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Evening star., 1962-12-20
By JOHN M. RossoN

ties. Sometimes, you know
Nom gets the short end of the
Yuletide stick because of the
great Christmas dinner prepa-
rationS.
Our Christmas dinners were
always home affairs. We never
dined out that day. The de-
termined Mrs. Rosson, a home
maker If there ever was one,
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1962-05-31

LESSONS. accordion and piano; ac-
cordions loaned and sold: William
Sneller, 291 East 2l8th, RE. l-1179.
Evening star., 1962-02-18

the principle scource of
knowledge about Spain's
legendary hero being the
Poema del Cid.
INDIGO. BY Christine Wes-
ton. (Scribner's; $1.65.) A
novel of India in the years
before its independence.
(ReprintO
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS.
The well known play by
Robert E. Sherwood. (Scrib-
ners; $1.45D tReprintD
AMERICA IN THE WORLD.
Edited by Oscar Theodore
Barck, jr., "a Meridian
Book, World Publishing
Co.; $1.950 Oscar Theo-
dore Barck, jr., Professor
of History at Syracuse Uni
verSity, presents a selected
group of documents illumi-
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Tree Of Dark Reflection:
A Novel of q GROWING Up
TREE OF DARK REFLEC-

TREE OF DARK REFLEC-
TION. A novel by Rocco
Fumento. (Alfred A. Knopf;
$3.50
This, the second novel by
the author of Devil by the
Tail" is the story of an Ital-
ian family that has settled
in a small manufacturing
town in Massachusetts,. The
narrator, Daniele, grows up
lacerated by two beloved
enemies-the Catholic church
and his father. The father,
Domenico, is a bricklayer and
Stonecutter, but he is also an
educated and Intellectually
perceptive man, beset by some
occult event of his past of
which the child Daniele hears
dark rumorS, yelled and
enigmatic.
Domenico makes life a
variegated hell for his fam
lily. He beats his wife. drives
one daughter to exile and
death, another into a love-
less marriage, scorns and
ridicules his son, and creates
both sadness and bitterness
among the devout of his
household by his endless en-
venomed hatred of priest and
missal. In the eyes of every
body else, on the other hand,
he is a fine man-honest,
capable, lovable, admirable.
His cruelty and rancor are
inspired by only family and
faith, and it is this anomaly
of his character that con-
vinces his son, who sees in
himself many Of the same
sources which have created
his father, that he must dis
cover the secret of the older
man if he is himself to
achieve harmony.
The first part of the book
is a somewhat conventional,
though not unintereSting,
portrait of the artist as a
young man. Life confronts
Daniele in much the same
way 1t has every fictional
youth since Joyce Git may be
only a coincidence that there
is a character named Dante
in both the earlier and later
book. Mother, father. sis
ters, awakening sex, God,
hardship, and destiny all
make their irnpingements
upon the forming mind and
personality Oaniele's adoles-
c. .er complicated
by his falling in love with a
Jewish girl under circum-
stances in which creed is
more than ordinarily a SEN
sitiVe issue, and 1t is still
Evening star., 1962-02-18

Huxley caricatures, and with
wit and epigram.
1t Is a Bridge of San Luis
Rey" tale in which a group
OF disparate people, most of
them passengers on the va
cation liner Europa" are
trapped in an ancient laby-
rlnth on the island of Crete.
Escape has been a favorite
theme Of psychological novel;
lists since the time of "Moby
Dick" but seldom has it been
SO neatly materialized as in
Mr.. Durrells labyrinth. With
Wilder, the bridge is a fore
ordained end; Mr.. Durrell's
labyrinth is first a magnet
and then a snare from which
the characters struggle to
escape.
Among Mr.. Durrell's more
nicely drawn individuals are
a writer tortured by the
memory of a German prisoner
circumstances forced him to
murder during, the war; his
doctor; an aesthetic who bit
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Russian Studies
SOVIET SOCIETY: A Book

SOVlET SOCIETY: A Book
of Readings. Edited by Alex
Inkeles. and Kent Geiger.
(Houghton- Mifflin; $10.50D
In recent years. a prodigi-
GUS amount of scholarship
has been produced in the
United States and abroad
about the Soviet Union. Little
of this high caliber work,
however, has reached the
non-specialist who must learn
what he can from generally
Watered-down newspaper and
magazine articles.
This excellent book, edited
by two sociologists who spe-
cialize in Soviet affairs, is an
attempt to provide deeper in
sights into Soviet society for
those who already know the
fundamentals.
Mssrs. Inkeles and Geiger
have collected 73 articles that
appeared first in scholarly
journals, and divided them
according to topic, such as
psychological makeup, econ
omy. religion, education, ct
al.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
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mating the major themes
of modern United States
history.
THE AGE OF REASON.
Edited by Crane Brinton.
Viking; $1.65D The "age
of enlightenment" in West
ern civilization surveyed
in its most characteristic
works, from Descartes to
the Declaration of the
Rights of Man. (Reprint.)
THE GREAT MEADOW. BY
Elizabeth MADDOX Roberts.
CA Signet Classic, New
American Library; so
cents.) A reprint of the
dramatic story, set in the
1770's, of a young married
couple from Virginia who
settle in the untamed Boone
country of Kentucky.
Evening star., 1962-02-18

