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Evening star., 1951-04-01

That was before, he met the half
breed girl Elisabeth Laval.
The gradual change in Daniel
during his years in the pays
savage" the weaving of his char
acter into a fabric both stronger
and more tolerant, more under
standing and more compassionate,
makes an absorbing study. The
French Canadian canoemen, the
Nor 'westers, partners and minor
executives, are well delineated.
There are Indians of various
tribes everywhere-the Nor west
|ers trade with them constantly
but the author has withstood the
temptation, if it assailed him, to
stage a single attack by them.
There Is always the menace of
bad actors like the Gros Ventres
Chg Bellies), but the fear is more
haunting than the actuality-
something lesser novelists never
seem to realize. The book loses
nothing in suspense and interest
because Mr.. O'Meara has refused
to resort to tricks of melodrama
on which mediocre historical no
velists fall back at every turn.
A. B. Guthrie, jr., showed us in
The Big Sky" that we hadn't
known what the mountain men
of the 1830s were like, to whatever
extent we might have read of
them. Mr. O'Meara convinces us
that we hadn't really met the fur
traders of the North until he pre-
sented them.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
ChiIdren's Books
BY SoIIy Greenland

GABBIT, THE MAGIC RABBIT
BY Carroll Colby. (Coward-Mc.
Cam; $780,
Gabbit got bored with being
pulled out of the magicians hat
One day he decided to do some
magic of his own, and surprised
the magician and all the children
who were watching. Illustrated BY
the author.
BLUNDERBUS.
BY Phyllis Mckinley. ~. B. Lip.
pincott;; $2J
All the other buses laughed a
Blunderbus because he was so old
But after doing a good deed, some
wonderful things began to hap
pen to him and soon the buse
were calling Blunderbus, WON
DERBUS! Drawings by William
Wiesner.
YOU AND DEMOCRACY.
BY Dorothy Gordon. (E. P. Dut'
ton & Co.; $2.J
The basic principals Of de
mocracy are examined in sirnpl,
terms. showing what the peopl,
owe the Government and wha
the Government owes the people
illustrations on all pages by Loi
Fisher and Karl MUIR.
FIVE LITTLE RABBITS.
BY Bill and Bernard Martin
(TeH-WeH Press; S1.25.)
The five little rabbits and tn
Red Bird outwit the mean ol,
Blue jay and the farmers dog
Full color illustrations.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Albert Moruyiu
Scores Aqoin
(FdrrGr
CONLuGAL LOVE

OONJ OSf1A LIVE
BY Alberto Moravia. (Fdrrar,
Strdus & Co.; $780,
The widely admired italian
author of ''The Woman of Rome
and 1.-TWO Adolescents" is here
writing, with French precision. OF
a marital crisis which revealed to
a husband the full measure of. his
mediocrity. It is an arresting
theme handled with much force.
The husband, an aspiring writer,
Is convinced despite the felicity OF
his marriage that she has been
giving his wife what he was taking
away from his work" Their re-
union is the reward held out at
the end of his labors. But his wife,
a creature of a sensual, compliant
nature, amuses herself betimes,
and the full force of his own in
adequacies both as a man and an
artist are brought home to the
husband.
'Conjugal Love" is continental
In flavor-subtle, erotic and full OF
IRONY. MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Corner
On Coins
By Ted Hummer

