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FLIGHT IN WINTER. By Jurgen Thorwald. New York, Parthaon

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If the dreadful events of the past 10 years have not deprived the American people of all sensibility, then I suspect that FLIGHT IN WINTER, by Jurgen Thorwald, will

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be read with a general feeling of horror.

The author is a young man] $5). road selection of who participated in attempts of| (Dial, $5 A the German navy to save at least some of the two million refugees vho tried, often vainly, to escape through the cold winter of 1945

when the Russian army* moved over Eastern Germany and on toward Berlin. These events are recited calm-

ly, and for the most part they

ire well documented. It is a

tory of such ruthless cruelty—

»f ‘such barbarous practices car-

ried on by the Reds against help-

less old men, women and children 1s have rarely invaded the pages »f history.~

It is also the story of a Ger-|

nan army riddled and torn to hits, and of Adolf Hitler scream-

ing insanely in his Berlin bunker beasts of legend—their origins, — ghifting and commanding2 | armies that no longer existed ex-|ligious fiélds. The many beasts]

«cept in his own inflamed mind. We Jo not need to question this author’s story of Russian harbarism. It has the ring of truth in fit. But we do need to remember Ss we read jt that it is a tale

70 less base than. the record of/in Montana, June 25, 1876. How Far

Nazi crimes against humanity. We need to understand that these two-—the Nazi army and the Red irmy—were two monsters pitted r7ainst each other, and that one nf them — the victor—is still ‘broad in the world and still a menace to all mankind.

shorter Russian pieces of fiction. It {work of Gogol, Turgenev,

|toy, Bunin and Olyesha.

P. Everitt (Little Brown, $3.75). the value of| few collectors

The author< knew rare books as know such values. He was a is the story of his adventures in {that field and, sometimes, | fabulous prices paid him for his (finds.

collector of Americana, and i

{Lun - (Pantheon Books, . $3.75. Here are the stories of fantastic

rand how they entered certain re-

|of legend are illustrated by Anne | Marie Jauss,

| LEGEND INTO HISTORY, by TREASURY OF WESTERN FOLKLORE. Botkin, lore specialist for the Library of Congress,

Charles Kuhlman (Stackpole, |$5). Here, with new material, is the story of the Custer battle north of Little Big Horn River

and why [Custer? The author has several interesting answers. | THE COMPLETE BOOK OF {COLLECTING HOBBIES, by |William Paul Bricker (Sheridan

introduction to a dozen or more collecting hobbies, carrying the

More Gift Books {reader. step by step, and inform-

There is still one shopping day ‘emaining before Christmas, and! ‘0 here is an additional—and final —list of suzgested gift books: | THE PRESIDENCY, by Stefan! Loren (MacMillan, $15). For the ‘reader who has anything more ‘han a casual interest in Ameri‘an ‘history. It is a pictorial his‘ory of the American presidential ~leetigns from George Washingtom -down to Truman's struggle wi wey. The book has an ex-

ing him of values, what ought to e paid for various items, and providing other information for the beginner. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S OWN STORY, edited by Donald

|Day (Little Brown, $4). By care|ful selecting papers and letters

of FDR over a long period, Day brings to this book the flavor of an autobiography. The period covered is from 1910 until the day of Mr. Roosevelt’s death. THE COLLECTED EARLIER

mastercontains Leskov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tols-

|House, $3.50). This book is an|

| niece, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge

we Americ

FABULOUS BEASTS, by Peter) Here - Are Volumes

York, Crown, $4.

Botkin, tops off the year’s

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(has collected 500 stories and 50

(songs of the Great Plains and| West—traditions, legends, |

y did disaster overtakelro ang fancy, tall tales and|/mountain men in the Far West

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tantalizing truths about the peo-| |ple who developed the West. His span of time extends from]

ithe early Spanish explorers of! four centuries ago to the Lone, (Ranger, the modern phony com-| |posite of all the good guys who! ever slung a gun to bring law 'n’ lorfer to the Wild West. |

Other worthwhile Americana {volumes published this year include: |

SKID ROAD, Murray Morgan (Viking, $3.75) —An informal portrait of Seattle covering 100 years lof history and personalities of a|

great American city. +3 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INORTH AMERICAN FOILKLORE AND FOLKSONG, Charles

-ellént, informative text, plus old pOEMS OF WILLIAM CARLOS|Haywood (Greenberg, $27.50)—A nictures and cartoons from each|wILLIAMS (New Directions, $5). [roundup of 20,000 entries of printed

lection period recorded. " THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, by Eliot Janeway (Yale "Iniversity Press, Subscription ed‘tion, $6, book store edition, $5,

This book includes all

poems

written by Dr. Williams from gether with recordings and musi- BOYS, William Main Doerflinger

1906 until 1939 that he wishes to preserve.

