and Reading Writing j Crime and Books In Review MysteryzM M Jack Schaefer, Tenderfoot Western Author, By Miriam Ottenberg ,had some more subtle value. This one lacks the sustained horror A Shot of Murder. By Jack lams. Miss a Is Riding Herd on His Farm at Leesburg (William Morrow & Co.; $2.50.) of Hughes’ best, but it’s Budd Writes a Memorable : full of Schulberg Kidnaping, casual mayhem skillfully plotted yarn, A tenderfoot writer of westerns, who has never been west of the across-the-border local color and and mysterious drugs are all Novel in Tribute to a Fallen Idol Mississippi, is happily settled on a farm near Leesburg, occasionally characters who refuse to m tossed into this cloak-and-dagger stay riding herd on his 35 head of Angus beef cattle. character. THE DISENCHANTED affair behind the iron curtain. | He is Jack Schaefer, author of “Shane” and proprietor of Budd (Random Our hero. City Editor Rockwell, By Schulberg. House; $3.50.) Shaneway, a 117-acre place which he purchased with the proceeds wants a free honeymoon and, to of the movie sale of his first novel. Alan Ladd will star. GEORGE FRIEND’S Reviewed by Mary McGrory get it, takes on the impossible job It was the second time that Hollywood took a hand in Mr. of locating a American Budd Schulberg's third book is his flaming youth. Schulberg ocnaexex s xxxe. xiaxive ox vjinu missing BOOK STORE those as as girl somewhere in Poland. Society a terrible and wonderful novel makes days glamorous and graduate of Oberlin, he went the book. In into the delving a about a writer seemed to Halliday. The Editor Pickett, pet lams charac- SET OF CHILDCRAFT the last days of they to Columbia for his master’s de- congressional past, Mr. Crane has center of the flame, of course, was ter, pops up periodically to save who is unmistakably F. Scott gree, with the idea of becoming an also rummaged through the flies 1949, LIKE NEW, Jere the mad Rockwell from sudden death. For $35 Fitzgerald. It is like a funeral Wilder, young Engilsh professor. But when he of the Archives and the Library of who was Halliday’s fate the rest, embassy officials act OF oration in the style of Brutus. beauty proposed to write his thesis on the Congress for old prints, early pho- SET in the truest sense of the word. harassed, a French actress tempts Fitzgerald's epitaph are his own development of motion pictures, tographs and caricatures. ENCYCLOPEDIA Their marriage was “a long and a Polish general grunts with enduring novels, of which he was 10-year the faculty board laughed at the All that is needed now to com- date.” ‘‘The trouble with both of and Mr. Schaefer menace. It all adds up to a neat BRITTANICA, JR., both hero and author, rounded suggestion, plete the volume are photographs them,” tells Stearns, blend of humor and hairbreadth out by “The Crack-Up,” a re- Halliday “Congratulations on the liberation of North China” reads walked out of the academic life of the newly reconditioned House 1941 ED., $35 “was that was escapes. markable confessional document, they thought youth on this in a huff. blue- the inscription Chinese Communist truck triumphantly and Senate chambers and * * * * a career, instead of a prepara- Books bought, sold and which describes the dregs of his entering Peking. From “Peking Diary,” by Derk Bodde. “I might never have gone into prints for further alterations. tion." Their dizzy progress fol- In the Best Families. By Rex youthful success. What Schulberg newspaper work if it hand’t been Mr. Crane is the author of pic- Exchanged lowed the of the Stout. {Viking Press: $2.50.) has rendered is the tribute and upward path for that,” says Mr. Schaefer, who torial histories of the United We specialize in Science-Fiction and stock-market. Their world crashed Nero Wolfe, a man of seden- judgment of a younger genera- obviously now thinks it was all for States Naval Academy and West Fantasy and have a(l other kinds. in and neither one of Prof. Bodde Presents a tary habits, not only leaves his tion—one bred on the sterner 1929, too, Day-by-Day the best. An alumnus of a New Point. them had the stiength nor the ma- house this time. He actually dis- 922 9th St N.W. NA. 9402 stuff of Freud. Marx and the de- Haven paper and