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Show nP W oy f 2 E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, December v" IT wWfrv O V w B vyvlVnrwy 28, 1975 By Alden Whitman The holograph manuscript ot James Joyce's "Ulysses is being published in laesuniie tor the first time this month alter lying for 50 years in the hands of an American collector. The history of the manuscript and the problems ol making it into a book are both as complex as some YORK NEW leaders find the novel Hundreds of Errois comparison o! the manuscript and printed editions ot the novel discloses hundreds ol errors even in the torrected and revised edition issued by Random House m 1961, according to Clive Driver, a Joyce scholar who provides a bibliographic preface to the lac simile edition M any of the errors hav e to do with punctuation, he said in a recent interview, but some slightly alter the meaning of some scenes and lonveisations None, however, are so gross as to ailed the over-al- l evaluation of the book An Authorilative Edition Nonetheless, Driver said an elfoit will be made to have published an authoritative edition based both on the manuscript and on Joyces corrections on galley prools and of earlier edition Many of these are also reproduced in a voiume that accompanies the lac simile edition In all there are three volumes, two ol which carry the manuscript. The manuscript is among the treasures ot the Rosenbach Foundation Museum in Philadelphia. Now iriiuied lor $200,000, it was purchased lor $1,975 in 1924 from John Quinn, an extraordinary New York lawyer and patron of writers and artists. Quinn, who had given the impecunious Joyce various sums over the years, bought the "Ulysses manuscript in segments, as the author completed them He paid a total ot $1,200 tn six installments between 1918 and 1922 But he did not acquire the novels tmal passage, the Molly Bloom soliloquy, because Joyce had wanted to keep that secret until the tirst edition was issued A V wrv y As Joyce finished each portion of the novel, according to Driver, it was given to a typist to transcribe. There were many typists over the years, all of whom had trouble reading Joyces cramped handwriting. This process introduced errors and omissions. But as soon as each segment was typed up, it was sent to Qumn, Driver said Thus, Driver continued, when Joyce corrected galleys and page proofs, he was unable to read back the print against the manuscript. He made some etlorts to correct the most flagrant errors, but he also made handwritten revisions on the proot, some ot which the printers had trouble reading Penmanship Not Only Problem The difficulties were not only with Joyces penmanship, Driver said, but also with the novels sexual explicitness The husband of one typist, he said, "in a fit of moral outrage, threw the offending and Joyce had to get a pages in the tire, photographic copy of his manuscript trom Quinn in older to restore the missing passages. Publication ot the facsimile edition has been held up over the years by lack of money and by legal tangles. These were solved about two years ago by Octagon Books, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which, with the Rosenbach Foundation, is co publisher ot the present work. Joyce Royalty Arrangement Ultimately, according to Michael DeCapua ot Octagon, Random House, which owns the American rights to Ulysses, agreed to license publication ot the facsimile. And a royalty arrangement was made with the Joyce estate, which owns the substance ot the novel (Under copyright law, all that the Rosenbach Foundation actually owns is the paper and ink ot the manuscript ) The lacsimile edition, limited to 1,775 copie, in the United States and 750 sets in Britain, is printed m live colors by photo-olfsIt sells for $150 a set but down deep a fantasy Things That and Me to Them, Uappened to Me by Walter Winchell; Prentice-Hal- l. i' "Winchell Exclusive: $8.95. in 1972, Walter Private Pafinished his a work he had credited to pers, himself for many years in his entry in Whos Who. He then gave the finished manu-scrip- t to Ernest Cuneo, an editor for the Saturday Evening Post and a longtime Winchell crony. Cuneo has now brought them out. Winchells last work is a piece of vintage Americana, 50 years of our national hte seen through the eyes of perhaps the most famous columnist w ho ever wrote, the man once called the North Star of Broadway. Prime Winchellese. His admirers will be ecstatic, for its prime Winchellese, The prose is the Just before his death Winchell "The Chinese Bandit, by Stephen Becker; Random House. 