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question is whether they
have much to say to the dis
interested reader. The style
of both men is breathless and
frequently slovenly, and one
may find 1t remarkable that
having gone through the cor
respondence one can remem-
Der scarcely a single pene-
trating insight concerning
any old or new author, con-
corning life, or concerning,
for that matter, anything.
The following exchange is
typical:
Dear Miller: Two ques-
tons: What do you do with
your garbage: And (two)
When you say to be with
God do you identify your
self with God? Or do you
regard the God-stuff real
ity as something extra
neous towards which we
yearn. DURRELL"
MY Dear Durrell - The
first question is easier to
answer than the second.
The garbage you put in a
little can under the sink
and about shutdown. or
thereafter, you deposit it
in front Of the door, in
the street. The noise you
hear about 1880 in the
morning is the noise made
by Madame the Garbage
Collector who rolls her little
truck out Of the little hut
at the end of the street
Illuminated by a cross at
night.
"As for the second ques-
ton, being rather pressed
for time, and slightly
jocund at the moment, I
should say blithely some
times you approach and
sometimes you become.
Gottfried Benn answers it
nicely (via Storch) in an
issue Of transition which 1
will dig up for you and
show you. I could discuss
it better over the table. e.
HVM"
On the letter Durrell wrote
this memorandum: Pre-
serve 1t in my file. This kind
Of correspondence is worth
volumes of Pascal" There
may be those who agree;
others, l suppose. will still
prefer Pascal. Also, Joyce put
it more succinctly-"God is
a shout in the street."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
THERE'S YEAST IN THE

THERE'S YEAST IN THE
MIDDLE EAST. BY Willie
Snow Ethridee. (The VAN
guard Press; $4.50J
Mrs. Ethridge sets forth
with her customary zest on a
trip with the roommate"
and returns with the conclu-
sion: There's Yeast in the
Middle East"
The roommate" as her
readers know. Of course, is
her husband. Mark Ethridge.
chairman OF the board Of
the Louisville Times and
Courier Journal. who also
happens TO be on the board
OF the Ford Foundation. In
deed. this particular journey
came about when the foun-
dalton asked him 10 make a
survey Of It's projects in the
Middle East and suggested
that his wife go along.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
A New Respect for the Middle East

Egypt surprised her most.
she reports. She had been
prepared for the giant
strides forward in Israel but
nothing / had read pre-
pared me for the ferment in
Egypt .. the Land OF the
Nile has a long. long way TO
90; still / was considerably
cheered TO find Nasser and
the extremely able and con-
secrated men around him ..
facing up TO Egypt's prob
lens and laboring TO solve
them"
The uneasineSs she found
in Iraq over the regime Of
Premier Abdul Karin Kas-
sem was well founded. as
recent events have shown.
Observers there told her he
could swiftly 20 the way Of
his predecessors" unless he
began 10 effect the changes
that had been promised In
the revolution OF 1858.
FRANCES LIDE.
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With her typical efferves-
cence. Mrs. Ethridge almost
misses an audience with the
King OF Jordan, meets q
dynamic personality in Prin-
cess Ashraf Pahlavi. twin
sister OF the Shah OF Iran;
is baited into taking a camel
ride in Egypt. feasts on sha-
bert at a Baghdad fish bake
on. the banks OF the Tigris
and tackles many another
exotic dish with a gusto
matched, one would assume.
by a superb digestive system.
Her sightseeing over. she
found that she had q new
conception. q new respect,
for the Middle East:
THE vast majority Of the
people are awakened: they
are dissatisfied with the sta
tus quo and have found the
courage TO say so. They are
insisting that their govern
ments show them the way 10
a better, fuller, richer life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

learns his wife was tricked
into taking the furniture and
reporters were conveniently
called. Emily and Henry
Bryce, decorators aides who
prepared the piano. do some
amateurish amateur sleuth-
ing.
THE CASE OF THE MIS-
CHIEVOUS DOLL. BY Erie
Stanley Gardner. civilian
Morrow g. Co.; $500
One OF Mr.. Gardeners
weakest plots is salvaged by
a long, exciting courtroom
scene that ends in a war Of
words waged over fingerprints
by Perry Mason and Ham
ilton Burger, with 1t. Tragg
as the honest, baffled expert
in the middle. Perry Mason
has two clients-both beau
tiful dolls who happen to be
identical. At issue Is a hit
and-run accident and, ulti-
mately. murder. An abridged
version appeared in the Sat-
urday Evening Post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
THE INDEPENDENT MAN.

