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Infants Wear

Girls AlI-White Net Dresses
with rayon crepe slips. Sizes S
to 6x. Orig. $79s to $l0.98- -Ss.4s
Boys Sport Shirts with plaid
fronts. Short sleeves. Sizes to
8. Orig. $2.50----$1.1
Cotton Receiving Blankets. Orig.
Two-piece Play Suits, cotton
prints, sizes to 6. Orig. $500,
$1.48
Plastic Utility Diaper Bags. Orig.
$3.99. Plus tax------S1.S9
Rubber Thumb Guard, stops
thumb sucking. Orig. 50c----2sc
Cotton Knit Creepers, white and
pastels. Irregulars- rs----79c
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
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Linens

AZ yds. Linen and Rayon Towel
ing, printed. Orig. 69c I'd. Yd.,
sec
"a Irish Linen Dish Towels. Orig
s1.10 and S9c
6 Printed Linen Sets, 52x7o. Orig.
1882 S8.95
Terry Mats, soiled. Orig. 1892,
$1.95
2 Printed Cloths, 54x54. Orig.
$3.50 S1.50
2 Linen Cloths, seconds, 66x84.
hemstitched. Orig. sl2.12 $3.50
1 Lace Cloth, 72xs0, soiled. Orig.
$6.95 --------------------$4.S5
80 Woven Jacquard Bedspreads.
Orig. 95---S6.95
GA Unbleached Seamless Mattress
Covers, full size. Orig. $4.54, 1919
46 Woven Cotton Bedspreads.
Orig. $6.95------$4.79
140 Place Mats. Orig. 50c>---29c
100 Rayon g. Cotton Table Cloths,
seconds. Orig. $399 9-$1.Ss
400 ytis. Martex Linen and Cot
ton Dish Toweling, plaid. Orig.
soc yd. Yd.-------34c
66 Martex Colored Hand Towels,
blue and gold. Orig. 72c-----4sc
"a White Damask Table Cloths,
72x72. Orig. S4.95------$3.59
Kann's-Linens-Street Floor.
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Lam

2 Hurricane Lamps, brass and
marble. Orig. $24s8--S10
2 Fluorescent Desk Lamps. Orig
$29.98 --------$14.98
6 Kiddie Lamps. Orig. S7.98, sass
IL Parchmentized Paper Bedlites.
Orig. $l.98----
/ Onyx Lamp, Sway reflector.
Orig. $39.9s--------S24.98
Kann's-Third Floor.
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Special Purchase
ChiIdren's Summer Needs

80 {!
S1-S16s Jackets, striped. Sizes to T.
36-S169 Sport Bouses, plaid. Sizes 3 to 6. Anf
18-S199 Boys Blouses white. Sizes 3 to 6. IEuh~
6s-S16s Seersucker OveralE Sizes 2 to 4. NJ
71-Irreg s1ss and $3.50 Sheer and seersucker eVoU
Dresses Sizes l to 8.
ss-$19s s229 Cotton Knit Suits. Sizes TO g. rn-k
7s-S229 and $3.50 Cotton Knit Suits. Sizes 3 to 81
Kanns-Fourh Floor.
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Furniture

1 Unpainted Bookcases, soiled.
Orig. $4.99 and $5.99---$2.98
4 Modern Webbing Strap Chairs.
soiled. Orig. $19.s5------S1o.sS
Chaise Tongue with innerspring
mattress. Orig. 3s.50----S24.s5
Canvas Hammock with metal
stand. Orig. $22.50 --S15.9S
2 Al-metaI Porch Tables. Orig
S5.95 $5.9S
4 Lawn Chairs with Canopy and
Poorest. Orig. s5.98----S3.48
10 Sway Vanity Mirrors. Orig.
l 3-section Sofa, maple arms.
Orig. S159.50-----$6 $3.50
/ Round Top Metal Bridge Table.
Orig. s1195---A
l 7-drawer Modern Kneehole
Desk. Orig. $3495--$1s.95
/ 5-pc. Plastic Top Dinette Set.
Orig. -$69.95
Kann 's-Fourth Floor.
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Art Dept.

