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FICTION

THE COTTON WEB. BY
Barbara Hunt. (Dutton,
$685. A novel about a
beautiful woman who
sought wealth and power
in the great New England
textile empire.
WINTERS TALES. (St.
Martins, $4.25D A collec-
ton of short stories.
ITS UGLY HEAD. BY Derek
Monsey. Simon g. Schuster,
$500 A novel based on
symbolic abortion"
THE MISSION. BY Hugh B.
Cave. doubleday, $l.5OD
The story of a little waif
who sets out to find her
father after her mothers
death.
A TREASURY OF PARA
BLES. BY Edward j. Bar
tex. philosophical, $4.75D
Seventy nine parallels;
each summarized by three
original proverbs.
GENERAL
PEOPLE UNDER PRES
SURE. BY Albert M. Bar
rett, Ph.D. (Twayne, 49,
How to overcome your ten
SionS.
THE SELECTED LETTERS
OF CHARLES DICKENS.
Edited with an introduc-
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BY JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star stan Writer


TOBRUK. BY Anthony Heck
stall-Smith. CW. w. Norton
& Co.; $3.95)
Tobruk is a flea-bitten, rat
infested town in Libya but
for several years 1t was the
most important hunk of mis-
cry in the world to the Brit
ish Empire.
The British scored their
first land victory of World
War II in the back-and-
forth struggle for Tobruk.
and later suffered there one
Of their most humiliating de-
feats. This is the story Of
both sieges.
Took the Punches
In the first siege, the Aus
tralian Rats of Tobruk" and
other empire forces withstood
everything Marshal Rommel
could throw at them and
didn't waver until relief came
nearly a year later.
The second time around,
Tobruk fell to the Afrika
Korps like an over-age plum.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
The Publishing Game
Offers You q Puzzle

he bought. He merely
glanced at them. touched
them and sometimes smelled
them.
Eventually, Mr.. Warburg
went on his own by be-
coming part owner Of the
small, almost bankrupt house
of Martin Seeker. All the
solid virtues Of Routledge
were absent. A skeleton-ty
staff kept the new venture
running on a shoestring. The
house was constantly short
Of capital, and the threat Of
war added to its difficulties.
Deliberately, Mr.. Warburg
selected a leftist policy that
was both anti-Fascist and
Communist. The Com
munists were his bitterest
critics until the Hitler-Stalin
pact subdued them.
But the overriding prob
lem in his house, as with all
publishers, was to find tai
ented writer's. The Seeker
Warburg list included H. G.
Wells, George Orwell, Lewis
Mumford, Arnold Zweig,
Thomas Mann and Andre
Glide, among others. But err
rors of publishing judgment
wiped out the profits, Mr..
Warburg admits.
The title is a pretentious
spool. The question was put
to Warburg at a cocktail
party: rs publishing a bus
iness, or an occupation for
gentlemen" If the reader
decides to vote, he may have
to split his ticket.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
How Abe Lincoln
Won Nomination
On 1st Trip East
By L. EDGAR PRINA
Star Stan Writer

ABRAHAM LINCOLN GOES
TO NEW YORK. BY An
drew A. Freeman, Cow
ard-McCann; $3.95.)
One hundred years ago a
rather obscure Illinois law
yer and politician, on his first
trip East, made a speech
which vaulted him into the
Republican presidential nom
ination.
The man, of course, was
Abraham Lincoln. The speech
was a famous one made in
the great hall of Cooper
Union, then the newest and
largest auditorium in New
York.
In his scholarly little book
it is only "a pages-Author
Freeman reconstructs the
events of Lincoln's three
day visit and its highly sue
ceSSful climax, in which the
lonely stranger in the rum
Piled suit and ill-fitting shoes
turned an audience of Skep-
tical business and intellectual
leaders into a wildly enthu-
siastic I'VE Want Lincoln"
cheering section.
Prior to the Cooper Union
address, Mr.. Freeman points
out, there was little evidence
Of support in the East for
Lincoln in the 1860 nomina-
ton race. In fact a former
Governor Of New York, Will
liam H. Seward. was the fa-
vorite.
But Lincoln. opposing the
South's campaign to extend
slavery into the new terri
tories, ended his speech and
Stewards chances with this
ringing sentence, remem-
bered as one of his most
famous:
Let US have faith that
right makes might. and in
that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we
understand it."
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A Real Raw Look
At the Seomy
Side of Life
THE SCENE. BY Clarence L.

