14 THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, JULY 11, 1948 I 'CONQUEST OF MEXICO' IN CONDENSED EDITION Prescott's History Rewritten. Marshall McClintock With. Color and Drama Although the historical works by William If. Prescott of Salem re an immortal part of the American 'iterary heritage they are little read hese days even by those who might enjoy them. The reason, although not necessarily a valid one, is that PresCott's books are long and weighty by contemporary standards, and practically everybody has been in a hurry lately.
But the fad for condensations, a regrettable fashion at its best, has at last hit history books and Prescott's "The Conquest of Mexico," originally in three volumes, can now be obtalned in a 349-page edition designed for modern by Marshall McClintock (Messner; $5), with an introduction by Sylvanus Morley. In its "modern" form "The Conquest of Mexico" is mainly Mr. Clintock's conquest of the 1843 edition with its arid acres of. footnotes and philosophical marshes, although he has not tampered with Prescott's facts or conclusions and has generally striven ton produce a good rewrite sob. In this has succeeded, for the streamlined Prescott is full of color and and, the well-nigh incredible story of the Aztec empire's fall is magical enough to any pages on which it happened to fall.
Even a comic book version could not escape 2. few exalted moments. the emergence of Hernando Of chief note in the new edition! is and the Emperor Montezuma as spotlighted actors, sometimes relegating to the shadows the gigantic clash hetween civilizations in which they nad but. momentary influence. There is nothing particularily wrong with this, in fact it adds a bit of drama, but it does bring up the sobering thought of future generations reading bout the great war of.
McArthur v'S. Hirohito. R. F. H.
STUDY OF NOISES MADE BY INSECTS You can tell how hot it is by the way a cricket sings, says Prof. George W. Pierce of Harvard University in his new book "The Songs of Insects" (Harvard University Press). Prof Pierce, who is Emeritus Profts. sor of Physics and a communication engineer and radio authority has utilized his knowledge of sound recording and the supersonic devices of his laboratory to record the noises made by that myriad of insects which fill the summer evenings Avith scrapar-ings.
fiddling, and whirring of wings. Crickets, katydids, cicadas and even birds and bats have drawn his tione To the temperature from a cricket's sound, however, calls for 3 trained ear. the author says. Some of them sing so fast the human ear can't count their 15 of 20 chirps per second. With his equipment he can, and his book provides the mathematical to use.
The the cricket fiddles, the hotter it is, but he won's chirp at all if it is less than 60 degrees. 'or above 100. says Dr. Pierce. China Childhood "Moongate- common architectural design in walls.
A circular opening for pedestrians." "Through the Moongate." (Dorrance: $1.50) by Horace Ernst Hamilton takes the "pedestrian" on fascinating jaunts into the Chinese countryside. The memory of a boy raised in this foreign country takes him, and us, back to a Chinese foster home in the old northern, province of Hopei. The people and places that come to life in disarmingly simple lyrics convincingly Chinese. The fine pen and ink drawings by Kitch and John Shields' are an aid to one's imagination. L.
A. Paul Claudel's "'The Poetic Art" will be published by the Philosophical Library of Newa York September 15. Recent Fiction Wartime Middle East In Geoffrey Household's "Arabesque" (Atlantic- Little, Brown; the is taken into little known world, of wartime Middle East land introduced to a polyglot ment of men and women, military and civilian, who were isolated after the fall France. It is both a novEl of intrigue, and a love story. written with distinction and with an intimate understanding by a man who has a real gift for storytelling.
Those who read Mr. Household's first novel, "The 'Third Hour," or the subsequent and absorbing "Rogue Male' which became the motion picture "Man Hunt," will know what to arpect. F. M. "Tho Chocolate Cobweb" For icy suspense that will bring a chill to the hottest summer day your attention is called to "The Chocolate Cobweb" (Coward-McCann; $2.50) by Charlotte Armstrong.
