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Evening star., 1947-07-06

out the Northern States, was the
greatest journalistic influence of its
time. That its editor was man of
bad judgment contributed to the
tragedy of the war.
Greeley pictured the insane John
Brown as saint, and believed that
the effect of Browns raid on Har-
pers Ferry would be to bring South
erners into Republican ranks. He be-
lieved enormously in division in
the South between Shareholders and
nonslaveholders, and that the South
would never fight.
Made Compromise Impossible.
After Lincom's election Greeley
judged rightly that the time for
compromise on the part of the North
had passed, but he was one who had
made compromise on the part of
the South impossible.
Greeley was an honest man." DR..
Isely says, "but his responsibility for
the Civil War is nonetheless great.
y = His mistaken views of the slave
States penetrated the Northern con-
sciousness."
DR.. Isely, a member of the Prince
ton faculty. has taken his material,
gathered in most painstaking re-
search, and presented it in an ex-
tremely readable style.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
A Priced Volume
For Art Lovers
Ell GRECO (DOMENICO
THEOTOCOPULD

Ell GRECO (DOMEN1CO
THEOTOCOPULD
BY Maurice Legendre. THE Hy-
perion Press and DueH, Sloan e.
Pedrce; S6.J
Reviewed by
FLORENCE S. BERGMAN.
Ell Greco, Spain's old master who
lis the darling of the moderns, and
supreme in painting saints with
God intoxicated faces" (as Powys
expressed it, is presented in yet
another gallery OF plates. Although
not quite up to the Hyperion and
Phaidon editions published in the
late 30s (now out of PRINT, this
volume fills a real need, as the
demand for Ell Greco is constant.
A factual account of the masters
life, and an appraisal of his work
by a co-author of the Hyperion
edition above mentioned, are REIN
forced with illustrations, 16 in COL
ors, of more than SO different mas
terpieces, including in our own
National Gallery and Dumbarton
Oaks collecticne.
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Ellen Marsh Tells
Sound Story of a
BewiIdered Girl
DULL THE SHARP EDGE

DULL THE SHARP EDGE
BY Ellen Marsh. (E. P. Dutton &
Co.; So
This novel is the story of Ste
phanie, who at 20 found her affec-
tons and loyalties split and her life
consequently confused.
Her mother was German, her
father American, and they had been
divorced years before. The mother
had returned to Germany and re-
married. Stephanie had spent most
of. her childhood with her mother
and stepfather in Ingolstadt, re-
turning to America occasionally to
visit her father. She was visiting the
father, Luther, in New York when
his country went to war with Ger
many and Japan. The girl, of
course, had to stay.
Stephanie's brightest childhood
memories were of Germany. Yet
she had no sympathy with the
Nazis; most of her German rela-
tives had despised the Hitler move
ment or been Indifferent to it. She
loved her father almost too much,
she sometimes felt, and yet she
could not get along with the literary,
frustrated, alcoholic Luther. She
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1ldu w SCu q
room and a lit
tie job. She
lived a long time
with her girl
friend, Karen.
But Karen'S old
er sister. Jane,
married Luther,
and Karen her.
self eventually
married. S t e =
phanie's m a n
friends, e v e r y
one close t o
her, seemed SO
trapped in some
en- t n g lement
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This Is BuchenwoId
From the Inside
FOREST OF THE DEAD

FORES1 OF he DEAD
BY Ernest Wiechert. Translated
by Ursula Stechow. (Greenberg;'
$780,
When the Nazis came into power,
Ernst Wiechart had reputation
throughout Europe as poet and a
novelist. Living quietly on his farm
in Germany, he continued to write
as he had always written. oblivious
of the new government that required
conformity in deed. word and
thought. He knew that sooner or
later the Gestapo would catch up
with him. 1t did.
One day in 1888 three men came
and took him away. He was kept
for time in various jails. He
wound up in Buchenwald. one of the
most infamous of concentration
camps. He was past so then. He
had been a soldier in the First
World War He was neither a Jew
nor an agitator. But he had refused
to bend his ideas to fit the barbar-
Gus creed of the times. That was
crime enough.
This is the story of his expert.
ence in Buchenwald. He writes ir
the third person about character
he calls Johannes, but the story is
his. There have been more de.
tailed, more objective reports of thi!
bestial prison, but none more poign.
ant. Mr.. Wiechert, while he doe:
not neglect the outer scenes OF deg
radiation, describes the effect on the
sensitive mind of johannes" ane
recalls the expressed thoughts o.
many others. The account is all the
more forceful because 1t is calmly
written, with no effort at melo'
drama. Sometimes. by the inge'
nuity of the tasks and punishment!
devised, you are reminded o.
Danteis Inferno"
This report" says Mr.. Wiecher
In a prologue, "is meant to be M
more than prelude to the grea
Symphony of Death which viii
some day be written by more COM
petent hands than mine. I have
stood in the doorway, and looked a.
the dark stage, and have recorded
not so much what my eyes have seer
as what m scul has seen.-C. B. J
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Professor Burgum
Takes the Novel
Carefully Apart
THE NOVEL AND THE
WORLDS DILEMMA
BY Edwin Berry Burgum. (Or-
ford University Press, NeW York.
s3.75.J
Reviewed by
HOMER JOSEPH DODGE.

