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"THE PEABODY SISTERS OF SALEM." By Louise Hall Tharp.

Story of Salem Family Recaptures a Portion Of American History

“Baston, Litfle Brown. $4 A GREAT many American families—colonial families, if you will—lost the opportunity to identify themselves with the snooty element when restlessness directed them into af pilgrimage far to the west of New England. From this point|’ forward they were too busy with the dangers of the frontier|" to keep their successive generations carefully recorded in the ledgers of the first ES families. i Not so with the Peabody!

Hunt for Hitler tio 35 sem wick. 3 mis Exciting

paying goes. This remained true « ! "A i until three sisters were born SIAKNG HORS: 2 my ot 1 ud, aw ork,

during the early 10th Century. ! hp They were the daughters of a Morrow, $2.75. dentist, a man without a practice By FRAN RICH i and without much social stand-| A DASH OF romance, some] ing. Sheer force of personality and gory murders, and just enough! distinguished character then “social significance” to take it off placed the name of Peabody inthe who-done-it lists, make Van! “the social history of New Eng-Gielgud's “Stalking Horse” “land, where it is Hkely to remain./winter night entertainment. Louise Hall Tharp tells us the| Gielgud sets his hero, Antony

i "Composition—Escalier,” an oil painting done in 1925 by the contemporary French artist Fernard 800d! | oger, has been lent by Louis Carre of New York to Herron Art Museum for display through Feb. 5.

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absorbing story of the sisters in “The Peabody Sisters of Salem,” thoroughly entertaining and factual record of three remarkable personalities. Very considerable

history is also recaptured in this

volume, : You will read here of Sophia Peabody, who married Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mary, who became the wife of Horace Mann, and Elizabeth, who more or less steals the lead role. She was the stanch

defender of John Brown, friend

of both Thoreau and Emerson; she was the author of numerous essays and she headed a publishing house. The biographical portraits are excellent, and the book as a whole is superb Americana,

Adventure in aly RICHARD LLEWELLYN, In his latest novel, “A Few Flowers for Shiner” (Macmillan, $3), writes of circumstances which, in themselves, are touching, but he fails, somehow to make ay ae impact upon the reader. reviewer found himself giving the work his strict attention unwill-

iy. : ) re place is Italy, and the story is that of Snowy Weeks, a British soldier on leave during the war. With him is Bill Dodds. Snowy is on a pilgrimage to the grave-of -a- former buddy. These Eighth Army tank-conyeyor truck drivers are driving Rosie, a vehicle which Snowy has endowed with almost human qualities. Then encounter adventures a-| plenty, pickin American and an American woman who, has become an Italian princess. They uncover the activities of a band of black marketeers, - Aid they solve a great many desperate problems a great many

Pe When they return, as somehow become

such a com-

comrade

the writing fails to keep pace

with the action.—By Emerson,

Price.

Story of Early France “HE KING'S CAVALIER” (Boston, Little Brown, $3) is a rollicking whack-em-up tale of France in the early 16th Century, when King Francis and the Duke of Bourbon were dueling for control of the central provinces. Central figure is Blaise de LalMere, himself a swashbuckling) young soldier of the King, but | whose family is in the camp of the rebel Duke. i The treacherous times, pius the divided loyalties of Blaise's own family, make his path a tricky

ne. But the youngster has it. nd ds up on the winning team, getathe girl and manages to save] the o

_ homestead of his rebel) family,

Havilland—ex-Britigh Ministry of Information ald and bored to

Hitler, whose name for some un-|

{but mysteriously written on handy . {scraps of paper which are later| By Margaret Widdemer. New burned. But there's no mistake. York, Doubleday, $3. We "all know it's Hitler i By R. K. SHULL Havilland is hired for this job CINDERELLA

a German concentration camp; jo» Gabriel Waters, whose life is sol-| Ty, at ’, i e novel opens on a peaceful diering in the traditional Prussian) gp oyisn countryside where Rosastyle; Benedict Peters, a religious pond awaits the return of her {fanatic who turns out to be some-| ,ver Goeffrey, from the Jacobite {thing more; Felix Lenartowicz, a war of 1745. Polish exile,.and Samuel 8ydney,| gne and her father have been

