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Evening star., 1961-06-26
Eichmonn Says He Felt
Like GuiItIess 'PiIote'

JERUSALEM, June 26 (Ar).-Adof Eichmann today
Mened his role in the Na slaughter Of the that
Of Ponts PLATE and said he able to wash his hands
of any feeling Of guilt.
The former Gestapo colonel in charge Of Jewish affairs
reached back into Christian history describe his thoughts
Evening star., 1961-06-26

8.00
: 30.Iine Outdoor Clothes
Dryer. All Steel with II" porolIel
lines. S'ond 6-Ft. high to keep clothes
of ground. Ground socket included
Tor easy insiollotioh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

pythons, including COM
parative facts about other
snakes and basic informa-
ton on reptiles in general.
(Not recommended for
lmbiberS.)
FLAG ON DEVILS ISLAND.
BY Francis Lagrange with
William Murray. Double
day; $4.95l. The autobi-
ography of one of the
greatest counterfeiters and
art forgers of modern
times. Not a how-to-do-it
book
OCCUPATION: Adventure.
BY Jim Thorne. Double
day; $685. The personal
story of a man who
chooses to live danger
ously.
AMERICAN SAIL. A pictorial
History. By Alexander
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Aphorisms of Durable Wit
In d New Edition of Bierce

the preponderance Of one set
Of influences over another
set.
Defame, VT. To lie about
another, or to tell the truth
about another.
Dramatist, n. One who
adapts plays from the
French.
Duel, n. A formal cere-
mony preliminary to the
reconciliation of two enemies.
Epitaph, n. An inscription
on a tomb showing that vir-
tues acquired by death have
a retroactive effect.
Fidelity. n. A virtue pc
culiar to those who are about
to be betrayed.
Friendless,l adj. Having no
favors to bestow.
Grave, n. A place in which
the dead are laid to await
the coming of the medical
student.
Lord, n. In American So
ciety, an English tourist
above the station of a CO.
stermonger.
Nom Combatant, n A dead
Quaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
THE PAPERS OF ALEXAN-

THE PAPERS OF ALEXAN-
DER HAMILTON, Vols. 1
& II, 176S-17S1. Harold c.
Syrett, editor; Jacob E.
Cooke, associate editor.
Columbia University
Press; $3.50 per volumeD
Today may be known in
the future as the age of
literary monumental. Prob
ably never before in America
have so many complete and
scholarly multi-volume edi-
tons been under way at one
time. To name only a few,
there are Adams, Franklin,
jefferson, Walpole, Whitman,
Emerson (the als),
Hawthorne, and now Alexan-
der Hamilton.
The new Hamilton, the
first two of an unspecified
number Of volumes of which
have just appeared, measures
up to the qualifications of its
rivals in meticulous editing
and handsome production.
Not only are all of Hamil-
tons own writings included,
but also a great number Of
letters addressed to him. Let
tiers written by Hamilton for
George Washington when
he was the generals aide
de-camp), or perhaps dictat-
ed to Hamilton, are also
here. The cutoff date of the
second volume is 1881.
The value Of these books
to historian and scholar is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Volume | in q Scholarly
Study of Freedom

FREEDOM IN THE AN
GENT WORLD. BY Her
bert j. Muller. (Harpers;
S7.50O
This is the first volume
in a multi-volume study of
the history of human free
dom in the Western tradi-
ton. Well informed, thought
full, and presented in a
straightforward style, it is
worthy of Prof. Muller's rep
utation and outstanding
previous works. If 1 were
asked to recommend to a
serious general reader an ex-
cellent history of antiquity,
I should recommend this
book; but I should have to
add that it achieves it's spe-
cial aim, the history of hui
man freedom. only in spots.
A five-page photography at
the end of this volume lists
the works of well-known
scholars like Gordon Childe,
Henri Frankfort, John A.
Wilson, Karl Wittfogel, and
S. N. Kramer. 1t is obvious
that Prof. Muller has read
these carefully, since echoes
from them are to be found
on every page of this book,
and it is the better for this.
The author has digested these
works and added to them his
own thinking. notably in an
excellent analysis of the psy-
Geological impact of the shift
from the neolithic village to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
THE DEVILS DICTION-

