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are children refugees from Spain who have
been sent to France at the moment the Ger
mans are invading the country in 1910. They
are smuggled aboard a ship. The ship is
wrecked and they struggle ashore. finding a
tropical land of plenty. Here they grow up,
seeing no one else. never knowing whether
they are on an island or a continent. This
is distinctly story for adults. because of the
maturity of its fantasy. Mr.. Flavin has
written it with sort of sorcery that lifts
it above such academic questions as credi-
bility and logic.
Beside it on the shelf place Before Go
Hence by Frank Baker, the most original
novel I've read this year. This is deeply
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ored man IS neither plausible nor persuasive.
1t is an angry dialectic. with characters that
speak their pieces like ventriloquist's dunn
rpies. Here our Nobel Prize novelist is far
from the objective satire of "Babbitt' and
turned to the mood-'of ELMER Gantry"
which was an indiscriminate attack on cler-
gymen, book without single sincere
character.
"Gentlemen's Agreement" by Laura z.
Hobson. topped many best-seller lists for
months. Miss Hobson's book, published with
out fanfare was the surprise novel of the
year in its sudden popularity. The story of
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is aglow with the adventure of mans fight
against the elemental. the romance of
tough, unschooled youths love for an Indian
girl But it all seems inevitable never pro-
duced by formula.
Mr. Guthrie has made literature of fas-
cinating segment of American history. And
It's pleasure to recall that "The Big Sky"
was on most best seller lists for long time.
1t has that rare power Of pleasing the reader
seeking entertainment with a narrative of
breathless suspense. and of delighting the
more literary with beauty of expression and
perfection of mood
Evening star., 1947-12-07

Novels Of I947
By Carter Brooke Jones
Book Critic of The Star

OF The SLuf
I've read, several press for positions beside
The five I've named for top place. One is
David and Anna" by Robert Payne, poetic
love story of Malaga. Another is Mister st.
john" by Raoul c. Faure, glowing fantasy
on the Faustus theme. third is The Noun
tain Lion" by Jean Stafford, highly per-
ceptive study of the transition of brother and
sister from childhood to adolescence.
The novels I've mentioned have been con-
cerned with individuals rather than with
social tendencies, except to the extent that
story of any person is a critique of his day.
1 feel that nearly all the novels that explored
social and economic injustices were warped
into mere propaganda by the effort to prove
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Recommended