THE SCENE. BY Clarence L.
Cooper, jr. Grown; $3.50
Written with all stark and
startling realism that could
only stem from a reformed
narcotics addict, Mr.. Cooper's
first novel takes a real raw
look at the seamy side of
life.
Il began this book" he ex-
plains, while incarcerated,
as a form of therapy for my
self. I had been a user Of
heroin for about three years,
but I didn't know why I had
been a user. found the rea-
son in the souls and hearts
of the people I had created
in The Scene"
Greeks.
CHARLES YARBROUGH.
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Psychiutrist
Not Novelist

Karl Stern, the distin-
guished Bavarian-born psy-
chiatrist-writer, whose "The
Pillar of Fire" was a most
moving autobiography, turns
to the novel form in
THROUGH DOOMS OF
LOVE. (Farrar, Straus &
Cudahy; $4.95).
Alas, DR.. Stern is not a
novelist. While he can drama
tie the working of the mind,
especially the deranged mind,
he cannot make people come
to life on his pages. His
characters converse in jerky,
wooden sentences which may
be meaningful to the psy-
chiatrist but which to the
ordinary novel-reader convey
little.
Fled the World
The principal situation in
the dreary story is the rela-
tionship between a father
and daughter, who are refu-
gees from CZechoslovakia,
more profoundly refugees in
that they have fed the world
in their excluding attach
ment to each other.
When the father suffers a
stroke, the daughter, a model,
takes a lover, a rather british
dress designer, When the
father dies, the daughter
goes mad. briefly, finds her
self again in religion.
DR.. Stern conscientiously
takes us through a mental
hospital, through the tensions
and conflicts Of its staff. He
explains the phenomena of
mental illness. What he has
failed to do-and this is fatal,
no matter what a mans
knowledge or high purpose
is to create believable charac-
ters who arouse belief and
sympathy in a reader.
M. MEG.
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concern, only if Americans
want this kind of land. The
Supreme Court cannot de-
cree its preservation. The
Supreme Court can only re-
fleet the expressed or latent
convictions of all those who
in the aggregate are Amer
ica."
Mr.. Gellhorn is a clear
writer and he sums up the
problems in a forceful way.
The problems are of vital
concern to citizens, and the
book should be of general
interest. &C. B. j,
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An Appraisal Of Literature
And Authors of 500 Years
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

Star Book Critic
it continuously glowS with
the enthusiasm of a man who
has a vast respect for good
books, wherever or whenever
they were created.
Mr.. Priestley is a man of
broad tastes and wide inter-
ests, tolerant and sympa-
thetic, and yet he does not
hesitate to express opinions
which sometimes are against
prevailing critical trends. It's
not that we have always to
agree with Mr.. Priestley.
What makes his book SO
valuable is that he has sum-
married. the work of so many
writer's, leaving us if we are
interested to delve further
and form our own judg-
ments. There are, at the
end, 40 pages of brief biog-
raphies of most of the
writer's evaluated at any
length.
Some Conclusions
These are a few Priestley
conclusions Of particular in
tereSt:
Of Henry James: ". to
hoist him into the command
ing position of a supreme
master is not sensible and
seems a little sinister: as if
the newest criticism, estab-
fishing modern literature. had
switched the current from
the positive to the negative,
as if supremacy required a
lack of richness and fullneSs
in life and art, as if a ghost
might write better than a
man."
OF Proust: HE is a great
novelist, possibly the greatest
so far in this century"
James JOyece was not
taking the novel anywhere;
he has to be enjoyed, but
then bypassed In terms of
the novel, Joyce is an eccen-
trio with astonishing gifts
and unquestionable genius"
OF Faulkner: His novels
are at once so powerful and
so confused because in them
his outer and inner worlds
are so inextricably mingled"
Of Thomas Wolfe: The
truth is that, once his linn
itations are accepted, Wolfe
is one of the most satisfying
and rewarding of all these
American novelists."
OF Dresser: He was not a
great novelist, though a con-
siderable one; but he cleared
a space in which American
fiction could breathe while
it worked"
OF F. Scott Fitzgerald: He
had indeed a natural and
beautiful talent, and if he
had had anything like the
character to match it, he
would have been a great nov
elist."
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Background for
Author Innes

