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the nay-sayers under her
hospitable roof.
Norma'S pretty daughter is
falling out Of love with the
nice village boy. Jim Mears.
who Is mired down in the
worlds uncertainty and his
own. Jim's grandmother.
and austere and undemon-
strative old lady. inexplicably
decides to join the marchers.
although she is the one who
at the endless dinner-party
on the night before the day
of judgment makes the OBJ
vious but still bracing point
that today's insecurity is no
greater than yesterdays, If a
trifle less concentrated.
Mrs. Lynde. 1t seems to me
might have quickened her
story a bit by leaving out long
passages of introspection in
which her characters darkly
hint at painful secrets long
kept. 1t turns out that every
one from both camps has
reason to dislike tomorrows.
but the fear. as ever. comes
from within rather than
without. She is a neat. rather
than an inspired plotter, and
at the end she has raised
some whole new complica-
tons of cause and effect.
M. Meg.
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Saga Of EurIy
Fur 7 ruders
PEMMICAN. BY Yards Fish

PEMMICAN. BY Yards Fish
er. Doubleday a. Co.. Inc;
$685.
Early 10Th century life
among the fur traders Of the
vast Canadian woods: the
rivalries of two British COM
panies with scenes Of masSa-
ere. torture and betrayal:
frontier hardship. violence
and death leavened by the
reinsurance of personal
loyalty. friendship. heroism
and the immense beauty Of
the forest primeval. And the
wholly improbable but enter.
tanning love story Of a Young
Scotsman and a white girl.
beautiful of course. who pre-
sumably was captured at a
tender age by the Blackfeet
and reared as q squaw.
A stirring story by a master
craftsman. but not by the
artist Of the vridar Hunter
tetralogy. nor indeed Of many
another work Of insight and
significance bearing the name
Wards, Fisher.-TF.
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Flight Anthology

THE SOUND OF WINGS.
Edited by Joseph B. Rob-
erts and Paul L. BRAND.
holt; So
Down through the ages
mans dream Of flying has
been chronicled In rich prose
and humorous meter.
Mai. Roberts and Capt.
BRAND. both Air Force Of
ficers. have gathered together
some Of the best of the works,
from Tennyson's vision Of
air armadas and Darius
Green and his Flying Ma
chine" to Anne Morrow Lind
bergh and Irwin Shaw.
Here is the peace and tram
guilty Of flight as seen by
Saint Exupery. Here too, is
the power and horror OF
World War us massive bomb
ing raids. 1t is an excellent
compilation.
CHARLES J.
YARBROUGH.. :.
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Lincoln in Congress

The single term which the
martyred Civil War Presi-
dent served in the House is
explored in CONGRESSMAN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by
Donald w. Riddle University
Of Illinois Press: $4.5O.
Lincoln, then a thoroughly
experienced State legislator in
Illinois and a rising lawyer,
was elected to his first ma
tional Office in 1916. He
served during the last two
years of President Folks
term. The President was q
Democrat. Lincoln at that
time a Whig-the Republican
Party was yet to be organized
and the House was Wing,
the Senate Democratic.
The Mexican War was on,
pretty well won by the time
Lincoln took Office. He loosed
a wasp's nest against himself
when he introduced a reso-
luton by implication assail-
ing the President for getting
us into the war. The resolu-
ton, on which no action ever
was taken, demanded that
Mr.. Polk answer a series Of
questions concerning why we
got into the war. The author
says that as a result Lincoln
returned to Springfield from
his one term "a repudiated
politician" who could not be
elected to any other office
until the feeling against him
wore of.
The book contains much
valuable information about
this phase of Lincoln'S career.
1t would be a better appraisal
If Mr. Riddle. a professor Of
social sciences at the Univer-
sity of Illinois, had not fallen
in with the clique of liberal
scholars Of today and offered
his share toward building up
President Polk and tearing
down his successor. the Mexi-
can War hero, Gen. Zachary
Taylor. Modern liberals may
not like the Wing Party in
retrospect and may deplore
Lincoln's adherence to it. but
he was mature enough by
then to know what he was
doing. and certainly the party
had its points. Henry Clay
was its leader at the time
Lincoln was sent to Congress.
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examination Of such works."
according to DR.. Walter w. S.
Cook, director emeritus of
New York University's Insti-
tute Of Fine Arts, and a pio-
neer American student and
authority on Spanish art. in
his introduction to this
volume.
The text was written by DR..
Juan Ainaud. Spanish art
historian. critic and museum
director. Many of these
paintings have been removed
from their original walls in
churches 7 to 10 centuries in
age. to museums, to forestall
further destruction.
Since they we're done in
distemper rather than in
true freSco. these paintings
have strong, clear outlines
and bright colors. DR.. Ainaud
points out that they also
have "naturalistic and ex-
pressive human qualities" and
distinctive historical fea-
lures. the study of which Is
essential to a fuller under
standing Of this art" He
gives a brief recapitulation
Of the history Of the places
and epoch. and describes in
some detail, the paintings as
they were in their original
locations.
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Sharp Short Stories