the Baltimore His history of the Marines, “175 turity to pick up the pieces. The of the Revolution in China war asso- appears. Reason: The shadowy OPEN EVENINGS pression—which deplored the jazz Report Sun, he was during the Years With the Marine Corps” hectic idyll crumbled on psychi- DIARY: A Year editor of the Norfolk Vir- underworld character of two age and all its works, while daz- PEKING of Revolution ciate will be published on November 10. atric couches and expensive sani- where he the earlier cases finally takes stage zled the brilliance of Fitzgerald, By Derk Bodde. (Schuman; $3.75.) ginian Pilot, got which no mere coincidence, is by by center to ; tariums, and Manley limped off to habit of getting away from the threaten the great man. Its idol, spokesman and captive. Reviewed Belmont Fories the 175th anniversary of the Hollywood, his last, worst hope. by cares of the fiction Naturally, Wolfe—with Archie Half of “The Disenchanted,” day by writing Marine Corps. Dr. Bodde, a University of rule was disintegrating. He saw between 12 and 2. Goodwin in the middle—comes the flashbacks in which Manley Victim of His Own Success. every night * * * * went to the take the out the as Pennsylvania professor, Communists over “Shane” was first published in winner, but at what a Halliday (as Schulberg calls his Schulberg presents Halliday Falls Church now to translate a of ancient and set the The Library, sacrifice! As as a tragic hero, a darling of the Peking history capital up three installments in the Western afterthought. hero) recalls his glittering hey- ensconced in its new quarters, Chinese philosophy. But it is ob- government that was soon to con- Wolfe solves a murder but his day. sounds as though it might gods blessed with every gift save magazine "Argosy.” vious from the of trol all China. The will initiate a “Great Books” dis- method of responsibility, a victim of his own pages “Peking changes they j About that time, he pulled up coping with his all- have been written by Fitzgerald cussion beginning November 2 at a of his Diary” that he found Chinese made and the rapid conversion of stakes in Norfolk and went to New powerful enemy is much trickier. himself. The other half is Schul- 'success, casualty times, 7:45 The will be lim- people of all classes, their way of mpst of Peking's population York. at his p.m. group * * * * in who knew better than any one else toj Later, agent’s sug- berg speaking, describing piti- ited to 25 persons. People wish- The Kid. what was with him. Hal- life and their ideas on politics. at; their views convinced him that gestion, Mr. Schaefer expanded it Candy By Dorothy B. less, painful detail the disinte- wrong to should least as as his schol- are to be in ing participate register Sloan liday, bibulously musing on his interesting they likely firmly | slightly for book publication, Hughes. (Duell, & gration of a has-been who feels now at the library. own disintegration^says of Ameri- arly task. the saddle in China for a long i whereupon the movies began a Pearce, Inc.; $2.50.) like an interloper in the '30s; com- —MARY McGRORY. can writers like himself: “Success When he arrived Kuomintang time. spirited bidding for the rights. A Santa Fe cavalier, mistaken pletely unreconciled to a world I--1 isolates them. for a bum a from which folly and inspiration uproots them, Not a Gun-Toting Hero. I by beautiful blond, a book is a a leaf to run an for and gayety seemed to have fled. ‘Europe, book, of “Shane,” as the author explains i agrees errand her. literature. America, a book’s a Letters Reveal Ezra Pound's Influence a New Books He thinks it would be The framework is a disastrous it. “is not about gun-toting hero I | amusing. Instead, he gets involved in a week end which sees Halliday commodity.” who saves the ranch by killing the FICTION. ; Besides such excellent shop- In Behalf of He Led to Fame It's the of an old packet of international intrigue, dragged back East from a shaky 'Pupils' right guy. story BICYCLE THIEVES. By Luigi Bartolinl. Hollywood retirement in the train talk, Schulberg works in a whole THE LETTERS OF EZRA POUND: 1907 TO 194T cowboy and what he did for a MacMillan. A tale of the wretched Rome centering