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Outpoeing Poe

THE HUNGER AND OTHER
STORIES. by Charles Beau
mont putnam; $500 is aptly
subtitled: "A Violent Form of
Entertainment" Again the
publishers make an opposite
observation when they say,
Perhaps this is Charles Ad-
dams in short story form"
II you like stories containing
elements of horror In varying
degree. this book is for you.
This type Of story is not
easy to do we'll. Simply piling
on the sinister or the macabre
can leave you unmoved. Such a
story is more than a clinical
report. The author must make
you see the persons involved,
whether you like or abhor
them: he must lead you easily
into the atmosphere surround
Ing them, so that you are part
OF the scene or fantasy. All
this Poe realized instinctively.
And Mr.. Beaumont knows how
to tell an offbeat story with a
touch OF the dreadful or the
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Pen Women Groups

Painter members Of the
d. c. Branch. League of
American Pen Women. have
a group exhibition in two
parts, the larger at Rouman-
ian Inn. BIS Thirteenth street,
a smaller at De Sando's, 1920
H street NV. Sales of paint
ings at the latter place have
necessitated rehanging sew
eral times with requirements.
Most Of these works are
naturalistic. dealing largely
with pleasant. colorful sub
jects. OF portraits and figure
paintings. the best are 10 ALL
mans self-portrait. and a
pastel Of a little girl by Jean
Flag.
Flowers and still life are
favorite subjects Of these
artists. Theodore Kane's May
in Manhattan" with its view
Of skyscrapers through a win
dow. others by Gertrude Dor
relle. Mildred Charlton and
Laura MCGEE are among the
best here.
Autumn" by Edith Ed
wards has q characteristic
golden tonality. Lana Schelski
shows Washington and New
Orleans landmarks painted in
watercolor. Dorothy Leefs
decorative painting Of fish is
the best in that category. and
Katherine Dimmitt's marine is
convincing.
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Our History
AS 1t Might
Have Been
THE BRAINTREE MISSION.
BY Nicholas E. Wyckoh.
Macmillan. ca 5n1


macmillan; $500
This is q highly intelligent,
literate, somewhat hammered
piece OF historical fiction based
on entertaining speculation.
Mr.. Wyckoff wonders what
would have happened If. right
after the Boston Massacre, the
English government had had
the bright idea Of conciliating
the Colonies through Offering
peerages to its most illustrious
patriots and seats in the House
Of Lords.
Mr.. Wyckoff pretends that
such q brainstorm did come
to q diplomatic admiral. that
he got the consent Of William
Pitt. and that he went to
Boston in winter bearing gifts.
His first choice for honors was
John Adams, to become Earl
OF Braintree. We all know 1t
didn't happen, but Mr.. Wyckoff
spins out a most civilized
comedy Of supposition. He
gives much Of the temper of
the times and the character
Of such people as frosty John
Adams and his wife Abigail,
that altogether admirable
Roman matron in Yankee
dress.-M. MEG,
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.Stulinqrud Trup
THE ROAD TO STALINGT

BY Benno zieser. Grams
lated from the German by
Alec Brown (Ballantine
Books; pocket edition, 35c.)
The realism OF this tale OF
life in the German Army on
the Russian front during World
War II suffers from the British
idiom placed in the mouths of
the Wehrmacht soldiery by the
translator. But Benno Zieser.
who escaped the Stalingrad
trap with a million dollar
wound. otherwise has written a
gripping account OF how
Hitler's legions were ground to
defeat on the Volga. The story
is told in terms Of one German
platoon from training camp to
Gotterdammerung on the east
ern front.
There are no political angles,
only one mans horror and
establishment at the carnage
men wreak with weapons in
their hands and hate In their
hearts.
JERRY oLEARY. Jr.
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Most Definitive
Military History
A MILITARY HISTORY OF
THE WESTERN WORLD.

n MILL AM hASAOhI VI
THE WESTERN WORLD.
Volume 3. BY Mai. Gen.
j. F.. c. Fuller. Funk 81
Wagnalls Co.; $6.)
This third volume Of prob
ably the most distinguished
and definitive military history
available today brings the sur
vey Of modern warfare from
the Peninsula Campaign OF the
American Civil War in 1862
down through the Battle OF
Leyte Gulf in 1914.
Gen. Fuller. a retired Brit
ish regular, uses the experience
of an impressive military ca
reer and the skill Of an ac-
kpowledged tactical and stra-
tegic expert to paint in sharp.
vivid detail the events. the
men, and the results OF the
worlds major wars during the
past century.
Although a military history
by military historian, the
presentation is lively and dra-
matte. without sacrificing de-
tail. Perhaps because OF the
relative familiarity OF the
events chronicled to today's
living generation. the current
land concluding) volum e
seems even more fascinating
in its wealth Of fact and lib
eral anecdotes than the pre-
vious volumes. which covered
respectively the period UP I'd
1871, and from 1853 to Water
loo. 1915.
FRED THERoux.
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Nine From Pokiston

