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DOGS, PETS, ETC.

BASSET PUPS, J wks., Axe, long
cared, sad eyed b S. STUD
service. Pc. 1885.
BEAGLE PUPPIES-s wks. old, 2
males left, medium size pure bea-
giles. $40. WA. $3.50.
BIRD DOG, IA years old, English
setter. Best offer. Dia !
-7s2-7ses.
BOXERS, flashy fawns, Axe, pup
pies and adults, Champ. Lineage.
Stud service avail. WA. 1891.
COCKER PUPS, Axe, 8 wks. blond
and blacks, call 1885 after 4
pm.
COON HOUNDS-2 black and tan, ]
bluetick, will run and tree with old
dogs. RE. 6-5673.
COON HOUNDS-5 mo. thorough
BIRD, black and tan, S35 ca. or $50
for the pair. 5sl-2os4.
DACHSHUND, long haired, male
2I7 yrs. good with children. 500 or
best offer. Call TU. 2-5307.
DACHSHUND PUPS, bred. cham
pion stock, Axe registered, J
weeks old. Call 365-339e.
DACHSHUNDS-LOng haired, Axe
reg, 4 mos, by appt. only except
Sun. Bel Air Vet Hospital.
3oI- e3s-4Soo.
DOBERMAN PINSCHER = black
and tan. 3 mos, male. all shots,
cropped. Champ. sired. papers.
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HELP DOMESTIC
(coNIIRUEpl

C00K-sERvE. Must have exper-
best families. Permanent posi-
tinn. good salary. Phone for in
terview, MISS MARTIN NE. s.
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Now It's Afghoniston
For James A. Kitchener

In history, archaeology and
geography, Mr.. Micnener is
on sound ground and his
most telling words are about
the country and its people.
He has dredged up a great
deal about Afghan attitudes
toward women: I'VE cherish
them. We love them. We
protect them. But we don't
want them cluttering up our
lives"
The plot, which weaves in
and out of the travel story
like an unraveling thread,
ought to fit nicely on the
second half Of a double fea-
ture at any B-movie house.
American college girl runs
OF to marry Afghan stu
dent; she likes his existing
wife but not him; she runs
off again to live with equally
married nomad camel col
lector and wanders waste
lands Of the East because of
inability to abide rest of
world; American embassy
aide Mark Miller Is assigned
to find her. Unfortunately he
does.
JERRY OTEARY, Jr.
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An Original
Idea in Novel
OF Suspense
A TIME TO RETREAT. BY

