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te for New Novel On Human Justice
“WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME" A novel. by Robert Pen. Warren. New York, Random House, $3.50.
“A CENTURY OF IRON AND MEN." By Harlgd Hatcher,
York, Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50.
"ON BEING HUMAN." By As hley . Montag. New York, Henry
Schuman, $1.95.
“THE THOMAS MANN READER." Eaed by osoph W. Angell.
New York, Knopf, $5.
By EMERSON PRICE . ROBERT PENN WARREN'S new novel, * Enough and Time,” is not, 6n the whole, pleasant reading, but it has great and compelling power. The author bases| his story upon the murder trial of one Jereboam ©: Beauchamp more than 100 years ago in Kentucky.
for instance, becomes Jere-
miah Beaumont, a young idea’ist who takes. the life of his benefactop for seducing the woman who became the former's wife, He is brought to trial, convicred, and he finally dies in a most gruesome manner. The facts of the cise are not entirely as he has
them here.
This very long novel becomes a backdrop against which the author manages an extensive and ther you agree with it or nota highly intelligent commentary on the nature of human
EA Mostra Git oom re 1 TT
and so it is, In view of the frailties of mas. ind. But we also find here the suggestion that when idealism is
= found in the individual it has rio
depth whatever, Many readers smay feel inclined to describe
such frail idealiSm as false in
nature, and to point out that it may differ from genuine idealism.in the same measure as sentimentality differs from sentiment, wr . ” w IN THE beginning there was a lonely forest, vast and’ tarmid. ablé, reaching endlessiy to south, east and west... Bleak winter days came early to the area and a wilderness of falling snow piled a deep white blanket over the forest floor. The dreary +..n-
_ ter stretched out through many
months, almost denying time, so ot Todo in memory and seemed far away
# democracy in
“= section of the fantastic American
“talents to produce this book. He
this B and His
per of placing the little American a position’ of world
“That this did occur ‘over succeeding years is an ret
story. No writer is better qualified to teil it than Ohio's Harlan Hatcher and he tells it ably and well in’ #A Century of Iron and Men.” Hatcher combined his+ many
is an extraordinary and capable] historian with a vast fund of knowledge concerning the area . about which Ne writes and, while this is a factual record, he is also. a skilled novelist: who dreads a
AS... Inuc accuracy. As a result, you
onthe contrary, you will read the! book with every attention ard!
~ with a considerable sense of
downright seitamant,. 3 ~ » A STUDIED Miflaction of the! voice, a disagreeable change of | Explor on the countenance of] . teacher may and frequently 5 Rpfant tn the ‘mind of a
western civilization a nightmare
"teachers
__justice.. One gathers the aithor: believes justice a faulty affair
{marally fit to survive.
New
“World
. The names of those involved in the case have been]
altered somewhat—Jereboam,
to instruct the young. This might prove a very ldrge chore, {a vie\ of still other human
purchased g io the Dartmouth the background.
; “Refriger ator Cars." an_oil Sdwund Srucker, instructor at the Herron Art Museum, has been. art collection. Hoosiers may Indianapolis scene from the position of the spiresvef St. Mary's and ad the glimpse of the Monument i in
recognize the location of -this
prejudices always apparent ic the field of education. In any case, Montagu’s work is! ¢. highly important and a genuitiely absorbing one, Surveying! the ‘work of the 19th Century| thinkers—Darwin, Huxley, Spen- |
us thatethey have provided us a| heritage, sometimes as a result of deliberately false interpretation by cunning men, that is offensive to the true nature of man.
tooth. and claw versions of evo-|
ties of men. Man, says Monand in ruthless competition -with his fellows, he becomes frustrat-|
acquire false values; he acquires; no values at ail, « To "me, at least, the author proves. his contention by scientific means and with absolute clarity. I think we had best pay strict attention to this little volume If we expect to become
x » » THE INVETERATE reader may not long escape the experithe ence of exploring for the first time the work of a great mind; work that not only permits pen* etrating glances into the more mysterious and shadowy byways of life, but brilliantly translates these profound experiences “into common understanding. To those unfamiliar with the work of Thomas Mann, this must —resilt upon reading “The Thomas Mann Reader.” Tt seems inevitable that this: excel-
cer and others—the author tells)
Real Peop le
Mark Novel
"FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR." A novel. By Myran Brinig. New| York, Rinehart, $3. | By LOUISE NASH |
AMERICA'S WEST was devel-! {oped by the -sort of people in|
{steps On The Stair.” A Romanian
Yation, do not apply to the Socte- | JEW- and-an-Irish-Catholie;-bothi-
{energetic and ambitious, settle in!