THE DEVILS DICTION-
AIRY. BY Ambrose Bierce.
A Dolphin paperback. COS
centsO
The Devils Dictionary"
first appeared in Bierce's
newspaper column during the
years 1SS1-1906. Whenever
I pick up the book I am
amazed anew at how durable
is the wit of this collection
Of aphorisms. Here I have
space for either comment or
quotation; no reader will OBJ
ject to my choice:
Adore, vt. To venerate ex-
pectantly.
KleptOmaniac, n. A rich
thief.
Antipathy, n. The senti-
ment inspired by ones
friends friend.
Befriend, vt. To make an
migrate.
Billingsgate, n. The in
vective Of an opponent.
Decide, vi. To succumb TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Two Volumes of Hamilton
For the Use of Scholars

inestimable. There is a great
deal of factual material con-
corning the Revolutionary
War - orders, receipts, pro-
posed treaties for exchange
of prisoners of war Zone gen.
eral Of the rank of Com
mander- in-Chief is worth 1872
enSignS), and a letter in
which Hamilton describes the
incident that was the cause
Of his leaving Washington,
a man he admired but dis
liked. There is also much
that shows the development
of Hamilton the man-exer-
cises and studies, and YER
batim or paraphrased tran
scripts from encyclopedias
and other books Of learning.
In addition, there are some
entries OF genuine literary
value "A Full Vindication"
and THE Farmer Refuted"
- important arguments
about the great dispute be-
tween England and the colo
MES, and the three "Publius"
letters. in which Hamilton
attacked Samuel Chase.
But on the whole there is
not much in these two mi
tial volumes that will appeal
to the general cultivated
reader, as distinct from the
specialist and scholar.
Whether Hamilton wrote
anything else to compare
with his contributions to
The Federalist" we will have
to wait for later volumes to
show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

Army of the Cumberland.
Pap" Thomas. in fact, sue
ceeded "Old Rosy" as top
Cumberlander when, after
Chickamauga. Lincoln wea-
ried Of seeing him FLAP
around confused and stunned
like a duck hit on the head"
1t can be agreed that Grant
was not above conniving and
character assassination. 1t
can also be argued that
Thomas, the Unionist Vir-
ginian, was the most con-
sistently reliable commander
the North had, and that
Ohio's Rosecrans Showed
flashes of brilliance. Thomas
never lost a battle, displayed
defensive greatness at Chick
amauga and offensive great
ness in crushing the Con-
federacy's western army at
Nashville. He was a meticu-
lous organizer who won the
love of his men by caring
for their wants and their
lives. Grant was sometimes
known as a butcher Rose
Grams had a fine talent for
tactics, as when he maneu-
vered the socks off Bragg
in the Tennessee mountains.
Old Rosy. in fact, was the
only commander who ever
managed to outmaneuver Lee.
Grant, it is often said,
bludgeoned Lee into submits
SionD
While the authors contend
it was Grant and his cronies
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PAPERBAcK
THE CANTERBURY TALES
OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

