Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1950 — Page 8
Coil V War Keeps Ii '
Hold as Attraction
To Armchair Generals
"WAR WITHOUT GRANT." A partial history of the Civil War.
By Robert R. McCormick. Bond Wheelright, $7.50. By R. K. SHULL
. HAD IT NOT been for the political issues which put Abraham Lincoln in the White House and started the strife between the states, a great number of our contemporary
population would be without
This reference is to the huge corps of armchair generals who have, for the past 85 years, been rehashing each and every encounter of
the Civil War,
Confederate troops in the battles | of that war. And the wonder of |
that ‘they never cease to marvel] at the outcome of the engagements, even though history recorded the victories and defeats more than four score years ago. The author of “War Without Grant” (who in addition to his writing also publishes the Chicago Tribune) has given the league of latter-day generals a new concise handbook with which they can follow the movements of troops as closely as though they were on the actual fields of battle at Manassas or Gettysburg. And liberally sprinkled among the pages of minute details) concerning war are colored maps illustrating ine, deployment of troops. ~ » ” AT TIMES the author's emotions. creep into the pages, giving the reader the impression that he
is frustrated over his inability to
warn some misguided general or| to be able to dash upon the field |’ at the crucial moment and turn the tide of battle,
an avocation.
Sl
securely
{side’s throat. After perusing a dozen histories of the war, all of which claimed that “Stonewall” Jackson was the nearest thing to perfection in a
ening to read Yankee McCor-
ures and shortcomings, Perhaps, the truth about Jackson's abili-
and Southern historians. After reading this account of,
marked by indecision and lost op-| portunities, one finds it hard to| imagine that President Lincoln} could have suffered more than) Col. McCormick over the bilities of the early Unjon generals. EA “War Without Grant” is a companion volume to Col... McCorimick's earlier war history title ‘Ulysses 8. Grant,” which com-| 'pletes his history of the Civil (war. >
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As Gen. Burnside sends wave lafter wave of Federal troops into These enthusiasts devote a a nail of fire from “Stonewall” major portion of their time to men-| Jackson's tally redeploying the Federal and | .orpg on Mary's Hill, Col. McCor{mick gives the impression that
this strange breed of fellows is {he'd love, for maybe only a mo!ment, to get his hands on Burn-|
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ly a sidetracking one.
Today the French public the portion of the war which was wants facts, not theses and
ueteurs” a
Daumier, who lived in Paris Fai
Revolution in Public Book Taste Revealed
by the most nod satis n the anf istry of ar, Honore 810 to 1879, is included in the current exhibition of Nineteenth Century The Gambe ater at the Herron Art Museum until Feb. 12. It was the gift of an Indianapolis e Gamboliers."
By PAUL GHALI
political story describing the life PARIS, Dec. 30 (CDN)—The year 1950 has clearly/of French occupation troops in
shown a revolution in public book taste. The post-war tendency in French literature was definite- | squadron of young French sol-Best-sellers were either political | diers, ties lies somewhere in the no- theses for or against nazism or communism, or the Sartre man’s land betweén McCormick! | school of pseudo-philosophy.
Germany and the reactions of the female German population to a
THE NOV E L ¥ Y {French literary taste is the pop-
wilt give them what they demand | both develop a thesis,
realism, hum
/who have replaced the prewar alism is abundantly represented. | Montherlant, Mauriac and Gide, have understood what the public, Who Start Badly by Jean-Bap-| d| wants and the 1950 literary out- tiste Rossi {put is popular whether it’s good young man in love with a nun./ppe -
lor bad |standpoint.
standing
or, facts.
the judges. And neither of this year’s winners would have been! for the first time since 1945 best sellers they have discovered authors who Prizes of the literary year, forigenge of humor.
|ularity achieved by humorous
;Stories in which characters go through life's difficulties with
had they got the OP high spirits and an unbeaten
Renee-Pierre Gosset’s started the ball rolling
Just now the traditional French in that channel last year with The cohort of young authors.novel mixing psychology and re- his “My Men and 1.”
There are for example:
from the intellectual The theme is risque but every-!« ‘Knights of the M thing is so well and tactfully put| qe Baroncel “ Critics can’t find anything out- that only the evil-minded will find! nq A Onell and “Five Girls| in this year’s output anything wrong and that what |
though they say some are good. they themselves read into it.
against politica
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[But then the odds are against the [critic anyway just as they are novel
1 prophets.
“Mouthful of Poison”
|Games” get the “Prix Goncourt” provincial family.
~target of all young authors and {few foresaw Serge Groussard’s| Robert, a description of the life! |“The Woman Without a Past” the and adventures of an ambitious | | young journalist who uses his in-| | telligence and personal charm to!
“Prix Femina.” w ”
THE CRITIC has a way of us- get his chief's job.
{ing public taste as his yardstick jintead of of pure literary value like 'Nimiet, a mixed | psycholo gical and
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a first] by Bruno-Gay Lussac, nephew of Francois Mauriac — a! For example no critic expected story of hates, jealousies, loves {to see Paul Colin's “The Wild and money matters of a French
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