20 Stamped Aprons. Orig. $1.71,
79c
10 Stamped Guest Towels. Orig.
1 Embroidered Apron Model. Orig.
As CSC
] Embroidered Dish Towel. Orig.
18 Stamped Needlepoint Canvas
Pieces. Orig. 69c to $2.9s----2Sc
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
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Luggage

4 Weekend Gases. Orig. $1,000, IS
Sport Bags. Orig, $13.l5----S9
4 Train Gases. Orig. $l6.55--$10
All Luggage Plus 209o TaI
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
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Clearance Floor Sam pie
Gas Ranges
and Sinks

l De Luxe Gas Range,
fully equipped. Orig.
$191.75 ---S154.95
1 Gas Range, fully
equipped. Orig. $l50.95,
$11S.95
] White Star Gas
Range, as is. Orig.
s140.95 ---$109.95
/ "a" Stainless Steel
Sink. Orig. $231.40,
$1S9.S5
1 ~" Stainless Steel
Sink, double bowl. Orig.
S325,70 ----$289.95
Kann's-Electrical
Appliance Store.
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Radios

Portable Automatic Record Player.
Orig, $62.e5- S27.s5
Table Radios. Orig. S34.95- S24.S5
Table Radios. Orig. $3.50 $29 .ss
Kann's-E3ectrical Appliance
Store-Eight and D Streets.
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Stationery

Dk&1ttUseCFJ
Leather Goods, Scrap books,
photo albums, address books, etc,
Orig. 81 to $5-----25c TO s125
Clearance, Pottery Pieces: Vases,
ash trays, etc. Orig. 50 to a..
81 10 So
1s Boxes All Sports Paper. Orig.
$50
Kann's-Street Floor.
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Glassware and China

Glassware and China
IL Army Highball Sets. Orig.
- Glass Ash Trays, each--4--5c
Is Pieces Of Pottery. Orig. S1.19,
69c
Is Serving Trays. Orig. s1.ss.
$1.00
3 Porcelain Platters. Orig. $1.4s,
69c
- TeA Cups. Orig. SOC ----25c
"a Gravy Boats. Orig. Soc - S9c
loo Pieces "Corsage" Stemware.
Orig. soc 59c
Kanns-Third Floor.
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Hosiery

Full fashioned Sheer Royon Hose, ideal for
every doy. Cotton tops and reinforced feet. H.
Slight inperfects. Snort coIors in popular A0S
sizes
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Famous Name Cotton Briefs dark coors to under both
ina suits Sizes and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 80
Light Weight Grdfes. teorose white Small medium
Orio 81. $40
Sotin Striped Bondsaux foous noke Sizes 81 70 800
Cotton Knit Briefs assorted eoors In small, medium large
soht inperfections- -------zs ~
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Misses and chdrsns Cotton Seeks onket and oek styles
Sheer kyon Hose, famous makes Broken sizes and coors
As ose
Fuli-fshionsd NyIons first quoy and ipefects Broken
sizes cotton reinforced Observation-Disclosures $50
Fufoshioned Sheer Rayons, good eo'os not oil
ls Womens Rayon Hose with cotton reinforced feet r.
reoulors
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Knit Underwear
Royon Pennies and Briefs. imperfeets Of fo- H.
nous make. EIosc woistbond. Slight I'M 0oS
perfections. Teoross popular sizes-------
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78 Hors D'Oeuvres
And u Desserts
AGE OF NOON

BY Henrietta Weigel. (E. P. Dut-
ton & Co.; S2.75.)
Miss Weigel. whose short stories
have attracted some notice, writes
first novel about a young dancer
named Anna. The story is told
in the third person, out might as
we'll have been in the first person,
because everything that happens is
seen through her eyes.
The perspective often is blurred
by the confusion of Annals thoughts,
though it cannot be said that the
events, such as they are, and Annals
own peculiar conception OF them
ever are unintelligible. Miss Weigel
could write simply and clearly, even
POLITICALLY If she would. But she
apparently has tried too hard to be
neo-something or other.
Anna's stream Of consciousness is
filled with imagery, some of it quite
effective But a book so cluttered
with figures of speech is like ban
quet consisting of 18 kinds of hors
d'ouvres and % desserts. Beyond
that, Anna hardly seems of sufd-
cient interest to justify long &C
count of her various lovers, the hus-
band she couldn't live with or with
out and her dabbling in communism
because she didn't know what to
do with herself 1t might have
been better if she had turned on
the gas in the first chapter instead
of on page 22O, and then no one
had turned it off in time, as hap
pened. C B. j.
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Covering the War
& Hitchcock; So
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.