he INDEf ENDENI MAN.
By Keith Saunders (Saun-
ders Press, Washington;
So
The late William Oscar
Saunders belonged to a spe-
cies which has, it is sad to
relate, just about vanished
from the American scene.
This was the highly personal,
crusading editor who fought
fearlessly and often at the
risk of both physical danger
and financial disaster for the
welfare of his community and
against those who would ex-
plot or despoil it.
Mr.. Saunders published a
weekly called the Independ-
ent in Elizabeth City, N. c.,
from 1908 to 1887. And there
was never a more independ-
ent paper. Whatever its edi-
tor thought was right APP
peared. whoever it helped or
hurt. In time he gained a
reputation not only through
out northeastern North Car
DINA. but all over the coun-
try. for intrepid honesty. And
he won most of his editorial
fights.
His only son. Keith Saun-
ders, now a writer and editor
of the American Aviation
Publications in Washington,
tells in The Independent
Man" his fathers stirring
and colorful story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
A Nostalgia Vignette
Of q Crusoding Editor

Harry Golden, the noted
Charlotte editor and philos-
opher, comments in a fore
word: H. L. Mencken once
wrote that If the South only
had 40 editors like w. o.
Saunders, it could be rid of
most of its problems in five
years. And indeed it would.
But if you can't have 40 edi-
tors like w. o. Saunders, it
was still good to have had
one. Saunders takes his place
beside Marion Reedy, E. w.
Howe, Oscar Ameriger and
William Allen White as one
of the truly great personal
journalists of our times"
The editor of the hide
pendent lived to see some of
his most cherished projects
for Elizabeth City and east
ern North Carolina achieved.
He also drove out of public
office a number of grafters,
not without being shot at,
sued for libel innumerable
times and made the subject
of boycott against the paper.
He saw his town emerge from
a rather primitive little place.
without sewers or paving, to
a modern, well-run munic-
ipality.
During these years Mr..
Saunders not only waged
war against scoundrels in Of
flee. but against bigotry in
every form. Once he cam
paigned against a popular
evangelist who was preach
ing antisemitism in daily ser
mons. He drove this preacher
out of town after weather.
ing a counter = drive which
cost him many subscribers
and much advertising.
Keith Sunders got his first
newspaper experience on the
Independent. He has drawn
on these years and on COM
plete files of the paper for
his informal biography.
1t is a heartening story Of
courage and triumph which
outlasted hazards and dis
couragements.
BROOKE JONES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
A Brohmin Author
Looks to the West

/ wonder how many Western
readers can know what Mr..
Rao is driving at in a book
full Of references and allu-
sionS (far in excess of those
explained in the skimpy CLOS
sary) to people, places and
beliefs he knows nothing of?
l do not say that the fol-
lowing colloquy is without
meaning, only that the four
strange words in 1t remove
1t from the unspecialized
Westerner's field Of compre-
hension:
g. That is why the
Hindus are right: No man
can love a woman for her
personal self"
Then how does one love?"
For the Self within her, as
Yagnyavalkya said to Matt
treyi. All women are perfect
women, for they have the
feminine principle in them,
the yin, the prdkriti. 80"
And all men. 2"
". are perfect when they
turn inward, and know that
the ultimate is mans des-
tiny. No man is bad that
knows Lord, we are not Of
this kingdom"
The people in the novel are
all nebulous; they exist TO
exemplify tenets Of esoteric
Hinduism. no less esoteric
Catholicism, Of communism
and Of monarchy. Mr.. RAGS
talent the most accessible to
me is his great gift for evok-
ing physical locality. When
he writes Of the Ganges that
I do not know, 1t is as clear
as when he writes of the
Cam or the Seine. that I do.
All in all, THE Serpent
and the Rope" is a tantaliz-
ing and even an oddly COM
pelling work. You feel that II
you could understand II you
would like 1t: after all. 1t is
the writer's business to speak
it is the readers business
TO prepare himself TO hear.
ID. T.
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Asion Hot-Spot