315 pp $8.95. Dont let me take it too seriously. Stephen Becker's latest novel, "The Chinese Bandit, is a lark, th sort of adventure one reads in a lew hours that seem like a couple of minutes. I was immediately captivated by its hero, d Jake Gibbs, a United States Marine sergeant who happens to speak perfect Chinese and who is at loose ends m Peking m 1947. I was at once intrigued by Jakes scheme of hijacking a truckload of American military supplies, smuggling it west across the Gobi desert on a couple of camels named Sweetwater and Bad Smell, and then cutting all ties with the past to seek his freedom and fortune in the political turmoil ot postwar China two-fiste- famous slugging, staccato variety Winchell virtually invented. The sentences crackle. The paragraphs have kick. An expose is hinted at and delivered in every 800' works. The pages of this gossip glut are packed with the names of the famous and But it is not just the gossip column to end all gossip columns. Its also a not insignificant social document, for Win-chenot only spoke to Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea, he also 'spoke lor them. At the height of the Great Depression, he paid nearly $300,000 income tax alone, and when Franklin Roosevelt lound this out he said: "Sit down, Walter. We're going to make you a It was the kind ot success partner. only possible it Winchell gave the people what they wanted. He did They wanted someone to : speak up lor America and the Amerii can way of life, a gallant delender ot i i Exca-vatio- n "AH The The Hours: Sirange those vague concepts then so well Of A Life, by Loren Eiseley; understood and stubbornly believed. , $9.95. As a spokesman for the simpler, less Loren Eiseleyf As THow characterize complicated behets of his day, Winchell With a an a archaeologist scientist, pure was perfect. He was, after all, an , remarkable skill lor relating, the pres- J ent to the past? As a sociologist? As a college prolessor, a college udiuinis-trator- ? He is all those things but beyond that he is capable of some of the most hypnotic and entrancing prose I have read in recent yeai s This, his autobiography, is a nunoi classic r n Eiseley was born, and grew up, oil the high prairies ot the West While still in his teens, ravaged by the Depiession. became a dritter, one ot an anonymous army of hoboes who rode the treight unsophisticated, even shallow, comtrams It was a hard hte A youngstei mentator who cherished them himsell might be lorced to accept an act oi Like most ot the nation, he saw thmgs in sodomy, robbed ol a lew pennies, oi extremes There were good guys and thrown trom a train going 60 miles an bad guvs You could always tell them hour The "bulls, the railroad police, , apart were heartless It was a time when signs along the Using his punchy combative style, he roads said. "Jobless men. keep going out hit did those who constantly against W e cant take care of our ow n " And to wrong, commending those whe didnt , quote trom Eiseley . He denounced the Nazis and Commies, ol couise, and even became an early "It was a time. Leave it at that 'Hie the old. even a young, the middle-aged- , dupe oi Sen Joseph McCarthy tew women We lay like He went on to deliver scathing wmdoivvs of leaves on sandbars beside attacks on the "mdullectu Us, the Union Pacific, the Roc k Island, the ' Santa Fe, the Katy At night our tires phags and "panzies and conscientious objectors who w;ere destroying the winked like the b.vouaes of armies , nation trom the inside. We gathered like buds in spile ol ail obstacles Like buds, some ol us died Above all. he boosted the law. because we were old and we perished Whether it was adequate or equitable unnoticed, because ot cold m the high ,, was much less Ins concern than Siciras or we slipped under the wheels whether it was on the books ot heights in moments ot exhaustion he J venerated Naturally, Edgai i Cheap liquor killed us, occasional Hoover Indeed, the only time Winchell Iv we died the gun and so dul the by ever broke down was one evening when lailroad detectives, pushing tneir luck Hoover accused him cl not doing too lar with sullen unknown men in the f nough to bring in Louis ' Lcpke night on swaying car tops Buc halter, then Public Enemy Number It was a time ol violence, a time ol One nit hell tied lrom the Stork Club, hate, a time of sharing, a time ol his constant hang-ouinto the streets hunger It was all that every human contemplating