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Show - V- 2E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 1, original reason for being: it be the 'other voice" in what both sides considered irrepress.fcle And so, from 1871 until conflict. 1911, the structure of the book is the rhythmic rise and fall of the eontro- - was to 1871-197- 1, Journalism is moves into province when the report is art t houghtfully struct ured belongs to and critical ratus, province of J. ' ' n with panied .r A .J accom- appainclud- Anti-Pol- V4 CV mind. By such stand- Mr. Malmquist book belongs to the province higher journalism ; the reader will not only be informed by it, but he will also find himself continually engrossed and frequently delighted. - ards, 0. hiahpr s Jjournalism N. Malmquist's of Because the history of a newspaper is also the history of an age, a structure is the first necessity of a book of this kind; otherwise it would become rnerply episodic and discursive. Malmquist wisely chose to structure his work around The Tri I ;,i - Exiles From Paradise. By Sara Mayfield. Delacorte. $8.95. Living Well Is The Best By ClavU; TomRevenge. kins. Viking. $6.50. Reading about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is like witnessing the post mortem examination of a splendid young couple horribly smashed in an auto accident. That the Fitzgerald accident in slow occurred gradually does not diminish motion the terrible melancholy and Cost not the only fault with Fiedlers essays deaths-in-life- Yet books about the Fitzgeralds continue to arrive, and one reads them all (hoping for a happier ending eventually perhaps?). Exiles in Paradise Is written by a neighbor of the Sayres (Zeldas family) in Montgomery, Ala., who kept in touch with the Fitzgeralds throughout their turbulent Livin' Well is the Best Revenge isn't about the Fitzit is a memgeralds at all oir about their good friends Gerald and Sara Murphy but it contains enough material about them to qualify for the canon. Lived Life, Until . . lives. The Murphys lived a bfe until their took them of branch off into purely The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler, Stein & Day, 2 vols., 1,122 pp., $12.59 each. Even though their bulk is considerable 1,122 pages altogether a price of $25 on Leslie Fielders Collected Essays is clearly prohibitive for most readers, especially those who are likely to have an interest In critical writing to begin with. These two volumes are Intended for libraries, for schools, for professional in short, for the collections record. After 30 years of persistent effort, Fiedler has reached the point of politi- cal discussion. He is neither a political scholar nor a political activist, however, except in the very amateurish sense that we all are, and consequently his essays on the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, and more recent lack the political topics authority we find in his liter- ary essays. Theyre Unimportant They are just Fiedler shooting his mouth off like the rest of us. They are unimportant, and they should probably have been excluded from his Collected Essavs. What Known as Gadfly Yet the publisher, by offering the volumes separately, does give readers a chance to buy the second volume alone, as some may wish to do. For whereas, the first volume is merely a reprint of two earlier books by Fiedler, An End to Innocence (1955) and No! In Thunder (1960), the second contains only essays which have not heretofore been collected in book form. Fiedler has his faults, and they should be noted. One is his tendency to forget that he is a literary critic and to saves this criticism, in terms of tone, is its enthusiasm. Although much of what Fielder writes is necessarily negative, he can respond with great vitality to v.hat he likes, and his sensibility is broad enough to admit a wide from range of responses Dante to De Sade, from Nathaniel West to Simone Weil. to this an extraordinary driving intelligence and a commitment to the values of here and now, and it is not hard to see why Fielder has become the foremost criiic of our age. Hayden Carruth, Chicago Daily Nevis Add AiMWimtilluJ STUDENT PERFORMANCE Saturday, August 7 8:30 PM jia . living. r;J MEMORIAL THEATRE All seats $1.50 For reservations call pi n 581-696- 1 Workshop 71 students perform three dances from the RDT repertory and disasters overthat one dreams Affluent, perfecily . some of Murphy painted his works anticipated the pop art that came along four dec- ades later and their friends visited them and they went swimming and gave parties, until suddenly all the dancing ended and they went home. Among their guests were the Fitzgeralds, who exhibited for them their dark and frightening instinct for oblivion, and their bizarre and chil-of hly cruel badgering friends, strangers and servants. They were difficult and destructive guests; they exhibited moments of tenderness and perception, but from this distance in time, one wonders why anybody put up with them. They were the spoiled brats of the 1920s, and their gifts and their accomplishments, in the end, would not have been sufficient atonedi ment. s Exploration Miss Mayfields book is a s exploration of all the Fitzgerald lore. It is writfull-dres- ten from the women's viewa sort of womens lib point book that weighs the evidence and concludes that its greater weight is against the man in the case. Fitzgerald was worse for Zelda than Zelda was for