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Show rwVT'rti-- The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March 9, Lady Cynthia Asquith: Beauty, Vanity and Energy Diaries: Cjnthia Lad) 19'd-1918- " 529 pp. Knopf, ish empire. She knew everybody who counted and was related to mo-- t of tnem. She was a!o beautiful and ain But she was no empty headee. idler. She wrote books, was the friend of writers and artthe ists, secretary of James M. Barne, and a confidante of D. H. by squith; plus xu, 11). These diaries offer an intimate view of a vanished era. Although Britain 1915 was in alieady involved in the war that was to change everything, life was still good for members of the gentry and the aristocracy, and the gap and between pmhlegec. lower classes was wide and deep. The Aristocracy was possible to publish this selection. unEditorial timidity doubtedly robbed ih,s book of some of its f'avor. editorial care would have been Greater Public Diaries thought both Constant Consultation is sorr etimes Reading difficult because the many references to individuals either by fust name or nickname require constant consultation of notes ana index. The latter, however, is amazingly extensive, including not only dates of Jean Stafford Collection oux, 463 pp-- ; career in Colorado, but it is not generally know n that writing is in her blood. $10. In the Family This is not a selected volume lecause it contains most of Miss Stafford's work in the short story form, nor complete" because it omits the A Winters Tale, no ella, and some stories. The 30 stories here range in time from The Darkening Moon of The Lippia Lawn and The 1944 to Philosophy Lesson of 1968. Some In Europe She has grouped them geostories some graphically; set in Europe (under the Innocents headingare The A Modest Pro- Abroad) The Echo and the posal, Nemesis, and Maggie Meriwethers Rich Experience." Another section is entitled Bostonians and Other Manifestations of the American Scene and contains a small masterpiece previously uncollected, "Life Is No Abyss. A V extern section (Cowboys and Indians) has three d lightfu! stories. She concludes with a section on Manhattan. Most of the people in these stones are away from home and while they are probably homesick they wont go back. It is well known that Miss Stafford started her writing that Elderly Coed Stories Grouped in Time and Space The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, by Jean Staf- ford; Farrar, Straus & Gir- birth and death, but snaps of biegiaphica' mfoi manor and, in one instance, an abbie idled family 'ice tiacirg the relation hip of LaJ Cvnthia to Lord Alfred Douglas, the frioiid of Oscar lido The dial es end abruptly just before the armistice that enc.ed the First World War. "I am beginning to rub my e.ves at the prosa pect of peace," Lady wrote on Oct IT. 1917. I think it will require more courage than anyhas gone th l n g before. Before she died she had lived through another great war and the even greater dislocations that completed the destruction of her world Theodore Long Cvn-thi- Diaries ar usually supposed to be a sort of pivate confession. Lady Cynthia I otherwise. would never write," she declared, "as though I were really com meed no other eye would ever see what I wrote." And now, as she probably hoped, the ciaries appear in book the birth and of an earl daughter the daughter-in-lamarriage of the prime minister Lady Cynthia belonged to the tight little group which ran the Brit By foim n.ne yeais after her death. Howeer, the editor notes that because she wrote so frankly een now many excisioiis have been i iade for reasons other ttan length before it As she reveals in the preface, her father wrote Western stories under the nom de plume, Jack Wonder, and occasionally, Ben Delight. She doesnt see read any how they her for she never influenced of his writings. She states the reason she has borrowed some of her titles from Mark Twain and Henry James is that they are two of her favorite American writers and to whose dislocation and whose sense of mace she feels allied. This collection represents the best of Jean Stafford's singular contribution to the art Tania of the short story. Karol Writers Urges Caution g In . w O Jungle Car-Buyin- Wbat You Should Know Before You Buy A Car, by Anthony Till ; Sherbourne Press, 235 pp., $1.95 buyer should walk cautiously through the jungle of A Thats the advice author Anthony Till, a new and used-ca- r salesman himof self. savage competition for the consumers dollar makes it impossible for an unsuspecting buyer to obtain a real good deal. Not all dealers are corrupt, calloused men, according to the author. But many are. And Mr. Till tells reader how to detect them. His His book is somewhat unsettling as he outlines the gimmicks so many car dealers use to get a buyer's signature on the dotted line. Car sales are highly comand Mr. Till tells petitive why. He also shows how the ments sharply critical are made for com- the protection. Writing on financing, he declares: buyers Astronomical Figure It would be Impossible to estimate the amount of money that is just plain stolen each these by year financing frauds perpetrated by many new car dealerships. The figure would be astrofrighten- nomical and quite ing. Mr. Till says time and good again dealers with set up a list of intentions standards and controls for both sales policies and sales conduct. . . . Not one of these groups ever lasted longer than a month. In every case honor these organizations were destroyed by sharpies. Jungle Survival Early in the book he asks: How do you survive this jungle? Give up any ideas you might ever have had that you can get the better of a new car dealership. The man you are trying to outfox is a professional outfoxer who has managed to survive in what is without doubt the toughest and most competitive retail business in the entire world. The only possible counterat- tack, according to Mr. Till, is to show the dealer that you sensible and informed are . . . that you are more concerned with safety and good value than with just a good Daniel K. deal'. Discovers Campus Life Due to Lack of Interest Has Been CanTomorrow celed, by Irene Kampen; Doubleday, 168 pp., $3.95. Popular Literatuie beating a dead horse. 2 10 Prerequisites, 101, houis. years away from college and a facile knowledge of campus life gained from smattering of magazine articles on student revolution. Course Description of experiences divorcee who returns to University of Wisconsin to complete degree she almost got in 1943, with special emphasis on humorous side of administrators who are slaves to mistake-pron- e computers and hippie students who, deep down inside, are just like Mom and Dad. Fellow students see elderly coed as contemporary of William Jennings Bryan, but she stoically rooms with hip girl anyway. Student characters include male who practices eating garbagp of various sorts to adapt to Peace Corps service, poet type who finds art on cereal boxes and girl majoring in promiscuity. And More . . . Explores Repeats important graffiti, like the title, in case a few readers missed them in 19b7. Focuses on foibles of academe, particularly irrelevancy of faculty. Coed attends artsy faculty party, recoils at folk rock mass in her old church, is stymied by Japanese adviser in journalism department. ld Examines with special attention the wedding of an- cient cliches to current themes. John F. Lux Sett Bed New York Times Service An analysis based on reports from more than 125 bookstores in 64 U.S. communities. This Last Weeks Week Week on List FICTION 1. The Salzburs Connection. Macinnes 2 A Small Town m Germany Le Carre 3. Portnoy's Complaint. Roth 4 Airport Halley 5. Force 10 from Navarone Maclean 6 Preserve and Protect. Drury 7. 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