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THE NASHVILlC TENNtSSUN. J.H" 2- 1 9S3 ank Portrayal of 3 Literary Rebels 11 cr utc ecu z.uutp 4jn EDITED BY RALPH MORRISSEY RALPH MORRISSEY By Freedom Begins at Home World peace ami security depends upon the indi-idual, not upon groups or classes and the battle for survival begins at home, William Faulkner declares. New Faith Regenerates Follower of False Gods SI fe. Irishman's Book Sparkles With Wit, Erudition THREE GREAT IRISHMEN: SHAW. YEATS.

JOYCE. By Arland Ussher. With portraits by Augustus John. Devin-Adair. $3.

Reviewed by JAMES G. WHARTON Arland Ussher is an existentialist philosopher, art critic, and Gaelic scholar of no little reputation, and as an Irishman ''with a good quarter of Euglish blood" ho has given us, in this appealing volume, a good 'deal of insight into the character and works of three of his countrymen, Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. Ussher writes with verve and nicety of style as well as with a thorough acquaintance with the lives and literary output of the three great Irishmen. His volume is one of the best things in this year's production of belles lettres. Some of his estimates of the three men are, even in a passing review, required quotation.

They are supported by much erudition and a fine sense of earnest objectivity, but they should give the review reader an idea of what the entire volume's value may be. On Bernard Shaw: "His greatness was that he put both philosophy and life upon the boards, and succeeded in fascinating us; but it was his weakness that he over-rationalized and over-moralized them both. His thought and his art, in fact were' never fused Ho was not artist enough to admire that he could not justify to his reason and yet he James Joyce "Insidiously destructive" seemed to build an art nut of I. is rejection tl'l i.M verses were nothing but iisht and outline; but the fact makes him perhaps something more than a poet a philosopher of an almost forgotten kind, of a time when truth and beauty grew from the same stem, and were known hy the now remote-sounding name of 'wisdom' A'eats is probably the last the very 'singing swan' of that great succession in which Homer is the first: poets for the ear more than the eye (generally nowadays the spectacled eye)." On Joyce: "The earlier critics of 'Ulysses' thought it a masterpiece -or orgy of dqspair and nihilism. later cntirs, In their rather excessive zeal1 to claim have de- lovce as a Christian.

clarcd it a profound and tor- man's nature to the social order. His book should stimulate discussion and action both on the individual and group level. Views on Varied Current Problems "If we are to be led into peace and security by some individual gauleiter or ynng of them, like .1 drove of sheep through a gate in a feme THAT kind of peace and security will lie exact Iv the sort of peace and se-ctiritv which a fiocj; of sheep eh In i id addn lus com-al Pine niineejiient Manor juni "It is IIS, and women colic ege, We esev, simple na free and Weilesley, in livi i of fleeelom and decision, to decide, affirm simply and I irmly ve lo be led like sheep into peace and siciirity bin out se lves simply and mutually coiifede rated for a time, a purpose an end to cast down that fence and gate and the other fences and gates until no barrier to freedom and liberty and security remains save that single on! liieh stipulates that freedom and liberty stop exactly at. the pointi where the net mdiviehial freeftoiu and liberty In gin." Stressing the point that Cod made man "completely equipped to cope with tho earth, by means of free will and the capacity for decision." tho Mississippi novelist emphasized that "It is not only man's high destiny, but proof of his immortality, too, that his is the choice between ending the world, effacing it from the long annal of titne and space, and completing it." "And He eh mandeel 'if man only that we work to elese-rve and gain these things liberty, freedom of the body and spirit both, security for the weak and helpless and pcai'i' and freedom fur all because these we're the most, valuable tilings He could set within our capacity and re ach. "He used the poets and philosophers to remind us, out of our own recorded anguish, of our capacity for courage and endurance But they can only show us how, not lead us, since to be led, we must surrender our freo will and our capacity and right to make decisions out of our own personal soul." Defining a homo as "any four walls which house a marriage or a career or both marriage and career at once," the Nobel prize-winning author continued.