him. He was unreasoning in his not only as a jealousies husband but as a novelist who guarded his territory as meanly and fiercely as a panther and his demands upon his wife (and upon his friends) were as unreasoning and as persistent and unfeeling as those of a pampered child. Rut Zelda Sayre had her own failings, and Miss presents them with unblinking honesty. Smell of Truth d Such is the picture that Miss Mayf.eid presents, and it has the smell of tru.h. One comes away from her book wih the feeling th.it wnhout Iitzgciald, Zelda Sayre might have lea a full and produtive life; that without Zelda. Fitzgerald would still have succeeded in his suicide-b- new works choreograDhed especially for this concert by compan members. five At his insistpeep her nnnl Save Me the Wei?" w is e he snorted imr darinrg irs-- s arid s'gned his name to stones that she wrrte; he kept her m a s when she ip'ghi have been with her family. m-or'u.- M jk. 4K 4. M 0 A is a melancholy story, and one should hardly call it tragedy at all. It is a catastroIloke phe and a disaster. Noris Chicago S as der FICTION Excorcist. 1. Th 1 Passions Btatty the Mind. of $or.e 3. The Other. Tryon 4. The Shadow of the Lynx. Holt 5 On Instructions of My Government Salinger 6. Thc Drifters. Michener 7. QB VII. Urls 8 Penmarric. Howatch 9. The Sell Jar Plath 10 The New Centurions. Wambough 2 6 35 9 13 GENERAL Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown 2 The Femaie Euocch Greer 3. America, Inc Mint & Cchen a The Sensuous Man. 1. "M" 5. 6. 7. 'ko Boss The Citt Horse Ro Knef Capone. Kober .Vvseif Armno Other. Gordon 10 Stillwell end the American Experience In China, 191145. Tuchman 8 9 ing only a fresh introduction. Came To America (Copyright) A A Alex Toponce emigrated to America with his parents seven years after his birth in 1839 in Lelfort, France. He ran away from his New York home when he was 10; and at the age of 15 he headed for the west. The ensuing years found him working as an interpreter Heres select summary of choice paperbacks books ahead. August: The Other Side of The Rainbow, by Mel Torme (Bantam, 95 cents). The singer's gossipy memoir of a stormy nine months in file life of fadinf star Judy Garland, full of anguish. The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh, with an introduction by Harrison Salisbury (Bantam, $1.25). First time the in United published States, the late North Viet- namese leader's impression. free-vers- e of life in a Kuo-mirta- jail in South China during Wo. id War II. The Dick, by Bruce Jay Friedman (Bantam, $1,251. H'lanous novel about a press agent for a homicide squad, by a master of black cor .cdy. September: J. Daley of Chicago, by Mike Royko (Signet, price unanr nounced). A by the Chicago Daily news best-selle- haven't yet but a arrived, skimming of from paperreleases press back publishers about their plans for the next few months reveals some choice selections The Boss: Richard in New' Orleans for a Arkansas slave trader, and then as a bullwhacker for the freighting firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell at $15 a month and board. That was 1836. The following Hal Country Editors Boy, Borland (Popular by 95 NI xon Garry Wills Agnnistes, (Signet, unannounced). Scalpel-Witt- by by Carl price Sandburg little-know- n Ecology Devastation: Indochina, John Lewallen (Penguin cial, $1.65). How and civilian wrecked the area's chanan ordered President Bu- 2,500 troops to Army reached Utah Territory, he became assistant wagon boss on one of the many sup- And so, Toponce unknowingly took part in what later would blossom into the Pony Express. When Johnstons served as mayor of one of the toughest Ncihardt poetry now available By United Press International The University of Nebraska Press has made available again the poetry of John G. Neihardt, chronicler of the courage of those men who pushed westward the American frontier. Neihardt began bis Cycle of the West in 1912 at the age of 31. He finished in 1941. It is now available in two Eison Books by the University of Nebraska Press, first The Mountain Men ($2.75), The Song of and The Song of the Messiah. ($2.25), contains the Indian Wars Book adds a bit of flavor to wines of N. California of by Spe- bombings relocation ecology. Adventures in the Wine Country," by Jeff Morgan; Chronicle Books, $2.95. mafion. He explains his intent in the preface as follows: San Francsico Bay area newspaperman Jeff Morgan has written a book on the advance if there are parks and picnic grounds in the neighborhood, whether there's a decent restaurant shorter than a day's drive away, where to stay on ar. overnight trip and, mainly, what else there is to do and see in addi- wine country irie1 on what that is at least a little differ ent. While there is information wines and wineries in the it concentrates on the wine country itself on what a tourist will see besides the s and the wineries. Adventures in The book, breaks Wine Counrty, wine country into five sections and details tours of these, along with travel infor- vineya-d- I, for one. like to know in Press, illustrated, 191 pp., $5.95. This annual guide for those interested in the collector's value of America's hard cash has. since its debut in 1964, been published in paperback. Now for the first time it reaches print as a hardcover volume under the Trident Press imprint. cording to whether you are buying or selling). One of the more interesting chapteis ly