilson (Little, Brown,

He now lives on Long Island with his three children and his wife, novelist Nancy Wilson Ross, author of- “The Left Hand Is

the Dreamer.”

‘Millennium and Utopia,’

| I» “THE SURE THING,” by Merle BY Tuveson, Published

be threatening yo vin (Whittlesey: House, $3). Purely secular origin as earlier J {The Cleveland-born author pro-{storians and<soeial-philisaphers §.. | Vides” 4" Powerful tate of war. as Nave maintained.

He “digetta thatthe utopian

rine in the South Pacific. It is Delle in progress stems from the “ia story of great sacrifice and Jewish apocalyptic idea as inter: TT preted by Protestant theologians

“THE MAN WITH THE GoLD.|and philosophers in the 17th and |

18th centuries.

Information Please’

“Information Please Almanac

{1950," edited by John Kieran, is scheduled for Jan. 3 publication

by Macmillan, A special feature of the new Almanac is a Vacation Travel

ress, the AAA, Esso Touring

2. which really means tha gleaning a Tuller life, and a better underws, (of all knowledge on child educa- standing of wnat is going on

Pid

a director of r is likely to for- parrar, Straus & Co. since the

finally deprived entirely of moral get. And 1 think ‘you will hear firm's Ay

career, including teaching English

lege, serving as literary adviser

and as regular book critic for the New York

written a novel, slender thread to cultural tradi-|the legends of childhood as a pos-| “Sons Without Anger,” two juvetion. What passes In her for pro- sible means of recovering theniles, “Young found sympathy and understand-| simplicity of an older way of life Mayflower Boy,” and three plays

and

er aan sad.

“ LIG " Guide prepared by LIVE WITH HTNING, {Holiday magazine, American Ex-

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1049

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Through every. beautifully ‘il-/how other children live. Then; straight on what this arm-chair or

: into French Africa. With him oa on the journey is Kit, and their / friend, Tunner. : . wo»

TUNNER is a man who has

$3). Not a particularly optimistic go. ice and the Encyclopedia Bribook, since the more menacing ,,ni.a and containing articles aspects of modern life are fully, Leuis Bromfield on France, reflected. But it is the work of | Russel Crouse on Scandinavia, a mature mind. An altogether yop, Gunther on Italy and Chris-

small intellectual capacities; a adult love story.

good-humored extrovert. Misunderstanding his wife's behavior and tastes as resulting from high intelligence, and yet estranged from her because of spiritual differences which neither of them comprehend, it does not occur to Port that Kit might betray him to a man of such inferfor mental attainments as those of Tunner.

by Fritz Peters (Farrar, Straus, $3), The story of a mental patient in a Veterans Administration hospital. Written with great compassion, it has also enormous power and a full measure of suspense. |

ert E. Riegel (University of Okla-| homa Press, $5). This is a history Yet she does betray him to Tun-|of America between 1830 and ner, even at a time when Port 18/1840. It enables the reader to undying alone of typhoid at ajgerstand the complex national

“THE WORLD NEXT DOOR," -

[topher Morley on England.

“YOUNG AMERICA,” by Rob- :

French military post in the Ba-|gcene which promised the great!

hara.

‘ fulfillment of modern times. This incident is clearly one of

“A WORLD HISTORY OF

pagan irresponsibility, for Kit eh OWN TIMES,” by Quincy

never been able to grasp the Howe (Simon & Schuster, $5), is meaning of deep affection; she the first of a three-volume history has been at all times fearful of{of the 20th Century years. The sacrifice; she has been selfish not|present volume covers the period out of design, but in the unreason-|from the turn of the century to ing manner of the beast. {the 1918 armistice. The remainder of the story is| “WHO, ME?” by E. J. Kahn one of the most vivid and de- Jr, (Harper, $2.75) is a collection tailed descriptions of a humaniof the author's tales which apmind in- disintegration that I peared earlier in the New Yorker have ever read. It ends, of course, magazine. They make excellent in utter tragedy, as stark mad- reading.

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