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Oxford Don Comments
On His Special Case

great water-spout Of life, to
which everything that hap
pens is related, and on the
other as a religious heritage
interpreted by the Lithuan-
ian rabbi who was the head
master Of the school. The
principal Of the school, odd
ly enough, was a dean of
the Church of England, who
became so fond of the young
Raphael that he took him
with him on a vacation to
Italy.
If the early chapters of the
book are as hilarious as one
expects from a vividly re-
membered and adroitly re-
counted tale Of school-boy
life, seriousness, or at least
sententiousness, never in
trudeS to sour the flavor of
Mr.. Raphael's later adven-
lures. There is the wealthy
Jew in Mr.. Raphael's indus
trial hometown whose bitter
life Is spent in getting even
with God" for making Jews
in the first place. There are
the two romantic interludes
with the Polish girl, Malcah,
whom Raphael met as a fugi-
tive in Italy and who was
later shot by the British as a
terrorist. and with Yael, the
beautiful artist in Jerusalem
who was killed in an Arab
uprising. There is the ironic
account Of the German Jew
ish refugees interned in Eng
land at the outbreak of the
war, after having escaped the
pogroms and concentration
camps Of Hitler. These Incl
dents are related with COM
passion, but never with wall
ing. Mr.. Raphael has lived a
life not unacquainted with
grief, but he sees it with the
detachment Of wit.
The central episode is
about the authors trip to
Jerusalem In search of ma
terial to sustain his theory
about the origins of the
Midrash. There years before
the discovery Of the Dead Sea
scrolls, he heard about old
manuscripts said to be found
by Bedouins, and he was
actually within a mile or so
Of Qumram on the Dead Sea
when he was fired upon from
ambush. It is probable that
the Arabs or Jews thought
him to be a British agent in
search of contraband arms;
at any rate he deSisted from
further exploring.
Mr.. Raphael is a sort of
university-style Abe Burrows.
There is no "Abie's Irish
Rose" in his book-Lorenzo
da Ponte might have written
it If he had had q little
money In the bank and had
been wrapped up in the Old
Testament.
Evening star., 1962-09-02
GENERAL
MODERN PORCELAIN. B,

MODERN PORCELAIN. BY
Alberta c. Trimble. (Har-
per and Row; $60 The fas-
cination Of porcelain is
brought out in this infor-
NATIVE book Of modern pot
ters and their wares. In
cluded are the well known
houses Of W e d gewood,
Spode-C Copeland, Minton's,
Crown Staffordshire, Royal
Doulton, Royal Crown Der
by, Royal Worcester, Rost-
rand, Royal Copenhagen,
Gustavsbe erg, Bing and
Grandahl, Arabia, Pors-
grund, Haviland, Quimper,
RoSenthal. and Lenox.
THE SENSIBLE INVES-
TORS GUIDE TO
GROWTH STOCKS. BY Lin
Tso. (Messner; $4.95)
Written by q securities
analyst, this book shows
how you can use techniques
Of the big investment COM
panies to pick growth
stocks and make profits
for yourself.
CRUSADE FOR PEACE. Els
enhower's Presidential Leg
acy with the Program for
Action. BY Robert Rosa
mond. Lexington; So
Excerpts from former Pres
ident EiSenhower's Ad-
dresses, State of the Union
Messages, campaign talks
and other announcements
which outline his ideas on
how to effectively deal with
world problems.
ESSAYS ON AFRICAN Pop
ULATION. Edited by K. M.
Barbour and r. M. Pro-
thero. (Praeger; $7.50D
Fourteen scholars have
contributed to this volume
which deals with the ma
ture and organization of
population censuseS and
with the many uses to
which their results may be
put.
OKOLO OF NIGERIA. By
Peter Buckley. (Simon and
Evening star., 1962-09-02
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

