| Show sl 00k t 1' a literary Ant Carmen of Okla- - GLadss by Bellamy Lnhrtty born Press $S SaundersiNS t‘ By Sandy : Sam ClerilPnil would probahl! have had a big laugh at Gladys MA A R Carmen Bellamy 4 rhD I She has written a book shout him called "MarkTwain as a Literary Artist" For Sam it would have been merely another tinexphtinable wistlessness of the "damned human race" Gladys Carmen Bellamy A B ILA PhD is the current bead of the English department - 'oft eie ' "“10 " - e f t ""' " ilis4$11444tt "462tilk 4 tr---- " c- - Je ' 'Mr -- 7 'I 1 i ' e: if t!12 1011e°- t MP ' nr It ' - - 1 r teee V 1 14 6 li ( (ii N' - I t7: 1' 1 :t f C- - 4- --- "7 r----7- 1 - :'''''l' ' ''' - :wi t '41 1 I t ' 4 ' i ' yz01 : 3 4 - ' 1 ' i - '' ' Vzi ki 11 - 4vi ee- is - f I 4$eeete! Manama ' 161110j1°' 4i've? e - He hag Taeaki AllotherI ar Novel 1)ut From Jal)an — 'Tong the Imperial IVIY: lT Manama Timid Houghton Miff- lin $350 fly lean Birkmoro rsltiPr '1h9 ixpetta Japanese equivalent of "The Naked and the Dead" will be Tha in "Leing the Im- perial Wan' But the reader who seeks an insight into the mental processes motivations and eocial relationships of enlisted men in the Japanese imperial army will begin to understand how members of that army could have been used as pawns In a long war of conquest and occupation I Every new soldier in the Japanese army it seems is subjected to a year of 'goat week" type torture at the hands of anyone who happens to have been in the service longer Explanation of this curious practice—and the intricate network of feudal relationships it represents—takes up :a large amount of space The oriental concern with "savilig face" 13 illustrated Although boring for the reader the long passages in which the soldiers recite various behavior orders and commands of the emperor show the amount also-wel- —atiaperstiti-PuxPIL-4uxagt----vt-rrrrerr-sntr'rrttr-tmr- AT 42 :- - ' 'ammo i )i oft oft 't-- - t ikkr 1 :::-- - The book- was a long and mighty labor in the rause of what is known as "stholarship" But to my mind she has labored and brought forth only My 1 - -- Deliberately Construeted It What she did was to take the thesis that lark Twain was c o n sc i ou s much more of a craftsman" than is generally conceded In other words he didn't spin Tom Sawyer as a yarn for Sun and profit he deliberately con- structed it as Dean Swift wrote Gulliver—for satirical and po- laical motives Granted that this is reamm book enough to write a " 4 - i - " ' f tar nhse t:onucled n'commented 1 effort do not especially care to know bow many angels can play cro- quet in the area enclosed by the l eye of a However concede the idea nd Rlam Y a " fails o case he argues to pros17 that Tom Sawyer i s a satire on inatitutionaham with Tom a mawkish artificially livilized man and Jim a pnmi(ive Huck she seys is the 'free" middle strata of society -- '' r - 11 11111 ” to 'Ilt 'It:va4-- - -- -- elk4 '' - ' ' t 1-' ‘ - '''- Lact (' t t ' ":" i — — L 4 — - ' 7 : le: !1 -ZØ--:-----) it1 - 7 4 t 1411( THE CITY REVISITED to the Mine Bellamy didn't say but I'll always wonder what Twain really 'ail trying to say in the flinging of a cat over Muff Potter's grave A large share of the time she forgets this foolishness anyway and concentrates on a rewrite of all that's been written on Paris of ECA Rationing Inflation and Privation "Springtime Elliot $350 Su( h chapters as The Four 'Bases” of Mark Twain's Mind" "Ugliness as Reality Beauty as Dream" "The Twofold Aspect of Life" and "Acceptance Versus Rejection" are to be endurable for their occasional nuggets of Twain quotations If you like nugget go to the mine itself Try reading some escially if you've onl y read - Tom-Huc- criticism try Van Wyck Brooks and Bernard DeVoto the knows his Twain if not his Echo park) and leave this author uncontested in her "middle ground" hetueen the two A Doctor Takes A Look at Illy D Dor- - of us take prisons for pianted and most of U3 think that nearly everyon e 4' doing time " is only getting his juat Many prisonera themseivea eubscribe to this view but none of them either men or women l ike it 'Ma bookegives an Interesting portrayal of whet is taking place in our prisons It Is wntten by Dr Joseph G Wilson who draws from 3 5 year contact with both male and female pris- houses :: es: - I: 41"7-Ndli 4 6 o A ' 7 : — t can be woven into the lives svraten with the fundamental of grown men concept that the knowledge of This 4 