The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-07
. Literary
Guidepost .

preference of almost every read
err can be found in the weeks
releases. Publishers, recognizing
the sustained demand for books,
have scheduled some of the top
titles for summer publication.
Elizabeth Pickering Chevali-
er's "Drivin' Woman" (Macmil-
Ian: S2.75) may not attain the
sue cess of Gone With the
Wind" but. her heroine, America
Moncure, is as unforgettable as
Scarlet O'Hara. You may not
like America. you may call her
a fool, or you may admire her
tremendously, but you are sure
to enjoy every word of her story.
America belongs to the re-
markable generation of post
Civil War southern women who,
with nothing left but brains,
beauty and breeding, created dis
tinguished career for them
selves. She pioneered in new
born south, found victory only
after bitter years of stuggle, dan
ger and defeat
For historical romance In tlzes
swashbuckling style, try "Out on
Any Limb (Dutton: $500 by
John Myers Myers. This is as
good or better than his earlier
The Harp and the Blade" and
carries the same vigorous adj
venture and lusty humor that
made Myers name to remem-
Der.
The scene is laid in Queen
Elizabeth's England, after the
Armada, and details the efforts
Of a pair of heroes to find trou-
BILE. They are never disappoint-
ed, and neither will you be.
NATHAN AGAIN
Robert Nathan has the ability
of writing poetry in prose and
of telling a love story so SIM
ply that none of its power is lost.
THE Sea-Gull Cry" (Knopf: $2)
is such story. Readers of Ma
than's Portrait of Jennie" and
They Went on Together" will
welcome his new novel.
There are only three major
characters, Polish refugee girl
and her brother, trying to re-
establish their lives in America,
and professor trying to find
himself. Nathan's novel is tops
for summer reading.
Another short story that packs
a wallop is "I- James Blunt
(Dodd Mead: $I by II. v. Nor
ton. James Blunt keeps diary
in the England of 1944-45 after
Germany has won the war. II,
James Blunt" is particularly rec
commended for those who still
say lit can't happen here" 1t
can-just as it has happened in
France, in Poland and Czecho-
slovakia-unless the United Ma
tons win the war.
ON THE WAR FRONT
There must be lot more belt
tightening and an about effort
for victory before the United
Nations can win the war, warns
James B. Reston, war CORE
spondent in Prelude to Victory"
(Knopf: S2), book that should
be required reading for all of us.
Reston pulls no punches in his
indictment of Americans who are
only half-heartedly doing their
share in the war. His book faces
the facts, unpleasant as they may
be to some. and points the hard
way to achieving our goals in
both war and in the peace to fol-
low.
Harry w. Flannery takes up
where William Shirer's Berlin
Diary" left off in Assignment
to Berlin" (Knopf: So. Flannery
succeeded Shirer in the Nazi
capital, carries on the story of in
side Germany up until u. S. en-
tered the war.
There's a laugh in the war,
too. You'll find Private Purkey
in Love and Wa" Harper and
Brothers: Sl.50) packs plenty of
chuckles in his letters to sweet
hearts and family. II. I. Phillips
has the 10 lea successor TO
World Wars "Dere Mabel in
PurkoN