further complicated by the
fact that his rival for
Miriam's attention is her
own brother.
The second part Of Mr..
Fumento's novel departs from
the realism and the unity
which marked it's beginning.
Daniele finds himself a SOL
dier in Italy and locates an
old woman he has heard his
father speak of many times
in his hallucinatory frances
as La Strega"-the witch.
Now she is venerated as
La Santa" the saint, and
she certainly is remarkable
in the prowess of her men,
ory, at least, for she recalls
vividly the boy of so years
past for whom she had a
great passion, whether ma
ternal or otherwise is not
clear. This is only one of
many shockingly melodra-
matte scenes which disfigure
the book from now on. There
is a Father Superior in a
monastery who prostrates
himself before the strange
soldier and confesses the sin
of hating Americans; there is
the long-lost uncle who re-
veals that Domenico was
destined for the priesthood
in his youth, and was thought
by many who knew him to be
a genuine saint; there is the
far-fetched alienation Of
Daniele and Miriam; and,
when after the war our hero
finds himself a GI student at
Columbia, there are a num-
ber of disconnected episodes
that give the impression of
being scraps from a writer's
notebook rather than integral
developments of the protag-
onist of a novel.
Finally Domenico dies silent
and impenitent, Miriam en-
braces Catholicism and be-
comes a nun, and Daniele's
mother discloses that her
husbands secret was that he
allowed her to vamp and
marry him at the moment he
had found his vocation in
the church-surely as vapid
a denouement of a long novel
as one can remember.
At its worst, Mr.. Fumento's
writing deScendS almost to
the pathetic level of inspira-
tional literature, but at its
best-and there are many
pages that are very good-it
makes the reader hope that
the author will prune his
next book with considerable
rigour, and will temper diver
sity with an urge for unity.
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other change of mind In a
letter lifted by Lavinia. The
whole cast assemblies to con-
duct a kind of seminar on
Lavinia's morals, and she re-
treats with an uncle felici-
touSly come home to die.
Ninian then falls from
grace, by burning the uncle's
will which leaves his fortune
to Lavinia. She in turn seeks
vengeance by announcing her
engagement to another uncle.
Father and daughter are rec
onciled. Father can't marry
LaVinia." says the child.
They would if the law al
lowed it," says another.
That is the tragedy lightly
touched on in this emotional
anagram.
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Secret Service
Chief Boughmon
Writes Thriller
SECRET SERVICE CHIEF.

SECRET SERVICE CHIEF.
BY U. E. Baughman, with
Leonard Wallace Robinson.
(Harper & Bros: $4.95O
Many Government Off
cials, when they leave their
Jobs and retire to private life,
take up book writing, with
varying degrees of success.
Mr.. Baughman has done the
same, but there's a differ
ence. His book is highly in
teresting, whereas those writ
ten by many others are not.
To start with, guarding the
lives of Presidents must be
entertaining, if precarious,
work. And it must be far
above the ordinary to guard
the lives Of three such
always = on the-go travellers
as President Truman, Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Pres
ident Kennedy.
Mr.. Baughman does a fine
job in telling his story. A
large number of the Incl
dents he recalls have neen
publicized previously, but
gathered together in one
volume. they make for bet
ter reading. The book might
have been better had it not
gone so far astray as to in
clude the Secret Services
fight on counterfeiters and
con men. But, then, that's
one of the duties of the Serv-
ices chief, so Mr.. Baughman
included that, too.
White House Children
The children and grand
children of Presidents come
in for lots of wordage. Obvi-
ously, Mr.. Baughman was
fond of all of them. He de-
votes quite a bit of space to
Caroline Kennedy, of whom
he writes:
Caroline looks very much
like her father and is gen.
orally recognized in public
because of this resemblance
to him. She is quite chat
terbox Cor, as one agent put
it in a routine report to me,
a good conversationalistO
and loves to talk to every
body and anybody"
GEORGE CLARK.
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terly resents being invited
to parties because of his tai
ent rather than because Of
himself; a forger of ancient
art; a girl with the insinuat-
ing name of Alice Lidell who
left her husband for Coreze,
the painter, whose love-mak-
ing, Mr.. Durrell remarks in
sly aposiopesis, would have
to be described to be fully
appreciated"; and an elderly
poet and archeologist who,
having been warned that he
has only a short time to live,
breaks with the routine of
his existence and lives a life
time in days.
The story in which these
characters are involved is as
intricate and fanciful as any
episode of THE Alexandria
Quartet" Its charm is fresh
and uncloying, and may stir
in the reader a nostalgia for
the days before Mr.. Durrell
awoke and found himself
famous.
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Reody-Mode
Campaign
Document
B A RY GOLDWATER

