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ogy of , and of those bird- painters who permitted it to thrive. Most lovers of liqueurs would do well to shop wfth For we are all diminished by sub- an air of caution today. There are more liqueurs around than human conduct wherever it is known ever before, but there is an ocean of difference between them. to fester; those who doubt as much Take Creme de Cacao ... and consider what it takes to make one need look no farther than the near- brand outstanding. est history book to learn that today's tormentor has a way of ending up tomorrow's painted bird. lJnforgettable cacao flavor begins with superb cacao beans. Nowhere in the world do they Mr. Kluger is the editor of "Book grow more flavorful than in Venezuela. To capture their flavor, Week," the syndicated Sunday book they must be harvested at just the right time, then dried and supplement of the New York "Herald processed with extreme care. Tribune."

CaCaO-rich~ aromatic andVenezuelan-is not ~he only ingredient vital to superb Creme de Cacao. Vanilla from Madagascar, combined with distilled spirits, must be added to attain a peak of fragrance. Finally, the liqueur must be sealed in the bottle by the producer. For this is one sure wav to deliver the true fragrance and delicacy. One liqueur producer still takes such The Year of the pains with Creme de Cacao and 18 other delicious flavors-all made and bottled in . Swedes in --Yes~1Know ... Marie Brizard" by Jerome A. Cohen Report from a Chinese Village, by Jan Myrdal, Translated by Maurice .... . Michael. Pantheon, $6.95. • China in Crisis, by Sven Lindqvist . • 100 Years Translated by Sylvia Clayton. Crowell, The Kennedy $5.95. Assassination After .Appomattox For Chinese this is the year of the and the THE SOUTH snake. But for students of contem- American Public porary China this may become the TODAY year of the Swedes. At least Myrdal SOCIAL COMMUNICATION IN and Lindqvist get their country off CRISIS. Edited by Bradley S. Edited by Willie Morris to a fast start in the annual "China Greenberg and Edwin B. Parker. In these moving and eloquent essays AsI Knew It" publication derby. This book presents the most sig- _ originally a supplement in Harper's Their accounts nicely complement nificant results of studies made to Magazine - the image of a troubled, each other and, together, reveal many understand the public reaction to evolving South is illuminated. Yet there a great disaster and how the How are many Souths, and the contributors facets of Chinese life, vintage '62. of information helped shape that to this book have drawn upon their Westerners who seek to live in reaction. $8.95 own rich experience to reflect on the China are, of course, carefully contrasts and present a realistic, com- screened. Of the small group who have Marxism in the posite picture of everyday Southern obtained residential visas, very few life. Here are the economic paradoxes; have been allowed to stay in the Modern World the prospects for mutual understand- ing between the Southern White and countryside. Yet rural China holds 80 Edited by Milorad M. Drachko- the Southern Negro; the moods, the per cent of the population and is the vitch. Bertram D. Wolfe, Merle conflicts, the fears of those who, hav- key to the country's future. Late in Fainsod, and Theodore Draper are among the distinguished scholars ing left the South, have returned and the summer of 1962 Jan Myrdal, son those who have stayed. and writers who analyze the vari- of the famous social scientist, had the The contributors: C. Vann Woodward, Wil. ous political forms taken by Marx- liam Styron, D. W. Brogan, lo.uis E. Lomax, exceptional opportunity of spending a ism in the 20th century-Leninism, Walker Percy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Whit. month in a village of fifty families in Stalinism, Khrushchevism, , ney M. Young, Jr., Edwin M. Yoder, Arma North China. There, with the permis- Titoism, and Castroism, HOOVER Bontemp" Philip M. 5te,n, and Jonathon. Daniels. INSTITUTION PUBLICATIONS. $5.95 sion of the local Communist Party $4.95 at all bookstores Secretary and the aid of two official Stanford It7.~~Row interpreters, he systematically con- University Press ducted lengthy interviews with most •...... __ ...... • of the adult villagers. He wanted to 131 THE NEW BOOKS The Swivel Chair use their life histories and percep- tions of reality to enhance our under- One of the most THE PROFIiSSIOIVS IIV standing of the predominantly agrar- , ' ) cordial of literary AMERICA edited by Kenneth ian Chinese revolution. His book ententes exists be- S. Lynn followed a few months records these autobiographies and tween the editor of later ($5.00). Now published adds an introduction in which he ~ a magazine such in October there will be books properly disclaims expertise in af- as this one and the book on two very lively subjects, fairs Chinese. publisher. An article in SCIENCE AND CULTURE China hands are likely to find Harper's may foreshadow a edited by Gerald Holton and Myrdal