The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

1OTInaLIVe Issue as Lne CurTeIlJ one conditions. In the 1941 "Jane's Fighting Ships" Macmillan: $19) you'll find everything from the Japanese alphabet to official pie lures, plans and data on new US. battleships.
 Valuable special feature of this edition is the 36-page section on war losses which lists some 700 vessels sunk in action since Sep- tember, 1889. Pictures and details of sinkings are given on famous Ships-Germany's Bismarck, Brit sin's Royal Oak, Americas Arizona = and other craft down to the smallest minelayers and torpedo boats.
 In the 500-odd pages that follow you'll find why this book has become an institution with naval men ev- erywhere, an authoritative reference work for researchers, students, gov- erhment officials and the worlds press, and an up-to-the-m minute war manual for the average layman who must trace the course of global con- flict from his armchair.
 "Jane's" lists practically all the boats of all the worlds navies with vital facts such as tonnage, length, width, armor, guns and other equip ment. Still feature of the book, along with its 5000 illustrations of war vessels, is the silhouette index originated by ane in the original 1897 issue edition to facilitate recog- milton of ships at distance.
 Fresh information on warships built or building in the navies of the five great sea powers reveals that the US. and Britain still hold superiority over their axis foes.
 The Army can be fun and
 Army life Is full of laughs, re-
 ports Marion HargrOve in "See
 Here, Private Hargrove" (HOlt:
 $2), one of the best and wittiest
 chronicles of the draftee'S life.
 Private Hargrove's private war
 with sergeants ends Dec. !. The
 final chapters are more serious. MOSES THE MAN
 THE Bible disposes of the early ' life of Moses, leader of the Jews, in half a chapter. VIC. Hardy now supplies fictional revelations of that neglected biography in "All the Trumpets Sounded" Coward McCann: $2.76, the story of the life of Moses as the adopted son of the Egyptian princess.
 This is tale that has long need cd telling and the antiquity of its setting robs it of none of its love, adventure adventure and superb drama.
 PIRATE AND HERO l AVO. l on the list of swashbuck- IN ling adventure, duels, sea bat ties and romance is Thomas B. Cos tains For My Great Folly" (Put- nam: $275).
 Roger Blease goes to sea with John Ward, English pirate, in the days when King James ruled tn Isles and Spain ruled the seas. Roger gets all the fighting he copld ask for, in 800 pages of one of the best historical novels of the year. SPOTLIGHT ON NIPPON
 lIN/EAR OF THE WILD BOAR"
 ' by Helen Mears Gippincott: $2.75) is an intensely interesting study of life in modern Japan.
 The author, who writes with great keenness and wit, spent many months in Tokyo where she was swept into the inner life of the city like Alice through the looking glass, and with much the same confusion. Everywhere she found the same psychological and physical conflicts between the old and the new in this nation which has been intellectually fascist for hundreds of years.
 RRIEFLY noted
 D December 7--Thc First 30 Hours" (Knopf; $2) Reporters his tory of Americas entrance into war We'll done and important to recall many events missed in the excite ment.
 City Lawyer" by Arthur Garfield Hays (Simon and Schuster: $3). The autobiography of an able at torney, covering everything from the Scopes trial in Tennessee to the ReichStag fire.