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references to mans foibles but they
are only dexterous exercise OF man
who loves words and ideas. When,
for instance, Mr.. Frost writes:
"A theory IT you hold it hard
enough
And long enough gets rated as d
creed"
he is enjoying a dig at his own
philosophy. For essentially his is
the religious-the deeply personal
religious-approach. 1t is too broad
to be called a creed, yet it is based
on the simple human dignity OF
the individual, the role Of the good
man in the good society.
There are timely references to
nuclear phenomenon, to the Big
Three among the earth's nations
and even to "a certain bomb" but
there is even here a sort OF time
lessness in the poets words. Within
all is serene:
II felt mg standpoint shaken
In the universal crisis.
But NTH one step backward taken
I saped my self from, going.
A porld torn loose De1,t BY me.
Then the rain stopped and the blotD-
ing
And the sun came out to dry me. "
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Here Is Promise
Hidden Behind
Too Many Words
FINE TOOTH COMB
BY Paul. Doubleday & Co..
S275.J
Reviewed by
PEGGY THOMSON.

The first novel of a young mar
who chooses to write under the
name of Paul Fine Tooth Comb
is the story Of Dan Sane, a Harvard
graduate who has come to New York
to acquire a liberal dose of sex
experience, the girl on the pedestal
and a job" Dams purposes are thus
announced on page 7. He has
achieved all three by page 378.
Paul seems fascinated by words
This is sometimes unfortunate, a.
when he lapses into the trite-speak-
ing of the city as putting on 'its eve
ming wrap with lights blinking
around the lapels"-or into the
precious. in which mood he permits
the moon to begin "Currier IL Ivesine
it behind the night clouds
On the other hand, there is fire.
quently rather more fresh expires.
sion, as when he speaks of people ir
line at movie waiting for change te
cough down the chute" that the
line may inch nearer to three-and.
a-half star bliss" or when he de.
scribes Chopin etude as thinking
all over the keyboard in a flash o1
golden fire.
There is promise here. but it shows
only now and then. hidden as 1t il
behind words and a certain pseudo.
intellectually.
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our traditions of political liberty
a government of laws, the separa-
ton of powers, federalism, free dis
cussion and association-are kept
alive. Parties and pressure groups
alike are cheerfully viewed as
organs Of the popular will.
Not all readers-and, we trust, not
all Columbia collegians-will be able
to contemplate the actual political
and economic facts of 1947 with
such complacency. but we can agree
that our traditions are sound, and
that we have only to recur to them
with determination in order to set
matters in a better train. The
gravest fault in this imposing publi-
cation, so far as I am concerned, is
the fact that while Prof. Hacker S
own contributions are tolerably
set, the documents are in a type
much too small for comfort and
only too likely to induce the reader
to skip them.
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Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coqqins

Usually people write books because
they are born writer's and can't stop
themselves, or because they make
the mistake of thinking anybody
could do it because it looks easy, or
because they need the money
George Middleton, whose autobiog-
raphy, These Things Are Mine,
reviewed by Jay Carmody in The
Star last Sunday accounts for his
life as playwright, admits an en-
tirely new reason for having written
in the first place. He was smitten
with girl and wanted an excuse
to kiss her. He wrote play both
of them acted in 1t :. so, of course,
he got the kiss. Then fate played
into his hands by the comedy hav-
ing to be heightened. He heightened
1t by adding kisses and from then
on writing seemed to him the last
word in excellent careers, especially
since his pockets, as we'll as his
dreams, were filled.
George Tabori. the Anglo Hun
garian gentleman whose recent
novel was Original Sin" reviewed
June 15>, is making his first visit to
the United States. He Immediately
crossed the country, Hollywood
bound. where he will do scenarios
for MGM. Tabori's reputation was
first made here by his novel, Be
meath the Stone"
4Ak
Samuel Shellabarger. who made
the first big hit of his writing career
two years ago with Captain From
CASTLE" (reviewed on page C-3),
can have no complaints about his
new book, Prince of Foxes" Its
being an August Literary Guild
selection caused 675, 900 copies Of the
book to be ordered as a first print
ing. That was a quarter of million
more copies than was ordered for
Captain From CASTLE"
X
The cotton and silk industry will
be busy If Hawaii Is admitted tc
the Union as 49th State. Blake
Clark's book. Hawaii: The 49th
State" (Reviewed June 29), reveals
that some 10000, 900 flags now being
used would have to be replaced OF
altered. As a note about the flag
makers, any one who thinks it a
tiny business should know that
every year the output of new flags
| in Hawaii is already something
thing around $4,000, 600.
\ = y y
Arthemise Goertz, who wrote
l"Give Us Our Dream (reviewed
June 22), has given up her plan
| to return to New Orleans. te
write a book about some Of the
people she knows in that city. In.
stead, she will do another move
about the people she has encount-
cred In Long Island, which Is where
| the characters in Give Us Oul
Dream" were suggested to her.
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are more than little suggestive In
a period when the clash Of ideoio-
gies makes people too prone to be
intolerant of ideas that deviate
from the norm.
Mr.. Styker writes Of much more
than Erskine and the law, how
ever. Though he tends occasional
ly to superheat his prose with
exclamation point emotion, ane
though excessive ,wordiness make:
his book unnecessarily long. he tells
an absorbing story effectively re-
creating a turbulent part of Eng
lands past. It is a story that
embraces, besides the great Erskine
long list of personalities and
events ranging from Beau Brum-
nell to the hapless Queen Caroline
and her adultery trial before
the House of Lords-perhaps the
most sensational and scandalous
thing of its kind in the history OF
the western world.
For the Defense" though largely
about the law, which can be dull
subject, is not likely to put any
reader to sleep. Worth repeating
moreover, is the fact that 1t has the
virtue of, being instructive as well
as interesting.
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Fame and Fortune
Can Be Costly
EYE VIEW