"But it must be all the rooms or apart-ments; all I he houses on that slieet and all the tdrcets in that association of streets until they become a whole1, in integer, eif people who have the same' aspirations anel hopes and problems and duties." "We do not need to' look farther than home to begin to rid ourselves of the feart and pressures which are making simple existence more and more uncertain and without diqnity or peace or security We must break ourselves of thinking of the empty clanging terms of and 'fatherland' or 'race or 'color' or 'creed'," he said. Not where I live or it lives, but where we live: a thousand then tens of thousands of little integers scattered and fixcel firmer and mine impregnable and more solid than rocks or citade'ls about the earth." Highlighting the contents of Know Your He Led a Fabulous Raid Bruce Marshall ligion anything more than a petrification of past generosities? Was the clutter in the temple the charity of Christ? Was it brave to die for a tottering metaphysic? Was it not more 'prophetic' to live and try to build the new clemency? Intelligence as well as courage was a virtue." Then the disillusion of the new clemency was a thousand times worse than anything which had preceded it in spiritual anguish. Moreover there was the murderous war itself to be reckoned with every hour of day and night. There is much in the story of the conflicts between the Church and the state. "Possibly even in Franco's army chaplains were only tolerated and the Beatitudes not allowed to gum up the artillery." There is much of holy relics, of confessions, of terror lest mortal sin be committed just before death; much makeshift fellowship in the confusion of the battlefield when a recitation of the collect for the feast of Corpus Christi is called for in an emergency.

This novel also abounds in tiie inter-mingling of the world and the flesh with holy purpose. "Don Arturo had known already that the chaplain was not a saint: saints were never concerned about vintages. But the strength of the Church was the yoke she laid upon the blundering and the reverence for sane-tily which she gave to I lie The Don himself was a patient expounder of his faith: "'Let's take the Knglish and the North Americans They're kinder people than we are We're Gideon's fleece in the world; we're soaked with grace. But unless we become Christian In works as well as in tradition the war will have been fought in THE FAIR BF.iDK. Bruce Marshall.

Houghton, Mifflin. $3. Reviewed by LUCIA HALL SMITH For a little more than 20 years now "Father Malachy'a Miracle" appeared in 1031 Bruce Marshall has been to the reading public an engaging paradox. His stories can make them laugh find they can make them think. His popularity has not lessened a certain aim at profundity and Lis humor in the self-made predicaments of men is leavened hy a deep faith in innate decency.

"The Wprlrl, the Flesh and Father Smith" found favor with readers who usually fight shy of these on the long leash of fiction, particularly when some one of the creeds seems to be having field day. One felt in reading Ilia masterly presentation of human nature versus cardinal virtues that Father Smith had been given no more than an equal start with the world and the flesh; that fair play was the author's pattern and that the action might well have been nctual. So the story easily st firmed the citadels of best-Fellerdom and has ever since brought a glow of pleasant remembrance whenever the title haa been mentioned. "The Fair Bride" is pitched in sharper key, for there is a profound earnestness here and he story leads through tempestuous and desolating times. Don Arturo Carrercy Granja was a young priest whose sensitive soul had been so revolted by the cruelty of men that lie lost his r.irly faith and entered into what he believed to lie the Brotherhood of Man at the beginning of the civil war in Spain.

Communism but communism with its shining face and powerful wings. It could bring about a new heaven and a new earth. And the young padre had been deeply discouraged: "Was it Any use trying to save the Church? Was contemporary re- 'Simple' Continues His Happy Way umple takes a wife. l.nnsston Hnglies. Simon Schuster.

and Reviewed BLYDEN by JACKSON As a rule sequels are letdowns. They are reminders that the lightning Etrikcs in the same place only once. But the lightning of creative genius has broken the rule for Langston. Hughes and his good friend, Jesse B. Sernple.

"Simple Takes Wife" is at least as good as "Simple Speaks His Mind." In ome ways that have to do both with aesthetics and social commentit is better. Simple' taking of a wife is Just as hilarious as Simple's speaking of his mind. It is just as acute a job of observation of Krgroes and the contemporary scene. Simple's speech is still a iriumph of high-fidelity recording as well as a delight to the car and the sense of humor. His perception of the many ironies, big and little, that complicate his Negro existence is Mill keen and true.