tibrarion. Americon Nvmismaiie Association
First stop in the production of
coinage, after the metal has been
made into ingots, is the making Of
long strips or ribbons. The ingots
are run through a series of rollers
until these strips result.
The strips of bronze, nickel or
silver then are run through
punches that stamp out the coin
blanks, known as planchets. This
leaves a long strip of metal full
of holes the size of the coins.
These strips go back into the
melting pot for reprocessing.
The blanks are fed into an up
setting machine that puts the
raised edge or collar on each
piece. These various processes
from metal to coin blanks harden
the metal so the planchets must
be annealed. as earlier. The
blanks then are cleaned in acid.
The blanks then are ready for
the final processing-being fed
into hoppers. The coins drop
through the bottom to fall under
the dies, which stamp the heads
and tails simultaneously.
An electric eye catches most
defective coins that the human
workers overlook. These defects"
are thrown into the melting pot.
The good pieces are put into sacks
for distribution over the Nation.
A few samples are laid aside and
carefully marked for later assay
to make sure that weight
and other standards are met.
Coins made at Philadelphia gen.
orally bear no mintmark, while
those struck at Denver and San
Francisco mints bear the letters
D or S.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
|Diuries Reveal
IT he Privute Life
OF Leo 7 olstoy
THE TOLSTOY HOME
DIARIES OF TATIANA

DIARIES OF TATIANA
TOLSTOY
columbia University Press, $4J
Although she lived most Of her
life in the shadow of genius, the
eldest daughter Of Leo Tolstoy
was by no means a dull character.
In these fascinating journals,
which she kept from the age of Is
to 46, she gives not only marvel
Gus picture Of the crowded. bus
tling home life Of the Tolstoys but
also a remarkable self-portrait of
a sensitive, gifted, passionate, prim
young woman who idolized her
father.
Tatiana's filial devotion was of
an intensity as to cause present.
day psychologists some specula-
tion. She admitted that her love
for her father was rival to all my
other loves She constantly
Icourted his approval and was
sorely jealous of her sister Masha,
to whom he sometimes showed
more attention. In his quarrels
with his wife, Tolstoy always had
the support of his children.
But Tatiana's journals do not
rely for their appeal on intimate
revelations about her awe-inspir-
ing father. Tatiana. being a Toll
stoy, was enormously articulate
deeply religious and profoundly
aware Of her social responsible
ties. Her diaries throb with that
Russian quality we call soul
Evenings at Yasnaya Polyana
were spent In heart-searching dis
cussion of such topics as whether
it is better to love or to be loved
Despite Papa's stern disap.
proval, Tatiana could not helr
taking pleasure in the endless di-
versions OF their vast family circle
Often she reproached herself fol
dancing, card-playing and flirting
Under her fathers guidance, as
countermeasures, she helped the
poor, worked side by side with the
peasants at Yasnaya Polyana and
sought constantly for "the most
honorable and kind attitude"
Tatiana had self f-righteously
decided that she would remain
chaste. She could continue to be
her fathers helpmeet, and she
thought it would be better even
though, "often my heart, which
seeks attachments and submission
to a masculine hand, cries for its
own slavery. But finally, trem-
bling lest Papa be aggrieved. she
did marry in her middle 30s. She
bore five still-born children before
Tania. beloved by Tolstoy, was
born. When her father died in
1911, she wrote, II do dream OF
Tania bearing a son who shall con-
tinue the great work of his great
grandfather
MARY McrsRopy
Evening star., 1951-04-01

CildIdCbSES oGI1hS yOu dS uuIIldI
beings subject to the fumbling
the uncertainty and the mistakes
as well as the virtues. of all men
then and now.
The time and the setting have
been used often in fiction. But Mr.
O'Meara shows that the theme is
far from exhausted. Indeed. as
you explore with him the rivers
and lakes of Western Canada and
share the hard, perilous life of the
voyageurs of that day. it seems q
journey OF discovery. However
much you have read about the fur
trade circa 1900, you'll feel,
think, that you're reading the real
story of it for the first time.
The struggle within Daniel
Harmon, a youth of "a. who left
his home in Vermont to seek ad-
venture with the North West
Co.. is as powerful as the
outer battle for survival which he
and his companions often had to
wage. His strict Calvinistic train
ing had given him a horror Of the
brutality and lack of morals on
the trails north and west of Lake
Superior. And yet he was strong,
venturesome: he wanted, like
many another youth, to live
dangerously. But he would never,
he vowed, take an Indian girl as
mate-a casual convention among
the men who spent years in the
solitary outposts of the far North,
Evening star., 1951-04-01
Reading and Writing
Opening Of New Poetry Room
At Library Is Good News for Poets
By Mary McGrory

