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AGO, a fourth of the population} s emigration from their ho was
impious. . It was flying in the face of Providence, it was questioning God's will to leave the even though years of drought and crop failure had reduced stubbornly hardworking farmers like Karl Oskar Nilsson to the
verge of ruin, » " ”
EN Hh iin {ritual guide of Tr SP fish, disapproved. Yet when Karl Oskar, his wife, Kristina, and their children in their decision, the dean reluctantly copied their parish papers an tored their names in the list of emigrants, ; The shipload Mr. Moberg tells us about was a remarkable assortment. Besides the Nilsson re were ene as Danjel Andreasson, of the founder of the heretical Aklan sect, which had been sternly repressed by the established church. Danjel himself at 44 felt the call to Akianism. In his new piety and charity, he took into his home a group of penitents includfrig the prostitute Ulrika and her jaughter Elin. ; : Ey a remarkable crescendo of literary power, Mr. Moberg builds
" life-and incident i devastating 10-weeks’ voyage d = storm-tossed sailing vessel. Not all the storm Was outside the ship, especially not when Kristina and other “respectable
women vented their feelings against Ulrika. : : Er, Moberg presents all this
material with great vividness. THE EMIGRANTS {s described as the first volume of a trilogy
by that of the Irish in the “hungry
nism or the powerful new anti-
diwith us. And if their resistance
THE EMIGRANTS. A novel. By Vilhelm Moberg. Translated] “from the Swedish by Gustav| Lannestock. New York, Simon & Schuster, $3.75.
rébellious against Russian dom-
ination. : That's not gainsaying the destructivenéss of Chinese commu
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Western fanatical prejudice the The. prajudice, however, is not entirely new. To some extent, it’s of our owa making. Even though American interests that benefited from China returned more than other Western exploiters in the form.of philanthropy = (education, hos-
Of European Li
THE LOST LIBRARY: THE
One thing the Landmans’ book may help counter is our habitual notion that our opinions of other peoples are correct and laudable because we are Americans and hence, by every definition, superior, The Chinese have minds and opinions too. They are likely to be ever more in disagreement
Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50. Walter Mehring, distinguished
for 24 books.
first prose work to be published in the United States. It's a bril-
to what we believe to be our sweet reasonableness and common sense is irritating, we should remember that historically they have some cause for regarding us as “foreign devils.” » » » ” YANGTSE INCIDENT, by Lawrence Earl (Knopf, $3), gives| another kind of perspective on| China and the “People’s Liberation Army.” His Majesty's Ship “Amethyst,” fired upon and driven aground In the Yangtse,| feature 9 remained immobilized heavy artillery from Apr. July 31, 1949. The plight of the frigate’s personnel received great| publicity at the time. Mr. Earl spent a lot of time learn interviewing officers and men and own sake, anda. Still
. J fo etting as carefully and accurate- imbibing .of = Prop a as he could all the details of{free; though “the shadow of com-|
mary of what was in the cultivated European’s library as of 1914, when our present-day troubles really got under way. More than that, it's an autobiography of Mr. Mehring in terms of the books he read in the ' library of his father, scholarly, urbane professional translator. In our current vulgar concern with gossip and scandal
tories, we tend to forget
20 to| Ing does things to them, would say Mr; Mebring was “cor-|
and not for required
“lt's the kind of nar-/ing tyranny was discernible, be the story. It's t and his contemporaries could re-|
rative that might make an almost unbearable screen thriller, dealing as it does with the frustration free literatur and peril of men condemned to|like Crazy; linaction. After a series of ups and downs OF would-be poets, in parleys with the Communists, | ers with language,
e. They could argue they could advance ts, as experiment-| they could!
|
which will cover the entire time ‘he Swedish emigration
span of |cided to make a run for it. to and settlement In the nwo immensely risky and nearly fatal clever Ihings we bl £ States, If the subseq this | dash succeeded. [crew icant stance ; volumes sustain the power of this |tyranny first must kill laughter. made sn 8
one, Mr. Moberg will have a most important contribution to
fiction of this century.
am. PROFILE OF RED CHINA, by
Lynn and Amos Landman (Simon (gant, 19 by Henry Holt & may serve to pgiteq by Louis Untermeyer
& Schuster, $3), qualify and perhaps correct some
current —notions.. Mr. and Mrs. yo ok will Landman were in China from min eq June, 1948, through September. p,ark and John Lardner,
1950.
