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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Trial to Parents

Some of the funniest stories
are about boys whose bright
ideas spring from boredom
or natural curiosity. Jerry
was asking for trouble when
he tried to convince his
father that a charge &C
count at the corner grocery
would solve several problems
at once.
When his scheme misfires,
Jerry has to push his in
genuity and inventiyeness
to the limit. In JERRY'S
CHARGE ACCOUNT little.
Brown; So Hazel Wilson has
created another real boy, as
full of spunk as Herbert.
1t happens to girls, too.
Ten-year-old Edith somehow
always managed to be right
in the midst of trouble,
whether it was a hurricane,
burglars, or Just a sailing
party. TERRIBLE, HOR-
RIBLE EDIE by E. C. Spyk-
man (Harcourt; $3.25) is the
third, and best, book about
the Cares family.
Sailing or camping or
flghting-these are favorite
outdoor sports for all red
blooded boys and girls. Next
best to taking part in such
activities is reading about
them. If the book is very
good, it gives the young
reader a feeling of power.
This is the way life should
be, as M. S. Stolz tells it in
A DOG ON BARKHAM
STREET (Harpers; S2.5O
and as Anna Rose Wright
tells 1t in LAUGHING GULLS
(Houghton, Mif1in; $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
THE PARTY AT CRANTON.

AAA~A u IA NASEAAN OANs
BY John w. Aldridge.
mckay: $500
Mr.. Aldridge. a teacher
and visiting lecturer at sew
eral universities, published
two books of criticism which
stirred wide interest and no
little controverSy-"Aftert the
Lost Generation" and In
Search of Heresy: American
Literature in an Age of Con-
formity."
He appears now with his
first novel. And it's as
heretical in form, as non
conformiSt in treatment as
you could ask. =
Unconventional Form
In writing THE Party at
Cranton" Mr.. Aldridge seems
to have forgotten (deliber-
ately, or courseJ all ne ever
read about the technique of
the novel and most of the
methods of writing absorbed
in his wide reading of novels.
His story, if you can call
1t that, is not avant garde
in the sense of Samuel
Beckett or Henry Miller.
And yet it's probably unlike
any novel you ever read. It's
not too hard to follow, but
you'll look in vain for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Mr.Townsend
Gets AWuy
From ItAII
EARTH, MY FRIEND. BY
Peter Townsend. Coward
Mccain; $5.75.)

EARTH, MY FRIEND. BY
Peter Townsend. Coward
Mccain; $3.50
Mr.. Townsend thinks big.
This made him a war hero
with a chestful of we'll
earned decorations. 1t almost
won for him the hand of a
fair princess and the sort.
OF status which is life's goal
in his postwar social set.
And it took him around the
world alone in a car.
This book is about his trip
and his thoughts. When he
was Tilted for high reasons
Of state. like any other lover,
he wanted to get away from
1t all and brood. He went as
far as he could-around the
woodland thought much
about the Meaning of 1t All.
Mr.. Townsend does not
have the professional travel
writer's knack of getting into
adventures or at least sound
ing like they were adven-
lures. So his narrative makes
one feel he only wanted to
get the trip over with as
quickly and painlessly as
possible.
His spiritual quest-why
was I born? What is life all
about?-is pretty conven-
tional, and he arrives at the
conventional lack of an an
swer.
He is best when he writes
about people he likes-an old
opium smoker in Burma, a
rancher in Australia.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
P: s. He doesn't mention
the princess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Non-Conforrnist Novel
By Critic AIdridge

The situation eddies around
a model town built to house
a great university. But we
never see the campus and
touch only a handful of its
faculty; we sense rather
than come to grips with the
people and the place. Most
of the milieu turks in the
shadows, referred to now and
then by some character or
the observer, one Waithe.
This is. in particular. a
takeoff on the campus as a
literary incubator, with its
pretentious little magazine
and its olympian editor. Mr..
Aldridge's small book is in
fused with a savage, some
times bawdy, wit.
Ceremonial ViciOusnesS
"Of course they (the cam
pus literary crowd, faculty
and undergraduate did not
produce it Qiterature) them
selves and would not have
been able to even If Buchanan
(the EDITOR had let them.
But they did produce crit
icism the way other men
might have beheaded dolls
or stuck pins in effigies-with
a viciousness almost cere-
monial under the cold glare
of the study lamp in the
black of night. Criticism was
their method of wreaking
vengeance upon literature for
being the one thing they
could not succeed in by TAX
ing a degree or playing
pOllGlCS, ana Cnelr resentment
of it was boundless."
Well, it seems to me that
the campus literary nurser-
les, with their close connec-
ton with certain publishing
houses, and their hot-houSe
geniuses, VINO rarely are
heard of more than once,
had this coming to them.
The only trouble is that
Mr.. Aldridge's novel is un-
likely to have the effect it
might have had if it were
more conventional in form,
less esoteric.
&C. B. ].
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Secrets and Surprises

