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I :A 1 I) (y 'Wk Ymw Sunday Morning - iTljc Salt £akc Tribune April 30 1939 Reviews and Comment on Current Books and News of Literary Folk 7 Prolific Writer Rebel Spirit Part of Life’s Basic Design Novel’s Character Study And Odd Romance Both AbsorbingC and CharmingO fork Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons New Patterns of Survival: An L City W one “Ca-thedi- al -- Set m one of the lovely little towns of the Scveran country of England dominated by a fine old church it is chiefly with the church community that ’Stall Harmony" deals It is the restoration of the decaying roof and tower of the church that furnishes the hinge on which the story turns but its essence lies in its presentation of character particularly of the two sisters whose natures sharply con- m t" f whose husband Is now At Rector of St Bartholomews once Rachel senses a strain in the en Rectory household— Andrew wrapped in his church duties Is tense not happy the once careless Catherine has become irritable And there s the rebellious young Judy whose clear eyes see more than they should ‘ This situation at the Rectory trast Rachel Hemsley daughter of a where the lovely but churchman had reached her foiti-et- h wife fears the new austerity of the buthday unaware that the husband she desires passionately term ‘the surf ice of life" hinted now that he has seemed to turn Not that Rachel cold is a parallel interest with depths beneath had lived on the surface as her Rachel s own slowly developing rofor 15 mance The famous London archifathers housekeeper-curat- e to examine SL Baryears she had seen evil and sorrow tect who comes roof and unhidden But she herself was un- tholomew s beetle-eate- n touched while her breadth of sym- accepts the job of restoring it bethis so pathy made her the nntiirnl confi- cause he falls in love with woman — thereby dante for the burdened and erring - she was 'the sort of person one setting in train events that lead tocan ‘go’ to you can tell her any disaster as disgruntled townspeo" So that Catherine the older jjle and a prying envious gossip thmg sister coming to her that far day flnite to spread trouble— finds his w ith her tragic experience met only courtship difficult before Rachels svmpathy and comfort from Rachel utter lack of coquetry and her But he is a man of dewho all Innocence herself realized quixotism that those war days led people to termination which is fortunate for And Cath- he doesn't hesitate at scotching a act unlike themselves erine had been able to forget the dangerous slanderer Admirable in its clarity and its soldier who didn t return and soon married a young chaplain penetration the story moves easily At her fathers death Rachct 40 and is lighted by the delicate spue s has of wit that has marked Miss but still serenely beautiful coma to Biedestowe to be near pievious stories Catherine unself-conscio- Good-year- Refugees From the Land Under Swastika Flag having "nothing in common but the curse of Judaism" And this not from Hahe Translated By Hans a thing to give It solidarity thus Pubthe German by Frio Sutton the "emigration split up and scatNew Co lishers Dodd Mead A tered over the face of Europe In Yorlv City such capitals as London Pans and With telling force the harsh and Vienna” to be received with unugly stoiy of contemporary happen- easiness and suspicion ings in Germany that have s Herr Habe traces the futile course its citizens into other epun-tiie- s of this trio of Individuals whose of Europe and across the seas lives run together strangely In their is dealt with in this book transDr Kiesler to to security lated from the German a book that flight whom life "was a matter of buying a in been have to written seems selling take and give" will not white heat of indignation and has and look upon himself as a refugee with not the virtue of sincerity though he hopes to make connechis wealth a always of clarity It is story grim tions in England to continue his and realistic textile manufacturing But wealth The three whose escape across cannot buy everything border is de- he learns the purchase a woman’s body tailed in the opening chapters who itbutmay That gamble in not herself arc representatives of the 1933 ref- which the young Englishman is a ' from the jusindependent ugees r- to secure Nora an Engtice’’ of Storm Troopers are drawn partnelish passport— turns Into a fiasco Heinz Dr classes varied from But Nora once the ‘collector of Kicsler driven from his grcatjac-torbutterflies" human type finds that which had been a family it is better to make sacrifices than to but managing carry to accept them a fortune away with him finds the Here are presented some extraoryoung English motorist he picks pictures— that gathering