W1FES . EYE VIEW
BY Sophie Kerr. (Rinehart;'
s2.50.J
Rockby Challett is a novelist
whose books have never sold widely
enough to lift the family-there' S
his wife Kate and the two chill
aren-out of a genteel sort of pow
erty. Life has been a constant
struggle with current bills.
Then comes a bonanza in the
form of a $4,000 literary prize and
s150,0O0 more for movie rights
awards to Rockby's new book. Thus
in q moment. the family is swept
into fame and fortune.
This is the story of the effect OF
this miraculous opulence on the
Young couple. Kate doesn't change
she remains the same unselfish
person. a little too perfect to be
oi1ite human. Rock" changes from
a quiet, studious, self-effacing man
into a literary pundit who wants to
speak everywhere. to. be noticed by
every one and to pontificate on every
=, subject.
Not q bad theme for satirical
study. Unfortunately, Miss Kerr
has made the novelist merely a very
disagreeable man, the wife sc
understanding that she seems
sinple-minded. After while, II
doesn't matter much what happens
70 either of them. Moreover, the
story is put together so superficially
knd with such fiinsy motivations
that it never is quite plausible.
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AFr;ghtening Peek
Into oHord Soul
THE LONG PURSUIT
BY Joseph Freeman. (Rinehdrt
& Co.; $3.)
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.


Emory Flush, the Mad Monk Of
Beverley Hills, is a familiar Holly
wood type. A producer, he doesn' t
know an adjective from q pronoun.
In spite of that-or because Of it
he is phenomenally successful. Peo-
Pile bow and scrape when he's
around-and he loves it.
But Emory Flush is lonely, dis
contented and frustrated. He gets
drunk and beats his wife. His son
won't speak to him. So he pursues
another love-in the person of Lee
Russell, beautiful Army nurse.
Miss Russell escapes to Europe
Flush follows, with troupe of en-
tertainers on jaunt arranged under
pretext of building CT morale. Mr.
Flush is 1 man who gets things
done-his way. He likes to push
people around. And he gets results
In this book, Mr.. Freeman offers
us frightening peek into Mr.
Flushs hard, ruthless. cynical. hys-
terical soul. One peek is almost
enough, and apparently that is the
way Mr.. Freeman also felt about 1t
For he mercifully drops the mad
monk as often as possible and takes
up the romantic adventures of mem
bers of the troupe. And when he
does, he writes like ball of fire.
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introduction to the whole history
of American civilization.
The work Is unusual In that it
Prof. Hackers own narra-
tive Interpretation of American his
tory with some 1853 contemporary
documents" printed in full or in
extract, and often at considerable
length. Chronologically they range
from chapter of THE Description
of England" by William Harrison
1886, to a section of "One World,
by Wendell Willkie $3.50. In sub
ject-matter they extend from the
philosophical generality of Emer-
sons Nature to the economic par
ticularity of John H. Williams on
Deficit Spending"
If both narrative and documents
tend to reflect the fact that Mr..
Hacker is a professor of economics,
that is small cause for complaint
since our civilization, for good or
evil, has come increasingly to en-
body the pursuit of happiness in the
specific form of economic prosperity
and the high-level consumption OF
physical goods.
Optimistic in View.
The last seven years have given
Prof. Hacker no reason to change
the view which he set forth
in THE Triumph of American Capt.
talism":: That our 18th century capt.
talism was a success in that it gave
us the physical means of achieving
Americans, he de-
clared, will never accept dearth as
their portion"
The present work breathes the
same spirit of robust optimism. We
are a middle-class people. and our
great industrialists erected their
vast empires and fortunes on the
most humble beginnings. The more
recent developments of big Corpo-
Big Trade Unions, and the
Big State" have not destroyed
Of opportunity, and the
people are not powerless SO long as
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George III and the gross and cad
dish George w. 1t was time when
the younger Pitt and the panicky
aristocracy OF Britain, fearful OF q
dangerous contagion in the Ameri-
can and French revolutions. were
seeking to establish kind OF
thought control among Britons by
prosecuting and prosecuting any one
who had the temerity to speak OF
publish nonconformist ideas OF
criticize those in power.
Champion of Freedom.
Erskine took a rocklike stand
against this. In case after case
arguing with rare brilliance and
elouuence, he defeated the efforts OF
British off1cialdom to thwart the
ends Of justice and stif1e individual
liberty. He defended obscure citi-
zens; he defended Tom Paine. ne
defended the press: he defended
freedom in long series of historic
trials, and he was successful in
nearly all of them. Mr.. Stryker-
himself a distinguished American
defense counsel-dwells at length
on several of these trials. The
chapter he devotes to them can be
read with profit not merely by
lawyers but by laymen as we'll. They
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TheWhoIe Dramatic
Story of The Bulge
DARK DECEMBER
BY Robert E. Merriam. (Zt1
DaUiS Co.. S3.)
Reviewed by
ROBERT F.. COCKLIN,

