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Saturday, July 19, 1947 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 7 A PERIODICALS BY MILDRED MILLER Let all Americans eat better 25 years by a research foundation Edited by Frederick Yeiser Cincinnatian Produces Unique Book On The Matter Which Coats Our Lives Scientist Covers Wide Range Of Topics In Readable Book Yale, Cornell and other leading Flesh Peddler THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN. By Arthur Kober. Random House. $2.50. This is a collection of 18 exceed ingly funny stories, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker.

They concerned with the frustrations and devious mach inations of one Benny Greenspan, Hollywood "flesh peddler," one of the most delightful characters I know of. He is the world's great est mangier of the English language. That art, combined with a sense of persecution that comes straight from the heart, probably makes him the most colorful conversationalist now in print at the moment. Benny's clients and friends are a mixture or motnDrams, creeps and dopes. My favorite is the one who's "got so many rocks on her mitts, her fingers are pradically round-shouldered." Benny is an intriguer on the grand scale.

He goes to great lengths to sell the talents of the people whom he represents, but something always happens at the crucial moment to spoil his victory. All terribly depressing for him, but amusing for the reader. Recommended. Anne Stevenson. instead of granting subsidies to farmers for permitting "supposedly excess food products" to rot on the land, Howard E.

Babcock sug gests in the current SATURDAY EVENING POST. This "best-known farmer in America" reasons that withdrawal of subsidies from farmers would evoke more effort among them toward higher efficiency and lower co3ts, and that it is "only fair to pass these lower food prices on to handlers, processors and consumers." Babcock points out that a nation is "no stronger than its diet" and cites penalties the coun try nas suffered as a result of our backward food policies." He recommends that any necessary subsidies for rcmovinc "so-called food surpluses" be applied to the end product of increasing consump tion Dy such methods as providing more nutritious school lunches for 'our children" and more wholosomn diets for lower income groups. "A Voters' Revolution" to force a national Presidential primary down the throats of party bosses Is advocated by Roscoe Drummond in the August '47 MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR. In lambasting convention nominations as undemocratic, Drummond scoffs at the premise that judgment of the American people cannot be trusted In choosing their Presidential nominees. He assures voters they are justifiably "outraged" in not being allowed to select as well as elect their candidate, and urges them to let their Congressman or Senator "know about it." A job which permits your "Doing What Comes Naturally" is the one best for you, Hannah Lees advises In the current COLLIER'S.

She describes aptitude tests used for rv.7 kj ENQUIRER BRAIN FOOD The Recent Fiction in successfully uncovering latent talents of job-misplaced praons. Oddly enough, the institution has found the extent of an individual's vocabularly is the "only positive measure of possible success." Still more uncanny is its explanation that a person need not talk well or write well, but must have words in his mind to formulate ideas. Although hay fever may seem funny to some people, the allergy is "not to be sneezed at," Clarissa Lorenz observes in the August READER'S SCOPE. Well timed with Cincinnati's current campaign to eradicate ragweed, Miss Lorenz discusses causes and cures of the malady and possible mental and physical handicaps resulting therefrom. Potentialities of the hardy Brah-nians, first imported from India in 1849, are making the cows a favored cattle of the hot South, C.

Faye Bennett reports in the summer issue of FARM QUAR TERLY. Adaptable for draught work as well as for milking and beef, these intelligent oriental animals easily withstand famine, disease and heat. Bennett reveals that results of cross-breeding haTe proved a ratio of one-fourth Brahman and three-fourths Angus to he best for high dollar return farmer's investment. It's a challenge, girlJ, but ft hhoukl be fun! Ways to wear down the wolf in your hu.shand aro set forth by Lawrence Gould in the August TODAY'S WOMAN. Th analyzing causes for unfaithful hus-hnnds, he says that they either don't get what they want or don't know what they want.

The solution, mv dears, is for vou to make sure your man gets what he wants and want3 what he gets Dy glvmg him everything! his prize pig and his not so prized son are with us as the story opens. Freddy Threepwood, the Earl's son, is seeking new customers for his dog-biscuit business. Prudence, the Earl's niece, yearns to marry Bill Lister, artist, against her mother's wishes. Tipton Pllmsoll, chief stockholder In a chain store company, is trying to avoid Freddy and to cure an attack of the d. These are character Ingredients whose resultant actions result in very entertaining story.