S375.J
Reviewed by
HOMER JOSEPH DODGE.
Authors of program notes for
symphony concerts frequently write
labored scenarios to explain pre-
clsely what the composer meant by
each movement of his work. 1t is a
reasonably safe assumption that no
one would be so intensely surprised
at these interpretations as the COM
posers themselves. That is almost
certainly the case with Prof. Bur-
gums long study of the novel in
relation to the dilemma of the world
today. An associate professor of
English at New York University, he
has here essayed the role of psy-
chiatrist rather than that of critic
of novel writing ana has read re-
motely recondite meanings into the
novels he has reviewed.
1t is not believed that he will
mislead many readers because, with
the exceptions. perhaps, of Ernest
Hemingway, Theodore Dresser. Will
liam Faulkner, and possibly Will
liam Saroyan, the authors he dis
cusses have not had a profound
effect on any large number OF
Americans. 1t is not believed that
many, even of the normal novel
reading American public, will be
overwhelmingly concerned with the
inner consciousness of Marcel
Proust, Franz Kafka, Virginia
Woolf, Andre MalrauX or Gertrude
Stein. 1t is Prof. Burgum's thesis
that these writer's were all SUBJ
consciously borne down unbearably
with the weight of the worlds woes
All Is Not Lost.
But he recognizes that all is moi
lost, or seems to, because he admits
that only the lesser novelists to-
day write novels in the old way
Fortunately, his lesser novelists are
those more widely read-not the
Prousts, Malraux and Stems Anc
he has neartening note concern
ing Kafka, of whose work he pre-
diets only a minority of readers
will be interested at all"
He takes an astonishing sideswipt
at college professors of English. who
are so shallow that they Interest
their classes. While such, he al.
lows, stimulate the enthusiasm ol
their hearers, serious students. soor
outgrow them. He congratulate:
himself that he can derive a desc
late pleasure" from the writings Of
Kafka, but to the average Amer.
ican reader, it is hazarded, the en-
tire group of novelists which Prof
Burgum finds worth a 350-page book
would provide a obviously pleasant
desolation! I,
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that she lost them.
Miss Marsh is an able writer. with
more than a touch of originality.
She can paint character with subtle
strokes. She gives complete, if
impressionistic, idea of beWildered,
fumbling girl and the people she
encountered. The trouble with
this narrative is that it moves so
indirectly, so casually, that often
your attention wavers, and the dra-
matte episodes are tossed in with
such an air of indifference that they
lose power. Understatement can be
extremely effective, but, like most
things, it can be overplayed.
Dull the Sharp Edge" is Miss
Marsh's second novel. Her first.
Drink to the Hunted" won the
praise of discriminating reviewers.
The new book should gain this
young writer many friends. It's a
sound psychological study, despite
the obliqueness of its presentation.
C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Reviewed by
LEWIS w. BRITTON.