ROBERT F. COCKL1N,
Associate Editor, the Field Artillery Journal.
In fine narrative style. Dark De-
cember" unfolds the whole dramatic
story of the Battle of the Bulge
Through his interviews with top
ranking American and German mill
tary leaders, Merriam presents a
study in cause and effect. What is
most important. the book outlines
events in the battle in their proper
perspective-an attribute sadly lack
ing in previous accounts.
The German attack conceived by
Hitler resulted in the greatest
pitched battle in which American
troops have participated. 1t Is
doubtful If German success In the
battle would have changed the
course of ultimate victory, but 1t
would most certainly have resulted
in a prolongation measured by the
loss of thousands of additional lives
The author has performed mon
umentsl task in reconstructing this
great engagement from its inception
to its climax Fortunately, it has
been done in highly readable man
ner. Several fine charts clarity de-
lvelopments that tend to bog down
in verbiage. Laymen may find the
constant reference to units by nu-
merical designation somewhat firing
but they detract little from the over
all worth of the volume az q whole
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Maxwell Anderson
Makes All Mankind
His Preoccupotion
By Maxwell Anderson. (Wtlltnn1
Sloane Associates, S2.50J
Reviewed by
JAY CARMODY.
OFF BROADWAY
JAY CARMODY.


Playwright Anderson is contem-
plative man with sense of life that
is at least semitragic. He has q
deal OF affection for humanity, but
little admiration for it,
Mankind, nevertheless. remains
his almost complete :preoccupation.
He thinks of it constantly. The sub
stance of his reflections commonly
takes the pattern of the play. field
in which he is profoundly prolific.
He also jots down his thoughts in
other forms. lectures, articles, pa
pers, etc. "Off Broadway" is a COL
lection of these. 1t is subtitled
Essays About the Theater," but the
range of the mans mind is not that
limited.
He writes of Shaw. of comedy.
tragedy and critics here, but he
bounds of into such by-paths as
religion, politics, science, poetry and
the neuroses of nations. The mis-
tiness that is characteristic of An
derson-not to mention every one
else-is reflected in many of these
meditations.
He does, however. essay sharp
specificity when he says that the
hope of the species lies In its artists
and, likewise. in this bit of practical
advice to the young:
"* If you practice an art. be
proud of it, and make 1t proud of
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Rescuing Abraham Lincoln
From OverzeoIous Friends
LINCOLN THE LIBERAL STATESMAN
BY J. R. Randall (Dodd, Mead & Co.; $780,
Reviewed by ROBERT K. WALSH