Irwin Shaw. author of the
was novel, THE Young
Lions" and other novels,
brings out an interesting COL
lection Of short stories: TIP
ON A DEAD JOCKEY AND
OTHER STORIES Brandon
House: $685..
These stories. most of them
about sophisticated people,
in Paris and New York. have
more drama, a sharper i'm
pact, than many contempt
rary stories. They are devel-
oped, at least to an extent,
and not one merely outlines
q situation and leaves it. as
in a good many of the arty
stories which get into prize
collections and anthologies.
The title story also is the
best. 1t is. indeed. a dis
tinguished story. Seven Of
the 10 first appeared in the
New Yorker. and they are
more absorbing than most Of
the stories which that maya
zine prints.
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Nasser Is Hero
OF New History
REVOLT ON THE NILE. BY
Col. Anwar FL Sadat. The
John Day Co.; $500

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Col. Anwar FL Sadat. The
John Day Co.; $500
The histories of revolutions
are never reliable documents
when written too soon after
the event. When the heroes
and villains Of political and
social upheavals are still Wig
orous and the causes they
espoused still extant. no his
tory can be anything more
than a volume Of either ac-
claim or attack.
Revolt on the Nile" suffers
from a larger than usual
share Of these deficiencies. Its
hero is Canal Abdel Nasser.
now dictator-president Of
Egypt; its principal villain is
Britain. with anti-Nasser
Egyptians running neck and
neck with Israel for the role
Of secondary villain.
But as a frank and fast
moving account Of the dark
intrigue and the exciting con-
spiracies from early in World
War II until the overthrow Of
King Farouk. this book is
fascinating. And 1t is fore
boding. for the Woodworking
II describes and the amoral
rationalizations OF its lead
ing characters make one
tremble for the cause Of
peace in the Middle East.
FRED THEROUx
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type neighbor. Coming and
going are various breeds
brought by Washington
weekenders.
Between cooking and talk
ing in three languages ana
picking her way among the
various paws and wavy tails
scattered underfoot, Miss
Orme is anxiously awaiting
news of the reception of her
latest novel. Natalie"
Miss Orme, who spent a
few lean years here. teaching
languages. is now snugly en-
sconced in the Wisconsin
State College at Oshkosh.
where she teaches large. APP
preciative classes of students
whom she describes fatty as
"angels. like all American
children" Mr.. De BarcZa
spent the winter working in
behalf of his Hungarian
compatriots, efforts that Won
him two decorations from
the Order of Malta.
The heroine of Miss
Orme's new book is an en-
FAINT terrible, a juvenile de-
linquent of really spectac-
ular delinquency. a teen
ager whom The Stars "Teen"
magazine probably wouldn't
even want its readers to
know about.
Natalie raises havoc in
the Budapest boarding house
where she lives with her
frail, aristocratic Polish prin-
cess mother and her cynical,
tough old grandmother. Nat
allie is the scourge of the
place-lying, cheating. steal
ing. In a city occupied by
the Nazis, menaced by the
Reds, she follows her own
hayward bent. loyal only to
her little friend Nicolas.
Between Two Worlds
But Miss Orme defends
her.
She is between two
worlds" she says. "One foot
in the world of her family,
another foot probing a shift
ing sand. But she'll turn
out all right. There's some
thing of Natalie in every
child. and it's better for all
the wildneSs to come out be-
tween Is and Is than later.
She's affectionate and un-
just, she knows she doesn't
want money or secure love.
She'll be pretty and she'll
get attention, which is what
she really wants."
More than anything else.
Natalie exemplifles her Gre
ator's own genius for sur
vival. Miss Orme fled from
Warsaw before the Nazis,
from Budapest after encoun-
tering the Reds.
And how does she think
American readers, with their
passion for the happy end
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ing, will welcome this tale
which at the end shows Nat
allie wandering of alone in
the night?
Miss Orme hopes they will
understand her central
meaning, which is that con-
ditioning is everything to
children, and that the only
happy ending can come
about is through America
raising its immigration quo
taS, so children without
countries can come here and
start again in an orderly,
decent world.
This is the only place
where people without coun-
tries can come and feel at
home" says Miss Orme, who
has remained beautiful, big
eyed and long : legge d
throughout her long strug-
giles. II know. I tried to
live in France and in Italy.
But I could not become
French or Italian. The only
thing could become was an
American"
With her dogs all around
her, and time out for the
publicity chores attendant on
the publication of Natalie"
Miss Orme is hard at work
on a short novel which she
hopes will turn out to be
something between the kind
of thing the New Yorker
would publish and Turgenev
would have written.
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Ahead

