Evening star., 1947-09-28

Sigh Turnbull's The Bishops
Mantle" A woman who makes the
psychiatric rounds in an effort to
patch her shaky marriage is the
heroine of Take This Woman" by
Lindsay Hayes.
Mary Jane Ward, who wrote the
novel about psychoneurotics in THE
Snake Pit" has turned to the racial
matter in The Professors Umbrel-
Ia" Holding Carter, militant young
Southern liberal, treats the same
subject in Flood Crest" Add John
Hewlett with wild Grape" a story
of the uegitimate daughter of q
Ku Klux Klan leader. And Emf
Ludwig has heightened the issue oi
race consciousness in a retelling o1
Shakespeare's "Othello."
Historical Novels.
In the ever r-flourishing field of the
historical novel we will have Howard
Breslin's first, THE Tamarack Tree,
the story of Daniel Webster's impact
on . small Vermont town; "Un.
conquered" by Neil Swanson, which
will take up where his admirable
THE Perilous Fight left off; from
Herbert German, The Cry of Do.
lores," a new version of the story
of Father Hidalgo, and ''The Hill Of
the Hawk" by Scott Odell, which i.
GOT in old California
Palm for the most prolific writer
OF the season goes without any
question to Robert Payne, the bril-.
liant young Epglishman, who ha.
three books coming out almost 81
multaneously: THE Bear Coughs a
the North Pole" a survey of tn.
forthcoming Asiatic Century; "Th'
Revolt of Asia" and an anthology
''The White Pony" More on tn,
Oriental scene comes from Lat
Shaw, author of "Rickshaw Boy
Divorce" is said to be satiric.
Admiral Hslsey's STORY Port
port" written with 1t. Comdr.
Bryan III, is among the steadily di.
minishing books about the war
Famed Navy photographer, Capt
Edward Steichen, has told the stor.
of the Lexington with prose ane
pictures in THE Blue Ghost" "Th.
Long Holiday" by Francois Am.
briere, winner OF the 1916 Prix Con.
court, tells of his five and one-halI
years in a Nazi prison camp. "The
Won Hassel Diaries" are the journals
of an anti-Nazi German diplomat
who was executed for his part in the
1914 bomb plot against Hitler.
1.-THE American Iliad," by OFT.
Eisenschiml and Ralph G. Newman
tells the story of the Civil Wa
through . collection Of contempt.
rary and eyewitness accounts. Re
hearsal for Conflict" is a history O
the Mexican War by Alfred Hoy
Bill. Historical biographies will come
from Gerald w. johnson, author o.
"The First Captain: The Story o.
John Paul Jones'" and from Heller
Landreth, who traces the life of ar
Irish patriot in THE Pursuit o,
Robert Emmet." She is the author
Of Dear Dark Head" one of thu
finest histories of Ireland.
Travellers Back Home.
Returning travellers include Bill
Mauldin, who describes postwa
America in Back Home" and Ed
mund Wilson. New Yorker bool
critic, whose impressions of postwar
Europe are recorded in Europe
Without Baedeker." Rebecca Wes
has supplemented her impression
of the trials Of traitors, which wer'
first printed in the New Yorker, IL
The Meaning of Treason
The fourth volume of Van Wycl
Brooks monumental literary his
tory of America will shortly appear
It is called The Times OF Herman
Melville" Other belles-lettres in
clude Dorothy Sayers' Unpopular
Opinions" Country Life in Amer
ica," the story OF 10 Presidents WHIT
preferred the pastoral existence, ant
Green Meadows" which is Levi!
Mumford's memorial to his sol
Geddes, who was killed in the war
To confound critics who complain
that the press Is not self-critical
the Niemann Fellows Of 1856 hav'
collaborated on Your Newspaper
Blueprint for a Better Press" Will,
A. J. Liebling has gathered hi
needing New Yorker essays into ,
volume called '"The Wayward Press
man" Joseph Herzberg, city edito
of the New York. Herald Tribune
has worked with his staff to pro
duce Late City Edition." blow
by-blow account Of life on dali.
newspaper. AL Laney looks bacl
over some years that are commonl!
known ss halcyon in Paris Herald.
Humorist H. Allen Smith is bacl
and nostalgia's got him. In 10
the Former Egyptian" he recalls the
days of his youth in Southern
Illinois, which is known as Egypt
it seems. T. H. Robsj john Gibbings
who took antique dealers over tht
hurdles in a well-bred way II
Goodbye, Mr.. Chippendale." &C
cords the same courtesy to the higf
priests Of modern art in Mona
Lisa's Moustache."
Washingtonians will doubtless take
a family interest in Corinne Grif.
fith's My Life with the Redskins
She is, as every one knows, the wifi
of the, teams owner, George Mar.
shall. More on the local scene comes
from Senator Alexander Wiley oi
Wisconsin, author of Laughing
With Congress" You must admi
the proposition Is tactful. Ane
Harold Stassen's personal and 20.
litical credo, entitled Where
Stand" will make q not untimel,