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OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
Edited by Daniel Cook.
Doubleday; $1.45D A new
method of presenting the
tales in their original
language, with full ammo
tations on pages facing
the text.
PARALLELS AND PARA
BOXES. BY Franz Kafka.
(Schocken; $1.450 A col
lection from the authors
earlier works.
ASPECTS OF RABBINIC
THEOLOGY. BY Solo,
mon Schechter. (Schocken:
$3.50 Statements Of the
ideas which form the reli-
gious consciousness Of the
Jewish people. Reprint.
YOGA FOR PERFECT
HEALTH. BY Alain. (Pyra-
mid; so cents.) A system
of health and hygiene Of
body and mind.
SYLVIA. BY E. v. Cunning
ham. (Fawcett; a Crest
Book; so cents.0 A mans
strange search into a wo-
mans past.
THE NOTEBOOKS OF
HENRY JAMES. Edited by
F. o. Matthiessen and
Kenneth B. Murdoch. CA
Galaxy Book, oxford;
$2.25.) A record of the
novelist'S work in progress
for a period of more than
80 years. Reprint.
CONVERSION. BY A. D.
Mock. (Oxford; $3.50 A
study of the circumstances
and psychology of religious
conversion during the last
three centuries before
Christ and the first four Of
the Christian era.
LASSO ROUND THE MOON.
BY Agnar Mykle. dell;
so centsJ A tale of a
young Norwegian and his
way through life. Reprint.
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absorbing as imaginative
fancy.
THE WITCH OF THE LOW
TIDE. BY John Dickson
Carr. (Harper; $500 A
fine story set in Edwardian
England, where the be-
loved of a young neurol-
ogiSt is accused of murder
ing her sister. The sea-
side version of the locked
room-in this case a bath
ing pavilion with I'M
marked, wet sand all
around and a dead woman
inside-adds the special
Carr touch to a most en-
gaging story.
&x -
DROWN THE WIND. BY Mar
garet Page Hood. Coward
Mccain. Inc; $500 The
murder of the islands big
gest and most prosperous
bully puts deputy sheriff
Gil Donan to work in an
other saga of Fox Island,
off the Maine coast. Worth
reading, but a diSappoint-
ing addition to a fine series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

us pdBbS UelIiS uSIlNeQ ell
tirely from Sandburg's works
and lectures. If it does not
add greatly to our knowledge
of the poet-guitarist -biogra-
pher. the fault may be Sand
burg'S rather than Golden's.
For Carl Sandburg has been
so long and so vocally among
us that it is hardly possible
to mention his name without
summoning up the memory
of that face and the sound of
that Incompatible voice.
Maybe only a member of a
future generation free of his
enormous personal spell can
properly evaluate him.
Mr.. Golden is entirely can
did about the scope and tone
of his tribute in the intro
duction. MY research, such
as it was" he writes, was
my love for Carl Sandburg. I
consider him my closest
friend, and while respect
the men of critical acumen
who have sometimes tried to
diminish the Importance of
his work, I do not believe
them"
So after quoting a long
critical passage from Edmund
Wilson, Mr.. Golden simply
refutes it by saying that Mr..
Sandburg's work has endured.
Not the best argument at
this moment.
Mr.. Golden's book, which
is admirably illustrated with
photographs-some of them
taken by Sandburg's brother
in-law, Edward Steichen-is
something like an evening
with Carl Sandburg. taking
up a subject and pursuing it
without regard to chronology
and then drifting off to some
thing else. with ballads and
opinions interspersed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
CIVIL WAR BOOKSHELF r.
TheU.S. Gront Legend
Is forget for Shippers !.

Two authors take separate swpes at the .. s. Grant
legend in biographies which tend gory their special
heroes Of the They probably won't succeed in changing
minds much less Grants reputation for
EDUCATION IN VIOLENCE, by Francis F. Mckinney wayne
State University; $780, and THE EDGE OF GLORY, by
William M Lamers Harcourt Brace & World $3.50. offer
thorough biographical records their
The former is life Of George H. Thomas Chickamaugas
famed rock the latter William Starke
Both officers their association with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Human Quarry
In Dark Africo