A group exhibition by artists
Of East Pakistan opened at
Collectors Corner, 1925 Wis
consin avenue. Georgetown. a
few days after Zainul Abedin's
one-man show st the National
Museum. and will remain
through next Friday. This
collection was selected from
a larger exhibition in Dacca,
Pakistan, last autumn, en-
couraged by the United States
Information Service.
Mr.. Abedin is represented
In this show with several
paintings and q series of cray
on and ink sketches made
during his recent tour Of
Mexico. These are direct cap
lures Of types.
The artists have individual
styles ranging from natural
istic to abstract, although the
majority work in figurative
idioms. Among the best works
to me. are the fiat. angular
figures by Murtaza Bashir,
Syed Jahanghir's modern de-
signs. specifically Fishing
Net" several Of boats by
Rashid Choudhury. Rain"
emphasized by Quamrul Has
sans wet paper technique. cir
cular designs Of Syed s. Hos
sain. and Humayun Quadir's
competent naturalism. The
most contemporary in treat
ment are figures by Aminul
Islam and Hamidur Rahman.
The appeal Of these paint
ings was demonstrated by eight
sales during the first week.
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When q New Way Of Life
Was Begun in Virginia

Mcclellan at Berkeley Hun
dred. The great Union Army
made a thick paste Of the
rolling. grassy meadows be-
tween the manor house and
the James. Rascally. unthink-
ing and uncaring men in blue
cut down all the great trees
for firewood. even broke up
the heirloom furniture to no
better purpose. The worst the
British had done was to humil-
late the Signer Harrison by
burning oil paintings of five
generations Of Harrisons, and
this by order Of Benedict
Arnold. Indeed the Yankees
went much further, and it
is fitting perhaps that at
Berkeley Hundred an expert
menting Yankee bugler first
played Taps"
HENRY A. LYON.
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Two at Funtusy

Fantasy Gallery, 1882 Con-
necticut avenue. is showing
through Tuesday. Autographs
by Andre Mason and pottery
by Fong Chow. Mason, born
in France in 1896. joined the
surrealists in 1924 and won
recognition for his abstract
surrealist interpretations of
dreams. erotica and what he
called metamorphoses. His
Autographs in the current
show are considerably less
horrif1c than some Of his
paintings Of earlier years.
Some Of these is prints are
abstract. others styled rec
ognizable themes. and a few
are near-naturalistic. Among
these latter are, his study
"Bather" and a Mother and
Child" indicated with economy
Of line. There is lively move
ment in "PourSuite en- Rouge"
and pleasing circular patterns
made of Woman.
Fong Chow's pottery is as
popular as 1t is excellent; half
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through tomorrow % to {
daily concluding a 6-day dis
play, on a national tour Of
medical schools and hospitals.
The first collection Of its
kind. 1t was assembled by Carl
Zigrosser. curator of prints at
the Philadelphia Museum, by
which it is owned. It is pre-
sented by Smith, Kline and
French Laboratories, a grant
from whom enabled the collec.
ton to be assembled. Out.
standing engravings, etchings,
Autographs and works in
other media by Bellini, We
salius, Rembrandt, Daumier,
Hogarth, Toulouse-Lautrec,
Eakins and Winslow Homer,
and many others. make it q
unique collection.
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of kindness and brutality, OF
arrogance and humility. Death
is a frequent caller at these
crude homes under matched
roofs-there are so many dis
eases to strike down young and
old. to thrive in poverty and
dirt-and If the old reaper
comes in more violent form.
there's nothing to be done but
accept him.
More than q trace o. feu-
dalism remains in such a COM
munity. Romero is feared and
bowed to because ne has
money. which is so scarce in
the village. And yet a certain
pride clings to the humblest.
It is pride that drives Juan
Viste, a servant on the Romero
ranch. when he is fiogged and
driven of the place, to become
a dashing horseman. leader
Of the Indians in the noun
tains. And yet it is a more
powerful emotion. love, which
impels him to vengeance, and
a sense of injustice that spurs
him to lead a revolution that
Is no more than a gesture.
An Important Novel
At times. Mr.. oysters story
is almost unbearably grim. 1t
is long. greatly detailed. and
yet / found it continuously
fascinating. I think THE Cob
Inns Of Eros" is an important
novel because it thrusts inside
an alien segment and presents
its findings without the dilu-
ton Of translation and prob
ably probes deeper than most
native novelists would be will
ing to 90.
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Shows in Brief