There is no mystery here. The murder has been committed and the murder known. That which keeps you turning page after page whether there will be a second murder, with the victim one of young people who are trying to clear up the initial homicide. This is a pertitly slick story, one of the better of the season ta this field. D.
T. Mr. HAHAH Samuel Chamberlain captures a rural charm that is distinctly SIX NEW ENGLAND VILLAGES A told new, through original rich and inviting photographs story of of a favorite America village from each of our six New England these towns are surprising you will marvel states. The fascinating and varied histories of Hastings at their architectural grace and sophistication. House The book is printed in luminous sheet-fed gravure, which brings out the detail yet PUBLISHERS fectly expresses the towns' atmosphere of se- New York 22 rene repose.
Over 170 photographs $3.50 at all bookstores OLD'FISHHOUSES IN N. E. COASTAL VILLAGE On Daily Problems In 'How to Live Your Faith' Practical Application of Christianity Offered by New Jersey Pastor; 'The Harp of 'The Creative Light," (Jesus, Jews and Gentiles' Reviewed "How Live Your Faith" (Revell; an increasing number of books being $2) by COM Ernest Thomas is one of on the practical application of Christianity to daily problems--in the line of Peale, Day, Carnegie, Llebman, and in some measure, Fosdick. It assumes the validity of "Christianity's doctrines and suggests techniques for using them along this world's harsh way--how to know God, how to pray, how to be happy, how to face death, through 16 Trend Swinging Back recent survey of American preaching, however, seems to indicate that present trend is swinging back toward a reexamination of the nature of the traditional Christian tenets with agatronger emphasis on the word "why," than "how" we believe in God," for example, rather than "how to believe in God." Nevertheless, practical book on religious techniques like this one has 3 wide appeal and it speaks to needs. Yet It needs to be undergirded by books which plumb' deeper.
A proassurance of reality of a personal God makes lessons on how to appropriate Him needless. Dr. Thomas is pastor of a large New Jerseys Methodist church, and his frequent illustrations are drawn largely from actual parish experiences. "The Harp of David (Taebar; $2.50) by Nettie Sletten is a deeply devocommentary. on scriptural for Christ as the full revelation of God.
Odds and ends of strange tales, such as the discovery of the original Ark by Russians just fore the Revolution, and the visitation of an angel to George, Washington, enliven the text. The Interpretation is entirely literal and fundamentalistic. Its value is in its sincerety rather than literary quality or scholarship. Miss Sletten, is of Norwegian descent, and to devotional writing as a result of Juries overcome through faith. An Authentic Mystic The author of "The Creative Light" (McKay; Wesley La Violette, is a distinguished musician and composer tho has recently been earning another excellent reputation AS a philosopher.
The thesis of the a book is that every human being is, potentially creative and recognition of this and the use of one's creative light is the key to happiness. If, however, through lack of awareness, tails to fulfill his spiritual destiny here, he has all eternity before him and sometime, somewhere. he must ill. Mr. La Violette is an authentic mystic, and with beauty and power.
Though sont? will disagree with the enormous optimism of his ideas, all will he intellectually ulated by contact (with them. and drawn. by the grace and charm of both his gryle and his thought. "Jesus. Jews and Gentiles" (Arco; $3) by Benjamin Danniel is an Attack on Christianity, written and published by Jews, condemning the Christian church as the breeding ground of anti-Semitism, the murderer, of millions of Jews.
It have been written. Once written, it should never have been accepted by a reputable publisher. CHILD Mr. Danniel has gone directly to the New Testament to build his case, without any recourse to the abundant scholarship available. His case will be a source of grave embarrassment to the leaders of chis race and faith and to all intelligent Jews.
(Rev.) H. HUGHES WAGNER Saint Margaret "Saint Margaret of Cortopa" (Philosophical Library; $3) by Francois Mauriac is not so much a biography in the physical sence of its vine's life as it is a spiritual study of the development of her soul. It fAllows more or less the surface pattern of the "Confessions of St. Augustine" except that Mauriac's book is, of course. told by the author dot the saint herself.