Fred erick A. Breyer. We recommend I'. Prince of by SAMUEL SHELLABARGER this month's selection of th Literary Guild Th outhor of Captain from Caslih tolls a colorful and romantic tats, about Renaissance adventurer with a great talent for intrigue and lovt, Kcpular Retail Price $3.00 BOOK QUU MEMBERS' PRICE only $2 00 MAIN FLOOR, EAST ftiCfilpiilS ADVENTURES IN MAN'S FIRST PLASTIC. The Romance of Natural Waxes.

By Nelson S. Knaggs. Illustrations and Jacket Design by Frederic H. Kock. Reinhold Publishing Corporation.

$6.75. Br FREDERICK YEISER. You may imagine that natural waxes have nothing to do with you. So did I until I read this unique book, for as the author points but, "America virtually walks, lives, rides, floats and flies on a film of wax." All except a relatively few synthetic waxes are natural, which means they come, must come, from the places where they are grown, cultivated, hunted or mined and subsequently proces-ed. That is what this book is about.

Nelson Knaggs, who wrote it, is a chemist by profession and a Cincinnatian. Wax is his hobby as well as his business. As head of the export department of a large chemical firm, he has been able to combine business with pleasure to turn out the first comprehensive study on waxes in existence, and a highly! readable one to boot. This entailed more than research Into the vast scientific literature of his subject. It involved thousands of miles of travel to the jumping- off places and occasionally some exploration after that.

So when he used the' word "adventure" in his title he is not altogether kidding. 1 mere was, for example, the jun gle expedition of many weeks up the Amazon in 1945 in search of the cauassu plant which was thought to have commercial possibilities as a wax bearer and, as a result of the trip, proved to have greater potentialities than the widely used car-nauba, the so-called "Tree of Life" for thousands of Brazilians. This was during the war, remember, and during wars there are chronic shortages of waxes. Aside from the Valuable information which the chapter reveals, it makes a first- rate piece of travel writing. The earlier trips to the State of Caera, the land of the carnauba palm in Brazil; to the Big Bend country on the Rio Grande in Texas and to the State of Coah-uilla in Mexico on surveys of the candelila plant are no less in formative and absorbing.

Knaggs happily combines the scientist's curiosity with the traveler's eye and is no mean man with a camera. The expository and descriptive chapters contain a lot of meat. The main sources of natural waxes, it develops, are three: vegetable, animal and mineral. Knaggs covers them all from bayberry to ucuuba, from the bee to the whale and from the montan wax of Sax ony to the ozokerite of Utah and Galicia. He remarks on the inconsistency of nature which make3 the sperm whale, the largest creatures on the one hand, and the Chinese coccus pela, one of her Hours: 10 A.

M. to 5:30 P. M. '0 Read "The Moneyman" by Thomas B. Costain This new novel by the author of The Black Rose tells a beautiful love story against the romantic background of 15th century France.

King Charles VII and his mistress, Agnes Sorel, play important roles in the swift and colorful action of this story of the king's moneyman. 3.00 Books, Sixth Floor It HISTORY IS ON OUR SIDE. By Joseph Needham. MacMillan. $2.75.

BY GEORGE B. BARBOUR. (Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Inwersity of This series of essays and ad dresses, which take their title from the contribution made by the author to a conference on Collectivism ana Christian Thought, covers a much wider range of topics in the field of political religion and scientific faith than the name of the book might suggest. The subjects range from a critique of Aldous Huxley's "Grey Eminence" and a tribute to Ivan Pavlov to such themes as the theory of evolution, democracy in British universities, the Nazi attack on in ternational science and the new modes of thought in science. Most of the dozen chapters appeared in print in various publica tions over the decade 1931 to 1941, but were revised for this volume during the author's extensive visit to China in 1041 Dr.