of dinary up on the highway and his quite exiles in the establishment of "Chez valid English passport of great as- Madam La Pipe" for example so sistance at the frontier— and later broken up when the great There is Nora Gcldern piquant sadly Herder interrupts with publicist Irresponsible of an old aristocratic the wild announcement of the overunassailnot of but Jewish family of ‘the new Reich" and an able virtue who has a brother in throw brain way — and overtaxed the Communist party gathers up some others verygives distasteful with a young country escort enabling drama and tragedy enacted But her to slip past the frontier post as a sociological document it has And under the swastika unnoted power there is the earnest young Comrade Richard Sergius carried through in his "coffin” concealed under sacks New Books Added of flour in a heavily-lade- n lorry leaving behind the knowledge of To Public Library blood spilt and a father executed These three of the number who The following books will be added fled Germany through fear must to the Public Library Monday with meet at Prague naturally ellarw4Hi others of the great ‘emigration” MImAirua Fsei)tia! ChriatiantlN "Three Across the Frontier n y '4 vtoyERBAcififr DWYER'S BOOK SHOP NEW BOOKS OF DISTINCTION NON-FICTIO- ' Your Own Moviet Met and Profit ' Arthur Gn'e "America i Silver Age The statecraft cf Clay and Calhoun W Johnson Geral for Fun 350 Vober 350 ' "Letteri of Alienee Christopher Mrley "The Changing Theatre" Anita Biocl ’ The American Gao L Wey“ Kaufmo - fe lerstnm - h t GrlnGNad pend at Silver Rend Hies! u Huorable Uncle lamy i— ft The RijiI T m-MMa M vran Beats Back — Sr amah House Smith Thane— Trv at sin jedv 4 lair 275 WriteiV League 500 To Hold Meet 300 TWO NEW PLAYS The Gentle People" Irw n SI aw Ceremonies and Bnghear y skew Guinea PtR I a rrit ginu Gardener Travel Rok t Do It (Wlh ker Minty Ralslin How (thirardi —Radio Trouble — Phooter Ha dhoo Herru k I oonmothf I ngmeera and Fire ma a Manual of Qiestlona amt Answer Hitler - Mein Kitrnpf Men Who lead labor Mmiou f the treiith Revolution M me Diarv M vree -- Harriet ii 8 In the Shade Pamtii y Parh- - Queer Thin Pall — stun’ of the Amenran Indian Rifllev & Hlmon— Measuring Municipal A( tv tiles Vielrh —Unveiling of Timhuctoo Mv Memvir Wilson Wrixht and others — With Rifle and Plow f ii tion Margaret Armstrong— Murder In Stained Class Brrdh g — He Could Not Have Slipped C oli lue — (ru ko Gold K e FICTION "Here Lien" The Collected Stories of Dorohy Parker of Katharine -lomelli ‘ Croft fd Instrument and Radio FUhuc Drake Oarnell— Old Lngliaii Customs end J hi World in Playi end 4The Glories of the Maya Thomas Gann Ba-Bax of the fcmhiM) pj k — eurcAiiiZhtlon of tUale Govern me its in the I nited Mates Caldwell and bourke — North of the Danube (crnell — I Want to he an Actress 200 200 Rulh Louise Partridge of Provo whose first novel "Adventure With a Lamp” has recently appeared from the press Is to be the speaker at the regular meeting of the Salt Lake City chapter of the League of Western Writers it is announced bv Mrs Earl W Harmer president of the thapter Mias Partridges book whuh Is based on her experiences ns a nurse is now In Its fourth printing 5 J vjfe J Naomi Jacob English novelist have become popular with American readers whose d Czecho-Slovakia- r Anat- books Theater World Gives Novel’s Background Straws in Amber Bv Naomi MacMillan Jaroh Publisher The Company New York tity From bright-haire- d the moment the Sally Btlghtman vivid brought to school for the first time by her Cockneyimother of the ‘Five Crowns" was sent to share a desk with the sh intelligent Jewish boy Maurice Moms he became her devoted slave helping her with the lessons she despised becoming her of protector and comforter school When Moftue a good schTjar was sent up to the 'Big Boys’" school this separation was tragic to both children Though they were to be separated more finally and he was to lose Sally for long years this love was to endure through Morrie's life always he was to feel responsible for Sally even at the end to take drastic steps to protect her against herself While the circumstances of their lives kept them apart except for brief intervale and mistrust and lack of faith and wounded pride were to divide them irrevocably leading Sally into a marriage that nearly wrecked her career these two knew always that they belonged somewhat unbeIt is perhaps lievable coincidence that both Mor-ri- e and Sally two very unlike characters should turn to the theater for expression and display such unusual talent as to win prompt But It affords us an recognition excellent realistic picture of the music hall li'e of the prewar period and in the variegated careera of the two principals is reflected the effect of the war