davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Grim Novel Based on
Smuggling Of Humans

tolerantly as it tries to ex-
plain human motivations.
Rescued From Slave Ring
Anna Held, a rootless, 21-
year-old Jewess, her concen-
tration camp number tat
tooed on her wrist and her
health wrecked by Nazi med
ical experiments, almost falls
prey to an international
white slave ring. She is res
cued by Peter Jongman, a
police inspector at Amster-
dam.
When the girl expressed a
wish to go to Palestine,
the hen-pecked, 53-year-old
Jongman seized the oppor-
tunity to inject some pur-
pose into his life. Such mi
grations were banned by the
British. In trying to help the
girl, Jongman risked his
home, his family and his
career.
An idyllic canal barge trip
across Belgium started the
exploit. But the hazardous
last leg began at Tangiers.
Intrigue and Violence
A labyrinth of intrigue and
half ridden violence con-
trolled the smuggling of hu-
mans and contraband to Pal
eStine. For the weary in
spector it was an ordeal. For
the sick. but obdurate girl, it
was infinitely worse.
All the characters whose
lives are touched by Jong-
mans venture are highly
plausible. They include the
inspectors deserted wife;
Van der Pink, a philosophi-
cal racketeer, and a slightly
gullible British secret agent
named Dickens.
Even more painStakingly,
the author amuSes his read
erS with some interesting
dogs who fill their respective
inches in life with consider
ably more diligence than the
average human and with less
growing.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
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Good for oChuckIe
Instead of q Scream

TWENTIETH CENTURY
PARODY. An Anthology,
compiled by Burling Low
rey. (Harco urt, Brace;
S5.75.)
There is no more demand
ing art form than the par
ody. 1t is almost equally eX-
acting on reader and writer.
The reader must be familiar
with the style being initiated.
The writer requires the eX-
act observation of the mimic
in addition to a wild imagi-
nation of his own. He must
pick a victim who is at once
imitable and Well-known.
1t is perhaps not so sur
priSing that this anthology.
culled by a local collector, is
only intermittently success
full. Some of the authors have
chosen writer's who do not
lend themselves to successful
parody. Maybe F. Scott Fitz-
gerald and Elizabeth Bowen
can be parodied. 1t is not
done here. Max Beerbohm, a
peerless writer in other fields
misses fire with Joseph Con-
rad and Rudyard Kipling, in
this reviewers opinion.
On the other hand, there
are some brilliantly funny
selections. Clifton Fadiman
does magnificently by Thom-
as Wolfe. Critics Gilbert
Highet (as Ernest Heming-
way and Edmund Wilson
(as James joyce are prop
erly devastating. The in
comparable James Thurber
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THE INSPECTOR. BY Jan

THE INSPECTOR. BY Jan
de Hartog. (Atheneum
Publishers; $4.
BY 1946 the great carnage
in Europe was finished. but
many of its victims were still
harassed by postwar lawless-
ness, greed and treachery.
Jan de Hartog, a Dutch
novelist, shows how the
criminal element hardened
by World War II almost de-
stroyed two defenseless per-
sons who are the principal
characters of THE InSpec-
tor" Although the book deals
with a harsh theme, much
of it unfolds amiably and
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Confederate Colonel
Leaves High Treasure
THE HASKELL MEMOIRS

THE HASKELL MEMOIRS.
By John Haskell. Edited
by Gilbert E. Govan and
James w. Livingood. (G.
P. Putnam's' Sons; $3.50
Early in 1863 in a little
noted theater of war, Con-
federate Col. John CheveS
Haskell's artillery menaced
the North Carolina town of
Washington. HaSkell's as
signment was to blast Fed
eral occupation troops and
gunboats from the place.
Suddenly, a strange sound
f1oated over his batteries.
In Haskells words:
There the enemy fleet in
the Pamlico River had the
first calliope I ever heard.
Every day after dinner they
would play it for a while and
then shell our position for
an hour or two. They never
did any real harm, it was
almost as if it were done for
an evenings entertainment"
Provocative Notes
Among his personal OBJ
servations, Haskell had a few
considerably more provoca-
tive:
/. Thomas Jonathan Jack
son became "Stonewall" not
because he so firmly with
stood Federal assault at Bull
Run, but because he so stead
fastly refused to aid his own
beleaguered Gen. Bee.
2. Pickett hung back in a
mid-battlef1eld barn while
his infantry charged to glori-
Gus defeat at Gettysburg.
Historical Prize
Col. Haskell, a Confeder-
ate artillerist who ranked
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READING AND WRITING
Thomas Wolfe Biography
Is an Extraordinary Work

