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Evening star., 1961-08-06
Deep Pains in the Heart
Of d Changing London

all he deserves, besides the
opportunity to discover the
twisted world of Arthur
Sears, the Beast of Cotting-
ham Park (This is what
you must pay $4.95 to find
out).
Two things are certain: /.
This book is free from the
tillny "respectability" that
still jangleS through so many
British novels. 2. Changing
neighborhoods have no mo-
nopoly on Sleazy despair, sim
lister aims and the kind Of
actions that sound police
whistles and ambulance bells,
which are here so patty
brought together.
AS for the obsessive aura OF
Freudian nightmare, could it
be, Miss Dickens, you are
being Americanized? Do they
express words like that, and
disclose thoughts like that,
across the sea?
ROBERT J. LEWIS.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

ScendS upon a shepherd and
his sheep; he finally takes
Mercy off with him to Spain.
Autumn returns at last,
but when we finally see.
Ninian and Violet they are
no longer worried about the
cold blasts of winter. Every
one is happy except the
Italian cook, who has for
sworn the culinary art.
Honor Tracy is an Irish
girl who writes neat and
funny prose with infectious
exuberance. Those who call
her "waSpish" are perhaps
cozened by this new literary
term, which is becoming
quite as q as angry" Miss
Tracy doesn't buzz and she
doesn't Sting-her spirits are
high and her laughter mock
ing. Her book is first-claSS
fun.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Back to the Marine Corps
Of the Second World War

petent, if not overly coura-
geous, rifleman.
Author MacCuish, a former
B-24 pilot, must have done
some vast research into the
vulgate of the Leathernecks
to have recaptured so faith
fully the pungent, and often
vile, language of the Fleet
Marine Force. No obscene
cliehe of the entire Pacific
War has been overlooked.
Still, the verisimilitude is
precise. The Marines Of
1941-45 did talk as Mr.. Mac
Cuish quotes them and the
ex-Marine reviewer is in no
position to cast the first
stone.
Upon Norman's return to
the States, he takes up an
out-of-wedlock common = law
relationship with the widow
of a Guadalcanal friend and
progresses to the rank of SER
geant. However, his world
collapses when her father
in-law shoots her dead in a
motel and Norman is shipped
off to the Pacific again,
somehow the better for it all.
The book is overlong but
maintains reader interest
throughout because Of the at
tention Mr.. MacCuiSh devoteS
to the small details of life
as it was lived in those stir
ring times. 1t is not for the
squeamish but not much of
life in recent years has been.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

the state demands that any
be modified or suspended, he
must not hesitate to discard
them. This Is the shocking
expediency that is the basis
of Machiavelli's teaching, and
the source of posterity's con-
tempt. But why, then, is
posterity so understanding
and complacent when every
day it sees Machiavelli'S pre-
cepts needed by all the
worlds successful leaders?
"a prince, therefore" says
Machiavelli, should have no
other object or thought, nor
acquire skill in anything, ex-
cept war, its organization,
and its discipline. The art
of war is all that is expected
of a ruler; and it is so useful
that besides enabling hered-
itary princes to maintain
their rule it frequently en-
ables ordinary citizens to be-
come rulers. :"
The world snarlS at Ma
chiavelli on account of this
objective advice, but the peo-
Piles Of the world, each under
its own flag and according
to its own traditions, cheer
their leaders who take the ad-
vice to heart.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
DO NOT GO GENTLE. By
David MacCuiSh. (Dou-
bleday k Co. $4.95.)


David MacCuiSh. (Dou-
bleday & Co.; $4.95.)
Most people past IS today
will be able to identify them
selves with two definite per-
iodS in American life: The
great depression Of the Thir-
ties and World War II. This
is a novel about a young
man who seeks escape from
the economic blight and finds
refuge, Of a sort, in the Ma
rine Corps.
The hero, who is named
Norman Mcleod, has grown
to the age of 16 as the in
troverted son of a poverty
stricken copper miner in
Butte, Mont, with a hatred
for dad, a diSilluSionment in
sister and a disintereSt in
MON. He has only an aim
less concern with books to
anchor his life.
Norman does not find the
Marines a blissful life but
the service gives him friends
and an identity, as well as
a serial number. Neverthe-
less, he blossoms to some ex-
tent while fighting in the
SolomonS and becomes a COM
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Shedding a Needed Light
On Spuin's Rise to Power

