The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
Book Reviews

as often as he has them cheer
ing, has lifted many OF his best
columns of the last four years
from the New York Post and
syndicated newspapers and re-
published them in An American
Diary doubleday.
Anybody who has written a
column knows what a job il is to
keep it alive from day TO day.
A columnist who can take even
the cream of his work over
four-year period and make il
into an interesting. living book
is little short of amazing.
Grafton can't please all with
his political outlook. but few can
be displeased with his able
knack of phrasing. his colorful
tangy metaphors and his gener-
al writing excellence.
Bernard Newman deserves
the gratitude of everyone in
terested in the future peace of
the world for his The New Eur
ope (Macmillan).
He deals mainly with the
thorny adjustment of border
lines in Europe, and whatever
one may think of his proposal to
transplant up TO 100000 peo-
pie TO forestall future out
breaks, he has furnished an ex-
cellent study of the problems of
minorities.
The author, lecturer in
British army camps, advocates a
gradual approach by forming re-
gional declarations which might
eventually be merged. Even this
will not be an easy job. For
instance, a student of Balkan
affairs will have difficulty i'm
agining the Hungarian wolf ly-
ing peacefully side by side with
the Roumanian lamb, or a Bull
garian "comitadji" sharing a
peaceful meal with his Serb
neighbor without both men
keeping their stiletti handy in
the shafts of their boots.
Michael Padev's first full
length English book, Escape
From the Balkans (Bobbs Mer-
rilD not only recounts the auth
or's escape from the horrors of a
Nazi concentration camps, but
also includes his views of the
political fabric of the Balkan
states and of the problems which
must be solved TO assure Euro
I pean peace.
One of the group OF young
B u garian journalists W h c
founded the weekly newspaper
Balkan, Padev still breaches Bal
kan cooperation and federation
His views and the fact that he
was Sofia correspondent of the
London Times, and news ano
information chief of the Brit.
ish press office and agency Brit
anova' in Bulgaria led him into
difficulties with the Bulgarian
government and with the agent;
of the New Order. 1
Padev's experiences in a con
centration camp and his snbse
quent flight to safety in Turkey
made interesting reading.
Something new has been add
ed TO Brigid Knights writing
but it is an intangible thing thai
defies description and only
makes its quiet presence felt il
her new novel, The Covenan
/ (CrowelD. Whatever il is, i
adds stature TO her reputation a.
a storyteller.
II is, in fact, an old story II
such a way as TO make II APP
pear new-the plight of mar
who loved two women.
Hunger for companionshil
drove Stephen to Chris, the wild
ow of a Boer farmer. That thi
brief romance would have roper
cussions, neither principal real
lied, but it did when Stepher
married his cousin.
Part Of the charm Of 9TH
Covenant" lies in the author
ability 10 tell her story well
Much Of ii derives from her fid
city TO character and setting, II
this instance the Beers and tn
British who lived in Souther'
Africa near the close Of the lot
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