plexities Of mathematics
and physics to present the
theory of relativity in clear,
concise language that can
be ready understood by the
reader with little scien-
tific training.
THE PENGUIN HUNDRED
BEST CROSSWORDS. Ed
tied by Alan Cash. Pen-
guin; $1.25.)
MISS PEACH, ARE THESE
YOUR CHILDREN? BY
Mel Lazarus. (Dial; $1.750
Cartoons.
CEREMONY IN LONE TREE.
BY Wright Morris. "a Sig
net Book; so cents.) IRE
print.)
SCIENCE, PROPHECY AND
PREDICTION. BY Richard
Lewinsohn. "a Premier r
Book; rs cents.) An ex-
ploration Of mans efforts
to foretell the future from
the beginning of his time
on earth.
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY
OF WORLD POPULATION.
BY Carlo Cipolla. "a Peli-
can Book; 95 cents.) A
global view Of the demo-
graphic and economic de-
velopment of mankind.
Mentor Books, published by
the New American Library
has Just released two orig
inal collections Of English
plays. COS cents each0
They are:
THE GENIUS OF THE
EARLY ENGLISH THEA
TER. Edited and with an
introduction by Sylvan Bar
net, Morton Berman and
William Burto. The COM
plete texts of seven great
plays Of Medieval and
Renaissance drama.
THE GENIUS OF THE
LATER ENGLISH THEA
TER. Edited and with an
introduction by Sylvan Bar
net, Morton Berman and
William Burto. The COM
plete texts of six great plays
from the Restoration to
modern times.
Evening star., 1962-09-02
MEMOIRS OF A SPECIAI

MEMOIRS OF A SPECIAL
CASE. BY Chain Raphael.
(Atlantic-Little, Brown; $4J
Chain Rafael is an oxford
don, an official Of the Brit
ish Foreign Office. a Hebrew
scholar who has spent years
on q commentary on the
Midrash, and a popular nov
elist writing under the pSeu-
donym "Jocelyn Davey." He
is also a Jew, and Jewishness.
in itself and in its reaction
in the world Of his time, has
been a continuing fascination
of his life. He calls himself
a special case" in reference
to q reflection of Albert Ca
mus: I'VE are all special
cases. We all want to appeal
against something. Each Of
us insists at all costs that he
is innocent, even If he has to
accuse the whole human race
and heaven ITSELF"
The reader will find 1t a
curious epigraph for the book
that follows. Mr.. Raphael,
though he has his share Of
human sympathy, never ac-
cuses the whole human race,
nor does he seem to be OBJ
sessed with the necessity Of
proving himself innocent. He
is perhaps a little more in
tellectual Jew than emotional
Hebrew, and he sees with rel
ish the modern Jew creating
a role for himself not based
entirely on tradition.
The book is q series of
episodes from his life con-
nected only by the fact that
each is concerned in some
way with race. Mr.. Raphael
was well grounded in Hebrew
at an English school en-
dowed for the purpose Of
training young men to be
rabbis. The student body
was, in fact, not so limited,
since not enough qualified
applicants could be found,
but the boys profited by a
familiarity with the Bible
taught on the one hand as a
Evening star., 1962-09-02
THE FLOATING REVOLU.

TION. BY Warren Rogers,
jr. (McGraw = Hill; $4.95D
Adventure stories from the
Spanish Main are just as
exciting today as they were
when Captain Kidd swaSh-
buckled, but now the fans
have the added benefit of
blow-by-blow press coverage
of the event, radio communi-
ques from the pirates" and
then a colorful. exciting book
like Mr.. Rodgers to wrap
it all up for the armchair
adventure-lovers.
Warren Rogers, jr., Wash
ington bureau reporter for
the New York Herald Trib-
une, covered the revolution"
on board the Portuguese cruise
ship Santa Maria. After the
great fun of the running
news story. he decided to
learn the full story of what
he and the other reporters
saw only in snatches.
Evening star., 1962-09-02

ing unsuitable young men,
while Fanny falls head over
heels in what turns out to be
lifelong love with Patrick
Browne, q brilliant, un-
scrupulous, very married Irish
don.
The girls live out the war
years together, Fanny hoping
that Patrick will one day
divorce his impeccable, rich
wife; Frances faithfully writ
ing to the beloved fiance i'm
prisoned in the Far East.
"a Handful Of Time" has
no real plot. It simply flows
along, rich in detail and
observation. Miss Foley has
the gift of bringing all Of her
characters into sharp focus
and telling you about each
situation precisely what it is
you wish to know. She has
unobtrusively contrasted ma
tionalities in her two hero
ines: Frances, the guilt-rid-
den Anglo-Saxon, loving and
kind, attempting to arrange
things and make people
happy; and paSsion-swept
Fanny, the continental real
ist who takes life as it comes.
Miss Foley gently and end
lessly analyses the nuances
Of friendship between two
highly intelligent young
women, but tells enough
about their work, their sur
roundings and even their
meals to keep her findings
from ever being precious.
The Cambridge setting is
most lovingly rendered.
A Suspense Story
ALTHEA. BY Grace Earring
Stone. CHarper; $500
Grace Earring Stone has
written a brief and chilling
psychological suspense story
in "Althea." Her narrator is
a lonely doctor, banished to
idleness on the Connecticut
coast because Of illness. His
retirement is anything but
dull because he is soon drawn
into the lives Of his charming
neighbors: A gracious South
ern lady, her exquisite, mys-
teriously paralyzed niece,
Althea; and their haunted,
hard drinking kinsman, Ga
vim Ogilvie.
The doctor cannot resist
the case Of Althea. Fragment
by fragment her story is told
Evening star., 1962-09-02