{turn of the century. One estab-| {lishes a flourishing department
ed. He does not by ‘this means store, the other becomes a bril- nounced,”
IHant lawyer. | Different in temperament and manner of living, both are pre-| sented with clarity, understand-| ing and humor. The changes which come as the country ap-| proaches maturity, and the effects these changes have on the lives of Benjamin, Joyce and their families, male adsorbing reading. }
MR. BRINIG'S CHARACTERS | are solid and réal, each an in-| dividual. Joyce has four redhaired daughters. One marries a stock-company actor, another en-
thet warps his soul, the other is a sexless, loyal, Benjamin's daughter Della be-| comes involved in’ the commer-|
Two of hin sons are stoild family] men, but a third is a hearty,|
lent volume must draw such a reader major works, Those already ac-!
qucinted with the work will find it ap excellent Sumpanion for idle] hours.
five character portraits and essays, and four political essays.
. {More important, perhaps, are the
extensive selections from the| great novels, ‘“Buddenbrooks,” | “The Magic Mountain” and “Jo-| His Brothers.” They are! selections that will introduce; many readers to some of thé most | brilliant and moving of 20th Cen-| tury literature, . ™E WORK IN this book was selected and edited by Joseph Warner Angell from translations] by H. T. Lowe-Porter. And tof facilitate one's meeting with the mind of the great German author, | the editor has prefaced the volume! {with an interesting short sketch]
, junity. {tory of the two families is the| Archibald, to seek ald from Scot-|jains of heroes—depending large-| 6:00 Voice of
story of a lusty western town, of| ithe kind of. people who live in|
and rewarding book.
Shaw Biography Big Enterprise
One of the most industrious un-! dertakings in many a literary day will be Archibald Henderson's “Centennial Biography of Ber-| nard Shaw" As an did in gathering ate! rial, Mr. ‘Henderson has written: i *All readers, admirers, corres-| pondents, acquaintances, friends, | translators, interpreters; enemies, {cartoonists, satirists, caricatur-| lists: sculptors, painters, photog{raphers, of the wayward Irishman are invited to co-operate
it. It is an intertating, pleasant English piained - that she had suffered a; loss of memory. Things came!
[Sampling Pastry Insoles: Author to Write Mystery |
“A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED." A mystery. By Agatha Christie. go. the Vincennes Sesquicentenial
New York, Dodd, Mead, $2.50,
By JACK
" FOR 30 YEARS Agatha Christie, a
WARFEL
a square-jawed,|
spector - Peter Black, Scotland {Yard, will be presented in a series
| austere novelist, has been turning out highly palatable puz-|scheduled to run four weeks.
The survival of the fittest, the Myron Brinig's new novel, “Foot- zlé chapters with the consistency
of a housewife mixing 7
the weekly batch of biscuit dough.
Recently sampling a host's secret pastry recipe titled “TWENTY QUESTIONS —
“A Murder Is Ana pleasantly chilling iuiibe of a fiend who routes sleep in a small village by
inserting newspaper ads of his | forthcoming Stites,
MISS CHRISTIE, a British woman born Aggie Mallowan in Devon, had her first paying spell |at the typewriter in 1820 when she introduced her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot who had {an eggshaped head, an ambitious mustache and over - charged {brain cells, ;
tery;
tagu, is a co-operative creature, ® Montana mining town at the “Delicious Death,” she was. inspired to write her 50th mys-|
Stirs Interest
"A PICTURESQUE TALE OF PROGRESS. By Olive Beaupre Miller. The Book House. for| Children; ni ne volumes, $49.50.]
I have no notion how much improvement the blessed moderns; have been able to bring about; but I do recall that in the long ago elementary and high school
His first case; “The Mysterious ters a convent. One son has a Affair at Btyles,” was followed for making the study of history, remarkable mind and an obesity by 2 novelized assignment a year dull and deadly.
