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ill-bought departure for another
settlement, he falls in love with q
pitiful, childish widow who has sur
vived the torpedoing which killed
her husband of three weeks. Helen
Rolf is not the stuff of Isolde. She
unconsciously woos Scobie with her
innocence, her ignorance, her help
lessness and her ineptitude. Their
passion is uncomfortable and incon-
venient, but it is ever SO genuine
and poignant.
Sin of Human Respect.
1t is this joyless but inevitable
love affair and his painful consider
alton for his wife which brings Sco-
bic to commit sacrilege. In the tre-
mendous climax of the book, which
is the struggle between him and his
conscience, he tries to explain that
he finds it easier to hurt God, whose
pain he cannot see, than to hurt the
two women for whose lives he feels
responsible. It is what theologians
call the sin of human respect; but
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eventual destruction. It is hard to
think of any contemporary novelist
who has SO brilliantly fused the
elements of his craft and his con-
victions.
MIR. Green's hero. a scrupulous
Deputy Commissioner, is a kind OF
middle-aged Hamlet whose tragic
flaw Is his easily aroused compass
sion. He is rather an anachronism
in the modern world. He is hus-
band who no longer loves his wife
but who willingly sacrifices his
honor and his position for her hap
piness. Although by-passed for an
important post, he remains unem-
bittered and answering in his
dedication to his work in God
forsaken British West African col
ony, and so the target OF sniplng
by other futility-ridden officials.
He loves the natives who mock an
alien justice. And to seal his doom
he is a Catholic who, in an age
which has rationalized sin, retains
an irresistible sense of his duty to
God.
But while the bribe Of wartime
diamond smugglers cannot corrupt
him. sentiment can. After his Wife's
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nearby and had been the best friend
of Lavinia's grandmother.
AS she looked back on her child
hood. Lavinia saw that her only
other friends had been Negroes
Amanda and Augustus, children OF
the physician, DR.. Stockton, who had
tried so hard to help his race. His
children went North to college
Years later Augustus returned
famous as singer, but determined
to devote himself to helping the
colored people Of his town get a
better education and a break in life
Strangely enough, 1t was Augustus
with Mrs. Berryhill's help, VINO
enabled sLavinia to resume her
studies and her drawing and face q
brighter future. But the poverty
ridden Negroes were learning, and
other forces we're at work. A union
was organized at the new canning
plant, The unselflsh, esthetie
Augustus was blamed as the towns
prejudiced white men rallied ano
the Klan struck.
Miss King has written persua-
sive, compassionate story. It points
to the blind stupidity of intolerance
and offers as an antidote old-fash-
ioned goodness of heart. Her worst
fault is overelaboration. The frs,
part of the book. with scene after
scene from Lavinla's childhood, be-
comes merely cumulative and often
tiresome. But if you can get past
the slow development of the girls
character a climax of tragic power
awaits YOU
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in SO spiritually aware a character
1t must be carried to an even more
desperate dilemma. For Scobie's
pity for God leads him to plot his
own destruction. He is ultimately
far more pitiful than those whom
he seeks to protect.
Mr.. Greene has invested his
tightly woven story, which is rich
with an Illuminating symbolism
with a terrible sense Of foreboding
Doom is in the atmosphere. It
is in the heat and dampness which
maddens them all, the rats and liz.
ards who dart through Scobie'
house. 1t is in the genteel whining o1
his bookish wife whom social fail
ure has soured. Mr.. Greene's lucio
and sinuous prose carries him
straight to the heart Of every matter
that comes to his attention.
The book is lit with shafts oi
somber wisdom. Even the comedy
is of wry and dislocated kind
The roach-hunting matches Of two
miserable colonials, Wilson and Har-
ris, are painfully funny in their rev.
elation of loneliness and Illustration
Harris, who hated his school days
still reads his old school magazine
with the loyalty we all feel to un'
happiness-the sense that that Il
where we really belong"
"The Heart of the Matter" de.
spite its background of Catholic
dogma is q novel for all faiths. i
is both tough and tender minded
subtle and direct, skillful and pro-
found. It is in fact, one Of th'
truly memorable novels Of the yea
and so genuine an accomplishment
that by comparison many other cur
rent offerings seem mere babbling
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Judging Marriage
ByoFew Samples
\ RESEARCH I'M MARRIAGE