A TIME TO RETREAT. BY
Brian Cooper. Vanguard;
$3.50
This story, by a skilled and
experienced British writer, is
described as a novel Of sus-
pense and adventure. 1t GER
tainly is that, and yet it is
quite different from the aver
age novel Of the genre. For
one thing, it is decidedly well
written, which not all of the
species are, and a more strik-
ing claim could be made for
it-originality.
Mai. Gen. Stephen Man.
son, retired, commanded q
division in Southeast Asia in
1912. The division was Or
dered to hold a line to protect
a river and a bridge. If this
area was lost, the way would
be open to an important port
city, the lifeline of the whole
defending British Army.
Manson's division was men
aced by superior Japanese
forces, better equipped, Injured
to the dreadful heat and the
almost = impossible jungle.
Constantly thanked, having to
fight continuously for seven
days, the men were exhausted,
had suffered heavy casualties.
He had to retreat. against
specific orders from the army
commander. He retreated to
the bridge, had to blow it
up before two Of his brigadeS,
encircled In the jungle, were
able to break through and
join him. At the river 5000
men were lost. The general
was blamed.
Ever since his retirement
to his place in Cornwall in
1852, Manson had been de-
manding from the War Office
a court Of inquiry, feeling
sure that his name would be
cleared from q stigma he
thought entirely undeServed.
The matter became an obses-
sion. Finally, 20 years after
the battle, the military court
convened on the lawn Of the
generals place. Two Of his
old brigadiers testified in his
favor, the third against him.
The other witnesses had their
say. Manson gave his YER
sion and was subjected to
relentless croSS-examination
The ending is a sumner
CARTER BROOKE JONES,
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CARAVANS. BY James A.
Kitchener. (Random House;
$3.50
On the evidence of Cara
vans" Story-teller James A.
Kitchener has become a bet
ter travel writer than novel;
ist. 1t is almost as though he
had found himself with a
desk full Of notes from 1855
visit to Afghanistan and
decided to work them into a
novel. He may have reflected
that you cannot do q
Hawaii" about a country
few Americans will ever visit
but he would have had a bet
ter book if he had strapped
the plot and stuck to the
travelogue.
There seem to be two books,
badly mixed into one, in this
novel of adventure in At
ghaniStan just after World
War II. Mr.. Michener knows
so much of the remote king
dom that he is able to say
rather Smugly the correct
pronunciation is "Afanis-
tan" without the OH and
furthermore Kabul is spoken
like cable by people who have
been there.
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tor" Of Emily Dickinson.
Now he is the subject of a
discerning, compassionate
and admirably written biog-
raphy by Anna Mary Wells,
whose discipline as a mystery
writer has made her steady
on the trail of this charming
and diffuse man who was
made i'm m Mortal by the
friendship Of an eccentric
genius.
Miss Wells differs with
those who regard the enthu-
siastic Higginson as a disas-
trous choice for a reclusive
poet. HigginSon, despite the
conventionality Of his up
bringing and the fatal ia
cility of his own output, "all
his life experienced a sub
conscious bond with the
eccentric, the irrational, the
extreme"
Emily Dickinson, VINO lived
a simple and stern" life in
her native Amherst, would
have fled from a more i'm
Fortunate literary gentle
man. Higginson, who cham
pioned Thoreau when the
sage Of Walden was regarded
by the public as a mere
crank, possessed to a rare de-
gree the gifts Of appreciation
and sympathy. When Emily
Dickinson first wrote to him,
inclosing some poems, he i'm
mediately wrote back his
impression Of a wholly new
and original poetic genius"
Mrs. Higginson, q witty
bluestocking who gradually
soured into a neurotic inva-
lidiSm. Enthusiastically dis
agreed with her kindly hus-
band. She regarded Miss
Dickinson as insane. When
Higginson met the poet after
eight years of correspondence
he admitted to his wife, II
never was with anyone who
drained my nerve power so
much"
Their letters and CORE
spondence provided most of
what is known about Miss
Dickinson's narrow and sad
life. She confided more to
him than to anyone else out
side the family. After her
death he was embroiled in
the intrigue that accompan-
led the first publication Of
the poets work.
Miss Wells is so skillful
and sympathetic with her
subject that she almost per-
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cause. May Mr.. Harris write
q hundred more.
TEN PLUS ONE. BY Ed Nc
Balm. (Simon g. Schuster;
$500
Steve Carella and friends
in the 87th Precinct are in
fine but baflled form hunt
ing a sniper who appears to
hate only successful men In
their 40s until he adds a
prostitute to his list. Murder
follows murder before q yell
lowing program from a coll
lege play provides a major
clue. Indulge the author in
the solution. and you'll en-
JOY one Of the most interest
ing books Of this excellent
series.
TROIKA. BY David Mon
tress. doubleday g. Co.;
$3.50
The author Of Traitors
Wife" shows once more a
flair for stories about double
agents and deeply hidden
identities and loyalties. Anya
Dareyevna Is trained in Mos
COW as q substitute for ELISA
Sheldon, daughter Of an
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Dozz|ingIy Good Novel
Of Life in Belgium
STATE OF POSSESSION. By


Edith de Born. (Alfred A
Knopf; $4.50.)
Titles are peculiar. To
take two examples almost
at random: one Of the finest
novels ever written has a
brilliant title ("The Red
Badge of Courage" by
Stephen Crane; another Of
the finest novels ever written
has a dull as dishwater
title ("Maurice Guest" by
Henry Handel richardson.
But there is a seasoned
aphorism in publishing circles
which holds that "A good
title is the title of a good
book"
Thus measured, the title,
Estate Of Possession"-which
struck me, on first sight, as
not only dull but puzzling-
is a splendid title, because
Edith de Born's "State Of
Possession" is a splendid
book. Although 1t is only her
third novel, it Is dazzlingly
good, the work Of a natural
master.
1t is laid in Brussels, and
this Gas Jonathan Winters
might put it, is a switch.
I, for one, had never before
read a novel that grew, or
sprouted, out Of Brussels.
The names Of the char
acters may take a little get
ting used to. The main char
acter is a Mademoiselle Van
dernoot, who calls herself
land this Is part Of the
absorbing and wholly psy-
Geological plot) Madame
Vandernoot. At first, I kept
misleading this name as
Vandersnoot, but got my
bearings after a while. There
is a Vicomtesse Amaury
Roblet d'Achterbuynen. And
there are passing mentions
of families named Roblet de
Waverghem, Roblet de Mol,
and Roblet de Vlaarschot,
with a retired Belgian am
bassador thrown in and
me rcifully, perhaps-not
named at all.
Novel Of the People
These French File m / S h
aristocrats - though sharply
and alphabetically drawn,
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A Trend
To Bitter
Hun1or
THE TENANTS OF MOON.