suicide. generation believes it has encountered the very first time in human history. Became Outmoded Life is a journev, and eventually a As he gcit older times and circumMine w as no dnlerent than those death stances had so changed that his style other s and beliets became outmoded The man who constantly said, "Im not in Merely a sampling, this, but what ' terested m what happened yesterday provocative promise, in a sense this is 1 an American odyssey, the obveixe side . . never was. Whats going to of the American dream It is, at the happen tomorrow9 is my theme song. same time, an affirmation ot Amencaii was getting dated He lost readers and determination Young Eiseley survived power, and the longer he lived the more a grim bout with tuberculosis, in the 9 erosion took place At the end he was an 30s a killer disease He earned himsell old man no longer able to move a scholarship to the University ol governments and masses the way he once had Pennsylvania He achieved graduate degrees, gieat knowledge in anThis book, then, is less interesting as thropology, and a philosopher's outlook a series ot scoops than as Winchells swan song and as a nostalgic look at a on the wot Id His essays are modem classics, a humanist window looking lost period recreated through the eyes out over our disorderly civilization and ears of one of America's leading All in all a line, c inurnalists Jetfrey Lant, Chicago tiullenging book Hal Burton. Sinking Feeling And when Jakes camel caravan is attacked by a gang ot Chinese bandits riding out of the east at sunrise and onee-famou- s. Jake himsell is captured for possible ransom, I had the delicious sinking feeling that for Jake to get out ot his pickle would take several miracles and iorever. ll WhatVniore. Becker brings several touches to his adventure that keep it Eastern-Westerlrom being the that the foregoing summary makes the story sound like. Among these touches are a Manchurian bandit chieftain called the Tigers Assistant Demon because of a close scrape hes a had with a Siberian man-eatenamed Kao who enunciates charming pseudo and, for all I Onental poetry know, and proverbs, and a sharp eye tor technical and geographical detail But essentially what makes "The Chinese Bandit work is Beckers comic-boo- k prose, which is just barely realistic enough to make the story seem credible, but is at the same time pitched just crazily enough so as not to take what it describes too seriously. Faintly Uneasy tell ever so laintly uneasy Still, with my enjoyment oi Beckers tiavelogue For one thing, it dtpends inordinately lor its excitement on masculine violence, especially violence directed m vanous subtle ways at women And though Becker rescues Jake Gibbs lrom our bad opinion by having him turn against rape at a ciucial moment, one still gets the uncomfortable leeling that the author is try ing to have things both ways For anothei thing the story is ' exotic in the sense that it operates on the si. urate levels ol reality Western level on which Jake exists (and with which the reader is bound to identity) and an "Eastern level, where the most salient feature is that Western rules ot conduct no longer apply and anything strange and sexual can happen A Fantasy, Realty In other words, underneath all the tun, The Chinese Bandit is a fantasy that Joes not treat Asian culture with much respect Illustrative of this disie-speis a scene in which Jake is ceremoniously welcomed into the bosom ot a tribe of nomadic shepherds, and m response gives a speech m Eng'ixh that goes, "Now hear this Im glad to be aboaid I run a taut ship but you'll tmd that Im a lair man Keep g your weapons clean and no on the chow line The smoking lamp is lit Which is greeted by "shouts and applause trom the uncomprehending natives This is tunny oil the surtace, but i.m so amusing when you pause to (ollcct But what the hell, the book does not ask to be taken very seriously And the days are probably numbered that Ihis sort ot lark can be written, so one might as well relax and enjoy it while one still can. Christopher Lchmann-llaupt- . New York Times. t Loren Eiseley n autobiography minor classic r, black-markete- 1 lie e oi ti Milroii' Durant 'Civilization series concludes low-ke- med "The Age of Napoleon by Milt and Ariel Durant; Simon & Schuster, Inc., M7 50 no limits, either physical or moral. Napoleon's struggle tor glory became, tor Byron, tne desperate attempt ot a modern man to reasseit meaning into a world which had lost its traditional value system Other