ers of the day Of Isabella
take liberties with such mat
ters as Enrique Tvs pur-
ported admission that his
daughter was illegitimate-
this to prevent her from as
suming title. 1t now appears
that the feudal overlords
thought they could manage
Isabella Of CASTLE and her
Aragon prince. They were
wrong.
This is not a new work.
1t was written around the
turn of the century. But the
preface is new and sheds
light on an emerging truth:
Namely. that many errors
gird the accepted history of
the era. This is not to say
that the Mariejol text is not
a lively exposition Of the
times. 1t is just that and it
teens with interest.
H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
For Light Summer Reodine
By Your Swimming Pool

terror decorator and-nat-
urally-love.
There are two poodles, a
cocker spaniel, an advertising
man and some big movie
executives blended, in that
order. And where, of course,
could such amusing things
happen to such scintillating,
urbane people but in little
old New York, asks our au-
thor. Where, indeed?
The plot is incidental. You
know that love will conquer
audience ratings, apricot
dyed poodles, puce-colored
walls and other such terrorS
that beset the lives of those
who live on the upper east
side. SUSAN POWERS.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
GOING PLACES WITH

GOING PLACES WITH
CHILDREN. Green Acres
School; 81
This excellent guide is sub
titled Where to Go, What
to Do In Washington" and
it offers a multitude Of sug-
gestions for keeping the chill
dren occupied until school
starts again.
1t was written and pub
nshed by parents of the day
school in Bethesda, Md. They
have broken it down into
such handy sections as sight
seeing; museums and art
galleries, rides and expedi-
tions: theater, music, dance;
spectator sports and special
events; nature in Washing
ton, and active sports-all
geared to the aspects which
interest children.
The 64-page booklet opens
with this suggestion for
parents: What is your
child's world? AS he grows,
it should grow, too. Trips to
new places, seeing new
things, sharing new expert
ences with the family-all
these can awaken new inter-
estS, slim ulate curiosity,
make more meaningful the
Evening star., 1961-08-06
BOOKS IN REVIEW
ALVEY Comedy,
Neat and Funny
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

SEASON OF NuSTS. BY Honor Tracy. Random House;
$3.50
Season Of mists mellow frutfulness" is what Keats
calls autumn and Honor Tracy in her latest novel, brings
together four individuals living in the glow of autumn and
more less fearful Of the chill winter Comedy not
nostalgia rpenesS is the result.
Nnian and Violet twins approaching so who live
geher amicaby surrounded by oddly friends
cared for by mplacabe doctor who not concedng an
inch to odage jumps into his eep without opening door,
The twins most task escape from their half
Evening star., 1961-08-06

stories did add pounds to
their knapsacks? The boys
crammed their bulging packs
full, and cheerfully carried
the extra weight on noun
tain trails. It was worth it,
to be able to read a story
during a lunch break, or dur
ing the long 3,000-mile drive
back home.
1t was worth it for Peter
and his friend. 1t will be
worth it to the children in
your family, too, to lug along
a few extra pounds Of books
on that vacation trip: To the
seashore, to the farm, to
the mountains. Books are
handy pacifierS on long, dull
stretches Of Superhighway,
on rainy days, and also as a
positive inspiration for mo-
ments especially set aside for
reading.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Essays From q Most
ArticuIote Frenchmon

SELECTED ESSAYS. BY
Henry de Montherlant.
Edited, and with an Intro
duction by Peter Quennell.
(The Macmillan Co.; So
For 40 years Henry de
Montherlant has been writing
books, and since the war, at
least, he has been thought
Of at home as one of Frances
greatest living writers, al
though in America his name
is not so famous as Glide
Sartre, Camus, or Mauriac.
AS France is the country of
writer's no less than Switzer-
land is the country of watch
es, it is a happy circum-
stance that Peter Quennell
has cleaned from the non-
fiction of the most articu-
late of Frenchmen this vol
ume Of representative essays.
Most are not essays of a
thesis or of reflection, but
OF narrative. The author
states or implies that many
Of the stories are in fact
true, and so they seem to
be-what Montherlant be-
lieveS he declares by telling
what he has seen. AeSthet-
ically, this approach suits
well his philosophy of non
commitment. Like INA
ture]," he says, IT refuse to
make a choice, I wish to en-
ter ever more completely into
the universal law of alter
mating rhythms and the di-
vine interplay of compensa-
ton. - I wish to be effec-
tive in all directions. 1t is
a pedantic conception to see
the yea and the nay in OPP
posite camps, and wearing
different coloured jerseys,
like football teams"
So everything that delights
Montherlant is equivocal, am
bivalent. And since his
30th year when he gave
up sport Gin his youth he
was a bullfighter) and de-
voted himself entirely to lit
erature, many things have
delighted him-he says he has
led a completely happy life.
When he declares the peak
of human experience to be
sexual pleasure, and his only
other comparable passion his
writing, it sounds at first
just slightly naive, but as we
come to see the refractions
Of experience on Monther-
lant'S many faceted char
acter, we realize that it is
only the simple truth. Mon
therlant wants to get rid Of
things-he is quite content
when a house-servant steals
from him, and allows the po-
lice to stop the thieving only
as a concession to society.
He decides that the middle
ages were right in think
ing that money should
be sterile, and in 1925
closes his savings account so
that his money will not draw
interest. He cures himself OF
the fear of death by batter
ing La Mort with a fearful
barrage of polished aphor-
iSn1S. He answers the Par-
isian journalists perennial
question of the book he would
take on the desert island by
choosing the Old Testament,
and from that EcclesiaStes,
which mo doubt is not the
greatest book produced by
mankind but more than any
other-except the work of
NietzSche-it corresponds to
my temperament"
It is we'll that what Mon
therlant thinks he usually
embodies in narrative, for
his style, I think, is better
suited to the concrete than
Il ~
Evening star., 1961-08-06
EAST 57th STREET. Alan R.

