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Evening star., 1949-03-27
Life Struggles
In Old Wisconsin
BRADFORD MASTERS

bRADFORD MASTERS
BY Sherman Baker. (Dutton;
$2.75J
In his novel, Bradford Mas
ters," Sherman Baker has brought
to life a corner Of America that
has been somewhat neglected by
recent novelists. That corner is
Wisconsin, its North Woods and
its country people.
Young Bradford Masters lived
with his father on their decaying
old property, the Homestead. Once
upon a time the family who occu-
pied it had held a position Of
prestige and respect in the neigh
borhood. Now there was respect,
but little prestige. The money
had gone, as had so many other
dollars in the depression years.
The land was being sold bit by bit.
The bills went unpaid. Young
Bradford cherished only one thing
in life. his freedom. This ire
sponsible charmer had achieved
nothing at the age of %. Jean
Marsh and the unusual circum-
stances Of their romance finally
brought happiness and purpose in
life to Bradford. Masters. IN. P.
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days he turns out only line. on
others as much as 10 pages.
His only diversion is travelling,
to which he devotes three months
of every year. His next trip will
take him to Spain and some Of
the Russian satellite countries. In
1941 Mr.. Caldwell served as a
correspondent III Russia. whose
people he likes while deploring
their government. His books have
been enormously popular abroad.
Like q Congressman.
I'm like Congressman says
Mr.. Caldwell. II like to get out
and shake the hands Of the folks
who vote for me.
These people tell me their
stories. And often they come up
and say. I don't want a book.
I've read them all. just wanted
to get a look at you because you
wrote about my uncle"
His Tucson neighbors include
two Of the angriest writer's in the
country, he revealed. They are
novelist Elliott Arnold and col
umnist Westbrook Pegler. who, he
says, brought their anger with
them"
You know I'm often accused of
being angry and bitter" he said
with the air of a small boy who
has been grievously misunder-
stood. I'm a storyteller not a
crusader. I'd be glad If any prob
lens were ameliorated by my
books, but that's not my purpose. :"
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Whodunit' Authors
Tell How They Do 1t

A trio of local whodunit authors
recently told a highly inquisitive
audience how they dc. it at lively
question -and-answer session at
Alexandria's Chequire House.
The occasion also served to clear
UP the mystery of the identity Of
Francis Bonnamy. author of "Por-
trait of the Artist as a Dead Man" ="
He, or rather she, turned out to be
Mrs. Jay Walz, dark-haired. ami
mated wife Of a New York Times
Washington correspondent. She
concocts those civilized thrillers
while she is doing her housework
in her Alexandria home and tax
ing care of her two children. With
her on the panel were Dorothy
Cameron Disney, whose latest is
"The Hanging Tree" and Matthew
Head, who, when not on a book
jacket, is John Canaday. assistant
professor of architecture at the
University of Virginia. His new
book is "The Cabinda Affair"
The questions, which were tech
nical and professional in tone, in
dicated that many members of the
audience just needed few point
ers before they sat down at their
typewriters. They got few unani-
nous opinions on the way to go
about it, however.
Mr.. Bonnamy says she starts
with title because she needs a
handle. Her hew one is Blood
and Thirsty" Miss Disney thinks
out every last detail in a careful
outline. Mr.. Head, who has been
called "the Joseph Conrad Of the
mystery novel," just starts. He
doesn't even know who's going to
commit the murder. It depends
entirely on character and atmos-
phere. he said.
Mr.. Head and Mrs. Bonnamy
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her spoiled brat of a grandson,
inspires more sympathy than she
perhaps deserves. There is her
unhappy son Larry, a strange
mixture Of culture, charm and
perversion; his former wife, who
has just divorced him in Reno
and married stupid, arrogant air
captain, and Gerald, the artistic
young homosexual who adores
Larry. Fate draws them all in
evitably toward a Christmas eve
meeting at Hilly's apartment, to-
ward tragedy.
Despite the terseness of the
book, the early pages bring long
sentences, some Faulkneresque in
their complexity. Fortunately, as
the story goes on, the author de-
velops a sharper, more concise
syntax. She moves easily from
one character to another, shifting
points of view without jarring the
narrative.
MIST ON THE WATERS
BY F. L. Green. (Harcourt,
Brace; $2.75.)
The author Of the widely sold
"Odd Man Out" a story of the
troubles in Ireland, has written a
tense novel around a crime. The
crime is blackmail, and it is spoil
ing no climax, since it becomes
known the first few pages. to dis
close that the victim kills him.
self because he hadsto pay tribute
with his employers money. Two
men plotted to extort the money
Pelancey, the weak but self-re-
specting owner of a dry-cleaning
business, and Fingal, the sly,
thieving hanger-on. It is the story
Of the crimes aftermath, of the
fear and remorse that haunt them
incessantly. The scene is Bel
fast.
Mist on the Waters" is q
searching psychological document.
The petty events that follow the
ill-mated accomplices are en-
veloped in brooding uncertainty
that holds you in suspense. Con-
science becomes almost a tangible
presence. The author might be
accused of solving his problem
too easily with the dramatic de-
nouement, and yet it carries
memorable impact.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