The faithfulness. continuity, liter
ary excellence and thoughtful edit
ing of these 10 articles by % war
time correspondents to the New
Yorker magazine place this collec-
ton far above the ordinary in value
and readibility. 1t should continue
to draw interest with the years, for
historians, and lest we forget what
humanity suffered and experienced,
gained and lost In war.
The pieces are as far apart, yet as
closely knit, as the opening dispatch
from London on the September day
in 1889 when Britain declared war
on Hitler, and the final report OF
John Hersey on the atomic bombing
Of Hiroshima in August, 1915. The
others come from all theaters of the
conflict and blend into a memorable
impression and accurate accounting
of total war.
HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC
PEOPLES
BY Carl Brockelmann. Transla-
ton by Joel Carmichael and
MoShe Perlmann. (G. P. Put
nan1's Sons; $6.J
This Is a full and authoritative
volume on people of ancient cul-
ture and great modern political i'm
portance 1t will be a very valuable
addition to the relatively scant sup
ply of up-to-date source material
on the Islamic world.
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est projects, Mr.. Reynolds will re-
turn to his Irish country seat. He
has just seen publication Of his lat
est book, a handsome and harrow
ing volume called Ghosts in Irish
Houses" which is illustrated by
himself, of course. Later this month,
after he returns from judging horses
in Toronto, he will see the opening
of the Palladian Room at the
Shoreham, which he decorated with
murals depicting Jefferson's dream
of the Piedmont Valley, and for
which he designed all the furni-
ture and lighting effects.
Ballykineen, his demesne In
County Kildare, where he enjoys
to the hilt the life of the Irish
squire, is haunted by several quite
practical ghosts. A spirit in the
kitchen slices bread at night, while
an equally industrious one in the
stable saddles horses-phantom
horses, that is. An Irish house with
out a ghost is hardly worth the
taxes, as far as Mr.. Reynolds is con-
cerned
A slight, gray-haired, blue-eyed
man, Mr. Reynolds speaks with no
brogue at all, although he can as
sumo any one of four separate and
subtly different ones for the pur-
poses of tory-telling, which he
does with many gestures. Politi-
cally, he's for the ending of the par
tition, and he believes that the
landed Irish families are humane
and responsible. He remembers well
how his grandmother on the eve of
a reception for the Belgian Am
bassador, went down into the court
yard to overlook personally the
packing of the baskets for her pen
sioners.
Does he really believe in ghosts?
Do you think any one would dare
ask him who had listened to him
tell what happened to the last man
who saw "the bloody stones OF
Kerrigan's Keep?
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woman across the hall had heard
a scufHe, the shots and the striking
clock. The chief suspect was home
at 2 o'clock and could prove it; but
because he could not satisfactorily
explain where he was between II
and l he was charged with murder.
Why?"
The answers are in the back of the
book, along with report on the
scores made by mystery writer's who
took some Of the quizzes-and did
very well, too. The publishers sug-
gest using the questions for party
games. That's one way to send your
guests home with an inferiority
con1hleX.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Eyewitness Account
Of the War Decade
TEN EVENTFUL YEARS
Edited by Walter Yust. (Ency-
clopaedid Britannica; $4,000
Reviewed by
PHILIP H. LOVE.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
new four-volume account of what 1t
calls the war decade" Q937 through
1946) contains $500 articles, total
ing more than 100000 words, and
is illustrated by 1900 photographs,
maps and charts. 1t is, as those
figures suggest, an extremely COM
prehensive work. But, the reader
NAV ask, is it also authoritative
Well, the. articles were written
largely by the men and women who
participated in the events and de-
velopments described. For instance,
the article on the japanese cap
ture of Corregidor was written by
Gen. Jonathan WainWright-and
who could know more about the
battle for that island fortress than
he? Other contributions include %
heads, or former heads, OF states;
authorities representing 40 national
tiles; a cross-section Of the top
Allied leadership in World War II;
scientists and sociologists, phlloso-
pliers, artists, authors and business
executives.
The 10000 words devoted to the
war are the work of II contributors
welded into a unified account by the
Britannicas editorial staff. And
this article, though necessarily
synoptic, is one of the best histories
of the wal yet produced
The four handsomely bound,
beautifully printed volumes are en-
cyclopedic in form, but their con-
tent is quite different from that
of the Britannica or its annual
Book of the Year
Editors, writers, teachers and stu
dents will find Ten Eventtul
Years" an invaluable source of in
formation on what Editor Yust calls
.in some ways the most significant
decade in human history" 1t de-
serves an important place in every
vell-rounded reference library.
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official conferences between the
statesmen who were preparing the
rape OF Czechoslovakia, which is
paralleled in the novel by the rape
of a young student who, in the per-
verse way of Sartre characters, fasts
for days at time, and when she
feels sleepy at night, drinks coffee
to wake herself up.
In such nervous fashion, and
doubtless with comparable symbols
which may escape the uninitiated,
the action fits among group of
men and documents their reactions
and those OF their companions of
the moment (wives, mistresses or
prostitutes) to being called up for
service. They include bored North
African official, a lecherous para
lytic, a neurotic adolescent, a SIM
minded shepherd and several
others. Those who can, acknoWl-
edge their degradation, which seems
to be compensated for in some
measure by the fact of their exist
ence. Only the adolescent strikes
out at all, but his protest is mere
whimper, which takes the form of
interrupting pair of lovers, whose
conscience he thinks he is, although
he admits he doesn't know what his
business Is.
Mr.. Sartre's philosophy has by
now been exhaustively analyzed and
traced to the teachings of Kierke-
gard It's substance, at least as
expressed here, appears to be de-
nial of spirituality. The sordid, flu
tile assemblage of THE Reprieve"
symbolic the passive shame and
guilt of Vichy. But that cannot be
the whole story because it does not
take into account the affirmative
and courageous spirit of the Resist
ance.
M. Meg.
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with revealing anecdotes, legends,
gossip and lively sketches of color
full Back Bay salon keepers, from
Mrs. Jack Gardner. an outlander
who out-Bostoned Boston, to the
contemporary Eleanora Sears, whose
preference for walking has brought
her an unseemly amount of space
in the newspapers. He is critical
only in discussing the Sacco-Van-
zetti case, which was determined
by three men whose chief qualifica-
tions for the task was their position
in society.
Working from real-life Apleys of
succeeding generations, Mr.. Amory
draws a fine composite portrait of
the type. The proper Bostonian,
whose fortune is in spendthrift-
proof trusts, is great civic bene-
factor, elaborately frugal in his per-
sonal life, and forever crying poor
mouth His great prediction for
losing himself in the branches of
his family tree has led to a sus-
picion that he is more interested in
keeping Boston the city of yesterday
rather than in making it the city
of tomorrow. The slavish adherent
of custom, he is frosty, even brusque
in his manner. An unreconstructed
individual, he abhors personal pub
licity He never retires from busi-
ness because he never admits de-
feat. In the person of Godfrey
Lowell Cabot, guiding spirit of the
Watch and Ward Society, he bans
books. In all, he is, as Van Wyck
Brooks has pointed out, "a noble
type, severely limited
Mr.. Amory is one of the most
impertinent and disarming sons
Boston has produced in some time
His book is exceptionally diverting
reading. 1t won't change anything
as he would be the first to admit
Might as we'll attempt to keep a
Beacon Hill dowager from her age
old right of jaywalking-always
against the lights. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Reading and Writing
James Reynolds, Accomplished Irishmon
Has PortioIity for Horses and Ghosts
and Chance" "
By Mory Mc6rory