THE TENANTS OF MOON
BLOOM. BY Edward Lewis
valiant. (Harcourt, Brace
& World; $4.500
This story of a New York
tenement and its haplesS
agent is the work of a prom
ising American novelist, who
died young last December.
Mr.. valiant brings to bear a
fierce concentration on Nor
man Moonbloom, a perpetual
scholar and reluctant land
lord, whose charge is four de-
caying apartment houses and
their clamorous occupants.
Norman's usual tactic Is to
let the walls fall down
around them in their unquiet
desperation but after being
seduced by one his tenants,
he Joins the human race and
does a little painting and re-
pairing.
The rehabilitation Of Nor
man Moonbloom and his
conversion to the trinity Of
love, courage and illusion is
of secondary interest to the
soliloquies Of the lonely, be-
trayed and despairing ten
ants Of Moonbloom. Mr.. Wal
liant had a tendency to wal
low in the squalor Of it all,
but his writing has power
and bitter humor.-M. Meg.
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suades her readers that Hig-
ginsons rates consideration
even without the bond with
Emily Dickinson. He was an
attractive, warmth arte d
man who as Henry James
wrote, has the interesting
quality of having reflected
almost everything that was
in the New England air." Al
most every one who knew
him liked him, and modern
readers may feel the same
about this inveterate joiner
who understood the most
gifted fecluse of his time.
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Shelagh is fresh. Her friend
Nina, the fat nun, the not
happy nun, the not-bad food,
the horseback rider on the
beach, the social investigator,
the tooth-extraction, and fl
nally the shell-shocked de-
modified soldier - all are
original and clearly reported.
One day Shelagh amuses
Sister Veronica with a jingle
about a nun and a friar.
"'Do you know your
prayers as well as you know
your jingles?' Sister Veronica
inquired.
Pierce o most sweet Lord
Jesus Christ my Utmost soul
with the most joyous and
healthful wound of thy love,
with true serene and most
apostolic charity that my
soul may ever languish and
melt with love and longing
for thee, that 1t may yearn
for thee and faint for thy
courts and long to be dis
solved and to be with thee.
Grant that my soul may
hunger after thee, the bread
of angels, the refreshment Of
holy souls
"'Are you a CatholicP'
ono
"How do you come to
know that then?'
"My fathers a Catholic.
I often read his Missal.'
What religion Is your
mother?'
Church Of England
Which faith were you
baptized imp
"T haven't been baptized
"'Do you ever go to
church?'
Every week
ga Catholic of Protestant
church?
"'Some weeks I feel Cath
Ollie and some weeks I feel
Protestant
$50 you go to either
church?'
eyes
"'Do the priests of these
churches know?'
"'I don't think the priests
ever see me. >"
Perhaps the priests don't
see Shelagh, but she sees not
only the priests but everyone
else with a dispassionate Vi
sion that discovers each q
little Ito use her own world
daft" 1t is her cool but not
unloving segregation of the
daft that may be the secret
of this writer's charm.
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Talent for Friendship
Mark Of Hiqqinson
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

DEAR PRECEPTOR: The Life and Times Of Thomas
Wentworth HigginsOn. BY Anna Mary Wells. Houghton
Mffin; So
Thomas Wentworth Hgginson proper Bostonian, stud
led wrote and crusaded diligently all his long life He
member Of distinguished New England clan, precocous
student at Harvard acquainted with related to all the
great Of his time He enthusiastic partisan Of
the aboonSs the feminss the temperance workers He
led Negro regiment in the Civil War, collected Negro
sprua sought to excel longed to be loved He
more than minor bloom in the Towering of New England
And he lives for He the dear precep
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Hopes Stories
Of His Travels