b A X II Y GOLDWATER
Freedom Is His Flight
Plan. BY Stephen Shadegg.
(Fleet Publishing Corp;
$3.50
In the political jockeying
that is already going on with
an eye on the 1864 campaign,
Senator Goldwater of Arizona
is often mentioned as the Re-
publican presidential candi-
date. While disclaiming such
intentions at the present
time, Senator Goldwater will
undoubtedly exercise a voice
in the selection of the candi-
date. If he should become
the candidate himself, he will
have in Stephen Shadegg's
biography a ready-made
campaign document.
Such biographies, one sup
poses, are a dreary part Of
political life. They are writ
ten, published somehow and
are read more or less out of
a sense Of obligation to over
look no source in studying a
political figure. Such is Mr..
Shadegg's biography Zone
heSitates to call it a study
which has been written in
indiscriminate praise Of the
conservative leader from Ari-
Zona.
Too Little Objectivity
Senator Goldwater would
be better served and so would
the reading public if the
author had shown more OBJ
jectivity and a greater sense
of feeling for the subtleties of
politics. It would be worth
while to know more about the
Senator's absorption with the
political gold he thinks he
will find in the Southern
States and such matters of
this kind. What one needs
with regard to Senator Gold
water, an attractive and
articulate political leader, is
the kind of perceptive in
depreciation shown by James
McGregor in his biography of
John F. Kennedy.
The major merit in Mr..
Shadegg's book is the factual
material on the life of the
Senator and his family. The
Senator hardly needs a better
champion than himself for
his political views.
CECIL HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1962-02-18

THE PASSIONATE EPI-
CURE: La Vie ct la Passion
de Dodin- n-Bouffant, Gour-
met. a novel by Marcel
Rouff. Translated from the
French by Claude, and with
a preface by Lawrence Dur
rell. (E. P. Dutton & Co.;
$4.50D
In his preface to the Eng
lish translation of this minor
classic (first published in
French in 1920 Lawrence
Durrell tells of the death of
the sister of Brillat-Savarin,
two months before her hun
dredth birthday. She died at
dinner. and her last words
are forever enshrined in the
memory of good Frenchmen
-"Vite, apportez-moi lie des-
sert-je sens que je vais
passer!"
Dodin Bouffant, CASTRO
nome and gourmet, may be a
fictional reincarnation of the
most famous of great French
epicures. His whole life is
devoted to the art of the
table. The proper buttering of
the toast under a Sweetbread
is naturally a matter of the
greatest Importance, as is the
correct wood for fuel in the
broiling of a steak. His
menus can be of so items,
but his supreme creations are
often simple and even name
less. Like the restaurant
Chez Point, in Vienne. France,
where the finest wines are
served in bottles without la
bells, their quality assured by
the prestige of the house, a
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PAPERBACKS