And underneath the laughter there are Mill the thoughts that lie too deep for tears. When is Simple at his best It is hard to say. But two of his fine.it moments rather complement each other. Tliey involve imaginary letters: The first, from Simple as a black Santa Oaus to a little white boy down in Dixie; the second from Simple, as the common Negro he is, to a Negro leader. Fut together they show the comprehensiveness', for all Its seeming lightness of touch and its jcenuine provision of good fun, vith which this book does span the race problem.

The book is attractively presented in laminated board covers at a moderate price. Salty, Adventurous Story of SOCIETY AN SANITY. By F. J. Sliced.

Sliced Ward, Reviewed by JIM CARTY Western democracies neither know nor care about man's nature, whereas Russian leaders possess a false concept of man derived from Karl Marx, in the viewpoint of F. J. Sliced, a Catholic. Sheed, who with his wife Maisie Ward established the London and American houses of Sheed Ward, has translated, edited and written several hooks. In his latest, he says Western civilizaion was built around Wins Fellowship Elizabeth Spencer, of Mississippi, a former reporter on THE NASHVILLE TKNNESSEAN staff, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research in fiction.

She is the author of two novels which have received high praise from critics. Among others receiving grants for fiction are Godfrey Blunden, Owen Vincent Dodson, and Thomas Hal recipients for poetry are F.dgar Collins Bogardus, Paul Engle and Karl Shapiro. Storm" is that of Rolland, a French seaman on French sailing vessels during the decade or so just before the First World War. In a colorful, dramatic fashion, Vercel's now book is the story of the last part of the final era of sail when these vessels iron square-riggers, with more canvas than their handful of sailors could handle went around the globe with coal and grain and nitrates, arrogantly and, as some of them dimly realized, ignor-antly fighting a losing battle against the new power in the world steam. Rolland, one can say, is only one of the chief characters of the novel, for the sea itself, dominates everything and, often enough, everyone.

Rolland had two great ambitions, and be achieved both of them, only to lose the last to the sea. First, he was determined to have a mastery of seamanship and navigation, and he accomplished this aim by going ashore and studying such background subjects as theoretical arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, cosmography, i service to his art that his friends gave him financial support and his death in 1942 left these same friends firmly believing that their idol would, like Stendhal, find his audience the world waiting after hundred years. fry 'h VW rV Kxf! V. i William Faulkner 'Man's high destiny" the July issue of Harper's magazine are "The Weilesley Experiment," by Morton B. Hunt, thn use of preventive psychiatry in a community; "Colossus on the Potomac, Causes and Cures of Big Government." by Sen.

Paul H. Douglas; "Grandeurs and Miseries oT Old Age." by Elmer Davis; "The Nail in the Coffin: tiie Curious Fate of Hugh Wal-pole," by Alee- Watlgh; "How Red Was the Red Decade?" by Granville Hicks; "Closeup of a 'Worker's Paradise': What's Happening to Labor In, Red Hungary." by George May; and "What Makes Architecture Modem?" by Harrison Gill. Feature articles in the July Atlantic Monthly include: "Can the Liberals Rally?" by Joseph S. Clark Mayor of Philaded-phia, a forecast for the political future; "The Sherman Act on Trial," by Thurman Arnold; "Detectives of Time," by N. J.

Berlin, use of atomic tools in piecing together a picture- of tho prehistoric past; "The French in North Africa," by Gen. August in Guillaume; "Patriarchal Picnics," by Francis H. Eliot, nostalgic- account of old time picnics; "Sicilian Idyll," by Ellery Sedgwick; and H. Audcn and Hi Poet rv," by Stephen Spender. Edith" Sitwell.

Walter de la Mar and Elford Gaughey contribute poems and there are short stories by H. E. Bates and Dillon Anderson. Novel in 'Life' Rife magazine, is publishing Thursday James Mlchenar's novel, "The Bridges at Tokorl." Life has published fiction before, including Hemingway's famous "The Old Man and the Sea," but "The Bridges" is the first lonjf work of fiction to be written expressly for the magazine. The novel, hose locale is the Korean war, will be published later in bonk form bv Random House.

