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BOOKS IN REVIEW
The Workbooks
OfAIbert Camus
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

NOTEBOOKS 19S5-1942 BY Albert Camus Translated from
the French. with preface and notes, by Philip Thody.
Alfred A. Knopf; So
ALBERT CAMUS: Retrospective Anthology. Edited and
with Introduction and notes by Germaine Bree. Del
Publishing Co.; SO cents)
Albert Camus kept journal from 1885 until his death
In 1850 which he apparently intended someday to publish
since he had the first parts of it typewriter is not diary,
but for the most part writer's workbook containing not
only observations and reflections subjects but
also first drafts Of passages that were later incorporated
in his novels and other books As source book it viii be
Of the greatest interest to readers familiar with what
out Of IT, nevertheless although probably it not the
Introduction to Camus few will not welcome another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Rainy Day Fun
For Every One

PROVE IT. BY Rose Wyler
and Gerald Ames. (Harper
g. Row; $3.50 III
An eaSy-to-read science
book. Almost any child from
4 to 8 can do the SIM
pie experiments pictured and
explained. Household ingre-
dents such as sugar, salt,
water. pepper, paper and q
magnet can be used to per-
form what will seem magic
tricks to children.
THE SKY WAS BLUE. BY
Charlotte Zolotow. Char.
per g. Row; $3.50
This book viii be valuable
in widening a child's concep-
ton Of the past. Little girls
in particular will be inter-
ested in the way fashions,
dolls and transportation
have changed in several gen.
erations. They will gain q
sense Of security too when
they understand that things
like trees, grass and sun al
ways remain the same.
Garth Williams has illus
trated the book. lf'
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characteristic is despotism;
that the Russian Bolshevik
leaders, when they made their
successful coup d'etat in 1917,
had this in mind. They
preached to the masses at
that time the dictatorship of
the proletariat, a short period
Of transition, ending with the
humiliation of the capitalist
and bourgeois classes after
which there would be no
more government" but a
fraternal liberty. But Lenin
wrote a circular shortly be-
fore the coup, entitled shall
the Bolsheviks Remain in
Power?" "Of course" writes
Mr.. Stoddard, 'Lenin says we
preached the destruction of
the state as long as the state
was in the hands of our
enemies. But why should we
destroy the state after we
ourselves have taken the
helm. The state is. to be sure,
an organized rule by a privi-
legged minority. Well, let us in
our turn substitute our
minority for theirs, and let
us run the machinery"
This is what the Russian
Bolshevik minority has been
doing ever since-what the
Castro minority Is doing in
Cuba, and what Russian So
Wet Premier Khrushchev has
in mind for the rest of the
world-deSpite his talk of CO.
existence. And this is what
Mr.. Stoddard foresaw.
GOULD LINCOLN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
SmuII Books for
Small Readers

Besides the indispensable
MOTHER GOOSE for the
youngest, children from 4 to 8
need books for summer read
ing.
BIG FROGS, LITTLE
FROGS. BY Patricia <.
Miller and Iran L. Selig.
man. (Holt, Rinehart q
Winston; $3.50 81.
This is an attractive little
book about frogs. Children
will like the bold bright pic
lures by Lee Ames. The aim
of the book is to stimulate d
young child'S interest in nat
ural history and it may do
that. Parents may be asked
to go looking for frogs so
their children can see a real
alive one. il,
CITY STREET GAMES. BY
Jocelyn and Lee Ames. An-
other book in the same Sc
rieS. (Same publisher and
same price,
Parents Will be relieved
that most Of the games in
this book are to be played on
the sidewalk and not In the
street. HopScotch, Wall BAH,
Take a Giant Step and Jump
Rope are among the games
fun to play in the city. The
illustrations in grays and
browns capture the flavor Of
city life. The book will pro-
vide answers to What can I
do?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14