James Reynolds is an artist
writer, horseman, architect, lee
turer, world traveller and authority
on ghosts. His being Irish might
we'll explain the weakness for horses,
talking, writing and apparitions. His
other accomplishments he brushes
aside with an, "Oh, that-Well, I'll
tell you"
And tell you he will, being SPELL
binder in conversation, with all sorts
of fascinating digressions about the
great houses of Ireland, blooded
horses, beautiful women, hunt balls
and race meets. Italian pictures and
palladian architecture, haunted cas-
ties and exotic dishes. Yes, he
cooks, too.
The grandson OF a woman who
hunted until she was 10, Mr.. Reyn-
olds just inherited his love for
horses, which he rides, races, breeds,
judges and paints. He came to draw
them because he loved to watch his
father at polo practice, was en-
joined to strict silence and began
to sketch the ponies. Horses he
considers architectural animals"
which seems to be the one tenuous
link with his mastery of architec-
ture, an art which he has never
studied Writing he found out in
doing World of Horses" came as
easily as talking, which comes very
easily indeed to him. He is now
working on a biography Of Andrea
Palladio, the Italian architect whom
Jefferson admired.
Just keeping up with the ram
ifications" of his family which is
scattered through Virginia, Canada,
Italy and Ireland Che also keeps
horses in all these countries) takes
up a good deal Of his time and has
caused a neighbor to remark that
the family name. should be changed
from Reynolds to EN- Route"
AS soon as he has finished super
vising the unveiling Of his two lat
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faithful O'Mara cheerfully faces
torture but the moment he breads
and knows must come-is the one
in which Tanga has to be expended.
With some variations, this is the
type of spy story that kept stay
at-homes entertained after the last
war-the espionage and counter
espionage that goes on between
wars. Modern refinements have
been added, but it's still the old
saga Of glamorous lady spies and
devil-may-care men with an almost
superhuman ability to survive till
the next adventure.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
A Witty and Diverting Account of Life
In the Home of the Bean and Cod