Professor Randall rescues Lincoln
from overzealous friends and self
serving theological coattail hangers.
Besides picturing the liberal char
acter and public career of Lincoln,
he depicts the nature of the real
liberal anywhere in any area. He
proves that Lincoln's ideals have
even greater validity today than in
the tragic 186Os.
This book contains eight selected
essays around the theme that Lin
coin, the idealist and firm believer
in democratic principles, was no
less "a tough minded realist' with
the saving qualities of tolerance and
charity and the knack of going
straight to the core of problem
DR.. Randall skaters some fond
legends about Lincoln and clears up
many moot points about him and
the origin and conduct Of the Civil
War. He does this not to debunk
but to dispel myths 50 that the real
stature of the man and his achieve
ments and foresight as statesman
stand out more distinctly. DR.. Ran
dali obviously feels that Lincoln has
been hurt more by uncritical ad-
mirers than by his enemies or his
mistakes.
Key to Democracy.
Lincoln emerges in this volume as
statesman who knew that moder-
alton is a key to democracy in striv-
ing for progress and peace. He
avoided hidebound reaction, vindic-
tive passion and the extreme views
and intolerance which today mark
so many self-styled liberals"
His liberal credo was akin to that
OF Jefferson, DR.. Randall believes.
His vision of just and lasting
peace was international as well as
national and is compared with the
aims of Woodrow Wilson. DIR. Ran
dali does not neglect to note that
"the problems of another peace are
upon us now" and the lesson ought
to be obvious after all this time that
conflict between peoples is "repres-
sible."
This scholarly work probably will
provoke some controversy, not on
the historical evidence DR.. Randall
gives but on various interpretations
he makes. It is not always as read
able and direct as Abraham Lincoln.
for instance, would wish. But it is
must" book of Lincoln literature,
by a Lincoln authority. for all the
people on this troubled earth.
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who penetrates easily through the
superficialities of life into the field
of the little things that are often
so much more important than the
big ones.
Those who have shared small
town life, particularly of New Eng
land. will find much of their own
childhood memories in this volume.
Deity, he re-creates all the familiar
characters of such a background
Ginger, the rowdyish horsecar
driver with a bent for practical
jokes; Miss Townsend, the gentle
but inhibited school teacher; Uncle
Reuben, the lusty drinker with a
flair for life; old Sarah Dewsett,
the grand dame who successfully
and ingeniously defied progress in
order to save an old tree: DR.. Good
enough and DR.. Moody. the old and
young among village practitioners,
and the Rev. X. Gregory Powys,
fire-eating Congregational minister
who finally eloped with a lovely
nurse and became 80 happy on
earth that what comes later will
hardly matter"
It all adds up to some highly rec
commended reading for lazy vaca-
tions or quiet evenings at home.
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Other nOnorS, ne
has performed
C o n s i S t e ntly.
This slender new
volume of his
verse Is In his
best tradition
If there is moth
ing startlingl,v
new here-an'
there isn't-it j
because his par
tlcular genius Is
for expressing
the varieties Of
personal con-
duct. There are
1aoa,tN-o1 =,
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A Country Lawyers S
Simple Story Of His
Fathers BusyCoreer
SAM JONES, LAWYER
BY Ben Jones. (Okldhoma Uni
Dersity; $2.75.J
NeVIeWtu Uy
CHRIS MATHISEN.

CHRIS MATHISEN.
Sam Jones was a small-town
lawyer. William E. Borah, who was
to become a Senator from Idaho
had his name on a shingle in the
same Kansas County seat, but he
didn't stay long. He struck out in
search Of greater opportunities.
Jones thought little Lyons was q
fair-to-middling place. In q long
career before the bar he found no
reason to change his appraisal.
His son Ben, now practicing law
in Lyons. has written of his late
fathers work and play. He had
culled his memory for anecdotes
and has assembled few Of high
humor. He has included others
which seem to contribute little to
the limning Of a colorful and sturdy
character.
The elder Jones fought railroad
in court on freight rates because OF
his own unpleasant experience In
an express matter. He played the
role of a "hick lawyer but bested
the city talent.
He always was glad to help solve
crimes and was an early champion
of ballistics. He found time for
studies of virtually all the sciences
OF philosophy, Of religions, OF
languages.
His sons book draws on all of
these interests. 1t is an agreeable
hodgepodge compounded with care
and should prove palatable to those
readers who might have taste at
the moment for the story Of
country lawyer.
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lCCVIcWSU Uy
WILLIAM G. DOOLY, Jr.