‘until 1934 when Miss Christie in-|
| annually.
teachers had an absolute genius.
They pounced upon dates with’
miserable boy: {creased her speed to two books! remarkable hunger; dates, indeed,
|seemed a means of subordinating|
Tonight's case is “The Pursuit of the Man Who Couldn't Go Home.” .WEBM 7pm. - Maj. George Fielding Eliot, noted columnist and military authority, {joins the. panel in guessing listener--submitted subjects which’
Histo ry Book He be identified in 20 tries . ..
WIBC 7 p.m. T-MAN — Dennis O'Keefe will
{star as a U. 8. Treasury agent in
ia séries of factual dramas based lon" experiences of federal investigators . .. WFBM 7:30 p.m. MEET THE PRESS — Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R. Iowa) will be Interviewed by Marquis {Childs, United Features columnlist; Marshall McNeil, ScrippsHoward writer; Edward Nellor, Washington Times-Herald; and ‘May nls, Portland, Me., Press Herald . + WING 10:15 p.m.
WLW-T—Channel 4 | - SATURDAY !
12n Gadgets 6:15 Room 150
More recently she shifted to a ‘and scattering events until the| 1:00 Cowley's Alley . : :40 News
HOW Degin I0oKIng Tor & {manuscript about every fourth
land Yard. Found walkifdg through the! countryside, she
back to her when she saw her
bald,” and several months later
divorced him,
ex-|
i
A Now every child has a natural
clalized religion of Los Angeles.| | third gear and her publishers great story. of mankind became, 2:45 Fairy Tales
jething of & jigsaw puzzie.— While reducing scholarship to!
trouble-making man-about-town. {month, In 1929 nonfictional de- 3 memory test, these instructors 4:00 TV Rangers irresistibly into Mann's Written with dignity as well as|tectives were associated with the also were given to spirited eulog- 4:45 Aimchair .. y |color, the novel has variety and author when she disappeared for {les and tirades, which frequently
ly upon the nationality of the figure under discussion. Thus the youngster whose in-, {terest in the past was persistent, - had later to spend a great time. repairing the damage and dis-
| husband. She said, “Hello Archl-iahusing himself of numerous|
quaint and curious notions.
® ” THE CHRISTIE style in ys: tery THE titles has remained unpatterned ; Through the decades she: has| writteh “Sad Cypress,” “N or M,” ignd “Come Tell Me How You! Live.” Already this year she has supplied her world-wide fans with {two books. the former being “Three Blind Mice,” with no. indication... of occupational cramps. The 50th novel has the usual Christie ingredients of - horror,
of Mann's life, and a discussion With me in the vast project of the suspense, shock And.surprise, all
of his philosophy and work. Each section of the volume also con-| talhs a brief note identifying it with the whole of Mann's creative work. Few. artists have devoted so long a life to such a broad and
1 L28_he re- deep revelation ofthe human. spects. soul as has Mann; few, indeed,’ will find no tedious passages here; have found
so rich a means of {reflecting life's tragic, ironic an mysterious course. If you ar not aware of this, here is the volume. Athat-will convince you... } 1
Shad Dictionary Ready in October
“Freud's Dictionary of Psychoanalysis” is the title of the HFst
child -the ‘seeds of Trace prejudice’ extensive glossary of phychoanas! — or other lunacies which make of|lysis in which all definitions are; Red- Blooded Ya r
given in the actual languewe of,
of unhappiness. One of thé larger the late Sigmund Freud.
remedies, says Ashley Montagu!
in “On Being Human,” isa more, careful. selection of qualified
This volume was edited by Frank Gaynor $e the basis of all available books and papers of!
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analysis, Philosophical i will publish in Qetober,
Dual Role Too Much
“Shady Cloister,” by Winifred Lear, will be published July 18 by ‘Macmillan. This second novel by ithe author of “The Causeway” {the story of a young and ont ‘woman attempting without complete sucess to play the dual role: of English. teacher at a girls’ boar*ing school and heipmate ¢ to!
