The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11

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 JULIAN DAY, young English J man, came to Colonial Williams
 burg, Va, just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War His saga is contained in the novel, "Dawn's Early Light" by ElsWyth Thane
 Duell, Sloan & Pearce: $250).
 As school teacher he was staunchly pro-King in his views, but admitted the British were tactless as the Americans in their handling of colonial differences. Gradually he came to speak of the ContinentalS as "our troops and suddenly real ized that in spite of his homeland, he was Virginian,
 He went to war as a private and was at de Klabs side when the gen. eral was fatally wounded at Cam den. As prisoner, he was rescued by SWampfox Marion, with whom he lived for time Marion realized this school teacher was too valuable for guerilla warfare and Day be- came an aide to General Greene, who sublet him to Lafayette under whim Day advanced to rank of Major.
 Besides intimate glimpses of fig ureS of the times, such as Wash ington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, General Gates, Cornwallis and oth- CTS there is love story-or more correctly-three love stories.
 IF the war knocked your plans Il for that cruise through the West Indies into a cooked hat, take comfort in Helen Follett's Islands on Guard (Scribner'S, $250). Mrs, Follett gives you much more than nasty tourists-eye, kaleidoscopic view of this fascinating chain of islands. Her historical background of Antigua, Martinique, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and the smaller links is anything but teXtbookiSh.
 Fellows named Blackboard, Nor gan, Kidd, and others of their ilk who piled a booming pirate trade step right out of the page, knife in teeth. Sir Francis Drake, no mean privateer in the days when he was on the pay roll of Queen Elizabeth, plays a dominant role in the ancient history of the islands, as does an adventurous chap named | Columbus, who after all, got there first.
 But once you are equipped with the authors colorfully brushed | backdrop, the islands and their people as they are today in war time step forth for inspection. The old never disappears, but the new edges in.
 In some spots the peaceful at though still existing, has been changed by the peaceful oc- cupation of American troops. Mod | ern armament stands in strange contrast to ancient fortresseS. Yet ! the establishment of war bases and | economic improvements have en- hanced, rather than spoiled, the entertainment and excitement of the | Caribbees. Today they are no less beautiful, but they assume a new importance, English, French, Dutch | islands alike, in war to be won. When it's all over, you may still take that cruise. You vii certainly want | to, after reading and seeing the l superb photographs in islands on Guard" BLACK NAZI MAGIC VTITCHCRAFT may be dead else w where in the civilized world. but Nazi leaders have done their | best to revive medieval beliefs in | systicism and occult humbug. How far the clock has been turned back | is revealed in Double, Double Toll and Trouble" (Viking: $2.75), Lion Feuchtwangers novel based on the life of Hitler's soothsayer.
 The time is 1882, and selfish, vain, pompous Oscar Lautensack rises to glory in a fashion that parelles the ascendancy of Hitler When he is no longer useful to the Fuehrer, he pays with his life TOT his short-lived fame.
 Nazi Germany is painted in all it's ruthless. grasping, greedy, rob ping infamy-yet Feuchtwanger has purposely refrained from coloring his story with anything but matter of fact statements that have been gleaned from the records.
 No one can read Double, Double Foil and Trouble" without realiz- ing the duplicity of Nazi leaders. who sacrifice even their own friends when they interfere with their craze for power and authority. The novel is an accurate account of Nazi his tory, dramatized through fictional treatment.
 OLDEST VINEYARD