THE BISMARCK EPISODE.
BY Capt. Russell Grenfell,
R. N. Macmillan; $1.65.)
The epic story of the sink
ing of the Bismarck.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN A
WORLD OF CONFLICT.
Edited by George S. Par
themos. university Of
Georgia; So The theme
of a conference held at the
University of Georgia dur
ing September, 1861.
THE IRONY OF AMERICAN
HISTORY. By Reinhold
Niebuhr. (Scribner's;
$125.) A work exploring
the ironic element in our
history in terms of the
contrast between the hopes
of our forefathers and the
reality of our present situ-
alton. CReprintD
OUR WLEDGE OF
GOD. By John Baillie.
(Scribner's; S1.45O The
central thesis is that God
is known to US not by argu-
ment. but by our being
directly confronted with
Him. (Reprint.D
Ell CID. BY Robert Krepps.
"a Gold Medal Book, Faw-
cett; so centsD A novel
based on the Screenplay,
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tudes which were to create
1t are already at work in
this story of a fairy-tale
princess, warning kingdoms,
spells and entertainments, a
conspiring countess and the
course of true love.
A certain amount of the
fun in the world of Pooh
comes from Christopher
Robins reading habits and
his expectation that life in
the real world of the forest
of stuffed animals will be
much the same as life in his
books. "Once On a Time" is
the kind of book Christopher
Robin might have read. Ex-
cept, of course, that it was
written by A. A. Milne, which
means that the whole run
of the high adventure in
fairyland is recounted with
genuine gentle irony. Most
OF what passes for gentle
irony in children's books is
mere Whimsy, or even
Whimsy- whamsy. Mines is
the real goods. You are in
vited simultaneously to be-
lieve affectionately in the
existence of the characters
and the locale and to dismiss
them as improbable. 1t is the
slmultaneity that makes
Milne so much more success
full than such fellow workers
in the vinyards of fairyland
as j. M. Barrie and Jack
Kerouac.
Technically, the great ad-
vance from here to Pooh
was Mines giving up a sus-
tained plot and pust letting
things happen. The present
work certainly suffers from
the plot, but, while it's always
there, it doesn't really get in
the way too much as Prin-
cess Hyacinth and King Mer-
riWig solve the problems of
love and war.
FRANK GETLEIN.
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A Prince of Gourmendise:
New Issue of q Classic

dinner offered by Dodin-
Bouffant is a glory of France.
AS the story opens, the
masters cook has just died,
and we see the disconsolate
but undefeated man inter-
viewing applicants for the
post of her successor: ".
Above all, he would survey
the mouth at great length,
and if the lips were fleshy,
note their shape in search Of
that mobility which is a sign
of sharpened senses, that
quiver which suggests the ha-
bitual development of an
organ, in short, he sought
that physiognomy of greed
which constitutes an initial
guarantee. He Immediately
eliminated square and point
ed chins, requiring of them a
roundness which would re-
assure him as to the neces-
sary degree Of sensuality. In
their eyes too he read things
which are lndefinable, but
which did not lead him
astray."
Quite naturally, there are
other qualifications to be con-
sidered. His former cook, in
deed, had added to her Gull
nary virtuosity an amiable
personal capitulation not de-
void of charm" Nevertheless,
Dodin-Bouffant knows that
culinary desiderata are the
most rare and the most
sublime.
The story is told in quaint
prose redolent of the hobby
horse and admirably suited
to the humor of this prince
of gourmandise.
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Fate of Russians
Who Still CIino
To Religion
RELIGION IN THE SOVIET
UNION. BY Walter Kolarz,
(St. Martins Press. S10 50)

NLAAOAON 1IN 1ffE SONlEI
UNION. BY Walter Kolarz,
(St. Martins Press; $12.50D
Walter Kolarz previously
established his reputation as
a Soviet expert by his two ex-
cellent books on the minority
nationalities of the USSR
and the discrimination they
suffer at the hands of the
totalitarian regime. Now he
has contributed a study of
another kind of discrimina-
tion-that practiced against
the millions of Soviet citizens
who still cling to religion. de-
spite A years OF atheist prop
aganda.
This work is an original
contribution in two important
ways. First of all, it brings
the story of religion in Russia
up to date. More important,
it is devoted primarily to the
minority religions, whereas
most Of the earlier books
have concentrated on Rus
sian Orthodoxy. American
readers may be surprised to
learn that Russia has not
only Baptists, Catholics,
Lutherans, Calvinists, Mos
lens, Jews. Seventh-day Ad-
ventists, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Christian Scientists, and
Buddhists, but also a number
of indigenous sects such as
MolokanS, Dukhobors, and
ImyaslavtSy.
What of the future Of re-
ligion in Russia? Mr.. Kolarz
feels that religion is so deeply
rooted in the soul and tradi-
ton of every people that
Communism, rather than re-
ligion, will be the first to dis
appear in Russia.
THOMAS L. HAMMOND.
Associate Professor of Rus
sian History, University OF
Virginia.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
LaWrenceD Durre||: :
An Early Novel
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE DARK LABYRINTH. A novel by Lawrence Durrell.
Originally published in England in 1947 under the title
"Cefalu" E. P. Dutton & Co.; $395)
This early novel by the author of the phenomenaly
successful alexandria Quartet" may be disappointment
to Mr. Durres devoted fans for somewhat different
IN style from his later tetralogy hope however that
Will hold the writer's old audience while acquires new
ior 1t is remarkably able and appealing who
IKE myself were to certain degree esranged by the
mouse incense that infused the quar-
et should not this account Dark Labyrinth
1t IS brightly and cleanly written its pages filled with
Evening star., 1962-02-18
Forerunner of Winnie
Milne Classic Reissued
ONCE ON A TIME. Rv A a