A RESEARCH IN MARRIAGE
By DR.. G. V. Hamilton. (Lear,
So
This sex book seems to be an
exploration into the abnormal ano
experimental. Since its findings are
limited to 200 individuals without
explanation of their histories and
environments. it's conclusions can
hardly be creditable as characteristic
of the race.
DR.. Hamilton Is a psychiatrlst
Even a large proportion OF his
guinea pigs on occasion refused te
reply to some questions as being
patiently none of his business, or
obviously, beside the point. I founc
the tables and the attempts te
correlate their data with capacity to
perform the sexual responsibilities
of marriage both boring and basee
upon insufficient evidence.
After all, what are 100 marriages
compared to the millions OF matec
persons inhabiting the globe?-H. L
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some 8 million dollars In taxes to
the Government.
At so, Mr.. Trey has an alert and
genial look and a robust build that
bellies his i'll health. A resident OF
Washington since he came here
from Kansas as q child, he lives
with Mrs. Trey at the Shoreham.
His hobby? He's never had one.
MY works been my hobby he said
with q smile.
II X X X
Forthcoming Books
Promised for late summer publi-
cation are Toward the Morning."
the fourth in Hervey Aliens epic
series of early American history:
"The Old Beauty and Others" three
short stories by the late Villa
Gather, and "The Running Of the
Tide" a novel by Esther Forbes.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian.
M. Meg.
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Henry Ford Viewed
From Every Angle
THE LAST BILLIONAIRE:
HENRY FORD
BY William c. Richards. (Scrib.
nerS; $3.75.)
Reviewed by
JAMES Y, NEWTON.

This is a fascinating story OF
Henry Ford, filled with a thousand
anecdotes about the industrial
genius, the men who helped him
reach the top and those who sur
rounded him after he got there.
william C. Richards is an asso-
ciate editor Of the Detroit Free
Press. From 1917 until well into
the '30s, Mr.. Ford and the Ford
domain were his beat" as a re-
porter. He became an intimate friend
Of the man who revolutionized
American industry.
The overall tenor Of the book Is
favorable to Mr.. Ford. It. however,
is far from a eulogy. The author
points out that on occasions not too
infrequent, Mr.. Ford, on issues and
in his decisions, would be the
"wrongest" man in the country. 1t
is comforting to know that a man
can make many mistakes and still
come out so well. Mr.. Richards
points up the many contradictions
in the Ford personality. examples Of
his ruthlessness as well as his many
kindnesseS.
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Race Relations
Explored Again
rHE: INVISIBLE ISLAND

THE INVISIBLE l0LAND
Bv Irwin Stark. THE Viking
Press; $3J
This earnest first novel is SEN
sitively, if rather worldly, written
story of a young man who comes OF
age In the thirties. A rather vacll-
listing liberal whose convictions are
never equal to his social conscious
ness and an aspiring writer who
feels out of touch with mankind, he
is further isolated by his rejection
for war service. To appease his
feeling of "the guilt Of safety" he
takes a job as teacher in a Black
belt school, where he attempts to
make friends with his rebelllous
pupils. Through the love OF the
fiancee of his best friend who was
killed in the war and decision to
ioin an organization which fights
intolerance on larger scale, ne
comes within sight of maturity and
peace of mind.
Mr.. Stark, who is himself a New
York schoolteacher, writes best
about the classroom, and MS
handling of the race prejudice
theme is excellent. But the total
effect of his novel is weakened by
his excessive length and his investl-
CATION of too many irrelevant by
paths. For all his rather resolute
realism in the scenes involving
Matthew'S several loves, the novel
is rather bloodless. Still as for its
insights into contemporary history
it has much interest.
THE WELL OF COMPARISON
By David Alman. (Stnon &
Schuster; 49,
The theme Of race relations Is
also explored in this rather strange
novel about a talented young Negro
artist and a tiresome young white
woman who begins by attempting
to encourage him in his work and
ends up by marrying him IN the
hope of bringing into her life the
"unimaginably great emotional stim-
ulation" prescribed by her physla-
trist. Mr.. Altman has been COM
mendably restrained in treating the
more sensational aspects OF such a
union, and has been successful IN
portraying little sardonlcally the
impact of the girls adventure on
her Sophisticated New York friends
Lock soon tires of her condescen-
sion and eventually finds sympathy
and inspiration in the companion
ship of his wife's best friend, a
warm-hearted Jewess. Mr.. Altman
has been successful in his portrayal
of a primitive young talent, but his
heroine Is such f1ighty creature
that irritation rather than enlight-
enment is the predominant reaction
M. Meg,
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The.Long Fight
.ForFreedon
OF the Press
THE PRESS AND THE
CONSTITUTION
BY ]. Edward Gerald. (UniDersity
of Minnesota; $3J
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