{sources of folklore and song, to-|

cal scores. r

| I'LL DICE BEFORE I'LL RUN,

CHRISTMAS CARD—The most popular Christmas card now on sale at Herron Art Museum | THE ADVENTURES OF A! has been made from this oil and tempera triptych, “Madonna and Child with Saints Barbara and | TREASURE HUNT, by Charles| Catherine." Originally an altar-piece, it was painted by an anonymous German artist in the early | 15th Century. Formerly in the collection of Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, it was presented by her |

A TREASURY OF WESTERN FOLKLORE. By B." A. Botkin. New

By HOWARD SHELDON One of America’s foremost folklore authorities, B. A.

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C r rey er Te Tw A eh WE . x z soil ) a » . A Generous Helping of Smorgasbord THE WANDERER. A novel. By much.” So he pinned a ribbon in Mika Waltari.' New York, Put-{her halr instead. - x nam, $3.75. .. But I'm bettfhg - that THE I'm no judge of the super-co- A ER “ih Se a : YPT: an - lossal historical novels of Hla VENTURER, Mr, Waltar’’s No. Waltari, Sweden's gift to literaryiy which | didn't read. 1 offer this smorgasbord. 1 proved that when|gampler. Michael, the pilgrim1, alone among the so-called crit-lhero on his way to ship to the ical gentry, couldn't take THE|Holy Land, and the narrator of EGYPTIAN {Brother Waltari's the story, says “Her (the heroine, Hirst one 1 roared -wheniis Giulia) resistance made me the hero, after chasing the hero-

more stubborn, so by force I ine over most of the then known world, trying seduction, welched when the gal finally answered afJtirmatively to the proposition. “No,” he shouted, “1 love you too

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of Ft. Lauderda le, Fla., to the museum.

ana?’ Two Cheers: Are Enough

{TWO CHEERS FOR DEMOC.| RACY. By E. M. Forster. New! York; Harcourt, Brace, $4. “80 two cheers for democracy,” writes Mr. Forster in this meaty crop of Americana with A|book in which he gathers to-| gether his essays of recent years.

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cherries and my caress had brought a warm glow to her cheeks . . . But she kept her eyes closed, “and covered them with her hands; she was unresponsive to my kisses.” Later pirates board the vessel. Listen, “The black headsman &pproached the pilgrims and ignoring ther, terrified cries, swept their heads from their shoulders with a fiashing scimitar. At the #ight-of these heads rolling-over-the'deck ... | sank to my knees with my arms around my dog's neck.” i See what I mean? THE WAN-’ DERER can’t miss and, to coin a phrase, “No comment.”—C, V. L.

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“One, because’ it (democracy) admits variety and, two, because it! permits criticism. Two cheers are| quite enough; there is no occasion to give three.” -

But one judges by the tenor of many of the essays of this cele-' brated Englishman that, although! he indulges himself in the EngWE ALWAYS LIE TO|lishman’s right to understatement! STRANGERS, Vance Randolph/by confining himself to two cheers &4y_ !for democracy, he really is more oes ur hes Tom of a believer in that form of govor jernment than many who give] A DICTIONARY OF AMERI- cheers by the dozen.

CANISMS, Mitford M. Mathews| For instance, Mr. Forster dis(University of Chicago, 2 vol, $50) [trusts Great Men. (The capitali—Contains 50.000 entries. Accent|zation is his.) “They produce a| strongly on history and brings to-/desert of uniformity around] gether the answers to a host of them and often a pool of blood, questions on Americans of all/too, and I always feel a little; kinds. man’s pleasure when they come a cropper . . . I believe in aris-| tocracy, though, if that is the right word and if a democrat] may use it. Not an artistocracy of power, based upon rank and| influence, but an aristocracy of| the sensitive, the considerate and| the plucky.” | : But Mr, Forster seems to be (Macmillan, $8) —Songs anda hard-bitten realist. “As soon chanteys of sailors and lumber-|,q people have power,” he states,

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| Irma 8. Rombauer, co-author | (with her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker) of THE NEW JOY OF COOKING (Bobbs-Merrill)

|C. L. Sonnichsen (Harper, $3.50) |

| —The story of the great feuds of| Texas.

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ho sells newspapers in front of CHILDREN OF NOAH, Ben Lucian Berman (Messner, $3.50) Sue Io Duse = Parliament can —Glimpses of an unknown Amer- gatel¥ kesye s newspapers there, ica along the Mississippi River. s cap beside them, when he

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