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ars probably will feel that he has
stuck closer in MARY" to the
chronicles in the Gospel than he
did in the earlier books of the
trilogy. In his glowing story OF
the mother of Jesus, Mr.. Asch has
departed at times from the Scrip
lures, and he naturally has used
. novelist's imagination to enlarge
and sketch in the background OF
episodes sometimes described in a
paragraph or two. But he seems
to have tried to stay within the
creed that Jesus was the Son OF
God, and that the events of His
life and death can have no natural
explanation.
Jesus is depicted not as the nat
ural son of Joseph and Mary, but
as conceived by the Holy Ghost
and born miraculously to the Vlr-
gin. There is a scene in which
the good Joseph is represented
to have defended Mary in the
synagogue against the charge that
she was with child before her
marriage. Joseph, in this inter-
pretation had a divine revelation
of the truth, but realized that
neither the narrow, legalistic
rabbis, nor the people of Nazareth,
would understand, and so to pro-
tect her he assumed the blame.
Under Jewish law this cleared
Mary.
Divine Intervention.
Those who believe Jesus was
only a teacher, deluded man
who thought He was the Messiah
will not find much comfort in this
narrative. There is the implica-
ton throughout and often the spe-
cific evidence of divine interven-
ton. The miracles are not CLOSED
over as hearsay that became folk
lore, but are described as happen
ings. The Resurrection is re-
corded as fact known to Christ's
intimate circle.
On the other hand, Mr.. Asch's
portrayal of Mary sweeps aside
a fundamental tenet of the Oldest
and largest Christian faith, the
Roman Catholic Church-the be-
lief that she remained the Blessed
Virgin throughout her life. In his
account, after the birth Of Jesus
she became the natural mother of
four sons, who are important
characters in the story. Most
Protestants may not object to this
version. There are scriptural ref
srences to the "brethren" of Je-
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Indian or sex or tuberculosis
then he ought to be working in a
laboratory or bureau
Henry Green, an Englishman
and Anne Goodwin WinsloW, a
Tennessee lady, pass Miss Gathers
acid test for creative writer's
Working in different lights and by
different stars, they both take
their readers into another world
which is exactly Wnat the novelist,
according to a stubborn minority,
is supposed to do.
BY Henry Green. THE Viking
Press, $3.)
This is not the authors real
name. He is Birmingham manu-
| facturer with passion for
anonymity, who has written seven
novels to an increasing chorus of
praise from British critics. He
has a strikingly original manner,
an unobStructed view of human
nature, an absolute genius for
dialogue and one annoying verbal
mannerism.
The hero. if he may be so called,
of Mr.. Green's brilliant chronicle
of life in a huge, lamplit Irish
castle, is a greedy butler named
Charley Raunce. Within his own
little domain behind the green
baize door Charley rules absolutely
his band of English servants,
whose society is just as rigidly
stratified as that of the drawing
room. The nurse and the cook for
bid him their little empires, but
Charley holds forth supreme in
the servants hall.
A bilious rogue who is also a
dutiful son, Charley bats his as
sistant, Albert: courts the pretty
maid, Edith, and torments the
head maid, the proper Agatha
Burch But intrigue is not limited
to his side of the green baize door.
Beautiful Mrs. Jack. her soldier
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is a light, gossipy chronicle that
needs no apologies on the score
of entertainment. There are in
cisive pen pictures of those who
tenanted the White House in his
days, which extended from Nc
Kinley to Truman. and if history
has been subordinated by the au-
thor, he has woven in background
that gives an interesting insight
into the private lives of successive
presidential households.
There's the story of the chill
dren of Theodore Roosevelt
spoiled brats" - whose exuber-
ance strained the nerves of White
House staff to such an extent that
Ethel Roosevelt was soundly pad
died one day by Ed (the author
calls him Jim) Smithers, chief
telegrapher, who was interrupted
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Cat of Many Tails, by Ellery
Queen. Little, Brown & Co.;
S2.75.)
Panic strikes New York. A
killer is at large, a stalking flend
who strangles with cord OF
India silk-blue for the men, sal
mon pink for the women. Is this
the work of a maniac who picks
his victims by chance or is there
some plan of destruction in these
clueless homicides? Not knowing
New Workers flee to the suburbs,
riot in terror and otherwise per-
form in silly fashion not at all
complimentary to the good sense
of great metropolis. Enter
Ellery Queen, forced out of volun-
tary retirement to look at motives
for mass murder. The story, while
mechanically smooth, hardly JUS
titles 311 pages in the telling
Queen is always careful crafts
man, but it seems to us he took
too long to convince his detective
alter ego to get busy and that he
let all the air out of his bubble
of tension before coming up with
his surprise denouement.
x X X
POliceman's Nightmare, by Mar
ten Cumberland; doubleday &
Co., $225)
Crime Club.
Commissaire Dax of the French
police discovers that finding Eu-
gene Widmer, a stamp-collecting
hypochondriac, involves more
than tracking a voluntarily miss
ing man. There's Widmer's pes
tiferous stepson to cope with, and
his anemic wife. Both the social
secretary and the chauffeur OBJ
viously know more than they're
telling, but they depart this life
before OAK really gets going. Dax,
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in this undertaking by the arrival
on the scene of the President.
Mr.. Smith saw the letters Wood
row Wilson received from Mrs
Mary Hubert Peck, with whom
his name had been linked before
the first Mrs. Wilson died. and
SCOTS at the idea of any roman
tic attachment.
There were also other letters
from Nan Britton calling on War
rem Harding to acknowledge the
paternity of a daughter - letters
that the President never saw.
President Taft was unhappy;
his feet hurt; he overate."
Dear Mr.. President" is a
first-class addition to the collec-
ton of White House books that
have followed the death of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
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1T WAS LIKE THIS

