Evening star., 1954-02-28


arly biography of Mary Tudor,
Miss Prescott comes to us this
year in the unlikely guise of
mystery writer. Dead and Not
Buried" first published in 1888,
makes a return appearance in
March. Another writer break
ing new ground is Nancy Nit
ford, sprightly chronicler of
hijinks in high society. She
has turned biographer. suita-
bly,, of Nine. Pompadour.
And Alexandra Orme, who
wrote two superior accounts of
personal experience behind the
Iron Curtain in Comes the
Comrade" and by the Waters
of the Danube" has turned
novelist with paris Original"
Cecil Woodham- Smith, peer
less biographer of Florence
Nightingale has history for us
this spring in "The Reason
Why" a study of the Crimean
War.
Ben Hecht, often a play
wright, is an autobiographer
with "a Child Of the Century"
Other famous men telling their
own stories include the Aga
Khan, King Peter of Yugo-
slavia, Clement Atlee and nov
elist Nevil Shute.
Continuing a memoir begun
with Calculated Risk" Gen.
Mark Clark tells of his mill
tary service in From the DAN
ube to the Yalu." In This Is
Norman BrOkenShire" a famous
radio announcer tells a candid
story of a long battle with
alcoholism.
Mccarthy ond Toft
Senator Mccarthy has never
been known as a man who
needed defenders but in ''Mc-
Carthy and His Enemies" Will
liam F. Buckley, jr., author of
God and Man at Yale" and
l.. Brent BOzell, present the
case for the Senator. william
S. White, New York Times cor
respondent, has "The Taft
Story" ready for April IL, and
Eight Weeks to Live" by
Jhan and June Robbins,
story of Mr.. Republicans
last days will appear in May.
Other biographies include:
1.-THE Prophet Armed" a biog-
raphy of Trotsky by Isaac
Deutscher; "The Indomitable
Mrs. TrOllOpe." by Eileen Big
land, and Emily Bronte," by
Muriel Spark and Derek STAN
ford and "Lucrezia BOrgia" by
Joan Haslip.
In fiction. We are promised:
"a Time to Love and a Time
to Die" by Erich Maria Re-
marque, and John Steinbeck's
Sweet Thursday" Storyteller
Daphne Du Maurier is back
with a story of lively ances-
tor of hers. Mary Anne Clark.
hereinafter known as "Mary
Anne" Margery Sharp's "The
GYPSY in the Parlor" will
brighten the April scene.
Second Novels
Two novelists whose firsts
we're unusually good are en-
tering the lists with that cru
cial second book. John Brooks,
author Of The Big Wheel,
with "The Pride of Lions"
and Harriette Arrow of
Hunters Horn" fame with
"The Doll Maker" Pamela
Frankau, who is always good,
has extended a praiseworthy
short story, The Duchess and
the Smugs." into a full-length
novel called "a Wreath for the
Enemy" Shirley Jackson,
after that wonderful domestic
documentary, Life Among the
Savages. is back to fiction
with elizabeth" Dunstan
Thomas. prominent young
American poet. makes a nov
elist's bow with "The Dove
With the Bough of Olive"
Hucksters and Red Boiters
Deriders of hucksters will
derive aid and comfort from
Thomas Whiteside's "The Re-
laxed Sell" And Red-baiters of
the more relaxed sort should
enjoy a new installment about
the eentleSt of them all. Don
Camille. Giovanni GuareS-
chi's hero reappears in Don
CamiIlO's Dilemma"
Italy. incidentally, is. after
England. the best represented
of foreign countries on the
spring lists. There will be a
collection of modern Italian
short stories edited by Mark
SlOnim, a newly translated
edition of Michele Barbi'S
Life Of Dante" a long mar
rative poem called "An Italian
VISIT" by c. Day Lewis, and
'"Perdu." a prize winning novel
by Paride ROmbu.
The poetry event of the sea-
son will doubtless be publica-
ton of milne the Harvest"
the last poems of Edna st.
Vincent Millay.
The Postal Bill
Publishers, somewhat sad
dened by the appointment of