on a package that of after the war. The novel that in- of of an rogue’s gallery of Hollywood per- little boy.” the film "The Bicycle Thief." smells perfume but apparently all-conquering producer, Edited by D. D. Paige, with a preface by Mark van Doren. (Har- spired who is to i sonalities, ticking off the carnivor- It has not had a sensational $2.50. giving genius a chance Brace & ;ous producer and his court, Co.; $5.) Mr. “it’s SHF. BODE A YELLOW STALLION. By recoup his losses by writing a boot-licking sale, but. says Schaefer, Warren Reed Bobbs-Merrill. A love aides. a lot of letters story set in Wisconsin of 1846. $3.00. campus musical. Reviewed by Edwin Tribble brought in from Oh, yes, Mr. Schulberg knows authentic Westerners and old NO SURVIVORS. By Will Henry. Random The Toboggan Slide. James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Harriet Monroe, whose Poetry House. A historical novel of Indian what he is Even those who ladies, who thanked me for fighting at the time of the Custer Mas- doing.. are only t,wo modern writers who magazine published Pound and writing From the moment when Shep wonder at the propriety of his a book about a man they could sacre. $2.76. acknowledged their debt to Ezra his disciples. The editor of these HAPPY ISLAND. By Darwin Tellhet. Steams, his admiring, ultimately Brutus to THE playing Fitzgerald’s Pound. It is generally known that letters admits they "are anything admire.” Sloane. Romance and adventure in collaborator Hawaii. despairing young I Caesar will marvel at his skill, Right now, “to please Louise,” $3. he inspired and encouraged many but normal” in spelling and punc- Lil- offers him a sip of champagne on his piercing insight, the and Mrs. he CITY BEYOND DEVIL’S GATE. By glint Robert Frost. Ford Madox tuation. That is the understate- the present Schaefer, is lian Janet. Random House. Love and the to others, plane, Halliday begins fall, grace of his style and “The Dis- writing a novel about a woman, adventure against the stormy back- “Timed to Ford, William Carlos Williams ment of the year. They are sprawl- ground of Virginia City and "the rich- rivet your attention for and soon he is on a toboggan slide enchanted” will be greedily read “who thinks too much and talks and numerous lesser figures. Un- ing. ungrammatical, frequently est hill on earth." $2.75. more than 300 of destruction. and discussed. It should be. pages of action.” hotly der his he all but thrust too much.” It has a Loudoun HAVEN'S END. Bv John P. Marquand. guidance incoherent and almost completely Little. Brown Co. The chronicle of Besotted and ailing. Halliday It is the most memorable novel He has sold a —N. Y. Herald Tribune greatness upon those whose work devoid of any clear-cut personal- County setting. just a New England town and of a family warns himself on the memories of has yet come along in 1950. Western short story to the Satur- which for generations has furnished he admired. ality of their own. In later years gossip for the townsfolk. $3.50. day Evening Post and will soon But the extent of Pound’s ac- Pound affected a pseudo-Artemus MESQIITEER MAVERICKS. By William embark on another Western novel. Colt MacDonald. Doubleday. A West- tivities in behalf of his Ward which is at "pupils” style strangely ern. $2.50. Herbert Makes an Will Mr. Schaefer, an eager Asbury Important has not been fully apparent until variance with the chiseled perfec-1 FOUR AND TWENTY BEDS Bv Nancy scholar of the old West, who dis- Vogel. Beechurst. The experiences of Run, Mongoose the publication of these letters. tion of the writing he demanded Contribution to Prohibition likes the phoney atmosphere of a husband and wife who purchased a History He speaks of himself as conduct- of others. “Tenny rate,” he wrote, resort hotel in the California Desert. current Western ever fol- $2.75. BURKE THE GREAT ILLUSION ing a "literary kindergarten for “whooz down-hearted?” movies, by WILKINSON low Horace advice? the His letters are Greeley’s NON-FICTION. Author PROCEED AT WILL By Herbert Asbury. (Doubleday; $4.) aspiring.” But the strangest thing is that of concerned almost exclusively with “Never,” he says, “it would spoil CONTRARY COUNTRY. By Ralph Nading