1 OWE RUSSIA $1,000. BY
Bob Hope. Doubleday;
$3.50
What with his success at
gagging 1t up all over the
world, Bob Hope decided to
try his luck in Russia, where
he found that they have q
national lottery E. It's called
living"
Someone searched his suit
case in his Moscow hotel and
found this and other jokes,
he recounted, adding: II still
don't know who went through
those jokes and I guess I
never will unless Molotov
starts doing my act in Pinsk."
But he did get out of Rus
STA with q filmed television
show. He left without paying
for two film clips the Rus
slams never delivered.
The Russian interlude Is o
small section Of the book,
which tells mainly Of his
travels to some of the pleas
ant and dismal fronts Of the
world where United States
servicemen are stationed.
The book closes with Hopes
Christmas show for troops in
Korea, where he told them:
THE Kennedys had q nice
Christmas. Jackie got a new
pair Of water skis. The Pres
ident got a pair Of hair
clippers and Ted got q nice
present Massachusetts,. +"
AS he told the Russian Of
ficials. he tells the same kind
Of Jokes at home.
JOHN KELSO.
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An ArticuIote Novel
Of an Unusual Girl

me, because, willing though
the reader is to be astonished
at each new revelation Of
Lisette and her friends, he
nevertheless demands that he
believes he is being shown the
same person In each new
aspect. Hoyt Bentley. how
ever, the last narrator Of
Lisette's odyssey, is a differ
ent man from the one we
have known by his name
not q character revealed, but
one transplanted from some
other story and rough-hewn
to fit.
Though the story ends
badly, 1t is nice while 1t lasts.
Miss Durant is always anus
ing, not only In telling Of the
wickedness Of her thteving,
lying, Scheming and unprin-
cipled heroine, who is deter
mined to have a half-6ozen
genuine brandy-snifters al
though her affinity to the
distillation is questionable
since she drinks her cognac
with sugar and cream, but
also in her handling Of the
satellite characters. There is
a rudy and bewiskered
huntin'- fishin' -shootin' Irish
man who says: Visited
America once upon a time.
Everyone on the streets asked
me for autographs. They
thought I was some damned
writer fellow named Heming-
way From across the room
his wife, a rouged wisp Of a
woman, Joined our CONVERSE
ton. Mr.. Hemingway she
declared, wrote about a shark
named Moby'." The most
brilliant scenes Of the book
create the atmosphere Of q
Broadway rehearsal, with Lii
settle remarking to the in
genue: "Your itsy-bitsy voice
sounds like a mouse In a
wastebasket" - but on the
whole these scenes do not
lend themselves readily either
TO quotation or to evocation.
I end my notice Of this de-
lightful book by recalling q
musing Of Jane, the most
articulate OF all those Lisette
puts under levy. Jane is q
poetess, and not a bad one:
Lovers. too, can
languish here with weeping
sinews. heart murmurs.
and sympathetic nerves.
There is petit NAL for
those who are less
vulnerable and NAL
de mer care you, too. sick
OF the sea2)
Come. fiddler, give us q
tune-delirium tremens or
st. Vitus's dancel"
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American Army major whose
home the Russians want as
a way station for spies. The
switch is made, but which
girl actually survived You'll
keep guessing until the last
page. Some day the mine
may run out. but it's been
a rich vein so far.
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has something to say, that
something is original, inter-
esting and uncloying, and,
finally, she is not stamped by
q characteristic" manner
in a short book she handles
various subject-matters with
a variety of styles.
Formally the book is COL
lection of photographed
sketches, but it is not the
servant of past events, for
while many persons could live
through the episodes Miss
Delaney recounts, not many
could so deftly distort them
into art. "Pavan for a Dead
Prince, for example, begins
almost inconsequentially,
then builds the background
against which the action Of
its third part is played. The
conclusion, the reader dis
covers, is the end for which
the first was made, and one
is suddenly moved by a love-
affair the implications Of
which are skilfully held in
solution until they crystalline
at last. The story is not with
out the inconsp uous
strength and command Of
Merimee.
1.-THE Teacher" is quite diff
ferent. A hard, flashy set
piece reminiscent of Maupas-
SAINT, 1t explodes in the three
final sentences, where we find
with the pleasure of surprise
that the domineering and
pettily cruel teacher is after
all no match for the boy he
has tormented. Such a story
may be factual, but it is not
true until somebody has
written it.
The title story is the
most extended Of the book.
Shelagh at IA, her mother
thrice married and twice d.
vorced and in jail for cruelty
and neglect $50 she says, but
she's a charming liar), is in
a youths convalescent home
by the seaside, oVerrun by
nuns. She is remarkably as
sured and Self-poSsessed, al
though she is subject to
fainting in church, and she
has an eye that sees every
thing, a tongue extraordinar-
lily articulate. There are so
many books made up Of the
memories of children, partic-
ularly those with unhappy
home lives or those inhabit-
ing infirmarieS, that we have
come to believe that there is
a recognizable pattern to
such existences. Almost
everything that touche
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like everybody else in the
book-are only tangential to
the story, which is essentially
a novel Of the people.
Mademoiselle Elisabet h
Vandernoot is a struggling
masSeuSe, a word whose
pronunciation has always
fascinated me. I know how it
is pronounced in French,
haven't the slightest idea how
it is pronounced in Flemish,
but never cease to marvel
that it is pronounced, in
American, "m'soose."
Ehsabeth's struggle, indeed
her whole reason for living
and working, is to give her
son, Lionel-who isn't her son
but never learns this-a COL
lege education as an agro.
nomiSt.
The book opens with Lionel
deep in a alf-hearted affair
with one Annie Peters, which
he is half-heartedly trying to
terminate; and with Elisabeth
having just received a letter
which has exploded in her
soul like a cherry bomb. That
is all you'll get out Of me
about the plot, except a warm
ing that you'll know you've
been in a battle before you
reach the end.
The New Europe
The reader soon becomes
aware that, at one level, this
is a novel Of the new" Eu-
rope, through many refer
ences to the Common Market,
juke boxes, Teddy Boys, the
"lost" Congo, and so on. The
reader also becomes aware
that, at a deeper level, he is
locked inside the mad, but
singularly placid, mind Of
Miss de Born's principal
character, Elisabeth, who is
the victim-though I'm not
sure that Is the right word
hereof a deluSion which Is,
in turn, the foundation on
which she has built her life.
Although Elisabeth Is a
pathological self-deceiver and
a pathological liar-an "un-
balanced woman" as the
author frankly describes her
you will, I think, under
stand her and love her more
and more as you turn the
pages. You will, I think, root
for her success when her de-
fusion, desperately defending
itself, closes ranks with the
undecided rest Of her person.
atty. She succeeds.
Miss de Born, writing mas
terfully of her characters
present, Eliminates their past
and their future. And, in
doing this. she throws reveal
ing light on some Of man
kinds desperate inner prob
lens Of adjustment to life on
this vastly troubled and
troubling planet.
CHARLES COOKE.
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QUARTET IN FAREWELL