Those who have enjoyed
THE Wreck of the Mary
Deare" and others of Ham
mond Innes' novels of sus-
pense will learn how he
found background and at
mosphere in HARVEST OF
JOURNEYS (Knopf; So.
Mr.. Innes' stories of ad-
venture have roamed from
the Berlin of the airlift 10
western Canada, thence to
French Morocco, England,
France and on various seas.
He tells. in his usual spir-
tied way, about these places
and othera. After reading
him, you'll want to see them
all.
&C. B. j.
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$3.75), he has written a
deeply moving story Of a IS
year-old Polish boy who joins
the partisans in the forests
and learns all that his gen.
Grafton can teach in the way
Of misery.
Europe has always had
the best and oldest univer-
sities," muses. one of the
youthful partisans. 1T has
produced the worlds great
est books and ideas; liberty,
human dignity, fraternity.
European universities are
supposed to be the cradle of
civilization. And yet the
true European education we
receive is gas chambers, rape,
slavery, and firing squads at
dawn"
A Thread Of Light
"It's only a matter Of
courage" says the leader,
There is a thread Of light
going through the darkness
and our eyes must never lose
sight of it."
That thread of light" is
the theme of these vignettes
which take the green men"
through a winter of near
starvation and Nazi repris-
ais. The boy is so hungry
for beauty he buys Jewish
child-violinist from a gang
of toughs for a sack of po-
tatoes. But the musician
learns that nature can be as
cruel as men and he freezes
to death in the forest.
The Next Step
Woven through are
sketches by the partisan
leader who writes of under
ground fighters in other
countries so that the hum
CRY. freezing Poles know that
they are not alone.
Mr.. Gary's book is written
with power, brevity and hu-
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insisted all great art must
have-faultless workmanship,
complete serenity, and faith
full reproduction of facts are
hardly those which inspire
today's avant-garde artists.
But in the field of architec-
ture. Ruskin said much-in
a distinctly Victorian way
that is still of value. Few
could deny, in this day OF
the MATCHBOX bungalow and
the egg-crate skyscraper, his
pleas for higher building
standards and an end to
monotony in architecture.
In Edinburgh on Queen
street he said he counted
678 windows absolutely SIM
liar and devoid Of any
decoration" How many would
he find on K street or
Connecticut avenue where
the latest in American Office
architecture rises in every
Evening star., 1960-03-13

Of Poe: "Let us admit that
he was a highly original
writer of some Importance. 1t
is when we are chided for
misunderstanding and slight
ing him. for not recognizing
him as one of the masters,
that we feel compelled to
state the case against Poe"
Literature and Western
Man" is a Book-of-the-
Month Club selection. 1t de-
serves to be a book Of en-
during interest.
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NOR. The only surprise is its
conclusion. The dream of
freedom that sustained the
green men" in the forest
was hardly realized by the
Sovietization of Poland. Per-
haps he means that to be
the next step in "a European
Education"
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Forthcoming:

The story of Mahalia Jack
son, the gospel singer, as told
to Evan Mcleod Wylie In
MOVIN' ON UP; The story
of Harry Belafonte in BELA-
FONTE by Arnold Shaw; TO
MOSCOW AND BEYOND by
Harrison Salisbury Of the
New York Times.
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LITERATURE AND WEST
ERN MAN. BY j B. Priest
Law Iuorper. S6 Q5)

ERN MAN. BY j B. Priest
ley. Harper; $685.
The English novelist and
playwright, widely known to
readers and audiences on
both sides of the ocean, offers
a fascinating appraisal of
writer's during the last 500
years.
He deals, adequately and
yet briefly. with the play
wrights, noveliSts, poets and
eSSayiSts who, he feels, have
most influenced people. who
are most significant in retro
spect since movable type and
the modern book came into
use in Europe the second
half of the 18th century.
An Amazing Feat
Mr.. Priestley has achieved
something amazing hen you
stop to weigh it. He has
described the work and some
thing of the personality of
leading writer's from Ger
vantes to Conrad, from Tur-
genev to Faulkner, from
Shakespeare to Eugene
ONeill, from Keats to Emily
Dickinson - all within 450
pages. His account is con-
denSed, of course, but it never
seems hurried or inadequate.
The choice of writer's to
discuss is, of course. his own,
and yet there sre few, if
any, authors of significance
left out.
Mr.. Priestley has used
Western man in the ethnic
and geographical sense, with
no thought of contemporary
Iron Curtains. Thus Russia
is included in his survey, but
not Asia.
Understanding Ourselves
He explains in his brief
introduction why he wrote
this remarkable book. What
really tempted me. so that I
fell. was my conviction that
ours is an age of supreme
crisis, when the most des-
perate decisions have to be
made, and that some account
OF Western man, in terms of
the literature he has created
and enjoyed. might help us
to understand ourselves land
doing the work has certainly
helped me), and to realize
where we are and how we
have arrived here"
He adds that strictly
speaking this is not a liter
ary history, although at a
pinch it could be used as
one." and the final empha-
sis here. as tha tit'o suggests,
is not on lite AZURE but on
Western man"
The extraordinary thing,
it seems to me, is that there
is not a dull or pedantic pas
sage in the whole study, but
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READING AND WRITING
Violence From Cradle
OF Civilization
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Roman Gary French novelist who is in danger
Of being typed. His most recent effort Lady L."
sophisticated macabre tale of femme fatae who kept
lover faithful unto death by the simple expedent of locking
him up in a closet.
Now in A EUROPEAN EDUCATION (simon g. schuster;
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BELHAvEN ART EXHIBITION
ON DISPLAY AT LIBRARY