BY Van Rensselaer, Sill. fOdyS-
seq Press, 81
Reviewed by
WILLIAM G. DOOLY, Jr.
Many books have come out of tn"
war, but this one covers subiec
that will be revelation to mos
readers. 1t is the only account o.
how s49, 1000 OO0, 900 worth of Amer
lean construction was accomplished
throughout the world to tip the
scales of war in our favor.
The full story of the thousands
of amazing construction feats
would have been impossible to relate,
so the author has described typical
projects of especial interest. The 30i
narrative pages are a unique COM
bination of drama and statistics
with an additional 81 pages of strik-
ing photographs designed to bring
into the limelight 100000 little
people" who laid the groundwork
for victory.
This factual volume which re-
quired months of research to pre-
pare, is documentary proof Of the
fabulous construction achievements
during the late war-something the
industry did not have after World
War I. To bolster a story which at
times may tax belief, official ac-
counts written by the Government S
highest construction authorities are
offered in support.
The average reader. as the author
says. may simply wish to dive in,
let the statistics splash where they
may" and enjoy the story of inge-
nuity and doggedness which char
acterized work carried on all over
the globe in the face of Arctic blasts
desert sandstorms, the heat of
battle and jungle. and here at home
where cantonments, housing, ship
yards. atomic bomb and other plant
construction played their vital roles.
It is q fascinating story and one
that may well hold you spellbound.
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Biologist

OGROOK EOR GRACE

LOGBOOK FOR GRACE
BY Robert Cushman Murphy
Macmillan; 81
This vivid and well-written diary
of the whaling brig Daisy, 1928
tells of hair-raising and breath-tak-
ing adventures that happen to q
young naturalist, or maybe any one
for that matter, who gees on whal-
ing cruise to the treacherous ice.
caked waters in the South Georgia
section of the Antarctic regions. III
"one of the last of the Yankee
square -rigged blubber-hunters."
The reader sees, by the authors
ability to build word pictures.
soaring albatrosses. the death o1
mighty sperm whales, feels the
tremor of straining timbers. "and
the lift of mighty swells, in the
gales of the roaring '40s.'
IT A q
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you. Mdh0
your living any
way you can, but
neglect no sacri-
flee at your cho-
sen altar. 1t
may break your
heart, it may
drive you half
mad. it may be-
tray you into
unrealizable am
bitions or blind
you to mercan-
tile opportuni-
ties with its
wandering fires.
Dr. Ia ..ill Ell
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take its place
among the great
autobiographie S
but it should
yield to none in
its charm and
homeliness.
The man who
wrote THE Last
Time I S q "
Paris" and Life
and Death of q
Spanish Town"
already has es-
tablished him.
self firmly as an
artist in words
and a thinker
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THE CARTHAGINIAN PEACE

QUENCES OF MR.. KEYNES, by
Etienne Mantoux. (Oxford Uni
versity Press) An attack by a
young French economist on the
Keynesian theory that the treaty
of Versailles made peace impossible.
Illuminating,
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Done in the Finest
Tradition of
Robert Frost
STEEPLE BUSH
BY Robert Frost. Henry Hol
& Co., $780,
Reviewed by
EDWIN TRIBBLE.

Mr. Frost, now in his 7Os, is by
all tokens our most distinguished
poet. Four times winner of the
Pulitzer prize and recipient of many
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THE NEW TRADE MARK AN
NJTAJ nv Dan},ne Robert (The Bu-

NUAL, by Daphne Robert tThe Bu-
reau of National Affairs, Inc). A
practical handbook for laymen ant
lawyers alike, bringing the prac-
tices and procedures of trade marke
I'D to date with the revisions con-
tanned in the Lanham Trade MARI
Act passed at the last session OF
Congress.
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Elliot Paul Tells
.OfHis Boyhood
hNew England
LINDEN ON THE SAUGUS
BRANCH
BY Elliot Paul. Random House,
$780,
Reviewed by
JOHN C. HENRY

Elliot Paul's whimsical telling of
his childhood in typical small New
England village near the turn of
the century probably will never
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PLANNING YOUR HOME WISE

PLANNING YOUR HOME WISE
LY, by Royal Barry Wills. Frank
lin Watts.) A book containing the
plans for 20 houses with suggestions
on such important points as storage.
arrangement of rooms, outdoor liv-
ing and cooking and dining. Use.
FIJI
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with assistance of Miss
this substantial
the the second the in
College textbook edition volume
available months earlier would indeed
edition the public
exceptionally
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Th;sIs Pertinent Reading for Americans
Who Take Liberty Too Much for Granted
For THE DEFENSE
(Doubleddy,. $5.)

BY Lloyd Paul Stryker. 7DoN6eddg, S3J
Reviewed by WILLIAM H. HARRISON
wachfu OF the Wtchhunt
lively biography OF Thomas
Erskn reading It is the story OF an
Englhman who baed the late 18th
century thanks all who live under tn
American system Justice him. had he
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your heart before it breaks it,"
That last observation perhaps de-
scribes the author of of Broad
way" a man whose heart may be
broken but is not yet drained of the
hope it held.