Idwal Jones Brings California History Wartime Intrigue The New Book CAIRO CONCERTO To in Written Narrative Reviewing Life Superbly By John Rogers Shuman. (Bar• VERMILION Between the two oi tnem. ramaa court Brace A Co.; $2.75.) named the Five gains By Idwal Jones. (Prentice-Hall, mine, Apostles, This is set in the half world of such stature that Pablo is inter- Inc.; $3J wartime in Cairo. Mr. viewed by President Lincoln about intrigue Romantic Story Understanding Renewed by aid to be given the Northern cause Shuman writes well and introspec- STANLEY BA2TZ. in the Civil War. tively from within his assorted Mexico Red Russia's a: there is less hardihood in the next characters. Unfortunately this Of Old tory two generations of Copes, who let very introspeetiveness clouds and the i too many distractions interfere with a State of Mind min* their attention to the mine. There confuses his story telling. It is Is Lively One Cop* is Roger, whose weakness is women, easier to tell what his characters lishu who wastes PAQUITA STALIN MUST'HAVE PEACE and Roger’s sons, Val, think than why they think it arist money on horses, and Esmey, whose Snow. (Random —J. C. H. By Robert Raynolds. (Putnam; By Edgar House, I ami interest is fanning, not mining. The 259S3S2SE55S553S555SK595555555553555553HB3P s ». $3.) $2.50.) prov: strong one is a cousin from China, i i,v jwwwwh*mm>i ww i Reviewed by Reviewed by Pa beautiful, red-haired Pauls, nick- CARTER BROOKE JONES. GARNETT D. HORNER. detei named Miss Vermilion. To understand why Russia act! inhe “Paquita” is by way of being a In the early part of the book there the way she does, it is necessary tc redd: is action and movement and the comedy of morals and manners tm cohmMa u jr.w. as. mi try to learn something about the from early characters are delineated with about the Mexico of the early 19th Russian state of mind—to try to see Witt force and sharpness. However, the A Treaters Meets Of with its century. It is, hearty Russians as they see themselves and ingc story falls away sharply in the sec- a with his he was Books for Booklovers measure of humor, something of ourselves as they see us. This book Woodrow Wilson shown family fust after leant ond generation and from then on satire on Mexican society of the is designed to help Americans dc elected President. The first Mrs. Wilson is seated beside him, nia, there is not much to tie the narra- times; certainly it’s far from a that. and his three daughters are standing. They are, from'the to < tive together except for the author’s conventional historical novel. Edgar Snow is a distinguished left, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Jessie Woodrow Wilson (Mrs. Engji excellent prose and sometimes beau- correspondent who has spent con- abo tiful That, his keen This is not to say that the story Francis Sayre of Boston) and Eleanor Wilson (Mrs. William imagery. plus Eddie Cabtor siderable time in Russia. He in- To 1 of the technical Is without intrigue and excitement Illustration by Frederick E. Gibbs McAdoo). —Underwood A Underwood. knowledge aspects dulges in some highly provocative he x of quicksilver mining. those ingredients which are sup- Banberry from ‘‘There’s a satire in presenting the Russian the iaiiiCT The writing is superb, but the pace Praises to be as to histori- Spot in My Heart.” posed necessary \ point of view. Princeton Professor Pictures cury mil falters after the first third of the cal romance as sugar and flour are Mr. Snow reminds us that Rus- History Talavera, book. to a cake. ‘Paquita” has, more- sian thinking is colored by the tre- where he _ Best-Seller Wilson as Political Accident Frank A. over, a serious undertone, in its Frank Leslie Pens mendous price paid for victory in Woodrow and persu BUNA RUBBER. By (D. Van Nostrand Co.; Hollywood glimpses of the oppressions inflict- the war. “More Russians were killed WILSON—THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE half mad Howard. in the Stalingrad campaign alone,” $3.75.) The story of the birth and (Special) — Eddie ed on the natives, with their mix- A Arthur S. Link. (Princeton University Press; $5.) ins geniu Highly Amusing he writes, “than ah Americans By Mendoza, development of the synthetic rub- Cantor. Ameri- ture of bloods, by the Spanish aris- lines and buried by the war.” “The Red Army Reviewed by vention—held their pre- in Califor 'ber industry. ca's beloved com- The narrative traces the Novel' tocracy. 