I'm trying to Erskine Caldwell
take in the whole region from the
Potomac to the Mississippi and I
don't think it's been exhausted
yet"
New One Coming.
His newest novel, with which he
is quite we'll satisfied. is titled "A
Place Called Estherville," and will
be published in the fall.
A native of Georgia, Mr.. Cald-
we'll began his writing career in
a cabin in the Maine woods,
where he cut trees in winter and
grew potatoes in summer, working
for seven years before he produced
a salable novel. Since then he
has produced some 20 books. Now
he works in his home in Tucson,
where he lives with his third wife
and their 412-year -old son, on a
strict 9-to-5 schedule. On some
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both use the same detective all
the time. Miss Disney, however,
depends entirely on the local po-
lice, assisted by a sensible by
stander.
Mr.. Head and Mrs. Bonnamy
started writing mysteries because
they didn't like the ones they were
reading. Miss Disney. again dis
senting, started because she did
like them, having been an addict
since childhood.
On two points. however. they
were agreed. They favor the
blunt instrument over any exotic
death weapon and attest the i'm
portance Of having a critic in the
family. Mr.. Heads attractive
wife, a former newspaperwoman,
always casts an eye on his work
in progress; so does Mrs. Bon
namy's husband. although she
suspects he's not mad about mys-
terieS.
Miss Disney was most emphatic.
II live with an editor who is bet
ter than any in a publishing
house." she said fatty. She was
referring to her husband. Milton
MacKaye, Saturday Evening Post
writer, who was present at the
forum.
r. r. ~ -
Any mystery about what the
President has been reading lately
was also cleared I'D. A note to
Miss Disney from Mrs. Truman,
who had just finished "The Hang
mans Tree" said, my husband
finished it last night and asked If
I had another as good as that"
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Setting the, Mood
For British Poetry
COLLECTED POEMS
BY Siegfried Sassoon. (The Vik-
ing Press, New York; $780,
Reviewed by

BY Siegfried Sassoon. (The Vik-
ing Press, New York; $780,
Reviewed by
EDWIN TRIBBLE.
The poems Of Siegfried Sassoon
covering a period of 30 years are
included in this volume. The
earliest are his war poems, sparse,
bemused lyrics which, with those
Of Rupert Brooke and Julian
Greenfell and others, set a mood
for British poetry for many years
to come. The war poems natur-
ally were followed by pacifist
poems, and they are here, clean
limbed but bitter and essentially,
one feels today, hollow. In the
later lyrics Mr.. Sassoon followed
conventional verse forms, depend
ing upon form and dexterous use
of words for his effects. In that
he was something like A. E. Hous-
man. Indeed, some of the verse
in the section called THE Hearts
Journey" is very much akin to
"The Shropshire Lad"
The epigrammatist is present
here, too, and delightfully."-, in such
poems as:
I'm me the caveman clasps the
seer,
And g1rldnded Apollo goes
Chanting to Abr1h1n,'s deaf
ear.
II, me the tiger shifts the rose.
! Look il, my heart, kind friends.
and tremble,
Since there yoAr elements as
senble."
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who are notably Marx, Shelley,
the Webbs and himself.
The paradoxes have q brilliant.
If familiar. sound, and Mr.. Win
stems chief contribution has been
to give a glimpse of the lonely old
man behind the cap and bells, the
devoted husband who obviously
missed his wife after her death,
the good friend and good neigh
Dor, stringy, durable, even-tem-
pered old fellow in bicycling
knickerbockers striding over the
green. taking his cane for a
walk" He is witty here, but wist-
full. too.
Airs His Views.
Sixteen Self Sketches" IS q
contentious patchwork Of reminis-
cence, largely in answer to mis-
conceptions and misstatements
about the author. Candid and lit
often with the moral passion Of
his plays, they recount his child
hood disappointment in his father,
early tribulations as a writer. CT
did not throw myself into the
struggle for life. I threw my
mother into it.") and his views on
socialism, vegetarianism. religion
and marriage.
He describes himself variously
as "a literary adventurer," IAN
incorrigible histrionic monte
bank" and finally as "a garrulous
and too-old man.,
Show me the man who is fit to
take up my sword and I co." says
Shaw. The only question is, would
Shaw recognize such q man If he
saw him? M. MEG.
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Some LittIe-Known
Naval Engagements
Brought to Light
GUNS ON THE WESTERN
WATERS
BY H. Allen Gosnell. Louisiana
State University Press; $6.50J
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.
REVIEWED Dy
REX COLLIER.