Needham is the Sir William Dunn, Professor in Biochemistry at Cambridge University, has taught and lectured at Stanford, WHAT DO YOU SAY? BY CLAY MEASEL. Saturday Roundup. COMMON-MUTUAL: That which is common is shared by two or more persons in equal decree. In "mutual" there is an inherent idea of reciprocity. A friendship may be mutual, but if two persons share the same opinion, that oninion is common to them.

Althoueh the expression mutual friend" is common, it Is better to say "a friend of ours." "Mutual contempt" is correct if contempt is felt by two or more persons, each one recipro eating with every other one. ALLUSION-ILLUSION: These words are wholly unrelated. An "al lusion" is an indirect reference to something else, as a Shakespearean allusion (a reference to something that is in Shakespeare works. without mentioning Shakespeare). An "illusion" is a false image or a deception of some kind, as an op tical illusion.

BALANCE-REMAINDER: "Bal ance" should be used only when there is a clearly implied sense of weighing two parts of something, one of them remaining in the bal ance. You may say your bank bal ance is substantial, because you have subtracted your withdrawals from the total you had deposited, leaving a balance in your favor But do not speak of the balance of the book when you mean that part which you have not yet read. YOUR SLIP SHOWS BY ALBERT GRANT. Find and correct thy misspelled words. If you get all correct, you're superior; seven correct is just aver age; anything less means you need practice badly.

Keep a list of the words you miss and study it. (1) entymology (2) photostat (3) dynamoe (4) ewer (5) pentegon (6) fastidious (7) incoherant (8) blazon (9) homopathic (10) salvage 64 Annexes 55 Gaelic VERTICAL. 1 Multitude 2 Mohammedan Prince 3 Cotton cloth 4 Affectation 5 Group for jury duty 6 God of love 7 Fondles 8 Ashes (Scot.) 9 Labor 10 Sacred image 11 Indites 19 Spread for drying 20 Inexorable 23 Note in scale 24 Insect 25 Sped 26 Cleverness 27 Observe 28 Support 29 Feminine name 30 Transgression EljN neG 32 Mollfied 35 Note in scale 36 Prefix: before 38 Church niches 39 Amazon estuary 40 Filled with reverential fear 41 Within 43 Await settlement 44 Vociferate 45 Sister of Ares 46 Dell 48 Note in Guido's scale solution, 21 minutes. Feature! Syndicate, Inc. Orsini rescues from the people of Viterbo.

The battle scenes in Borgia's war on the various Italian lords and finally on Orsini are not as clear as they might have been. Shellabarger, on the whole, does ft good job of fitting his hero's personal struggle into Borgia history. Anyone who likes historical fic tion will find this good material for an evening or two reading. Louise Hurst. THE SIXTH HEAVEN.

By L. P. Hartley. Doublcday. $3.

Lovers of Hartley's novel, "The West will find this new one of his a grievous disappointment, for it is over long, wordy, and quite tedious. It is a sequel to the other, which was a book of ex traordinary charm, but, unfortuate-ly, this new novel has none, The hero, Cherrington, is a bore, an insufferable snob and Is motivated by an unhealthy obsession for his beautiful sister Hilda. There is no hint of inccBt in his relations with his sister, yet his attachment for her is so all- consuming that It becomes a force that makes an utterly helpless per son of him. His life is that of a dilettante: he reads and studies a bit, he dances in attendance upon rich old ladles and he daydreams about his sister to the point of nausea. He Ih as unlikablc character as any to be found in the pages of fiction.

There is so little of interest in his vacuous life that one wonders at the author's temerity in filling 438 pages with tho thights and mc- anderings of so colorless a per sonality. Maxlne Baxter. FULL MOON. By P. G.

Wodo- house. Doubleday. $2. The years pass by in rapid suc cession, world wars end great em pires dissolve nut Wodchoune re mains the sumo. Tho same complicated plots, the same hilarious situations, the same slightly goofy characters with enough variation in formula to make each new story amusing in its turn this is P.

G. Wodchouse summarized. "Full Moon" returns Wodehouse readers to Blanding's Castle, the scene of many of the author's pre vious sagas. The Earl of Emsworth, TEST YOUR HORSE SENSE BY DR. GEORGE W.

CRANE. Select the answers which you consider best The last problem counts five points. Then look for the correct answers below. 1. Which one of these boats has the smallest draft? Ocean liner Cruiser Speedboat Ore freighter 2.