on the profession bringing unwonted success to some to others obscurity the contrasts of poverty and meteoric rise to fame the changed conditions because of the popularity of ‘revues" The theater world is one in which Naomi Jacob is at home and this familiarity builds up a background that is always thoroughly interesting while the romance seems at times to evidence the manipulation of the author rather than developing naturally out of character ‘Straws in Amber” has great readability however though hardly one of Miss Jacob's finest novels New lork City ‘My boyhood was spent In the hills along the middle reaches of the Mississippi where the hills were full of fossils and the river was full of fish I began hunting fossils and fish at a lender age and have been hunting them ever since My fishing is still simply fishing but my fossil hunting has pretty much turned Into philosophizing for after a decade of collecting and another decade of explaining it was only natural that I should want to attempt understanding” Thus John Hodgdon Bradley speaks of the reason and background for his discussion of ‘Patterns of Survival " So with a wealth of knowledge at command the author has looked at the basic principles of geology paleontology biology anthropology with a view of formulating from the lessons of each some basis for understanding the experiment which is life The scientific facts are presented as a means of understanding present problems and as a telescope for viewing the possibilities of the future ' Intensive investigations of living creatures has yielded many physical but few philosophical satisfactions ” his foreword says "If there is any meaning for mice and men in the restless drive of life a billion years of living should contain it To search those years for that meaning is the object of this book " It has often been pointed out that modern man is unhappy his knowledge has neither brought him content nor understanding but this new work by Dr Bradley gives a hopeful outlook as to this lamented fact ‘Discontent a talent unique in man has already taken him out of the trees and it may yet take him out of the confusion Through the quality of discontent humanity— alone in the living world —has grown chronically addicted to revolt” and this spirit of revolt may use the vast knowledge of the past to solve some of the spiritual problems of the future Man has already used his knowledge to charge the natural course so that "the practice which is ethically best is directed not to the survival of the fittest but the fitting of as many as possible to survive " The author's facts have always a present-da- y interpretation and the relation to everyday life set forth in as clear a manner as the facts themselves The book is a storehouse of Interesting Information written in very modern tempo It may not achieve the stated purpose of breaking down the artificial barriers between science and philosbut it presents a refreshing ophy viewpoint and the author through his keen and often witty analogies stands upon the facts of anthropology and biology and cracks a whip over modern world and social con- Mein Kampf By Adoll Hitler Publishers Reynal and Hitchcock New York City The best introduction to any discussion of “Mem Kampf” is to say at once that it is no more possible to speak of Nazusm without reference to “Mem Kampf” than of Christianity without reference tp the Bible or of Mohammedanism without reference to the Koran far in Nazusm we are dealing fundamentally with a new relig on rathor than with any political movement and ‘‘Mem Kampf” supplies the doctrinal core for the whole vitality of the religious leeling You must at once discard all ideas that Hitler is other tnan 'technically the statesman the po- litical leader or that he Is a ban- v n “ rz f'tr i I Tv: 5 V From jacket design for "Here Conies Labor” the analysis of labor organization by Chester M Wright At right the author Set Forth With Lucidity Ileie Comes Labor ( heater M The MacMillan York tity tiuigment and rullisher! f‘ghters1and Wright Company New f Labor is on the mar h in America So declares Chester M Wright who gives us in this small volume a clear-eyeview of what the movement means and where labor g classes) (meaning the is going Having spent many years in association with this movement and as recently head of a WashMr ington labor news service Wnght is prepared to answer questions convermng the struggle its leaders — captains privates and camp followers ’—unions and their purposes and objectives Unions Mr Wright knows are made up of many typos native-bor- n Americans and hybrids members of various races— "men of sound d wage-earnin- The Literary Almanac fools savage jMoniiits lay down their hves for a cause and those who will betray any party or any