EAST 57th STREET. Alan R.
jackson. (Simon & SchuS-
ter; $3.50
Sure as sunburn, heat rash,
mosquitoes and other irri-
tants, summer brings with it
a batch Of Eight reading"
designed to make the public
settle back with a collective
gin-and-tonic by the pool and
forget the Sunburn, heat rash,
etc.
So Alan R. Jackson gives
EAST 57th Street." a slight
concoction whose chief in
gradients include a boyish
television personality, Strug-
Cling young writer, glamorouS
society girl, tomboyiSh in
Evening star., 1961-08-06
The Dead

Bridal Sheets" a story Of
death and Stinginess on a
western island is perhaps the
most brilliantly fashioned
story in the book. 1t tells Of
a new made widow, an in
land bride Of four months
whose husband is drowned,
and is recounted entirely in
dialogue between the be-
reaved and an old crone
assigned to comfort her be-
fore the wake begins. The
crone cannot understand the
mourning Of the girl-Surely
death is a common thing,
and a mere man not worth
so many tears. Finally, she
bursts out, IF you want any,
one to know what ails you,
then why can't you tell it?"
Bit by bit it comes out. The
island bride had brought to
the western island a trous-
Seau fit for a queen, but she
had never worn any of it for
her husband. But from her
sobbing condolences it is plain
she never would have brought
her finery out of the trunks,
for she did not think the
iSland-or her husband
worthy Of it. She even be-
Evening star., 1961-08-06
STORIES OF ERIN
ADeep Look Into
The Irish Heart
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

THE GREAT WAVE, and Other Stories BY Mary LAWN
(Macmflan; $500
Some modern short stories like StrawmatS slippery
to walk on not much to look at. Mary LAWNS by
comparison like Oriental rugs with deep pile and design
that glows the more you study it.
An 1riShwoman who was born in America, she has been
writing about her counymen for 20 and She
always percepeive about them but occasionally acid
In her newest collection she knowing ever
aSperity is gone There is SoftneSS and
passion Not Frank OConnor has looked deeper into
Evening star., 1961-08-06
THE HEART OF LONDON,

by Monica Dickens. (CoW-
ard-McCann; $4.95).
This novel Of violence, sex
and social upheaval is daubed
impressioniStically on the
backdrop of a changing Lon
don neighborhood.
Cottingham Park, it is
called, and it could be found
in almost any city. Monica
Dickens discovers it and its
somewhat stereotyped and
topical denizens, applies en-
ergetic artificial respiration,
and brings it to life.
This great-granddaughter
Of Charles Dickens, now liv-
ing in the United States, has
been writing books since
1889. Her pace is swift, her
insights sharp, and she pays
enough attention to carnal
matters to give the guilty
reader what he may consider
to be his moneys worth.
But has he really received
Evening star., 1961-08-06
PAPERBACKS

Classical tales or less well
known stories by classic au-
thors were reprinted by Sig
net in their New American
Library series costing SO
cents each. The titles are:
THE GREAT MEADOW. BY
Elizabeth MADDOX Roberts.
A factual, day-to-day rec
ord Of frontier life in the
l770s.
THE COSSACKS and THE
RAID. BY Leo Tolstoy. A
new translation.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Muir's Mountains

Justice William o. Douglas,
champion of national parks
and conservation, has a sub
ject close to his heart in his
biographical portrait, MUIR
OF THE OUNTAIN S
(Houghton, Mifflin. $3.50.
His own enthusiasm and de-
Votion mingle so naturally
and successfully with gen.
erous quotations from Muir's
own diaries, that it is some
times difficult to know
whether Muir or Douglas is
speaking. This really doesn't
matter. The result is an un-
usually moving and impress
Siye biography.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Good Stories