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14-1873 719 CHURCH 1 By FRANCES William Rutler Yeats "Last swan'" tilled 1 1 1- or inv.se If. of the ronfi'S i-i the soul that 1 Si I sr it piiuianiy a till (with 1 -saw 'linlli a 'merry book' ically a Swift lie is a Panli li- Ills! ice iin elv Tiavels' as hut Joyce is not anv more lhan His Characters arc not si thev art it'll 1 1 lor their sins suffering fioin 'the human situation' From one icv point he is more insidioii-dy destructive than any writer of our aichaic tiaic; he demolishes, not beliefs and venerated customs, but the very conditions of thinking. He uses the Word to break down the Thing and the Thing to ridicule the Word the complete and utter metaphysical dualist, or comic Such figuies as James Joyce ec(id the day-to-dav plan, the merely rational schedule, and tin' total plan is hidden from us. Mental order, like social, ends always by becoming oppressive, lop-sided, by galling the human pack-animal nl some point, whereupon it has, more or less violentlv, lo he thrown off. Tt.

is sweet and decorous to laugh, occasionally, even before 1 lie a ml suburban Cloai alt i is of 1 i nil participated in it. It lost Ted I.awsem his right leg; it cost, the lives of eight men; it made a missionary out of'Corp. Jacob deShazer, who is spreading the word of Christ now in the lulls of Japan and far from Tokyo; it gave die American public a baelly neeilcd psychological shot in the arm. ami if gave President Roosevelt a chance to mii- liounce seilemnly that the raid- ers had taken off from Shangri- la." The account the raid is perhaps the most interesting segment, of Reynolds' book. but.

tin! reader will laid thrilling episodes of DoolitHe's other ex-pjoils, his relations with tiie great military ami government leaders of the worltl, and of his courtship anil marriage Id Josephine Daniels. Phil Sullivan. Red Enigma THE RUSSIAN MIND. By Stuart Ramsey Tompkins. Vni-versity of Oklahoma Press.

However misplirased anel mis-attributed, the e- i' I a Churchill quote about the Bosnians anil enigmas wrapped up insieie themselves has "a certain pertinence feu: Westerner. With true academic fervor. Mr. Tompkins tackles the enigma with tho first of a proposed two-volume study on the Russian mind. Covering the perioel from Peter the Great through the "enlightenment," it analyzes in great detail such facets of that culture as the life of the peasant, Freemasonrv, education, and the Decembrist movement.

Dc: pile style, become off cause of rat her In ink writing study doesn't quite Possibly thia is be- a lack of e'orridative which tiie author may beyond his scope. At the book as it stands male i ial consider any rati is a distinct disappointment. It could have been much better with a more integrated ap-preiach. Perhaps the second volume, which will ntcr peiiod more within his audieiice'h rxperione-r', ill prove more sat isfaetory. If so, it will fill a rather pressing need.

E.W. Exotic Story NINK DAYS TO MPKAU.A. frfUn ic Viking. TA'hi-n I-'i'i ili ne I'rokosi h's niiv-fl. "Tilt! v.

piibli.ihcd, Mann that it "a tiouk whiMi hit a txci; v.d, liarrnfd ami anrl rcad'TS will rutificl to find in Days of Mukalla'' the fnmo rich valut-a of oxulK-rant di li'iit in I hi: srnsf'S and thn sarin' frankness and informality 'Aliirli luatle the former work well refieiveil. I-oiir proplf in this stoi from must nnd their rni- irieitis-iv-H ruanueu iar i rum i so-called civilization and ti'-k across sandy wn.su sweeping seas to regain iioirnai foothold. Tiie route ties them among ptrange tvitio peoples for tho two Kns- lish members of the group, an odd old woman nnd a retiring young one, have been living in Jndia anil with their charming young diplomat anil con! used scholar from America, they all soit-i and tonditions of men, from beduina and b.m-di! to fascinating prarbdivei along the of the world's mosi beautiful blue waters. Although the physical aspeeis of the ody.ssey are made manifest to the reader to a remarkable d'-giee, there is much psychological growth too, for the four receptive, sennitive people could scarcrly encounter such natives and witness such evidences of a long-past amid utterly en'-iror n' it lion feeling within many new reactions. Ind'-ed, the avottipit-hi in this story is eaetly that of sonsous imnr's-inns with the resulting ciianc.s of thought and feeling; and Mr.

