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 would not find it in that murky stream. You can buy a bottle of r4ver water, preferably distilled, to use in the baptism of your grandchildren.
 An UnspOiled Spot
 By the Sea of Galilee you might come nearer to what you were looking for The fishermen still get prodigious hauis in their nets, and the sea is very rough sometimes. The Mount of the Beatitudes is so serene that one can almost believe in the ultimate triumph of the meek and tho merciful. You would find 1t all very beautiful, but like a garden from which the Gardener has gone.
 In old Jerusalem the Holy City in which He died, you could find both reverence and revulsion, From the Mount of Olives you can look down on the ancient city. You can see a courtyard in which the Romans played their games, and hush might come over your spirit as you too walked the Via DoloroSa. But you would be shown two Golgothas and two tombs wherein they say He was laid, and you would find various groups of Christians contending with each other over their pos session of Him.
 Back to Our Traditions
 And so you might come back to your own city and your own house, somewhat weary and shak- en.
 There are always the tradition al Christian symbols to make the season both busy and glad; carols in the streets, magnificent dis plays in the stores, wreaths on the doors and lights in the win dows. Each years tree in the liV- ing room is the most perfect yet, and the brightly-wrapped packages under it are gayer-and more nu- merous-each succeeding year. And the children: the light in their eyes is authentic and their unfeigned wonder can kindle again a deeper wonder about the significance of it all.
 We have been taught that Christmas should be happy time, Merry Christmas" In a won- derful sense the time of Christ'S birth was an occasion of "joy to the world" But Jesus Christ, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, is not merry figure.
 To Save Us from Ourselves
 We know that we should be generous and forgiving and hope ful at Christmas. But the meaning of Christ's coming is precisely that man is not good and able to save himself, but that he is always a mixture of good and evil, T sinner who needs a Savior Christ came to save men from themselves.
 Great stress is put on Christ mas as a family festival, with homecomings, great family feast, special attention to children and grandparents. But Christmas is also for orphans and childless widows and deserted old people and sentries on lonely outpoSts. Perhaps it is especially for them. The Son of Man had no place to lay His head.
 In the land of Christ's birth the significance of that event eludes us. In our own time it es- capes us because we attempt to find Him in the pagen festival that the observance of Christmas has
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"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior. which is Christ the Lord"
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BEAUTIFULLY FOOLED FICTION
A Study Of Civil War
Under d London Roof

positive freak of unhappiness
indecent and absurd. = Con-
rad has constructed a per-
Sonality as elaborate, mysteri-
Gus and irrelevant as a nine
teenth-century folly Conrad
is never caught being kind, OF
even decent. In fact. such
simplicity is not found in any
of the characters of The Long
View Brittleness is all with
them.
Mrs. Fleming'S excursion in
to her past is occasioned by
the sight of her son marrying
a graceless girl and her daugh-
ter, pregnant by an unlovlng
lover. running off with a wit
less man. Her "reminiscences
do not explain how or why it
happened, although they Go
bring her back, through a
series of sharply observed
scenes to the time when she
was a vulnerable, bag ridden
adolescent, whose first love did
not trouble to tell her he was
wed.
AS a study Of civil war in
the home, The Long View is
agonized and accurate. but
slightly static.
MARY McCRORY.
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DEATH N RETIREMENT. B
Josephine Bel. The MAJ

DEATH IN RETIREMENT. BY
Josephine Bell. The Mac
milan Co; S275.l
The author has given
strangely unimposing title to
a most distinguished book.
Josephine Bell is the pseu-
donym for a doctor who re-
tired in 1854 TO devote her
time to writing. Her publisher
compares her to the late
Josephine Tey. with. We feel,
considerable justification. Miss
Bells characters are as sub
stantial as Miss Tey's, her plot
is as far afield from the run
of the mill. She tells the story
of an elderly medical mission
airy, home at her cottage,
Brambles. after years in India,
whose niece. about to be mar
ried. urges her to take in a
couple to live with her. Natu-
rally. murder follows. No self
respecting thrill minute
author would consider such
plot Yet Miss Bell is astound-
ingly successful with It, and
with her imaginative solution.
Very fine.
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Art Book Review