Forthcoming: Bernard Ba-
ruch, the aged wiseman-fi-
nancier has apparently been
sitting for his portrait and
drawing it at the same time.
On August 10 the first volume
Of his memoirs will appear.
Title: Bernard M. Baruch:
The Formative Years" The
next day mfr. Baruch" by
Margaret Colt, the Pulitzer
prize winning biographer Of
John c. Calhoun, will make
its appearance.
We are very much looking
forward to THE Golden
Sovereign" the second in
stallment of memoirs of a
London childhood. which were
so felicitously begun in "Over
the Bridge"
Novelist Robert Penn War
rem is on the August list
as a poet, with Promises;
and Novelist Sean O'Faolain
is wearing his critics hat for
his latest, The Vanishing
Hero" a study of eight great
modern novelists, including
Waugh. Woolf and Greene.
And Adlai Stevenson. per-
haps in compensation for
failure at the polls appears
twice on the booklists next
month. First, as the subject
Of Prophet in His Own
Country" a biography by
Kenneth S. Davis, who did as
much for Mr.. Stevenson's
two-time adversary, with
General Eisenhower, Soldier
of Democracy; and secondly
as the author of The New
America" a collection of
those blueprints he issued
serially during his last cam
natOr
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month. These cobalt-based
bombs caused a disease re-
sembling cholera. Nothing
could be done for 1t; it was
always fatal.
Australia, Tasmania and
New Zealand were the last
countries to be reached.
The story is centered in
and around Melbourne. The
people there knew their days
were numbered. They knew
the fallout was moving
southwark, that they had
perhaps six months left.
All that remained of the
United States Navy was an
aircraft carrier. immobilized
for lack of oil, and a big
submarine, atomic powered
and so navigable. The COM
mander had placed himself
under the Australian Navy.
There were no enemies left
to worry about. 1t had been
months since a radio message
had come from the United
States. England, China, ia
pan or Russia. But the SUBJ
marine was sent on a danger
Gus mission. 1t crossed the
Pacific, submerged most of
the time. and went up the
United States coast from
Monterey to Seattle and then
to Alaska to discover If life
was left anywhere. A scien-
fist went along to measure
the radiation content of the
air and water. There we're
times when the craft could
surface.
From all the evidence there
was only one conclusion--in
a short time. perhaps a mat
ter of months, all human life
in the world would be wiped
out; some animals, less sus-
ceptible to radiation, would
live q little longer.
None Can Escape
As the deadline APP
preached Melbourne resi-
dents prepared for the I'M
avoidable - little red pills
were given away. euthanasia,
II they wanted it-and yet
1t was hard for them to keep
from planning ahead, from
living their daily lives as they
always had.
The story of the slow
snuf1ing out Of life over the
world is persuasive. Mr..
Shute started out as an aero
nautical engineer. and he
knows enough of science to
make his account plausible.
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The characters are mere
chalk figures. however. There
Is a pleasant Australian
naval officer. with q wife and
baby. There is a stuffy Amer
lean Navy commander who
pretends to himself that his
wife and two children back
in Mystic, Conn, are still
alive. He buys them gifts
and resolutely holds of an
alluring Australian girl who
filings herself at him.
Why was the book writ
ten? Surely there have been
enough frightening accounts
of atomic consequences-fac-
tual speculations and fiction
al excursions. Probably Mr..
Shute felt that the possible
aftermath of extensive radi-
alton had not been fully
appreciated, that his story
might serve as q further
warning.
It is. indeed, enough to
give you bad dreams for q
month. And who can say It
couldn't happen?
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-
book is called. with typical
restraint:
ON THE BEACH (Mor-
row; $685..
The year is 1868. The
scene is Australia. There has
been a brief atomic war. It
seems that the smaller ma
tons, too, got hold Of the
bomb, and little Albania, of
all countries, was the first to
hurl it. Egypt, Israel and
other countries became in
volved. Russia and America
threw a few bombs on each
others cities. Red China
turned on Russia, and they
engaged in a month-long
atomic war.
No Clean Bombs
But the damage. complete
as 1t was in certain cities,
was only a small part of
what happened to the world.
There are no clean bombs in
Mr.. Shute's story, and the
fallout is lethal. 1t had swept
over most Of Europe and
most Of the Western hemi-
sphere when our narrative
begins. The prevailing winds
carried 1t southwark. stead
fly, inevitably. month by
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Story Of Two