nI)t 41 It stril4 !fIV'eslialoog roreor 'etervirence's-witba novel The writing is netth'r a knowledge of dead ones brilliant nor exciting The book In an attempt to evaluate the rat exhila neither ing provides raiaed by the question problems nor entertaining reading Rut it are prisons necessary the out- does provide a certain amount thor lecture about crime in of useful information and may the abstract and why we punish b e real for that purpose those we call cnminals but also mote entertamingly writes ehout the roan end women he has met in prisons I 101FC PU11141 "World War 11 has heen over for five years but me atilt have NS tes is phsays the case after great wars) a flood of crime A clothboundkvolume and the of our rrisoos of poems by Ileert E'red Moffitt is still taxed to the utmost" Dr WIlwn 14!1-633 N Grant ave Pocatello "The written law Is alwaya Ida ts to be published In early one or two generations behind November the author learned and judges public opinion Friday bound by their statute to books Mrs Moffitt wife of DeWitt and the deciMons of their predecesaors will still have to send 'Moffitt said her work was ac- men to prison even if they know cepted by Story Rook Prem that mending them there will do Dal:a3 Tex and is to be pub- no good either to them or to lished under the title 'Fantasy and Dreams" society at large" Vilson makes no While Dr A member cf the Idaho Wri- teral' Le ague 'nod Its' Pocatell- o- O sris 'of answering hos own Mrs Moffitt bars question yet after reading his ifl creati‘e writing the book you will likely agree that at Idaho State enl- - though prisons may WWI be nee sesaions conducted by essary their eventual aholitton Is the goal for E "'Blake asitetant holt we all hould ats of Engbah ? 411ikk ' I : ' '1 '' - f1 - y i 't(' I171 i i ee 5 gil - I - -- :'" ': '' '' Steuart George R b ‘ ' mood From "B01110 Fatigue Sloan rearm t otiked $t' I pk:u:x by ' ire' 4tilt - i 0 "4--7- i It' t Mk P 1—--VII - Mopped In Salt Lake lad urek to catch up on S bigtmay 40 rite a book on material be is rolketing to T-r- l si tpwAuthorAnticipates Experimehts in 'Writing He was ami it Is Cmost Impossible to For instance Mr Stew-oelaborates "The rediscovery of America the war stories and the historical novels are all played out" The historical novel especially has come to an ugly d and stupidly state simple 'Furthermore Mr St thinks we are in for a period of In g experimentation inlargely due to the playing out of genres and also because the readership of books is so dierse That is to say the large stable audience of Dickens for permitted him In exemptonee vein of literature "work" but an author now in America The has no such audience reader is fluid he may or may not like an author's second Yen Lure in the same field Mr Stewart thinks also that there is a tendency toward ter writing about the west He George R Stewart the author of -- Storm" "Earth Abides"' pt Americamost was in Salt Lake City for a short time last week He is working on a book of prose and photographs about Ir S highway 40 and he will follow that road all the way to New Jersey meet his wife and drive all the way back again to gather material for his book He took pictures of Utah's salt flats 'Adobe Rock Black :Rock and Garfield and two beaver dams down by Soldier's Springs The beaver dams are among the largest and most photogenic that the author has seen Also in preparation with the publishers is another of Mr Stewart's books this one written in collaboration with a lot of other eminent men at the Universitv of California "The Year of the Oath" This volume to be published in September recounts the ptruggle between the University of California faculty and regents ovir the Communist oath The struggle shook every campus in the country Mr Stewart who teaches literature at Berkeley thinks that at the present American writ- irg is remarkable for its lack of direction It ITICIVPS in spurts sex-fille- ewart writ points particularly to the work of Wallace Stegner Mr Stewart himself will have a western book published In the spring It is tentatively titled 'Sheep-rock- " and it concerns the spring which waters a Nevada town While Mr Stewart was here he agreed to coma up next June for the University of 17tah's annual writers conferente :" It - 1 t'l A 'Yining GirlSlioiildBeGo od' 4è ' A I The Rrknw1 iihrey Menen 41 !41 Poen mo cringe of ha comedy 111 Comanche John Didn't Believe I I e'd Be Hanged By Bride