this whip-master of the Left Bank everything.” Hill. Rinehart. A Chronicle of Ver- author Wilkinson writes Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones his efforts to get young writers mont. $3.75. Washington swiftly-paced pixies of the ’20s was so grim * * * * published. It is perhaps the most HOME ENTERTAINING. By Charlotte adventure-espionage romance of wild Jamaica that Mr. Asbury, who wrote "The responsible for prohibition than about everything. He seems to Adams. Crown. A thousand entertain- convincing tribute to his genius Still hot on the trail of monopo- the fill Barbary Coast” and in other books all the of the Anti- have had no fun at all. The ing helps. $3.95. j! “strengthens impression (he) might the niche propaganda per-! lies is James Stewart that he went through several Martin, WINES OF THE WORLD. By Peter Valaer. left vacant Buchan.” excavated other entertaining Saloon League and the WCTU. sonal escapades that made life, of winemak- by John generations of young writers and author of that unsparing, first- Abelard Press. The story areas of Americana, has written * * * * exciting for Margaret Anderson1 ing. $6.50. —Lee Grove, Post each succeeding generation con- person account of the failure of Washington he calls an informal and Ford Madox Ford and THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN BUSINESS. what history Robert Eugene Robert Kmzer and Edward Sagarin. Payne Writes sidered him one of them. our decartelization program, “All By At all bookstores • $3.00 of prohibition. It is a more im- Jolas and other literary expatriate Greenberg. $2.50. Filled With Advice. Honorable Men.” portant contribution to recent his- Another Novel middlemen in Europe in the post- TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO TALK. By Outstanding These collected letters are al- The former chief of the Decar- C. Van Riper Harper. $2. World War I renascence BROWN & COMPANY • tory than the title or subtitle THE YOUNG escaped Bv Frank C LITTLE, BOSTO> EMPEROR most entirely devoid of telization Branch of Military Gov- A RAM IN THE THICKET. _ anything He's over Robertson. An autobiography. $3. might indicate. By Robert Joyce. busy worrying ernment in is holed Payne. (Macmillan; about Pound's personal life. They Germany, up J. While “The Great Illusion” is usury and how uncouth America TEEN. By Charles E. Leahy, S. Bruce $3.50.) are filled with advice — often in a study room at the Library of A book for parents, $2. in Mr. usual is. He could hardly have had a Asbury’s engaging Young Mr. Payne is the most highly technical—to poets whose Congress, where he is tracking ONE .MOMENT PLEASE! By James Kel- never or worse time if he had stayed at ler. Doubleday. One of the Christopher style, stuffy indignant, gifted, versatile and prolific writer work he was interested in. He down, via the financial pages of Daily Guides to Better Living. $2. it is documented and home. carefully to come out of England in recent had numerous projects going to the newspapers, how much big THE FRASER. By Bruce Hutchison. Rine- with judicial fairness. Of his own main- hart. One of the Rivers of America presented years. Like so many Englishmen, finance them. One grandiose work—poetry, business has infiltrated into the Series. $4. Our experiment in prohibition has little to he has traveled scheme involved collecting pay- ly—Pound say. Some, development of backward areas of A PLAN FOR PEACE. By Grenville Clark still is recent enough to be pretty and has ments of his poems are fairly well estab- the world. Harper. A book oflertng hope for the widely from dozens of people to future. $1. well remembered. And since lished in all standard yet a special affec- subsidize Eliot so that the author anthologies Mr. Stewart was at one time THE AMERICAN JEW. By Ludwig Lewi- repeal a generation has grown up tion for and of “The Waste Land” could give but he gives little hint here about general counsel and treasui er of i aohn. Farrar. Straus & Co. $2.50. THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. depending on reading and hearsay i n his in a their origin or the literary ideals St. understand g up job London bank and John's, the “great books” col- By