the author, who is past president of the Empire State Numismatic Assn., tells the story of Mormon money, what it is and how it came to be. Some of it seems ard di-- pi lying A A goods to knows Toponce as a figure in the early freighting in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. railroad towns on the line. How many of his yarns were stretched in the telling is left to conjecture. Certainly he knew Jim Bridger, Kit Porter Carson, Rockwell, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnsion, Custer, George Armstrong Bill Cody, X. Biedler, Granville Stuart, Ben Holliday, General Phil Sheridan, and Brigham Young (the squar-es- t man to do business with in Utah, barring none). Man Among Men In 1919, having told his story, and preparing a dedication for the manuscript, Alex Toponce reflected that he had considered his mother, hia sister, and his wife, but I have spent my life with men. I have tried to be a man among men. So I shall dedicate this book to men real men. I dedicate it to the miners, gold diggers, pocket hunters, cow punchers, mule skinners, horse wranglers, freighters, packers, trappers, hunters, scouts, stage drivers, shotgun messengers, station keepers, homesteaders, road graders, bridge builders, track layers, tie cuuers, lumberjacks, canal diggers, sheepherders, bullwhaekers, Injun Fghters, all the prospectors and of tribe pioneers, who traveled with me the long trails, faced with me the blizzards of the or endured with desert the scorching winds, who each and all played a chosen part in win- tion to following (According to French, a Mormcn $20 gold piece of 1849 in proper condition would be valued at $6,500. And a $10 Mormon gold coin of the same year in fine condition could fetch moun-passe- fast-talkin- g SALE Very special reductions for a limited time on original paintings of unusual beauty end distinction. Choose from a large collection by such eminent Western ortists os: Elsa $14,000. Stiod Paul Grimm Eugene Sarin Beverly Carnck trial. Arthur Heier Cortnerre Cotti ... H.S. . of ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS For collectors, and amaan interesting teurs alike book JUST CHARGE Whether have unit IT... an account or not , ill phdhj charge your u eddin;i and other p ift t by telephone. So need to come in . . .just telephone. a tv FELT-BUCIIOR- S Save 20 Complementary from Sx J Eat South Temple i A A Jk Salt Lake City A A A Art Cc, 1492 South State Since 1914 322-121- 9 445 to 50 included of no added cos t. ....M.afc APT rfWMWP Inter-Mounta- in pi. i. A M i, A s, ning the Great West. To you, good old boys, dead or living, I dedicated this, my first, last and only book. Selah! Toponce left a zesly slice of Americana, brimming with and anecdotes character studies Harold Schindler. Wiltsci and the proper of cleaning coins on latest (carefully); t'" courteiftiis in circulation pirate and Revolutionary me ev, aid, of course, com values (wh.ch fluctuate ac- - A M quite valuable. Among its interesting features are explanations of min collecting and speculating, the trad, Mora! how to's" of preserving collodion meti ods History colorful days of Montana, He also Corrine, guides through a succession of Donald musty building. B. Thackrey, UPI. Popular coin guide now in hard cover Vmrrican Guide to F.S. 1972 edition, Coins, by Charles F. Freneh; Trident con- taining The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass and The Song of Jed Smith. The second volun e, The Twilight of the Sioux ply trains hauling Camp Floyd. rough-and-read- y (Popular Library, $1.50). The but great poet's still big and lusty novel. Pelican History of the United Stairs (Pelican, Price unannounced.) A new and original senes from colonial times to the present. Very likely to be fresh and readable. November: year march against the Mormons in Utah. This war, Toponce wrote, made thirgs lively all along the frontier. One of the developments was a fast mail service up the Platte River. For about two months J carried the mail out of Fort Kearney to a station 50 miles west. y analysis of the character of the president. October: Renienibranre Rock, of English, University ol Utah. Li- cents). A great n e w s p apermaos moving account of his childhood on the rugged frontier. brary, could be found for biography y Future Shock. Toffler Goorl reading ahead By Henry Kisor Chicago Daily News Writer There was a time, a dozen or so years ago, when a copy of Alexander Toponces auto- as little as $20; even then the small volumes were scarce. Today the first editions command twice that sum. Toponce completed his manuscript in 1919, but delays hindered publication until after his death in Ogden in 1923. Now, a later, the University of Oklahoma Press has chosen to reprint this colorful memoir in its original form, at a popular pri" add- own May-fiel- PIONEER It and-tumb- Reminiscences of AlexanWritten by Toponce, introduction by Himself, Robert A. Griffen; University 221 of Oklahoma Press, xxiii pp., photographs, index, $1.95. Weeks On List Last Week w un-Ti- matched, gifted, witty, they made friends easily and wisea long, happy ly during sojourn in Europe. Full-Pres- against others and against himseif. He attempted to reverse the course his life had followed. He could not he died in what for most men would have been the prime of life and Zelda lived on for several years, until she was burned to death in a sanatorium fire. An Objective Viewpoint Memoirs bare color