It hasn't tife depth, sincerity and significance of the great confessions, but it is, like St. Augustine's work. a revelation of the progressive development in the completely depraved soul toward transformation. This book deals only slightly with the details of Margaret's life, giving just enough data establish her backround for the reader. This backgroung then serves as a foundation upon which is built a dissertation on asceticism and mysticism.
JEAN W. BOG.IN BOOK BINDING Preserve your old valuable books, bibles and periodicals. Have them Rebound, the attractive way, by HUNTING'S BOOK SHOP 100 Chestnut Spfld. 5, Mass. 'ADULTS' COMPANION' ANTHOLOGY OF LAUGHS Tiffany Thayer's Collection of Heady Humor Chosen From the Classics Those adventurous readers who have followed Tiffany Thayer on his literary sprees are well aware of the potency of the highballs he prepares, and here comes another round in "Adults' Companion" (Lady Ann Press: $3), edited and annotated by the gleeful Mr.
Thayer, who this time is convinced. that what the world needs is a dash of sophisticated comedy-in other words some good meaty humor based on. sex. Considering the tripe passed off as humor on the radio and in the movies, Mr. Thayer is correct in thinking we could use some genuine laughs; whether or not the selections he has made bill is entirely a matter of individual taste.
At any rate the literary, bar Mr. Thayer has set up includes heady literature that has stood the test of time, has amused millions and has made other millions, mostly from the younger set, decide it was about time they graduated from love. Here are excerpts such masters of comedy as Boccaccio. Balzac, Congreve, Huysmans, Rabelais, Martial, Sterne, Cabell, Shakespeare and de Maupassant, not forgetting "The Golden Ass," "Candide" and "Lysisto wata." Also included is an incident from "The Book of Ruth," in the, lineup chiefly to provide a springboard for Thayer's witticisms. All of Mr.
Thayer's borrowings from the classics are amusin have been found so by generationsbut their inclusion in one vo'ume is of debatable value because it seems reasonable to assume that anyone acquainted with Mr. Thayer is also acquainted with his classical friends. The anthology, however, is a (lever idea, affords an opportunity for those do SO. and permits for others who have not tarted classic humor pleasant reunion with old friends. also gives would-be professional medians a object lesson that sex can he humorous and intoxicating without being raw.
R. F. H. German Fathers The authoritarianism found in German political life stems directly from autocratic position of the father the German family, according to "Dr. Bertram Schaffner, New York psychiatrist, in a book titled "Father Land" just published by Columbia Univeristy Press.
The author worked with the American military government in Germany, screening hundreds of applicats for newspaper and publishing their faith Nazi doctrines. positions, ton determine the extent of, U.S. Policy Rejected State Department Strategy Toward Russian Expansion Questioned by Walter Lippmann in 'The Cold War' PEACE MOVEMENTS IN ORIENTAL LANDS "The White Man's Peace" (Meador; $3), by No-Yong Park, is a rather disappointing book because the author has not quite succeeded in offering any new philosophical analysis of the problem of peace or in writing a genuine history of peace movements. One is inclined, while perusing this volume, to think that the author hoped to do comments both, He about makes peace interesting, orient, but even in that field his study rerely probes. There is a considerable display of learning in Dr.
Park's pages, but most of it is derived from secondary authorities and while on occasion of interest--as old half-forgotten facts from the history of the past usually are--it is in many cases of doubtful value, for a study. of this sort. Some of the statements made, even, are of questionable accuracy, as when Dr. Park writes "the first gife of the Old World to the New World was two shiploads of English convicts who were sent in 1194 to colonize the New World. It would be useful to know whence he derived this information that is.
to say the least. not cominon knowledge. Probably the real difficulty with this volume that Dr. Park has attempted to write more pages than his ideas or his facts can sustain. An abbreviated version of "'The White Man's Peace," with its main points clearly developed and its supporting data carefully screened for, superfluities, would no doubt be much more useful and at, the same time would be much easier to read.