Bolshevism, the incarnation
of the atavistic past; biology,
the hope Of a progressive
future"
Racial Improvement
If our present-day civiliza-
ton is not to go the way Of
the great civilizations Of the
past, Mr.. Stoddard argued
that steps must be taken to
improve the race; that the
theories of human equality
and Of INSTRUMENTATION" as
a cure to social ills are incor-
rect and miss the truth that
through the science of eu-
genicS the human race may
be improved and lifted to
higher and higher standards,
with civilization assured. IN
less such a course Is followed,
he contended, the great mass
Of interiors, the degenerates
and the physically and mem
tally deformed will eventually
bring about a successful re-
volt Of what he calls the "un-
derman," who from time i'm
memorial has hated all that
was above him.
Mr.. Stoddard has taken the
social revolution in Russia as
the lateSt-in 1922-example
of this revolt of the under
man. The undermen, he
writes, often are led by bril-
liant but twisted intellects-
such as Lenin, who have no
sense Of moral values. Dis
cussing Bolshevism, he con-
tends that its fundamental
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to pay off the Lindbergh
baby kidnapers.
Means had a career that
is difficult to believe today,
yet it is recorded that he was
so smooth an operator that
he got himself appointed an
investigator for the Bureau
of Investigation (now FBD
Of the Department Of Justice
not long after beating a muir
der rap; that he conned the
combatant nations Of the
First World War so well that
no one is sure to this day
how many Of them, including
Imperial Germany, he repre-
sented; that he bilked hun
dreds Of people out of prob
ably more than q million
dollars and that he angered
more officials than any thief
known to our time.
Worst Crime
His GROWING infamy, Of
course, was the Lindbergh
case. Means was living in
Chevy Chase when the pio-
neer aviator's child was kid
naped and the burly, dimpled
North Carolina Swindler SIM
ply couldn't stay out of it.
1t is doubtful if Means ever
personally profited from his
ruse of convincing Mrs. Nc
Lean that he could procure
the return of the child; he
simply had to be involved.
Mr.. Hoyt writes:
Castor had sinned against
the Lindberghs when he Of
fered them hope when there
was no hope; he had Sinned
against society when he used
a private tragedy to steal
from a wealthy woman; he
sinned against decency when
he tried at the last minute
to bring doubt to overShadow
the Hauptmann conviction"
In his earlier days, Means
had wrought such distrust
and confusion in the Justice
Department that J. Edgar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14

THE LOUD RESOUNDING
SEA. BY Frank Bonham.
(Crowell; $500
This is the story about
friendship between a boy and
q dolphin. Dolphin lore is pre-
sented so realistically that it
seems plausible that a dol
phin can talk. Who minds
that q good sea yarn is a bit
Of a fish story? Any age
above 10 should enjoy this
clever blend Of realistic and
almost real adventures.
LOST JOHN. BY Barbara
Leonie Picard. (Criterion;
$3.50.)
Robin Hood according to
the author was not the only
outlaw chief in the Forest of
Arden. She tells q full-bodied
story about a boy who runs
away from a wicked STEP
father and joins an outlaw
band. Lost John, as the out
laws call him, becomes fond
of the outlaw chief hut a time
comes when this fondneSs
comes In conflict with Johns
pledge Of revenge for his
fathers death. The author is
not Squeamish about depict
ing the cruelty and lawless-
ness of the Middle Ages in
England. The authenticity Of
the background never in
trudes on the good character
portrayal or the exciting plot.
HAKON OF ROGEN'S SAGA.
BY Erik Haugaard. (Hough-
ton-Mifflin; So
This Danish author tells a
compelling story Of Viking
days of heroism, war and a
boys hairbreadth escape
from his deadly enemies. The
author never writes down"
yet the book has simplicity
of language which has a po-
etc quality. The hero is
heroic while still remaining
life-size. AS children book re-
viewers would say, this is a
good book.
CARNIVAL IN PERIL. By
Karl Rolf Seufert. pan
theon; $3.50
The diaries of one Of the
three intrepid explorers Of
the Sahara Desert In the
year 1910 form the basis for
this book. Danger and dis
comfort were the rule rather
than the exception during
the entire exploration. Only
tremendous energy, endur-
ance and wills Of iron could
have sustained these men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14