l'rokoscli -an American educated here and in Kr.gland, and winner of many pnes and ft l'owsthipa i to be congratulatPti in a.iilicg a ne-v laurel to bis wreath. K. T. Bernard Shaw "Something lacking" was philosopher enough to want to admire everything that energetically lived His characters (except perhaps for those in "Heartbreak do not haunt us in the least When all has been said of their gusto, their entrancing vitality, it re- mains true that there is something lacking in them, as there was in their cieator; and what they lack is the sense of inner tension, without which even comedy is mere slapstick, even it it is intellectual slapstick He struck a mortal blow at melodrama though we may wonder whether melodrama is not after all as necessary to life as mythology seems to he nccessarv to religion." On Yeats: "Certainly no poet ever nested so much good poetry out of so exiguous materials he Ihree. ideas of man: Image of God, immortal spirit, and redeemed hy Christ.

After discussing man in terms of bis essential and existential nature, reverence, realism, law and love, Sliced sets forth principles on marriage and family, society and state. Sheed calls complete self-giving central to success in marriage, a "union of personalities" which may' he weakened by character faults and insufficiency in personality. He recommends persons revere the marriage relationship, and says "There are needs that only God can meet." The author contends a world political order is impossible now, because the social fact of similarity of outlook and feeling for humanity is absent. He suggests two less ambitious goals: establish machinery for maintaining peace, and see if some kind of political order anfong a large grouping of nations, as in lie West, might be achieved. The citizens' duties consist not only in electing honest, competent officials, but also in creating the moral and spiritual atmosphere in which they operate, he says.

He refreshingly restates basic principles and presents new insights about the relation of Sea under a priest. (At this tim, there was no other way in France for a seaman to prepare himself for officer examinations.) He studied hard and got his navigation papers, and returned to the sea, serving as mate at first, and then, upon the death aboard of tho skipper on one of the voyages, taking over the vessel, and acquitting himself well. The second ambition was Genevieve, his wife, whom he lost on a long voyage. She died by inches, as it were, and Rolland, the skipper, spent his hours fighting to save her anel his ship, the Atalante, embroiled in every sort of maritime disaster. One of the most interesting characters in the entire book -and with him one of the finest narratives--was Captain Thi-rard, the skipper who indomitably remained on bis vessel while fighting the saddest and crudest of all battles never-ending war against cancer of the throat.

The whole book, as one can see, is full of fine narrative, first-rate drama, and character development. Moreover, as a sea story of vessels that went hither and thither across the oceans, it is twice rewarding because of the glimpses that it affords of ports, far and near, and of the sailor's life, both ashore and aboard. In this respect, it is necessarily frank-anil robust but the pictures we obtain are made with the true Frenchman's gift for complete candor and intellectual restraint. of American economic development. The handsome volumes iust re- 7 John D.

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'it IO I ill i Pleio-e; -udiicil or rllaliKfS of Pvteni THE AMAZING MR. TL.E. By Quentin DOOLIT- Reynolds. Appleton-Century-Crofts, $3.95. Ever since James H.

(Jimmy) Doolittle led the flight of carrier-based B-25's on a raid upon Tokyo, the American people have waited for this book. That raid, seemingly in defiance of all practical rules of warfare, was the springboard which lifted one of the air force's most deserving oflicers from relative obscurity to his rightful position in the limelight. It also created a hunger among his fans for more information about the man Doolittle, his daring nature, and his attitude toward aviation. Quentin Reynolds, friend of Lieutenant General Doolittle and an accomplished biographer, has Bptly described Doolittle's life from his days as a prize fighter in California tip to the present. The book sets out for the first time a complete account of the Tokyo raid, from its conception to Doolittle's receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the raid.

"The daring, almost suicidal raid on Japan," Reynolds writes, "gave the American people their first authentic war hero. It rhanged the destinies of the 80 officers and men who Esoteric Epic WINDS. By St. Pantheon Books. in Perse.