This book will be a revelation to
those who have had the illusion
that the only battle Of the IRON
clads Of any consequence in the
Civil War was the famous one be-
tween the U. s. S. Monitor and
the c. S. s. Merrimac in Hampton
Roads. That was the first fight
in naval annals between IRON
sheathed warships, but it was an
inconclusive one-and far less
spectacular than some Of the san
culinary battles Of the gunboats
and rams which took place later
along the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries.
The river warfare developed
when the Union forces sought to
split the Confederacy by taking
control Of the Mississippi from its
mouth to aboYe Cairo. Ill. Both
sides hastily converted the un-
calmly river side wheelers. stern
wheelers and the few available
screw-propelled steamers into i'm
provised ironclads. Some were
rams, some were gunboats and
some were clumsy combinations of
both types. Several Of the bit
terest and bloodiest hand hand
naval engagements of the ironclad
era resulted. Supplementing con-
temporary accounts with facts and
figures obtained during his re-
searches. MIR. Gosnell has pro-
duced a highly interesting close
up Of a too-neglected phase of
Civil War history
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Mr.. BiddIe Weiohs
The Job of Keepinq
Democracy on Top .
THE WORLDS BEST HOPE
BY Francis Biddle. (Chicago;
e. Sn
Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES,

BELMONT FAIRIES.
Can the Government Of the
United States, which Thomas JET
ferson once described as "the
worlds best hope" meet the in
ternational responsibilities which
have been thrust upon it? Mr..
Biddle, Attorney General during
the war years and more recently
American member of the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal at Nuern-
berg, has made a careful study of
the complex problems which will
determine the answer.
The collapse of Britain as a
world power left the United States
the only Nation strong enough to
keep the peace in the face of an
aggressively expanding Russia.
Today our foreign policy. forced
on us by a series of emergencies,
is to sustain the democratic"
nations of Europe. Mr.. Biddle
probes deeply into the meaning of
democracy as we understand It.,
and concludes that both American
free enterprise and European
socialism can be democratic, but
that communism, which is essen
TALLY tota11tarian, cannot.
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Race Legislation
Is Given Heorinq
From Two Sides

INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE
BY Edwin r. Embree and Julia
Waxman. (Harper;: $3J
THE COMING OF THE GLORY
BY John Shipley Tilley. (Strat-
ford; $3J
Reviewed by
FLETCHER F. ISBEIL.
Two books meant to influence
race legislation, in opposite ways.
appear here. The first is the story
of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, tho
multimillion dollar foundation Of
the Sears, Roebuck & Co. execu-,
tive. Starting chiefly in 1917 with
on Negro education in
Southern States, it ended in 1882
a school building program under
which the States supplied 64 per
cent of the cost of 5,357 schools
the fund Is per cent and individ-H
uals the rest. Health and medicak
services and scholarships also weres
set up. With incorporation in
1923 and Mr.. Rosenwald's death
in 1882, it moved into the larger
field of social equality among the
races. It's last large enterprise
the fund has not been expended
and this volume is in the nature
of a final report-was to initiate
and press the recent report on
segregation in Washington.
"The Coming Of the Glory" in
cludes short history of the slave
trade and secession movements
before 1861, but is largely devoted
to the story Of reconstruction gov
ernments. While details might
surprise the uninformed, this
ground has been pretty thoroughly
covered, particularly by Claude G.
Bowers and Robert S. Henry, and
might well be permitted to lie un-
disturbed. A timeliness Is thrust
upon it, however, by it's analogy
between current charges and the
careless, sometimes malicious,
statements of 80 years ago
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Reading and Writing
Erskine Caldwell 03 Million Reprints!)
Can't See Why He Must Defend Art
By Mary McGroY

