The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-04-25
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sectional and proud Of their own
little individual piece of earth.
The Public Library of Moss Point
caters TO this feeling of love
and interest in the place where
ones heart and loyalties are
whether by birth or tradition,
with a shelf OF books by south
ern authors about southern To-
calities. Some of these books are
new, many are not, but whether
new or old, they hold us spell
bound with theft fascinating tai
es of places and people that are
familiar ~ reality or magma
ton.
In "The Gauntlet" James
Street of Laurel, Mississippi,
writes oonvincingly of just such
people one might know in our
town. In his "Oh Promised
Land he tells the exciting story
of Georgia, Mississippi, and Lou
isiana before the white man
came and all of this section was
held by the jealous and proud
Chickasaws and Choctaws. Still
other books by the well.estab-
lishel author are Tap Roots
and "Valor In Arms"
William Alexander Percy Of
Greenville, o of that old fire
eating politician of a few de
cades ago, Senator Leroy Percy,
wrote Lanterns On The Levee.'
The book reminisces delightfully."-
of, as he expresses it, MY coun-
try . the Mississippi Delta, the
river country with Memphis
at its northern and Vicksburg
at its southern tip"
One book which is filled with
local co.or, that adds to and
makes it, as pepper and season
ing do to a pot of Creole gumbo,
is Kaufman's "Hurricans Wake"
If YOU love a sea story, there it
isl Krebs Shipyard of Paseagoula
built "The Hurricane for Mr..
Kaufman. He sailed the broad
beamed yacht around the world,
but it IS the description of the
building of the boat by Mr.. Krebs
and his family that will hold
your interest. Last summer, Mr..
Kaufman turned ''The Hurricane"
over to his nephew, a veteran
wounded in some of the hottest
fighting of the Pacific. The young
man, with five of his air-force
buddies, worked all summer to
.refit 1.-THE Hurricane" then sail
ed in il on a Caribbean cruise,
through the Canal and up the
west coast as far as San Fran
cisco.
Mississippi Writers
There are other books by Mis-
sissippians in the Moss Point
Library. The books of William
Faulkner are there, and of his
younger brother, John Faulkner.
Even though the Faulkner books
may shock you, they are excel
lent sociology and have a bit
ter sincerity. Partridge's THE Big
Family" is interesting, and Oh
iver's "Natchez," as well as many
others about Mississippi by Mis-
sissippians.
The Louisiana group of books
is perhaps the largest, but Louis
lana, particularly New Orleans,
is so stepped in The mystery and
bizarrerie of two centuries and
three cultures, French, Spanish,
and American. that it lends II
self to intriguing narrative. Lyle
Saxon conjures up the romance
and cham that is Louisiana in
his Fabulous New Orleans"
Saxon's "LaFitte The Pirate is
no less enchanting and appeals
to anyone who has a drop of adj
venture in him.
Harnett Cane, in Deep Delta
Country and plantation Par
ade,' ~recreates the glamourous
life of the gay French cotton and
sugar barons who held court in
their castles, in the lush fertility of
Louisiana. In The Bayous of
Louisiana he tells of another
South, not the old South as We
know i, but of the Bayou peo-
pie, the Arcadians. the sha~
choppers in fur, with their good
natured soeiability and joie de
vivre. His New Orleans Wo-
man. is a departure from his
usual type of book, but no less
fascinating for that.
Other Louisiana books are
from the versatile pen of that
New Orleans newspaper woman,
Gwen Bristow, Among them are
Deep Summer" The Hand
some Road" and This Side OF
Glory Then there are: Brave
Mardi Gras' by w. Adolphe Rob.
erts, a New Orleans novel of the
COS; Frances Parkinson Reyes
"Cresent Carnival and River
Road which are such favorites
with so many Moss Point read
ers; also Roberts Lydia Bailey"
another story of New Orleans.
Rebeautifies Some
There is a charm about books
of South Carolina by South Car
olians that is especially appeal
ing. and such is Home BY The
River by Archibald Rutledge.
Mr.. Rutledge tells that at the age
of fifty-six, after an absence of
f~orty-six years, he returned to
the country where he was born
to restore his 209-year-old house
which had been in his family
since 1886. Without much money,
hn Ii mnrA % d. r,.nrL hinn