IL WAO LlhE f11O
BY Anne Goodwin Winslow. al
fred A. Knopt;: $780,
Unlike Mr.. Green, Mrs. Win
slow leaves no doubt about her
| feeling for her characters. She
| is utterly in sympathy with them
and tells their story through a
mist of gentle regret.
Passion is subdued and suffer-
ing muted in this charming. nos
talgic, and eminently civilized ac-
count of a gifted young man who
loves his brothers wife. Like all
of Mrs. Winslow's heroines, Anna
is an exquisite sleepWalker who
chooses peace rather than love.
She rejects the bookish. wry Hugh
in favor of his harmonious
brother Lawrence with that sort
Of half-conscious, enchanted way
of doing things that seemed al
ways to leave her out of them
no matter how much she got other
people in.''
1T Was Like This moves at lei
surely pace through the slow un-
folding of the Southern seasons
through the slow dawning OF
Annals emotion. The characters
converse satisfyingly of time and
the spirit, behaving with perfect
gentility and a consideration for
each other that is nothing short
of miraculous.
Mellow, literate. wise and just
witty enough to keep the reader
half-smiling throughout, "It Was
Like This" is a quietly perfect
recreation of world that is gone
by a writer who loved it we'll.
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Harnett T. Kane, who has ex-
amined number of aspects OF
life on the Lower Mississippi, now
turns his attention to his native
city, If his other books have been
pleasurable tasks for him, it is
plain this one is labor of affec-
ton, sympathy and clear-eyed
amusement. For to obviously au-
thoritative research he has
brought an editors eye for the
interesting and exciting and made
the best of both.
The work is a panorama of
anecdote and explanation of life
in the big rivers crescent. The
standard material is here-Cre-
oles, Andrew Jackson, quadroon
balls, carnival-but brightly re-
furnished and with some generous
helpings of new matter. BY this
time Mr.. Kane is a craftsman
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THE WAY WEST
BY A. B. Guthrie, jr. William,
Sloane Associates; $780,
Mr.. Guthrie's second novel of
the old West seems to me even
finer than his first, "The Big
Sky" that epical story of the
mountain men which came out in
the spring of 1947.
It seemed doubtful that the
author could equal in another
novel of the same era the power
and the beauty of "The Big Sky
Yet he has done that. The Way
West is better-rounded novel
almost flawless in form, touching
more deeply the feeling of col
lective kinship we call humanity
Beyond further question, Mr.
Guthrie is one of the gifted
novelists of our day.
THE Way West" is In a chron-
illogical and general way sequel
to THE Big Sky" though the new
book brings in only one character
developed in the earlier novel
Dick Summers, the veteran noun
tain man. Dick emergeS from the
retirement of eight years and
what he considers the easy life of
farming near Independence, Mo.
His wife has died, and he pulls
up stakes to pilot a wagon cara
van to Oregon, across the plains
and mountains he knows so well.
1t is 1845. The great migration
to the fabulous free lands in the
Willamette Valley is under way.
Empire Builders.
1.-THE Big Sky" concerned the
late 1830s. 1t was peopled with in
dividualists like Dick Summers.
brawny, self-contained men who
loved the loneliness of the noun
tains and asked nothing beyond
enough pelts to meet their simple
needs and an occasional brawling
good time at a spring trading
rendezvous. Even then beaver was
diminishing and they read the
passing of their day in signs of the
dawning settlement of the West.
The people who make up Dicks
wagon train in As are entirely diff
ferent and so their story is. They
are ordinary men and women such
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along with his translation of cura
as "curate" instead of priest"
(the translation adopted by Rob-
inson Smith in view of the fact
that even in England "curate,"
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, is now almost ex-
clusively used to designate a
clergyman who is assistant to a
rector or vicar rather than the
priest in charge of a parish. Par
ish priest" seems best to fit Don
Quixote's friend the cura. Again.
to translate andar estaciones as
private visits to religious shrines'
(part I, chapter XXxIID is not
wholly accurate. What it means is
''to do Cor make the Stations of
the Cross" as any Catholic would
Immediately recognize.
This devotion. sponsored by the
Franciscans (of which Cervantes
was a ''tertiary'') was popular in
Spain in the 18th century.
and outdoor stations" represent
ing Christ's Way of the Cross"
existed in Madrid as early as 1900.
But these are small points in
comparison with the tremendous
scope of the task that Mr.. Putnam
has undertaken. Perhaps only a
professor of Spanish literature
who has taught the "Quixote" for
many years would be presump-
tuous enough to make them in
the face of the overwhelming evil
dence of the book itself, which
gives ample, incontrovertible proof
Of the care, the industry, the
scholarship. the devotion, and the
exceptional talents as translator
that make the publication of Sam
uel Putnam's translation of Don
Quixote" a literary event of the
first Importance.
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whose writing
style Is clear
and fast. He is
easy to read,
which is to say
there is much
work that does
not show. The
chapter on the
1853 yell ow
fever epidemic
matches, IN Qe-
tailed horror,
any account Of
London'S great
plague. ."Pistols
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Durin the
years he was
slowly develop
ing his version
of this great
t h e m e, t n e
novelist pub
lished a number
of other books
which enhanced
his literary rep
u t a tion. the
last, ''E a S t
River" a mod
ern story of
New York.
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better -than-average compilation
of incidents under the code duello.
The history of Storyville, once the
city's restricted quarter, probably
is the most thorough on the sub
ject in print. And dropped cas-
ually in the middle of a discourse
on '"The Art of Eating-no Or
leanian author should omit that
is the only precise listing I have
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u S. WEST: THE SAGA OF WELLS FARGO
BY Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. (Dutton $780,