let who will he clever" Anisetta observes But Aquila remains happy and hy Scrihnees he soon will see his Francis Lissom philosopher Finally Anisetta Robert Ellefsen knowing Prof idol NVhisper lightly if yoil will my love butdonl air the bedchamber with Plato and Kant Blunt yet that's the general idea behind AllbrPy Menett'S "The Back- Sicilian scherzo ward Bride" Mr Menen's new book sticks out ite tongue at intellectual fade psychiatry free will and existentialism as a Sicilian husband follows his bride from England to Paris and aroiml and around Briefly Aquila Palermo University student and nephew of Sicily's top Giorgio Morales sails with his bride brigand Anisetta for an Engl:eh honeymoon Giorgio accompanies the couple Aquila chatters contracepton while Anisetta crouches in the crypt of Catholicism and the result is coldly- loveless "A young girl should be good resorts to drastic measures "Flave gone to live in sin with Prof Lissom" twits the note she leaves the morning florid night Aft particularly Husband with philosophy follows the uncles goading fleeing lovers although this Bflnfl FCst) never crtnsurn- mated) The chase is vehi4e for satire on 'psychiatry ‘vit hnut estahL5hing a point: It clucks t txislentia:ism by enterirg' fop 115 its foil: It hdicules reason over emotion In the end Ike the snap orm th horse opera and the children's tale 'simple virtue" scuttles centuries of thought The book even closes with a two-lin- e epilogue set apart by asterisks simply saying the lived "happily couple evqr a Ver' 2—Bct!Y MacPonald'S ---CorTlinSLA- V990 "ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING" F Smiley Comanche John didn't' believe when he rode into American - Flag Montana The mining commu- - nity to he told that Comanche John was to be hanged that night The thsight less minstrel Parson and Pike 'Wilbur said the hangee wasn't Comanche I John Ar Cap? Lon Braze? better — known as Capt MIISM' p a trt he was But Comanche JOhn himself 7 hero of the minstrel's favorite song provided the necessary Proof With two blazing navy Colts he broke up the hanging party rescued Pike Wilbur from the noose and precipitated a feud with Capt Brass This thin volume (173 pages) contains much of this kind of action humor and interest 't Background of Comanche John!' action is the upper Missouri above Great Falls where Wil bur and Capt Brass wore vying r'''''''for the 'economic advantage due the man first to place a steam 70) "rvi0 GO 0rmitc: freighter on the river Ilere is a modern !'viestorn" Franklin rartch written by a Ntontanaril with a quick eye R retentive kniemory and an all tr0 seldom seen gusto ne t) by It I ) ‘ - i i'd 1r ' ) 116 1 g'go 4214( r ' - !''' ) de Ona t i — ‘ i ANYBODY - CANDO ANYTHING I ) What happened to Baty and her family from the time she escaped the egg factory till she wrote her first bestseller Its one long rich fft 1 -- DESERET BOOK COMPANY 44 lost South Term la St Solt tok City 10 Utah THI SALT LAKI P - Who Will Be Clever And-Le- t - 101 1 -- - c i C :iil t N "!Siontana Here I Be' by Dan The Macmillan ('o s254) ' 0 k 44 - -- - ''''S v - 1 to er It way I ir By William ' ti Ilf ::4 ' (7 ( t te trAf A "' 410 Z - I) r Telegraph" The narrative follows Lucien Leuwen the son of a powerful rich Paris banker to the provLucien is a inces and return much sweeter young man than Julien Sorel of the 11ed and the Black Julien is all calculation and vanity in his bleakest moments but impulsive and charming when he can forget himself Lucien however is quixotic often silly and clearly understandable in terms of romantic Where Julien is ambiyouth 'toils Lucien is curious The note of "The Green Huntsman" is an irony that deals gently with Lucien and severely with His atprovincial hypocrisy tempts to win Madame de Chas-telland his fencing with a Jealous nobility form the pattern of the story The translation is by Louise ti ' : 1114 - : 144'i 4416 ---- ' onlan 0 ' P: f 4 1 i':!: His last novel titled "Lucien Leuwen and in unfinished form Is being published for the first time in English by New DirectionsThe firm has chosen to issue the book in two volumes the first of which is out and the second to be issued in the fall The first is called "The Green Huntsman" the second "The i) to Pocatello t k 4 hes its foundations in the study el the dead body so dope prevention ef crime need to be studied in the light of the end results" it the opinion of Dr wilenh Prisons ere the