Very relaxing is the story
Of -KICKAPOO by Miska
Miles (Atlantic. $2.75). Kick
apoo is a Kansas mule who
proves that he is the smartest
mule in the county, and
more than match for most
ponies as well as humans.
Wesley Dennis has caught
the CLINT in Kickapoo's eye
and the twitch Of his stub
born ears, but it's the story
itself which will win friends
for Kickapoo, especially
among readers under 10.
For older boys and girls,
Stephen Holt tells a rugged
adventure story in THE
RANCH BEYOND THE
MOUNTAINS (Longmans:
$3.50. The treacherous mus
keg Of British Columbia pro-
vides a dramatic backdrop.
Survival is a year-round en-
durance test for an unusual
partnership Of a teen-age
cowboy and a bomber pilot,
both trying to make a living
from an abandoned ranch.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

DARKNESS AT NOON. BY
Arthur KoeStler. A story of
Communist logic carried to
its final degree.
GEORGIA BOY. BY Erskine
Caldwell. Life among the
rednecks through the eyes
Of a 12-year-old.
Doubleday Anchor Books
are offering $1.45 selec-
tions of detailed works on
science and history:
THE SCIENCE OF GIAMG
BATTISTA Woo. Trans
lated by Thomas Goddard
Bergin and Max Harold
Fisch. An abridged, revised
publication Of the idea that
the social world is the
work of man.
DARWIN'S CENTURY. BY
Loren EiSeley. Evolution
and the men who dis
covered it.
THE THIRTY YEARS WAR.
BY c. v. Wedgwood.
These other Doubleday An
chor reprints cost 95 cents:
EARLY STORIES. BY Anton
Chekhov. Fourteen tales,
some never before trans
lated into English.
AN INTRODUCTION TO
METAPHYSICS. BY Mar
tin Heidegger.
WEEKEND IN DINLOCk.
By CLANCY Sigal. A docu-
mentary novel Of a York
shire mining village.
THE NARROWING CIRCLE.
BY Julian Symons. IDOL
phin, 95 cents) British
mystery.
MURDER FOR PROFIT. BY
William Bolitho. Dolphin;
95 centSD An examination
Of the careers of six famous
murderers.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Other Books of the Week in Brief

THE MARRIAG les. BY.
Henry James. Also other
stories.
HARD TIMES. BY Charles
Dickens. The story of bleak
Gradgrind day school is
another Dickensonian in
dictment of Victorian in
dustrial society.
THE VICAR OF WAKE
FIELD. BY Oliver Gold
smith. UnSwerving faith Of
a village vicar is again re-
warded in this pastoral
poem.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Going Camping?
Take Along Books
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

One summer not long ago. two boys a camping trip
exploring ghost town in the State of Washington
In abandoned house. they found bottle message" left
by the owner, excl who had pulled up stakes. The
message read: Help yourself to anything uSable
The boys eyes bright soon pounced a treasure to
their liking Heaped in overlooked by other viS-
itor pile of back Of their favorte chidrens
magazine Eagerly they turned the pages of Story PGrGde
This was treasure not to be abandoned. What these
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Bethesda Parents Write
Guide-Book for Children

things he hears about at
home, at school, on TV, from
books"
And then it points the way.
JACK JONAS.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Boating Lessons

In MICHAEL SAILS THE
MUD HEN CHaStings House;
$3.50, the youngster who is
still a sailing novice will find
encouragement and advice to
lure him into the satisfac-
tions Of owning and sailing
his own boat. The authors,
Peggy and Gordon Aymar,
are veteran sailors, and the
illustrator has collected over
400 sailing trophies.
If you're going to the sea-
shore, it will be well to
Evening star., 1961-08-06
And the Living

THE Living" is a story
which opens on a macabre
note, as two small boys are
importuned by a widow to
touch the corpse of her sim
ple-minded husband. But it
moves into an enveloping
warmth as one child to the
love and comfort Of his own
home.
The Mouse" tells of a
long ago courtship between a
perfectly suited couple, which
failed because the girl did not
understand the Importance of
senSuality and playfulneSs.
But they are all excellent
and Miss LAWN. has sue
ceeded brilliantly with every
thing she has tried in this
splendid collection about a
people that veers between
unSettling Observation-Disclosures
and wild fancy.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Serious Sport