E. Lipson. Henry Holt & Co. A for its appraisal of those turbu- of the East. devote himself to he himself pursues. And what lege. Short English History. $5. writing. Richard Head- lent 14 The amount writ- is will confuse. "The * * * * THE LIVING YEAR. By years. His novels and There are Innumerable letters there only strom. Washburn. Naturalist explores ten on the subject would fill ware- nonfiction books w'hole art” (poetry), he wrote Iris; the world outside your door. $3. houses. In fact, Mr. ex- "is divided Into con- in SELECTED WRITINGS OF ST. TERESA Asbury have been Barry, Congress Pictures, OF AVILA. By Right Rev. William plains that he intended to pub- equally e f f e c- John Eskine's Plea cision or style or saying what you Non-Partisan Doheny. Bruce. $5. lish in connection with his book tive. “The Re- mean in the fewest and clearest Strictly THOMAS MORE. By Christopher Hollis. An Bruce. Biography. $3. a of tem- words.” Could that he the author absolutely non-political, complete bibliography volt of Asia” at- For American Music PLANNING THE OLDER YEARS. Edited non-controversial book Con- perance and prohibition litera- tracted wide MY LIFE IN of the utterly unintelligible "Can- about by Wilma Donahue and Clark Tlbbltts. MUSIC University of Michigan Press. A pro- but found a mere tos” gress is billed for spring. The ture, listing attention s e v- 3y John Erskine. speaking? gram in gerontology. $2.50. (Morrow; $3.50.) author of “The United States would require another book. In eral years ago. Since the editor of these let- Cap- THE VATICAN AND ITS ROLE IN WORLD In this third book in the auto- itol,” John M. Crane, advises that AFFAIRS. Bv Charles Pichon. Dutton. diving into this vast accumulation, Recently he ters has stopped them at 1941, $4.50. biographical series which he is his he had the formidable difficulty Pajn*- to discern much pictorial history is strictly THE WAGE ADJUSTMENT BOARD. By published Robr.rt Dr. it is not possible writing. Erskine reveals how non-partisan, despite a foreword John T. Dunlop and Arthur D. Hill. of separating truth from what is “Zero,” an explanation of total!-, of the muddled political and Harvard University Press. Wartime strongly he has exerted his in- by Vice President and an euphemistically called propaganda. tarianism in terms of nihilism, a economic thinking that led to Barkley stabilization in the Building and Con- fluence for American composers struction Industry. $3.5n. lied a introduction by Speaker of the He explains: "The drys to book that was something of and Pound's Fascist political activi- WHERE WF. ARE AT. By Thomas H musicians and for native House Barber. Scribners. An examination of make look good: the and a book about Mao his ultimate Rayburn. prohibition sensation, opera. This influence has been ties and downfall. the ills that threaten our free way of Mr. Crane has been working on! life—‘.heir basic causes—and what can wets lied to make it look bad: the Tse-tung, the Red ruler of China. The historian of this! considerable when his years as literary the project intermittently for the be done about them. $3. Government officials lied to make Mr. Payne seems to think of use to OUR PENNSYLVANIA. By Amy Oakley. president of the Juilliard School period may find much 10 look and to out or past years—with time out dur- Bobbs. Merrill. Keys to the Keystone themselves good nothing of turning two of Music State 50 and a director of the him in these turgid, styleless,; the war $4 ing for Armed Forces bi- PRINTING* TYPES AND HOW TO USE frighten Congress into giving three books a year. The strange he won t Metropolitan Opera and as lec- mirthless letters but, ographies of wartime leaders—and THEM. By Stanley Hlasta. Rutgers them more money to spend; and part of it is that they never ap- turer and to divert University Press. $7.50. pianist across the coun- find much h‘im. has the the lied force to have been thrown enjoyed complete co-oper- THE PROSPECT BEFORE US. By John politicians through pear together try are recalled. The sit- Dos Passos. Mifflin. A grass- present ation of Architect of the Capitol Houghton. of habit.” i hastily, but are organized and uation at the he roots examination of postwar life in