NORWAY: PAINTIN s
FROM THE STAY
CHURCHES. BY Roar Haul
Gid and Louis Grodecki.
UNESCO World Art Series
Vol. V. New York Graphic
Society, Greenwich, Conn. ].
$l5.l
Norway has a unique treas
ure of medieval art in the
wall paintings of her stave
churches Yet paradoxically
as Louis Grodecki says in his
introduction to this magnifi-
cent volume.
1T is in the international
frame of reference that this
group of paintings really
needs to be considered
NorWay'S Gothic paintings !.
are perhaps of greater signif1-
canoe for the general history
of Gothic painting and West
eln art than for the history
of the country which created
and has contrlved TO preserve
this little-k known treasure Of
medieval art.
Hence it is oprlate that
UNESCO United Nations Edu-
cational. Scientific and Gull
tural Organization chose this
facet Of Norwegian art as the
subject OF its fifth volume The
governments and national
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Circus

The l. F. A. Galleries recent
~ installed the third in its
series of art exhibitions in the
lounge of Loew's Capitol Thea
ter. Entitled Circus" it
echoes the theme of the film
"Trapeze" at Loew's Palace,
and remains through next Sat-
urday. Admission to the art
exhibition is free, does not
depend on entrance to the
movie.
This group show is composed
Of original paintings and
prints. some from the Little
Studio. New York, others from
the l. F. A. Galleries collec-
ton. Jean Fabert has painted
Cirque Partisan just such a
permanent show as is the set
ting in the film. Clowns. ever
popular subjects with artists,
also inspired Fabert, George
soft ground, by Letterio Ca
rus Thomas tsemi-abstract fig
ures', and the Spanish paint
er Ubina.
Outstanding is the small
group of color engravings and
soft ground. by Letterio &C.
lapai. whose "Trapeze' and
"Acrobats" have the swoop and
excitement of the subjects,
semi-abstract, expert in tech
niQue. varied in textures.
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Do the American People
Really Distrust Democracy?

through changes in public
opinion.
The more subtle freedoms,
however. are seen in much
greater danger. Freedom OF
religion only seems to be safe
but not to the agnostic or
the atheist. who still, in fact.
cannot obtain elective Office.
This leads, DR.. Chafee writes,
to bribing men into profess
sions of faith. In discussing
the Smith Act, he poses an
interesting question: If there
is an actual plot to take over
the Nation by violence, why
has nobody been prosecuted
under a severe act of 1861 for
conspiracy to overthrow the
Government by force?
Well DOcumented
DR. Chafee does an admir-
able job OF documentine his
charges that his fellow coun-
trymen disuust democracy,
and says that the most stlik-
ing example of this distrust is
the City of Washington:
Taxation and government
without the consent Of the
governed prevail within sight
Of the Capitol.
II is a wise book by a wise
man. and its only shortcom-
ing would seem TO be the 467
footnotes to 304 pages of text.
ID. K.
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ART NEWS
'ScuIptors'
Faculty
In Show
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN

The new Sculptors Studio in
Georgetown has a show by its
faculty at The Gallery Cafe
Espresso. 1918 o street,
through this month. OF works
by three painters, all abstract
eXpressionists, those by Helene
McKinsey impressed me as
mlGh the best: well organized,
colorful and spirited. Her
"Scherzo," for example, sue
cessfully expresses the char
acter of frolicsome musical
movement. Her large I'm Mo-
tion," golden yellow, copper
and white, and the smaller
"EXuberance." too, convey
their themes in a way that re-
pays contemplation of the
canvaSes.
Tom DoWning'S large paint
ings show less inventiveness in
suggestive forms. The best of
his. in my opinion. are Ca
reSs." high-keyed warm colors,
and May" bright colors and
opening curves. limiting of
spring and new life.
The interest of Ken Noland's
paintings seems to be in in
verse ratio to their size. A few
years ago, he showed at the
Washington Workshop, smaller
paintings. varied in color
schemes, with rich arabesques
IN their designs. More recent
works, including these at the
gallery, have grown to 80
square feet or Whereabouts.
with large unrelieved areas of
black, white or colors. not suf-
ficlently intriguing to Justify
their acreage" Mr.. holland S
paintings are numbered. not
titled, visitors will find small
one in the entrance passage
which may be described as a
panel Of peacock fea thers
fanked by vermillion stripes:
to me, the best Of his collec-
ton.
Maxine Roth. sculptor. is re-
presented with several ver-
sionS from boudoir to life
size of a standing woman. "
elongated and attenuated
figure, with emphasis on the
legs. Kathe Kramer. the other
sculptor. shows a number of
small, sturdy rough-modelled
figures of women. seated or re-
cumbent. expressing different
moods.
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commissions of UNESCO men,
Der states have co-operated to
produce the UNESCO World
Art series to bring to a wider
appreciation masterpieces OF
art hitherto known to a limited
few.
The volume has two COM
prehensive essays. the above
quoted introduction and a
preface by Roar Hauglid who
writes of the unique beauty
and mastery craftsmanship Of
the stave churches. built en-
tirely of wood. Christianity,
introduced in Norway in the
18th century, swept the coun-
try, gradually transforming
Norwegian culture, opening up
world of classical art previ-
ouSly unknown there. and
bringing the art of building in
stone. But despite the 18th
century clash between Euro
pean influences and native
tradition. native art persisted
beyond the 18th century. In
1900. there were 1900 churches
in Norway. about tWo-thirds
of them Stave churches. the
ma ioritv built by the peasants
themselves. and they had far
richer decor than the simple,
austere Norman stone
churches.
But in these indigenous
stave churches. with their
dragon heads aid other carv-
ing. deriving from the pagan
animal-World Of the Viking
age. the wall paintings were
essentially European. at the
opposite pole from folk art.
Besides the wall paintings.
there are 80 painted wooden
altar frontals from the 18th
and l4th centuries.
The text is illustrated with
excellent photographs Of stave
churches, and is followed by
an art gallery of 80 large
color reproductions some
12X15 inches of the wall
paintings and altar frontals.
One cannot praise too highly
the excellent quality of these
plates. The bright clear
colors. thick outlines, marks
Of age. and joining of the
panels. are ali reproduced
with exceptional fidelity.
This reviewer visited sew
eral Of these ancient churches
some years ago.
Unfortunately, of more
than 1000 stave churches
which once stood in Norway,
most were destroyed before
their value as native cultural
elements was realized. About
25 that remain are now pre-
served as national treasures.
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evolution, mans mental as
well as his physical world.
Man does not make evolution,
but rather evolution has made
man-his mentality as well as
his body
Unanswered Questions
He also argues that every
thing in nature is the result
Of chance; that nothing in
science has ever proved any
logical design. obviously" he
adds. from the evolutionary
point of view, if chance is
basic TO all events and occur
rences throughout the uni
verse. all talk regarding divine
creation and control is sheer
nonsense.
But how did evolution hap
pen? What set it in motion?
And if everything is the result
of chance, why does one
human being look quite a lot
like another, one species of
flower much like another?
These are questions which
Mr.. Brill does not ask and
cannot answer.
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watercolors, nearly all of which
are shown there for the first
time Through July 27D. AS is
usual with Mart group shows.
variety of themes and treat
ment assure interest for many
different tastes.
Samuel Bookatz painted
versions of Spring Along the
Canal" with slender trees and
new foliage; and in contrast,
his striking Towering City,"
a vertical panel emphasizing
the sky-reaching, irridescent
architecture. Gustav Trois.
too, is represented with several
paintings, his colorful Sum
mer Zinnias" calculated to
please conservative tastes. and
his reticent Gothic Figures"
somewhat more modern. Omar
Carrington's Great Smokes
depicts a vista of the noun
tainS seen through deep woods.
George Bayliss' light yellow
to-broWn abstraction oil
Superstructures' and Nancy
Weyl's Bottles" exploiting
their curves, are two of the
best abstract paintings on view.
Ralph de Burgos large After
math" is not so harsh in its
contrasts of white and colored
areas as in some Of his recent
paintings, vet equally animated
in forms and color. Mlllicent
Tomkins. responsible for some
excellent distractions in the
past year. is here represented
with a delicate, naturalistic
watermelon still life. preSum-
ably an earlier painting Helen
Beccard Niles Leaf and Bud"
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FuIbrieht Awards