Reviewed by
LEWIS w. BRITTON.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica con-
firms in a curious way what Mr..
Manning, assistant professor of East
European languages at Columbia
University, says about Urkainia.
Britannica's 11th edition, dated
1911, gave just four lines, describing
the country as formerly a district
of European Russia The 18th
edition, dated 1922, gives little
more than page and a half to
the Ukraine, and describes it as
region embracing districts of
South Russia and former Austria
Hungary which are said to be pre-
dominartly Ukrainian-speaking and
which should, it is claimed, for this
reason form an autonomous state. .
Thus Mr.. Manning's explanation
of the history of Ukrainia-a kind
of eastern counterpart of Belgium,
but with no Britain or America to
become incensed at its violation
would seem to be borne out. Russia,
he says, since the time of Catherine
the Great, has endeavored by every
means to stamp out the Ukrainian
culture and every vestige of its ma
tional spirit, consistently represent
ing it abroad in much the language
of the earlier edition of Britannica.
Long Denied.
For whatever reason, Soviet Russia
saw fit to present the Ukraine
at the United Nations Conference in
San Francisco as a. nation, thus
bringing before the representatives
of the U. N. "a situation that had
been denied for centuries by Russian
officials and scholars
Russia, Germany, Poland and the
old Austria Hungarian Empire each
played a part in depressing the
people of one of the richest areas
of the continent. When the Russian
Empire and the Austria Hungarian
Empire broke up, it seemed as
if Ukrainia might realize its desire
to be recognized as nation. But
many things stood in the way, from
the failure of the Allies of the First
World War to give positive support,
to the lack of genuine under
standing between the farmers-as
usual interested more in land re-
forms than in national and cultural
issues-an dthe leaders of the ma
tional movement. Deportations
internicine strife and. perhaps most
tragic of all. the tendency among
those who might have been leaders
to accept. as fashionable, at one
time the Polish culture and outlook
and at another the Russian, have
deprived the people of many OF their
natural "hetmen."
The volume is much condensed
In any new edition. several in
stances of the introduction of place
names or the names of individuals,
not previously mentioned, and in
one case, at least, not indeXed
should carry explanatory matter.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Short Stories
OF Mystic India
THERE AND THEN

BY Christine Weston. (Scrtb-
ners; $780,
From the burning plains of India
come thoughts of grilling humanity
and poverty stricken masses. From
the cool hills and scented gardens
of the lower Himilayas come
thoughts of beauty and purity.
From all India there comes magic
and charm difficult for even the
most critical of travellers to deny.
Christine Weston spent her child
hood in India. She was about to
go to convent school in Belgium
when she was prevented from doing
so by the outbreak of World War
I. Instead. she went to a school
in the Indian Hills and remained
there until her marriage in 1928.
Relatively few white children spend
their entire youth in India, but Mrs.
Westons long stay enhances the
depth of her perception and insight
into the subject she has so adroitly
dealt, with; Is short stories of India,
recalled from the days of her youth.
N. P.
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way she slips in
to the elevator,
he senses some
thing is wrong.
But Mrs. Lawson
doesn't welcome
protection e v e n
though she con-
fdes to the su-
penthouse detec-
tive that if she
dies suddenly, it
won I be suicide.
Mrs. L a W S o n
does die but Gil
finds he's a voice
crying in the
wilderness when
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Reviewed by
ROBERT j. LEWIS.

BY A. l.. carr. fHUTpeT 0 6TOS.,
S2.75.)
Reviewed by
ROBERT j. LEWIS.
Home building is not child's play.
The more information you soak up
before taking the fatal plunge, the
better off you will be.
Here are two more books de-
signed to help you avoid the pit
falls. If you want to sidestep them
you must know all the angles.
Mr.. Rolston gives you the archi-
tect's angle-which is a good one to
know. Informally, he tells you what
to beware of and what to insist on,
besides offering sundry other COM
ments that may help you make up
your mind about what you want.
As you gather quickly. Mr., Rolls
ton is 'traditionalist. He doesn't
have much time for the so-called
modern" architecture, though he
treats it with a forbearance in
some spots which must have re-
quired a great effort.
In whatever he says-and his
range is wide-he has what might
be called the "horse sense" ap-
proach. He doesn't object to pic
ture windows, for instance. But to
please him they must never be
built into a house which has only q
good view of a neighbor,s clothes
line
In this vein. he lets you in on
some of the practical matters that
concern buying a lot, fitting the
house to the land, choosing an
architect (he insists on that, ac-
quiring a builder Che says the
cheapest are seldom the best,
But Mr.. Rolston is interested in
conventional building. If you are
flirting around with the idea of
acquiring a prefabricated house, Mr.
Cars book is your dish. But read
it with care. 1t doesn't go into
detail about disadvantages and
makes rather broad claims as to
savings.
What it does we'll. however, is to
supply facts. figures, photos and
floor plans for the products of a
score of well-known prefab manu-
facturcrs. In looking them over
you may be surprised at how we'll
you like the appearance of some of
the houses Mr.. Carr presents.
Evening star., 1947-07-06

