Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1951 — Page 17

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REQUIEM FOR A NUN. A novel, By William Faulkner. New York,

Random House, $3.

THE PEOPLE who stoutly maintain that William Faulkner is the greatest living American writer have a nasty problem on their hands, namely, the 1950 Nobel Prize winner's latest work, a combination play-and-novel

called “Requiem for a Nun” (Random House). * Thé lesser part of “Requiem for a Nun” consists of a typically im-

setting forth how the folks at Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Miss., came to build a courthouse. A section of this n has al-

for the City" in the volume labeled “Prize Stories of 1951.” Mr. Faulkner hasn't changed his short story much in the progress of converting it into the front end of a novel. His principal alteration consists of replacing periods with semi-colons, thereby allowing for some distinguished sentences approximately as long as the War Between the States.

But let us by all means get to the real meat of this book, which is the play section. The heroine of the play is Temple Drake, who figured so prominently in Mr, Faulkner's “Sanctuary.” When we took leave of Temple in that previous volume, we were given to understand that the girl had gone off her chump, and no wonder, what with the astonishing things that happened to her in that

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t Temple knows more than she is telling, and after a fierce and fearfully prolonged flow of rhe-

careless, willful Temple, made feverish by a life on the lam, might some day “drop the baby into a garbage can,” took it upon herself to snuff out the infant's life as a precautionary measure. There, if you like, is a drama. I'll admit that “Requiem for a Nun” had me glued to the page. Now that I'm able to think about

Easy Reading

BROTHERLY LOVE UNLIMITED Ethel Hueston. Bobbs-Mer-rill Co., Ins., $2.75, 283 pp.

Recommended for easily digestible autumn reading is this new offering by the prolific author of 38 other light novels. Despite its highly implausible beginning where a handsome, well-to-do Young Government worker falls into cahoots with his mother's elderly and irrepressibly witty best friend to plot his “accidental” suicide, the story gains in interest and entertainment with a parody on current Americana. This takes the form of “Brotherly Love, Unlimited,” a movement started by the elderly Gram, her daughter and granddayghter in a small New York village. Signers of the pledge promise to devote 15 minutes each day to good deeds and to try to enlist 10 other signers. As might be expected, the idea sweeps the country with the frenzy and enthusiasm of the Pyramid Clubs. Also to be expected is the sly infiltration of subversive agents anxious to do a good deed for the Communist

cause. Nor will it surprise the reader to find the neurotic young hero, who became a Brotherly Lover for laughs, transformed into a quite different kind of lover and a wily defender of the modern crusade for peace and good will. —D. D. K.

De Mille Autobiograph Agnes de Millie's autobiography, DANCE TO THE PIPER, is a Literary Guild reserve selection for use early next year. To be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown, the book traces the career of Cecil B. de Mille’s niece who became famous for her choreography in shows like “Oklahoma!”, “Bloomer Girl,” “Carou~ sel” and “Brigadoon.”

Drake in a Cesspool”; or, “You Can Always Keep a Bad Girl Down.” E » .

. TO CHANGE the subject with a thoroughness I have never managed in my life before, the

Harper company is on the market

with a new condensed Bible, “THE HOME BIBLE,” arranged “for family reading” by Ruth Hornblower Greenough. “THE HOME BIBLE” consists of about one-third of the King James version, and the publishers say that a number of Bible scholars (presumably despairing of the idea of restless moderns reading the great book without props and shortcuts) have approved of this “shortened narrative form.” Certainly this latest abridgement is housed in an unusually handsome volume. The format is large, the typography fine and clear, and there are some 32 appropriate illustrations drawn from the William Blake treasury. ' ¥ #" -

IF THERE is any justice, the monopoly on the costume fiction industry enjoyed by our North

| American scribblers will be at ut

millan), Mr. Verissimo’s narrative is inclined to drift along a languidly, and the Portuguese has been Yanked up with a number of “gonnas” and “oughtas” and “sortas” which are distracting, but there are a number of winning features. The multitude of characters include some full bosomed girls and some reckless, hot-eyed boys, but these comport themselves with a degree of casual realism practically unknown to the fair flowers of our

revolution. : Revolution is also rife, of course, in the pages of Waldo Frank's “BIRTH OF A WORLD” (Houghton Mifflin), a biography of Simon Bolivar, who is 1y labeled, .-~ easy reference, the

“George “Abraham Lincoln” of Latin

“We may safely guess that Bol fvar must have thought . . .” busness). It is also literate and in-

biographers manage to be a bit sprightlier, a touch more dynam-ie?—-T. D.

WOODCUT—"Tiger,"

a woodcut by Misch Kohn, Hoosier now resident in Chicago, was

singled out recently for mention by the New York Times in a review of a summer show of contempo-

rary American prints at the Muse komo, was; a

at Chicago's Institute of Design.

um of Modern Art, owner of the

print. Mr. Kohn, formerly of Koerron Art School scholarship student from 1934 through 1939, and is now instructor

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War II experiences in command of a baby flattop, the “Guadalcanal,” in CLEAR THE DECKS! to be published Oct. 31 by Mor-

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Collectofs of. Americana can't afford to overlook this volume by a recognized authority on the Mississipp! River and its people. Most of the book is devoted to pungent characterizations of river folk who rise and fall with the They: are quaint,

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with mountain dew; the headland fiddler who could play only one song to accompany all mountain ballads. But these facts far outrank| most fiction in interest and read-| ability. Mr. Burman, who writes

parts from facts only once in this volume with the story, “Children of Noah.” This selection alone is worth the price of the book. It's the story of a river ‘townsman’s vision that he must build an ark like Noah's, It has the humor, charm and plaintive lyric quality of Burl Ives’ folk songs,

of the book, which needs no emphasis, numerous sketches of river life by Alice Caddy are the crowning touch.—D. D. K.

According to the publisher, Hille Jan Masaryk Slated

canal’ included the capture of a/For Publication Dec. 5 U-boat which it proudly towed

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According to the publisher, Mr. Lockhart, “proves without doubt that Mr. Masaryk was the object of planned assassination.” Mr. Lockhart was a close friend of

the Democratic Czech minister.

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