0utton & Co.,; $4.50.J

BY Cleveland Amory. (E. P. Dut
The popular and highly profitable
literary pastime of BoSton-baiting
should in time die out, since the
contest is too unequal to provide
any real sport. The chill satire of
those who have penetrated her
thick social walls and the broader
thoughts of baffed and resentful
outsiders simply fall on the deaf
ear of Bostonian provincialism,
which Is firmly rooted in a con-
viction of superiority. Any attempts
to disconcert the long-lived mem
bers of this durable ingrown aris-
tocracy are doubtless bound to come
to naught because, as Cleveland
Amory explains, "A proper Bosto-
nian does not just happen. He is
planned"
Himself a proper Bostonian, with
an impeccable background Of Ma
hant, Milton and Harvard, Mr..
Amory manages to be both aftec-
tionate and irreverent. His text is
full of the behind-the-hand laughs
that Bostonians like best, crammed
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Sordid People and Aresting Technique
Mark New ExistentioIist Novel by Sortre
THE RETRIEVE
(Altred A. Knopt;: S3.)

oy UCdll-I d ul odl III z. AtJf Su a.
Jean-Paul Sartre was active in the
French Underground during the
war, so it seems reasonable to as
sumo that he loves his country. His
amiability has been attested by
friends and observers, which might
be taken as an indication that he
loves his fellow man. Neither of
these fine human qualities are evi-
dent in this dreary and depressing
novel which covers eight days of
international crisis in September,
1888, which ended with the signing
of the Munich Pact.
The form of this second novel Of
Sartre's existentialist trilogy is amor
phous, the characters are amoeba-
like, knowing instinct but no reason.
Sartre evidently believes that their
attitudes toward the natural func-
tions are especially significant, as
they are fully detailed. They often
feel clammy, unclean or nauseated.
So may the reader after AS pages.
M. Sartre's technique is, however,
quite spectacular and comes through
brilliantly in Eric Suttons brisk,
colloquial translation. He achieves
Evening star., 1947-12-07
DARK INTERLUDE