THE NINE-MILE CIRCLE.
BY Patti Hill. tHoughton


BY Patti Hill. tHoughton
Mifnin: So
A brief. dreamy account Of
a long. Southern summer in
the lives of two adolescents,
this novel has a mindless
quality. Sometimes 1t gives
the impression Of having
been written under water, 1t
is so vague. Then again, It
shifts into sharp focus for
q scene that wildly illumi-
mates a whole life. The inten-
ton Of the author was APP
parently not so much 10 tell
a story-there is no plot at
all-but simply to intrude
into the reveries OF q number
Of people and put a finger on
the critical moment Of dis
content which is gnawing at
them.
Like most Southern au-
thors. Miss Hill is blessed
with a sly underlying humor,
with the gift Of choosing and
stringing together words
that convey marvelously
moods and impressions. She
is. as yet, afflicted with q
kind Of purposelessness.
M. Moo.
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ART BOOK REVIEW
SPAIN: ROMANESQ QUE
PAINTINGS. VOL. VII
UNESCO WORLD ART
SERIES, New York

RIES. New York
Graphic Society: $l6.50).
The epoch Of Romanesque
painting in Spain (1lth. 18th
and 18th centuries, an al
most unknown art period.
has won only in this century
increased knowledge and
growing appreciation. In ad-
dition to art scholars and
students. contemporary paint
ers have developed a lively
interest in this art form.
which has spanked new ex-
periments in mural painting.
Consequently, this seventh
volume Of Unesco's World Art
Series should have an appre-
ciative, ready audience. AS
has been the case in earlier
volumes. the color plates con-
stitute the major feature
color surfaces II by is inches.
or Whereabouts, with faith
fulness to the originals. even
to taking portions and other
signs of age and damage.
These plates take the place
as far as possible of direct
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AAAeAAAJ "a sAA( 80 eA9s1 80 ~
Robert Kuhn is represented
by several Of his attenuated.
simplified wood sculptures. q
little circus performer being
particularly engaging. Kath-
crime Hobbs shows several
animal sculptures, Of which
her Capricorn" is outstand-
ing in dark terra Gotta with
a warm blue glaze on name
and flsh-tail.
Oil paintings predominant
numerically. George Bayliss
continues to experiment q la
Nicolas de Stael in his sew
eral distractions of various
sized squares and rectangles,
which are pleasing in color.
Merry Ellen Fosters "Janu-
airy" is a cool abstract ex-
pressionist item with hori-
zontal streaks of yellow and
white emphasized by darker
colors. Bent Lane has sent
another of her "relief-map"
distractions. "City on a Hill"
Two other good urban pano-
ramas, both in soft. blurred
.colors. and diffused illumina-
ton, but otherwise charac-
teristic of the respective art
lists individual styles, are
Samuel Bookatz' Bridge"
and Gustav Trois' "City."
More representational are
(oils) Marguerite Burgess
rich, colorful Main Street.
a night scene Of a cheap Sec
ton with lighted windows;
and Mary Bonkemeyer's
woodland" in a tapestried
texture; and (watercolors)
Carver Miller's strong Con
tinental Divide: Millicent
TomkinS' delicate by the
Creek" Philip Bells view of
Key Bridge, and Benjamin
Fairless' little gouache OF
Boats" in his conventional
style. from which he seldom
strayS.
Ruth Safford's "Octagon
House" interior is a gem in
the collection. A newcomer
Ito mel is Alan de Gamaches,
who has a figure painting of
a young Hungarian revolu-
zionist. Katherine Claude's
romantic Moon Mist" is q
monochrome in blues.
Cat and bird lovers (who
must be mutually exclusive)
should be pleased, respective
ly, with a group of serigraphs
Of Siamese cats by Lucy
Gomersall; and with Horace
Hobbs several small ink-and-
wash drawings of birds.
The Artists Mart plans a
group theme show for August