praise of new writer, should
be offended by an exact de-
scription of a drunken eve
ming spent with Wolfe in
You Can't Go Home Again"
Even Miss NOVEL; protests at
this: The trouble is that
these chapters are too nakedly
photographed, too garru-
lous, too full of the zeal to
tell all about it. regardless
of the consequences which,
characterizeS so much of
Wolfe's work-in short, too
smuch of a first draft without
enough transmutation into
fiction"
A Heroic Task
Miss Nowell's research on
her unwieldy subject is Moth
ing short Of heroic. She has
quoted every available source.
reviewed the reviews, tailed
the flirtations with both
communism and Nazism,
chronicled the lawsuits, cata-
logued the endless caterwaul-
ingS about what a naked,
fiercely lacerated thing my
spirit is" Her book is con-
sistently interesting, thor,
ough and compassionate. The
final chapters on the death of
Wolfe are deeply moving. He
was a troubled and trouble
some human being, who was
lucky in at least two of the
things most important to a
man of his kind: A fine edi-
tor and a fine biographer.
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braskanS, most of them mem
bers and connections of one
family. They've gathered for
the Goth birthday of Grand
pa Scanlon, the patriarch of
the clan, who is the last resi-
dent of the deserted frontier
village of Lone Tree.
There is little about old
Scanlon. Most of the inner
stories are about the daugh-
ter Lois, her daughters and
the grandchildren. The point
OF view shifts from one to
another.
Hard to Keep Straight
Actually it's difdcult-at
least it was to me-to keep
the characters straight. They
are introduced casually and
rarely identified again; you
simply have to guess who
they are to try to keep the
complex family relationships
in mind.
But you do learn, as you
go on, much about these peo-
Pile, why they are as they are,
what they hope for or have
lost hope for. I'm afraid,
though, it adds up to a not
very satisfactory novel by an
author who has come into
prominence.
Typical Morris
Not that it lacks typical
Wright Morris touches. There
is a girl, a granddaughter,
by the intriguing name OF
Etoile pronounced by the
family "Eee-tolD. She is
something special. And there
is her boy friend and cousin
Calvin, who is as good-look-
ing as she but shutters to the
point of incoherence. There's
Boyd and the dizzy girl,
whom he calls Daughter, he
annexed out West on his way
to the reunion.
But it is, viewing the book
as a whole, to wonder
whether the old-faShioned
novel you could easily fol-
low and understand has gone
out of style. at least with the
literary punditS.
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Summertime Family Party
Is Theme for Prize Novel

chosen by her publishers as
their 1860 prize novel. She
handles character and situa-
ton with skill-particularly
her perceptive portrait Of the
71-year-old matriarch of this
wealthy Jewish family
around whom the plot re-
wolves.
Three Generations
The time is 1911. The set
ting is Mrs. Sherman's sum-
mer home on Long Island to
which she has invited her
children. their in-laWs and
the grandchildren to spend
the summer. The action CEN
ters on several family con-
f1icts which under one roof
become everyone's concern
and reach full storm proper
tionS as the plot unfolds.
The books chief attraction
perhaps lies not so much in
It's action as in the family it
portrayS. Mrs. Fischer's writ
ing has a freshness all it's
own, and so does the family
portrait she paints in such
rich, vivid tones.
Hauntingly Familiar
The author has an excep-
tional gift for evoking reader
empathy. Her people and
places are individual to the
mllieu in which she has
created them, but they have,
a hauntingly familiar quality
to them. You've known them;
you've been there before. It's
this elusive charm which
gives this book its distinctive
stamp.
RUTH DEAN.
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THE SOVIET DEPORTA-
TION OF NATIONALI-
TIES. By R. Conquest. (St.
Martins; $6.75O

The SOVIET DEPORTA-
TION OF NATIONALI-
TIES. BY R. Conquest. (St.
Martins; $6.75J
AS the author, an author
ity on the subject, explains,
there has been little written
about the mass deportation
OF whole nationalitieS within
the Soviet.
These groups occupied the
southern boundaries Of Rus
sia and were mainly Asian
people, some of them Mo-
hammedans. They include
the Volga Germans, the Kali
myks and the Mohammedan
nations Of the Crimea and
the North Caucasus. They
were shipped en- masse to
Siberia and other alien areas
before and during the late
war.
Since Stains death an ef-
fort has been made to reha-
bilitate some of these peo-
Piles. but most of them still
lack any sort of autonomy.
There is nothing in the
story" the author comedies,
which compares with the
spectacular horrors of the
Nazi gas chambers. ct is a
sad comment on our times
that not to have behaved as
badly as the Nazis may be
regarded as a sign of virtue.)
But there are other ways
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PAPER BACKS