For poetry lovers the news is
good.
On April "a, the Library of
Congress will formally open its
new poetry room. Its founder
and patron, Mrs. Gertrude Clarke
Whittall, who has already en-
|riched. the Library's. collection
with fabulous gifts of literary and
musical treasures, hopes in time
that it will become a center of
poetry for the entire Nation.
The poetry room, with an en-
dowment Of 100000, will be adj
ministered by the Library's con-
sultant in poetry. who is at pres
ent Conrad Aiken. 1t will be To-
Gated in what has hitherto been
the consultant's office, a beauti-
full sunlit chamber commanding a
magnificent view of the Capitol.
Whether or not it viii house the
rare editions of Emily Dickinson
and Tennyson, the HouSman and
Edwin Arlington Robinson man
Iuscripts. and the Shelley letters
Jail given to the library by Mrs.
Whittall. has not yet been de-
|cided.
The fund will be used to bring
poets and actors here for readings
and for lectures by critics of
poetry.
Mrs. 'Whittall's purpose in es-
tablishing the poetry foundation
lis perfectly simple: "We need a
whole lot of poetry In our lives. :"
she says.
Reports from previous congress
sional poetry consultants indicate
they are. flourishing. Elizabeth
Bishop, who held the post in 1949-
so is the first winner of the Lucy
Martin Donnelly Fellowship for
Creative Writing granted by Bryn
Mawr. Robert Lowell. the 1918
incumbent has a new volume
called "The Mills Of the Kaya-
naughs" coming on April %.
Meanwhile. the newly instituted
poetry reading series that take
place every other Monday night
over WCFM at $3.50 is catching
on.
The appearance Of William Car
los Williams. the National Book
Award Poetry winner was. a smash
hit, If the term can be applied to
such a high-level operation. One
of the announcers who had ques-
toned the wisdom of the poetry
reading program, ordered a record
of the reading. a gesture which
Jean Putnam, program director
and instigator of the series, re-
CARDS as praise from Sir Hubert.
Tomorrow night, Archibald
MacLeish will read selections from
his work. Coming attractions in
clude Mark Van Doren and COM
mentator Raymond Swing read
ing from his great favorite, the
Jesuit lyriciSt, Gerard EIanlay
Hopkins. Mr.. Swing is moderator
of the programs.
Evening star., 1951-04-01

StenniS, wife Of the Mississippi
Senator, hasn't had an answer to
it's invitation. Subtle pressure is
being applied to the withdrawn
writer, and his publisher. Bennett
Cert, and several Of his neighbors
in oxford, Miss, have been
enlisted in the cause Of persuading
him to come to the Capitol. He is
currently in Hollywood.
The Mississippi State Society
had a similar reception two years
ago. and it was a huge success.
Among the native or resident sons
and daughters who have received
bids for this years do are Play
wright Tennessee Williams, Editor
Holding Carter. former District
Commissioner George E. Allen of
Presidents Who Have known
Me" fame and David Cohn.
4 \ \
The husband-and-wife writing
team of Katharine and Henry
Pringle, having given over their
history of World War II until
more settled times. has turned its
attention to a dual biography OF
woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt. A study which will show
the theological similarities and
temperamental differences be-
tween the two Presidents, 1t will
be called Bitter Allies"
\ y y +
A new husband -and-wife writ
ing team-Washington has an
unusual number of them-recently
made its appearance with New
Ways to Better Meetings" The
work of Bert and Frances Strauss,
it is a little manual intended to
liberate the everyday club men,
ber and meeting-goer from the
tyranny Of a Joe Cannon. type of
chairman.
Mr.. Strauss, a management
engineer with the Army. Is a
pioneer in the fledgling field of
group dynamics. which is the
science of understanding groups
the same way we try to under
stand individuals. Mrs. Strauss is
the professional writer of the
pair. but the way it worked out,
they both went over it. Mr..
Strauss also teaches an evening
class at the Department of Agri-
culture and graduate students at
Catholic University. They live in
Alexandria.
** y
Those looking for signs of
spring will find some rather wan
ones at the Government Printing
Office. To be sure. their dollar
packet on spring planting is
thriving, with 1900 sold by the
first day Of spring. :. But the big
seller, and the GPO reluctantly
comedies it may in time outdis-
tance its all-time favorite. Infant
Care" with q sales figure Of %
million. is Survival Under
Atomic Attack" This 1O-cent
booklet has sold 100000 since
publication on November /. The
victories in Korea have seen no
slackening in sales. either. To
keep up it spirits, the GPO still
gets requests for "The Love Life
of the Bullfrog," a mythical title
which cropped up in the address
of a critical Congressman, who
said the Department of Agricul-
ture published everything but.
y X X
Allen Haden, author of "My
Enemy. My Wife," coming later
this month, had the characters
and situation given him by a
friend, who, as a fellow writer,
might be expected to be more
stingy about such things. It was
Paul Frischauer, author of $50
Great a Queen"
MIR. Haden, born in China Of
missionary parents, has lived all
over the world as a foreign corre-
spondent and a foreign service
officer. He has now settled down
to a job in the State Department
and a house in Georgetown to
raise his two daughters American
style. He wants to go on writing
fiction.
Evening star., 1951-04-01