Ponies and a Siamese cat,
a toy shop and a secret
castle, an attic playroom
and a haunted house provide
plenty of secrets and sur
priSes for the 8 to 10 year
olds in five spring books:
THE OLD PONY by Dor
othy CleweS (Coward-Mc
Cam: $3.50.
THE TOY SHOP MYS-
Terry by Flora Gill Jacobs
c. Coward Mccain; $2.75).
SECRET CASTLE by Anne
Colver tKnopf; $3.50.
WILLOW IN THE ATTIC
by Dana Faralla Uippincott;
$3.50.
KATIE JOHN by Mary
Calhoun tHarpers; $2.50).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
A Friendly Letter
About q Great Teacher

campus and there students
found good company, good
talk and the Master who read
aloud to them. These readings
were as unpredictable as the
reader. They might start with
Kipling, encompass a short
story or two, passages from
the Bible and end with Ring
Lardner or Benchley.
Teaching, reading, walking,
talking to his students was all
MIR. Copeland's life. There
was no hint of romance. He
was a close friend of Minnie
Maddern Fiske but 1t was in
no sense a romantic attach
n1ent. Robert Hillyer de-
scribed 1t best. He said they
sent each other violets.
Mr.. Copeland's value was
the genius of his teaching
rather than his scholastic
achievements. Indeed, he had
a hard time getting the
proper advancement at Har-
ward because he refused to
keep pushing for higher de-
greeS and he did no original
research or writing. But he
had the great gift described
by Brooks Atkinson, another
student: HE was the only
man I ever knew who made
the use of words an exciting
adventure"
This biography is written
in the style of a friendly
letter. It quotes tributes to
Copey from many of his for
mer students and includes.
as well, a dissenting opinion
or two. T. S. Eliot, for in
stance found him a strange
figure and didn't get much
out of the course. But he is
IN the minority. Almost all
the others who wrote to Mr..
Adams, himself a loyal Cope
land alumnus, had Some-
thing pleasant and stimulate
ing to say. And they all said
1t well. That is the subtlest
tribute Of all to a great
teacher.-EDWIN TREBLE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
COPEY OF HARVARD, by J.
Donald Adams. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin Co., So

Donald Adams. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin Co.. So
Charles Townsend Cope
land was an individual in the
most individualistic of our
seats of learning. He taught
English at Harvard for IS
years (1893-1928) and after
his retirement stayed around
for 20 years more because the
Harvard authorities thought,
correctly. that it was some-
thing Of an education for its
young students just to listen
to anything he wanted to say.
Mr.. Copeland is best known
for the students who took his
famous English IL course.
They include such famous
names as Van Wyck Brooks,
Conrad Aiken, T. S. Eliot,
John Reed, Walter Lippmann,
Robert Benchley, S. N. Behr-
man, John Dos Passos, Ber-
nard Devote and Robert E.
Sherwood. There are such
surprising names as Earl Derr
Biggers. Lee Simonson, Ken
meth Mcgowan and Corliss
Lamont. Almost to a man they
admired their teacher greatly.
What he taught them was q
great deal more than Eng
lish. John Reed, who went
on to become a hero in revo-
lutionary Russia, described
it this way: HE would stimu-
late generations of men to
find color and strength and
beauty in the world, and to
express it again." So moved
and stimulated were his stu
dents that they founded a
Copeland alumni association,
thus making an institution
of their teacher long before
he became one.
He was a little man, bald.
ing and quite unpretentious
looking. He loved books, his
students, walking, Harvard,
and reading aloud A life.
long bachelor he lived in
rooms in Hollis Hall on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
ONE is ONLY HUMAN, Nv