Those who have
i Stream, Blue Book, Adventure;
‘Centennial Biography: of Ber-| inard Shaw.’ “This work; designed for publi-] cation in 1958, Mr. Shaw's cen-|
{to several volumes; and like m earlier works on Shaw is authorized by the subject. COTES pONAEnce WIth OWNers of, manuscripts, letters, postcards,
likenesses, caricatures, cartoons, dd! i Rally,” e Programs, playbills, portraits of toons
players in Shaw roles, graphs of scenes from his plays, and «ll other iypes of -Shaviana is earnestly invited ¥
Anyone desirous of joining inp... publication, this new book bri
{the enterprise may contact Mr. {Henderson at 721 KE. Franklin St; Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Dan ‘Cushman’s “Montana, Here Be!" coming from Macmillan Juiy 18, 1s a rugged Western: yarn about, a frontier Robin Hood and the exploits of Comanche John,
Cushman stories” have appeared | in’ Esquire, Argosy, Field and
and more “red-blooded” zines than: he cin count,
maga-
| Good Until July 8th Inclusive
faced and sorted by the elderly, i soft-spoken Sleuth, Miss Alice Marple, Hercule Poiret having. been stored for remodeling some |
“ennial year, will probably run| years ago.
Addams and Bil
Successor Stated
“Charles Addams’
will be brought out Dy Simon and Schuster next fall.” iE Listed tentatively for “Septem-|
ithe author of ‘Addams and E ‘will. consist largely of cartoons,
AN ew Yprket,
Book Marks Centennial Of lilinois Central
To celebrate the 100th anni versary of the Illinois Central
{the eminent founder of phycho- famous road agent, on the Mon- Railroad, Creative Age Press Is Library|tana trails of the 1860's. Earlier, {publishing “Main -Line of Mid-
America: The Story of the Illinois Central,” by Carlton Corliss. The
book; which will be released in!
November, is the fourth volume Un a Railroads of America series.
{interest in history, and I think ‘of no work that will so greatly strengthen and nourish that interest—than- ‘A Pieturesque-Tale-
of Progress,” by Olive Beaupre
| Miller. These books are designed as supplementary reading for
{both grade and high school stu-|
dents. Quite aside from the physical beauty of the volumes, they become extraordinarily valuable because of the manner in which the author presents material. In large, = easy-to-read ' type, these ‘books tell a specific, and where possible, a chronological story of] man from prehistoric times down {to the exploration and settling of | { America. kind, exploration, invasion, wars ‘and discoveries; the impact of
nooegri- events upon-—tater::
The .books provide as a whole
| make any youngster Jager to con: “tinue In the fleld of history. E. P.
ns Skyscraper Was Wonder ;
for Children.” the firstskyscraper ‘was built about 300 B. C. It was|
‘One of the seven wonders of the! ancient world, it stories or 390 feet high.
{| The cultural advance of man-|
{came faster than checks. i
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Theater 9:30 Wrestling
Woven through the his- two weeks, causing her husband, ‘made heroes of villains, and vil-- 5:45 Film Feature 11:30 Mysteries
12:45 Weather
8:30 On the Line | Museums, Monuments and Gal-
{on Oct. 2.
LIKE MOST free lance writers, | | Murray Hoyt needed a modest but steady income ‘to tide him over the periods when rejection siips|
80 “he borrowed some money + and, with his wife, built a small resort in New England. Now he combines his talents a a writer and a resort owner to produce “Does It Always Rain Here, Mr. Hoyt?” Thegook purports to be a humorous®recounting of the antics of ‘summer guests. A few of the| anecdotes are entertaining ‘enough, but most are so ‘routine that even Mr. Hoyt's established gift for witty writing can’t needle them into anything very robust.| Consequently, the book tends to be as uninspiring as, say, a rainy day in New England resort.
"Vatican Art Treasures’
Nears Completion -
After nearly three years of preparation, “Art Treasures of the Vatican” is nearing completion at the Institute of Graphic Arts in Bergamo, Italy. Edited, with “English text, by] Prof. Bartolomeo, Nogara, Di{rector General of the Pontifical
{leries; the volume will contain! 247 halftone reproductions, 50 in| full color, of the most varied, | irich and fascinating collection -of art treasures in the entire world. Tudor Publishing Company is! publishing the American edition]
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