The authors, specialists in
Western Americana, tell here the
story behind a name which. as
they point out, typifies the ro-
nance of frontier days as surely
as those of Santa Fe, Union Pa
cific, the Oregon Trail, Dodge
City, the Pony Express or the
Overland Trail.
For Wells Fargo was far more
than a commercial enterprise cap
italizing on the needs of the gold
rush and the whole westward
movement. In its authoritative
and multifarious activities-it was
express company. banker, assayer
and financial agent in dozens OF
bonanza towns-it somewhat re-
sembled the early Hudson's Bay
Co. in Canada. 1t was. in some
times and places, an absolute mo-
Evening star., 1949-10-09
On q Maine Form
ONE-HORSE FARM

ONE-HORSE FARM
BY Robert P. Tristram-Coffin
Macmillan; $780,
Here are 81 new poems by Mr.
Coffin about life and nature or
a Maine farm. They are his usual
dexterous rhymes, glib in a bu-
collie way. Hardly f1rst-rate poetry
but pleasant enough. e. T.
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A British Importation,
TypicoIIy Light and Crisp

THE LAST ENCHANTMENTS
BY Robert Liddell. (Appleton-
Century-Crotts;; S2.75J
This is another importation
which comes with it's jacket bright
with valentines from the British
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nOpoly OF transportation, OF law
and of the facilities and functions
of finance" 1t sponsored the pony
express, which. by 1861. under
took to deliver letter from New
York to San Francisco in the in
credible time of 10 days. Its en-
ployes had to cope with financial
problems and fight bandits.
This is a handsome book, illus
trated with more than 225 photo
graphs and sketches, many Of
them rare prints of the SOS and
COS in California and Nevada. The
text is charmingly written. The
authors previously gave us some
unusual material on railroading
and they edited and annotated
some of the writings of Hinton
Helper, a rare character of the
gold rush era. C. B. j.
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Henry Green and Anne WinsIow
Pass Villa Gathers 7 uIent 7 est
Bv Mory Nc Grory

