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THE OTHER BODY IN >Y TOMB. A novel, By Richard
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Starnes. Philadelphia, Lippincott, $2.50. .
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A city that might be New York is the background for| THE OTHER BODY IN GRANT'S TOMB, the latest—and
third—fast-moving mystery by RicharJ Starnes.
Mr. Starnes, assistant managing editor of the Washa ScrippsHoward Newspaper, draws on his own maritime experience for his authentic background of Paradise
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PRIZE STORIES OF 1951. and selected by Brickell. New York, day, $3.75.
Ah, the short story! It is taught in the high schools and colleges, It is dissected and discussed at writer conferences. It
is wrapped around ads in’ maga-| zines, . Pompous individuals set themselves up as Great Authorities on the Short Story, .lay down the rules and discern trends. Others spend their lives "in compiling
Edited Herschel Double-
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“newspaper atmosphere, ; this, as always in Mr, Starnes’
Barney Forge has graduated . from the newsroom to the staff of Palm, a fabulous and fictictiois newsweeekly which is supposed
Hack Harper, another newspaper genius who has turned alcoholic, is the central figure of THE OTHER BODY. Harper is supposed to know the inside dope about who really is at the top of the crime ring that' has a stranglehold on the corrupt city,
and it's Forge’s job to pump him] -
with patience and plenty of rye whisky. There are gory murders, of course; the first victim cooks to death in a Turkish bath when a faulty steam valve is turned on full force. Another is found with his head mashed, and a first-rate
shooting match climaxes the story. But it is that toxicological
genius and Virginia gentleman, Dr. St. George Peachy, who stoops even to body-snatching in order to find out why the coroner was so quick to issue the wrong kind of death certificate. »
Disquietina Novel About a Chaplain
THE UNQUIET NIGHT by Al brecht Goes. Houghton, Mifflin Co. $2.25, 122 pp.
Translated from German, this is a disquieting novel of a chap. plain’s actions and reactions durs ing the 24-hour period encompassing a military execution. Compassion for the deserter to be shot at dawn is contrasted with the minister's love of life pnd hatred of nazism, yet paralle with his concern fon a Luftwaffe pilot with whom must share his room that one night at the Army post. The pilot is ordered on a certain death mission into Russia and spends his last night with his bride-elect. The chaplain is the unobtrusive third person at their last chance for love and life Written in soul-searching style, the prose achieves a delicate touch on a strong spiritual foundation. Some readers will have a scratchy conscience after this first-person insight into the life of a chaplain who strives to be both a god German and a good Christian during the Nazi reign. A cynic might ponder that politics make strange reading-in-bedfel-Tows.—D. D. K.
National Library Day National Library Day will -be observed throughout America on Thursday, Octfl 4, to mark the founding of the American
NEW BOOK~—Helen Boyd Higgins. Indianapolis auth author ol
added UL unger readers, hus GIRL SCOUT +o Bobbs-Merrill's fall list as a new item in the pub. lisher's Childhood of Famous Americans series ($1.75).
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anthologies of short stories. Thousands of earnest young Americans write short stories. Some’ NE even read them.
Spevigoer. who San an ws posing and, intimidating. task reviewing a prof pride
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» x THIS IS a ation of the ©. Henry Awards and is published annually, being the Bible of the Short Story Cult. The first prize of $300," for the best short} story, goes to Harris Downey,
Louisiana State University, for his “The Hunters” which appeared in Epoch. Eudora Welty is the winner of the second prize, $200, for “Burning” which was published in Harper's Bazaar.
third prize for his “The House of Flowers” from Madamoiselle. In addition to the stories of the three winners, 21 other short stories, judged of unusual merit, are published in this anthology. The three judges were Nancy Hale, Joseph Henry Jackson and Mark Van Doren. In a long introduction by Editor Brickell, which
Fine, Quiet Little Novel
THE SOUTHWEST CORNER. A novel. By Mildred Walker. New| York, Harcourt, Brace, $2.
vo 2) Joi COLLIER r those appreciate careful writing and find a quiet little novel rewarding, THE SOUTHWEST CORNER, by Mildred Walker is a good bet. The heroine, it's true, is an 83-year-old widow, which puts severe limitations on the story for one who has a taste for raciness. But it’s a well told story of New England characters,
acters turn out to be worth reading about. If you have so far overlooked
fine novels to her credit, - would be a fine time to get acquainted. 8he has a sizable following of fans.
Book Find
Lucy Freeman's FIGHT AGAINST FEARS will be the
{November selection of the Rook
Find Club.’ By a well-known staff writer for the New York Times, the book is described as “the first account of an analysis from the patient's viewpoint, in lay terms, by one who has had
‘the courage to write under her
real name.” ’
IU to Publish Book
Publication rights to THE OLD NORTHWEST by R. Carylye Buley, winner of the Pulitzer prize for history, has been taken over by Indiana University Press from the Indiana Historical
Society. A new two-volume print-
ing will be released in September.
Library Association.
The price will be advanced to $15.
QUEEN'S HAS THE NEW 5st LEWYT)|
and somehow most New England literary char-
Mrs. Walker, who has several
shows how serious and how earnest life is for a short story specialist, hundreds of words are taken up in explaining what the winning story, “The Hunters” is all about, although the general reader, if he has been through the fifth grade, could have understood it without a pony. 2.8 » THE INTRODUCTION, reveals that Miss Hale, one of the judges, doesn’t quite understand Miss Wety’s story although she agreed that it was a dilly, Declared Miss Hale of the Weity story, “But,
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By Rabindranath TaSelected and translated
gore.. by Nagendranath Gupta. New York, Philosophical Library, $3.50, :
By JOSEPH JAMES Since Rabindranath Tagore died in August, 1941, this volume serves as a decennial memorial. With a few exceptions the poems have not previously appeared in English translations. Nagendranath Gupta has supplied a 40-page introductory essay on Tagore, The most important question about a work of this kind, the question of the adequacy of the translation, must remain unanswered by any reviewer who cannot read ‘the Bengalése originals. A subsidiary question about the general worth of the volume for Western readers may certainly be considered here. From the viewpoint of the general reader of poetry, the introductory essay contributes very little to an understanding of Tagore. It is adulatory in the
with § the . Fall of Voarus
prepared to accept the adulation, for Tagore has a prodigious reputation. But the essay is unanalytical, and the strategy of praising, not without reason, it is true, but without reason made evident to
the reader, makes a poor impression.