THE UNITED STATES
AND THE SINO-
SOVIET BLOC IN
SOUTHEAST ASIA. BY
oliver E. Club, jr.
CBrookings Institution;
SO cloth. So paperJ
Mr.. Club has written a
short Q73-page) summary
Of how the United States
and the Sino-Soviet bloc
became interested in
Southeast Asia and what
the prospects are for that
area. He concludes with a
thought-provoking conclu-
sion that lists most Of the
alternatives offered the
United States in making
policy for Southeast Asia.
The reader can see how
difficult some of the
choices can be for us. What
should the United States
do in Laos. West New
Guinea. Wet Nam. etc.2 Mr..
Club is an Asian special
list for Brookings Institu-
ton.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
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patronage OF a Mr.. Joyce,
whom she treats as she does
the rest Of the human race,
that is as the hurricane treats
the poplar tree or the bull
dozer the clump of earth.
It's Still Paris
Miss Sharp probably would
have written at greater length
about Martha except that she
has only one joke to tell. And
that is that you can never
tell about Paris. the city to
which Mr.. Joyce dispatches
his protegee with never a
thought that she might. as
Martha's aunt delicately puts
1t, come to harm" Paris,
Miss Sharp wishes us to know,
is still Paris.
Martha Is not a victim OF
the prevailing sensuality Of
the city of light. She is a VIC
tim of her own passion for
the creature comforts and
Of other peoples idea Of her.
Poor Eric Taylor, a clerk in
the English bank who lives
with his widowed mother, in
sists on seeing Martha as
sweet, lonesome and de-
fenceless." Martha would
have crushed him like an
ant, had not he babbled Of
an English bathtub in his
home.
In Martha's French tub.
the enamel chips off, and
Martha does like a bath.
Martha, taking a package Of
clean underwear, became a
regular Friday night visitor
and bather chez Taylor, and
one thing. as it always does
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

MESSIAH OF DOnemlanlSm. Here
the letter writer's are only
two-Miller himself and Law
renee Durrell, best known as
the author of THE Alexandria
Quartet"-but George Wickes,
the editor, often takes the
place of Perles, for his con-
tribution to the volume is it.
self more in the spirit of
worship than Of explanation.
The long friendship be-
tween the 23-year-old Dur
rell and the 43-year old Miller
began in 1885 with an ecstat-
ic fan letter to the author of
"Tropic of Cancer" Miller
was naturally pleased by the
adulation Of the young man
and a warm epistolary mu-
Standardization society was
soon in full swing. Miller had
attacked the problem that
had stumped Shakespeare in
Hamlet" and Miller had
succeeded in solving it c"But
by God" Durrell accedes
generously, Shakespeare was
on the point of solving it more
than once.") Miller was the
great writer Of our time, II not
Of all time. Miller, also,
thought himself pretty good,
and at the time of writing
"Tropic of Capricorn, which
will be tremendous enough,
I can assure you" felt that
he had within him some
thing Of a wholly different
order. Something to put be-
side 'Quixote,' 'Gargantua,'
'Satyricon.' etc." At the same
time Miller held Durrell in
not low esteem. You are the
master Of the English Ian
guage," he writes after read
ing THE Black Book" Stu
pendous reaches, too grand al
most for any book. Breaks the
boundaries of books, spills
over and creates a deluge
which is no longer a book but
a river of language, the Verb
broken into its component
elements and running amok.
You have written things in
this book which nobody has
dared to write. :"
=
And so on over the years.
Miller and Durrell bolstered
each other continuously from
Corfu, London, Paris, and
Big Sur. They rather touch
ingly performed one of the
noblest duties of true friend
ship; no one can regret that
the letters were written-the
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New Delhi and Canada
Settings for Novels

authors description OF this
impressive landscape is SUI
perb, and as long as Pierre
stays on home ground he is
both believable and appeal
ing. But eventually. alas, he
IS discovered" and sent TO
Paris to study, and here his
-dimensional quality be-
comes painfully apparent.
Novelists have tried for
years to capture the essence
of the creative processes. In
failing to do so Miss Roy is
in very good company. And
there are moments-as in
Pierre's first attempts TO
draw the mountain - in
which she comes close to
achieving her purpose.
RUTH HUME.
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Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

"Con-Ide." THE Well OF
Paradise" and "Etain."
THE VIZIER'S ELEPHANT.
BY Two Andric. Translated
from the Serbo-C roat by
Drenka Willen. (Harcourt.
Brace g. World; $4.750
Three novellas by the
Yugoslavian winner OF the
1861 Nobel Prize for Litera-
ture.
SEVEN STORIES. BY Noel
Coward. "a Dolphin Book;
$l.45J A collection OF short
stories selected from the
two volumes Of short sto-
ries. ITO Step Aside" and
Star Quality"
PARTY OF DREAMERS. BY
Robert Lowry. Fleet;
$4.50J A collection OF short
stories.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

with Miss Sharp. leads to an
other.
Martha's stolidity is great
fun. But the romance is not
in Miss Sharp's best vein.
Eric is too pale a parsonage
to warrant our interest any
more than Martha's. And as
her situation grows trouble
some, Martha has to become
merely a liar.
One wishes Miss Sharp had
stayed with her longer and
surrounded her with those
irresistible supporting char
acters which have always
swarmed through her tales.
Still minor Sharp Is better
than none at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
Morgery Sharp Makes
A Tasty Conope
BY MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