Which one of these states does not border on the Mississippi? Arkansas Wisconsin Texas Tennessee 3. A person with astigmatism should consult a specialist in disorders of the Heart Feet Liver Eyes 4. Which one of these tasks would the ordinary farmer classify as a "chore? Pitching hay Milking rows Flowing corn Cutting wheat 5. The English use the word tre acle to refer to what Americans call Molasses Chewing gum Roasting ears Cigarettes 6. The various countries named in the left-hand column below are champions as regards the pro duction of the various foodstuffs cited in the opposite column.

Try to match them accurately, You deserve one point for each correct judgment. (a) Germany (y) Potatoes (b) United States (v) Corn (c) India (w) Sugar (d) Brazil (x) Coffee (e) Soviet Russia (z) Whsgt Score yourself as follows: 0-2, poor; 3-6, average; 7-8, superior; 9-10, very superior. (Note The last question counts five points.) (CopyrliM, the Chicago Tribune) Horse Sense Answers: (1) Speed boat. (2) Texas. (3) Eyes.

(4) Milking cows. (5) Molasses. (6) (a) Germany Potatoes (y). (b) U. S.

A. Corn (v). (c) India- Sugar (w). (d) Brazil Coffee (x). (e) Soviet Russia Wheat (z).

Key To Your Slip Shows: (1) entomology; (2) correct; (3) dyna mo; (4) correct; (5) pentagon; (6) correct; (7) incoherent; (8) correct; (9) homeopathic; (10) correct. HORIZONTAL. 1 Assistance 5 South American rodent 9 Friendly hint 38 Curve 39 Discomfort 42 Became visible 47 Beard 48 Ogles 49 Tiresome person 50 Steep, as flax 51 Unaspirated consonant 62 Past participle of lie 12 Hebrew measure 13 Masculine name 14 Lyric poem 15 Function in trigonometry 16 Olfactory CROSSWORD Answer to His versatility Is proverbial, he reads Chinese classics in the origi nal, writes and speaks Polish as well as the more usual European languages, and studies Aztec philology for amusement In his own field he has an in ternational reputation for his book on "Biochemistry And Morpho genesis." The style has the ease and breadth of foundation noted in the writings In the best of the British scientist. It has a maturity and mellowness, together with an ability to draw on the whole range of history for illus tration of the point under dis cussion. In a sense, the single thread running through these es says is the author's keen social consciousness, and his belief that by understanding the evolutionary process ana worKing witn it ratn-er than against it, men may bring about a higher social order.

The final chapter, revised in 1944 nt China's wartime capital crystalizes the faith of a scientist under the title "Aspects Of The World Mind In Time And Space." The final paragiaph includes these words: "The human social organization into which we were born hag yet far to go toward its ultimate triumphs. Our business is to find out how we may best make ourselves efficacious instru ments of the cosmic program as it manifests itself in evolving human society, not caring if we perish in this cause." Some Of THE STEEPER CLIFF. By David Davidson. Random House. $3.

Here Is still another book the author's first novel about our occupation forces. The setting of this one. Is Bavaria and the time immediately follows the last conquering shot. In the large, the action has to do with the efforts of our Military Government to find acceptable Germans in the district to publish and edit the new democratic free press" newspapers; that is to say, politically pure, untainted, anti-Nazi Germans. In detail the action follows the private, unauthorized search by one Lieutenant Cooper for an almost mythical German named Adam Lorenz.

Lorenz used to live in the neighborhood but there is no telling where he is now. Cooper first heard about him through U. S. Army Intelligence and thereafter, egged on by a U. S.

Sergeant who is his "conscience," Cooper presses his illegal search In the course of it he meets Lo- renz's father, wife and various as sociates, all of whom contribute data about him. From these con vcrsations a picture of the absent, maybe even dead, Lorentz begins to form in Cooper's mind and be fore long Cooper is ready to iden tify himself with Lorenz. Now this Lieutenant Cooper is a johnny-come-lately to Germany and very touchy about the fact that he has never seen combat, and the memory of a to him shameful, though really quite normal episode of his boyhood, further adds to his feeling of inadequacy. In short, Lieutenant Cooper is hipped on the subject of physical bravery. From what he has learned he gets the im pression that Lorenz is as brave as anything.