Trying to reconcile and safeguard
basic rights that conflict with one
another has certainly become harder
during the years covered by this
book. Writing about those adjust
ment attempts from 1888 through
1947 is as difficult-and important
a task as any writer could choose.
Especially is this the case when
he deals with the constitutional
guarantee of freedom of the press
and the governmental enactments
and administrative activities that
inevitably affect the press.
Mr.. Gerald, a professor of journal
ism at the University of Minnesota
has traced the increasing legal re-
straints during the troublesome
period by analyzing key cases de-
cided by the Supreme Court. He
stresses the concept of the common
welfare at the root of those cases
and he shows how numerous groups
other than newspapers are involved
The book could have been made
easier to read, despite its weighty
matter. Whether or not all Of the
authors interpretations find agree.
ment, his timely outline of the facts
in the fight for freedom of the press
with it's ups and downs since 1888
deserves wide study as part OF q
continuous and always newsworthy
story.
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ElllcT II. llCy, VAASoS AAsS>S w.
for many years bad news to host
of big-time racketeers, has finally
found a title for his forthcoming
book. He's going to call it "'The Tax
Dodgers" which, OF course, takes IN
lot of citizens.
people who wouldn't think OF
stealing anything else," he ex-
planned, think they are justified IN
holding out on their income-tax re-
turns because they feel that they
earned the money and so 1t belongs
to them. AS longtime chief OF the
Intelligence Unit Of the Treasury
Department, Mr.. Trey showed them
the error of their ways.
Mr.. Trey, who retired as CO.
ordinator of the Treasury Depart
ment,s Law Enforcement Agencies
in August, 1916, after 40 years IN
Government service, is now await
ing galley proofs Of his own stories
of the arrogant heels of gangdom
and shady politics whom he brought
to heel with comptometer and can
celed checks during the '3Os and
'4Os. The roster includes such no
torious tax and Jail dodgers as AL
Capone, Dutch" Schultz, "Waxey'
Gordon and several henchmen OF
Huey Long.
Smiles When He Says 1t.
As a tax consultant for local
legal firm, Mr.. Trey, who under
standably smiles when he says he
is retired" is working the other
side of the street. But he still keeps
in touch with his old friends at the
Treasury Department and hears
frequently from many of the men
who helped him to build up the IT
mems" reputation for efficiency and
incorruptibility.
When he left the Government he
had served so we'll since he began
at the age of 10 as stenographer
in the postal inspectors Office, NH
Trey seriously intended to sit back
at his winter home in Florida or his
summer home at Shadyside, Nd,
and watch the ships go by. But
movie magnates, publishers and
radio producers wouldn't hear OF IT,
| and Mr.. Trey, the most genial and
approachable of men, was hard at
work again before he knew it. He
acted as technical adviser to Holly
wood in the making Of T-Men,'
supervises . weekly radio program
and began to write the full and au-
thoritative version Of his victorious
tangles with such tough and slip
perry customers as Capone and COM
pany.
Bizarre Working Hours.
He talked his memories to William
r. Slocum, co-author Of REILLY OF
the White House" Slocum stayed
with him both at his Florida and
Maryland homes, and the collabora-
ton was a happy one. The only
difficulty they ran into was the
habit of Mr.. Slocum, an old news
paperman, of keeping rather bizarre
working hours, which conflicted
with the strict regimen imposed on
Mr.. Trey by the elder OF his two
doctor sons. HIS son has kept him
under strict surveillance since the
intelligence chief suffered his first
attack of coronary thrombosis in
1885.
Mr.. Irey's exploits in tapping
such malefactors as "Nucky" john
son and Tom Pendergast on the
side of the head with an adding
machine have been widely pub
licized in papers all over the coun-
try and in national magazines. His
own private fight against Ill health
has been less reported. This is no
wonder, since Mr.. Trey, a modest
unassuming and unlikely looking
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Elmer Trey Will Reveal Behind-the-Curto
Scenes in Comma Book on Tax Dodgers