Laurens van der Post is
one Of the ornaments Of the
current school of South AZ
rican literature. He is a writ
er of unfailing distinction,
who brings a brooding, poetic
intensity to his accounts of
adventures on his native
continent. He is one Of those
hunters who is also in search
Of human quarry to under
stand and to explain to the
rest of the world. In HEART
OF THE HUNTER Morrow;
S4.50) he is tracking down
the spirit of the Bushman,
the vanishing aborigine.
II his early pages, he
evokes brilliantly the atmos-
phere of the Kalahari Desert
on the eve Of a great storm.
He and his comrades discov-
er a parched and starving
band of Bushmen. He de-
scribes them as more pre-
cious and poignant than the
animal life which the Gov
eminent strives so earnestly
to preserve.
All this reaches the heart.
But Mr.. van der Post rather
regrettably leaves the field
of personal experience and
response for a long disserta-
ton on the early legends OF
the Bushmen, which he sub
jectS to retroactive psyche
analysis - not always a re-
warding effort.
What is best are the pic
lures of animals and men
who live in curious harmony
with each other and the
world around them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

the earliest L~ban civilization
(pp. 26-72).
Prof. Muller's inability in
this work to carry out his
special task, the history of
human freedom, seems to me
to rest on his failure to dis
tinguish between freedom"
(the existence of alternative
personal choices in a society
and liberties" (the existence
of a social pattern which per-
mits a man to develop his
potentialities). This distinc-
ton, which is the basis of a
successful work like Ruggi-
eros History of Euro
pean Liberalism" needs to be
made in respect to ancient
history as well. Prof. Muller
confuses the two in his origi-
nal definition Of his subject
page xiii, and the rest of
his work suffers from this.
The chief consequence of
this, 1 believe, is an under
appreciation of the contribu-
ton from Latin Christianity
and an over-appreciation of
the contribution of the Greek
polls in the history of West
ern freedom" but the VOL
ume still stands as an excel
lent account of ancient times.
CARROLL QUIGLEY.
Mr.. Quioley, a professor of
history in the Georgetown
School OF Foreign Service, is
the author OF the recently
published 1.-THE Evolutions of
Civilizations" (MGcmilldn).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

JIAcIC VIII DC tlO pldOC AOA OH
idealiSt outsider.
His first experience in New
York is to find himself in the
maelStrom Of a particularly
bloody race-riot from which
he escapes to be delivered to
the keeping of a lifelong
friend Of his father-a
wealthy merchant who tries
to substitute Adam for the
son he has just lost in the
war. Adam knows that he
must journey on toward the
battle-line, that his destiny,
though only nebulously dis
cerned, is conflict. He be-
comes the assistant of a suit
Ter, and with another helper.
a Negro, turns southwark in a
caravan of two wagons filled
with merchandise for the
troops.
From this point on the
novel is a series of incidents
interrelated only by the war
and Adams participation in it
or reaction to it. On a Penn
sylvania farm, Adam meets a
young wife nursing her dying
husband, a disgraced North
ern soldier bearing the stig-
ma of German cowardice in
battle. Adam is tempted to
stay. but again moves on.
driven by escape and beck
oned by the unknown.
At Gettysburg, a drunken
grave-robber is already at
work, his grisly thieving pro-
tected by a re-burial job
given him by the State. In
Virginia, where the suffers
wagons meet the Army, Adam
experiences all the. vileness,
depravity, and human cor
ruption of war. There is no
trace of nobility-Negroes
are flogged and branded by
soldiers. a camp harlot is
willingly used but Indignantly
dashed, man who does not
believe in killing must kill
the impressment officer.
Adams employer, the sutler,
is murdered by the Negro
helper, and Adam is left with
the wagon and wares. The
book ends with a wild and
feverish. almost surrealistic,
foray in the Wilderness.
The various violent Incl
dents are told wildly. Mr..
Warren has an acute ear for
dialogue and his dialects of
Southern Negroes and North
ern white-trash are very col
orfpl. Perhaps these speech
ways are recreations, perhaps
the product of a fine imag-
ination, but in either case
they are the most memorable
aspect of the book.
The weakness of Mr.. War
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Angry Hecht
Book Burns
The Pages
PERFIDY. BY Ben Hecht.