a good thing out
of the war with
their villas and
fancy clubs and
C h oice mis-
tresseS. This is
e m b a rrassingly
accurate report
ing.
The story is
less a cohesive
n ov el than a
series of Wig
nettes. This un-
evenness, how
ever, is m or e
than compen-
Evening star., 1947-07-06
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI,

by Paramhansa Yogananda Philo-
sophical Library: $3.50. This is
the first time. the publishers say,
that a Hindu Yogi has written his
life story for Western readers.
THE SATIRE OF JONATHAN
SWIFT, by Herbert Davis tMacmil-
Ian: S2>. Three lectures delivered
at Smith College during the last
year, the first of projected series
of volumes of lectures at this in
stitution.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
DEAD WRONG

DEAD WRONG
BY Stewart Sterling. II. B. LIP
pincott Co., $780,
When Gil Vine, chief security Oh
ficer of the Park Royal, spots the
gorgeous Mrs. Lawson in the hotel
lobby and watches the apprehenslVe
Evening star., 1947-07-06

THE BALhANS-FRO OF
TWO WORLDS
BY William B. King and Frank
O'Brien. (Atred A. Knopt,
$780,
Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES.
The Balkans, torn by national
racial and religious hatreds for CEN
turies, today are the arena for a
greater confict-the lead-on clash
of Russian and Anglo-American in
terests. The United States, COM
mitted to program of aid to
Greece and Turkey, is for the first
time openly and deeply involved in
the area long known as the powder
keg of Europe.
In the two years since the defeat
of Germany native Communist
parties, aided at times by the Rus
sian occupation forces, have brought
Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and
Albania firmly into the Soviet orbit
Key Personalities.
The story of how minority Com
munist Parties succeeded in taking
over three major Balkan nations
after their liberation from the Ger
mans is told in some detail by the
authors, both Associated Press re-
porters with considerable Balkan
experience. Key personalities--Tito
and Mihailovich in Yugoslavia, King
Mihai and lulu MANU-, the Peasant
Party leader, in Romania, and
Georgi Dimitrov, the veteran Com
munist. in Bulgaria-come in for
their share of attention. Later
chapters analyze the various polit-
ical factions in Greece. where Brit
ish troops put down the leftist re-
volt in Athens, and the position of
Turkey in the face of Russian de-
mands for a hand in control of the
Turkish Straits.
Much of this report on the Balkans
is based on first-hand experience
and the authors, though frankly
critical of Soviet policy. write with
a minimum of bias. Their book pro-
vides background information which
goes a long way toward clarifying
some of the more confusing news
stories of the day.
Evening star., 1947-07-06

WIFI 10"r1rS' SdCCu offC
facility and the power of imagery
in the writing. There are some pas
sages and two particularly memoir
able chapters which may cause the
bluenoses some apprehension. But
these he has written deftly and
without ugliness.
Yes, the writing is superb and
probably more will be heard from
this young author, who evidently
has some things to get off his chest.
Evening star., 1947-07-06

MRS. TIM GETS A JOB, by D. E.
Stevenson. (Rinehart 81 Coz The
amusing adventures of Mrs Tim,
wife of a British soldier, are con-
tinued in this novel.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Biography of Greeley Is Revealing Study
Of Propoqondo and Editorial Influence
HORACE GREELEY AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Isely. princeton University Press S450J
Reviewed FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
than that His valuable
Civil
Tribune
discuss depo often date it from
Evening star., 1947-07-06

WOVEN OF THE SKY, by Sister
Miriam (Mosher Press. Poems,
divided into classif1cations of love,
life, friendship. pardon, sanctity,
suffering, death. Lyrical.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Superb Writing
From
New Author
THE GALLERY
BY John Horne Burns. Harper
& Bros; $3.)
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

after the Allies came was the GAL
leria Umberto Primo, which. as the
author says, was a cross between
a railroad station and a church"
Somehow the gallery seemed to
be involved endlessly in the lives of
Allied soldiery and the Italian people
in 1914. Here, like a giant glass
covered anthill, its shattered dome
looked down on scenes of passion,
pathos, humor and tragedy. For
people lived with fierce intensity
while they wrestled with the riddle
of war and what it does to human
relationships.
Those who came closest to solving
the riddle were gentle Capt. Moe,
who had just come out OF combat
and knew he was going back to die,
and a nameless little PFC with eye
glasses and profound philosophical
sense. Among the defeated were
Louella, the patronizing Red Cross
program director, and Hal, a tor
mented second lieutenant who
finally blew his top.
Backwash of War.
All the pentup bitterness of an
introspective man who has felt and
observed the backwash of war come
pouring out of the author in this
deeply sensitive and powerful novel.
He has great sympathy and under
standing for the Italians. I'm love
and sunlight and music and hui
manity she Qtaly has something
the world sorely needs"
But he spends vitriol on the Amer
leans, particularly the rear echelon
stuffed shirts and fat cats who make
Evening star., 1947-07-06
You'd Better Read
These Two Books
Before You Build