thinkers took up this theme and the cult ol Napoleon as lomantic hero was born With an energy and enthusiasm one would lind amazing even in much younger writers, as well as a lively style that has entertained readers tor decades, Will and Ariel Durant have now brought their monumeifal 'Story ol Civilization to an end with the dramatic era ot i evolution and war, Pioduct of Upheaval the Dm ants conclude, Napoleon was an unfortunate pioduct ot the political upheavals following the man, As 1789 to 1815. The material is, ot couise, mheient'.y exciting Euiope is in turmoil Great ligures use and tall in savage political conflict, battles ol unpiecedented lury are lought, ciowns topple Amid the carnage o! states and empires, artists and intellectuals struggle to discover some meaning, some tiuth behind the events Towering above the violence ot the times is the Lguie of Napoleon Inspiring lor his heroic strength and the glory ol his conquests, ten living for the millions oi lives he sac) limed to his dieam ot empire. Napoleon remains one ol the enigmas ot historv Thousands of volumes have been wut-teon the gitat mail, and still he reman. s a question Mans Inherent Nobility Napoleon must be viewed, the Dui ants maintain, as ruaii and as my ill As man, they argue, he was "a child ol the revolution. a rci lection ol his times When the Flench Revolution destroyed the allies and institutions ot the a la lent regime, the result was pio lound social dislocation All men became equal citizens ot the nation lolent eneigies were unleashed as individuals, whose lives had previously been contmed withm a highly oidered class stiuctuie, suddenly lound them selves lice agents f lance soon fell into near anarchy as these men with little or no political to create a new epei iccmnee, struggled order the i urns ol the old, embody mg the ideals ot liberty, equality and Alter several years ol liatermtv bloodshed the dream ol a new oidet souicd the Fiench nation gicvv disil lusioncd with its revolutions y ideals French Revolution As myth, however, he rose to transcendent heights Alien- ated and contused by the violent changes in their society, eaily 19th Century thinkers had uewed Napoleon either as a heroic genius who sought to restoie order and meaning to the woild or as the demonic genius who was lesponsible lor the disintegration ot CIV lliZatlOIl serious student ot history is to avoid "The Age ot The Durants' attempt to Napoleon understand the dynamics ot history m terms ot the thoughts and actions ol gient men is insutticient, to say the least The reader with historical training will be disappointed by the lack ot real analysis ot the social, economic or political movements He or she will imd that the Durants have totally neglected a number ol crucial studies by other historians of the Napoleonic era In a word, "The Age ot Napoleon does not meet the prolessional standards ol the historical discipline The advised n Napoleon Bonaparte Man and Myth french embraced Napoleon s ptomtse empire, and embarked on one ol histoiy's great adventures ol military coi quest Ultimately , ot course, trance was bled white by the wars. At the expense ot millions ot lives, Napoleon's empire was crushed by the superior military resources ol the allied powers Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria The broken emperor was imprisoned on a rock m the Atlantic where he died m 1882 apparently of stomach cancer The allied poweis, meanwhile, attempted to lestoie the ' ancient regime m France Spectacle of Conflict rheie was however, anothei level to the story o! Napoleon In a sweeping suivev ol European society at the close ol ihe wars, the Durants demonstra'e how out ot the spectacle ol European conflict, artists and intellectuals torniu Inied the myth ot Napoleon Tins myth as the Durants implv. net ved its classic expression in the M.oilied and 'Don Juan ol Lend By ion Napoleon was transformed into t1" s mbohe ligute ot the aichetvpal i. iicl Ihe seeker whose genius iccog ol this point, the young (icneiol Bonaparte, lamed tor leading his troops m a senes ot brilliant lamuuigns against enemies ol the levoiutimuitv leginre, was ijiseu hv the Fumh u. hum in dictatonal power In plact ol the J sc i edited ideals ot liberty, equali tv ate i nit v and Napoleon the ideal ot national Joiy The ! d Then put pose is to inspire the intelligent general reader with a sense ol the drama ot history, and ot the ultimate value ol man as a creative being In these terms, The Age ot deserves merit, and