Young American artists
may apply for scholarships to
study abroad during 1878
under the United States Gov
ernment's International edu-
cational exchange program.
The competition for Fulbrieht
awards extends to next No
vember /, the latest date at
which completed forms must
be submitted.
Application blanks and a
brochure ON the Fulbright
program are available at the
Institute of International
Education. l East Sixty
seventh street. New York City,
and at its regional Offices. in
Guiding Washington. 1880 P
street NV. Requests must be
postmarked not later than
October 25. There are oppor-
tunities for study of painting
graphic arts. sculpture and in
dustrial design in IS countries
of Europe and Asia.
Foreign study fellowships
have 4 eligibility require
mentS: United States citi-
zenship, a college degree or
equivalent, knowledge of the
language of the country of
application sufficient to carry
on the proposed study, and
good health. Preference is
given to applicants not more
than 35 years old.
The Institute of Interna-
tional Education is the agency
designated by the Board OF
Foreign Scholarships and the
Department of State, tC
screen applications for study
abroad. The final selection is
made by the board, which is
appointed by the President OF
the United States.
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THE LONG VIEW. By Eliza.

THE LONG VIEW. BY Eliza
beth Jane Howard. (Rey-
nal: $3.75.)
For sheer fluency you can
not beat the British. Every
year brings its floQd of beau
tifully fooled fiction. SO much
of it by women as to lead to
the suspicion that little girls
in England are taught to write
novels as other little girls are
taught to embroider.
Elizabeth Jane Howard. one
of these nursery-trained styl-
lists. does not. like most of
them, hesitate to use familiar
materials. She apparently feels
that the almost monotonous
distinction of her prose will
make it all seem neW-and
vital. Actually. it seems nei-
Their, although it is readable.
The precision of her writing
defeats her purpose, it de-
stroys whatever general effect
she had in mind. Her long
book is a collection of mo-
ments in the lives of a hus-
Dand and wife who live as
strangers under their elegantly
appointed London roof.
A Search for Clues
Where did the rot set in in
this marriage that had so
much in its favor? A reader
might be sure that the Eng
llsh schoolmaster who Ge-
scribed the husband Conrad AS
brilliant but bloody-minded"
hsd hit the nail on the head,
but Miss Howard cannot let
1t go at that. For over 300
closely written pages she ex-
amines the past for clues-her
only concession to plot being
that she starts at the end of
the story.
We meet the Flemings when
Mrs. Fleming is FURNISHED.
beautiful, blameleSs ana "a
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POLITICS
POLITICS
A Republican
Speaks Forth
In RebuttuI
A REPUBLICAN LOOKS an

- hLA DIN ~ A1OOANc -
HIS PARTY. BY Arthur
Larson. Harper g. Bro;
$685.
President Eisenhower's I'm
dersecretary of Labor has
given an articulate election
year rebuttal to Dean Ache
sons A Democrat Looks at
His Party. 1t should at least
do for the Republicans what
Mr.. AchesonS book did for the
Der ocrats: Bolster their
party opinions and provide
ammunition for parlor politi-
cal polemics.
Mr.. Larson ably defends
and explains what he calls his
party's philosophy of Fed
eral-State Balance" We must
make State governments,
State agencies and State leg
lslation more effective".) The
Peace and Prosperity" slo-
gan, he writes, is remarkable
because, while we have known
peace without prosperity and
prosperity without peace, it is
the new republicanism' that
has combined the two.
The Eisenhower partner
ship" between Government
and business provides the an
sWer to the question. how
much Government control?
Enough to protect the public
INTEREST.
When his exposition is
specific. it is potent. But the
author has regretably omitted
some general areas that viii
give the campaign this year
some of its most controversial
issues. notably civil rights and
national defense.
DAVID KOONCE.
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drifted in one day. The mar
rator, then IA, had beer left
as the man of the house to
look after his mother and little
brother while his father and
other men we're away for sew
eral months driving cattle to
faraway Abilene to get the
money they all needed urgent
~.
Becomes a Hero
The boy. Travis, was not we'll
disposed toward the dog at
first, for Old Yeller arrived
hungry and stole some meat
the little family had hanging
in an areaway between the
two rooms of their cabin.
Travis kept the dog only at
the hysterical insistence of his
little brother. But when the
dog saved the small brother
from a charging bear and
later saved Travis from some
Wild boars, there was nothing
Travis wouldn't do for Old
Yeller.
The story, in its unobtrusive
way, is a picture of pioneer
life in Texas as the author
heard it from his parents and
others.
Many PerilS
This was a day when the
rancher faced many perils.
Wolves, bears and panthers
preyed on his livestock and
would attack him if challenged.
1t was a hard life, with the
daily chores to be performed
in the most primitive way and
no machinery to help. and yet
an eXhilirating life, varied and
exciting TO a boy.
Travis tells his story with a
colloquial simplicity that never
gets between the reader and
what's happening
"Old Yeller' deserves to be-
come. in its particular field,
a classic The book is illus
trated effectively with draw
ings by Carl Burger.
Mr.. Gipson wrote Hound
Dog Man" a recent popular
novel, and other stories of ear
lier times in Texas.
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Butler Annual