IF YOU'RE THINKING OF
BUILDING
BY Brown Rolston. (Chdrles
Scribner's Sons, S250J
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO -
PREFABRICATED HOUSES
BY A. L. Carr. Harper G. Bros,
S2.75.)
Evening star., 1947-07-06
Reviewed Dy
GEORGE CLARK.

Co., Inc; s1.75.l
Reviewed by
GEORGE CLARK.
When one baseball fan meets
another, they usually start an ar
gument. There Immediately arises
the problem of how to settle their
dispute-and pretty soon the tele-
phone of some newspapers sports
department is ringing. Among the
thousands of questions that could be
asked about baseball, Bill Brandt's
book asks-and answers-50 OF
the more important.
Here is a book for the old-timer
and the new. Filled with names OF
the great and the goats down
through the years of baseball and
carrying numerous box scores OF i'm
portant games, it is just what the
doctor ordered. There's even a box
score of a game between Detroit
and Providence, played on Aug. II,
1882 II, for one didn't know they
kept such things that long ago..
The book contains such household
names as johnson. Cobb, Mack,
Baker, Marquard, Crawford, Pen
mock, Ruth, Di Maggie, Snodgrass,
Merkle, Mathewson, Wambsganss,
Stengel Gehrig, Uncle Robbie. Nc
Graw. Herman. Alexander. Reul-
bach, Young, Hubbell, Grove, An
son and many others.
DO You Know Your Baseball?"
is a must, and it's interesting even
down to question No. so. WHY do
the Phillies each year root for a
flly to win the Kentucky Deroy?'
the Phillies won their
only National League pennant
1915) in the same year that the
only filly (Regret won the Derby.
HOW YOU CAN FIND
HAPPINESS
BY Samuel M. Shoemaker. (Dut-
ton; s2J
Happiness and peace are by
products of living and it is difficult
to put a finger on what constitutes
them. But one thing is sure, as
Mr.. Shoemaker points out: many
people want the fruit of righteous
ness without it's roots. Atheists
will not read beyond the first few
pages without discarding it in a
rash of foolish egoism or suddenly
seeing light bursting through their
gloom of self-interest. Almost ev-
erybody will find in it challenge
and an inspiration based upon the
writer's firm faith.-H. A. L.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
The Ukraine Has
Sadly Become a
Postwar Paradox
Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES.

THE STORY OF THE UKRAINE
BY Clarence A. Manning. THE
Philosophical Library, NeU York.
S3.75.J
Evening star., 1947-07-06

he calls it murder. Too many people
want to call it accidental-includ-
ing the lady's husband, her quota
transporting stepson and the de-
tective she hired for some mysterl-
GUS purpose. Gil loses his job, turns
down several bribes and risks his
neck but he comes up with the
answer.
Best thing about this is the hotel
atmosphere. You emerge from it
with the certainty that every waiter,
bellboy, maid and elevator operator
is aware of every move even the
most circumspect hotel guest makes.
At least, that's the way a murder
gets solved at the Park Royal with
Gil Vine in the drivers seat.
Evening star., 1947-07-06
@ AS IN QUICKSAND

BY Lawrence Treat. (Sloan &
Pearce, Inc.;: $780,
Footloose and fresh from the
Pacific, Martin Folger picks Christ
mas eve to try to clean up a piece
of unfinished business in the town
of Gobelin. The business concerns
the accident in which Quentin Go
belin and his small son died. Mar
tin, hitchhiking back to camp, had
witnessed the accident and letters
from lawyers had been following
him all over the Pacific. Several
people wanted to know whether
Quentin or his son died first. Re-
luctantly. Martin finds himself
drawn into the affairs of psalm
singing Asa Gobelin. his languid
brother Ward and Quentin's beau
tiful -wife-and those affairs lead
to murder.
If you're as smart as Jub Free
man or as stubborn as Mitch Taylor
that believable pair of professional
policemen-you might come up with