more interesting than will book to come and happy the 1'HIi WOMAIV IN AMERICA that amorphous creature, the general book editor with a well pol- edited by Robert Jay Lif- reader. The flat, simple, somewhat ished crystal ball. It can even ton. Among the contributors repetitious vignettes give some of the happen that an entire magazine of new material are: James flavor of contemporary village life- may be reflected in those Ackerman, Talcott ~ growing up, attending school, farm- Sibylline depths. Out of such Parsons, David ing collectively, marrying, etc. Yet, a revelation came the Daedalus Reisman and Diana by the critical midway point through publishing project. Houghton which every book must pass, all but ~1~~ ~in g ( $ 6 .00 .' Mifflin proposed to produce China specialists, who thrive on fit- twelve issues of Daedalus in ting tedious pieces into a fascinating the permanence of hard cov- construct, may be bored. The special- To balance this, one book ists, although impatient with peasant ers, the editors of Daedalus emerges from many maga- parroting of Party explanations and thereby exercising the rare pre- zines. Readers of The Kenyon with Myrdal's failure to ask "the right rogative of editorial hindsight, Review, The Virginia Quar- questions," will be compensated by for in book form the original terly, Redbook, and the South- occasional informational nuggets, material could be increased by west Review know the name ranging from records of the village new articles germinated by the of Georgia McKinley. In THE production teams and production old, the whole then indexed MIGHTY DISTANCE a brigade to tales of intrigue from pre- for scholarly convenience, and novella and nine short stories World War II days when Communist, jacketed to tempt the book- explore a single theme ($4.95). Nationalist, and various local forces store browser. "Mrs. McKinley portrays the struggled to control the area. relations between men and ~ The first title in women, between children and Sven Lindqvist's book offers many ., the Daedalus Li- adults with true insight and contrasts to Myrdal's. Lindqvist spent brary A NEW 1960-62 as a student at Peking Uni- remarkable subtlety. - GRAN- =-Lt:l EUROPE?edited versity and as cultural attache to the ~ VILLE HICKS. And here the ~ by Stephen R. crystal ball is doubly vindicat- Swedish Embassy. He focuses on city Graubard appeared about a life and the plight of the educated. ed for Mrs. McKinley's project year ago ($8.95). The critics for a novel is the recent win- Since he is fluent in Chinese, he had liked. it. "Finally there is the a good many unsupervised contacts ner of the Houghton Mifflin bulky tome assembled by Literary Fellowship award. with people. Drawing on these ex- Dr. Stephen Graubard: with periences, as well as on both Chinese contributions from so many and Western publications, he seeks prominent historians, econo- Last month in these col- to interpret rather than to record. The mists, sociologists, philoso- umns we celebrated the pub- book includes a devastatingly accurate phers, and even theologians, lication of a delightful book analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's de- that it would be invidious to of highly personal history by moralized on single out individual names. It a most distinguished official Formosa. is a most impressive collection historian, SPRING TIDES by Although little is new in Lindqvist's of learned papers, and perhaps Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison interpretation, it is a readable, bal- the only possible summary is ($4.00). To remind you: anced, and useful contribution to the to the effect that A NEW "Even landlubbers Will, I popular literature. In some respects EUROPE? merits its title: it think feel stirrings, long dor- his comments are dated. For example, , , is unique in covering almost mant, evoked by the author s the hopeful signs of relaxation in the entire field - there are phrases which his life's pas- Communist control of the intellectuals even some photographic illus- sion for the sea and remark- soon disappeared amid an intensive trations of recent Western able powers of description and still continuing "socialist educa- European architecture ... If tion" campaign. Also, the economic have made it pos- ~. there is such a thing as the situation on the mainland has shown sible for him to intelligent general reader, here significant improvement since his de- form." VICE ADMI- is the book for him." - The parture. Unfortunately, the last few RAL MORTON L. New York Review of Books chapters are little more than digests DEYO of well-known academic studies. Houghton Mifflin Company, Publishers 132 THE NEW BOOKS