Paintings by three Wash
ington artists. Samuel Book
atZ. Dean Stsmbaugh and
Andrea Zerega are among 300
selected from an all-time high
OF 2l06 oil and watercolor
paintings submitted from all
parts of the United States 10
the Butler Institute of Ameri-
can Art. Youngstown, OHIO,
for its Dist annual mid-year
show which opened July and
will remain through Septem-
Der 3. A total of more than
$500 in purchase prizes was
shared by 20 artists.
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A Boy and q Dog

OLD WELLER by Fred Clip
son Harper: $2.75) is a deepl,
moving little story about
boy and dog.
The story is addressed to
adults, and yet older children
could, l think, find inspiration
in this chronicle of a touch
ing devotion between boy and
dog. with each ready at any
time to sacrifice himself for
the other.
The time is the late 1905.
the scene a pioneer ranch in
Texas. and the boy tells the
story as a recollection of the
long ago.
The big mongrel dog they
came to call Old Yeller simply
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BEST DETECTIVE STORIES
OF THE YEAR 1856. Edited

BY David Z. COOK. u. +.
Dutton a. Co.. $685.
First of all, we prefer mys-
terry novels. and anything we
have to say about this book
must be judged in the light Of
this prejudice. We didn't en-
Joy it as much as a novel,
although many of the stories
are good. Most of them have
what the editor describes as
broken bottle realism. " which
is very effective when used
well. but otherwise fiat as the
beer in the bottle The best of
these are Evan Blackboard
Jungle Hunters First Of
fense" about crime hungry
juvenile in his first police line
up; and The Redhead from
New Orleans" which applies
the "Dragnet" documentary
technique to fiction. The story
in this case is not based on
the files of any metropolitan
police department, but you
would swear il was. Best off,
beat story of several is Safety
for the Witness, in which a
timid, law abiding witness to
the murder of another witness,
in spite of police protection,
decides to eliminate the muir
derers himself The eleventh
ANIMAL collection.
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Eisenhower ChuckIes
PRESIDENT EISENHOW-
ER'S CARTOON BOOK, with

NV - MN WA AbNgOAhf hAbAA
a foreword by Secretary OF the
Treasury Humphrey Fred
erick Fell; $685., is a collec-
ton of cartoons about the
President which he is re-
ported to have enjoyed. Mr..
Eisenhower is quoted as say
ing, The cartoons gave me
many chuckles." The cartoons
in the book we're presented to
the President by the artists
after he was elected an hon
orary member of the National
Cartoonists Society. Rube
GOLDBERG, for instance. shows
the President. who paints for
recreation. drawing a car
toonist and remarking. Here S
where ! get even"
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Popular Reprints

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by Fred c. Kelly (Ballantine;
35 cents
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PRIZE, by Howard Swiggett
Ballantine. so cents.
These are reprints Of an
authorized biography and a
popular novel of big business.
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DixieIund
JAZZ: IT'S EVOLUTION AND

ESSENCE. BY Andre Hodelf
Grove Press. S3.50l
Mr.. Holder. as keen a stu
dent OF iazz as he is of the
classical form he holds top
prizes in harmony and fugue
from the Paris Conservatory, ,
has written what certainly will
become the standard study OF
Americas only native art form.
He writes with learning and
lucidity Of all the elements
and STYLES of Jazz. Translation
from the French is by David
Noakes. ID. X.
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WE HAVEN'T SEEN HER
LATELY. BY Z. X. Ferrars.
lDn1hlenav &. Co S215l

Doubleday d Co, SITS,
Another story of an old wom-
an in distress in England,
Nicely done, it doesn't have the
impact of Death in Retire
ment. Yet it is a good mys-
terry, with liberal doses Of
romance. and if credlbility is
stretched a little at the end,
it was fun and all is forgiven.
Helen Gamlen looks for her
Aunt Violet when She learns
she has not been seen in the
village of Burnstone for a
year - not. in fact, since
shortly after her marriage to