supersleuth does not care to talk
about himself.
His friends state, however, that
his refusal to become an invalid for
a second coronary attack in 1898
caused him to learn to take it easy
scientifically. In order to continue
his high-tension work, he had to
rest frequently during the day and
absolutely refuse to get excited. No
matter how severe the pressure (and
this was during the period Of some
OF his most famous Investigations,
when not only millions Of dollars
for the Government but also the
lives of some Of his agents were at
stake), Mr.. Trey took his daily nap
on his couch in the office. Govern
ment bigwigs cheerfully waited
while he got his 40 winks and then
rose up again to continue recon-
structing the financial life OF some
body who was living beyond his re-
ported means.
He steadfastly refused to drama
tie the role he played in master
minding the determination Of some
of the country's most notorious pub
lie enemies. "It was question OF
selecting the right man for the par
ticular job," he says.
Some of these agents. who were
hand-picked by Mr.. Trey, were in
terviewed by Mr.. Slocum in collect
ing details for the book, which
began as a. series Of stories in
Coronet. The nucleus of the corps
was made up of a half-dozen fel-
low postal inspectors whom Mr.. Trey
brought with him when he was
invited by Daniel c. Roper, then
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
to organize the Treasury Depart
ment's Intelligence Service IN 1919.
Drawn From Memory.
Mr.. Trey told his story from notes
supplemented by his own remark
able memory. His ability to recall
the fine points of a case was con-
sidered phenomenal by newspaper
men who were in constant contact
with him on investigations during
the '30s. They remember especially
his work on the Hauptmann case
The law was able to catch up with
the kidnaper Of the Lindbergf
baby through the gold certificate.
which MIR. Trey had insisted bt
included in the ransom money.
TAX Dodgers" is scheduled FOL
early October publication and II
should make interesting campaign
reading. Mr.. Trey has set down his
impressions OF Tom Dewey, who at
28 prosecuted "Waxey" Gordon on
evidence collected by Treasury
agents. He remembers the Republi-
can presidential nominee as . young
man with q mania for evidence who
exhibited q glacial perfection" in
the performance Of his duties. The
chapters on the Pendergast ma
chine, which gave President Tru-
man his start in politics should be
relevant. And the resurgent Long
faction in Louisiana have already
registered vigorous protest at the
section which appeared in Coronet
regarding their founder.
Which Was the Biggest?
Mr.. Trey cannot name the biggest
case he ever handled, he says. They
were all so different. But the Moe
Annenberg investigation was the
most work. His operatives had to
plod through the records of 86 cor
porations before they found enough
information to make the racing-in-
formation tycoon happy to cough ur
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IA Russian Girl Finds
The Breath of Life
IInU. S. of the '2Os
MORNING SONG
| BY Dorshka Raphaelson. (Ran-
dom House, $3.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Twenty-Five years ago, during the
"fiapper age" the speakeasy period
and postwar hysteria, life was rough.
easy and somewhat demoralizing.
All this and New, York, too, was the
atmosphere surrounding Mary Mil
lar. I5-year-old daughter of Rus
sian Socialist of high intellectual
hut low economic standing. America
and what America had to offer, was
nevertheless the breath Of life to
the Millars.
Mary Millar's father died when
Mary was IS. From there on.
Morning Song" develops into an
intensely appealing story OF a young
girl, obliged to be the bread Garner
of the family, bound on one hand
by the traditional European infiu-
ence of her parents and on the other
bv the easy going, New World ideas
instilled into her during her educa-
tion in American schools. Old world
and new clash with each other with,
in the heart of this very appealing
teen-aeer. Meals at the Automat
contrast with meals at the Ritz, the
hnery of the stage clashes with the
old clothes at home with momma.
All this flashback to the tricky days
of the early '20s has appeal and
noStalgic charm.
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Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT

SoO1G ElNA1 ILf10kA1
This collection of letters written
home by Marine during the war is
not so much a recording of events
as it is the expression of a cultivated
personality. Beginning with David
Tucker Brown, jr.'s, entrance into
boot training at Paris Island in
June, 1941, the letters continue until
his death on Okinawa Shima, May,
1945.
As he resided in Alexandria, Va;
attended both the Episcopal High
School and the University Of Vir-
ginia and tutored at st. Johns Col
lege in Annapolis, David Tucker
Browns letters will no doubt be OF
much local interest.
That these writings are the prod
uct of a brilliant mind, there can
be no question.
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Letters of Younq
..Vnqiniu Marine