He may even have stood up to the Gestapo, but until Cooper knows about this he can't be sure whether or not he (Cooper) would have been able to stand up to them The uncertainty makes him worry a lot and he imagines himself In alternating brave and craven roles; finally it becomes oj obsessive importance to him to find Lorenz his alter ego. For only in finding him can Cooper find himself. mis may sound line sort or a fancy idea for a novel, but if you overlook the rather incredible rea sons for the characters' actions and overlook some rather incrcdi ble characters (all the for example), you will find it quite di verting far more so than the bulk of lumraer reading. The tough hedonistic way of the conqueror, rorever on the prowl for loot and women, is apparently authentically described and the author seems to have a good ear for the gainey taiK or ireedom's salesmen, much of which cannot be reproduced in a family newspaper. Ana make no mistake about Lieutenant Cooper.

There's noth ing cowardly about him. Readers with any knowledge or memory of the service will gasp at Cooper's casual side-stepping of Army "channels" and KNOW that onlv a vnrv very brave man indeed would dare to noui a formidable C. O. like Major Groll. Elizabeth Gardner Stix.

PRINCE OF FOXES. By Samuel Little, Brown. $3. Samuel Shellabarger, remembered for his "Captain From Castile," has written another lonir his torical novel this time with a background of the war-torn Italy which Duke Cesare Bergla was trying to unite. The hero is Borgia's captain, who, at the beginning of the book, is well accomplished in the treacherous diplomacy for which Borgia was noted.

His many adventures under Borgia provide the continuous violent action for a historical novel which is difficult to stop reading. Andrew Orsini, the Borgia captain, is a good match for Borgia's trickery until he falls in love with the Lady Camilla, whom Borgia has primised him for a bride once they had destroyed her husband. Orsini, in his pursuit of Camilla, becomes a friend of her husband, the elderly Lord Mare Antonio Varano, whom she loves as "a father." His friendship for his lady's husband results in the end of his allegiance to Borgia. Other well drawn chaiacterh In clude the Borgia women, although their skill with poisons is not stressed in the book; Mario Belli, who fails in an attempt to kih Orsini and then becomes his faithful follower; Alda, Camilla's dwarf, and Sister Lucia, the Saint whom west NELSON S. tiniest, asrproduccrs of the purest and whitest of all waxes.

By using the technique of fiction against a background of fact in the chapter on the Chinese wax insect, the author makes an agreeable little story out of it. The eggs of the insect, it seems, cannot be hatched in the' same valley in which they have been laid. So, when the proper day comes, they must be transported across a range of mountains to another valley six days' walking distance. -There the insects are born and put to work. Benevolent Dictator JUDGE LANDIS AND 25 YEARS OF BASEBALL.

By J. G. Taylor Spink. Crowell. $3.

It is appropriate that the pub lisher of "baseball's bible" shoald write the biography of the man who for a quarter of a century was the living symbol of America's na tional sport. The result of Spink's efforts is a remarkable character ization of Judge Landis. The publisher of the Sporting News has written an objective study of Judge Landis's life. It is not a "puff," nor an encomium, but a reporter's report. Landis was a dictator and at time a tyrant, but he was the ruthless pursuer of any one who cast the slightest taint on the integrity of baseball.

The Judge was an independent individualist. He was inexorable. He gave ground neither to players nor to club owners. And it was this dominating independence that re stored to the public their faith in baseball, No one doubted the game's rigid honesty after the Judge tossed men out of baseball for life when, they were guilty of the slightest relationship to dis-honest practices. This is the Kenesaw Mountain Landis that Taylor Spink describes.

At the same time, it is the chroni cal of baseball for the span of Landis's tenure. There are many interesting accounts of backstage controversies, most of which involved Ban Johnson. To Cincinnati baseball fans, the book has a particularly appealing flavor. It shows the historic rela tionship of Cincinnati to baseball. Garry Hermann, the 1919 World Series scandal, the Larry Benton case and dozens of other references to this city and its baseball club are woven into the text.