THE SUN. BY Karl Kiepen-
heuer. UNIV. of Michigan,
$3.50. Reprint of 1857 Ger
man publication summing
up our knowledge of the
sun, how we learned it and
what it can teach us about
mans future in the uni
verse.
VIRUS. BY Wolfhard Weidel.
(Univ. of Michigan, $1.95D
Reprint of 1857 German
publication telling how SCI
entists found out what vi
ruses are, how they behave,
and what we can do with
this knowledge.
THE STARS. BY w. Kruse
and w. DieckvosS. UNIV. of
Michigan, $l.95). Reprint of
the 1854 German publica-
ton telling how astron-
omers have gathered a vast
store of knowledge about
stars $4,000 billion miles
away, and what this knowl-
edge means to US.
THE BIRDS. BY Oskar and
K a tharina Heinroth.
CUniv. of Michigan, $1.95O
Reprint of 1855 German
publication telling about
every facet of bird life.
THE ANTS. BY Wilhelm
Goetsch. UNIV. of Michi-
gan, S1.95.) Reprint of 1853
German publication telling
Of many strange species Of
ants and their society as
complex as our own.
THE SENSES. BY Wolfgsng
Won Buddenbrock. UNIV,
of Michigan, $1.95D Re-
print Of 1853 German guide
through the 8 senses.
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them all with hair-raising
literalness in Look Home
ward Angel" Characteristic
cally, Wolfe could never I'M
derstand why ASheville took
exception to his faithful rem
dition. Nor did it occur to
him that Sinclair Lewis, then
at the height of his fame
and most generous in his
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Other Books of the Week in Brief

oirs that expand to include
a generation.
VICE SIDENT IN
CHARGE OF REVOLU-
TION. Murray D. Lincoln.
(McGraw-Hill, $4.95). An
American business eXecu-
tive proposes a new dec
laration of economic inde-
pendence.
IN THE LAND OF THE
QUETZAL FEATHER. BY
Friedrich Morton. Devin-
Adair, $4.50). The strug-
gle for survival in the
Guatemalan Jungle.
GENERAL
THE TRUE FACE OF DU-
PLESSIS. BY Pierre La
Porte. (Harvest House,
$1.50D Biography.
SOUTH AFRICA. BY S. Pie
naar & Anthony Sampson.
(Oxford; $1.25D Two views
of separate development of
the dark continent.
THE GREAT CHESS MAS
TIERS AND THEIR GAME.
BY Fred Reinfeld. Double
day. $685. New revised
edition.
HEGEL: AN ANNOTATED
SELECTION. Edited by
Wanda Orynaski. (Philos-
optical, $4.75J Highlights
on his philosophy.
MODERN IMPERIALISM. BY
Charles S. Seely. (Philo-
sophical, S2.5O0 Fourth in
a series that deals with
contemporary politics.
THE FISHBEIN CONVEN-.
TlON. BY Harry Fishbein.
Grown, $685. How it can
help you yin at bridge.
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In the Last
Dying Days
OF the Nuzis
THE DEATH-MAKERS. BY
Glen Sire. Simon g.
Schuster; $3.50

1t is no secret to millions
OF Americans that war is
bitter and brutal. recurring
on this earth periodically
like a visitation of Iocusts to
destroy all it touches.
There appear to be two
schools of thought on how
war should be treated in lit
erature: With stark realism,
four-letter words and un-
vanished mayhem, or, con-
versely, in somewhat cleaned
up form, eliminating the
more atrocious Anglo-Sax-
onisms and concentrating on
the men rather than their
vulgate.
THE Death-MakerS," as
SeX-ridden and violent a
book as you are likely to en-
counter this year, is clearly
in the former category. The
reader will have to make his
own choice as to which ap-
proach she prefers.
The story concerns the
last dying days of Nazi Ger
many as an American ar
mored force tears across the
Sundering Reich. Capt. Bran
don, commander of the Yam
kee spearhead. is pitted
against a cynical German,
1t. Raeder, has nothing to
live for now but to make
sure he goes to his death in
good company. The crux of
the book comes when the two
men meet across open sights
on the last day of the war.
Side characters include a
homicidal French woman
who apparently rides in
tanks with the American
colonel who is keeping her
and Chico, a pSychopathic
BAR-man who graphically
rapeS two German women
before he gets his come
uppance.
Frankly, I was moved to
feel the war would have
gone better for Mr.. Sire if
the women had been kept
out of it. His battle writing,
however, is superb if the
reader has a strong stomach.
JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
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with Pelham and Pegram,
was so years old when he
wrote his memoirs. This was
40 years after the close of
the Civil War. But his mem
ory was still as sharp as his
views were direct and re-
liable.
The memoirs have been
tapped by historians for
years. This is the first time
they have been published on
their own so historians can
now share their little treas
ure. JOHN w. STEPP.
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Fate of Seven Nations
The USSR Wiped Out

