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ZULU WOMAN

ZULU WOMAN
Author: Rebecca Hourwich
Publisher: Columbia University
Press, Morningside Heights,
New York ct
Price: $500
Reviewer: William Henry Huff
ZULU WOMAN is the story OF
Christmas life under polygamy
land her rebellion against it. For
those who have wondered about
woman's feelings under a sys-
tenn Of ploygamous marriage;
does she have pangs of jealousy
and resentment; are the hearts
and souls of primitive women
different from women of our civ
ilization, the answer will be
found in ZULU WOMAN.
"Rebecca Hourwich Reyher,
author Of Zulu Woman, first went
to Africa for Hearst's Interna-
tional in 1925. She returned in
1876 and through an interpreter,
obtained first-hand the story of
Christina, divorced wife of King
Solomon Of the Zulus. DR.. Ruth
Benedict, Columbia anthropolo-
gist who writes the preface to
the book, regards it as a useful
contribution to the fieldof re-
search in human relationships
under various cultures.
Zulu Woman, the authentic
record of life under polygamy,
ends with the death Of the mod
ern King Solomon and with the
naming of the heir in secretion
fear he might be poisoned by the
other jealous wives. Although
Christina, his mother and the
subject of the biography, was
the first woman to be divorced
in Zululand, Cyprian has recent
ly been recognized as King of
the Zulus:.'
VOTE REPUBLICAN -
GREENER THAN YOU THINK
Author: Ward Moore
Publisher: William Sloane AS
sociates, Inc, 119 w. 57th ST.,
New York 10
Price: $3.50
Reviewer: William Henry Huff
Greener Than You Think is
truly a novel far off the beaten
track Of fiction. 1t teens with
people, and the reader will like
and meet Albert Wiener, a door
to door salesman; Josephine
Spencer Francis, who looked
similar to an unmade bed. Mrs
Dinkman, whose lawn was the
community eyesore, and who
was a pushover for Mr.. Weener's
sales spiel; General Thario, who
mott only could, but did, drink
enough to sink a battleship; Joe
Thario, %the generals son; JAG
son Gootes. heroic but flippant
porter, and w. R. Leffacase,
newspaper editor with gift for
invective unequaled since the
time of Samuel Johnson.
The author Of this delightful
novel "was born in Madison,
New Jersey, in 1908, but his
family soon moved to Montreal.
After a sporadic schooling, two
published poems beguiled him
into leaving high school for a
literary life. This was followed
by selling in bookstores; Joe
Kings Pagan Bookshop, 'Macy's
and GimbePs book departments
in New York, and then in the
middlewest, where he opened a
bookstore OF his own.
During this time he wrote
occasional articles, poems, and
short stories, and in 1929 moved
to Los Angeles, where he start
ed a small farm. He supported
himself by series of odd jobs
and worked on a novel, Breathe
The Air Again, which was pub
lished in 1912. After working in
the shipyards during the war he
returned to Los Angeles. There
he wrote Greener Than You
Think. He and his wife in Top
anga Canyon" +
o. VOTE REPUBLICAN -
LUkE'S QUEST
Author: Caroline Dale Snedeker
Publisher: Doubleday and Com
: pany, Garden City, New York
Price, $500
Reviewer: William Henry HUH
Luke's Quest is a fictionized
Of one Of the most
mysterious figu 1ares Of the New
Testament. 1t is a; story of the
days after Christ's death when
it was a two-fold adventure in
being Christian; an adventure
in danger and an adventure in
heroiSm.