person for power or money" Mr Wright is a champion of Labor but he is not blind to the mistakes it has made That a natural ambition for power is one of the wants Labor strives to satsfy is granted but the basic desire at the top of the list through all the history of organized Labor has been and will remain freedom —the freedom to fight for better conditions a better way of life to go its way unshackled by new chains Gving a good deal of space to discussing the conflict betweerf the A F of L and CIO which has demanded so much attention Mr Wrignt doesn t see it as a paraIn his opinion the mount issue two organizations are not so unlike as the public has been led to believe the difference between them being more theoretical than actual The controversy involved "tactics Kly and practices' rather than Anthology Planned for sesqui-centenni- in Romantic Tradition "Heart-of-Ameri- best-sellin- Triolet There Were Giants By (rover Jones and William Slavens McNutt Publishers M S Mill C'o Inc New York (iiy One of those old style romances wherein the stranger hero decides in the first chapter to marry the heroine and tells her so without ado and the rest of the 'book Is taken tip with her show of offended resistance the while she knows d the time she wants this young Lochinvar out of the West— yet the coauthois provide plenty of excitement on the way to this happy culmination For 'There Were Giants" tells of railroad building in a day when the war cries of Apache and Comanche still teirorized the frontier and the men who laid the steel kept their rifles within reach Even more than the red savages Roarin' Bill Holliday cattle king resented the coming of the rails Into his and his warfare against domain Hartington the builder of the road supplies thrilling adventure for the young engineer Wade Carson to take his mind off the girl Hartington s daughter who had laughed at his boldly stated Intention "God aorta got His hand in after workin’ seven dav on the rest of the world— then He made Arizona " Holliday had said of this country where he had built his empire— and he wanted no railroads to Bui though he might despoil it turn 'a river out of its course to stop the railroad no man can stay the steps of progress— and Roarln Bills attempts proved Ills own undoing hard-fiste- princi- ples as he sees it Concluding he calls attention lo the fact that 'No matter how much alike two Is the title of a armies may be in action they take “Masquerade" character of their novel by Vincent Brun son of an on much of the staff officers " an American woman who married The question that Is vital today Austrian Told in the first person is that relating to the new labor the story concerns a Viennese jour- laws and their effect one must nalist and his Hungarian wife agree with Mr Wright The efwhoe inclusion of a young German fect of these new deal laws is still While they give lcgal on their holiday tour in Tuscany in doubt and protection he points brings a ell nax that causes the approval hero s bitter comment that the out to all rights for which Labor Germans are 'a race of poets and has fought there is a point of diftorturers" The book comes from ference Labor’s definition of its rights grew out of its own experiCarriik and Evans an May ence and changed with the changThe Grosset and Dunlap have an- ing nature of industrial life ditions nounced the fifteenth of the Pulit- new labor acts take away Labors zer prize novels available in a hand- right to decide for itself actually the rights to some uniform edition called the De indeed take away New Verne Tms is to define certain terms by which men Luxe Pulitzer edition appear almost coincidentally with live" I this la bring a new crisis the announcement of the years in Labors ‘fight for freedom’”’ award now being considered by the To commemorate the of the founding of the Pulitzer committee NoycI Congress of the United States of Edna Ferbcr's autobiography "A America a poetry prize competition Wanted is announced by the Empyrean Peculiar Treasure” which appeared been an Press of Kansas City Mo together some weeks theago hasselection of as nounced June Two publishers in search of a new with the compilation of the 1939 The Ferber The Guild anthology to story Literary was a Doubledav Doran title author who follows the great rocreative and one of the most exemplify contemporary interesting mantic tradition have jointly anthought in America nounced a $2500 prize competition First prize of $50 is offered with works of the season in its field which includes also a travel award a second prize of $25 nnl five prizes Angela du Maurier a third memof $5 each Themes of manuscripts ber of the famous du Maurier fnm with all expenses paid and the should submitted the ily has turned to literati e her assured income