of destroying a nation. To
remove it, in circumstances
of misery and suffering
from its homeland and scat
ter it widely over an alien
territory, with a minimum of
economic resources, deprived
OF civil rights, of cultural
opportunities and of educa-
ton in its own tongue is, even
leaving aside the high Incl
dence of actual deaths, a sign
that the aim can hardly be
other than the extinction of
the nation as nation" An
informative, well-documented
book. &C. b. ].
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FICTION

HOW CAN THE HEART
FORGET. BY Emile Lor-
ing. Uittle, Brown, $3.50
The story of a daShing
young man who returns
from South America to find
that he is unable to settle
down to a peaceful life and
a safe job.
THE WORLD OF CLIFFORD
SIMAK. BY Clifford Simak.
(Simon & Schuster, $3.75)
Twelve science fiction stor-
les by the author.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
T. II. HUXLEY: SCIENTIST.
TUMANIST AND EDUCA-
TOR. BY Cyril Bibby. A
biography with forewords
by Sir Julian Huxley and
Aldous Huxley.
CONFLICT AND CONCORD:
The Anglo-American Rela-
tionship Since 1888. By H.
c. Allen. (St. Martins,
$3.75O Revised and en-
larged edition of Part I of
Great Britain and the
United States: A History of
Anglo American Relation,
1783-1952."
A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND.
BY Nirad Chaudhuri. (St.
Martin, $3.75D. A flve-week
record of a visit to England
by the author.
TEMP MENT AND
CHARACTER OF THE
ARABS. BY Sania Hamady.
tTwayne, So.
GENERATION IN TUR-
MOL. BY Frida Kahn.
tChannel. $3.75. Mem
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Set in Nebraska
TO KILL A MOCKING-
BIRD. BY Harper Lee.
Gippincott: $3.50

-
BIRD. - BY Harper Lee.
CLippincott; $3.50
This unusual first novel, a
story about a small town in
Alabama during the depres-
sion years. told through the
recollections of Jean Louise,
then a very young girl, is al
most wholly a delight.
Jean Louise, who was 6
when the events described
began and only three years
older when they ended, was,
in those days, always called
Scout. Her brother Jem, four
years her senior, and even
their father, AtticuS Finch.
the lawyer-their mother was
dead - always called her
Scout. She could run and
jump and fight as we'll as any
boy, though there were oc-
casions when Jem expressed
grave fear that she was get
ting more like a girl all the
time.
Childhood Worries
The children had their ad-
ventures at school and they
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fused with a subtle humor
that sometimes broadened
into the naturally farcical.
The Right Circles
! doubt very much, though,
whether these books sold
much or even got many good
reviews until, a few years
ago, the author was taken
up" in the right circles.
Two years ago he won the
National Book Award for
The Field of Vision" which
depicted some Americans at
a bull fight in Mexico City
and went into their problems
and private histories.
AS with most of the fiction
prizes of the National Book
Award, this one went to a
story that was relatively
static, that was more literary
than dramatic, a little slow
moving and failed to kindle
much excitement.
A New Direction
Ever since THE Huge Sea-
son" Q954) Mr.. Morris has
gone in more for the esoteric
and the symbolic than for
the simple appeal of his ear
lier novels.
Whether he was annointed
in proper literary quarters
because he started writing
this way or whether he wrote
this way because he was sud-
denly discovered is something
am unable to fathom.
However, I doubt that he
has ever surpassed The
Works of Love" 1952), which
drew some ferociouS reviews,
or THE Deep Sleep" 1883.
Even Man and Boy" 195D,
a rather slight but delightful
story, was better, in my opin-
ion, than his most recent
books.
Set in Nebraska
In any event, the new novel,
Ceremony in Lone Tree" is
more in the new Morris man
ner. 1t is, in a way, an ex-
tension of '"The Field of Wis
ion," bringing in some of the
same characters.
These characters are. Ne
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MRS. SHERMAN'S SIN

MRS. SHERMAN'S SUM-
MER. BY Marjorie Fischer.
81. B. Lippincott Co.; $685.
Take 18 people-three gen.
erations of one family-and
throw them all together in
one house for the summer,
and you're bound to have
crises. But the Shermans
thrived on crises and that's
what makes this book-really
a study of a family-so fas-
cinating.
1t is understandable why
Mrs. Fischer's third book was
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A NEW WRIGHT MORRIS
Has the Old Novel
Gone Out of Style?
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