These two books add to the evi- break your heart if you weren't try- dence suggesting that George Ken- ing so hard not to laugh. It would be nan's recent characterization of unfair even to suggest the long ex- Chinese life-ua sort of gray, joyless plosion of excitement and accompany- impeccable hell"-is incomplete. Surely Myrdal ing emotional upheaval at the very anthropology would agree, as I do, with Lindqvist's end. The reader feels he has been for and conclusion that "the Chinese on the a little while part of one of the great mainland are having a very hard time, tragi-comic experiences of all intel- fascinating but they are working for the future, ligent growing up. The theme is co- reading they believe in the future." That, as gently suggested in the quick and Chiang Kai-shek can attest, makes all transient complexity of the Wallace the difference. Stevens poem from which the title is taken. Viking, $4.95 Mr. Cohen is profeeeor of law at the Harvard Law School and a specialist In the Sun, by Jon Godden. THEY FOUND THE in Chinese law and government. He As usual in Miss Godden's novels, BURIED CITIES spent 1963-64 in Hong Kong inter- background and climate emerge al- Robert Wauchope viewing former residents of Commun- ist China. most as characters, surely as part of Where are the anthropologists of the plot. The sun, the midday heat, the yesteryear? Men like Stephens, Morelet, Charnay, Squier, and exotic beauty of the seaside resort on Maler - who laced their excellent the Spanish coast lend as much pres- scientific reports with generous ence and pressure to the story as any adventure, a touch of emotion of the people involved. And the peo- and a dash of philosophy? Robert Wauchope, does more than be- Books in Brief ple, alas, seem to me less convincing moan the vanishing breed. He and satisfying than those in some of brings them back in this superb her other novels. There is the English anthology of writing about the by Katherine Gauss Jackson lady, heiress to a modest fortune, es- American tropics by archeologi- caped at last from family involve- cal adventurers. Coming in Oc- ments (so she thinks), who owns the tober. $7.50 Fiction villa. There is the handsome black- mailing nephew who turns up unex- RED MAN'S RELIGION Ruth Underhill The Emperor of Ice-Cream, by Brian pectedly, the pretty young girl, and A leading expert on Indian his- Moore. several interesting background fig- tory and customs, an anthropolo- Gavin Burke, seventeen-year-old, ures who never are fully realized. But gist who has lived on nearly every rebelliously agnostic son of a Catho- it is still a perfect setup for an en- Indian reservation in the United lic family in Protestant Belfast, fails thralling subterranean plot of sus- States, now contributes the first to get his School Leaving Certificate, pense. It turns out to be subterran- complete picture of the Indians' religion in North America. Her just at the beginning of World War ean, all right, and the suspense is fascinating study includes the II. It is the start of a long, often vio- there, but because the main charac- Ghost Dance and the Peyote re- lent, often very funny, utterly convin- ters in conflict are unsympathetic the ligion. Coming in November. cing struggle for self-knowledge. It is reader doesn't care much who wins. $7.50 impossible to describe the sophisti- It's one of those stories where one ;' cated magic that the author of The feels a word or two could have set it CENTURY AFTER CORTES Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne uses all straight. But of course Miss God- Fernando Ben{tez to make t'his traditional seventeen- den didn't want it set straight too Everybody knows how Cortes and year-old journey of sensual and emo- soon. Knopf, $4.95 his 500 soldiers conquered Mex- ico. Few know, however, what tional discovery quite unlike any happened after the Conquest, other. Some of Gavin's problems are Absent Without Leave, by Heinrich when the conquerors became indicated above. There are others: Boll. the first generation of Mexicans his frustrated sex life, his love of Here, by the author of that post- with a distinct personality of poetry, his love-hate relationship World Wal" II classic, The Clown, and their own. Fernando Benitez' brilliant study of this blood wed- with his family, his odd new friends the story "Like a Bad Dream" in this ding of cultures describes the in the dreary ARP (Air Raid Pre- issue of Harper's, are two novellas. birth of a nation and the events cautions), which he joins partly to The title story he treats in a most which determined Mexican and defy his family (it means wearing a elaborate but effective way, relating even hemispheric history for the British uniform), partly to earn with the invited help of the- reader, next two hundred years. Coming in November. $7.50 money, partly to meet people who all scenes and characters to pictures know about other worlds. He does in- in a child's coloring book. It is a dis- THE UNIVERSITY OF' deed find his way into other worlds, tracting device at first but cumula- CHICAGO PRESS not without anguish, but he remains tively gives sharp outline to every- Chicago and London himself through it all, as fallible as thing involved in this complicated In Canada: The University of Toronto Press he is endearing, and some of his so- story of a rebellious German soldier liloquies of self-examination would who wants more than anything to