to him. Her immobility has
come about as the result of
a severe shock. This ravish-
ing flower Of the South had
in the bloom of her youth,
been raped by a Negro boy,
who as a consequence had
been lynched. She had been
literally frozen by the ex-
perience. The doctor, prob
ing in the troubled house.
hold wonders IL her condi-
ton is not in some measure
wilfu1i. He finds that a sta
tus and an attitude can be
as powerful forces as the
truth.
Mrs. Stone tells the tale
with her usual mastery.
Evening star., 1962-09-02
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Science Eoger-Beover
In New School Story
By BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

School stories getting veler and funnier The field
mas oroadened from sports and include variety of
scientific projects TV shows historical pageants boys on
affc PATROL and some borderine fiction Most of
tne authors are mentheyve been themselves not
long agoand they check their scientific facts with the best
brains in the country 49, ~
Danny Dunn. red-headed scientific eager-beaver ap-
pears In his seventh adventure DANNY DUNN AND THE
Evening star., 1962-09-02
A Novel of
Considerable
Style
MAINSIDE. BY Paul Mandel.
CRandom House; $3.50

MAINSIDE. BY Paul Mandel.
CRandom House; $4.95)
Mr.. Mandel has written q
first-class first novel Of the
sort that keeps the reader up
long past his normal bed
time. It is the story Of 1t.
Sam Marks, a refreshingly
able naval officer in the
Mister Roberts mold, who
finds himself ordered to in
vestigate and report why q
socially-prominent aviator
decided to blow the top Of
his head off in the Jack
sonville bachelor officers
quarters.
Sam, who is no lawyer and
a most reluctant investigator,
nevertheless goes to work on
the case and before long dis
covers that the dead pilot
had been an overt homosex-
ual. Then, to his consterna-
ton, a battery of higher
ranking officers and a civil
ian lawyer try to head off his
investigation, in essence, for
the good Of the Navy and for
the sake of the dead mans
family and reputation.
1t emerges that practically
everybody knew about the
pilots inclinations and past
except the man assigned to
investigate his death.
Sans dilemma is whether
to go along with the cover
up or go ahead in the name
of truth. 1t is best to let the
reader discover Sans deci-
sion.
The book is full Of sharp
dialogue, suspense, excellent
plot formation and plain good
writing. Mr.. Mandel Is an
author of talent.
JERRY OTEARY. JP.
Evening star., 1962-09-02
To Be Reviewed

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorioI pose Of The
Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"JuIie: The Life Of
ModemoiselIe de Lespinosse," by
Jonine Bouissounouse, tronsIcted BY
Pierre de FontnouveIIe. Appleton
Century Crofts.)
WEDNESDAY-The Climb Up TO
He'll" by jack Olsen. CHerpsr 6
Row.
FRIDAY - "Suburbio's coddIed
Kid" BY Peter Wyden, drawings by
:. B. McdsIl. tDoubIedoy.l
Evening star., 1962-09-02