'Nostalgic suffered heavier casualties at Khar- JOSEPH A. POX. vented a landslide for Clark. of the revolution which edian, stopped beginnings THERE’S A SPOT IN MY HEART a battle most Americans never Turning to the election, which kov, Embarking on what he describes! reduction on was to be successful in a matter found the ranks heard of, than we lost in the entire a new of Woodrow Wilspn,1 Republican split By Prank Leslie. (Simon & jas study Kis new of years. war against Japan.” If the positions of the by the bolt of Theodore Roosevelt,! picture. Schuster; $2.75.) j Mr. Link, a member history You Knew were reversed, he asks, "how Mr. Link expresses the view thati If Author’s in Cheek. I many ;department of Princeton University,! Tongue The subtitle of this book sets its this situation also would have per- Susie, to tell his of us would then be worrying about presents the first volume of a pro- But I that the author theme and — whether the were mitted the election of Clark. Had cast about THE suspect tempo "a nostalgic Germans being jected series on the life and times in the a told how to or an avowed conservative been named of “Brothers West,” Harper i novel.” It is, you might even guess vote,” “whether the the 27th President of the United MIRACLE OF jof the Democrats he be- novel of a few years ago. Austrians (700,000 volunteered for : by however, THE a prize from the outer a of child- States. BELLS, title, story lieves that Democratic ___ a s. Der were some progressives 11 Fuehrer! of ■ ..i mixed the romantic formula of losing i The covered has hitherto ii v n ii v * v u hood and the adults who inhabited period y their factories?” of Mr. would have joined forces with “Paquita” with tongue pressed firm- | been the least publicized Russell "It is more titan a that “there is a Roosevelt, and that a genuine Pro- Janney. He in fact, lit. Remarking just Wilson’s career, which probably is ly against cheek. does, the book," tried Mr. Cantor excitedly. There was the chance that in some things—despite bounded in the mind more gressive Party, combining at times kid with the deca- Grandfather, only public -It's show business — gusto their bad manners and liberals of both major parties, might it's entertain- the character around the house whom irritating often ihan not by the Balti-1 dent survival of chivalry and Marxist Rus- have been launched. ment—it’s Americanism —it’s the author in retrospect admires un- fundamentalism—the more convention of 1912 from which | good ceremonial flourishes of old Spain— sians even have a line for both reservedly. He was the mellow, may case,” Mr. he emerged as the head of the Dem- reading Christian and actual mo- j so different from the graying philosopher and man-about Snow urges that “we should examine ocratic Party, and his losing fight Jew. I defy you to read THE MIR- all j tives and deeds of emigrant Span- town of the Monahan clan around their arguments and expose their for the League of Nations. Mr.! ACLE OF THE BELLS and not not of HtAKV mVVUT iards. They were, beneath all that the turn of the century. But Grand- fallacies,” despairing finding Link brings into sharp focus now become a better a person.” fluff, very practical people. father, for reasons of his own, had compromise. the background against which J THE MIRACLE OF The Wil-j THE ; book gets its title from a came on national scene—' IT THE is and con- drifted away from the church, son the OViK Paquita herself lovely in which Mr. Snow reviews BELLS, recommended by Eddie though he was more hospitable to chapter first as militant president of Prince- fused enough at 17—quite an age | Russia’s economic and j Cantor, is on sale at all bookstores priests than the dteputcftious Uncle military situ- ton University and then as Gov- for a of that day—to serve as ation to conclude that she “is in- at a lady ucuiwuu ai nuib w snaoo ernor of New the $3.00 copy. naj.5 Jersey—and sharp RADIO? 8- She of a ,jitL)1)LU minmi hi Mipi mi in ii II in mi iiiiiii in i heroine for several romances. ; and always catechized visiting capable fighting major aggres- and often bitter maneuvering which a little different: Unlike most sive war against the United States, is clergy. There was Grandmother, preceded his entry into the White ii whose she •such gals, she has gleams of intel- whose closest companion and rival help needs for her own House. “recuperation.” ligence now and then, a mind that for the rights of the kitchen was .me WU5UU piciuicu uy wc auuiui the and Essentially the book is an expan- r.%J %&Pi e
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