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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
Working Hard
At Being Jolly
A GOOD TINE WAS HAD.

A GOOD TIME WAS HAD.
BY John Baragwanath.
(Appleton- Century -Crofts;
$4.950
John Baragwanath, a min
ing engineer, married into
the Algonquin set, that IA
nous aggregation Of the '20s
and '30s which included
Alexander Woollcott and
George S. Kaufman. Mr..
Baragwanath qualified, he is
quick to say. only through his
wife Neysa McMein, the
beautiful, untidy illustrator.
A rough-and-ready guy, he
adapted to the ways of the
wits and the spirits and par
ticipated in their elaborate
practical Jokes and helped
highlight their idiosyncrasies.
The Baragwanaths' mar
riage was typical of the times.
Best of friends, they went
their separate ways and Gre
ated their own legends. He
and his bachelor friends cele-
brated every summer Freedom
Week, which was made up of
special nights, like Actress
Night or Decent Women's
Week End. He seems to have
worked awfully hard at being
gay. His book is full Of names
and anecdotes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
PAPERBAcKs

Among the new paperback>
releases from Oxford Unf-'
versity Press are the follow
ing:
ARISTOTLE. BY Werner
Jaeger. Translated by
Richard Robinson. ($1.85.)
Fundamentals Of the his
tory of his development.
(Reprint.)
THE Lam GUAGE OF
MUSIC. BY Deryck Cooke.
($1.85D (Reprint.)
OPERATION SEA LION. BY
Ronald Wheatley. ($1.65.)
German plan for the in
vasion of England, 1882
1912. Reprint.) -,
ETHICAL STUDIES. BY F..
H. Bradley. ($1.85.) Gre
printO
SWIFT. BY Ricardo Quintana,
($1.50) The life and study
of Jonathan Swift, the su-
preme English satirist. (Re-
print.) ..r
CASTE TODAY. BY Taya
zinkin ($1.50) A descrip-
ton Of the caste system in
India today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
Casting Russia
In Tomorrow's
Changing Role

EAST MIN U S WEST
EQUALS ZERO. BY Wer-
ner Keller. C. P. Put
mans; $685.
Mr.. Keller has one theme
which he repeats over and
over throughout this readable
but superficial 384-page
book: Were it not for Europe
and the United States, Rus
STA would be a second-rate
power today.
Like an encyclopedia, Mr..
Keller has assembled a vast
amount of examples to show
that Russia, through the
centuries, has begged, Dor
rowed, or stolen just about
everything the West-mean-
ing Europe and the United
States-has developed.
None of this is new. His
torians have all noted that
Russia until recently was
more than 100 years behind
the West technologically. And
when the Russian and later
the Soviet leaders, decided to
push forward, they instinc-
lively relied on the past ex-
perience of the West.
In the past three decades,
the Western influence has
been quite pronounced: the
Western style cars, the Ger
man rockets, the American
built dams, etc. Mr.. Keller
says the Russians copied"
from the West Especially
militarily) and the inference
is strong that if the West
was more secretive, Russia
today would be still back
ward, and no threat to the
world peace.
Former Vice President
Nixon quoted from Mr.. KEEL
ler's book recently as grounds
for cutting off all Western
trade with the Soviet bloc.
The problem the West
faces, however, is not how to
shut Russia off from the
endless flow of progress, but
rather, how to persuade Rus
STA that it's future lies not
in destroying Western civili-
cation, but in helping build it.
For centuries, Russia has
been on the point of joining
the West, but each time, has
retreated into some new form
Of isolationism.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

from anger to fearful senti-
mentality. individual Sym1p-
toms: Occupations with I'M
suitable and Superfluous
labours, like making shoes,
cutting grass, etc. Cure:
Total indifference on the
part Of his audience to his
speeches, and occupations of
a character that would alb
serb the patients energy"
The foregoing description
of Lev TolStoy was written
by himself participating in
a family game in which
everybody would drop anony-
nous memoranda into a
common hopper. Tolstoy was
describing himself not as he
believed himself to be, but
as he thought others to be-
lieve him to be. The symp-
pathetic picture of the great
writer given us by his son
Zone Of eight childrenO in
the present book shows his
father not entirely free of
his humorously attributed
Affections, but on the whole
a far more varied and incom-
prensible man.
Tolstoy, thought his inter-
mittent friend Turgenev,
should have devoted his life
exclusively to writing, rather
than being a slave to what
he considered his duties and
his principles. OF noble
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
Washington Visit
Prize Adventure
For Teen-Agers
SENIOR TRIP Nv Mariorie