lmisanthropy to an unhappy child.
hood on an Indiana farm. The
boy grew up moody and with.
drawn, not SO much because oi
the large family's poverty as be-
cause he never got along with his
parents and never accepted theil
|dour theological prescriptions
strangely enough, he found him.
self when he marched away with
the Indiana volunteers in '61
Fearless under fire, he was ac-
cepted by the men around him
he no longer felt peculiar and out
of things. In later years he looked
back on his war service as one OF
the happiest periods of his life,
although, rejecting war philo-
sophically. he could write of g.
the criminal insanity that we call
battle" Bierce was. whatever else
may be said Of him, an American
original.
Evening star., 1951-04-01
lHoPALONG-FREUD AND
OTHER MODERN LITERARY
CHARACTERS

BY Ira Wallach. (Schun1an; ST.
Mr.. Wallach has written series
of satirical sketches on writer's
and trends in writing. One is on
T. S. Eliot's Cocktail Party
Others are on the Freudian
technic and on mystery novels
They range from the mildly
amusing to the labored. The
opening sketch, a parody on one
of Ernest Hemingway's best novels
lis quite as humorless and without
taste as was similar parody or
the same book which appeared ir
a widely read weekly some months
ago.
Evening star., 1951-04-01

second honorable mention Fourth
Clark prize is first honorable men,
tion) for his Easter Morning on
Eye Street." a cleanly painted
architectural subject with effec-
tive distribution of light and dark
tones. An old woman selling violets
is the only human touch.
Sidney Laufman's House in the
Woods" to which third honorable
mention was given, is lush land
scape of bright green's, sun and
shadow.
Various Trends
The 22d biennial would lend it
self nicely to various special treat
ments. One could write of it as a
cross section of contemporary
American painting from Luigi
Lucioni's beautiful traditional
Landscape, Birch Professional" 4"
with every leaf and blade of grass
carefully delineated, to Theo-
doros Stamos' amorphous shapes,
Portal to Mountains"
One could deal with the many
treatments of subject classifica-
tions. Those who love the ocean,
for instance, can go down to the
sea with dozens of interpretations
of waves dashing against rocks,
fishermen and their ships, quiet
coves and lively harbors.
There are many revelations of
expressionism, perhaps the most
|pervasive Of contemporary idioms.
There are enough surrealistic
paintings to intrigue those who
like to dabble in the subconscious.
Reviewed in Installments.
Space limitations make it nee
essary to review the biennial in
installments. I hope to devote
one installment to Washington
area artists who have an unusually
large representation in this bien-
nial. Mr.. Williams says that next
to New York City, artists of Wash
ington, D. c., offered the largest
number of entries, 201, of which
18 were accepted, and II others
were invited.
It is good to see paintings by
artists who have been producing
admirable work from one to sew
eral decades. They are frequently
absent, these days, from large
ANIMALS which seem often to be
wholly dedicated to experiments
and new departures. Some of
these established artists are in
clined to continue composition
variations on themes they made
their own. a good many years
ago; one wishes they would be a
trifie more venturesome. Henry
Lee McFee, Hobson Pittman and
Paul Sample, for instance, pro-
vide examples in the present BIZ
enniaL Needless to say, their
works are beautifully painted and
thoroughly pleasing.)
Works Of Special Interest.
Invidious though it seems to
