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"INCREDIBLE TALE." By Gerald $3.50.

"COURTROOM." A biography. Farrar, Straus, $3.75.

By EMERSON PRICE

FOR THE MOST PART, “Incredible Tale,” Americans before the first World War.

the average American during the last half century ably

W. Johnson. New York, Harder.

By Quantin Reynolds. says Gerald W. Johnson in

were a mild and gentle folk) He is right. His story of

‘New York:|

—gdesertbes;-in--early- sections; a people-living—in- simphieity 1

and splendid isolation, During those dear, dead days we did not suspect that | malice and hatred and bru-| tality may be carried to such ~énormous extents that human | “understanding becomes paralyzed. Long ago we were shocked and] revolted beyond measure when 47 Jews were slaughtered at! Kishinev; When the bloody cen= tury came of age we merely shuddered and winced as the; wicked henchmen of Adolf Hitler| murdered six million’ Jews in|,

Nazi horror camps, We did not] rise up in wrath until bombs]

lin’ to kill men here, and I aim!’ ito learn it to you goed!) { Oh, we won the war, at stag-| {gering cost, but we then repu-| diated Woodrow Wilson and the! {League of Nations, and we be-!|

back Into “Splendid Tsolation”; ito the Harding administration and gigantic oficial swindle; to Bllant; Calvin Coolidge; the Jazz Age, prohibition, general national im-| bicllity and, finally, the * stock| market crash, the black Sepres. {sion and despair, - » » »

THEN. CAME the New Deal {which repafred some, but could {not repair all of the damage. And: {We participated In another and] more dreadful war, paying in|

"Boats on the , Ohio,” a water color by Paul Wehr of Indianapolis, reproduces a familiar Hoosier | {trayed all human! iy. Ye Srawled| _scene and is one of the most popular paintings in the current 43d Annual Indiana Artists Exhibition at

the Herron Art Museum. through tomorrow.

Lloyd Lewis Tells Honest, “Fair Story Of u. S. Grant, Controversial General

CAPTAIN SAM GRANT. " A Ind, was-a facile biographer. He to “do, was good in math and very “TEN DAYS TO. DIE. i By Michab, Bos. combined a gift of understanding bright in scientific studies, but in|”

biography. By Lloyd Lewis. ton. Liftle, Brown, $5. By BODINE PIPER MISTS, MYTHS and misunder-

rwith exceptional powers of description revealed not in florid! passage but in a blending of! background colors and facts that

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way, blood and untold wealth for our "landing have long beclouded the prought a long-gone era to life.

{story of Ulysses 8. Grant. | § i Point for Jefferson Barracks, Mo., But in the peaceful early years ‘collossal folly. |” One of. the most enigmatic fig-| When it came to produc ng Al where Iie inet’ and counted ulin we were as optimistic as wei Among all our mistakes, th good story, he was the equal of lures In American history, Grant, ..,.. J as “Captain 8am Dent, the Mexican War broke out were politically immature. We be- author fells us, the gravest area last has a blographer who, had, pr dar orice 50 ab nt went, ever, {

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been devising new and unique : -— tortures for Adolf Hitler. Even! RED BIRDS-IN DIANS The | Tribe will challenge theé*Columbus the most heinous of these devices, : si I Red Birds in Victory Field. Luke bred in hatred and revulsion, can~ ‘Walton calls the plays for WISH

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Readers who are and off “Sam” Grant lieved that human progress was the reluctant soldie

{these:” We failed to make ac-!

‘he but lived to complete his task, |

inevitable; we believed that des- curate estimates of Lenin, Hitler: {might have revealed the hidden

tiny had great things in store for us, We cared little about goingson in Europe, which was not a greater mistake than that of Europe in failing to study Ameriean democracy. . » » » . IN THOSE DAYS we could afford to respond with both amuse ment and a sense of well-being to such inconsequential matters “Theodore Roosevelt's toothy

and _amishle grin. And we he-, came excitéd over the oratory of |" William Jennings Bryan, a man with dn. enormous mouth and a

rumbling voice to match it; a -

maker of elegant and empty phrases. We thought of William Howard Taft as a statesman.

longer now a judge. But it seems unlikely he may achieve on the

and Stalin. But, he continues, we have at least achieved from vast! experience a measure of political maturity.

The man who grew up with

{the century; “the author points! jout, has witnessed such tremen-

dous events as no man before him looked upon in a single lifetime. He has grown very. weary, and his great burdens are soon

fo pass to younger and stronger feeling. hands. Johnson hopes that some

“his meager though ~ bitterly

acquired wisdom may be passed along as well, “st

SAMUEL 8. LEIBOWITZ is 5o a criminal lawyer; he is

In 1914, with Woodrow Wilson sone the renown that is his as

as president, we were at first stunned, and then jolted out of our complacency; jolted, indeed, out of our belief in human wis-

one of the ablest trial lawyers

{wells from which sprang the! genius that underlay séeming! mediocrity.

Lloyd Lewis, Hoosier - born P2

author, died shortly after com

pleting - this first volume on Grant's life, but he has greatly il-| luminated the early years of the! taciturn soldier-President. That | Mr. Lewis was unable to tinish| the task leaves the reader with a of acute ntment as he lays down this book, which | #eetnd déatined to become one of this year's contenders for a Pulitzer prize. ! sd ww » MR. LEWIS, formerly associ-| ate editor of the Chicago Daily | News and a native of Pendleton, |

Riot-Torn India. |

In the history of American criminal law,

This is not precisely ‘Decapie.