SENIOR TRIP. BY Marjorie
Holmes. wv stminste r
Press; $3.50
Young people who attend
high school in the Washing
ton area have much to be
grateful for but they are
cheated in one respect: They
cannot plan for four years,
as thousands of students do
over the Nation, on a gradu-
alton trip to Washington.
It may not be true that
familiarity breeds contempt
but our area standards can
hardly make much of a trip
of a visit to Washington
when they already live here.
This book, aimed at read
ers IL to Is, concerns the
mythical pupils of WapSipini-
con Qowa) High School in a
town not only quite a dis
lance from the Nations Cap
ital but also marvelously
hard to spell. The author,
who lives here and writes a
family life column for The
Star, writes about how these
Iowa teen-agers earned the
money for a spring visit to
Washington and the char
tered bus ride that brought
them on the greatest adven-
ture of their lives.
Young readers here have
an opportunity to see their
town through the eyes of
strangers their own age and,
perhaps. to realize how fortu-
nate they are to be living in
the capital of the free world.
-J.A.OL, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
New Frost ANTHOLOGY
Marks Poets Birthday

1t ends:
"A golden age OF poetry and
pO1Der
OF Which this mondays the
beginning hour"
There are 80 other poems,
some timelesS some topical,
some fables, some homilies.
The old poet muses. on outer
space and on Columbus, on
the milky way and on a hoe
that strikes him when in
advertently stepped on.
Mr.. Frost has summed up
better than any one else
could his long and happy life
il poetry in a quatrain called
"On Being Chosen Poet of
Vermont"
"Bre1theS there a bard tDho
isn't moued
When he finds his UerSe is
understood
And not entirely diSapproued
By his country and his
neighborhood?"
M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
Books in Brief
GENERAL

HELLO, HOLLYWOOD! BY
Allen Rivkin and Laura
Kerr. doubleday; $685.
The story of the movies by
the people who make them.
THE CONTENDER AIRY
ENGLISH NOVEL. BY
Frederick R. Karl. (Farrar,
Straus & Cudahy; $4.950
A study which attempts to
define and evaluate the
main movements in the
English novel since Joyce.
(Reprint.)
SIMPLE HYBRIDISING FOR
BEGINNERS. BY D. Gour-
lay Thomas. (St. Martins;
$685. After covering gen.
eral hybridiSing and Men
del'S law of plant heredity,
Mr.. Thomas considers the
problems involved in rails
ing a new gladiolus, sweet
pea, daffodil, rose, chysan-
themum, and carnation.
THE DONKEYS. By Alan
Clark. Morrow; 50 An
account of the leaders of
the British expeditionary
forces in France, 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

but 1t is enormously compe-
tent. The Irish have now
outStripped the English in
the short-story field. Miss
Warner cannot hold a candle
to Mary LAWN; she does not
go as deep.
But she tailors every SEN
tence to perfection and never
puts a single word wrong.
She writes of humble
folk, dressmakers, landladies,
soothsayers. old maids with
sick mothers. She gently
brings them to the light for
the moment, then lets them
wander off.
The best story in this COL
lection is "Barnby Robinson"
a story Of a rejected wife
who finds that the delicious
hampers sent by her guilt
ridden husband more than
compensate for his absence.
The wife eventually demands
a showdown with the mis-
tresS but not for the reason
you might think. In Miss
Warmers world gluttony can
be as much a passion as pas
sion itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
IN THE CLEARING. B,

Robert Frost. (Hoit; So
Tomorrow will be the 18th
birthday Of Robert Frost,
perhaps the most beloved
bard in the republic. The day
will be marked by the publ
cation of a new book of Frost
poetry (the first since i94O,
and a birthday dinner at the
Pan American Union to honor
the poet laureate of the New
Frontier.
Mr.. Frost was the first poet
ever invited to participate in
an inauguration. He composed
a special lyric for that day,
which as all remember he
could not read because he
was blinded by the sun on
that fr:igid January morning.
The poem is the first in the
new collection.
1t begins:
"Summoning artists to par
ticipdte
In the august occasions of the
state
Seems something artists
ought to celebrate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