of $2500 per year embody American scene thought ideals or first novel "The Perplexed Heart1 for four years from date of publicaanything American Henry S to be published by Doubleday Do tion of the winning novel Evans Is to be the editor of the vol- ran on May 19 The author is a J B Lippincott Company Philaume the contest closing on June sister of Daphne du Maurier who delphia and Hodder and Stough15 1939 g wrote the ‘Rebecca’’ ton Lordon are the publishers who have joined their efforts to discover which established her as one of a ‘ first” novel in the tradition of foremost novelists The jacket of the English edition Dickens or Thackeray or the roof 'The Perplexed Heart’ was de mantic vein of Hervey Allen Rafael By Norma Nelson signed by yet another sister-Jean- ne Sabatini Daphne du Maurer MarDaffodils in yellow frills an artist with a studio at garet Mitchell of the present The re dancing In my garden’ contest is to close June 30 1940 and Hampstead Like children romping down green the name of winner announced not "America In Mulpassage" a his- later than December 31 with publihills Are daffodils in yellow frills tory of one of the most critical cation of the winning novel before decades since the Civil war and a October 1941 An April cloud his shower spills A rainbow begs their pardon third volume trt ‘The Rise of Ameri Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has W hilqdaffodlls In yellow frills can Civilization” by the famous had conferred upon her the degree historians Charles A and Maiy R of Doctor of Humanities by Rollin Are dancing In my garden’ Beard is an early May publication College because of her novels placof MacMillan and will take place ing her "among our finest delineaas one of the most important non- tors of the native scene” She is the fiction tilk-- s of the season author of "The Y'earhng ' ‘South LATE Moon Under” and other titles NON-FICTIO“Gringo Doctor" the storv of an American doctor in the Mexican revolution is to come from Caxtona rublic Relation for Busl-n— The author is Dr laOO in Milton Wright Ira J Bush a man whose life has been crowded with exciting and Sings Agreeably Democracy Work dramatic events through years of Arthur Mirage Water medical service on the frontier Tublshers By laird Dunoanj The Fra of Wonderful Dorranre and Company Phila Nonstnu —(A Casebook of the ’Twenties) delphia Puzzles in New Laurence Greene Always a book by Lord Dunsany five Cities is a book to enjoy If not to excite George R Leighton one — and this collection of his verse The Crossword Picture It is an addition is no exception The Philippines Our Problem of 40 Years— Wilto the publishers’ "Contemporary Puzzlj Book liam H Publishers Poets of Dorrance" series There By Albert Buranelli Anderson Mack pole Sons New York tity Is a melodic flow to the Dunsany verse and his themes range widely American Earth OO For the crossword addict to from Impressions of London twiOarleton Beale whom "gnu” and "emu" and such light far seas the Taj Mahal in The Rise of American Nathree-lettwords are no longer a moonlight to some deftly pointed val Power— Harold and worry and to whom the sun god bit of wisdom revealed to the poet Margaret with a name is an old His is felicitous utteFance his exiSprout famiha- - this volume may offer pression of a fleeting mood or imFicape to life something to sharpen his wits It pression of beauty that has stirred Erika and looks easy— but you never can tell his emotion stated with a happy Klaus Munn Maybe you wouldnt mognize an clarity that is ftmshec! art Often oeoe by his picture there is an epigrammatic turn of Pictures are all Albert Buianelli phrase or a torn h of whimsical offers for the working out of these humor suih as marks his prose puzzlers writings ’a Com in: of Rails Starts Liielv Fuss in Arizona I k BO ca be dit pure and simple Envision him rather as an ancient prophet crying out the wrath of God from the mountain top chosen to save the damned and you will come much nearer Hitler’s belief about himself much nearer the force m him which has so powerfully swayed the German nation Neither a statesman nor a brigand except as statesmanship and brigandage are attendant on his central motives Hitler actually is probably the most dangerous religious fanatic who ever lived Pi hn It e he Ui u tu Ci tu bi v Its Ideas Perverted Labor’s Point of View B L By Dale L Morgan Hjv1"SiW By John Hodgson Bradley Publisher The MacMillan Company A c Naziism a New Religion Hiller Its Prophet! omy of Life not familiar with the nmcN of Susan Goodyear here is an excellent woik to serve as inlioduction to this English author With such books as of quiet out most ubsuintial qualities Close’ and ‘College Squaie" Miss Goodyear has Won to her a laige following among Amencan readers and the