DONALD DERBY EDGE OF OCEAN. IN 'SEA FLAVOR' Haydn S. Pearson bows to The Springfield Republican. among such other papers as the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, "for permission to use editorials, ticles and essays that have, been previously published" in hise book "Sea Flavor" (Whittlesey: This is a companion to his "Country Flavor" and contains 115 short items, most of them 8t only one page, on subjects to he found along the ocean's shore. Here are placid word pictures of salt marshes and sand duzies, of fishing villages in sheltered coves, of sea gulls, driftwood, beach grass and bayberries.
enriched by 32 photographs reproduced in sea-green tone. These are impersonal essaays, dedicated to friends on Cape Ann but timeof the essence, composed with grace and beauty. They dispense a serene philosophy. "Each year." says AIr. Pearson, "multitudes of human, beings go to the ocean and.
strength and solace for taut minds and weary bodies The flavor of the sea is mysterious And profound. It has cruel power and soft gentleness. It has called to men for 10 times $10,000 years. Anyone who has an open heart and a sensitive spirit can find in its flavor much that will add to the joy of B. B.
On July 19, Knopf will publish a revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Abrain Leon Sachar's work "A History" of the Jews.b First published in 1930, this history of 30 centuries of Judaism has become a standard book. k. Dr. Sachar is of the newly formed Brandeis University.
48 A 401 One of many illustrations in "Sea Flavor" (Whittlesey House) Wartime Science Record of OSRD's Achievements Continued in 'Rockets, Guns and Targets' and 'Chemistry' A magnificient job was accomplished during the war by a temporary the Office of Scientific Research and Development, headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush. By contracts to universities and industrial laboratories, this organization mobilized American research behind the 1m- provement of old weapons and the invention of new ones. Out of its work Came the fantastic success of rockets and radar, of proximity fuzes and incondiarina bombs were once and the manse close- other ly guarded of military secrets. Work in Secrecy The scientists worked in secrecy.
Many were young men of miitary age who "had to shrug off the derision of those who thought everybody should be in uniform, yet could not tell of inventions that were worth many regiments of infantry squadrons of aircraft. To see credit is at last apportioned where deserved, and to record the lessons learned the nations greatest concerted scienrific effort, the OSRD has sponsored an official history of its problems and achievements. It will take many volumes to relate the whole story. The sixth seventh in the series, "Science in World War II," are out now. "Rockets.
Guns and Targets," edited by John E. Burchard of Massachusetts Institute of (Atlantic cinating account Brown; of $6), some -offers of the a war's fasmost spectacular developments. Es- pecially. interesting is the story of how the neglected art of rocketry suddenly forged ahead to give the inI fantryman the bazooka, to replace heavy howitzers with light recoilless guns, and to give a small plane a punch that could destroy a railroad train. This book is well edited and, of course, completely authentic.
"Chemistry," another volume same series, edited by W. A. Noyes, Jr. (Atlantic- Little Brown; $6), deals with subject matter of at least equal importance and headline-getting quality-poison gas, smokescreens, incendiary bombs of the kind that burned down Tokyo, explosives, and the like. This book, however, is presented largely in terms of chemical formulas so that only the reader with some professional training in that field will get the full benefit of the narrative.
Chemistry, however, by now his a considerable public of its own, and this book will doubtless find its way into every one of its laboratories. HARRY M. DAVIS. The judges. of the Book-of-theMonth Club--Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman, John Marquand and Christopher Morley -have completed the reading of the manuscript of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's memoirs, to be titled "Crusade in Europe," andrare a recent meeting chose it as selection. It will be distributed to the club's members at the time of its publication. if Gen. Eisenhower decides release the book.