Tames Beasties

Historical Novel Carries Incredible Heroine tears with his life—on a phon . : ) mane. me ary» Mit Through Series of 18th Century Adventures

accounted reason is not mentioned pep CLOAK FLYING.” A novel. characters than the usual short/an old friend. Later, while Rosastory, and these have-an uncanny mond manner .of continually reappear-| {ing in out-of-the-way places. [© For example: Young Lofd Gar- . i AND Alice in'side sees Rosamond in a house by a group of oddly-assorted and wonderland are woven into the of ill fame: Later, on the way to mostly disagreeable people. There incredible character of Rosamond | America, Rosamond and Garside iis the beautiful Ingrid Borenius| cantillon, star of Margaret Wid- are together on the same ship. jwho suffered many indignities in gumers latest, “Red Cloak FIy- At her Dome in America, Garside comes to see her husband,

is walking through the virgin American forests, miles from her home, Garside rides up and makes advances. Fortunate-| ly, the Scot also is walking in the woods; sees the struggle and kills! Garside. The Scot feels no remorse, . because Rosamond tells! him that Garside killed his Scot-| tish sweetheart years before dur-| ing the wars in Scotland, { | All these fine, neatly tied in-| jcidents are possible, but they are

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( {too strange for fiction. | = ¥ {+ Rosamond’s uncanny prophecies { {also leave the reader a little in

a militant Zionist,

working for Goeffrey’'s mother. |

Carried away by practical

up a hiteh-hiking [climax that one is plain tuckered fer who 1s AWOL out at the end.

Biographer

Bill Dodds’

had been. But, as I say,|

"8 8 {Lady Lucy, on the vast Tynedale EACH MEMBER of this assem-| estate, after her family was dis-| blage distrusts the others. with possessed and her mother burned| the consequence that the Pole is for witchcraft. | murdered inthe first few pages| Goeffrey rides in with his regiby a hired maniac who is later ment and a herd of Scottish priskilled—in self-defense—by our gners, one of whom is wounded. hero. ™ | Rosamond takes the fallen warAfter Havilland and the lovely rior into her humble hut and! Ingrid stumble around in the rub- nurses him back to health. This ble of the continent in some truly is with Goeffrey's blessing, since] heartbreaking chapters, it occurs the sport of torturing Scots to to him that something is definite death is lessened when the victim | ly off the beam. lis already half-dead. He 1s so right, for the Hitler| hunt is just a ruse. And when] Havilland discovers the real reason for his adventure, things move so quickly to a surprise

nw - ® LADY LUCY, scion of the Tynedale estates, encourages Goeffrey to go with Rosamond in hope that he will take her as his mistress, Little does she khow he intends to marry Rosamond. Complications arise. The villagers attempt to kill Rosamond for witchcraft (she has a strange power for looking Into the fu“tire ) cand the old lady squanders all the money on booze and gambling. y To end all the trials and hair-| {breadth escapes from danger inj {England, Rosamond, Goeffrey and _ [the Scot, who has fallen in love * (with her, sail to the American jcolonies. . [nurses a sick lady to health durling a fever epidemic; she's ac{cused of witchcraft; she gains the love and friendship of all she en- © counters except Goeffrey because lof her attentions to the Scot.

- » ” - | MISS WIDDEMER has painted |England, 1745, as degenerate but] in the midst stands Rosamond, lvirtue and piety personified. When Goefirey, and only love, accuses her of taking employment in a house of ill repute and orders her away, she bides her time, assured he still thinks highly of hér, The historical background In the story is planted loosely, as though its only purpose was to tie {this universal love triangle to a specific period. The novel

Emily Hahn has written a new biography of Fanny Burney, English diarist and novelist of | the 18th Century. Under the title "A Degree of Prudery, It will be published Feb. 2 by Doubleday.

contains no more

The tale~has some characteristics of a 16ty Century western But the book's author, Dr. Samuel Shellabarger, ix a scholar of distinction as well as a toryteller. And his wide knowledge of history lifts the volume into! the first strata of historical literature,

'Nonscheduled Flight’

MAMIE, an overworked normally adequate aircraft, southbound out of New Orleans for Central America, and her passenger list is as typical as her own conventional lines. There are the not-too-sycces-ful New York lawyer, the mos! successful business’ man, the vacationing young school teacher the retired couple, late of Vermont but now living in California; the ex-serviceman, bound for a new job, and drinking heavily: the brilliant, but slightly weathered scientist, and all the others, just as on so many thousands of flights before and since, But the flight is not a typical one, for midway between two of her remote fueling stops, Mamie's second engine catches fire, and she crashes into a jungle lake The flight of the Mamie, and the story of her passengers, is well and delicately told by R. L Duffus in “Nonscheduled Flight’ (Macmillan, $2.50), a volume which inescapably will be ¢pnsidered by many a modern version of Thornton Wilder's “Bridge of San Luis Rey.” . The comparison is apt, although the stories differ vastly in tech. pique. For instance, not all the Mamie's passengers perish. Those, who deserve to live, or want mightily to live, survive. But, like Wilder's masterwork, Duffus’ novel is story-telling at its best. | «By Tom Boardman. |

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