very high nient of 'Such Iluiniony” is bound to inuease the numbers It is a rich and waimly human story of i at e psychological undei standing IF N V By Marjorie rarmelee By E E Hollis Such Harmony By Susan Goodyear America’s Industrial Scene 1 Writers of Rocky Mountain West Dixie Foster a young Sah Lake verse writer is one of those to be included in the' Worlds Fair Anthology to be issued by The Exposition Press New York City Sue will "be represented by a poem Amber Beads ” Miss Foster is a native of Cedar Citj but has spent the past two years after a period in WashingShe has ton D C in this city been a contributor to several local publications Edith Cherrington one of Utah's poets is to appear in a fortneoming issue of The Saturday Evening Post with a poem titled ‘Rainbows End" Mrs Cherrington is making frequent appearances in leading n the country her Riders ” being recently accepted for publication in The American Mercury which published her verse “The Mtek" a few issues magazines ' Surf-Boar- of d pat Alabama’s Negro Schools Sun eyed Negro Education in Alabama By Horace Mann Bond Publish ers The Associated Publishers Inc Washington D C This study of the education of the Alabama negroes since reconstrue tion and of the social and economic forces which have influenced the building of the state was the Susan Colver Rosenberger prize essay of the year 1937 at the University of Chicago It is based on a thorough and extensive research in the archives of the state of Alabama and on other sources of information It begins with a presentation of the social and economic factors in reconstruction in the state the foundation of an educational system for the black and deals with cotton and people steel as factors in economic changes in the state the exploitation of the g people through the system and the activities of philanthropic agencies In aiding the development of public schools for the negroes The book is well supplied with statistical tables and charts that help to elucidate the text The author is connected with Fisk university share-croppin- bv "Mein Kampf" is an unbearable study In the perversion of Ideas In this book you may trace from its beginnings the Germanism which created the whole terrible religious philosophy Hitler has given the world Born in Austria he was very early seized by the heroic myth and emotional emphasis through a teacher of history in his fourteenth year set a fatal seal on his Germanism Thereafter you may observe the damnation of one after another of the institutions and cultures which in Hitler's experience denied the supremacy of German- si th ism The Austrian-Hungaria- n mon- archy was foul to the core because under pressure of its Slav majorities it was departing from the holy which was its only justifuation for existence in its gradual refusal to be domated by a German minonty and so Jbjanc-tific- d it commended itself td hell Democracy with its rul of the majority was an absurd and dangerous institution because the masses were not necessarily either German or possessed of subservience to iule The "great papers" of by Germans Austria were whores because they dared criticise the sacrosanct Reich The Jews sharply cosmopolitan and instantly skeptical of all local cultural shibboleths were an abscess in the state The churches even as socialism communism and fraternal orders were damned by their doctrine of the brotherhood of man of the equality of with German Impressed On Stale Given these biases an astonishing grasp of mass psychology and tne temper of the German people after the war an apostolic council of unscrupulous brutal courageous and able thugs and a German republic undermined by traitors this prophet was able to establish his religion as the state religion How has this religion of nationalism worked out? The deep emotional satisfactions Inherent in any religion can only be evaluated finally with the perspective of years Whether Hitler has brought to modern life a powerful integrative force a lasting positive value largely lacking in modern life more positive than supervising religions cannot now be determined It is even possible that if the value here is finally positive we will never benefit from the knowledge for even the most cursory reading of Hitler's book convinces one that his religion is disastrously destructive nationalism must beget nationalism and the form of the nationalism enforces inevitable conflict 1 4 l Civilizations Threatened Unless Hitler is right In believing that some nation (in his view the German nation) is inconceivably the strongest toughest ablest the clash of these nationalisms in the panoply of modern armament must (Continued 4 on Pape Flcht) N Foct of Ireland es 3 mid-Ma- y 'y° $00 3 $50 3 Pictorial Form 900 3 3 $75 3 two-lett- ) 1 a f |