Villa Gather Writing luminous little book OF critical
which published pohumousy last week. the author
the Archbishop" decreed with
unless interested his little
Of the
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He Read White House Mail for so Years
And Learned q Lot About Our Presidents
DEAR MR.. PRESIDENT


with Alex Norris Julian MeSSner me- So
Reviewed by JOSEPH A. FOX.
r. T. Smith opened and read th
the White House. and in the forewod OF hl
might proltab
history of great events
On Smith. who headed the mail ROOM sell
himself short Alex Morris
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Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq

perhaps, should have picked up
the all-important clue the second
time it came his way, but missing
jewels and anonymous letters can
be disconcerting.
X
Over the Garden Wall, by Carol
Carnac. doubleday & Co., Inc;
$225)
Crime Club
A housebreaker departed with
nothing but half bottle of Scotch
but the homeowner kicked up a
fearful fuss, leading Inspector
Rivers of Scotland Yard to won-
der what the burglar really
wanted. Was it the priceless
jewels packed away for this last
half century? Or the secret scien-
tific report being written in the
billiard room? And why did the
stolen whisky bottle turn up so
conveniently in a nearby fire?
Plenty of questions to answer.
Plenty of suspects. too, thanks to
the diversionary tactics of the
author.
x x X X
A Matter of Taste, by Richard
Lockridge. u. B. Lippincott Co.;
S2.75.)
Oliver Hillard was connolsseur
of life. Having tasted of every
thing life had to offer except the
taking of life, he felt the need to
experience that, too, to complete
his catalogue of sensations. His
delicate weaving of the pattern
of murder, with the police finally
contributing their threads. con-
stitutes Mr.. Lockridges first solo
novel. With his wife, Mr.. Lock-
ridge authored the Mr.. and Mrs.
North Whodunits. 1t is now
abundantly clear that Mrs. Lock-
ridge was the one with the light
touch.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
A. B. Guthrie and ShoIem Asch
Present important New Novels
By Curter Brooke Jones

outstanding novels of the fall will be found sale
They important books by
work has brought them wide following
atention-Sholem Guthrie
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The Best ofHordy
THOMAS HARDY
BY Albert j. Guerard. lHarUard
University Press. $780,

2 7ttOC7 Ctty COO, TO.0VI
Literary criticism designed to
restore the author of Tess of the
.D'UrbervilleS" to his rightful
status as a teller of tales. Albert j.
Guerard, a novelist himself, sees
Hardy as a man who would have
given 10 years of his life to see
a ghost and as a writer who was
trying to reach beyond realism.
After examining the creature proc
ess and working methods OF
Hardy, Mr.. Guerard tends to rate
"The Mayor of Casterbridge" as
the best of his novels. Il. w. H.
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The Final Volume of q Remarkable
TriIogy on Christionity's Origin
MARY
BY Sholem Asch. (Putnam's;; $780,

by OIIUIeI1 ASCII. UtTtuHt ., 3.
With this novel Mr.. Asch COM
pletes his remarkable triology on
the origins of Christianity.
1.-The NaZarene" was the first
book, "The Apostle" the second.
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Samuel Putnam Translation Of Immortal
Don Quixote Is Major Literary Event

DON QUIXOTE LA MANCHA
Miguel Cervans Saavedra Translated by Samuel Putnam
Viking Press, 2 vols, bored, $0J
by HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE,
Washington University
Evening star., 1949-10-09
And Now at Last Hornett Kane Gives
You New Orleans, Heart and Soul

QUEEN NEW ORLEANS: City by the River.
BY Harnett T. Kane. William MorroU; So
Reuiemed hu FL ETCIIEE 2 ISREII.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

Cat of Many Tails, by Ellery
Queen, Little, Brown & Co.;
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16
Texas Law Make
Lynehing
Punishable By
Death

AUSTIN, TEXAS July 8-The
Texas State senate, last Thursday,
passed and sent to overnor Jester
a bill making -lynching punishable
by prison or death.
The bill which had already been
passed by the house was passed
by the senate without debate.
The bill defines a mob as any
collection of persons assembled
withoutout authority for the pur'
pose of committing assault, any
act of violence committed by such
mob resulting in death shall con,
stitute a lynching and any person
being a part of mob is subject
to prosecution under the Law.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16
British Assuce
Robertson OF
einging For Reds
Free