The YWCA. Seventeenth
and K streets NV, will open
next week end its annual ex.
hibition Of students work.
Paintings, watercolors. jewelry.
tole and tray painting, and
photography. will be shown by
students OF Laura Glenn Doug.
las. Jozef Pielage, Prentiss
Taylor, Theodore Kane, Esther
Blackburn. Aleida Van Leen,
Gladys tombstone and Ere.
mont Davis. The show will DO
open Friday 4 to 6 and Satur-
day 10 to 6.
The Silver Spring Art Gall
lery. 92l6 Flower avenue, will
open this afternoon at 4 q
group exhibition of paintings
by Michelangelo. Martha
Bache, Gustav Trois and
others. and ceramics by Pat
O'Neil. An illustrated talk,
Travelling through Mexico"
will be given by Marjorie
Mayer. The exhibition will re-
main through Nav %.
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japanese Print Makers

More than 40 original prints
in black and white and in colors
by is Japanese artists. on view
in Howard University's Gallery
|of Art through Tuesday. compose
what James A. Porter, head OF
Towards Department of Art
termed lone Of the foremost ex-
hibitions 1t has been our good
fortune to obtain" 1t is lent by
Meltzer Gallery. New York City
1t ranges from such fine
Inaturalistic prints as Junichiro
lSekino's lifs-size portrait head
lof the poet Hinatsu (executed in
Western style) to non-objective
prints. among the best Of which
I thought, are Nasal .Yoshida' 8
Essence Of Wood" black and
white, with an excellent, intri-
cate pattern, and Composition"
by Yasuhide Kobashi, free type,
lof ridged ribbons and heavier
bands Of black and white.
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The Gibson Home

LONGFIELD: THE HOUSE
ON THE NECK, by Josephine
Gibson Knowlton (Oxford
Press Of Providence. r. l.; 81
is the interesting story of the
DeWolfs and others in the
authors family who have lived
in the house at Bristol. r. l..
since l848. 1t is now known as
the Gibson home, and Charles
Dana Gibson. the artist, was
the authors brother. Mrs.
Knowlton. emerging from IL
years of research among letters
and records. tells her story in
narrative form. She lived in
Washington for IS years and
is widely known here. She has
published three other books
Roma" my Turtles" and
1.-THE Innocent Cause"
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Impressions
On a Trip
To ItoIy
THE SURPRISE OF GRE
MONA. BY Edith Temple-