MARTHA IN PARIS. BY Margery Sharp little Brown;
$685.
The standard procedure in the OF a new Margery
Sharp novel is simply to its availability stand
back while her fans stampede the bookStaS small
ming should be posted Martha in Paris" is l-course
Sharp meal 1t more in the nature of canape being just
l66 pages long.
Her newest heroine Martha, while perhaps be-
quilting creation Cluny Brown Julia still arrest
ing figure She great of girl who the splen-
did, sngleminded sehness of the artist enjoys the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
THE SERPENT AND THE

IhE SEhfENT AND The
ROPE. A novel by Raja
Roa. pantheon; $3.50
The Serpent and the
Rope" is not a translation
but a work originally written
in English by its Indian
author, a 54-year-old Brah-
min whose education was
divided between India and
France. c'I was born a
Brahmin," says the books
fictional hero, that is, de-
voted to truth and all that.
'Brahmin is he who knows
Brahman,' etc. etc. :" 1t
is a story Of an Indian hus-
band who sees Christianity
and the West through his
association with his agnositc
French wife and a Russian
friend who is a devout Cath
Ollie and a profound student
of Eastern philosophy. Rama.
the Brahmin, is split in his
love for his wife and the
West and his love for a
young Indian girl who brings
a strangely undefiled Hindu
philosophy to the contempt
rary thoughts and beliefs she
acquires as a student in Lon
don. Finally, the wife al
though she finds her faith
in the religion and wisdom
of the East, falls vaguely
away from her husband, and
the book ends in a wistful
divorce.
Raja Rao writes well, and
the accents Of his language.
neither English nor Ameri-
can, fall gracefully on the
ear. His book. nevertheless.
poses a great difficulty for
the average Western reader.
However materialistic in
temperament, however in
sensitive TO the mysticism Of
a Herbert. a Goethe. or a
John OF the Cross. an Ameri-
can reader has the back
ground Of tradition to APP
preciate the metaphysics in
tellectually. He can under
stand the frame of reference.
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GET READY FOR BATTLE.
BY r. PRAYER Jhabvala.
Morton: $685.


Although the strong
minded Sarla Dew has left
her husband eight years be-
fore. she becomes the pivotal
figure in the seemingly I'M
related crises that suddenly
shake the easy-going house.
hold. Her husbands mistress
insists on marrying him; her
sons wife yearns to return TO
her native Bombay: her son
wants to leave the prosperous
family business and start his
own fountain pen factory.
All that Sarla Devi herself
asks is to be left alone and to
help salvage a slum area that
has been marked for "rede-
velopment." In so doing she
finds herself in conflict not
only with her own family but
with a truly alarming collec-
ton Of professional do
coolers.
AS her admirers already
know, r. PRAYER Jhabvala is
a social critic so skilled that
she can slip IN the knife and
reach the heart without spill
ing a drop Of blood. Her
satiric gifts are here applied
to a situation that lends it.
self admirably: The conflict
between traditional and "en-
lightened" thinking among
the women of upper-class
New Delhi. The men simply
roll with the punches.
THE HIDDEN MOUNTAIN.
BY Gabrielle Roy. liar
court, Brace a. World;
$685.
One rarely comes across a
novel in which deficiencies
OF plot and Characterization
are compensated for by the
splendor Of the setting. This
is one of them. The books
hero, Pierre, is a natural
born artist who spends most
OF his life travelling through
the canadian wilderness,
Sketching what he sees. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