In addition, the writing 1s labored, though the translations certainly are not, Expressions like “consigned to the oblivion of”
is the title of this. mythological print, affor Breughel the Elder, by the Flemish master Franz Huys fi528,1589) a recent accession to Herron Art |
PRIZE PET—Youn wall and her rib pony are the subject of one of
Jan Cornwinning
Jeanne Mellin's drawings for SOMEBODY'S PONY, by Caffrey, a new book for
highest degree; ans
as bits of Miss Weity's writing always remain obscure in meaning to me, so has this story got passages whose sound I can admire but which frankly I don’t understand . . . I am only bewildergd in a mesh of beautiful
ell is smarter than Miss Hale. He says that Miss Wety's meaning was crystal clear to Bm after the third ii sending:
T Ad elty’s ay alto-| gether, the weathet being too hot for puzzles. I liked the Truman Capote story better than any one in the book. All in all, you'll have an evening's fairly interest-| ing reading here if you're x gen-| sral reader. But if you are a; member of the Short Story “ult, you'll more than likely turn handsprings
Ah, the Short Story! See ’em come off the assembly line, all cut, dried and patterned to specifications laid down by the Great Authorities, with any resemblance { to real life being quite coincl-} dental.—C. V. L.
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“tripping verses nimble-footed as Terpsichore,” and “the blandishments of Bohemia” are representative of the phraseology of the essay. Finally, the translator has failed in his essay to act as.a real intermediary between the great Bengalese poet and his American readers, What specifically does Tagore offer Western readers? Nagandranath Gupta has let the poetry speak, it is true, but one feels that his obligations as an essayist have not been fulfilled. A minor but rather annoying omission of the book is the failure to identify the translated poems by reference ‘to volumes, dates, or periods of the poet's life. An opus number is unimportant to a casual listener to music, but the purchase of a volume of poems implies a considerable interest in a poet. Nothing that has been said, however, should detract from the {translator's main job-—giving us Tagore in English. The poems, musically translated into free ‘verse, are excellent addenda to
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"ECONOMIZE
The Question Is
Tom Donnelly
Why? Why? Why?
Never Finished Reading” derby. ‘Ive on the level. Come: October
QINCE Flair, the magazine
trievable past, it seems safe sufficient smart, select, and
really well-bred journal going. Are men of finer e¢lay than women? We shall soon see, A full page advertisement in the current New Yorker, ‘addressed to the “top 100,000 thinking men in this country,” announces .i¢ impending birth of a journal designed for you and me and our most intimate friends. (The ladies can look over our shoulders now and then, I suppose. After all, us men used to have fun folding and unfolding Flair.)
But no, the promise appears to
there will be a dazzling, revolutionary, fabulous publication called “Gentry.” And to judge by the tone of this preliminary announcement it is clear that when the publishers say “Gentry” they positively don't mean “Peasantry.” x » = ” THE 100,000 fortunates who will be able to turn the pages of “Gentry” (probably with the help of a few footman, or better yet, a possel of below-stairs maids) will be “those men who always want to know more . . . to give more that they can gain more from each breath, each hour, each day, each year of their lives ,.. It is
these 100,000 men who look no different from all the rs.” Word of this col nf pulp and ink has already reached the upper regions of American commerce, for it is said that “business firms have ordered Gentry subscriptions as special gifts for men who have everything.” (Now, there’s a slogan for you: “The Magazine for Men Who Have Everything.”) Gentry’s sponsors are hard put to it to describe their inspiration in mere words since, as they = plain, “There is nothing in world like it.”
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to assume that there aren't sensitive- females to keep.a. ..
nique calls for the swatching of . an actual trout fly in the book” The. feeblest imagination can’ [grasp the possibilities here. An expose of the nation's spreading dope addiction, perhaps, with lttle Packets of heroin, and mayhe a dried poppy, affixed to the page. But the horizon is so vast we hady J better leave time and Gentry to tell, or rather, concretely demonstrate, the staggering tale. ; The publishers visualize their '° ¥0ical customer as a man who
I confess. that. for eves himselt. “surregnded Hote hem east is cfonion ry tke -and- thik, . period very t e has t IP depth 4 New Yorker's “Circulars Wel ONE NIGELING ab does
appear to me, one tiny cloud no. bigger than a silver spoon. Gentry’s advertisernent, while fn most respects impressively -deep, has been assembled with a rather cavalier ‘disregard of ‘the gram-. matical proprieties. Consider the following sentence: “Besides good living and fashion, Gentry bes Heves that people do not live bY | bread and circuses alone.” There is something terribly wrong here. I think Gentry means to say something a bit more on the order of “Gentry believes that people live Rot OBIY BY SroMd and circuses, but by good living and fashion” No, that fsn’t quite right either. Perhaps it should ‘be: “Gentry believes that people don't live merely by. good living and fashion.” Well, after all, it isn’t my prob-
always why? why? why? with lem.
I own that T am just the infest : bit skeptical about £78 latms for an article titled “Wha ¢ Means o Be a Man,” scheduled for the first issue. sys: “We heTieve that It you | : son, this one article ute more to his
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