the Boswell industry has been
hard at work for IS years
publishing for the first time
a large body of major liter
ary works Of one of the most
infectious writers Of the Eng
lish language.
There are. Of course, other
scholastic literary endeavors
which quicken the pulse of
editor and reader alike. The
Dead Sea scrolls are proof
against the antagonism of
churches, Emily Dickinson
revisited has proved to be al
most a new girl, and the
Adams family papers have
been exhumed fresh, crisp,
unmouldy, undusty. But in
the Goth century there has
been no other reincarnation
quite so vibrant and dynamic
as the rebirth Of James
Boswell.
Boswell'S Life Of john
son" took its place as the
great example of biography
almost as soon as 1t was pub
lished in 1871; it and "The
Journal Of a Tour to the
Hebrides" (1785) have made
Boswell a favorite Of every
body who delights in vicari-
Gus friendship with the best
of good companions. Boswell
was q conscientious histo-
rian, but he created his ma
terial as he went through life
planning, instigating, record
ing. land finally spinning mar
rative which through its flex-
ibility, clarity, variety, and
unsurpassed charm is ire
sistible. Few have ever tired
of It.
Both books are long but
they make up only q small
part ct Boswell's ceaseless
flow Of words. In the 1920's a
large amount Of new Boswell
was discovered in Malahide
Castle, near Dublin. Boswell's
journals we're not simply of
literary" interest, subsidiary
to his two published books.
they we're absolutely prime
Boswell - nobody, l believe,
considers the Journals in
ferior to the Life, and
what Is probably the gen.
eral opinion is that they are
on the whole even racier. A
private edition was under
taken by 1t. Col. Ralph Is
ham which eventually ran
to 18 o. 20 volumes. This was
only the beginning.
In 1880. also in Malahide
Castle, an old croquet box
was opened apparently for
the first time in q century.
Evening star., 1962-09-02
Happy findings

Happy endings can be very
saccharine unless they are
matched with some vigor,
even in picture books. One Of
Evening star., 1962-09-02

Schu S ter; $3.50 Mr..
Buckley has written many
stories about young boys
in foreign lands and this
one is about Okolo Of Nj
geria. The author pre-
Sents. through the use Of
excellent photographs and
text, a very informative
portrayal of his everyday
life, one which American
children will enjoy as they
find it in many ways like
their own.
EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR
AMERICA. BY Norman
Woefel. public Affairs;
$3.750 Norman Woefel,
Professor in the Bureau of
Educational Research and
Service and Director of the
Teaching Aids Laboratory,
the Ohio State University,
believes we don't really
have a school system and
presents in this book anal
yses and recommendations.
Evening star., 1962-09-02

who gets past page one is
likely to keep right on read
ing.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Beot-Up Books

Textbooks so battered and shabby
as to be practically unusable obviously
have no place in the school room. 1t
is shock to learn, however, as Super
intendent Hansen has reported to Con-
gress, that some 146,220 other textbooks
now in the District schools are even
more worthless because Of their obsolete
content. According to DR.. Hansen, this
condemned" list was compiled by de-
partment heads after careful screen
ing. It is too bad that an orderly re-
placement Of such volumes was not
started long ago. Whether, as Senator
Humphrey Of Minnesota has urged, the
entire need can be fulfilled next year
Gas well as some 1881 other books
made obsolete by their condition) will
depend, of course, upon the ability of the
Senate Appropriations Committee to
divert $211 ,466 from some less essential
expenditure in the District budget. In
any event, start toward this goal
should be made by Congress this session.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Still Woitinq

Apparently Representative Gross of
Iowa was caught in the traffic mess
which has immobilized independence
avenue in recent days. At any rate, he
was speaking for thousands of motorists
when he asked on the House floor what
has happened to the freeways which
were supposed to relieve "the heavy
traffic in Washington"
Why, Mr.. Gross wanted to know,
are monstrous, Smoke-belching trucks
still using Independence avenue at all?
Why isn't the Southwest freeway open?
And why isn't traffic to Virginia routed
around the downtown area to the Jones
Point Bridge at Alexandria?
/, We share his sense of Illustration.
1t is disgraceful that neither the Capital
Beltway nor the AnacoStia freeway,
which ultimately will connect Maryland
traffic with the Jones Point Bridge, are
anywhere near completion. 1t will be
. nearly year before southbound trucks
and cars, which now turn into Inde-
pendence avenue from Third street, will
have access to the Southwest freeway.
And 1t will be an indefinitely longer
time, apparently, before a greater de-
!
Evening star., 1962-07-08