LONDON (ANP) s-Englishmen
apparently are peeved over the re.
suits of Paul Robeson's recent tour
Of their nation. They objected to
his tour on three basic grounds:
1. He signs for Communits or
Russians for free or very little but
charged Britisher UP to 1920 to
hear him sing.
2. Although he claims to be
fighting for the Negro he ignored
please for help from the League
of Colored Peoples, Britain's eq.
uivalent of the NAACP, and would
not give any financial aid toward
the leagues $4,000 deficit.
3, Although the capitalistic
nations have made him rich, he
takes the polictical stumq against
them.
Robson may get into a legal
battle because of his alleged free
singing for Communists. Promoter
Harold Fielding of his London
recitals claims that he agreed to
give no polictical concerts while
singing for him. He said he may
file suit for $4,000 damages for
an alleged Robson concert in
Prague, CzrchoslovaKia, while
under conn act,
Malcolm Joseph Mitchell, sec.
rotary of the league # COlortd
People here claims he sent Rob
eson five letters asIing for financ-
ial aid. He charges: "Mr. Robson
ignored every letter, | succeeded
in seeing him, but when / told him
that leagueisa
that the league is strictly non-poli.
teal and calls its members OF
children of the British Empire. he
was not interested.
cit is true he promised to go
further into our needs at the end
of the month. That was in March.
We are still waiting to hear from
him."
eneral criticism seems to be
against Robson because of his
talk against the people who pay
high prices to hear him at
concert. His critics resent his
statements extolling the virtues of
Russia while making money else
where.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16

vestigating staff, on the grounds
that it would hamper their move
ments and expose them to ply
steal violence, "even lynching".
"This much I can say about
the director of the inquiry" Mr..
Foreman said "He is a distin-
guished resident of the State of
Georgia known for his scholar
ship and courage"
"The inquiry will concentrate
on three phases of the Georgia
pattern of terror, Mr.. Fore
man continued. 1t will look into
DR.. Samuel Green's boast that he
has been on the personal staff of
Gov Herman Talmadge since last
November. Green is the Klan's
Grand Dragon
The Investigators, all natives or
residents of the state, will also
gather data behind the recent
arrests and beatings known to
advocate equal rights for the
Negro people. One of these Jail
ed in recent weeks is Homer
Chase, Communist Party Leader
in Georgia. Included in the scope
of the investigation, Mr.. Fore
man said, sis the nightrider VOL
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16
Fiery Crosses
Burned In Utica,
Y. Y. Park

UTICA, N. Y. July INS) =
Utica Police investigated today
today the burning of three fiery
crosses in a city park last night
The crosses were in large circle
made with lime. Printed on the
ground in lime, beside the circle
were words "Ku KluX Khan"
Detectives O'Neil and Sampson
said a note printed with ink was
found in the circle ordering Neg.
roes to "Leaye Utica, 1t was sign
ed "The Ku Klux Khan dragon"
Many Negro FAMILIES have come
to the Utica area in recent years
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16
Southern Textile
Mills Close

Atlanta, Ca = AS many of
the South's textile mills prepared
to close on July 4th to give the
workers their annual weeks va
cations, the workers felt quite
uncertain about being able to re-
turn to work.
During the last eight months
10000 workers have been laid off
100000 have had their weekly
work hours shortened. Many mills
are operating only two or three
days a month. Seven Georgia
mills are now in the process of
liquidation. All of these mills
have large numbers of colored
workers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-16
Negro Policemen Named In Fifth South
Carolina Town
Two Officers Slated For Rock Hill
Force

ROCK HILL. S. c. July u =
Two young police officers, among
18 who took a city civil service
examination during the week, will
he added to the rock Hill police
force here on July Is, Chief e. M.
Hanna said Monday
The new officers, first of their
race recalled here, are William
Lee Franklin, 2S, and Thomas
David Stigraves. Their appoint
ments followed several months of
considering the matter by city of
ficals. who had had the project
placed before them by leaders,
The Rock Hill additions raise
to eight the number of Negro
police men on active duty in South
Carolina.
Two were employed early this
year at Columbia; two other have
been on duty for more than a
year a Conway and Summerton and
Glover, each, have had one OF
more such officers for number
of years. At one time Summerto
employed two colored officers but
had to relieve one when city funds
grew too scarce, The first such
officers used in modern days, how
ever. were employed by that town
Glover is within twenty five
miles of RocI Hill, North of here
and in the city of Spartanburg, il
is expected that one or more OF
IA men Who took a city civil ser
vice examination several weeks
ago, will be placed on the police
forces.
The duty of the new officers in
Rock Hill rs not yet clear, but il
is assumed that their powers will
be limited to colored sections as
in Glover, and nearby Charlotte,