Long before he became baseball's czar, Judge, Landis had a kinship to this city. Years ago his brother, John Landis, was health commissioner here. Jack Cronin. Outspoken THE CHURCH AS EDUCATOR. By Conrad H.

Moehlman. Hinds, Hayden Eldredge. New York. The dire need for today is that thinking people come to grips witn themselves and with their religious institutions. William Heard Kil-patrick, who read the galleys of this book, says "This book will serve to enlighten where dark ignorance now largely prevails.

It is, perhaps, the frankest, the most honestly outspoken book on the subject that yet has come out of any theological seminary and ac cordingly should do great good. It will, however, anger many who prefer to maintain the dark ignorance hitherto prevailing." The way is clear to reveal the issue: Shall we listen? Paul B. Clark. SHELF HARPER enjoy, too, the stories about well-known political, movie, stage, and publishing personalities. Although, this isn't one of our newest books, you are sure to appreciate its humor its ability to come to your aid during an after-dinner speech.

59c. And now for that fisherman in your family he would really like "To Hell With Fishing." The text is by Ed Stern and the cartoons by H. T. Webster, whose work appears in many newspapers. There are chapters on "Why Dumb People Catch More Trout Than Smart People," "Ain't Nature and many others.

A real buy for a real fisherman. 2.50. For a novel to hold your Interest, let me again suggest "Prince of Foxes" by Samuel Shellabarger, author of "Captain From Castile," which was so popular. The "Prince of Foxes" will be the August Literary Guild selection. 3.00.

We have just received Maxwell Anderson's "Off It deals with the Anderson's ejsays about the theater, playwright's relations to his medium and his material. Anyone interested in dramatics is certain to want this book. 2.50. Stop in and see us soon! ShiUito's BOOK DEPARTMENT, First Floor. i I tirwrw KNAGGS.

The wax which they produce is carried back to the original valley, wax for candles of China also, according to the Chinese, the elixir of life. "Adventures in Man's First Plastic," without being a hodgepodge, has a little of everything: science, travel, anthropology and history. The author quite clearly designed it for the general reader and not the specialist. It is also, I may add, as a handsome piece of book-making as has appeared this year. Story Packs Wallop AIR FORCE DIARY.

Edited by James H. Straubel. Simon and Schuster. $3.75. Here, in 492 pages is the story the role played by the Army Air Forces in winning World War II.

It is a terrific story with a wallop rivaling that of any best-seller novel on the market. It contains a thousand and one stories of action, adventure, drama, comedy and tragedy told, not by one author, but written by, or as related by the men and women who were eyewitnesses or participants in these life-and-death experiences. Lastly, it is profoundly thought-provoking. Briefly, the book is composed of articles which originally were published' in "Air Force," official AAF publication. Straubel chose the best of the magazine's material, skillfully edited and molded it into a smooth-reading whole that belies its title of diary, which suggests a rather stuffy, chronological, statistical account of AAF doings.

Virtually everything that has happened to AAF personnel in the air and on the ground is related. There are gripping stories missions, the escapes and internments, the advent of the B-29, the1 work of the ground crews, tne functions of the strategists who planned and directed the air war. Chapters eight and nine are of especial interest. Entitled 'Three Years Over Europe" and "Air War in The Pacific," they give an excellent analysis of the overall accomplishments off the AAF, helping the individual AAF man understand, for the first time Perhaps, just where and why he fitted in the rootor -He-saw nuzzle. nreface.

Straubel makes an observation that is at first start ling, then obviously true ana one that tends to make this book unifue and worth having. Straubel points out that World War II probably was the last war on this earth in which the element of personal vaior a determining factor. Since the dawn of history, the warrior and his application of instruments of war in direct contact witn men of the enemy determined the outcome of the battle. So it was still in World War II. The narratives in this brook prove it.

But, it never will be so again. The atom bomb and pushbutton warfare wrote finis to that type of conflict. It no longer will be necessary for enemies to encounter each other in person. It is with this in mind that Gen. H.