MARINE FROM VIRGINIA
BY David Tucker Brown, jr.
university OF North Carolina
Press; $780,
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Grohom Greene's SkiIIfuI Novel Is One
Of Truly Memorable Works Of the Year
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
By Graham Greene. THE Viking Press; So

BY Graham Greene. 1.-THE Viking Press; $5J
Reviewed by MARY McGRoRY.
Graham Greene the philosopher and the story
teller are perfectly met written here spiritual drama that
none less superb story 1t at once heart
wrngng study caught between heaven and earth and
relentlessly exciting tale of policeman whose passionate
for others leads the quicksand of compromise and
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"A Who's Who
Of Navy ChopIoins
UNITED STATES NAVY

UNITED STATES NAVY
CHAPLAINS, 1778-1945
Compiled by the Chaplains
Activity of the Bureau Of Naval
Personnel, Navy Department,
under direction of Capt. Clifford
Merrill Drury. UNITED States
Government Printing Office,
$780,
Reviewed by
CASPAR NAMES.
Here is an indispensable compen-
dium of the 1888 chaplains who
served in the United States Navy
from 1778-1945. The volume, first
published, but third in series pre-
senting the history of the Navy
Chaplain Corps, serves as a who's
Who of those who served in the
chaplaincy. The sketches, arranged
in alphabetical order, gives biograph-
ical information, service record as
chaplain or otherwise before &C.
cepting a chaplaincy, and other in
formation.
The book also Identifies the chap
lains according to their religious
faith. OF the 1888 to serve in the
Navy, 1888 were Catholic, A Jewish
and the rest, except for go whose
affiliations are unknown, Protes-
tants. The Protestant chaplains are
further identified according to theil
denominations.
Volumes I and II, giving the his
tory of the Navy chaplaincy in mar
rative form from the beginnings
through 1916, will appear later as
non- n-Government publications.
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ISOMEDAY, BOY
BY Sam Ross.

BY Sam Ross. (Farrar, StrauS
G. Co.. $780,
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.
In the intervals when he wasn't
practicing for swimming race
Benny Gordon, youth of the Chicago
slums, boasted that someday he was
gonna be somebody. Restless and
ambitious in a What Makes Sammy
Run" sort of way, he went to work
for a real estate operator whose
philosophy was: There's a sucker
for everything" Benny played that
credo for all it was worth and was
on the road to riches when the 1928
crash came. Down went the real
estate market, the boss and Benny
The fadeout sees Benny on the
way to find solace with his sweet
heart, Martha. an unpublished gem
This novel has high spots of suspense
and the dialogue for the most part
is swift. But sometimes the writing
gets gusty.
Evening star., 1948-07-11
A Broadway Column
Done in Book Length
NEW YORK: CONFIDENTIAL!
By Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer
(Zif-DaDiS; $2.75J
HARRY MacARTHUR.

HARRY MACARTHUR.
If YOU are an addict of Broadway
columns you may very easily find
yourself enchanted with New York
CONFIDENTIAL" 1t is sort OF book
length Broadway column. which
means that it has great air OF
letting you in on the low-down, but
doesn't really say much at all and
it certainly doesn't say it well.
Jack Lait is veteran newspaper
man, now editor of the New York
Daily Mirror. Lee Mortimer is a
veteran columnist, who writes fool
ish drivel about the night clubs for
the same newspaper. He's the one
who got slugged by Frank Sinatra,
which rates Sinatra a card IN the
literary critics union. The two,
Lait and Mortimer, that is, have
collaborated on a volume which
reads like the stuff in the Sunday
magazine of the Mirror, a supple
ment ideal for those who find Mr..
Hearst's American Weekly too high
brow.
1t tells all about how you're not
safe in Harlem alone, how the
Chinatown the tourists see is not
the real Chinatown, how girls go
wrong and how Texas Guinan in
vented the phrase, Hello, sucker u
Wilson Miner didn't! He stole 1t
from her. All OF this is about as
confidential as one of the late o. O.
McIntyre's columns, but if you are
struck dumb by the mystery OF the
big town, the largest and most
provincial small town in the world
you'll at least be in the same mood
as the authors and may find your
self receptive. The appendix in
cludes a list of backstage telephone
numbers at New York theaters and
cabarets, If that's the sort Of thing
you are looking for in your summer
reading. The people who find this
book anything but dull will never
need them. though.