SANG 40 ONLx HUMAN. By
G. B. Stern. Henry Reg
merry: $500
G. B. Stern is an author to
be enjoyed and suffered in
almost equal proportion. En-
joyed because she is a pro-
fessional writer with a gift
for sure expression and the
delicate unravelling of a
thought. or a tangle of
thoughts that is always fun
to follow. And irritating be-
cause she is subject to end
less manneriSms. There is
the gush of a kind of elderly
schoolgirl; there is the mad
dening whimsy of invented
dialogues; between herself
and her cat; between the cat
and the ducks: between the
statues of st. Thomas and st.
Joseph at her favorite church,
or rather, I guess, between
the saints themselves, over
vigil lights.
Having said this, one goes
on to say that "One Is Only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

recent years, there are GER
tain scarcities:
Fewer how-to-do-it books.
Fewer mediocre horse and
dog stories.
Fewer easy" books written
to a set formula.
Not all the trends are neg
alive. On the positive side
there are more good books
of all types for the long
neglected 8-to-10 year olds:
More science.
More mysteries.
More modern adventure.
More folk tales.
For teen-agers there are
more authentic career stories,
more foreign adventure, more
biographies of non-political
celebritieS-such as Sarah
Bernhardt, Boss" Kettering,
and Won Humboldt.
A few wise people have al
ways known that children
read more when books are
interesting, not when they
are too easy. Now that this
idea is spreading the flood
of new books is lively and
exciting. Children are
charmed by them. Adults are
astonished.
Children rise quickly to
book bait. A California
librarian reports that a small
boy who had just received a
borrowers card from the
Public Library rushed home
10 his mother and exclaimed,
Look, Nom, I got a credit
card"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

AlluSLIdJlUI1 HI CU1UE
by Gustav Tenggren
from The Lions
Paw"
ear leads her into TV trou-
bles, similar to Charles Van
Doren's. The inevitable moral
issue, never solved, spoils an
otherwise delightful whacky
tale.
Magic is tricky. Sometimes
it works and sometimes it
boomerangs. Probably stories
of magic are the hardest to
evaluate until the children
themselves have had time to
cast their vote. That's whyaI
wonder what the verdict will
be for two other stories of
modern magic.
THE SECRET PENCIL by
Lady Patricia Ward (Random
House; $685. comes from
Wales, complete with a SNUG
gler'S cave, a spooky great
grandfather, a nanny, a cook,
and a man with a wooden Les
and a man with a wooden leg.
CASTAWAYS IN LILLI-
PUT by Henry Winterfield
(Harcourt; So is translated
from the German, but it
leans heavily on that old
English classic, GuIIiver's
Travels. It's not very original
but maybe the youngsters will
like it. 1t has the tempo of a
radio serial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
a REVEALING BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Conrad Given Place
Among Greatest of Authors

JOSEPH CONRAD: A Criti-
cal Biography. BY Jocelyn
Baines. (McGraw Hill;
$500
There seems no doubt that
this is the most complete and
Illuminating biography of the
great Polish-English novelist
yet written. 1t probably Will
remain, in the foreseeable
future, the best source of ma
terial about his life available.
Mr.. Baines' judgments con-
corning Conrad's work, while
astute, will stir differing
opinions. just as individual
books, especially during the
Conrad revival IF recent
years, have brought a wide
divergence of critical con-
illusions. 1t is not that there
is much dissent from the be-
lief that he was one of the
greatest modern novelists.
But in appraiSing individual
books critics still are far
apart. For instance, there is
a tendency now, in certain
quarters, to call "Nostromo"
the finest and to relegate
such old favorites as Lord
Jim" to lesser stature.
Years of Research
Others of us still prefer
such novels as Lord jim"
and Under Western Eyes"
to the long. involved story of
a mythical but typical Latin
American country.
T., Jocelyn Baines is a pub
fishers editor in London and
a book reviewer. He must
have spent years collecting
every scrap of Conradiana
possible to find. He put in
much time at Yale, which
has the best collection of
Conrad papers, and Harvard,
which also has a consider
able number.
Mr.. Baines has dug up
much about Conrad's per-
sonal life which previous BIZ
ographers ignored or could
not obtain. This includes
the mysterious gunshot
wound which Conrad suf-
fered in his youth in France
and attributed to a duel.
Mr.. Baines is convinced
from his evidence that it
was an attempt at suicide.
1t is interesting in this con-
nection to recall that nine
important Conrad characters
killed themselves and that
three others, including Jim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Gardeners Hundredth

