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Show I power to tell a compelling human 1 story. WITNESS Bv Whit taker Chambers The "great theme of Witness is the ordeal of the human soul caught in the 20th century's conflict con-flict of faiths-religious against materialism, freedom against Communism. In the 20th century it is every man's ordeal. For every man has suffered or within the next two decades will suffer that ordeal and its consequences. Nevertheless, millions of men do not understand what the war of faiths is about or the nature of that ordeal. WITNESS is Whit-taker Whit-taker Chamber's interpretation of both. Witness is really five' books: A terrible spy story; A shocking account ac-count of the Communist Fifth Column which infiltrated the United Uni-ted States government and American Am-erican life as seen by a man who was there and took part in it and who names names; The inside story of the Hiss case by a man who went through it step by step and who became the government's chief witness against Alger Hiss, the former high State Department official convicted of perjury charges; the clearest answer vet given on whv did so many in the early nineteen-thirties become Communists; . A human document unusual in anv age. For br?rr? Whittaker (Chambers could explain the meaning of the Hiss Case ad of Communism, he had to explain himself. This book is the explanation. explana-tion. He does not hesitate to bear witness- against himself, disclosing facts that men commonly conceal. Books You May Like To Read TOWARD MANHOOD By Herman X. Bundesen Toward Manhood is a full, straightforward presentation of sex and sex problems that arise in the adolescent years, designed to give boys an understanding of the facts and implications of sex and to encourage wholesome, creative attitudes in relation to the social, physical and mental manifestations manifesta-tions of sex impulses. As a father, physician and Health Commissioner of the City of Chicago, and as a man with a life-long interest in young people and their problems, Dr. Bundesen is ideally equipped to write this I needed book. All youth leaders, parents and teachers would do well to encourage en-courage boys to read this book as they, "move to manhood." WINDOWS FOR THE CROWN PRINCE By Elizabeth Gray Vining In these pages is chronicled a unique experience. Appointed by His Imperial Highness, the Emperor Em-peror of Japan, to tutor the young Crown Prince Akihito in English, Elizabeth Gray Vining ventured in 1946, with courage and a creative mind, into a strange land, poverty-stricken poverty-stricken after a . disastrous war, and into a court hedged aboutNwith ceremonial restrictions. The book is the record of her four years at the Imperial Court where she helped to guide the young Prince from a chubby child to a poised, attractive youth with a high sense of responsibility. Mrs. Vining had been asked "simply to teach the Crown Prince English," but early in her stay the Grand Steward requested that she "open windows on a wider world for our Crown Prince." The opening of these windows is the subject of this book how she taught English to the Prince, the Princesses, the Empress and the boys' and girls' classes of the Middle Mid-dle School, showing sow she helped gradually but surely to bringyree-dom bringyree-dom from the ceremonial restrictions restric-tions of two thousand years standing stand-ing for the Prince. THE SON OF ADAM WYNGATE By Mary O'Hara The locale of this book is Brooklyn Brook-lyn Heights, which the author knewN first-hand at the height of its social brilliance in the early 1900's, and to the fashionable Main coast. With all the warmth and sense of reality that always distinguishes dis-tinguishes her delineation of character, . she brings life to the Wyngate family: Bartholomew, minister, descended from a long line of New England clergymen, truly a man of spirit with a sensitivity sensi-tivity t o unseen powers that has always marked a real mystic, but now caught up in a desperate struggle between the compulsions of sacred and profane love; his overattractive wife, Louise, moved by urges she cannot control; his brother, Ramsey, against whose sinister will to take and to dominate dom-inate he has fought all his life; Edith, his sister, whose own husband hus-band has been seared by Louise's flame, and not least, his five children, child-ren, whose fascinating world of childhood has its own tragicomedies tragi-comedies related to, but separate from, the intensifying drama that engulfs Bartholomew and Louise. The book's a big one in every sense: in scope and conception, in richness of characterization and description, in spiritual insight and, above all, in sheer narrative |