and invites Washington art
lists to submit paintings of
boats and beaches during
the first week.
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ucated at Yale and STAN
ford Universities, and has
taught in the Philippines.
and several American schools.
She is q member Of the Ma
tional Association Of Women
Artists.
A majority of her paint
ings are oils, the best Of
which to me is Winter
Woods" Portraits Of two lit
tie girls capture their child
like quality. There are also
paintings of the artists cats,
the better being a single up
right pose of one. A pair of
them is lost In the back
ground color Of q larger
work. Fighting Cocks" is a
good action study.
Bright transcriptions of
geraniums. and a semi-ab-
stract tree branch demon
strate Mrs. Hacks compe-
tence with water color.
PennelI Centenary
This month is the hun
dredth anniversary of the
birth Of Joseph Pennell. who
contributed substantially to
American art. The Library of
Congress is commemorating
him in its Exhibitor the
Month at the entrance to the
main reading room. I have
heard or read Of no other ex-
hibition anywhere signaliZ-
ing his birth. This is mysti-
flying indifference, as Pen
nell lived nearly 10 active
and creative years and was
a distinguished graphic artist
who is represented In many
permanent collections.
He made thousands Of
prints. drawings and water
colors interpreting the
beauty of Europe and Amer
lea, and was a pioneer in the
use Of industrial themes. He
had innumerable pupils;
wrote art criticism and au-
thoritative books on lthog-
raphy and pen drawing;
participated in the founding
of international societies of
artists, and served on many
juries for international exhi-
billions. His admiration for
Whistler was almost an OBJ
session with him. and he and
his wife assembled a large
collection OF WhiStleriana,
which they presented to the
Library of Congress.
Pennell died April 20, 1925.
bequeathing his estate to the
Library. 1t includes his COL
lections. and also finances
the National Exhibition Of
Prints, popularity known as
the Pennen Show, the 18th
edition of which is now on
view. Not only are prints
purchased from this. annual.
but from other sources as
we'll. These purchases con-
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II. II. Lynne.
The natives of a little Cali
fornia village are expecting
the day of judgment on
March %. and they know
exactly how to prepare for it.
They must dress in white.
divest themselves of their
dearest possessions and
march, singing up the hill.
The people on the patio of
Norma Collins comfortable
house perceive the end to
come too. but dimly and
darkly. They can only brood
and talk.
A Thrilling Business
Impending oblivion hath
charms, as Mrs. Lynde indi-
Gates. The ant-like villagers.
the grasshopper-like patio
PAGERS, all are half in love
with easeful DEATH" as the
poet Keats once confessed to
be. For the villagers it is
drama. the thrilling business
of hurting themselves head
long INFO their own guilt
bility. For the sophisticates
1t is a reason to be stalled on
a dead center Of indecision
and apathy.
All these attitudes are
carefully explored by Mrs.
Lynde. mostly through the
eyes of her heroine. Norma
Collins. a serene and sensible
woman who resolutely closes
her ears to the Chicken Lit
ties all around her. She tact
fully deals with the villagers
as they pause on her door,
step en- route to eternity. She
is even more concerned with
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AND EXHIBITIONS
Mart Displays Wide
Variety Of ,ToIent
By FLORENCE 5. BERGMAN

High temperatures do affect The Artists Mart Os6l
Wisconsin avenue which has exhibition there
that to good any it had last New
paintings sculpture and ceramics by Washington artists
who regularly exhibit there usual from traditional
to abstract