Walter Lippmann one of' the most able and, trurtworthy of political analysts, cannot be accused of being in any sense an immoderate, not to say a radical. It is well to keep these facts in mind, and also his share in formulation of war aims during the First World War and in the sequent peace negotiations, as we approach his latest book, "The Cold War" (Harpers; $1). Here is a man whose patriotism is above repreach and whose professional preparation for understanding and interpreting United States foreign policy is Superb-and his reaction to the present foreign policy of the U. S. is negative.
Rejects Policy This sober and arresting little book comprising of articles which appeared originally in the Herald Tribune, gives Lippmann's reasons for rejecting the present policy of the U. S. State Department. He takes as his text an anonymous article on The Sources of Soviet Conduct," which apeign. Affairs" for inuthe 1947, and was peared originally journal "Forlater revealed to be the product of director of the policy planning staff of the Department of State, George F.
Kennan, and subjects it to a thorough criticism. Kennan's general conclusion isethat there is an unavoidable conflict with Russia and that the United States can, by strengthening its own system, wear out the present Russian regime. Now Mr. Lippmann does not deny that. there is a genuine conflict of interests with Russia, but he rejects Mr.
various dogmas and fallacies. 6 the most crucial points Hr. Lippmann makes is that being to block the Russian expansion at every point puts the initiative entirely in. Russian hands; cahich he America's regards as natural bad strategy. allies the He very nations that we have been of nations, the cluding in the attention, focus of the Truman Doctrine.
The result is that the aim every European to "extricate itself from the nationals American conflict." It follows, says Mr. Lippmann, that the supreme aim of American strategy should be to get the Russian army out of the occupied countries, along with the withdrawal of all other occupyiifg forces. He believes that the German situation has been grossly misconceived by Mr. Kennan, assures that sentiment in Germany will crystallize Russia because, wt the loss of her eastern provinces. However, Russia is othe only power in position to grant Germany PUZZLES 22 11 23 12 13 15 24 16 119 20 21 25 26 any territorial concessions and many would then, in all likelihood, become a Russian ally.
EPIIRAIM FISCHOEF FIELDING'S GUIDE TO EUROPE' Temple Fielding is the author of a new Travel Guide to Europe, (Sloane; With a background of special intelligence service and an assignment of six months behind the German lines in Yugoslavia followed by extensive travel as a correspondent in Kurope since the war he is in a position to give intimate data relative to conditions in most countries of Europe. Much of experience and keen understanding of the ways of Europeans and there appeare in the Fielding guide no question but that will be of great assistance to those who travel, as well as of much interest to those who remain ate home. The author says he has pulled no punches, perhaps to the distress of certain foreign governments. He says, "You and I must be honest: black markets are black markets, prostitutes are prostitutes, dirty kitchens are dirty kitchens, racketeers are racketeers--and they are all here, just as I found them." While having special interests to serve, the writer not fail point out the desirable features in travel in Europe. JOHN CULVER Steel Mill Drama Eli Popa has set down in theater idiom day by day drama of steel' moll workers in Give Us This Day' (Exposition Press; By veiwing them as cogs.
but vital ones, in the country's greatest industry he wages to suggest as well how their feeling of personal futility is counterbalanced by an uplifting knowledge of their importance to this powerful of world existence. The mill is the control box of their lives dramatist has kept its entranceway visible throughout the play, while an inner stage takes care of other exterior, and those interior embrace a family's living quarters Mr. Popa has succeeded surprisingly well in giving mechanical giants dramatic personality and this effect, coupled with the Mesh and blood verisimiltude of his characters who are alternately torn (with desire to abandon the whole wearisome business and dogged acceptance of it, imbues action with rugged realism. A M. 6 30 31 32 33 34 J.