CEREMONY IN LONE TREE, by Wright Morris CAtheneum;
50
This novel is Wright Morris thirteenth.
From the first his stories amusing somehow diff
ferent from the average of novels
For thing they briefer, less overwrten Their
characters formed with deft touches They were
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Forthcominq:

From John Kenneth CAL
braith of THE AFFLUENT
SOCIETY, new observations
on the American economic
syst EN-. THE LIBERAL
HOUR; from Vance Pack
ard of The Hidden Persuad-
ers," a study of consumer
ism" called The Waste
Makers; from Harry Golden
of For &c Plain" more es-
says called ENJOY, ENJOY!
Evening star., 1960-07-10

Planet EARTH. BY Karl
Stumpff. UNIV. of Michi-
gan, $l.95) Reprint of
1855 German publication
telling what science has
learned about the planet
earth and its relation to
the rest of the universe,
and what this knowledge
neans to us.
Evening star., 1960-07-10

EBB AND FLOW. BY Avert
Defiant. UNIV. of Michi-.
gan, Sl95.) Reprint Of
1858 German publication
telling what the tides are,
how they work, and why.
Evening star., 1960-07-10
By MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

BY MARY McGRORY
Star stad Writer
Elizabeth NOVEL; was
Thomas Wolfe's literary
agent, which must have been
a taxing experience. Now
she has become his biog-
rapher, which cannot have
been much easier. In
THOMAS WOLFE Double
day & Co.; $3.50, she is
wonderfully objective and
equally perceptiVe.
Thomas Wolfe, as every
one knows by now, was a
great American writer, who
was a disastrous craftsman.
He wanted to be the steno-
grapher of the world, and
especially he wanted no part
Of his own experience to
go unrecorded. A physical
giant, he had the neurotic's
loneliness about his own
feelings and a child's insen-
sitivity to those of others. He
lived a short, untidy life,
which ended at the age of SO,
and left behind novels that
for all their faults will always
have readers because of their
abundant life.
A Referee
Miss Nowell's job is more
that of a referee than
biographer, separating the
novelist from the man.
Thomas Wolfe said everything
that there was to be said
about Thomas Wolfe-in con-
versation. in letters (she
edited a collection of them
four years ago. in his novels,
and, if that were not enough,
in THE Story of a Novel,"
In her introduction, she
says that the novels Cannot
be taken as straight autobiog-
raphy; they suddenly depart
into the realm of pure fiction
just when a reader is inclined
to accept everything in them
as gospel truth" But the fact
is that the final authority on
Thomas Wolfe is Thomas
Wolfe. Page after page of
her intelligent, discreet study,
is taken from the novels.
When she wants to give the
ultimate description of yet
one more earthquake of the
soul, one more frenzy, one
more ecstasy, she quotes the
characters Of the novels, Eu-
gene Cant of Look Home
ward, Angel" or George Web
ber of "Of Time and the
River"
Maxwell Perkins
The real hero of Thomas
Wolfe" is Wolfe's editor,
Maxwell Perkins, the Scrib-
ner's editor, who not only
waded ankle-deep in Wolfe's
manuscripts and reduced the
flood to book size, but who
walked the streets with him
while Wolfe walled and
failed, who gave him under
standing. hospitality, solici-
tude and reinsurance through
nine incredible years. Perkins
was a New Englander, a con-
servative, who spotted the
genius of the hulking brawl-
ing Word-drinker from Ashe-
vile, N. c., and for arts sake
and friendships, allowed
himself to be battered and
finally betrayed. The readers
patience with Perkins pa
tience may prevail over his
WEAKNESS with Wolfe's mon
umental self-pity.
Perkins devotion led him
into ugly scenes with Wolfe's
mistress. Aline Bernstein, who
repeatedly threatened to COM
NIT suicide after the end of
their SiX-year affair. Miss
NOVEL; handles this romance
gingerly. Mrs. Bernstein was
19 years older than Wolfe, a
sophisticated lady of Jewish
background whom Wolfe
buSed as he ultimately
abused everyone who tried to
love him.
First Draft
Only Wolfe's own family
could take him. They had his
own wild hysteria and crazy
hopes. They never forsook
him. even after he depicted
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First Draft
Only Wolfe's own family
could take him. They had his
own wild hysteria and crazy
hopes. They never forSook
him, even after he depicted
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'stOndins Week Ending July !. 1860.
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The children had their ad-
ventures at school and they
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