volume by q man who, per-
haps more surely than any
other, caught the ear and
appealed to the hope and the
scepticisrn of the whole post
war Western world. The note
books have recently been
published in France, and the
first Of several volumes, ably
translated by Philip Thody,
is now brought out in Amer
lea.
There is every sort Of
entry. Sometimes there will
be q statement so simple and
direct that it would shock
lesser men, who might try to
camouflage it with elegance:
Every time I hear a po-
litical speech or I read those
Of our leaders, ! am Mortified
at having, for years, heard
nothing which sounded hui
man. It is always the same
words telling the same lies.
And the fact that men ac-
cept this, that the peoples
anger has not destroyed these
hollow clowns, strikes me as
proof that men attribute no
importance to the way they
are governed; that they gam
bic yes, gamble - with a
whole part Of their life and
their so-called vital inter-
ests.'" Or there will be a
smiling and ironical vignette:
I'm the local movie theater,
you can buy mint-flavored
lozenges with the words:
win you marry me one
day?' DO you love me?' writ
ten on them, together with
the replies: This evening"
"A lot etc. You pass them to
the girl next to you, who
replies in the same way. Lives
become linked together by an
exchange Of mint lozenges."
If We forget the chaste
Greek marble architecture we
admire so much today was
originally painted with pig
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Two New Transactions
Of q French Masterpiece

with her, woos her. and is
accepted. The girl marries
him willingly, although she
knows she feels no love for
him; she has never loved any
body. After she Is married
she meets and falls passion
ately In love with the Due de
Nemours, the leading gallant
Of the French court, who has
been led to believe that Queen
Elizabeth of England is in
tereSted in him, and who is
planning to effect a marriage
with her. He, however, re-
ciprocates the love Of the
PrinceSse de Cleves, who, re-
naming faithful to her hus-
band, experiences for the first
time in her life the soaring
conflict of reason and emo
ton - experiences it in her
blood and, unlike the typical
romantic heroine, under
stands 1t In her mind.
Her mother, too. becomes
aware Of the ultimate failure
Of the life Of reason. and on
her deathbed warns her
daughter that she is on the
edge Of a precipice. In the
central scene of the book,
the Princesse tells her hus-
band that she is in love, but
does not name the man. The
Prince is shattered, not by
simple jealousy, but by the
knowledge that another man
has been able to arouse his
wife as he has not. When he
dies, the Princesse has q
temporary revulsion Of feel
ing against the Due de Ne
mours; but when he presses
his suit, she finds that she
still loves him, and tells him
so. But she will neither
marry him, nor take him as
her lover-propriety. duty
to the memory Of her hus-
band, and her own longing
for repose forbid her. Thus
not once, but twice In her
life she is ruined by a moral
ity and a reason that seem
to be valid enough to harm
humanity, but incapable Of
benefiting It. The Princesse
de Cleves enters q convent.
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THE PRINCESS OF CLEvEs