PERFIDY. BY Ben Hecht.
(Messner; So
This angry book, which
fairly scorcheS its pages at
times, contains accusations
which a prominent American
novelist and dramatist makes
against some of the found
ing fathers of the new state
of Israel.
Mr.. Hecht, himself a Jew
closely identified with move
ments to save those of his
faith from death and perse-
cution and find them a
homeland, charges that some
Of the leaders of Israel, in
the days before the new re-
public was firmly established,
elaborated with the Brit
ish in trying to keep out
immigrants and in aiding the
Arabs. The British opposition
to the nascent country,
which their government had
pledged itself to support as
far back as World War I.
Mr.. Hecht attributes not to
anti-semitism, but to the
resources of the Arabs in oil
and other commodities which
England needed.
Mr.. Hecht's thesis is de-
veloped from a careful report
of the trial of Malchiel
Greenwald. a Jewish jour-
nalist for criminally libeling
Rudolph Kastner, a high
government official of Israel.
Mr.. Greenwald had cir
culated a pamphlet charging
Kastner with aiding Eich-
mann and other high Nazi
officials in exterminating the
Jews of Hungary. Kastner,
considered a hero" of the
new state, had been credited
with doing all he could to
save the Jews of Hungary.
Under a merciless cross
examination by S. Tamir. an
astute lawyer and former
fighter for the Zionists,
Kastner, after weeks on the
stand, broke completely and
made damaging admissions.
The judge found Green
valid generally innocent" of
libel against Kastner. but
fined him one Israeli pound
$50 cents for an improved
charge that Kastner actually
collected money for aiding
his "Nazi partners" in round
ing up Hungarian Jews for
slaughter.
Mr.. Hecht defends the
early fighters for the indie
pence of Israel. those whom
the British and even Israeli
officials called "terrorists,"
including the Stern Gang.
Many of them were slain;
some were hanged by the
British. But their small
armies were so effective, Mr..
Hecht points out, that they
drove a large British Army
into a state of siege in Jeru-
salem and eventually helped
to bring about England's
abandonment Of its efforts to
thwart the new state.
Whatever the measure of
truth in Mr.. Hecht's sensa-
tional charges. his book is an
absorbing story.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

AND DIE IN DIXIE, by
Theodore Roscoe (Charles
Scribner's Sons, $3.50, is a
spellbinder, laid for the
most part in the era Of the
crime. It's long, but we were
sorry to see it end with the
latter-day, but believable.
solution. Mr.. Roscoe, who
lives in Arlington. is a mas
ter story-teller.
= +
ONE NIGHT IN JULY. BY
Jonathan Root. Coward
Mccain, Inc; S4.95.) We
may be the only person in
the country who had never
heard of the murder of
Herman Rosenthal, a New
York gambler. in the ten
derloin district in 1912,
allegedly because Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker
wanted him dead. Don't be
put off if you're ignorant,
too, for such is Author
Roots power that the crime
and trial become as COM
polling as most famous
cause celebres. Mr.. Roots
fine dramatic sense has
made fictionalized fact as
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Laing. (Dutton; $50 The
beauty and drama of the
ship in America from CO.
lonial times on, with over
500 illustrations.
GRANDFATHER WAS A
TROUT. BY John Bailey.
(Prentice-Hall; $500 A
humorous fishing guide by
a former editor of the Sat-
urday Evening Post.
COMMON SENSE ABOUT
RACE; COMMON SENSE
ABOUT RELIGION; COM
MON SENSE ABOUT
CRIME AND PUNISH
MENT. Three Of the Com
mon Sense" Series. The
first by Philip Mason, the
second by John Hadham,
the third by c. H. Rolph.
Macmillan; $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Warren Turns
To the Civil War
BY DAY THORPE
Star staff Writer