autopsy rooms of draft souk of both men and t 0 - 1 ?': prevention of diseaae 4 i ot 1 i '''' : 4:likA b1 4 iti te I t I Ni Li V W that -t t right uritten ti t '4i ' Aubecy mem '' self-style- the author Understandably finds delectable those things that are left the charming in 1 l ' '" ' r ) home" ' - His wit and his insight strove energetically to make precise distinctions between sentiment and motive between love and Pelf love between what the voice says and what the mind Intends He used everyday Nati Dons and symbols to make these distinctions Thus religion might be a vehicle for ambition love for woman a solace to petty irritations of the ego devotion to a cause a way of spiting th Accent Halo Changed Varese The accent in this volume has changed remarkably from the bordello to the issue of COMMIt?rm and few of the nearly 100 '' discov- characters mentioned ere' And rediscovered in thin I4-c11:'14)4 are left Untouched by the led specter in France Some of the earlier residents of paid's Rue de la truchette most notably Hortense Berthe- - lot now a florist healthier and younger in all but years are found again Among the new faces briefly seen is that of d citizen Gary Davis of the world whose petitions the author took delight in signing NVhile he makes a gallant to translate issues into the people and personalities people are colorless perhaps beil e cause so many names fill so I many pages Readers who liked the earlier volume will take special delight in this book however and others may find some revealing glimpses of life in Paris today This by and large is Paris beyond the range of the tourist camera—the left bank Paris of an expatriate of the "lost generation who frankly considers the city "a refuge a second ' 13 the licensed ("eat La Vie All "Just Middle-of-the-ro- an treated thmorttrott Paris in the spring of 1919 in not the Paris of 190 Some of the 34 al sof the war the occupation and the resistance still are there Peace brought its "Cafes In the Place problems St Michel and all along the streets were dim and the customers were few and those who patronized them could not afford to drink as much as they had in the past" George Crabble dessertt Holktein is Neessimaryr by M of the municipal uotker the disregard for exactitude in the French press the unique advertising that has not yet been too much swayed by the American huckster Here is Paris of the EC A Inflation rationing and privation Old friends gone and new faces in the Rue de la Huchette opinion fast Incidents over disappearing Picasso's dove posters Street name changes A passing of efficiency Here ts the Ingtril inevitable sequel to Elliot Paul's tender reminiscenses of prewar Paris "The Last Time I Saw Paris" reflecting the nostalgia of places revisited Like the earlier volume one of a number of books the author chooses to call "Items on the - Grand Account" this book has not much continuity Chapters fall like random notes from a acratch pad clinging to one another principally b ec &use Paris to the author is far More than a place It possesses the warmth of a hying thing and Our Prisons "s in Parts" by noose Random Hy !klittos k atones the If you insist On comment and Joaeph G Wilson ranee it Co- - S3- - Pan NI 10 4r - -" t f - Tom Mathews fore it understood him tilty‘ 4' ' Go - 4 other Stendhal's world was unprepared for these honesties which embarrassed the men of art and which like insults close to the truth inflamed them He was snubbed and ignored until quite late in his career when Balzac valued him as one of the greatest novelistsHe himself sneered at opinion and claimed it would have to think for 50 years be ' S Ni -- - 1- 2440 471141' i ndle te-- It aa fol -- 1 4aaledieklow4 trt ' it' lb41itA7F1 400-pa- I 400‘" kip I' man - '' 4 ' ' 1' Stendhal was a man who knew himself He was the advance master who many years before his time created the psychological novel long complete and accurate anatomy of the inner - I' :::i- ) 2? 4 4 The Green Huntsman Ns Ftendhal New Directions $SStt 1 Yfor? - ti ' ftETIE ' 1Nirr! 11:- ' 1 - ' ) 1 - of Southvrestern State college once o as secrets rY of the Amer' irsn literature disition of tht South Central Modern Lan- gnagPs C em e t :44-- '1i- Twain ) written novel of Japan't army disappninted '''11:If --- M183 A 1 s"Z Al 0 In Which a Scholar Attempts to Prove Mark Tivains Literary Consciousnes Mark Toain a Irony Paints Picture of The World 10- erft ' Uinta 1 LI 0 - |