THE BIG SKY, by A. B. Guthrie, jr.
(William Sloan Associates; $500
THE GARRETSON CHRONICLE, by
Gerald Warner Brace. CIV. w. Norton;
So
THE ENCHANTED, by Martin Flavin.
(Harper; So
BEFORE I GO HENCE, by Frank
Baker. (Coward-McCann: $2.75D
EASTER ISLAND, by Philip Freund
(Beechhurst Press; $2.50D
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how a magazine writer pretended he was a
Jew that he could get personal slant on
anti-SemitiSm is more calmly and objectlVely
written than most propaganda novels Hence
it carries more convincing message.
The Chequer Board" by Nevil Shute, war
story by an English> novelist about American
Negro soldiers in England, was distributed
by one of the major American book CLUBS.
1t added nothing to the fiction OF the year.
Other books on the Negro problem were
highly touted in quarters, but most
of them. like The Other Room,' by Worth
Tuttle Hedden, were poor novels.
The Dresser .Trilogy
Has Posthumous Ending
Books by two of our leading novelists both
deeply concerned in the past with the tyran-
nies and inequalities which have crept into
American democracy did not touch on the
panorama of the moment. A posthunlouS
novel by Theodore Dresser, The Stoic," which
he was finishing when he died two years ago.
was, at last the third book in the trilogy
the magnate CowperWood. The first book,
"The Financer,' was published in 1912; the
second, The Titan two years later. Dresser.
turning his back on the confusion of today,
had gone back in his last writing to the
early years of the century and type of
industrialism that now is history. "The
Stoic,' while thoroughly Dreiserian, does not
seem to me to have the power of the earlier
books in the triogy.
John Steinbeck published two books this
year THE WayWard Bus" full-length
novel, is advertisement on the mores of the
day, amusing but with none of the social
significance of that startling document, 1.-The
Grapes of Wrath" The second book is an
exquisite fragment called The Pearl" tale
out of Mexican folklore no longer than "Of
Mice and Men, and as different as possible
from that striking story. Steinbeck has writ
ten nothing quite so lovely as THE Pearl"
But it's a random piece a poetic impromptu
between major compositions.
Two famous American novelistS, Ernest
Hemingway and William Faulkner, produced
nothing this year.
The public bought historical novels as
avldly as last year. The top sellers and
probably the best written were Thomas B.
Costain's The Moneynlan," story of 18th
century France, and The Prince of Foxes"
by Louis Shellabarger, a romance of italy
in the Renaissance.
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historical novels. The Big
Sky" describes the noun
tain men of the 1830s, those
iron hard individualists
who felt no mission to set
tie the country, but wanted
only to be left alone to trap
their furs and face the
furies Of the Rockies in
solitary combat. Mr.. Guth-
rie's naturalism is infused
with a simple lyricism that
stays close to the words
and thoughts of his primi-
tive men. No romance, no
yTYl~,,
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story of France and the American Revolution,
was one Of the most carefully wrought. E. l..
Davis Harp Of Thousand Strings" novel
of the French Revolution, was we'll received
Frank Yerby, author of the highly popular
Foxes of Harrow" wrote a sort Of sequel,
'The Vixens," dealing with the Reconstruct
ton in Louisiana. and it sold as widely and
was quite as hysterical
Several other prominent novelsts were on
the publishers lists Erskine Caldwell wrote
"The Sure Hand of God" highly entertaining
but unimporta tant James M. Cain appeared
with The Butterfly" a tense little drama
in which incest figured. Louis Bromfield
contributed Colorado" which revealed an
unsuspected gift for rowdy humor Upton
Sinclair presented to his large public another
In the Lanny Budd series, presidential Mis-
Sion." as naive as the others. Taylor Cald-
we'll followed This Side of Innocence" with
another widely read novel, There Was a
Time"
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B en- A mes Williams
brobdingnagian novel of
the Civil War, House Di-
vided," was published late
in the year and promptly
became a most-demanded
item in the bookstores.
Perhaps readers figured
that at last they were get
ting their moneys worth
reading for q month
since the book runs to L.
5l4 pages. There were
many other historical
novels. Proud Destiny"
bV Lion FpIIchtWapper a
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The Historical Romance
Done by Expert Craftsmen

