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lessly through dead calms and light, baff1ing winds Don't worry! It's just that pre-pay-day period and can be cured by a quick visit to the Base Library. Make the Library your home for tomorrow you'll find good reading there.
 "It's Good, Gusty Hemingway" That is what one reviewer says about "DAYSPRING" by Harry Sylvester, newcomer to the Base Library shelves. This is a Freu dian-religious story of one Spencer Bain, young Eastern anthropolo- gist who arrives in New Mexico to study the "Penitentes", strange and violent sect which practices fagellation in addition to the es- tablished rites of the Catholic Church. In spirit of scientific in quiry he passes himself off as convert and joins the children of light" participating in their f1agel- lation in addition to the established rites of the Catholic Church. In spirit of scientific inquiry he passes himself off as convert and joins the children of light" partici- pating in their fagellations and their Holy Week processions. Bain becomes the center of a series of dramatic, and finally melodramatic events. He sees murder done in hot blood. And through his experience, he finally comes to deep realiza- tion of spiritual values which he has almost totally lacked before. It is major theme Harry Syl- vester has given it dramatic and wholly American Interpretation.
 John O'Hara at His Best
 It has been five long years since O'Hara's last book. That's five years too long for the Bradley Field G.I. who liked his Appoint ment in Samarra" and "Files on Parade''. "Pipe Night contains thirty-one stories, more than a quarter of which have never be- fore been published. O'Hara's in satiable curiosity provides him with the actuality that fleshes his stories. His intelligence has taught him how intense and how deep are the emotions which social con- alterations call forth. Wolcott Gibbs in his preface to the book says "Here is a story that very briefly and almost wholly by inn plication gives you sense of something-love or hope or self respect-irrevocably lost; here is another, direct and brutal; here is the brilliantly satirical obituary of dull life; here is Hollywood, the South Shore of Long Island; here, in fact, is just about everything that an extraordinarily observant man can find in the America bound ed on the east by Fifty-second St. and on the west by Hollywood Boulevard. It is all very, very good"
 Fascinating Story of a Complete
 Egotist
 Add the name of Mrs. Sybil Jar dine to the growing list of women you won't forget. A superb witch, the female ego, she dominates the pages of Rosamond Lehmann's latest novel "The Ballad and the Source", Book-of- the Month selec- tion for March. When the novel opens, Sybil has come down to us as white-haired but still dominant grandmother, a woman both fas cinating and sinister to her grand children and their friends. It is through the adolescent eyes of Re- becca, one of the friends, that the story of this impulsive Victorian beauty is pieced together for us. In England, we first apprehend the nightmare behind the noble Jardine profile; in Rome, where her daugh- ter pays degradingly for her moth er's rebellion; in France we learn how Sybil's grandchild is crucified on an old dream. "What useful les sons," Sybil once said, "I could give detective-or a murderer. Sybil