ONCE ON A TIME. BY A. A.
Milne. New York Graphic
Society; $685.
Originally published in
1917 by the author of the
Winnie-the-Pooh books, this
now reisSued children's tale
shows Milne getting ready
for the wonderful world of
Pooh and Piglet, Tiger,
Kanga, Eeyore, VOL and
Christopher Robin. That
world is still we'll in the fu-
ture, but the human atti-
Evening star., 1962-02-18

but her uncle will know
she is a threat to him-Fran
guards her own tongue and
tries to protect her little
brother from innocently re-
vealing what they know. The
children live on an Australian
fruit farm. The atmosphere
and Characterization, from
Fran and Tony to their
family and friends, are i'm
portant factors to the sue
cess of a warm, under-the-
surface book.
X
CHAIN OF DEATH. BY
Nancy McLarty. Double
day & Co.; $2.95D
A charming cloak-and-dag-
ger tale about an attractive
young American girl taken
for a fellow spy by a Com
munist agent in Guatemala,
all because she knows a little
about antique gold wedding
chains. A handsome Ameri-
can. who is an intelligence
agent, talks her into helping
him uncover the Communist
ring.
\ x X
A GRAVE UNDERTAKING.
By Lionel White. (E. P.
Dutton & Co.; $685.
Mr.. White has fashioned
one of the freshest and most
appealing plots of the year,
involving a mortuary, COM
plete with corpse, to be used
as a cover for a crime, and
the confounding of the crimi-
nails plans by a young lady
come, Unexpectedly. to claim
her fathers body. And all be-
cause a cub reporter. with one
week to make good, goes to
Bellevue looking for news
and finds it.
Evening star., 1962-02-18

the picture of the Bear whose
refuge is his doom is a study
IN compassion.
= x X
THE CHINESE LAKE MUIR
DERS. BY Robert van Gu
lik. Harper & Bros;
$685.
Judge Dee and his contem-
poraries in 7th Century China
are as stylized as ever in the
latest in the series, but all is
saved by a swift running
story. One adventure flows
into another as a courtesan
is murdered, a dead bride
van!shes from her coffin, and
the White Lotus sect once
again rises to threaten the
Emperor's reign.
X X 4 =
COUNTY KILL. BY William
Campbell Gault. (Simon &
SchuSter; $500
Brock the Rock Callahan
accepts 11-year-old William
Temple Lund III as a client
after the boy runs away from
his martini-sipping mother
to get help in finding his
father. A friend of his
fathers is murdered, and, to
clear the parent, Callahan
follows a trail through the
Mexican district to lovely
ladies, inscrutable guitar
struming senors and an
amazing anti-vice operation.
1t all dovetails we'll.
X x Il =
A TWIG is BENT. By Estelle
Thompson. (Abelard-Schu-
man; $3.50
Fran Hamilton is a 12-
year-old girl who, along with
her 5-year-old brother, sees
her uncle commit murder.
Convinced if she tells her
mother she won't be believed
Evening star., 1962-02-18
READING AND WRITING
New Burnett Novel
Of Love and Money
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

When I. Compton -Burnetts characters, really dsem-
bodied voices, move across stage it makes the Of
our Town seem like cluttered rocco setting Her
are wholly unfurnShed-no clothes food no physical
e-and all the action happens elsewhere These events
are discussed endlessy in kind of stately dudc pickering
In which feeling only limited at directly conveyed
THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL (Simon & Schuster;
$45O) her 17h novel, is like all the Others and like them
too will doubtless stir the raptures among the addict
Evening star., 1962-02-18

dllu IIle same DeInuSemenC
among readers who have not
acquired a taste for her non
representational fare. For the
latter the novel will have
something of the appeal of a
mystery.
Why, for instance, do all
the characters, from sybil-
line matriarch to curious
cook, from tyrant-father to
genial butler, all talk exactly
the same language, fashion,
ing gnomic utterances at all
times? At one point the gov
erness says to the wise,
younger children of the fam
lily. who also converse in half
adages. Children, do you
understand plain words?"
Replies Hengist, "Well, we
KNOW WhaC they mean. But
we do not always under
stand"
Old Devices
For all its uncommonness.
however, 1.-THE Mighty and
Their Fall" deals with two
common subjects. love and
money. Its plot. such as 1t is,
turns on two old devices, a
purloined letter and an eX-
change of wills. The letter is
purloined by Lavinia, daugh-
ter of Ninian, a Widower who
decides to marry again. After
one meeting with the family.
the lady UNDERSTANDABLE re-
considers, then expresses an