beth Wolf is believed dead.
A fantastic triangle develops
as the three share the same
house while the fortune is
sought. The story is told
through Elizabeth Wolf S
diary. 1t would not be Mon
teilhet's II all did not come
to an ironic end.
- So
THE DIPLOMAT AND THE
GOLD PIANO. By Marga-
ret Scherf. Doubleday 81
Co.; $500
A light, bright style isn't
quite enough to carry a
drawnout story about a
United Nations ambassador
victimized by a hoax and the
death Of the decorator who
did the Job. Pierre Marie
Cloche, envoy from the At
rican state of Gaad. knew
nothing about the new decor
OF his apartment, including
a gold piano adorned with
portraits Of Marx and En-
gels. Made to appear both a
Communist and a spendthrift
of American aid, M. Cloche
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be
reviewed on the Editorial Poss Of
The Stor this week:
MoNDAY-"Choim Weizmonn,"
edited by Meyer W. Weissol and
Joel Carmichael. (Atheneum.l
WEDNESDAY Americans for
Democratic Action" by Clifton
Brock. Public Affoin Press.J
FRIDAY Upton Sinclair: An
Autobiography" tHoreOur, Broee
g World
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
DurreII and Miller
In Correspondence
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

LAWRENCE DURRELL AND HENRY MILLER: Private
Correspondence Edited by George Wckes (E Dutton
& Co.; $685.
Two years there appeared form an exchange
OF letters between Lawrence Durr Alfred Peres The
avowed purpose Of the letters praise Henry Miller
friend of both men, the correspondence was successful
Mr. Miller himself chimed in genially from time to time
acquiescng in the critical Judgment.
The present book is somewhat similar in purpose Mr.
Miller sells well as sex item and as modern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

SHE'S MY GIRL. BY Eliza
beth Headley.
OFF THE BEAM. BY James
l.. Summers.
50
THE DANCERS HERITAGE.
A Short History Of Ballet.
BY Ivor Guest. "a Pelican
Book; Sl.25) A book for
aspiring young dancers and
all who are interested in
ballet, this short history
traces the development OF
the art from its earliest
beginnings TO the present.
FAMOUS TRIALS !: Trials
of Oscar Wilde. BY Mont
gomery Hyde. "a Penguin
Book; IS centsD The story
OF the three trials which
led TO the conviction OF
Wilde for gross indecency
and his Imprisonment for
two years at hard labor.
THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES.
BY Madame de Lafayette.
Translated by Nancy Nit
ford. "A Penguin Book; IS
cents.) Published anony-
mouSly in 1878, this his
torical novel caused a sem
sation in It's day. Set in
the splendid days OF Henri
II, II is the pathetic story
OF the conflicting passions
OF the beautiful wife OF the
Prince de Cleyes and the
gallant Due de Nemours.
CLUSTERS FALL. The In
dian Side OF the Story.
BY David Humphreys Mil
Ter. "A Bantam Book: 95
cents.) A reprint Of the
book In which the author
sets down the eyewitness
accounts from the Sioux
warriors who actually
fought in the battle.
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
TODAY. BY d. j. West.
"a Pelican Book; S5 centsJ
DR.. West. who is a trained
psychiatrist and an inyesti-
gator for the Society OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
NEW EDITION OF TOYNBEE

STUDY OF HISTORY. BY Arnold ]. Toynbee Three
new Volumes Universal States $225 Universal Churches
l$225) and Heroic Ages Contacts Between Civilizations
Space $295 oxford University Press Galaxy Paperback
Books. This handsome paperback edition of Toynbees
classic work to be in 10 volumes ultimately are
three more bringing to total Of eight those already pub
shed 1t is one OF the landmarks in popular treatment
OF a monumental work E..
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MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Studies in Tragedy
And Stark Revenge
By BETTY MILES
star staff Writer

Hubert Montehet author of THE Praying Mantises Of
fers a second study in treachery in RETURN FROM THE
ASHES Simon Schuster $3.50. Once he explores
the subees revenge spawned by victims who discover
their plight Elizabeth Wolf who survived concentration
camp ravished looks before present.
ing herself husband But before she her
return finds her his wife, but woman who looks
SO much that he and her daughter her to
claim quickly the fortune she has inherited The real Eliza
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17
FICTION

THE WHITE HOUND OF
THE MOUNTAIN. And
other Irish Folk Tales.
Newly told and with COM
mentaries by Thomas J.
Herman. Illustrated by
Elizabeth Rivers. CDevin-
Adair; $4.50J DR.. Herman.
Ireland's Ambassador TO
the United States, has
rescued these ancient tales
from the archives In Ire
land. Besides the title
piece he has included
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-17

Psychical Research, offers
an examination of super
natural phenomena and
the studies being conducted
10 help us learn more
about 1t.
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PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

TODAY. BY ID. j. West.
"a Pelican Book; S5 centsJ
DR.. West. who is a trained
psychiatrist and an investi-
gator for the Society OF