Erskine Caldwell, a writer who
is not a literary" man, stopped
off in Washington last week en-
route to his Tucson, Ariz.. home
after a courtroom appearance in
Boston as a witness in the trial
Of his book, Gods Little Acre"
The author of Tobacco Road
and other earthly comic stories
of Southern sharecropper life
doesn't spend any time reading
other peoples books. And the auto
graphing parties he attends are
most likely to be in chain drug
stores. where he inscribes 25-cent
editions Of his novels for people
who tell him he has written about
their relatives.
Mr.. Caldwell. a husky. deeply
tanned and still freckled man who
has an air of youthful earnestness
despite his graying hair, was ac-
companied by his reprint pub
Usher, Victor Weybright of the
New American Library, which has
sold $4,000. 900 copies Of six Cald-
well novels.
Exonerated in Philadelphia.
Sensitive about his reputation as
the author of much-banned books,
Mr.. Caldwell pointed out that his
novels have been less in court
than Is generally supposed. Gods
Little Acre" was exonerated by a
Philadelphia judge last week. He
is not especially afticulate about
censorship, however. simply say
ing that he does not see why he
should be called upon to defend
his books any more than a painter
should have to defend his paint
ings. He further avows. II write
with as much decorum and re-
straint as people who are guided
by the customs and mores of civil
ization behave in their everyday
lives"
THE letters I get are from the
people who milk COWS and pick
cotton. They don't feel that I'm
Evening star., 1949-03-27
HENRY JAMES AND THE
EXPANDING HORIZON

BY Osborn AndreaS. (UniDerSitu
of Washington Press; $780,
Joining in the revival of Henry
James, Mr.. Andreas delineates the
themes found in the works of a
man whose primary interest was
living and who, as an "implacable
analyst" pursued mans ultimate
nature through its numerous OBJ
structions to arrive at the greatest
value of life. the intensity of
consciousness" The volume is a
good aid to any student of James.
&C. G. B.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

Gods Underground, by Father
George, as told to Gretta Palmer
(Appleton Century = Crofts; $3).
The part Catholic priest played
in the fight for religion against
both the Nazi and Communist
totalitarian governments.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

success is TO Onend the greatest
number Of people" He has spent
a lifetime goading civilization not
only in the plays, with which he
modestly allows, he laughed Vic
torianism out of existence" but
in countless letters to editors and
interviews. The century's most
durable pamphleteer, who once
called himself "the messenger boy
Of the new age" has made a career
of swimming against contempo-
rary currents, always in a gold
fish bowl. .
Whether or not Mr.. Shaw will
ultimately be vindicated in his
estimate of himself as "the most
salutary influence in the last 100
years" he has always been vastly
stimulating. Through the years,
he has submitted to endless at
tempts to be immortalized in
plaster, paint and print. but the
Shavian spirit which is COM
pounded of q kind of diabolical
benevolence and capering sin
cerity, remains elusive.
Ablaze With Epigrams.
These two new books, one Of an
endless procession about Shaw,
add little to our massive knowl-
edge about him. Stephen Winsten's
tdolatrous Days With Bernard
Shaw" is a winning compendium
of conversations with which Win
sten and Shaw, neighbors in re-
tired Ayot st. Lawrence, tired the
sun with talking" The famous
Shavian wit sparkles and crackles
on these pages, which are practi-
cally ablaze with epigrams that
beg for quotation on women,
marriage. servants, children hunt
ing, art, religion and his heroes,
Evening star., 1949-03-27
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Ottenbera