Earle Stanley Gardeners
Tooth book, THE CASE OF
THE WAYLAID WOLF will
liam Morrow and Co., $2.95),
is a complex Perry Mason
mystery about a ladies' man
done in by one he done
wrong. Middle-caliber Ma
son. B. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

of Lord Jim" inundated
themselves in a solitude that
amounted almost to taking
their lives.
G. j. Aubry. a French
writer who knew Conrad
intimately, published in l947
a revised edition of a two
volume biography published
in 1927. The revised edition,
translated and published here
in 1857 under the title of
THE Sea Dreamer" was
called a def1nitive biography,
but it was far from that.
There were still gaps IN a
life which has puzzled stu
dents, to an extent, ever since
Conrad's death in 1924 at
the age of 81.
Religious Paradox
For example, M. Aubry did
not mention Conrad's re-
ligion, if any. Mr.. Baines sup
plies that missing segment Of
Conrad's enigmatic character.
ITO Conrad, the forces con-
trolling the universe were
impersonal. There is no evil
dence that has been pre-
served from Conrad's life
and none in his work of be-
lief in a diety. Although
he was born and brought up
a Roman Catholic, and his
father was an almost mys-
tical believer, he rejected
Christianity"
There is. then, no explana-
ton by Mr.. Baines for the
fact Gas he records it, that
Conrad's funeral took place
at st. Thomas Roman Cath
Ollie Church in Canterbury.
There is no report of DEATH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

bed repentance or Of even
sending for a priest.
We find more about Con-
RAIDS family life and personal
preferences than in any pre-
vious biography. The Polish
born author, who learned
English after he was grown
and used it SO masterfully,
was a devoted husband and
father.
Mr.. BaineS makes an ar
resting observation at the
close Of his long and fasci-
mating study:
"An increasing awareness
among modern students of
Conrad of his pessimism, his
skepticism and his conscious
ness Of evil has led to a dis
counting of his proclaimed
belief in the simple, practical
virtues. But there is only an
apparent contradiction be-
tween these two aspects of
his outlook"
Exhilirating Work
And yet the biographer
adds: "Conrad's achievement
is an assertion of the in
domitability of the human
spirit, but it is useless to
look for consolation in his
work. 1t comedies no hope;
the fate of those undiSdained
by destiny and who are not
McWhirrs (the captain in
"Typhoon") is tragic, and
triumph inevitably brings
death. But, if not consola-
ton, his work does provide
exhiliration; 80 years OF
dedicated effort had as their
reward the presentation of
depths of experience which
few artists have been able to
excel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Other Books of the Week in Brief

individual in his function
as a member of a race, ma
ton, cast, profession, in
stitution or a part of a
crowd.
THE AMERICAN PRESI.
DENCY. BY Clinton Ros-
sitter. (Harcourt, Brace;
S1.950 Revised edition. The
powers and practices, the
personalities and problems
OF the most important Of
flee on earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Magic Is Tricky

A supersonic quiz kid with
two electronic- minded broth
ers is the heroine of THE
TROUBLE WITH JENNY'S
EAR by Oliver Butterworth
Uittle, Brown; So. Jenny's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
PAPER BACKS

THE MAYNARD COMRADE
AND THE CoMMISSARS,
BY Yurii Olesha. (Signet;
IS cents) Satirical look at
life among the bureau
Gratis.
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND
THE ANALYSIS OF THE
EGO. BY Sigmund Freud.
(Bantam: so cents.) Pres
entation of his original and
revolutionary concept of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS .
racing New Trends
In ChiIdren's Books
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

Library week has and gone high powered furry
OF book fairs book talks and book lists Still the chidrens
books keep rolling along They fast it is difficult to
spot the trends But the trends there AS change from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
GENERAL
HISTORICAL AND
BIOGRAPHICAL

MARTIN BUBER: JEWISH
EXISTENTIALIST. BY
Malcolm L. Diamond. COX.
ford, $4.50.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
FICTION
THE MIDSTREAM READER

THE MIDSTREAM READER.
BY Shlomo KATE (Yoseloff,
$7.500 An anthology from
"Midstream." a quarterly
Jewish review.
POST STORIES 1859. CDou-
bleday. $500 Twenty of
the best stories and novel;
cites of the year selected
from the Saturday Evening
Post by its editors.
FOOD FOR CENTAURS. BY
Robert Graves. Doubleday,
$4.95D A collection of the
best Of the authors short
stories, essays and poems.
TERPIECES OF
WORLD LITERATURE.
Edited by Frank N. Magill
and staff. (Harper, $8.500
Plot stories of 277 famous
novels and plays and essay
reviews of 223 works of
philosophy, poetry and
other classics.
GENERAL
WHEN YOUR HUSBAND
RETIRES. BY Mollie Hart.
(Appleton Century Crofts,
$500 A guide telling how
to avoid the problems and
win the awards of the years
that lie ahead.
THE SEA MY HUNTING
GROUND. BY Anthony
Watkins. (St. Martins,
$4.50.) The true story of
a man who turned danger
Gus adventure into a profit
able business.
HISTORICAL AND
BIOGRAPHICAL
HmA~-wNy wrr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Advise and Consent