WILDERNESS: Tale Of the Civil War BY Robert Penn
Warren random House; s495)
this Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Penn Warren
tells Of young Austrian Jew whose vision Of freedom de-
termne him to tear ghetto traditions
America to join the Union Army His passage
paid by Northern recruiting gang Adam aboard ship
discovers that his congenitay deformed foot which
believes has deprived Of the of any girl will keep
him ensting and that in the New World in the Old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19

ren's story is the episode
structure which the quasi
allegory Of Adams quest fails
to unity. The poetic prose
that contrasts with the earthly
speech of the characters
seems a trifle arty. We know
that Adam is symbolic Of
something. The horrible de-
formity he was born with
which, together with the
stamp of his orthodox Jewish
environment. has made him
introverted and self-lacerat-
ing. is clearly something more
than a physical defect, just
as the elimination of his
journey-the crossing of the
Rapidan is primarily a spir-
itual goal, not just the ford
ing Of a creek.
That Adam is both COM
plicated and ambiguous is
not an artistic fault. but that
the involutions of his char
acter are shown against an
unreal background, a night
mare Of evil, degradation,
cruelty and hopelessness, a
background which is, more
over. quite static, makes the
book struggle for a point the
reader is not convinced is
graSped by the author. 1t is
an artistic necessity that
Ahab's whale be real, that
Gregor Samsa's huge cock
roach be real. that even the
grin of the Cheshire cat be
real. In Wilderness" the
Civil War. though it's brutah-
ty is skillfully realized, is es-
sentially unreal, and the
alien Adam, as he walks
against its outlines, is there
fore less an allegorical figure
than a simple puppet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Arlington Author Knows
How to Handle Suspense
By BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Reporter Sherman Grant breads his reception in the
Southern town of Amtyburg the of famous murder
his editor hopes will help dramatic article capital
punishment But Grant forgets the present old files
and residents the Of 1902 when the wife
leading citizen scalded TO death in her bath TO LIVE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Mrs. Marshall
Writes Her
Life Story
BEYOND OIJRSEIyES :

BEYOND OURSELVES. BY
Catherine Marshall. INC
Graw-Hill Book Co., Inc;
S4.950
Catherine Marshall. whose
biography of the late DR..
Peter Marshall launched her
on a literary career, has now
completed what her publish
ers aptly call "a spiritual au-
photography"
Two years ago-almost IL
years after DR.. Marshall's
death-She married Leonard
LeSourd, executive editor of
Guideposts, a religious maya
zine, and is now living in
Chappaqua, in Westchester
County, N. Y.
In her foreword, she intro
duces her readers to her new
family-her husband Len and
his three children, Linda, IL:
Chester, 8, and Jeff. 5, who
have Joined her own Peter
John in calling her Mother"
she says.
"Someday perhaps I shall
write about the adventures
Of rearing a second family"
she promises.
Entering In
In the meantime, she has
written the Story of her pill
grimage in faith" which she
dramatically focuses on a
commitment experience, or
"entering-in.
Though a minister's wife at
the time and the daughter
Of a minister, she had been
relying mostly on other peo-
pies IDEAS" she observes
candidly.
AS so often happens, she
notes, her spiritual awaken
ing came though a crisis-a
prolonged illness from tu-
berculosiS which she con-
tracted in 1943.
Within a few weeks after
she had made "a quiet pledge
to God, the promise of a
blank check with my life
she noted the date and exact
hour in her diary-her physi-
cal condition began to i'm
prove.
Modern Day Miracles
Other modern-day miracles
are recounted in her chapter
on The Gospel of Healing"
Illustrative ane C d o t e S
abound in this handbook to
Christianity in which the au-
thor makes many references
to her life in Washington as
the wife of DR.. Marshall, who
was pastor of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church
and chaplain of the Senate
when he died in 1916.
She had the benefit of her
editor husbands professional
judgment, as we'll as his en-
couragement, in writing Be
yond Ourselves" which she
dedicates ito Len"
FRANCES LIDE.