Metropolitan, David Lynn, whose office has pro- the Western world. $3.75. written with a care that Makes Order and Sense. might writes, “is, to say the con- WEEDS. By Joseph A. Cocannour. Devin- least, An vided many of the 800 pictures in Adair. For gardeners. $2.76. Mr. Asbury has done extremely suggest two or three years of fused.” And he makes It clear Unpleasant Story well In his attempt to make order work. Not since he brought out that he had nothing to do with About and sense out of this welter of “David and Anna,” a love story, bringing Rudolph Bing from Eng- Mercy Killing of Malaya, three years ago has he land as THE BARRIER -- contradictions. At least there manager, but attributes Cross-Word Puzzle ^r"" ——-—-:--——- was a lot of factual material produced anything as poetic as this entirely to a subsidiary wom- Les Tina. (Rine- By Dorothy HORIZONTAL. Yesterday’s Answer. which could hardly be disputed. j “The Young Emperor,” a novel of en’s group, the Metropolitan Op- sheep hart; $2.75.) | 11 Biblical The story of the speakeasies, India in the 17th century. era Guild, and to Mrs. August 1 Compendium Harriet, a lonely spinster, lived rum-running, underworld organi- The new story is as lovely in Belmont in particular. 7 Sacramental mountain with her mother, who was gradu- 13 Noteworthy zations, gang wars and official its imagery as "David and These musical reminiscences, win used in Anna”j ally losing her mind. The mother 18 Extinct bird corruption that spread over the was, and it is a better novel, be- bringing in such notable figures Oriental BOSWELL S LONDON JOURNAL was becoming an increasing prob- 21 Endow country with prohibition has cause it is splashed across a as Edward MacDowell, are de- churches lem. Harriet was unwilling to 23 been told often, though Mr. As- broader canvas and there is more cidedly interesting. Though he 12 Something Conjunction send the old woman to an insti- 26 Hesitated 1762-1763 bury sums up as well as any one significance to the wealth of de- always called himself an amateur inexplicable tution. A man friend advised 27 Fish has these concomitants of the dry tail which sometimes was cloy-1 musician, whose profession was 13 Fishing boat Harriet to give her mother 29 Block of millennium. He makes a more ingly rich in the earlier book. teaching and avocation writing 14 Expert an overdose of sleeping medicine. One of the most definite contribution, it seems to “The Young Emperor” describes novels, Dr: Erskine played with 15 Circular rock salt exciting some of the best orchestras The daughter was indignant, but 31 With wheel, me, by tracing the history of the transplanting of an English and ornament our time she gradually got used to the idea publishing enterprises of drinking habits and the temper- youth from Devonshire to the gave many recitals. Failing used in an amuse- health and finally decided it was the ance movement back to the begin- court of Prince Shah Jehan in the finally forced him to give bas-relief ment device his merciful thing to do. What hap- First nings of the Republic. There is fabulous Hindustan of that day. up piano, but he kept on 16 Cover I_ 32 Feminine published from the The pened was unexpected—it forms material here which has hardly Stephen Taverner lost all con- writing. first volume of his 17 Disabled 39 Jewel VERTICAL. name original manuscript. Bos- tact life story, “The Memory of Cer- the climax of this novel. There 33 been touched. The most intem- with his own country and 19 Turkish title 40 Cat (LJ 1 Distributes Specimen well, author of "The Life became tain Persons,” dealing with his is the moral question of whether 34 Candlenut perate period, Mr. Asbury con- part of the court and 20 Assuage 2 Aborigine of Samual also childhood and the one has the right to 42 Hindu deity Johnson," cludes, was the last half of the army of the handsome Prince, influences of any play 22 Tuber 3 Surround tree his life, was followed a God. to of life or wrote his own biography 18th century. In those days em- who was in revolt against his by book pass judgment 24 Feminine 44 People 4 Self 36 U. S. A. describing his years as a teacher death, under any circumstance. which was never ployers were required by