AS political convention excitement
mounts, more and more people are read
ing, talking about Allen Drury'S
big best seller about the real Washington.
Have you read it? S5.75 DOUBLEDAY
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-07-21
PooIesviIIe
Mrs. Mossburg Honored
On Eighty-First Birthday
BY Cattle C. Linthicum
Diamond 1882

Mrs. Esther Mossburg was
honored on the 81st anniversary
of her birth at a dinner given at
the home of her brother, z. M.
Compiler, Poolesville, Sunday,
July 10. Those attending were
Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Cooley
and Carolyn, Greenbelt; Mr..
and Mrs. William Cooley and
Cynthia, Langley Park; M !.
Edward Phillips, Washington;
Mrs. Mary Frye and Mrs. Ma
mic Frye, Buckeystown; Mrs.
Edna Reed, Rockville; Mrs. An
drew Baughman. Taneytown;
Mrs. Howard Spurrier, Mr.. and
Mrs, G. E. Williams, Poolesville;
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Compiler,
Frederick junction.; William
Beall, Bethesda; Miss Mae Hill.
debrand and Elmer Painter,
Jamestown, Following opening
OF the gifts later in the day re-
Treatments were served includ.
ing a large birthday cake.
MIR and Mrs. w. L. Thomp.
son, Comus, celebrated their
22nd wedding anniversary Wed.
nesday, July 20.
Mrs. Clifton Anderson and
Mrs. Carmye Norwood enter
tanned members of the Won.
ans Society of Christian Serv.
ice of the Hyattstown Method.
list Church at their home in Hy.
attstown, Thursday night. Mrs.
Perry Hopkins was co-hostess.
The ladies made tentative plans
for their annual picnic supper
scheduled for Saturday, August
ID. Their next meeting will be
held at the home OF Mrs. Jesse
Rippeon, near Hyattstown,
Thursday. August II. This Is a
change in date due to the Hy-
attstown F'iremen's Carnival
held the first week in August.
Members of the Ladies Auxil-
larry of Upper Montgomery
County Volunteer Fire Com.
pany held their regular meeting
Tuesday night at the Beallsville
fire house. The main subject
under discussion was the car.
nival being held this week. On
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-07-21

they were visiting her sister;
Mrs. Virginia Rogers is back
from her San Francisco trip
where she accompanied son,
ROY. to his new Naval Station;
and the Tom Powmall family
are home from a week at Ocean
City.
Families on the go this week
include the Cliff Little tribe who
are in New York City; the Hal
ter Cunningham family and
Fred Hughes family who are
in New York to witness the Po-
tomac Pony Club team that is
participating in the National
Pony Club Rally, Beulah Bry.
ant is also in New York for
this affair; Ellie McConihe and
fish Atwood have reached Den
yer, Colo; the Thomas Taimi
family are mentioning in Ver-
mont; Victor Beauchamp is in
Akron, Ohio, to see the Nation
al Open Golf Tournament, and
the Preston King family is off
for three weeks at Ocean City,
| Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gordon
of South Glen I'd. have an
nounced the arrival of a new
son, born July IL at the Wash.
ington Hospital Center. There
has been no official announce
ment of the baby's name yet
but with five brothers and sis,
tiers at home there certainly
will be a quantity of sugges
tons. The baby was born al
8 am. and weighed nine pounds
and six ounces.
jeanne and John Alexander
are new Potomac residents and
live on Burbank DIR. The Alex
anders have three children, Mi
chele, a tenth grade student
Sharon in the seventh grade
and jeff in the fifth grade. Mr.
Alexander is an attorney and
they formerly resided in Silver
Spring.
Happy Bogley celebrated her
18th birthday on July IL by in
viting eight friends to supper
and slumber party. Swimming
and games dominated the night
and day activities, with very
little slumber in between.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas McFar
land are in in town from their
Tucson, Ariz., home and have
been visiting friends and for
mer neighbors. The McFar
lands are staying at the Wind
sor Park Hotel and will be here
until July Is.