$3.50, is in the splendid
Disney tradition.
u y =
THE CASE OF THE EX-
IRA GRAVE by Christopher
Bush (The Macmillan Co.,
1920. Fans Of Christopher
Bush won't be disappointed
in his tale of a mother-dom-
mated businessman who mar
rles late-and disastrously.
+ 4 II
DEATH AND THE JOY
Full WOMAN by Ellis Peters
Doubleday & Co., $685..
Fourteen year old Dominic
Felse fell in love with the
19-year-old heiress, Kitty
Norris. the first time he saw
her. When they met again
two years later Kitty was
suspected of numbering a
d omin eering beer baron.
Young Dominic, who is the
son Of the local police detec-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

tive sergeant, VOWS to clear
her - with or without his
fathers help. Interesting sub
plots, including the question
of the real worth Of the joy
full woman sign outside the
murdered mans pub, and ap-
pealing characters make q
winning book.
n 4 4
THE BIZARRE MURDERS,
An Omnibus, by Ellery Queen
q. B. Lippincott Co., $4.95).
Three good Queens-partlc-
ularly The Chinese Orange
Mystery, in which a MUIR
dered man clothes and every
thing in the publishers Of
flee where his body is found
is turned backwards. The
other books are The Siamese
Twin Mystery and The Span
ish Cape Mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
PIeuse-Meet
NikoIui Leskov

SELECTED TALES. BY
Nikolai Leskov. Translated
from the Russian by David
Magarshack. (Noonday
Press; $1.95.)
This paperback should in
troduce the robust writing of
LeSkov to a wider audience
of Notwithstanding readers
than the 10Th century Rus
sian author has yet had. The
five stories include Leskov's
early Lady Macbeth of the
Mtensk District" a chilly
little item that was later
adapted as the libretto of
Shostakovich's best known
opera.
Leskov's vigorous and oc-
casionally "fey" manner Of
expression is delivered intact
by the gifted David Magyar
shack, whose recent transla-
ton Of Turgenev's Torrents
Of Spring is a delight so we'll
remembered. Introductory
material is provided by v. S.
Pritchett and by the transla-
tor. The latter's admiration
for Leskov leads him to make
one slightly questionable
claim. In discussing one of
the stories he says, Russian
literature has no tradition of
spooky ghost stories and Les
kov's White Eagle is a unique
example in this genre" It
seems to me that a couple of
fellows named Pushkin and
Gogol did pretty well in this
department. some years before
LeSkov!
RUTH HUME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
The Humble Folk
OfMiss oWnsend

Sylvia Townsend Warner,
the short-story writer, is one
of those British ladies on
whom a whole generation
has relied for escape from
and insight into the per-
versities of the human race.
She is still reliable as
proven by her latest collec-
ton A SPIRIT RISES (Vik-
ing; $3.75). It is not brilliant,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
Girls Journey
In Pursuit of Love
THE IMAGE OF KATE. By

THE IMAGE OF KATE. BY
Mary Aston. doubleday;
$4.95.)
When a bright young
woman writes a story about
a young career girl in the
big city, you can usually be
sure of sensation, and If the
timing is right, a best-seller.
But when a very experienced
grandma writes the old, old
story of the pretty little girl
from the farm, who seems
to the city folk to have
emerged from a pink egg"
and be heading for the real
world of glamor and fabu-
lous success, then you have
something worth reading
especially when the grandma
happens to be Mary Aston.
1.-THE Image Of Kate" is
billed on it's dust jacket as a
new psychological" novel.
Considering that its author
has had a patients expert
ence with psychology (the
evidence is to be found in her
autobiography called simply,
MY Story") and has known
more than one round with
success and defeat, she can
write Of these things with
authority.
The present book Is more
than just another psychology
ical novel throwing around
a glib knowledge Of nervous
breakdown and worldly Sue
cess. Mary Astor has given
us a taut account of a beau
tiful young girls flight from
home to the big city and her
struggle for fame and for
tune, but most of all, for love
and security. She has also
revealed the price of these
commodities.
It is unfortunate that her
publishers did not give her
better billing, for Miss Aston
is a capable writer.
lima UHLIG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