white dome Of the Capitol.
There stood a group of legis-
lators from both Houses of
Congress. As the radio car
ried their voices to listening
multitudes, together these
lawmakers repeated the pledge
which is now the Nations.
Then, appropriately, as the
flag was raised a bugle rang
out with the familiar strains,
Onward Christian Soldiers"
That is the real America true
to the Nations birth! Any
thing else is alien.
There is no liberty any,
where except under God. All
history shouts that. What
avail all the fair slogans Of
liberty, equality and frater-
nifty as the streets of Paris
ran red with blood and the
guillotine rolled its ghastly
heads, if a lewd woman is,
lifted up as the goddess Of
reason in Notre Danes Tenn
pie to the Most High? The
promising streams Of freedom
disappear in the sands of
futility when there is nothing
higher than the state.
One of the most potent
sentences of the Book of
Books is a glorious promise
Of divine resources. But in
it is also sounding a doleful
warning suggesting those for
whom the bells toll. Here 1t
is: IF My people, which are
called by My name, shall
seek My face, and pray and
turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear and forgive
their sins. and heal their
land"
AS we thus point to the
prayer involved in that most
momentous phrase, under
God" we shall repeat for all
who read these lines the
amen" that came from the
White House on the day the
words were added to the,
Pledge of Allegiance
From this day forward the
millions of our school chill
dren will daily proclaim in
every city and town, every
village and rural Schoolhouse
the dedication Of our Nation
and our people to the Al
mighty Over the globe
millions have been deadened
in mind and soul by q ma
terialistic philosophy Of life
. In this way we are re-
affirming the transcendence
of religious faith in Americas
heritage and future; in this
way we shall constantly
strengthen those spiritual
weapons which forever shall
be our country's most power
full resource in peace or in
war" This is the voice of the
President Of the United
States saying to all America,
Let us pray" :,
Evening star., 1962-07-08
6. 0. P. Family Fiqht

The basis for the clash, If it may be
called that, between former President
Eisenhower and Senator Barry Gold
water has been somewhat narrowed.
In letter Monday to G. o. P. Ma
tional Chairman Miller, the Arizona
Senator seemed to be denouncing both
the All-Republican Conference, organ
lied at a meeting at General EiSen-
hower'S farm, and the Republican
National Citizens Committee, formation
of which was announced in New York
City some hours later. In a second
letter, however, Senator Goldwater says
his complaint runs only to the Citizens
Committee. This latter group is vigor-
ously supported by Mr.. Eisenhower.
Senator Goldwater objects on sew
eral grounds. He says that he, as chair
man Of the Senate Republican Campaign
Committee, and other party leaders were
bypassed when the committee was set
up. He also charges that the commit
tees work would duplicate that Of the
Republican National Committee and
that 1t would draw funds away from the
official party organization. We suspect,
however, that the Senator's more basic
objections were expressed when he said
that most of those named to lead the
committees work contributed to the
divisive tactics" Of the 1860 campaign,
when experienced Republican leaders
"were shunted aside, ignored and en-
barrassed." And, as parting shot, he
asserted that the committee list includes
some who were responsible for EiSen-
hover administration policies which
ran counter to the traditional policies
Of the Republican Party and the counsel
Of regular party leaders,"
1t is this last comment, we think,
which gets to the real heart of this
g. o. p. family row. Senator Goldwater
stands on traditional Republican poll
cies as opposed to at least some of the
Eisenhower policies, and he has every
right to do this. If he can take the
party with him, however, the G. o. p,
we suspect, will be headed for disaster.
And, as evidence, we would cite Mr..
Eisenhower's spectacular election sue
ceSses compared to the generally mis-
cradle showing made by Republican
Representatives and Senators when they
had to face the voters during the Eisen-
hover years.
Evening star., 1962-07-08

gree of relief is provided the Independ-
ence avenue area by the east and CEN
trail legs Of the inner loop.
The irony, of course, Is that Mr..
Gross complaints about the lack of
progress should come at the very time
that vigorous efforts are being made to
halt freeway construction in Washing
ton. Whatever the other effects may
be, the alternative to an effective free
way System-both through the city and
around its ever-increasing congestion
on the existing streets.
Evening star., 1962-07-08
Chino's Refugees

A flood Of Orientals dis
guiSed as refugees" from
Red China threatens the
United States. Various bills
have been intr oduced in
Congress to admit approx
mately 50,000-an infinitesi-
NAL portion of millions that
would abandon the Commu-
nistic workers paradise" for
the slavery of capitalistic
oppression"
Why should Congress ad-
vocate the a admission of
merely $4,000? Why not en-
act special legislation" to
admit 50,000,000 and thus
completely destroy the ma
tional origins structure of
our population?
Despite the Chamber Of
Commerce attitude that
more people create more
prosperity" it is significant
that the three most populous
nations today-China, India
and Russia-are the least
prosperous.
The $4,000 that fled to
Hong Kong in May made
headlines throughout the
United States and perhaps
inStigated the proposed leg
islation. No m ention was
made Of the 2,500,000 that
have descended upon Hong
Kong since the Reds took
over the mainland.
Is this not a British prob