H. Arnold wrote the final chapter in Air Force Diary. For the future security of the country, he warns: "Most important of all, we will need an ably staffed, adequately financed, and properly equipped re search and development program Because, if we fail to keep not merely abreast, but ahead of technological development, we needn't bother to train any force and we needn't make plans for an emergency expansion; we will be totally defeated before any ex pansion could take place It is one expense that we must not now, or ever, skimp or stint. It is the price of security and the price of peace." Paul Lugannani. MYSTERY CORNER UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

By Cary Lucas. Simon and Schuster. $2. Marsh arrived in Mexico just before the murder of Weems the office manager. He and his new secretary, the charming Barbara, with more than a little help from American FBI men, the State Department and sundry charming Mexicans, manage to get into (and out of) a lot of horrible excitement.

The torture scenes and some rou- tine spy stuff makes this sound, in the telling, rather like a run of the mill job, but the book really is gosd and the dialogue has both sparkle and logic Minna Barden. Verse SUN UP, SUN DOWN. By Charlotte Louise Groom. Dorrance. $1.75.

Miss Groom's third book of poems is a collection from a wide range c. history, legend, nature and the home. "Wild Aedric," a ballad-like song of Sixon days, and "A Loaf of Bread," about Francis of Assist, are best among the longer poems; of the shorter verse, "Beauty on a new metaphor for April, is both good and typical. Though perhaps some of the poems on Hindu or Chinese themes are a trifle ambitious, in most of her work this Cincinnati poet shows considerable talent and command of her craft. William Risen.

---By Eugene Sheffer DD'S yesterday's puzzle: A new historical romance by the. author of "The Mack oe" Thomas B. Costain's THE MONEYMAN orean 17 Electrified CTolTlsriSlLlynAlBlBlAl particle Al IT I NJR 18 Steady pacers 20 Woes A. HOOHELOf SE ElPflM uTESl I. aE mm" A TltC A nce A TlJR pasto rateHrov AVVA TQf.

ate 21 Elongated fish 22 Shade tree 24 Stigmatize 27 Articles of commerce Auditory organs Bronze coin Son of Jacob iMa eglA KJ I a 1 1 1 krjG A Rl 7 Jacques Cocur, financiul wi.iird, Oniric VII of France, and llie beautiful Allies Soril all contribute to the dramatic events. "A story of rich romance and Infill intrigue Mich as miglil Hell Iinve come from llic pen of Sir Walter Scott." A new novel by the author of "Captain From Castile'" Samuel Shellabarger's b. PRINCE OF FOXES Out' of the violence and color of Italy's Renaissance Into the heart of every lover of grcut Fiction the magnificent alory of the mysterious nobleman hIio rliungcd sides in love and buttle. Read Mr. Frederick Yeiser's excellent review of "Adventures In Man's First Plastics." 34 Authorize to require 36 Heathen 37 Lubricate Average time of Distributed by Kim Nelson BOOK BY NANCY Whether you are vacationing or Staying at home these summer days and evenings are perfect for reading a light, humorous book, a book on your favorite hobby, ora good novel.

You'll be reminded of "Anything Can Happen" which was so popular a couple of years ago, when you read Milla Lo-an's var.n-hearted story about a Serbian family in San Francisco. It is "Bring Along L9ushter." As immigrants to the United States, the Markovitch family not only brought all their earthly belongings, but also brought along their ability to laugh when the going was hard. 2.50. Like most of us, you probably have some relatives about whom you could write a book. William d'Arfey did and "Curious Relations" Is the result.

It is a series of ketches of extraordinary people of the Edwardian age who, like live dinosaurs, didn't know they were already extinct. Incidentally, this is a wonderful selection for hospital patients and convalescents. 3.00. For those of you who like jokes and aneddotes, "Anything For A Laugh" is the right book. Edited by Bennett Cerf, it is a collection of latest jokes.

It takes' in the classic situations such as the traveling salesman, boy-meets-girl, and husband and wife varieties. You'll THE- ROMANCE OF NATURAL WAXES T3 T-g ToTT" iT" Zii nn WWM r- "1 1 in I 1 1 One of the season's most entertaining and instructive books. Not technical but an exciting and beautifully illustrated story of adventure and discovery. A few autographed copies of the first edition are still available. HM.7" Knagg's 3 Sales Tax in Ohio JOHN G.

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