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Lill) JUR Ja LI] nl ook of Short Stories “ Penetrates Sources ~©f Human Behavior

"THE WOMEN ON THE WALL" By Wallace Stegner. Boston, | * Houghton Mifflin, $2.75, % ‘ By EMERSON PRICE 4% THE 1950 PUBLISHING year gets off: to an excellent) ©¢ stirt—to me at least—with the appearance of a gollection| ‘allace Stegner's short stories. The book is titled “The fomen on the Wall,” and it contains 18 stories of extraordipary merit, If you are unfamiliar with Stegner’s work, this volume, will provide you an excellent ee introduction toa type of ich, a1sg places a strain ¥pon) short! story which shuns the For the most part, the story

is that of Anthony, who serves) literary device designed only for _... "ai iinction under Lord Nel-|

entertainment and Is also neal!y,, after having earlier deserted] and pat. You will find here athe Royal Navy under cruel treat-| = writer who frequently places plot ment as an orphan boy. It Is also GB in a position subordinate to char- a story of his love for Stella, who, ¢ acterization, a writer who is eager waits and prays for his safe re- oa an to"elarify human motives. turn from the sea. And after a "Composition,"

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cerned with incidents so minorireturn to Stella, and to eternal . th h Feb. 5 that they might be brushed aside happiness. That's about it. How rough | ob. Ro

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sefitches relentlessly for the Boy Lost.” by Marghanita Laski havior. And in each case his you will find it a work that will

often in such tragic roles. that emotions. It is a story that bas “ i the reader is forced to share their|in it a good deal of pathos, and GENT NYMPH." By Erle Stan-|-hopes, their fears, their triumphs while its happy ending seems ley Gardner. New York, Mor-

y=» likely to accept it with relief. | By JACK WARFEL Thousands of

Twisted Apples” is a deceptively whose mother has been murdered Perr y Mason is. without parallel. simple tale of an artist and his DY the Nazis in France and who, ; 4 bin raise his window ‘shade, wife_on an afternoon holiday jn While little more than a baby, Surat _|English author, eS Ve has become lost. The father a and a bewitching-beautiful, disGE A ID ec arc 18% ofr woman with melting eyes ars of a a RN es RE I “what was once a these circumstances. “After the oF Buy village. . war the father, feeling that his is now fallen into emotions have been under greater [Of 8 new pair of shoelaces or a . Church spires have top- Pressure than he can endure, is haircut and a volcanically disp houses, silent and alone, reluctant to take up the search turbing blond heiress hurls her-

a Lfor his son. . self into his embrace and begs are. crowded with rank weeds him to listen while she murmurs! The book lis

| and tall grass, while slo and Nevertheless he does take up . hillside are rr with | the search, and with the help of Problems into his ear. stage family--a

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they meet there the members of Deen a member of the under- Nymph” by Erle Stanley Gardner... 0... the near-dead community's final round, he finds in an orphan- Mason goes for a canoe-paddle, | ’ Rly, meer 88-8. DOY WhO may be his own. possibly to waft the powder from By subtle, though thoroughly But he is torn by doubts, and his coat collar. Before his oar a effective means, the author re-|the little lad's mind is unable tolls

cynicism and brings a ‘whole- 80d when it comes the reader,! Au naturel, too, with a water-|. fhe. natural identity to human having Dees forced to participate proof pack on her back. She uf lin the father’s anguish, will feel - - .~ no» as 1 thod: earlior—a gen. m8 straight to shore and pro- which all three h IS another story in uine sense of relief. This is a tale which a boy's hopeful plans for written ‘with great tenderness and With dispatch and a strapless’

brition are painfully thwarted. countless true stories of similar/she disappears into a palatial ~~

of similar childhood de-/may wish to own two excellent There is another tale of reference volumes will find a a different boy who prac- Wealth of carefully sifted material

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rs to reflect the influence of trate very deeply into substance. Sherwood Anderson, It Is not in| However that may be, the plots,| [AT Products a. Says it an imitative sense. For he is al- themselves do validly survey the SWitched from engineering to writ-

wilys individual, ; yries, ¢ ving because it offered him al dy d and so are his stories, legends, poems and plays chance to earn a lying sitting

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THUS “The Sweetness of the The story is that ofa little boy! wy. ion unwavering luck of mirers of Daphne du Maurier & have waited patiently for the latest novel bf this distinguished

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shhanthy Kaw gevac ERR PNR A MR PANY The novel Tacks the drama, the” breathless style of both “Rebecca and the King’s General,” but it is, regardless, a worthwhile product of an always skilled pen.

i A ] 4 . - a dancing mother, and their three = thickets and underbrush. And(® friend, a Frenchman who has| In “The Case of the Negligent 5, rojated children and step-

While the parents lived, the rm, family “was; - despite its “strange properly limbered, the dark COmposure, a tight and self-suf-

_|ficlent unit. But aftér they are : to us that the individuallrecall anything of his earlier life waters part and up pops a breath gone, the children strike off along, disappointed to find that this

may never escape the general pat- sufficiently tangible to provide taking blond, spang in the middlel ccustomed vand unfamiliar|!atest work is essentially a

The book is written in a pecuHar three-way first person, in

ceeds to sponge off and dress, as one. The style seems natural i enough for such a family. affénding a Fourth of July cele- devotion, and it reminds us of the formal and slippers after which! Many du Maurier fans will be

Wille there is little more to the/circumstances in Europe whichhome that happens to be poised Story About Singers

than mere incident, the lad’s have not, and may not, end so{near the beach. a tic disappointment is so happily. Occupationally gearsd just io Among Best Sellers -clegrly revealed that it may bring "= uw ha nd J6oK, “Mason| “The Story of the Trapp Famto readers the sharp recol-| STUDENTS of lteratirs who i gee a Iter when | ily Singers,” by Maria Augusta

she leaps fiom ‘a window and Trapp, has been one of Lippin-| scrambles ac oss the lawn with cott's best sellers since its publia fang-bearing Doberman-pinsch-| cation last November. The Detioed cruelty in the same natural/in “Masterplots,” edited by Frank er making surging leaps after cember selection of the Catholic Abner hat most youngsters turn|N. Magill, with Dayton Kohler as her. Book Club, it will be distributed baseball. (story r (Salem Press, dis-| ” ¢ by the Catholic Literary FoundaWhile most of the work in the tributed by Greenberg, 2 volumes, aay ls the placid bopmning jot tion early this year.

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