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“Monsoon,” the forthcoming

Grant” proves. seeking purely entertainment will find it in his book, . with its touches of love and drama and; pathos set forth against the pageant of frontier life,

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GRANT'S life fell into three phases: his early failure, the {Civil War years, and the presi{dency. As its name implies, this { blography deals with the first

|phase, beginning with his birth;

in 1822 and ending withthe outbreak of the War Between the Bates, Tt takes Him through his youth in Ohio, his West Point career, marriage to his beloved {Julia Dent of St. Louis, service {in the Mexican war, his “requested” resignation from the Army and the heart-breaking years that a Each page of the book brings ho the reader a growing aware-

went into a battle 1lingly. or [With enthusiasm,” recalled. “T|, was always glad when the battle {was over.” Mr. Lewis’ descriptions of the {fighting in Mexico are perhaps the finest in the book, although he never allows himself to forget that it is Grant's Stary that he is telling.» » ‘» IN DEALING with his hero's ‘downfall, his “requested” resig ‘nation from the Army .due. to his. fondness for drink and his subsequent failure in civilian life, the author does not gloss over the facts, nor does he, as some Grant biographers have done, attempt to jplame Grant's superiors for ending his Army service. Readers who wish to continue|

‘ness that Grant was proof in the! iflesh of Hamlet's words, “There's a divinity that shapes our ends!

definitely inferior ta Lloyd Lewis’ |

ithe International Trials at Neurn-

not compare with the actual death of the madman. ~The Dutchman who wished Hitler to be tied to a powder keg, with the fuse to extend through every tortured and pillaged nation in Europe, would hang his head in shame at the ineffectiveness of his scheme compared to Hitler's actual death.

8 2 CAPTAIN MICHAEL A. MUS{MANNO, a Common Pleas judge from -Pittsburgh,.was a judge at

burg. With evidence amassed for the trials and through hundreds of interviews with persons who knew and were with Hitler in his last hours, Judge Musmanno has constructed a suspense story far| too fahtastic to ever make good! { fiction, 1

Picture a broken old man, nounced that the story will find that, while sweating out his last days in a/July will be “The Bizarre Sis-|

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Grant story exactly where he through the streets.of his capitol. and Pearce.

leaves off in her “A Man Named!

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-dom, For in that year, Europe

went to war: blood ‘and tears he acted as defense atforney in| inovel-by George H. Johnston is a rough-hew them how we will." Grant” (Houghton-Mifflin, pub-| low -words of his _henchnien as

many. of the most | {brillant re-cregtion of the strange But plain “Sam” Grant, never 0. | they rally ‘round him in the last began to flow in a world a iar cases ha, Ma. and fearful atmosphere of riot- one to regard himself in a Post lished In 194 |days of the Third Reich. Learn longer quiet. At this point a long) tion, but because he was.at all torn India. . leal light, said it this way: _|how, when all hope for victory --and-dreadful-era of. violence-be- timex AUULELY conscious of & basic] it ie the story of Michael Casey, cumstances aiwayn did ape my, G ‘Had departed, he went to his|

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We had to abandon our belief system: That a man is presumed

that the world looked upon|to be innbcent until he is proven 8race. Unable either to love India armed confict as lunacy, and we guilty beyond a rehsonable doubt.|9F tO leave her, Casey at last betha

learned soon: the|

As a lawyer he was Jot, as

phrase “civilized warfare” was & maqy believed, a crafty man bent cruel and meaningless jest. In upon protecting felons in the per1915 a German submarine tor-| petration of crime, but one deter-' pedoed the big ocean liner Lusi- mined to preserye both the letter]

‘tania, and 124 Americans were! and the spirit’

among the 1198 who died.

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the law. You)

{will read about his remarkable whelm him. Dodd, Mead will publcareer in one of the most interest- {lish “Monsoon” on July 17.

80. WE FINALLY went to ing biographies of the year. It is|

war. Young Americans with im-|titled “Courtroom” Reynolds,

pulses both-gentle and generous: steamed into army cantonments: to learn what they had believed would never again be necessary|

in a civilized world. They were witz at his own expense solely be-| June 23.

now to learn the most effective means of killing human beings. (That there bag of sawdust, the sergeant said, is a man! Sink yer bayonet into his guts! Put! -. yer weight behind it! Yer a-learn-

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by the injustice of his public dis-

igins to understand himself |through the candid love of an {American girl, But in the raw violence of Indian politics and the madness of ithe monsoon, the tragedy of his ast threatens to rise and over-

‘Maine, Old and New _

course’ different from my plan » Ld > R

A PLUMP little boy with a passion for riding high-spirited horses, Ulysses was amazingly self-reliant in his youth, but a military career was farthest from his dreams. en he arrived at West Point { father's idea), he almost re that some accident would prevent him from entering the academy. “A military life had no charms for me,” he said later,

“and I had not the faintest idea 1 The third volume in The City

lof staying in the Army even if 1.

MANY of The cases recorded in/and Country Reader Series willshould be graduated, which I did

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|<—one in which he struck a solid Publishing Date Set {blow on behalf of social justice

‘was his defense of the Scottsboro Accused of raping two {white women, both of questionthe lives of the

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HITLER DIED under the bombravaged streets of Berlin. His miserable corpse was burned in the courtyard of the Reichschancellory. He, and the six million Jews who went with him, are for-

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