the Napoleon Durants long career ol historical wilting a grateful applause Stewart J. Brown, Chicago Daily News . , y 1 . io 'Hiltonj case-hardene- d , t, ! in Sonjjf "Give Me Yesterday: American Hisby Lester S. tory in Song, Levy, University of Oklahoma Press, 120 pp., $17.50. Lester S. Levy, retired Baltimoic businessman whose lifelong hobby is collecting early American sheet music, has completed his trilogy to old music 11. S. with ' Give Me Yesterday 1890-192- Sun-Time- m :s r SKLLKKS Vo K 1 ii t Nf- y Iff i roStO 0 fCCj s tr in ttei ;rf n d to nttn dies than ?!0 tr ouqhcut tne United Sfdftx Weeks jre not ueresar jv vonsecur vp 'Copy ur r, English life dealt heavy blow ' The Common Stream," bv Rowland Parker, Holt. Rinehart and Winston, 2S3 pp., illus., $8.95 Ivon lor Americans, the old agricultural English village ranks near the top ot the nostalgia list Romanticized by the great English pastoral novelist of the 19th Century, celebrated as rec ently as the 1970s by James Hernot in "All (matures Great and "Small and "All Things the old English village Blight and Beautnul (onnotes Christmas, contentment, togetherness and virtually everything that can be subsumed under the word "snug It is an image that dies hard Paradoxically enough, Rowland Parker, who lives m what remains oi such a village and loves it, deals the Idyllic image a heavy blow in "The Common Stream, a book that may be the most complete' picture to date of this legendary way ol A hie retired teaiher, Paiker inhabits a loth Centuiy thatched cottage in the village ol foxton m southeast England For the past U years, it has been his pleasure to study dichoulosicdl excavations, eaily hi .tones, oial rolls, wills tradition, manor-cour- t bishops legisters and whatever other sources he c an Imd to till m the history ot Foxtori over the past 2,009 yeai s He is interested in history not in the bioad social or political sense, hut as a record of how people livid, what they d.d lor woik, what they ate, and clothe,, Iwums, lurmture, then habits, dinttxemei ts and sullerings He calls his book "The Common Stream because loxton like every ancient English village, was built around a stream which was a soniie ol hti common to all The stream m toxton was baiely big enough lor the needs ol the i 50 people who lived there in medieval times and whose numbei was not to increase lor .mother 500 years The lirst invasion ol Eoxton tame lrom the Ho, li.ms when they lelt. the Angles, Saxons, Jules and Danes came in search ol rich lands tor aeiicultUH' Unlike the Roman', the author obwives. these last were rot nucleated m conquest In lact there was hardly anyone to conquer, nor anything worth taking from them all the newcomers wanted was a hettei living than their own countries had ollered Mound the Tune ot King Allred, a system ol law and older began to replace the relatively i.mdom existence ol the Foxton peasants lletetoloie, they had owned their land and their hovels Now, almost without overt drama according to Parker's account, two thirds ol them lost their meager freedom and were subjected to the manorial system, better known as feudalism. "All they had to do was wot k, start their woi king until they dropped dead from latigue, illness hunger or old age, which set in at about the age ol 40 What generalization, whatmoial cun we draw lrom Parker's mdelatigahle researchers9 The leader ol "The Common Stream is as hard to put to answer tins question as the author seems to be To say that hte was diflicu't then and is easiei now leaves one with the leeling that something is missing from this compaiixon But then somethmg is usually missing trom every Anotolo Brevard, plan lor human happiness New Y ork Times. 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Dancing to CYCLONE 9 00 to 00 Noise makers and hoi ns All mixers DANCING TO PIECE j , grab-assin- Most Memorable Events Nonetheless, it must be remembered that the Durants are not writing primanly tor the tiamed student oi history Such animals can hnd their nourishment elsewhere What the Durants have attempted in The Age ot as they state in their Napoleon, pretace, is to extract the moat meraora ble men events and artistic w oiks trom a period ol history, and to weave them into a synthetic narrative nnf To America and ships at sea a lark; A -- V V .Wincliell Exclusne: Chinese Bandit Ulysses holograph reaches print New York Times Writer ynry B Y 0 L Reservation and advance payment before Dec. 3 1 st Phone 532-700- 0 Holiday Inn DOWNTOWN 230 W, 6th South |