= @~@ANN(A@O0 01 OAA1 E0s
BY Madame de Lafayette.
Translated and with a
Foreword by Walter ].
Cobb. (New American L.
brary; so centS.)
THE PRINCESSE DE
CLEVES. Translated and
with an Introduction by
Nancy Milford. "a PEN
gum Book; IS cents.)
Two new translations Of
Madame de Lafayette's novel
la Princesse de Cleves" have
appeared recently. Each has
its felicities, both are free
rather than literal. and If
there are American readers
who have overlooked this
earlier masterpiece Git ap-
peared anonymously in 1879
in favor Of later French psy-
Geological works Of Stendhal
and Proust, they should be
welcome in bringing to at
tention one of the most bril-
liant novels of France or any
other country.
Marie Madeleine Phoebe de
Ia Vergne was born in Paris
in 1884. AS a young girl she
attracted the attention of
Madame de Sevigne, who in
troduced her in court circles.
She married the Count de
Lafayette, from whom she
separated amicably in 1859,
and lived, 1t is believed pla-
tonically. with La Rochefou-
cauld, the author Of the
"Maxims." She wrote three
other novels and Memories
de Ia Cour de France" but
la Princesse de Cleves" is
unquestionably her greatest
work.
A historical novel, the book
opens with a glittering pic
ture Of the French court in
the reign Of Henri II, with
its intrigues, its gallantries.
its artificial conventions. II
at first we wonder whether
this panorama Of life is not
too long and detailed, we
appreciate in retrospect that
the setting is necessary to
cast into relief. and focus on,
the personalities and pas
sions Of the three principle
characters, for the book Is
not one of romantic pag-
eantry, like q novel Of Scott.
It is perhaps the first Of the
great psychological novels, in
which incident Is used pri-
marily to uncover the work.
ings Of the mind and the
snares of the heart. One of
the translators, Walter j.
Cobb, quotes Jean Cocteau:
Read La Princesse de
Cleves'; read and study 1t.
In It you win find an illus
tration Of Nietzsche's apho-
rism: 'Soundlessly. on doves
feet. they make their way
amongst us-the ideas that
change the face Of the
earth.'"
Mademoiselle de Chartres,
beautiful, talented. immedi-
ately attractive to everybody,
has been brought up carefully
by her mother; she has been
taught the life Of reason, that
men are untrustworthy, that
the virtuous life is the only
happy life, that intelligence
is the mark Of the superior
human being. The Prince de
Cleves falls genuinely in love
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Foreseeing Todoy's Problems

THE REVOLT AGAINST
CIVILIZATION. By Lothrop
Stoddard. (Charles Scrib-
ner: 1922; Freeland: 1868
edition.)
Forty years ago Lothrop
Stoddard wrote 1.-THE Revolt
Against Civilization" with a
subtitle-"The Menace Of the
Underman." 1t was a search
ing, well-documented look
into the future, carrying a
warning-unfortunately dis
regarded by too many. In
those days few in this coun-
try foresaw the great conflict
which was to arise between
Soviet Russia and the United
States, between the Free
World and the Communist
World. The BolSheviki were
regarded as phenomena, adj
Unstable in a few years to
the civilization of the West.
A decade later this Govern
ment of ours, with the wool of
so-called liberalism clouding
its vision, gave sympathic aid
to this aetheistic minority,
seeking growth and, above all,
power.
Far-Seeing
Mr.. Stoddard's Revolt" has
now been republished by
w. T. Freeland of New Or
leans. Mr.. Freeland's hope,
he writes, is that the book
may help pull together our
diverse opinions which seem
to be dividing us to the
point Of possible defeat"
Lothrop Stoddard, son of a
distinguished world traveller
and lecturer, in his own right
must be regarded as a far
seeing and incisive student of
racial and international af-
fairs. In addition to 1.-THE
Revolt Against Civilization"
his books-"The Rising Tide
Of Color" and "The New
World of Islam"-won him
praise for his study and in
sight into world problems
from Lord Northcliff and
highly placed leaders in this
and other countries. His
career began in his native
Boston and led him to New
York and to far places, and
finally to Washington where
some years before his death
he wrote editorials for The
Washington Star on interna-
tional problems and broad
cast a program on The Star
radio station.
In his Revolt Against
Civilization" Mr.. Stoddard
wrote-in 1922-"Historians
OF the distant future, APP
praising our times, may con-
clude that the Great War
(World War u was merely a
symptom-an episode in a
much vaster struggle Of ideas
and elemental forces which
began long before the war,
and lasted long after its close.
Perhaps never in human an
mails have principles so dis
similar striven so fiercely for
mastery Of the coming age.
Now In this conflict the
ultimate antagonists appear
to be biology and Bolshevism;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Mr.. Golden Looks
At the Pioneers
Of the West
FORGOTTEN PIONEER. BY
Harry Golden. (World: $4.)