The historical romance, which dominated
best-seller lists all year, has been taken up
by expert craftsmen Yet it remains in gen.
eral custom made job it seems to me
complete with old varnish and cobwebs, like
q manufactured antique
Having said that, I feel free to be incon-
sistent and name what certainly is, in genre.
historical novel one of the best. if not
the finest, novel I've read during 1947. T
allude to The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie,
jr. This book has no more in common with
most of the big" historical novels that have
come out in the last 10 years than the classic
MADAME Bovary' has with Forever Amber"
Mr. Guthrie has looked realistically at
certain phase of vanished era. He has
written what easily could have happened.
His novel is free from the carefully meas
ured elements of romance and adventure that
are sifted like ingredients Of cake into most
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"H1s year of hope, disappointment.
bitterness and confusion-a year
of peace when there was no peace
- for SO nany-has brought no new
Tolstoi to interpret the social tendencies
of the shifting times. Nor have novelists
with the stature of Zola or Dickens appeared
to focus light on the tragedy of the homeless.
the displaced; on the hunger the neglect and
the injustice left in the wake of the war.
Perhaps writer's. like statesmen and phil
osophers, are too close to all this to see any
clear pattern and the era is too transitory
to sum up.
Our socially -consious novelists have turned
out nothing more important than angry
propaganda in the form of novels. Perhaps
it is not surprising that the best novels of
the year have described the old individual
problems of life, love and death, the physical
and spiritual elements that always have sur
rounded every man. In these books the
blurred pageant of the world has been seen
dimly on the horizon
The public has shown an interest in two
opposite directions: In the complete diver
sion of historical novels and in novels of today
which explored racial intolerance. This con-
Trajectory demand is not too astonishing
when it is considered that the stories of
racial bigotry that sold well were sensational.
People read them for the same reason they
read about murder run to see fight.
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one thesis or another.
This brings us back to
the racial problem, the
favorite contemporary
theme Of the year. The
most conspicuous of the
racial novels, of course,
was "Kingsblood Roy
al" because it was writ
ten by Sinclair Lewis
and because it had a
sensational subject. But
this story of a white
man who discovered he
had Negro blood and
decided to live as a COL
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spiritual story with a
supernatural undercur-
rent. The influence of
a dead clergyman on a
young English novelist
is traced subtly, while
two narratives, of diff
ferent periods, are car
ried on in turn. The
strange story is told
with beauty and wis
dom. Unfortunately, the
novel seemed to attract
little attention in this
country.
FINALLY. I list "EaS-
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ter Island" by Philip Freund short novel
curiously underrated by the critics Here is
terse drama about mysterious island in
the Pacific, written in sember key that
sustains the mood up to the last crashing
note of climax. Has the sprawling novel
of 60O-odd pages so dominated the literary
scene that close knit. tense story no longer
is appreciated? I wonder If Easter Island
is without literary value, so is Heart OF
Darkness" not meaning otherwise to COM
pare Mr.. Freund with Joseph Conrad.
Obviously a reviewer with one set Of eyes
is unable to read all the novels that come out
in year, perhaps fortunately. But of those
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Among the Years
Outstanding Novels

1.-The Garretson Chronicle" by Gerald War
ner Brace. would be an outstanding novel
any year. This is a deeply understanding
study of New England family cultured in
the old traditions and clinging to a dead
past. Ralph Garretson, who tells the story,
belongs to the new generation. and he revolts
against the emptiness of the life bequeathed
him. But how is he to escape, what is he to
do? He founders into contentment in work
with his hands, as a carpenter.
The story is told ironically and yet with
sympathy for those GarretsonS who were
bound to their past that they couldn't find
career in the present. The novel is an excerpt
from American life authentic as The Big
Sky" And The GarretSon Chronicle" too
has been selling very widely.
The Enchanted" by Martin Flavin, goes
OH my list of the best novels. The characters
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Postwar World, House
OF Tomorrow Jibed At

In "Dahls Brave New World" Francis w.
Dahl has got most attractive cartoon sub
ject, the wonders of the postwar world, by
the tail His whimsical drawings are supple
mented by literate text by Charles w. Nor
ton BY contrast, Among the Folks in
History" by Gaar Williams is folksily
humorous. photographically accurate collec-
ton of cartoon "reminiscences of the days
when young men wore squeaky shoes and
the streetcars had straw on the floor in
wintertime.
Ogden Nash, the dean of light versifers is
represented in ogden Nash's Musical Zoo"
an enchanting book in which his incompara-
BILE ditties about various members of the
animal kingdom have been set to music by
Vernon Duke and illustrated by Frank Owen.
We cannot speak for the tunes, since the only
keyboard this desk affords is typewriter,
but the tempo marks at least are enchanting.
Charles Addams, who makes the every day
seem sinister, and the horrible commonplace,
is to be found in all his disturbing glory in
'Addams and Evil" 1t abounds in such
lovable characters as that cozy family of
ghouls and the Good Humor man who lifts
up the cover of his cart and calls down An
other vanilla, Benny" Good for nervous
laughter.
Alan Dunns THE Last Lath" is timely
omnibus of jibes at the pretentious housing
of tomorrow full of the babble of sliding
winter fronts and climatic control" 1t de-
served far better reproduction.
Best Cartoons of the Year 1947" edited
by Lawrence Lariar, is a collection of the
choicest magazine cartoon offerings Besides
their cartoons, the artists contribute self
portraits and autobiographical sketches. The
selections are not subtle but instant results
In most cases are guaranteed.
Evening star., 1947-12-07

