The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-07-20

mere are so many DOCKS, that IL
is hard to cover all the reading
ground yearly. You may have
missed some very interesting titles,
so this is partial list of good stories
of lands far away and here at home.
Winters Tales, by Isak Dinesen,
known in social circles as Baroness
Karen Blixen, is as far removed
from the world about us as an An
dersen fairy tale. Here are eleven
fanciful stories, probably conferred
in Denmark of hundred years ago,
so individual, SO perceptive that one
is captivated by the voices of old
Europe. For sheer beauty of style,
this collection of stories is in the
top rank. They are worth reread-
ing many times, since each is a
widely different experience.
Penthouse In BagOta, by Virginia
M. Paxton, is a gayly diverting
book, recounting the adventures of
an Associated Press correspondent,
his wife and one year old son, in
Colombia. There the authors hus-
band set up the first AP bureau in
the Colombian capital while the
wife set up housekeeping with the
aid of practically no Spanish, a
bright smile and a logged determ-
nation. This is a book for house
keepers who have a yen for trav-
cling, or for anyone who wishes to
spend a pleasant evening.
KablOOna, by Gontran de Poncins,
is curiously absorbing book. The
author spent fifteen months with
the Eskimos, fishing, hunting and
living with them in land where
there were only two other white
men. Few have written of the eff
feet of different civilizations on
those who go to study, and that ele-
ment in this story is of unusual in
terest This is full of high adven-
ture, unconventional in the sense
of departure from set patterns of
stories of other countries. His vivid
descriptions of even small adven-
lures are real enough to convince
the reader of the primitiveness of
the people.
If you missed Fiddle LOnspay, by
Warren Bledsoe, take time off to
read it. Light, entertaining, even
slightly fantastic, is this novel of
manners about Maryland family.
The Longspays of Swithinsgift were
aristocrats and Fiddle, baptised
Beauchamp, had the usual propensi-
ty for getting into scrapes. He is
one of the numerous grandsons in
the store, and one you'll sympathize
and chuckle with. This is good for
outdoor reading and one for men as
well as women. 1t is delightful and
impudent, without vulgarity-which
says a lot.
Have you stopped at the Algon-
quin Hotel on one of your trips to
New York? Few hotels can boast
of the names on the Algonquin reg
ister Small, unpretentious, but so
full of atmosphere that one can al
most smell the grease paint. The
one and only Frank Case-genial
hosts responsible for much of the
tradition there and his Tales of a
Hayward Inn is as sparkling as the
guests who stayed there. Not ev-
eryone in his book belong to the
famous group, his is mixed crew,
ones best friend might have been
included
Robert Nathan's books need no
comment. Journey For Josephine
describes the life of a small family
during the summer of 1912 on Cape
Cod. 1t is written in tranquil, Ii
quid prose, yet the war is most
vivid in the minds of the villagers
and the little family The intensity
of the book results from the auth
or's gift of compression, of weaving
a whole experience into a phrase.