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DIS HEDGHTEN ACTORS EVE CANONICAL GARANDS COPA EMESA SMOTE ONS SNAOUS ALEC EXONERATEL PREMEDITATE SATAM fRRTUSNZUS STRIKE RABAT HEARI HER BERET CHOOSES PRIZES CRAVER ORA TAR SARDINE METER REPEL ROVER EZEG 'LTUUSN ABED BUN COATS NORM ARUM RETS ONCE SEW CIAN FEN NOON FAR RIG RAP FUR RE NATE GALS BARBARY FEATS BEEFY PERU TSAR STRAY MONAD Ed CRANED ROUTE PARE COLLEGE DUES PREMISES SEED RIDE RANT Last Sunday's Cryptogram REMER BE ROTES SONES TITAN OPENS PONTINE SEE PESI EVER SEBASTIAN MONTANT METE REE FANDOM LACRIMAL SEW 0 SAT SALE Elfish eel eagerly eyes CARS MARGON SPRAT EASE NOT ECRU ENDORSE DRONING OCULATE wOrm; zigzags zealously toward ersatz earth-" MUTE DENT SEAWEED CAMENTS dummy nutriment. Finis. 9 8 a Missing Widow" An Arthus Crook mystery with all the old thrills and some new ones is "The Missing Widow." (Barnes; $2) by Anthony Gilberta Why did the rich widow, Equily Watson, living quietly in Kozicot cottage on the outskirts of London, suddenly disappear as if indeed, she had melted into thin air? Did her attractice but impecunious scapegrace nephew haye anything to do with her disappearance What became of the 20,000 pounds-worth of aid the cash which she apparently took with her On the strength of a very slim clew in an innocuous- newspaper advertisem*nt Anthony Crook skillfully builds a theory. and proceeds to a solution of the cast. E.
H. D. Tortured Angel" Those who like international intrigue will find David Garth's newest book, "The Tortured Angel' (Putnams: $2.50) a corking good story. David Furlong is asked by the State Department to undertake a mission in France, where he served with distinction in Military Intelligence during World War 11. The mission is to find out what happened to Lieut.
Richard Landis and secure the packet which an agent of the French resistence movement had entrusted to on the day of his disappearance in A small village in Normandy. There are only a few slender clues that take Furlong to Vermont, Massachusetts, York, Paris and ulis timately followed. Normandy. How the trail step by step to a musing climax provides the material for A tense, and exciting yarn. "The Tortured Angel" adds stature to David Garth's already distinguished reputation.
'D. F. M. "Upstart" The story of Brandy Westner should have been a "success story," -poor but ambitious small-town boy makes good in the big city. But in her noyel, "Upstart." (Sage Books; $2.75) Dorothy E.
S. Hansen builds A chronicle of an, amazingly ambitionridden Brandy Westner's confidence In himself is boundless. Ile looks upon the city of Denver, and finds it to his liking, his "oyster that he will crack wide open." From shoe clerk to medical college, to a practice in Denver, a splendid home of his own, the right wife, the right school and college for his son, ambition drives him on. He' even acquires a hospital of his own, yet the warmth to make this a "success story" is lacking. E.
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condition. 15 Consumes. 77 Relating to 22 Restrictive. Norsem*n. 23 Asseverate.
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26 Fashion. 86 Students of 27 Introductory punishment. operatic aria. 89 Engrave. 28 Pelagic expanse.
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fishes. 34 Illuminated. 97 Yorkshire 35 Flaps. river. 37 Animator 98 Bovine 39 Affray.
99 Large 40 Genteel. plant. 41 Moabite king. 100 English missel 43 Canarylike thrush. finch.
102 St. Veronica's 44 Roman spirits handkerchief. of the dead. 104 Absconding. 45 Given fact.
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56 Augured. 121 Relating to the 60 Anxieties. blood. 61 Fouestrian 122 Trading center. 62 Siamese 123 Frauds.
pewter coin. 124 Food 63 Melody. purveyor. 64 Rockshaft. 127 126 Greek Obligation.
letter. 66 Malay gibbon. 128 More certain. 67 Clerical 129 Division of vestments. Burma.
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stimulant. 15 The first sign of 88 Hied. the zodiac. 89 Seine. 17 Picture puzzle.
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