For those who take their
fishing seriously, in salt
water or fresh, Vlad Evanoff
has prepared A COMPLETE
GUIDE TO FISHING (Cro-
well; $3.75). In simple Ian
guage and pictures, he tells
what equipment to use for 80
different kinds Of fish, how
to make your own lures If
necessary, and how. to plan a
fishing trip so that all the
big ones won't get away. Page
after page, the author de-
fends his thesis, that the
bugaboo of "fiSherman'S
luck" can be balanced by skill
and knowledge.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

grudgeS him the bridal sheets
for his Shroud. Miss LAWN
works this material into a
small masterpiece which
could be put on the Abbey
stage intact.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

the Irish heart, at its balki-
ness at love, its. acceptance
of death.
These stories have an un-
common distinction, particu-
larly in a season that has
seen much that is Shoddy and
inconSequential.
These stories are realistic,
but some of them are shot
through with hope and joy.
Even the ones with unhappy
endings-and the romances
go particularly ill-are salts
flying. They have endings,
which is more than you can
say about a lot of stories
these days, and everything is
quite different from the way
it was at the beginning.
Evening star., 1961-08-06

pack a few handy factual
books, which will take on
added value in their nat
ural setting. For instance,
WATCH THE TIDES, by
David Greenhood (Holiday
House; $2.75), combines facts
with appreciation Of the
endless fascination of NOV
ing water. SANDPIPERS, by
Edith Thacher Hurd CCro-
we'll; $1.95), will serve to
alert the naturally curious
youngSter to other SeaShore
birds, as well as the familiar
Sandpiper.
There's extra value in
these titles, too:
TONY'S BIRDS. BY Millicent
Selsam. (Harper'S; $1.95.)
ROCKS AND HOW THEY
WERE FORMED. BY Her
bert Zim. Golden Press;
SO centS.)
WHERE THE BROOK BE-
GINS. By Margaret Far
rington Bartlett. (Crowell;
$3.50
MODEL ROCKETS FOR
BEGINNERS. BY H. H. Gill
more. (Harper'S; S2.50O
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Fish oiled Formers

DEEP SEA FARM (Knopf;
So, written and illustrated
in bold, deep colorS by Dahlov
1pcar, will appeal to young
children just as strongly, but
quite differently, from this
author-artist's popular ONE
HORSE FARM. The farm in
her earlier book is a down.
to-earth New England farm,
with people and livestock in
traditional occupations.
Not so, the deep-sea farm
and the fiSh-tailed farmer so
imaginatively created in the
new book, in which Miss
Ipcar nonchalantly weaveS a
fantasy around cowfiSh and
seahorseS, butterfly fish and
squirrel fish. This is no care
less mixture Of fact and fan
taSy, but a truly delightful
combination, especially for
bright children who will SAVIOR
the conglomeration Of words
and pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
In Adjoining Room
Roar of Traffic Defeats Teaching,
So Civ Is Asked to Take Action

louder. Her voice was COM
pletely lost as the big vehicle
Numbered by.
I'm told the noise at Dun
bar is worse. You were asked to
listen to the milder recording, y
Deputy School SupG. Lawson j
Cantrell told committee men,
berS.
A survey at Dunbar showed
that 512 trucks passed during
a one-hour period october 8,
or one every seven seconds.
This is intolerable, and it
is understood that this condi-
ton will continue for two
years." the report said. The
situation is dangerous to the
life and limb of every student
and practically precludes any
normal instruction in the three
buildings" the report added.
The committee suggested the
board urge the Commissioners
to re-route traffic.
In other business, Supt. Carl
F. Hansen proposed neighbor-
hood school contests to cut
down on mounting school WIN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
CORE Rides
To Test Bias
On Route 40

The Washington Congress of
Racial Equality today an
nounced plans for Freedom
Rides to test the willingness of
restaurants along U. S. Route
40 to serve colored persons.
Julius w. Hobson, CORES
Eastern representative, will
have charge of the Freedom
Rides, which he said will be
joined by members of the New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington units.
| Mr.. Hobson said police and
the F'BI will be notified of the
exact dates. The tests will be
made in the latter part of this
month at restaurants between
Baltimore and the Delaware
Memorial Bridge.
/ Refusal of some eating places
to serve Negroes has brought
an effort among Maryland off,
Gals for enactment of anti
discrimination legislation.
Mr.. Hobson also announced
that letters have been mailed
to $50 companies here inform
ing them that surveys by CORE
indicate the firms are not en-
ploying Negroes in all job cate
gories. CORE requested the
companies to reply by letter
with combinations or correc-
tions of the survey findings.
On the basis of the surveys
and the companies replies,
CORE intends to publish the
first of a series of "selective
buying guides" next week list
ing companies that do not en-
ploy Negroes in all Jobs.