FORGOTTEN PIONEER. BY
Harry Golden. (World; So
In this book, the sixth
from the mellow commenta-
tor on the American scene,
he tells the story Of the ped
dler-the man with a pack
on his back or in a wagon
who went west with the pio-
neers or south to supply with
household needs earlier gen.
erations in the Appalachians
or the Piedmont plains.
Mr.. Golden dedicates the
book to his brother Jacob,
who came to America as q
young boy in 1905 and helped
support the family by ped
ding. HE has long since left
his pack, but he pursues the
same dream"
Harry Golden was never a
peddler, but he was brought
up on New York's lower East
Side, worked hard for his
education and achieved a ca
reer possible "Only in Amer
ica," the title Of his first
best-seller. He is, as a multi
tude Of readers know, editor
Of the Carolina Israelite and
an adopted citizen Of Char
lotte, N. c.
The Peddlers
From the early days Of the
colonies until the 1920s, he
points out, the peddler made
his way, carrying bolts of
cloth, pins and needles, pots
and pans and other necessi-
ties to families who might
otherwise have had to go
miles to the nearest store.
While peddlers were of all
nationalities, many were
Jews from Russia or Ger
many or Poland. These i'm
migrants arrived without
knowing the language, but,
starting out with their packs,
they learned the language
and the ways Of their foster
country. Most Of them made
a modest living. Some did
rather better. A few, like
BENJAMIN Altman, Adam
Gimbel and Marshall Field,
became merchant princes.
Even Meyer Guggenheim,
founder Of a fabulous copper
fortune, once peddled from a
pack in the Pennsylvania
coal regions.
forgotten Pioneer is a
charming, sometimes poign-
ant contribution to Amer
icana.
CARTER B. JONES.
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Other New Books in Brief

edited and prepared by
william q. Andrews, aimed
at providing a fresh. up
to-date, and comprehen-
sive approach to the study
Of contemporary political
systems.
HOW MUCH is A COL
LEGE DEGREE WORTH
TO YOU? By William v
Levy. "a Macfadden Book:
so cents.) The how, where
and why Of a college edu-
cation.
FOOD FOR LOVERS. BY
Almuth Elget. "a Macfad-
den Book: so cents.) Cook
ing for the man in your
life.
THE COLLIER QUICK AND
EASY GUIDE TO WORLD
HISTORY. BY Edwin Dun
baugh. COLLIER Books:
$1.50) A comprehensive
outline Of the history Of
mankind.
PORTRAITS FROM MEN,
DRY: And Other Essays.
BY Bertrand Russell. Can
Essandess Paperback;
$l45) Lord Russell de-
scribes the great ideas, and
personalities Of English in
tellectual history in his
time. with portraits Of such
illustrious friends and con-
temporaries as Shaw,
Wells, the Webbs, Conrad,
and d. H. Lawrence. IRE
print)
THE COLLIER QUICK AND
EASY GUIDE TO TV
WRITING. BY George
Lowther. COLLIER Books:
$l.50) The big secret" Of
writing TV scripts.
ADVANCED SERVO
MECHANISM DESIGN. BY
Ira Ritow. "a Dolphin
Handbook Original; $3.50
A detailed study Of the
theory and practical APP
plication of the principles
Of automatic control. IRE
print.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Washington Full
Of Funny Places.
Says ruveIer
THE ROAD TO HUDDERS-
FIELD: A Journey TO Five
Continents. BY James Nor