BY Peter Cheyney. (Dodd, Mead
& Co., $780,
Frustrated Nazis, having escaped
from their doomed fatherland, are
determined to kill off as many
British secret agents as they can
before death catches up with them.
To blot them Qut-particularly one
Rozanski-before they do any more
damage, Agent Shaun O'Mara is
planted as a drunken sot in the
not-so-peaceful French countryside.
Ever a realist, O'Mara actually
reaches the next to the last stage
of alcoholism before the moment
comes when he is called upon to
serve as live bait for the trap.
Likewise considered expendable
are the willy Guelvada and the
beauteous Tanga de Sarieux. With
O'Mara they must operate in an
atmosphere where the most high
sounding patriot may be the man
they seek or the lowliest village
ne -do-Well may be one OF the
Evening star., 1947-12-07

AS he struggled afterward to learn
and earn more, he found inspiration
and practical help through the Pal
cite and Chisel Club, where such a
great American artist as Walter
Ufer took time to teach him points
Of technic. But Roy's spirit of ad-
venture was as keen as his artistic
perception. In 1914 he went to
Belgium as free-lance artist to
watch the German invasion. Two
years later he was on the Mexican
Border, tough enough to be stable
sergeant for a National Guard cav
airy outfit. He returned to France
and served in the French Army.
When the Americans arrived, he
had himself transferred to his own
army.
Stars and Stripes.
He was assigned to the Stars and
Stripes, where he covered battles
and other assignments with such
reporters as Sergt. Alexander Wool
colt, Pvt. Harold w. Ross, afterward
to found and EDIT the New Yorker;
H. r. Baukhage, now the Washington
radio commentator, and 1t. Grant
land Rice, the dean of sports writers.
Later the artist, with his wife, a
newspaperwoman he met in Paris,
drifted around the world, sketching
as he went.
Mr.. Baldridge's struggle to be a
sane liberal in country of strident
extremes forms an interesting por-
tion of his story. He was commander
OF the willard Straight Post in New
York when it was expelled from the
American Legion for circulating a
pamphlet on Americanism which
he wrote and here reprints. Since
1t is an admirable statement of
the principles on which this re-
public was founded, one can only
marvel. Mr.. Baldridge comments:
Left and right are not two evils,
they are the same evil and safety
for liberals lies in defining the dem
ecratic course and keeping 1t de-
fined =. Meanwhile, without
the solidarity of class-conscious
groups, screaming slogans, or party
orders to lean upon, liberals must
be staunch enough to walk lonely
road"
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Journalists Diaries
Reflect His Views
OfWortime Evils

THE MAKING OF YESTERDAY
The Diaries of Raoul de Roussy
de Sales 1888 to 1942). (Reynal
& Hitchcock, Inc.;; $780,
Reviewed by
JOHN c. HENRY.
Raoul de Sales was a French
journalist who lived and worked in
the United States from 1888 until
his death in 1912 During the late
years Of his failing health he knew
that his own end was approaching,
a circumstance which probably con-
tributed greatly to the rather
philosophical detachment with
which he observed his own country
fall and the rest of the world writhe
in the agony of this greatest of
all wars.
Better histories of these times are
available but few if any combine so
effectively the cold chronology of
events with the personalized reac-
ton of the chronologer. De Sales,
an intelligent and thoughtful man,
makes clear through these notes
how millions of other intelligent
and thoughtful people were baf1ed
and frustrated and left powerless by
the chain reaction of events. A
reading of his diary helps ones per-
spective but offers little encourage
ment to optimism.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg
ISN'T IT A CRIME?

BY Cot and David x Manners Arco Publishing
Co.; $780,
fact fiction might
detailed
various poons the law baist and police
dductive ability There variations
puzzle tricky questions of observation and bow to
detectives fiction. This is typical:
murdered just as his clock struck he
Evening star., 1947-12-07

nuldlty ana con-
trast by shifting
C h a r a c t e RS
abruptly, some
times in the mid
die of a sentence,
with no m ore
transition than a
Semicolon. A ges-
ture b e g u n in
North A fri ca
may be complet-
ed in France; a
statement made
in CzechoSlova-
k ! q m y be
echoed on a ship
- %LN &i1