1913, Wnen the IDOL OF the
Indians fell before an assas-
sins bullet. The central char
acter is Natu, a journalist
who belongs to the secret
terrorist organization headed
by the sinister Dhondo.
A Cooks Tour
Actually Natu is the least
realized of the principal char
acters. His motivation for
joining the Society of Nation
Savers is clear enough, but
his bondage. in so abrasive
an intelligence is not clear.
With him is the weakling,
ViShnu, to whom the society
has given an identity.
Against them Is Das Gopal,
the efficient, dedicated super
intendent of police, who hears
of the plot to shoot Gandhi
in the garden, but who cannot
convince his superiors Of the
urgency of the situation. They
would like Gandhi silenced,
for one reason or another, al
though not eternally. Because
of their mixed motives they
cannot convince the apostle
of non-violence.
Mr.. Wolpert, a teacher Of
Indian history, seems en-
tirely at home in the teem-
ing subcontinent. His novel
offers, in addition to its ex-
elements, something Of a
Cooks tour of the Indian
society, it's resentmentS, its
vanities, its passion to save
face, its unexpected toler-
ance. Mine Hours to Rama"
may be more interesting as
journalism than as literature,
but it is still absorbing.
The best thing about Ger
aid Green's new book, I
regret to say, is its title, THE
Portofino PTA" (Scribner's;
$3.50. The author Of 1.-THE
Last Angry Man" is attempt
ing to prove he is still angry
himself, and at, of all things,
Italy.
1t stands to reason that
anyone writing the usual
rhapsody of Italy can no
longer hope to be published.
The market is glutted. On
the other hand, Mr.. Green's
sufferings in the resort town
of Rapallo were not suffi-
GENTLY distinguished to war
rant a book. His observations
are obvious. His prose is
heavy. His taste Is not I'M
failing.
Eventually, Of course, he
falls in love with Italy, as any
man in his right mind would
do. But not before, in a sin
gularly contentious tone, he
has reported what all other
travellers to that lovely land
have found-namely, that
while it does not have a PTA
in its length and breadth, it
has something more precious
and rare-a universal genius
for human relationship that
can make every contact glow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
READING AND WRITING
Mr.WoIpert at Home
In Novel of India
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff writer

Theodore H. White demonstrated in 1.-The Making of
President" that person know how story out
and still enjoy word of it, Stanley Woper has made the
point in mine HOURS TO RAMA" Brandon; $495),
novel which reconstructs the events
the day that Candhi shot.
Mr. Wopert has cunningly contrved and nursed the
suspense readers find themselves hoping to discover at
the end that the sanity Bapu could beat the rap.
What Mr. Wopert has done is to trace the actions of the
principals between the dusk and dawn Of that day August
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Count Leo To|stoy
AsHis Son Knew Him
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

TOLSTOY REMEMBERED BY HIS SON. A Memoir by
Sergei Tolstoy. Atheneum Press So
Lev Nikolaevitch-O Sangune temperament Is to be
ranked with the quiet The patient suffering from
mania called by German psychiatrstS fredericksburg
SWAIN the mania Of world Improvement The Of the
sickness is the patients belief that his message alter
other peoples lives. General symptoms Discomfort with the
existing order criticism of except himself rri
table Verbosty dsregardng his audience Switches often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
IN FICTION
Ann Bridge Introduces
A New FictionuI Heroine

all painfully reminiscent of
the problems of another
British lady during the Cri-
mean War;
The story is beautifully
told and the valiant Mrs.
Eynsham is a refreshing
change of pace in fictional
heroineS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Crime Done With the
Doris Disney Touch
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Grace MunSon was nice woman. She also was a lonely
one widow for three at A. she gamble other
WIDOWS had taken before but would have ncon
ceVaoe to Grace-sendng note of coincidence and some
1000 10 wldower her own age she had met. Her
eigned friendship with his wife an aumna of races col
ege but not even acquaintance brings the wary wdower
10 her sde-to find out what she knows. SHOULD AULD
ACQUAINTANCE by Doris Miles Disney Doubleday & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
THE ITCH TEN NC
STRING. BY Ann Bridge.
(McGraW-Hill; $4.95,)