They were in Shanghal in the cyppy, Red Smith, Ogden N
Kk rans finall de-{analyze, satirize, dissect, unmas Commander Ke y The pretensions and do all those
‘Humor Annual Due AS OF 1014, or thereabouts, | THE BEST HUMOR ANNUAL, | Mr. Mehring’s father was ‘a A second yearly anthology of [serene atheist and believer in
published progress. Co. to comment here that the serene
and | atheist type was far less a threat Shikes, the forthec wing |to organized religion than the contain writing by Boon mobsters now menacing Robert C.|everything. Mehring Sr. was the H.|Enlightened Man par excellence will lof the 19th Century. He had the ash, answers, or he knew where to find Crosby, |them—in his library.
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lecurrent humor, will be
{Ralph E. Columnist
Allen Smith, James Thurber,
final days of the Nationalist panic Sullivan, John government and witnessed the pric Hodgins and S. J. Perelman.| But even in Mehring Sr.'s time chaos which accompanied the Soi ———————— the “thought police,” as George downfall of Chiang’s regime. lOrwell has termed them, were Their major thesis is that Mos- New Book Scheduled active.
cow and Peiping are less closely |
A first publication of F. Scottipletely unrestrained
linked by common interest and pytzgerald’s own revision of his agents, they tried to prevent
ambition than some of us may novel “Tender Is the Night” has imagine. They insist that China remains and will remain a coun-igerihner’s.
{been scheduled for October by With an introduction]
try apart fram and. potentially ny Malcolm Cowley, the forth-
coming book represents the manu-
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
pitals, missionaries), we are rat CULTURE. By Walter Mshring, with ough lumped together Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Indianapolis,
European essayist, novelist and | ° poet, is known in the Old World :
THE LOST LIBRARY is his
lant, vivid and fascinating sum-
a
{any outrageous opinion, As poets|
It's hardly necessary|
Herron Art-School during the summer. Mr. Carmichael is a 'Lost Library" Fascinating Summary brary Back in |
They
had “caught
Walter Mehring ‘publication of anything that dig|other cities now devastated physi- in many languages, and thought|
recent
Phillp Marlowe Comedy of Emons Magnificent Montague Dugout Depe Salute to Ressryists Toned Ws ” : - ; ~ - This Is fhe Story - - Eide “ j 24 Gang Busters Tune Crier Al Goodman Fans In the Stands i Morry-Se-Round 30 We Made $i. Bob and Ray ws Mortage . - ~ oo. “3 - - - - ,. ir] Tonfre Bare Dance uk Bob and Rey Indians: Mudhons ii Parode. 's . - ” " a 3 Nardy Family Magazine Theater Grand Oh» Opry Eh Dance Party py GE | aan shies aan Puc bely polis, an ex-Gl's view of some 1 130° Oscar Dumont Star Time Magic Music Scores-News Grand Ole Opry the annual exhibition of advanced student work in ug. King Cole Tris al Treasury Band o> fifth-year graduate in fine arts. | 7 7:00 Willion Dollar Party Record Parly Nows-Sporsmas Variety Mow : Rows brand 30 " “ . - . - “" " “ Rhythm Cub cll "0 .. Magic Msc . Orchestre : zs = 8 : em Ne 8 = 8 914 WLW-T Channel 4 WCPO-TV—Channel 7 WFBM-TV—Channel 6 "Mm SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY selves unwittingly helped the| 4.00 Wrestling 7:00 Satirday rm 8:30 Movie Time |p Mm. .. 7:00 Summer «¥ _ revolution, like -F. T. Marinetti,| 4.45 Film Roundu 4:00 Matinee 9:30 Wrestling (1) Theater p. Ma : . 4:00 Chuckwagon Italian millionaire sponsor of the 5:00 Voice of - 8:00 Midwestern : nner 11:30 Go Hollywood | Toles . 