MO1NA. by EQlLn 1emple-
ton. (Harper a. Bros; $500
Edith Templeton might be,
in person. something of a wear
ing travelling companion. as
she is plainly outspoken,
opinionated and strong
minded. In a book. however.
she is just about perfect. I'm
like most travel writer's, who
crumple with reverence at the
sight Of certain noted land
marks. she brings a happily
heretical cast of mind to this
excursion through several
cities Of Northern Italy.
In her pungent. gritty COM
mentary, we visit Cremona,
Mantua. Parma, Ravenna.
Urbine. Mrs. Templeton is a
great user of letters of intro
duction. thus turning up some
odd characters and odd OBJ
sessions. She also has ex-
planned to her relics of Napo-
leon. a cheese factory and
mosaics. She has a soft spot
for Napoleon. for Byron and
for Raphael. On others. she
tends to cast a cold eye and a
salty quip. She sensibly talks
to walters and they. in the
way Of Italian walters, tell her
remarkable things. She has
some crisp. bracing things to
say about Italian men in pur-
suit Of foreign women. Sum-
mertime, indeedw
One Of Mrs. Templeton's
most appealing traits is her
habit of telescoping centuries
OF local history in a chatty,
colloquial fashion that is ex-
ceptionally easy to take. An
other is Of expressing herself
with characteristic firmness on
such subsidiary subjects as
Virgil and Dido and the nature
Of love. On Dido. she is par
ticularly illuminating in a
brisk. feminist way.
Mrs. Templeton commend
ably lacks the often-remarked
English attitude Of propriety
towards Italy. while ignoring
the inhabitants. She treasures
the people as we'll as the coun-
try and her warm love softens
a good deal the sometimes
over-forcefulness Of her often
expressed opinions.
M. MEG.
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a politician with a twinkle in
his eye and a kink in his con-
science. THE LAST HURRAH.
When THE Last Hurrah"
burst on the book world
in February. 1856. James
Michael. as he has ever been
known in the Hub of the Uni
verse. was. you might say. in
the twilight Of his life. You
couldn't say he was through.
exactly. because you never
could say that. But he was at
the least a little bit out of
things. pushing 81, and having
lost his last couple OF tries at
the polls.
He Loved II
AS James Michael often said
when things went against him,
as they sometimes did in his
go years in public life, out of
evil comes good"
The good in this case was
O'Connor's uproariously fun
ny book. Everyone Immediately
decided that the portrait Of
Frank Skefflngton perhaps a
bit retouched here. perhaps q
little highly colored there, was
that Of none other than Bos-
tons oft-deplored and much
adored Mr.. Curley. No one
spotted the resemblance more
quickly than himself. Upon
being sent q copy for review by
the Boston Globe. James
Michael limited darkly at a
libel suit. But the word was out
on fremont street that Curley
couldn't have been more de-
lighted.
James Michael was back in
business.
Back In Limelight
As sometimes happens in re-
incarnation. he took a slightly
different form. Upon his re-
turn to the limelight. Mr..
Curley came as a political
scientist and a literary man.
The new James Michael
lectured to the students at
the University Of New Hamp-
shire. The lecture was printed
In Life Magazine. At the
Democratic National Conven-
ton, a bit weary. a bit falter-
ing in the once-velvet voice,
James Michael graciously re-
ceived reporters anxious to see
the original OF Frank Skef-
fington.
Inevitably. the new Curley
wrote his autobiography. 1t
will be published May l3
1t will be called I'D DO 1T
AGAIN.
Lest you think the title is
simply Celtic-refiex bravado.
we refer you TO one OF the last
scenes In The Last Hurrah,"
1t is. alas. where Skefington
lies dying.
Art Initiates Art
An ancient enemy visits his
bedside. Says he: well, no
matter what some OF us may
have though in the past, it's
all different now. And I
think we can say this: That
knowing what he knows now,
II he had 1t to do over again,
there's not the slightest doubt
that he'd do 1t all very. very
differently"
Skefhngton's reply: "The
hell ! tDould." (author's italics.)
1t is all In all, one OF the
most awesome examples Of
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Warren Eyster, a youthful
American novelist, has man
aged, after immuring himself
in the ways Of Mexicans for
two years. to come up with q
remarkable novel about them.
It is:
THE COLLINS OF EROS.
BRANDON House; $3.50
Textbook is a serious study
Of life and death in a print
tive village in desert stretch
Of western Mexico. There are
no Americans or other for
eigners in the book. There
are only Mexicans or Indians
or those mixtures, in various
degrees, of the two so COM
mon in the country.
Most of the villagers are illit-
crate. There are several char
acters above them in education
and Observation-Disclosures, the
landowner, the ranchero, the
only rich man in the COM
munity: Angelic, the doctor,
who has chosen to practice
in this region Of poverty:
Eduardo. the youth brought up
in the big city of Guadlajara.
who has come to the village
to get acquainted with his
uncle and other relatives.
A Vivid Picture
Those of us who know some
thing of MEXICO can recognize
how closely Mr.. Eyster has
observed such a village, how
clearly he has imagined the
inner lives of its people. These
lives reveal a strange mixture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
THE GREAT PLANTATION.
BY Clifford Dowdey. (Rine-

BY Clifford Dowdey. (Rine-
/ hart: So
THE VIRGINIA EXPERT
MENT. BY ALI j. Mapp, jr.
(Dietz Press; 500
Plantation Virginia was a
way of life. an economic and
social condition that dictated
unique forms of local gov
eminent. ~
And the system did more
than foster a go it alone
economy. 1t actually spawned
the leaders necessary for even
tual political separation. They
matured early, took over con-
f1dently. made decisions as
naturally as they breathed
and with off-cuff assurance
of certain success.
No doubt this self reliance
explains why Virginians led
the councils of separation be-
fore. during and after the
Revolutionary War.
Here are two great new books
that are destined for wide ac-
ceptance. They needed to be
written. Virginians will know
themselves better for the
reading. Others viii read and
admire.
Mr.. Mapp's original outline
for Experiment" was much
more narrow than after he was
advised by the late DR.. Doug
las Southall Freeman, the
Pulitzer Prize winning hiog-
rapher of Robert E. Lee. AS
it now stands the book has
81 pages of notes and index
alone. But be not misled into
thinking the work is a dry
tome. It is not. 1t is a
swiftly flowing river Of events
in the States past through
1881, told with a newsinan's
economy Of expression. Mr..
Mapp reports events and
quotes characters at length,
adding impact and immediacy.
From jamestown to Williams
burg to Yorktown-in such q
space can a great era Of his
tory be compressed.
THE Great Plantation" goes
far beyond Experiment" in
time.
Clifford Dowdey's great doc
ument is a profile Of a single
chunk of real estate. 1t con-
Germs itself with history too.
but only as events and per-
sonalities spend themselves
on Berkeley Hundred. seat OF
the long line OF HarriSOnS.
The book is like a great
tapestry rich in the colorations
of its characters. bold in OBJ
jectivity. Photographic in can
dor and realism.
Mr.. Dowdey does not hesitate
to damn the Yankees for their
burning. piratical ways in de-
stroying Virginia's capacity to
resist. an extremity to which
even the British did not stoop
as they. too. sought to bend
the Revolutionists to a union
they no longer desired.
The author has some good
things to say for Gen. George
Mcclellan. who sought a stra-
tegic victory. He finds nothing
good to say for Lincoln the
Emancipation who cashiered
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Georgetown Medical