Inc crooked House Dy AgaCna
Christie. Dodd, Mead & Co.;
$2.50.)
With deceptive simplicity and
without Hercule Poirot, Miss
Christie tells the story of the great
Aristide Leonides and his surviv-
ing relatives. Which mourner
gave him poison-the bumbling
Roger or his scientist wife Clem-
ency. the intellectual Philip or his
actress wife Magda, the children's
tutor or Aristide's too-young
widow? Young Josephine's sleuth-
ing around was bound to get her
into trouble, but why would some
body try to murder child? The
answer. in the Christie tradition,
is as startling as it is logical.
X X X X
Gilbert's Last Toothache, by Mar
garet Scherf. doubleday & Co.;
Inc, $2.25.)
Crime Club.
The Rev. Martin Buell., a clergy
man of great girth and charm, is
left holding a baby after it's par
ents die with suspicious sudden
ness. His housekeeper tries to
keep him respectable-even to the
extent of smuggling a corpse from
the pastors parlor-but the Rev.
Buell. can't resist a bit of sleuth-
ing. and besides he's got to do
something about the baby. Char
acters-and We do mean odd ones
in the Rev. Buelps flock range
from a sheriff devoted to a horse
named Violet to an ancient lady
given to consuming banana splits.
Miss Scherf keeps it light, but
manages to slip in suitably baf-
fling plot.
Spin Your Web, Lady, by Richard
and Frances Lockridge. q. B.
Lippincott Co.; $2.50D
Main Line.
Prudence Gaillard, q lass with
an infinite capacity for Scotch
and sadism, is strangled and
strung up in a web of vines at the
end of an evening in which she
seemed to exercise an uncanny
amount Of influence over her COM
panions. Capt. Heinrich knows
the solution lies in the hold Pru-
dence had over these people, but
none of them is inclined to volun-
teer the secret only each of them
and Prue had known. He breaks
the case by the simple device of
every ones nerves to the
point A neat trick,
which the authors almost make
convincing.
Some Like EN- Shot, by Fred Ma
lima. civilian Morrow & Co.,
Inc; $500
Mill.
The Anti-Discrimination Com
mittee wanted Matt Devijian to
find out if Roy Stewart, q Florida
Negro, really killed ex-senator
Armstrong. Stewart was no help
at all and Matt found only trouble
when he tried to make sense out
of the Senator's dipsomaniac
daughter. But if Roy was guilty,
how come the Senator's ex-girl
friend got shot and why was the
Senator's ex-secretary so anxious
to leave town? Realistic handling
of the race problem contributes to
the success of this cracking puz-
zler.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

Laughing q Z
them or that
the books are
por nographic.
They thank me
for writin G
a b ut tn e m
with sympathy
q n d un d err
standing"
"I'll a ! W a y S
60 on writ
ing about the
South. It's like
taking just one
more dri n k.
Evening star., 1949-03-27

Edited by Leon Edel. (Rutgers
Reviewed by MARGAR
1.-The Ghostly Tales of Henry
James" is not an anthology of
conventional ghost stories - no
trembling children would read this
book on bowling winter nights for
the pleasure of frightening them
selves. There are ghosts in these
stories. 1t is true, but they are not
the "scary" ghosts that rise up in
desolate graveyards to rout Tom
Sawyers. The ghosts Of Henry
James are a far more terrifying
variety that Hawthorne first dis
covered in the heart Of man. The
evil and the horror in these tales
often appear to be external, but
one usually discovers that the
awful fear of the thing" and the
thing" itself both exist within the
man who fears.
THE Beast in the Jungle" one
of the greatest of these ghostly
tales, tells of a man who is OBJ
sessed by the thought that some
thing or other lay in wait for him,
amid the twists and turns of the
months and years, like a crouch
ing beast in the Jungle" Because
of this obsession, he does nothing
in life but wait in paralyzed fear
for the day he must grapple with
the beast, and in the end he dis
covers that the awful beast he
awaits is only the futility he has
made of his own life. The obses-
sion that has kept him outside Of
life turns out to be that "he has
been the man of his time, the
man, to whom nothing on earth
was to happen"
The Ghostly Effect.
In his preface to THE Turn Of
the Screw" Henry James writes:
"Only make the readers general
vision of evil intense enough and
his own experience, his own imag-
nation, his own sympathy and
horror will supply him quite suf-
flciently with all the particulars.
Make him think evil; make him
think it for himself and you are
released from weak specif1ca-
tions." Going on these precepts,
James rarely fully delineates the
evil which prevades his stories. In
1.-THE Turn of the Screw" one
never Is sure exactly where the
evil lies and 1t is this strange not
knowing that produces such a
heightened sense of fear and
ghostly effect.
James, like Hawthorne, realizes
that the real horrors of life live in
the human heart. And James is
q master of the psychological
drama and subtle probings of the
Evening star., 1949-03-27
American Readers and Critics
Are Given q Good Going Over
ECTURES IN CRITICISM

symposium Of the Johns Hopkins University Paneon $780,
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
indifference naturally
medocrity Of what the American
a French professor teaching in America, feels.
Writ