unwrit- father, the Emperor. Terror, ex- name 46 Mountain 5 Look with territory published of English at Amherst and Miss Les Tina’s it is true, ten rule to furnish their employ- citement and suspense mingle Co- novel, 25 Maiden name 47 Wave favor 37 Faded during his lifetime. His lumbia. The author of “The Pri- does not in the end amount to a ers with drinks and there were with entrancing descriptions in 26 Wood 49 An awn 6 Machine gun 40 Wild it and vate Life of char- family suppressed pauses in work at suitable in- the Helen of Troy,” a man defense of such an act. The story. paneling 51 Tessellated (slang) 41 Gaiters now after a and of astonishingly diverse acters here are too shallow to century tervals for alcoholic refreshment. By any discriminating standard gifts and give 28 Resort 52 Place for the 7 New Zealand 43 Armadillo interests, hopes to complete his the the elements of tragedy. a half of silence we are It may come as a shock to some of story telling and writing, “The story 30 Commotion purpose of parrot 45 Bivouac personal story with a volume on It is merely unpleasant and de- to hear from James readers to learn that Protestant Young Emperor” is an 31 Celebration traffic 8 Ceremony 48 Fleur-de-lis agoin outstand-i his career as a writer. sects which a century later took ing novel. pressing. 35 Decree 53 9 Boswell. —CARTER BROOKE JONES. —CARTER BROOKE JONES. Prophets Bloodless (Her.) a leading part in the prohibition 38 Note 54 Implores 10 Breed of 50 Wrath movement were not always averse Why it was suppressed and to liquor. Circuit riders carried jugs in their and fetar later lost for almost 200 saddlebags, such QLt)t !§>unbap c/> religious ceremonies as ordina- WEEKLY BOOK SURVEY years will be obvious to the tions were described by temperate S I of readers of the first volume clergymen the time as drunken The Sunday Star has arranged with •* ► o. £ “ *- O ... 0 O orgies. some of of the leading booksellers of X £ _ X O "Boswell's Journal." It What Brought It On. Washington and suburban areas to * £ 2t < 2 >1 < 5 is perhaps the frankest doc- °Z x$ O 0*^ Mr. Asbury hardly could be ex- report each week the books which O « u O < £ g £“ ® " “ « ument of self pected to see the 18th amendment sell best, as a guide to what Wash- O uj < g revelation any as anything but a failure which ington is reading. human ever set down. P did the country incalculable -7-0Z^— This report is for the week ending Oct. 27 |s5“<52>xo,_ a Scotsman harm. And yet he is no < ^ m u £ ic a. /> ^ J Imogine 22-/fear-old traveling to London in 1762, fascinated apologist for the liquor traffic, """ FICTION by the great city, the cockfights, the women, the guard at St. James Refusing to view the oldtime sa- •"iii ! i r "Across the River ond Into the Ernest Public loon in a mellow, nostalgic light, Trees," Hemingwoy ★ I*!*!*! *1*1* *1 8 Palace, executions, etc. "The he says that as ah institution it Adventurer," Miko Woltori I* I* 1* 1*1_* I I * I 6 It is a book will read and re-read. was "a blight and a public 'Bennett's Welcome," Inglis Fletcher * you il*J I 1 * * I I *15 * stench.” It “encouraged drunk- "The Cordinol," Henry M. Robinson ★ 1*1 1*1i I *14 enness. ... It ignored the law. It Prepublication price On and after November "Heleno," Evelyn Wough I I 1*1 I_*1*1* I 4 $1/1,50 corrupted the police, the courts thru November 8th _ 9th. Price. "The Spanish Gardener," A. J. Cronin '-Jy ~ 1*1 I I 1*1 *! and the politicians. It was a I_*14 Plus 9c Sales Tax Plus 10c Sales Tax breeding place of crime and vio- NON-FICTION_ I I I I I II I lence, and the hangout of crim- "Look Younger, Live Longer," Goyelord Houser 1*1 1*1*1 I* *1*1 *1 7 inals and degenerates of every 'The Mon of Independence," Jonothon Doniels i*l*l*l I I 1*1*1 15 type." "The Trumon Merry-Go-Round," Robt. S. Allen and Win. V. Shonnon 1*1*1 I 1*1 I 1*1*15" Wm. & Sons He considers the saloon and Ballantyne the "Presidents Who Hove Known Me," George E. Allen l*l*l*i I I *1 I 1*15 freed of the liquor industry, espe- "A Generation on Triol," Alistoir Cooke I 15 1421 F Street N.W. RE. 3646 cially the brewers, with their mul- j 1*1 l*l*l*l 1*1 "Kon-Tiki," Thor Heyerdahl tiple ownership of saloons, more I I 1*1*1* I 1*‘*I5