The third of series of art ex
hibitions from the Ford publica
tons is now on display in the
Belhaven Public Library. The ex.
hibit will remain In the library
through February-open during the
regular library hours-from 2 un.
til 5 o'cuock each Monday, Wed.
nesday and Friday afternoons.
The exhibition consists of ten
serigraphs and three water colors
from a collection of paintings
which have been reproduced in the
Ford Motor Company publications
the Ford Times and the Lincoln
Mercury Times.
The serigraphs are original de-
signs reproduced for travel pur-
poses by the flat silk screen meth
cd by two outstanding artists, John
Russell Cliff and Charles Harper.
The three watercolors in the show
are by Harvey Pell.
A local exhibition featuring the
art students work who are studying
under the private instruction of
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MRS. SWINDELL HONORED BF
SWAN QUARTER FRIENDS

Mrs. Larry Spencer of Ports
mouth, Va, the former Miss San
dra Swindell of Swan Quarter, was
complimented with bridal shower
Feb. 9th, when Mrs. Macon Creole
and Mrs. Ruel Caravan entertain
ed for her lat the spacious home of
Mrs. Creole near Swan Quarter.
Mrs. Spencer was presented an
unusual money corsage made of
dimes by Mrs. Caravan. The bride
was radiant in a royal blue silk.
The guests were greeted by Mrs.
Marvin Swindell, mother of the
bride; arrangements of greenery
and multiple bunchess of red ber-
ries glistened a welcome.
Mrs. Don Harris and Mrs. Eve
lyn Swindell were winners of the
contest. The gift table was laid
with a white linen cloth attractive
ly decorated with colors in pink
and white motif. Green punch with
cake squares were served.
Attending also, were the brides
mother, Mrs. Marvin Swindell, the
bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Perry
Spencer, Mrs. Otis Earl Sadler,
Mrs. James Askew, Mrs. Don Har-
ris, Mrs. Carson Tunnel, Mrs. Ho-
ward Cahoon, Mrs. Hal Swindell,
Miss Willie Weston, Mrs. Charlie
Caravan, Mrs. Willie G. Cahoon,
Mrs. Mary Harris, Miss Jean Har-
ris, Mrs. Bennett Stotesbury, Mrs.
Dick O'Neal, Mrs. Linwood Tun-
nell, Mrs. Frank Sadler, Mrs. Gill
bert Cahoon, Mrs. Claude Bonner,
Mrs. r. w. Berry, Mrs. Edmond
Ca'hoon, Mrs. Arlen Swindell, Mrs.
Jay Boomer, Mrs. Evelyn Swim
dell, Mrs. Gervis Sadler, Mrs.
Willie M. Bonner, Mrs.. j. A. Lee,
Mrs. Viola Cahoon, Mrs. John H.
Swindel.
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MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS

The Christian Woman's Fellow
ship of Middletown Christian
Church, met, Feb. 2, at the home
of Mrs. Mamie Neal, with Is pres
ent.
Mrs. Lillian Spencer, president,
reported on a Missionary's expert
ence in Africa. Mrs. Hattie White
gave the devotional and prayer.
A Study Course will be held in the
Middletown Church Sunday after
noon February 18th with Mrs.
Jack Weaver of Plymouth, as
speaker. A tea will be served aft
er the meeting.
Plans We're made for a barbe-
cue and oyster slipper TO be served
at the recreation building at Mid
dletown, February q. The public
is invited to attend.
The hostess served coffee, cake
and nuts for refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Swindell and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Caravan
spent the week end at CASTOR, NC.
with Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Cara
wan, Sherrie, and Kathie.
Virginia Davis visited here Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Mckinney
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. L. Gibbs Wednesday at
Pantego.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Thomas Spen-
Ger Of Portsmouth, Va, spent the
week end here with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Spencer.
Reginald Burrus of Elizabeth
City visited his mother, Mrs. Kate
Burrus and Mr.. and Mrs. Huron
Gibbs.
Mr.. and Mr.. Dennis Selby were
the Sunday dinner guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Mckinney.
On the sick list here are Mrs.
Gladys Carter; Mr.. and Mrs, Web
Whidbee; Loval and Hoyt Whid-
bee; Palmer Swindell, Mrs. Mae
Swindell, Wanda Weston and James
Twiford.
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WlNsTEADvILLE PERSONALS

A. w. Baker of Valdese was the
week end guest of Mr.. and Mrs
A. M. Sparrow, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Sparrow ano
son, Mashall Sparrow, spent Wed1
nesday in Durham with Mr.. anc
Mrs. S. j. Weatherly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sephas Harris and
daughter, Sharon, of Roanoke
Rapids visited the w. E. Powells
Saturday.
A. M. Sparrow, Jr., spent last
week in Grifton on business.
Mr.. ana Mrs. John Berry and
Ms. Sarah Roper of Engelhard Wis
tied several of the Sparrow fami-
lies here Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Murphy
and son, Girls, of Snow Hill were
guests of Mrs. Murphy's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Sadler.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Selby and
young Sherell and Phil Tetterton
of Williamson visited Mr.. and Mrs.
D. o. Selby, Sunday.
Miss Jacklyn Jordan of Ransom
vile visited Miss Phyllis Davis.
S. D. Sparrow was in Washing
ton Tuesday.
Mrs. Lizzie Sawyer of Ransom
vile was the dinner guest of Mr..
and Mrs. w. E. Powell Sunday.
Miss Mary Bundy Godfrey Of
Washington spent the week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen Gorfrey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Smith have
with them this week their young
granddaughter, Dwaynne Smith, OF
Swan Quarter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lin Keech and son
Of Free Union visited of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Sparrow,
Jr., Sunday.
Baby Darrell Sadler, Jr., is get
ting along nicely at home with
his parents after having been a
patient at Pungo District hospital
for several days.
Julian Sadler, who works in Nor.
folk, is at home here while con-
valescing from an illness.
Mrs. Barnie Davis returned Sat
urday from Pungo District hos
pital and is getting along nicely.
The Rev. w. B. Gregory of Bath
held services at Bethany Methodist
Church Sunday morning. After
services the Gregorys were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Spar
row.
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MANY ATTEND FUNERAL
OF CHARLES w. BOWEN

One of Beaufort County's longest
funeral professions followed the re-
mains of Charles Warren Bowen,
II, to Oakdale Cemetery in Wash
ington Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Bowen died at this home in Bath
suddenly Friday afternoon, ending
three years of declining health. He
was named for the late Charles
Warren, distinguished Washington
lawyer, father of Lindsay C. War
A prominent Beaufort County
farmer, leader, and Democrat he
was born in Long Acre township
on October 2, 1883, son of the late
George w. and Elizabeth Archbell
Bowen. He was married to the
former Laura Cutler on March 10,
1910, who survives.
He was a member of the Athens
Chapel Church of Christ a MEM
Der of the Bath Lions club, the
Beaufort County Farm Bureau. He
was a retired mail carrier with
more than 80 years of service.
Surviving with his wife are one
daughter, Mrs. Wilton Smith, Bath;
three grandsons, Wilton Smith Jr.,
Wake Forest college, Winston
Salem, Charles Bowen Smith and
Warren Bonner Smith of Bath; on
sister, Mrs. M. S. Cox, Washing
ton; three brothers, Hilton C
Bowen, Surry P. Bowen and B. A.
Bowen of Bath; and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the
Athens Chapel Church of Christ,
with the Rev. Walker B. Perry Of
ficiating.
Active pallbearers We're. L. H.
Ross, o. ]. Gaylord, Jesse Gray
Baldwin, Henry Wilson Baldwin,
James Bobbitt, Kent Gurganus,
David Everette, ST., and Leonard
Otis Cutler.
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