mention only 10 or IL paintings
out of nearly 800, among which
are so many works of excellence.
! found the following arresting
for spirit or technique or both.
Raymond Breinin's Distant Ca
thedraP' is a haunting example
of romanticism. Lamar Dodd's
snowscape, "Thawing Valley"
strong and somber, seems the very
essence of winter.
In Manhattan Dusk" Lyonel
Feininger uses cubism POLITICALLY.
Henry Koerner'S Mountain
Top" painted to the most minute
detail, captures the imagination
with its implication of currents
beneath its surface significance.
Leon Kroll's lovely "Hill at River
dale" has the rare serenity he
manages to get into a spacious
Evening star., 1951-04-01
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Evening star., 1951-04-01
4 IT
Corcoron GolIery's
22d Biennial,
Opens Today
By Florence S. Berrymon

The nineteen thirties are re-
visited in the Corcoran Gallery's
22d Biennial Exhibition Of Con-
temporary American Oil Paint
|ings, which will be open to the
public this afternoon, and for the
next six weeks. All the paintings
on view have been produced within
the past two years; but as more
than half Of the.27l works depict
recognizable subject matter in
manners ranging from sharp focus
realism to much simplifled Eut
still naturalistic representation.
the show carries one back to the
years when a reviewer could deal
with it in terms Of portraits and
| figures, landscapes, still life and
so forth.
Certainly the 22d biennial up
sets the increasingly leftward
trend noted in most large and i'm
Iportant annual and biennial ex-
hibitions in the past few years.
Its character is such that it will
probably draw harsh comments
from persons completely sold on
abstract, non-representational and
radically expressionistic painting
as Significant of today" The
Iayant-garde will find plenty of
these in the 22d biennial. But
at the same time, the public will
be able to enjoy many paintings
which portray people, objects and
places, which convey ideas and
which present situations and offer
viewpoints in a Language" famil-
lar to the average person as well
as to the artist.
Jury of Selection.
Some persons may assume that
this partly traditional exhibition
is due to the composition Of the
jury Of selection-Edward Hopper
(chairman), Eugen Weisz and
John c. Johansen, all established
painters of realistic and traditional
persuasion. But those who have
been watching jury behaviour in
recent years, have noticed that
not infrequently traditional artists
serving as jurors seem to outdo
others in accepting leftist paint
Iings, for fear perhaps, that other
wise they will be accused of mar
row-mindedness. So it is pleasant
to note that Messrs. Hopper, Jo-
hansen and WeiSz had the cour-
|age to include a large number of
conservative works whose subjects
are presented in such a way that
the most casual visitor can un-
derstand them without attending
a preliminary six-weeks seminar.
Another pleasant aspect of the
show is that approximately half
|of it was accepted from juried
paintings: 140 works were invited.
AS Hermann w. Williams, direc-
tor of the Corcoran Gallery stated,
biennials habitually are half
juried, half-invited, with the OBJ
jective Of obtaining a representa-
tive group of the best works pro-
duced, and including all phases OF
professional artistic expression
currently practiced. Two years
ago. it will be recalled. the show
was almost wholly invited, with
only 13 juried acceptances, a sit
uation that understandably Gre
ated a furore. Furthermore, the
present biennial has welcomed a
fairly large proportion of COM
paratively new artists.