THE ROAD TO HUDDERS-
FIELD: A Journey TO Five
Continents. BY James Nor
ris. pantheon; $4.95.)
In case you didn't know,
Huddersfield is the small
village Of the Yorkshire
moors where the frightening
prospects Of the industrial
revolution were first viewed
by a society that was appall-
ingly-for the most part
indifferent to the horrible
toll it was taking on life.
Mr.. Morris isn't writing
about the industrial revolu-
ton in this book but he is
telling Of the long haul ma
tons must make to get into
the stream Of production, in
creased land fertility, COM
munication, and the like. His
story is about the operations
of World Bank which has its
headquarters here. It is q
well-told story, not overrun
with sums and money talk,
by a man well Travelled for
great British newspapers.
Says he in one place in the
book: washington is full of
funny placeS-funny pecul-
lar, that is, not often funny
ha-ha-but few could be
funnier than 1918 H street
:. It is a big, new, faceless,
rectangular building of the
sort that suddenly shrivels
up your curiosity and leaves
you positively anxious not to
know what happens inside.
In capitals of more dreadful
temper, it might be head
quarters Of the secret police
except for the sweet
smiles the elevator girls give
you" H. A. LYON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Wit and Wisdom
From Americas
Beat Capital
THE WILL G E VOICE
READER. Edited by Daniel
Wolf and Edwin Fancher.
doubleday & Co.; $4.95).


READER. Edited by Daniel
Wolf and Edwin Fancher.
Doubleday g. Co.; $4.95).
A happy dissonance in
Cherry Blossom time is this
collection Of excerpts from
the official Greenwich VIII
lage newspaper started eight
years ago.
In neat book form the aver
age reader gets q glimpse Of
minority thoughts on a ma
jority Of subjects: Beatnik
art, politics, pacifiSm and
perversion. It's the latest
from Americas Oldest center
Of the avant-garde.
Included are such profess
sional gardists as Jack Ke-
rouac Norman Mailer, giving
his thoughts on 1.-THE Hip and
the Square" Jules Feiffer's
cartoon-dialogues on every
aspect Of living in the present
are especially smarting. And
Katherine Anne Porter's
"reminiscences about a gyp-
syish friend Of hers, give a
rather normal slant to ones
impressions Of Village life.
The reviews of books and
plays are Of the greatest
value as indications Of what
is current in the world of
letters. All together, the
reader is a def way to step
between the cobblestones Of
Greenwich and Georgetown.
IN. A. STEERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
Beloved Poem
PAUL REVERE,S RIDE.

PAUL REvERE'S RIDE.
BY Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow. (Crowell:
$500
This story has been vigor-
ously illustrated by Paul
Galdone. The poem, long
popular with young and
old, has never been more
beautifully depicted. The
artist catches the spirit Of
the times as he designs
Old Boston and the coun-
tryside on the way to Lex
ington. This is a book to
read aloud and to look at
again and again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
PAPERBAcKS

Six new Van Nostrand
Searchlight Books have Just
been published. In each vol
ume, a distinguished scholar
Eliminates a given segment
Of the globe or an activity
which, because Of poll
Photographed implications,
plays or promises to play an
unusual role on the interna-
tional scene. ($1.45 each.)
They are:
ENVIRONMENT AND POLL
CIES IN WEST AFRICA.
BY r. ]. Harrison Church.
NDONESIA: The Crisis Of
the MillstOnes. BY Benja-
min Higgins with Jean
Higgins.
JAPAN: Industrial Power of
Asia. BY Robert B. Hall, jr.
THE LOWER MEKONG;
Challenge to Cooperation
in Southeast Asia. BY c.
Hart Schaaf and Russell
H. Fifield.
THE HIMALAYAN KING
DOMS; Bhutan, Sikkim,
and Nepal. BY Pradyumna
p. Karan and William M.
jenkins, jr.
PAKISTAN: Emerging De-
mOcracy. BY Robert d.
Campbell.
LATIN AMERICAN POLL
TICS: In Prospective. BY
Martin c. Needler. ivan
Nostrand: $1.75.) This
area study is part of q
special series Of Compare
tive Government books,