L II 4 L L u II Il Il N N u
STRING. BY Ann Bridge.
(McGraw-Hill; $4.950
Completely fictional char
acters, according to the au-
thor, inhabit the British
Legation in Budapest in this
novel Of the second World
War. Their activities, how
ever, are based on historical
fact. We see the tragedy and
sickening excitement of that
threatening summer of 1910
through the eyes of the
gracious Mrs. EynSham, wife
Of the British counselor. In
her fight on behalf of British
prisoners of war, Mrs. Eyn-
sham is helped at every turn
by her generous Hungarian
friends and is, alas, hindered
cruelty by well-meaning Off
Gals back in England. ct is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

artistic stretto but suspi-
ciously like a synopsis. My
objection should not conceal
my admiration, for I think
the book one of the best
novels I have read in recent
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN
BRODIE, a novel by Mu-
riel Spark. (Lippincott;
$3.50
Last October the New
Yorker published a novel Of
medium length complete in a
single issue. Not complete,
perhaps, but complete" for
the excisions were few. But
with the appearance of 1.-THE
Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"
in book form the major dele
ton Of the New Yorker seems
so crucial to the appreciation
Of this subtle and unusual
novel that it is curious that
the magazine editors thought
so highly of the piece to de-
vote half an issue to it. Who
would consider publishing
Hamlet" If he felt it ex-
pedient to expunge all ref
erence to the relationship Of
the Prince and his mother?
Miss Jean Brodie is a spin
ster in her early 30s who,
some years before the Sec
ond World War, is a teacher
in an exclusive school for
girls in Edinburgh. She domi-
mates six girls of 10 or II
years who comprise the BRO
die SET"
Miss Brodie cannot be
rea Oily and conveniently
typed-her influence is both
beneficent and malificent, her
teaching both searching and
superficial, her attitude both
selfish and considerate, her
sensibilities both ordinary
and acute. Her background in
the humanities she processes
so warmly has evolved in her
a spirit of devotion rather
than q sense of security,
Her girls are a breath
taking lot. I am not well
acquainted with early teen
ayers, but I doubt that the
six are naturalistic charac-
tiers. They are rather artifi-
cial, strikingly unreal, pure
acts of creation. They are girls
such as teen-agers imagine
themselves to be. AS they are
developed throughout a book
that moves effortlessly in
time past. present and future,
they are labeled candidly by
the qualities for which they
will become famous-Monica
for doing mathematics in her
head, Rose for sex, Eunice
for gymnastics, Jenny for
beauty, Sandy for her small
eyes, Mary for stupidity.
They all speak with clear
articulation, intelligence and
directness scarcely to be
found in flesh and blood chill
dren, and their curiosity
about sex, together with their
amusingly incomplete initia-
ton into its mysteries, are
among the unforgetable
aspects of the book.
Miss Brodie's way with her
girls is, on the surface, not
extraordinary. Basing her
belief on a curiously revealing
bit Of false etymology, she
says that the purpose of edu-
cation is to lead" the stu
dent, to bring out what is
already within him. But in
fact the word is not from
"educere," as she thinks,
but from "educare," to feed,
and Miss Brodie teaches her
girls by nourishing them on
her loves. her hatreds, her
prejudices, her own past as
she, unconsciously frustrated,
now sees it in retrospect.
Each girl becomes, in her
own way, a little Brodie;
each is a brilliantly realized
individual, but the imposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pose Of
The Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"The Triangle Fire."
by Leon Stein. (Lippineott.)
WEDNESDAY - THE American
Musical Stage before 1900" by
julien Notes. (Ruteers.)
FRIDAY-"Rex Brosher, Pointer
Of Birds" by Milton E. Brosher.
(Rowmon and LittIefieId.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

Moore ($1.35O; LIVING
FLAME OF LOVE, translated
and with an introduction by
E. Allison PereS (85 cents); ).
LATE HAVE / LOVED
THEE" by Ethel Mannin
(95 cents); ST. JOAN OF
ARC, by John Beevers Cts
cents); QUARTET IN HEAV-
EN-" by Shelia Kaye-Smith
(85 cents); Pho MONO, by
E. E. Y. Hales ($1.25). These
are Doubleday. Image Books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25

Eight new paperbacks
have been published in time
for the present lenten sea-
son. History, theology, mys-
tical literature. a novel and
three biographies are rep
resented. They are entitled
THE CHURCH OF APOS-
TIES AND MARTYRERS,
Vol. I and Vol. II. by Henri
Daniel-Rops leach $1.35);
THE LIFE OF MAN WITH
GOD, by Thomas Werner
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