8:00 Cavolcade of “Futuristi,” who urged writers to Enquirer Hayride pi Amateur Revue 12:30 Serial | oles “destroy syntax! Sabotage the| 5:15 industry on S00 Dania I Sate Patrol 12:50 Carnival | 5:00 Burns and Bands adjective! Away with it, away Parade Weaver SN Mmateus Revue 1206-Gun Play- | Allen 3:00 Vizpating with everything except the verb!” 5:30 Mr. Wizard 9:30 Man Hunt T Perhde. 180 joe d Sign 5:30 bons hg 10:00 Back huge Later he became a pillar -of the| 6:00 Space Cadet 10:00 Wrestling ; : : ng vige | : Fascisti. | 6:30 One Man's 12m Reserve For $ Sie evn oft | 6:00 Kia Gloves a Ber he Clock The more sensitive writers and] Family Drama 8:00 Rocky Ki man | 6:30 Short Story Nt mater artists, seeing the way the world 1:00 Sign Off ] Theater gn 0 i was going, often took to drink, - lost their minds or committed § ; | » suicide. They could no longer en-| Gow la R N $ } Y ¥ dure the destruction of human| oiaen oa orice 10 . e erans
libraries|
irupted” at anearly age. He early) : i . : ord made clear the necessity of| ed to read books for theiri, . ..siate flight. S
The nightmare up with him. .
values. | ” » | MR. MEHRING’S nostalgic pa-| rade of books and authors lis al wonderful evocation of a past en-|
shrined mainly in memory. It re-
creates the good life as cultivated
Europeans knew it—in Vienna, had cost 10,000 lives to build,
Berlin, Prague, Budapest and
as the material of biography andi, ¢ oiorify their employer-heroes. cally and/or spiritually. invaded private und e r/that people do read and that read-|, 3 confiscated books. Later Meh-|edge of a great range of Euro-| ring Jr. finally had to leave his|pean Fascists and Communists both yo 10004 Jibrary in Vienna after aleither the pretensions or stuffi-/ for you phone conversation with his land-'ness of professional scholarship. ture story called THE GOLDEN]
It is based on intimate knowlliterature, though without As a stimulator of interest in
our recent cultural heritage, it jranks
What was the message in the “The Dance of Life.”—H. B.
books?
For one thing, the books|
taught human worth and aignity, Guild to Select
lthe inviolability of the individual.| oice in the Infinite, variety of & Consider then the fiendish clever-| of the dictators when they {arrived after World War I. Cyni-| cally and gleefully giving the lie
ness
to the 19th Century libera
ise
everything,
{I mean, too, the hum ta, (eVery individual to produce a col-
equalizes all feeling;
lective consciencelessness.”
world
| SENSITIVE WRITERS artists had felt this coming. Aj lot of the extravagant ‘“isms” in| literature and art between the| wars had reflected inner 'dreads.. Mr, Mehring writes, for example, “From the Dadaist point| of view there were two types of her return to Borneo after the people on the face of the earth: on war will be published by Atlantic-
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and
The Marcaboth Women
The Literary Guild's November for gold-laden adventurers from
that you can’t destroy the in-|vina Delmar about a dominating drama of that time with almost
dividual, they invented “national-| ~~ hose matriarchy was! painful intensity. There
ized, systematized brutality going|
ar as the torture that levels/Undermined when her eldest son ,,3,0 dances and love making.|
married a mercenary girl.
iliation of | Mrs. Delmar has written six army officer named U. 8. Grant. starting with| a Literary Guild]
{previous novels,
{BAD GIRL, |selection in April, 1928. Harcourt
novel Oct. 18.
White Man Returns Scheduled for Aug. 6
the one side the Dadiest, who saw|Little, Brown, Aug. 6.
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of paranold idiots who thought2 4d HOME.
Like diabolical and com- themselves normal and resente publicity being made fun of.” - Sometimes the literati
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