of rugged west New York Times Service This de- Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce This analysis is based on reports bum more than 125 bookstore In 64 communities of the United States. On his side, he wrote The Great Gatsbv and Tender Is The Night and scores of short stories an awesome accomplishment, in view of his waste of talent and life and at the end he did seem to sober enough to realize the enormity of his offenses piece of bookmaking. Tne cover sign is unimaginative; the inking sometimes lacks uniformity and an occasional wavering line of type detracts from the esthetic enjoyment. A more serious flaw is one that histories of this kind suffer from. When the author arrives at modern times there is a problem: the people who deserve mention are both alive and numerous. So the final chapter is an series of neds of approval at all those whose admired drudgery makes the management lock brilliant. But those are minor cavils to which reviewers are entitled. This work demonstrates what many have long suspected: that the people of Utah are maturing. Our thanks should go to Malmquist who, in this fine and diligent book, both demonstrates that maturity and augments it. Dr. Jack H. Adamson, professor Because he is The Spectator, Malmquist really identifies with neither side, but rather with mankind its tragic condition. And while he writes with relish rough- men (the portrait of hard-rocTom Kearns is the best in the book), his undeclared sympathies lie with the moderates, with those whose minds were stronger than their emotions, who had human sympathies wider than party or sect. And so. on The Tribune's side, one senses his affection for A. N. McKay, John F. Fitzpatrick, the real architect of accommodation, and for his successor, Jack Galli- - The book, says Malm- Best Belle the gathering horror of their While the book is printed on good paper and has enjoyed superb proofing, it is not entirely a superior book, as the avatar of an ancient literary type: the Spectator. The Spectator is one who detaches himself, goes to the top of a high mountain (literally and figuratively) a.d there, where distance lends perspective, tries to describe what wisdom would suggest to those engaged in the frantic struggles of the world. but quist, is frankly that is not the impression I received. There were times when I felt that I might have handled the Mormons jMst a bit more roughly, The Tribune more gently. And so I conclude that Malmquist has done what scholarship and decency dictate. He Exiles From Paradise Tale of Fitzgeralds: morbidity study i'ot only does Malmquist neatly convey, without didacticism, the role in economics ideological plays but he also emerges, struggles, through the tone and tenor of the And so the stage was set for the irrepressible conflict; both sides a hi righteous, a bit strident, and both masking some basically economic inctives under the facade of what was thought to be, in the 19th century, noble rhetoric. It is the merit of the book that it sees all of this, sees it with some humor, more wisdom and not a little compassion. van. From the Mormon side he admires the same types: Anthorp W. Ivins, Heber J. Grant, Fitzpatricks Mormon counterpart, and David 0. McKay. The fighters of the world recer e most of history's attention; Malmquist feels that th peacemakers deserve some of it. Not Without Flaws d. members. y But one ironic turn deserves another, always in fiction, sometime? in life, and so these defeated idealists sold their journal to crusading Genties who were also outraged at what they considered restrictive economic policies, but who were also shrewd enough to realize that it is easier to interest readers in sex than eccnc nics. Thus the great anti polygamy crusade began. The Mormons, being almost without exception Biblical literalists, could understand why any Jew or Christian should object to the practice of polygamy; always they suspected that such attacks were merely a cover for seme other intent which they assumed was a de 4 ing a critical The Stage Was Set The Gentiles, for their part, v ere sometimes genuinely shocked at poOrilygamy which thuy considered more even were but ental," they apprehensive of what they called (The term had not then been invented.) It was, they bcl.eved, contrary to the principles on which America had been founded, the principles of democratic individualism, for a church to control to such an extent the lives and, so they charged, even the thoughts of its The first ancestor of The Tribune was a journal published by earnest Mormon intellectuals who naively believed they could divorce their belief in Mormon theology from their disbelief in Brigham Yourg's economic policies They were swiftly disabused of this idea by a boycott, and thus they and their enterprise, ironically, fell victim to the economic power vhich they were decrying. Grea gamy Crusade the of wilderness. ersy. essentially the craft of makirg succinct, accura'e and readable reports; the craft has suspected in hrmself a predisposition to bias; he has declared it openly; and then he has set out to compensate and may, in some instances, have slightly overcompen-sate- sire to destroy ' Church and send the Saints once more out into a new bunes The First 100 Years; A History Lake Tribune, by 0. N. Malmquist; Utah State Historical Society Press, photographs, index, 451 pp., IS. Tribune history C'-- 1971 of The Salt llie other voice . . . rr - |