"Ars Medica" or 1.-THE Heal
ing Arts" a collection Of IS
famous and rare items OF
graphic art depicting the prac-
tice Of medicine through the
centuries. is on view at George
town University School Of
Medicine, 5000 Reservoir road,
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Somerset Muuqhum

Here's a paragraph about
Somerset Vaughan, by a lit
erary party Of some note that
seems to us an admirable bit
Of verbal sketching:
Somerset Vaughan wore q
black velvet jacket. no waist
coat. I noted on my sketch
that he had glittering eyes in
a tanned skin, and Arnold Ben
nett stammer and q curl Of the
nostril suggesting the presence
Of an unpleasant odour.. He
was q patient sitter and he
put me at my ease by saying
that he thought artists should
not be expected to converse
cleerly. since they express
themselves in their own ways.
So saying. he himself talked
all the time mainly about how
sick he was Of writing plays
because Of the limitations Of
the theater as q medium"
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Commercial Art

With the aims of presenting
a cross section Of the best COM
mercial art. design and photog-
raphy created in the Washington
area. and Of demonstrating that
our commercial artists produce
some Of the Nations finest work
in these fields. the Art Directors
Club Of Metropolitan Washing
ton opened its 9th annual show
April II. at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art troom So, second floor TO
REMAIN only through next Fri
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the exhibits were sold in the
first fortnight. These plates
and vases have Tin most in
stances) the classic simplicity
one associates with ancient
Chinese ceramics. with I'M
broken line and fine color.
Born in Hong Kong in 1923,
the artist was trained in China.
He came to the United States
in 1913. has exhibited at the
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts
(Which inaugurated the coun-
try's major Ceramics NationaD
the Boston Museum and else
where. and has had several
one-mar shows,
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Mort Trio

The Artists Mart, 1861
Wisconsin avenue, is having
q three-artist show through
next Friday. Gloria Besser,
whose work is seen regularly
In local group exhibitions, and
who had q solo show last year
at D. C. Teachers College, is
presenting paintings in her
characteristic mosaic technique
OF applying color. In her group
Of urban scenes. landscapes,
harbors and still life, I
thought her paintings pleas
ant Mills" and "Daffodils'' and
her serigraphs Racers at
Laurel" and Winter Mist"
her best.
Constance Lawson's paint
ings have a nat, poster-like
distortion. sShe was q fashion
illustrator for several years
before embracing painting,
packaging and textile design.
She is also showing two small
pictorial plates, enamel on
copper. delightful little works.
Gordon Lawson's pottery is
we'll known from local and
national exhibitions. Particu-
larry outstanding is his crys-
talline bottle, with surface
resembling snowfiakes. He is
assistant professor of art at
the University of Maryland.
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maker ana head OF the Boston
Museum Schools department Of
drawing, graphic arts and anat-
omy. Richard Florsheim. painter
and printmaker. and Hyatt
Mayor. curator of prints at the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art,
New York City. On April 4 and
is. they examined LIS prints
submitted by sos artists from
IS States. the District Of Column
bia. Hawaii and Puerto Rico,
also Canada. Cuba and Mexico.
The jurors selected LAB for
showing.
This exhibition will be re-
viewed later in detail.
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A New O'Connor

And what Of the restoring
man Edwin O'Connor? He
continues to live and work in
Boston. is smuggling away at a
novel that will be his third.
No one knows yet If he will
receive the Pulitzer Prize for
THE Last Hurrah. A great
many people think he should.
Meantime he will be repre-
sented on forthcoming lists
with Benny: A Ferocious
Fairy Tale"