oUNDlNlI up the humorous BOOKS or
- the year is usually cheerful not to
~ say jolly, assignment. In 1947, how
ever. a year that provided little oc-
casion for mirth it turns out to be something
less than laughing matter, and the fact is
that long look at the lighter offerings of
the past II months is apt to leave the be-
holder smiling politely and waiting for more.
This glum situation is traceable to failure
in both quantity and quality. For one thing,
it was a bad crop year for cartoon books,
which provide a traditionally seasonal sight
for the sore eyes of the book reviewers. For
another, James Thulber the greatest humor-
ist writing in America today, has not been
heard from in 1947, neither has E. b White.
Then S. j. Perelman, that mastery paro-
dist and bad boy of the Women's magazines
appears in the guise of country squire gone
berserk. While Acres and Pains is the
most fendish leer ever directed at bucolic
joy, it just doesn't measure up to the inspired
lunacy of such performances as Crazy Like
a Fox" and Keep 1t Crisp"
In comparison John Gould's "The House
That Jacob Built a wittily philosophical
account of Down East living comes like a
breath of bracing Maine air.
Benchley Has Mim:cs
But No Peers in Hurnor
1t is probable index of the state of the
nations humorsts that the years pleasantest
essays on matters of no moment are contained
in "Benchley-or Else posthumous collec-
ton of the works of Robert Benchley. He
will never be forgotten by those who reverse
the authentic light touch A man who swan
the breaststroke and admitted it. who covered
in thunderStorms and died several social
deaths while both his dinner partners
engaged elsewhere in conversation, Benchley
had gentle, unforced humor that is as re-
freshing today when he first wrote these
pieces.
1t is perhaps not quite fair to compare
Ralf Kircher with Benchley, but he rather
invites the comparison by his choice of
material. if not his handling In Wrap 1t
as Gift" he presents himself the rather
willing victim of everyday crises His
counts are agreeable even if they do strain
for effect here and there.
Another book of the rueful reflections of a
suggestible man is How to Disappear for
an hour" by Geofrey Hellman, who always
reads smoothly in the New Yorker, but some-
how doesn't collect too we'll. He takes a
brisk Whirl through the slick, high powered
fashion magazines. but here he is COM
right mind should ever do. AS a matter
of fact, the best reading here is provided in
the relatively serious profles.
year that has been gusty with nostalgia
sighs for the good old days has found many
OF our lighter writer's casting backward
glances H Allen Smith of Low Man on a
Totem Pole" fame, for example, recountS a
sentimental journey back to the scenes of his
childhood, which were evidently not too dear
is, in this book unusually sedate but not
especially funny.
Equally rreverent but more rewarding
recollections of the past Ruth McKen-
ney's The Loud Red Patrick" and Frank
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These Are All in Fun
By Mary McGrory.

Leslie's There's Spot in My Heart" Both
have an engaging period flavor and center
on splendid, dissenting Irish patrlarchs. rms
pair is highly recommended
And while we're on the subject OF reml-
niscences. the best bouquet of didoes of the
fourth estate to appear since Robert Casey's
"Such Interesting People is More Inter
esting People" which is, not surprising, by
the same author.
Not book to improve cultural relations
noticeably but quite diverting reading is
How Green Was My Father" facetious
account of an ill-advised auto trip through
Central America undertaken by David Dodge
with his wife and 5-year-old daughter.
Local color of quite another kind is pro-
vided in Midland Humor," edited by Jack
Conroy a large and impressive cleaning OF
the best humorous writing by MdWesterners
who seem to have made speciality Of it.
They include such highly respected names
as Mark Twain, Ring Lardner and George
AIDE.
Before going on to the cartoon books, we
might stop off and inspect How to Tell Fish
From Fishermen a combination of prose and
pictures by Ed Zern, author Of ITO He'll With
Fishing" and ITO He'll With Hunting" He
is very dry fly fisherman who writes anus
ingly of the big ones that got away and
draws portraits of them that are almost
human.
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Alcoholism, the Atom Bomb
And Juvenile Delinquency