QUARTET IN FAREWELL
TIME. A novel by Mary
Durant. (Harcourt, Brace
& World; $3.50
One Of her lovers speaks Of
Lisette, the focal character Of
Mary Durant's novel, Quar-
tetT In Farewell Time" as
Mildred" and in truth girl
and book resemble to some
extent heroine and story of
"Of Human Bondage" But
this new book is capricious,
even frivolous, and the prose
dances along with bounce
and gaiety not to be looked
for in Vaughan. In this her
first novel, Miss Durant, who,
her publishers tell us, turned
her hand to Journalism,
teaching and acting before
taking up fiction, has
achieved a very pretty picture
Of q self-sufficient girl as
viewed from the various per-
spectives Of four people in
volved in overlapping cpl
sodes Of her life.
We first see Lisette as she
enters the life and studio
of an impoverished Russian
sculptor 'in New York: "She
was the light that glimmers
over marshy ground and
leads the traveller from his
road-le feu toilet. das Irr-
LIGHT, the ignis fatuus. Your
translation to will o. = the
wisp does not please me,
losing as 1t does the charm
ing connotation Of folly and
error. 1t was your Emerson
who wrote, Beauty is its own
excuse for being Lisette has
come and gone, but Emerson
has given her an excuse :"
For Lisette herself 1t was
not an excuse but rather the
weapon in her arsenal to be
used In conjunction with her
cunning and her natural
ability In provoking the pro-
lection OF men and even the
assistance Of women. She
moves on from the sensitive
and aristocratic Russian
careless Of wounGing him by
laughing at his filching
wooden crates to be put in
his stove TO keep her warm
she Is through with him
having found her next man
We are told later episodes
Of her career first by a youne
Broadway director who loves
her and wants to marry her
then by the wife Of a mar
with whom she has beer
carrying on a mysterious
telephone intrigue through.
out the first two scenes, anC
finally by this man himself
Miss Durant's story breaks
down In the enc, II seems Il
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About Heroes

A COMPANY OF HEROES.
BY Dale Van Every. "a
Mentor Book; rs cents.)
Volume II in Mr.. Van Ev-
ery's four-volume history
of the frontier people Of
America. The object Of the
book is to examine the
achievement Of the from
tier people in Selling, just
in time, their Judgments
west Of the mountain bar
rier and in holding the
scattered American out
posts through the despair
ate years Of the Revolu-
ton. (Reprint.)