Show Standard Examiner Book Reviews Edited by b Maurice Hone oe THAT MAN HEI E by b Lewis Lem I Browne MacMillan publisher published pu There are a in comparatively English i ft ar that y yd deal d few ea at books all n adequately or understandingly understanding with the German lyricist Heine Lewis Brownes Browne's book Is 13 a new and valuable one Here Herl indeed Is a worthy subject for biography biography-A. a pitiful specimen of or mal sail maladjustment a adjustment a a man without a a. country Born Bom of or Jewish parents In a Ocr Ger German man men city in the early nineteenth cen em century century tury when Semitic anti-Semitic prejudice was wast wasat wasat at t its height fleeing to Paris where he ie found himself as a poet living al always oil oil- in world of ot dreams and 1 ways a an fancy fancy- Heinrich Heine lI lne is a A. tragic figure lre in literary history Emotionally he was ill I lie Jle was licentious He TIe was W 3 low He was not discriminating Yet he was wn al always oil oil- always ways the victim never the conqueror One moment a maudlin sentimentalist he was hopelessly Iy pessimistic the next He dramatized he stormed he raged ho he broke broko down and wept according to t his mood In Sn other words he behaved as a poet is supposed to Yet some o of his loveliest poems were e I eh af written to his casual acquaintances of ofa a it night and crystallized the moods that mot most tortured his soul Browne has taken the lamp of or pay pay- psychology psychology to Illuminate the man and ac account sc- sc account count for tor the obvious Inconsistencies lie He sets about to explain what once seemed qUIte quit Inexplicable Sympathetically Sympathetically and almost tenderly he goes back Into the boys boy's earliest years vears and traces the Influences to the days when he was a paralytic old man czars He shows how Heine 1 was essentially weak he could rise superb superb- superbly superbly ly e abo himself With the tho serious serious- seriousness seriousness seriousness ness and thoroughness of a I criminal lawyer he examines much evidence follows rollo s 's many clues that seemed to lead nowhere and builds up a strong case for a man who was doomed to ti be br bra beI bea a I failure at life lICe but a a. genius at let let- tens tors In a year when biographies ar armore are more mere ool ular than romances That Thai Man Heine Helne Heln stands out as a II consist consist- ent keenly ke interesting portrait that tha was well worth t ln l MACDONALD Memoirs of or an srI J I Century Footman liar liar- Harpers pers rs publishers A book that fell flat upon it first tint appearance and Is being republished In a a. more auspicious day Is this one of more than passing worth Eight Eight- Eighteenth Eighteenth Eighteenth century England was not In Interested In- In Interested in Irs what came from so EO hum hum- humble ble his a a. pen as that of a mere footman Tills This was really England's loss for the t e debonair footman had many conquests among amonI the fair fall and was quite a sheik but but always discreet as s befits a gentleman's man From om tho the kitchen to the Ule boudoir he made his rus cautious I Iway way until dalliance led him to the matrimonial altar and altar and nd silenced him It Is an Interesting chronicle of ot the life lICe of the day Y DEAR BEASt GIRL GIItL Doran pub pub- publisher M My isa Usher lisher Benjamin BenJamn Franklin it appears was wasa a e. letter writer of parts as Cs well ell as an aa aaM anI OJ I 1 i r 11 fj 1 I fI i il 1 L Lr r j t j l tt f 1 hlf t. t 1 1 if Y I tf I I r hemp Heine from a portrait by Carl Sauce Bauer Inventor His correspondence corres with Polly Stevenson and Catherine and an 1 Georgians Shipley i has been b edited In Into In Into to a sizeable volume ru Many l of 01 erd the t letters letter have never been published 1 be be- be fore foes They reveal a kindly human side of ot Franklin and snow that the women onen of ot nearly two centuries ago were vere very modem modern In their Interest In science nce and end history and and nd life lite STUFFED PEACOCKS By Sly Emily Emil Ii Clark Knopf publishes publisher Essay writing known to be highly unprofitable Is being neglected In this day and hence Stuffed Peacocks by Emily Clark is 13 welcome She writes most charmingly of Richmond her native e city and her home and of characters and scenes enes that survive In Inthe Inthe the he Old Dominion today |