The atom bomb and the dilemma of regi-
mented scientists were touched on by James
Hilton in Nothing So Strange" an able and
absorbing novel Robert Neumann's Chill
dren of Vienna" was poignant glimpse of
the wars aftermath. The Sleeper Cliff"
by David Davidson, new American novelist.
was one of the most highly regarded post
war novels. Arnold Zweig wrote vividly of
Germany just before the war in "The Axe
Of Wandsbeck"
The individual problem of alcoholism
- CONTINUED ON Page u \ ---
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~ OUNDING up the humorous books of
- the year is usually a cheerful. not to
~ say jolly, assignment. In 1947, how
- - Ia
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Rouse, 408 South Fourth street,
that he was defrauded of $40.
Claude Wlford Lindsay, 1855
Haywood street, Charlotte was
in Jail last night under a $500
bond.
Officers said that Lindsey, a
salesman, made a sale at the
Beautician shop at 119 IL Phin-
cess street yesterday afternoon,
and the manager reported to
police that he had been there.
According to Rouse's COM
plant, entered Tuesday night,
Rouse was talked out of $40 when
a man about so years of age,
wearing a shabby gray suit,
came into his store at 408 South
Fourth street and said he was
representing the American Le-
gion in a drive against auto
mobile ACCIDENTS and wanted
money for an ad in a Legion
newspaper.
Legion officials denied any
knowledge of any such campaign
or silicitor.
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CHARLIE HARRELSON

WHITEVILLE, Oct. 29.-Char-
lie HARRISON, 81, of Chadbourn,
Route l, died Tuesday night at
11:50 o'clock at his home after
a long illness.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted from Mt. Sinai church
Thursday morning at IL o'clock
by Rev. J. Homer Butler. pastor
of Whiteville Free Will Baptist
church. Interment will follow in
the church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ida Hause HARRISON Of the
home, seven sons, Carl of Loris,
S. c., Edgar, Leon, George and
Grover of Whitev1lle, c. D. Jr.,
of Tabor City, and Sigmond, of
Gatesville; two daughters, Mrs.
Genevah H. Marlowe of Tabor
City, and Mrs. Matte Hewitt of
Whiteville. two brothers, jesse
HARRISON of Wkiteville, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
CHARLES T.

Funeral services for Charles
T. Norwood, a former resident
of Wilmington who died in New
York City, N. Y. Tuesday, will
be held Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock from the Chapel of Yopp
Funeral Home. The Rev. Edgar
B.. Fisher will officiate and in
terment will follow in Oakdale
cemetery.
Mr.. Norwaad is a veteran of
World War l anu was formerly
employed as a linotype opera
tor.
He is survived by his sister,
Mrs. I Clyde Peeler of Gaffney;
brother, Vance Norwood of
Myrtle Beach, S. c.; stepmother,
Mrs. Vance Norwood of Hickory;
half brother, Mill Norwood OF
Hickory.
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PVT. CONRAD BERNARD

Funeral services with full
military honors for Pvt. Conrad
Bernard will be held at 3 O'Clock
Friday at the National cemetery,
Pvt. Bernard was indicted into
the army on Feb. 26, 1912 anc
assigned to the Signal Corp. 1r
June 1912 he was transferred te
Hawaii, where he died on Oct.
26, 1912.
Pvt. Bernard was the son OF the
late Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Ber-
nard of Raeford. He was mar
ried to Miss Margaret Thratt Of
Burgaw, on Feb. 20, 1912.
Surviving besides his widow
are two brothers, ]. D., of Fay
etteville and Robert of Tampa,
Fla, a sister, Mrs. ]. D. Lewis
of this city, an aunt Mrs. Nc.
Quage of Raeford, also several
nieces and nephews.
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