These Over all were very great winds the faces of the world. Very great over the world, winds rejoicing having nor ryrio nor resting place, Having nor care nor caution, and leaving us, in their wake, Men of straw in the year of Straw Ah, yes, very great winds over all the faces of the living! Scenting out the purple, the ail cloth, scenting out the ivory and the potsherd, scenting out the entire world of things Alexis Sainl-Lcger Ueger (St -John Perse) is a writer of esoteric epics whose work has bee appreciated by the American public; so much so that this is the fourth of his poems to be published heie in bilingual form. The. volume is of the Bollingen series and "designed lo conform with high press standards." Tim translation is by Hugh Chisliohn, nnd after the lour Cantos eif the pin in I'ome a few comments upon the work by eminent French critics, one of whom is Paul Claudel. Tycoon that, a large body of no' ina-a rail a vr- ferial v.

as use-ei in it; pi tion and that the nanatr, been largely rewritten; ne the-iess, the approximate organization and the essential ennelu-sions eif the Pl40 version aie retained. Although the new woik is one-thud shorter than Us predecessor, it is a be Hi (-balanced biography of Roe Her the industrialist anel the philanthropist, and it reveals a me, re adequate masteiy of economic history and a more meaningful appraisal of the Standard Oil Company during the in years alt'-r Profe.ssoi Nevins tries hard to pre sent both side's, although on-still finds in places a certain defensive feeling toward Rockefeller and to a. lesser extent the! Standard Oil Company. Mr. Nevins feeds that the extreme's of praise and blame showered upon Rockefeller "were both unwarranted." and he concludes that John D.

Koi ke feller as "one of the master organizers of the era" in the Indus! I and philanthropy. Tins Professor Nev ins lias ully show tt in his vv edl-writ ten. history of a. ri ina rkable a powerful i'ldilstry. The reviewer disposed to iridors" tic value the author applies to tiie means used by Rockefeller and Standard Oil, but I'r'ifesor ins MOpey'y supphe leader with enough ma'rna! to make lus own judgment, A German Hamlet in Modern Dress KIDE OCT THE STORM.

By Roger Vercel. Translated hy Katherine Woods. Putnam. $4. Reviewed by LUCIAN HARRINGTON This will be a widely read hook, for the author, the Frenchman Roger Vercel, Is already well established in the U.

S. reading public as the man who wrote "Tho Tides of Mont St. Michel" and "Captain Co-nan." His new novel, "Ride Out tho Storm," will catch the popular fancy probably on as large a scale; if it doesn't, it will be the reading public's fault, not the author's. "Ride Out the Storm" is 670 pages in length and one of tho most stirring tales of tho sea for years. It is a great narrative and, equally rewarding, an impressive gallery of portraits.

Tho central character, Rnlland, is done at great length, of course, but since he, as a character, hinges directly upon the story, his portrait is less convincing than many of the lesser characters, who are given to the reader with, fine, bold strokes. The story of "Ride Out the with the help of "God and Robert But the goers toward Gol-eonda will be too soon dismayed if they shrink before this over-loud shrieking. Musil's Vlrich is simply Hamlet in modern dress, a thinker living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1RH. A thinker who would know-all, who is unconsciously a god in the chrysalis. He has a chateau and a charmer; he is a mathematician involved in matters of state; he must, as a patriotic duty participate on the approaching celebration of Franz Joseph's long reign.

Yet, coming between him and Action with a capital A is always a question. 'The reader may wonder if Robert Musil had been moved by that line from the Bhagavad-Gita: "The only actors are the One of the mightiest of.thete questions relates to Moofibrugger, a madman who baa murdered, but who has been dec lared sane and is facing death; the trial is stirring all Europe, the subject' of controversy like the trial of Captain Dreyfus or Alger Hiss. The cast consists of Viennese vainglorious ones, with a Prussian Croesus and his blackamoor mascot; a beautiful saloniere related to Vlrich and called by him Dioti-ma; ministers of state; and looming in the background the puppets of fate whose crowns are to soon to roll in the da-t. "The dance of dissolution'' one critic has called the book. Aetna Uv, who was Robert Musil? One might sav that he was Vlrich in the flesh.

He whs a mathematician who impiovcd the Newtonian chromatomr tr in which the colors of the spectrum show only white when ti revolutions are very fast. Thi supposed by fome to have furnished the title. Muil "'is so wholly dedicated to a life cf Exhaustive Biography of 07 250T1I ANiMVERSAKY A MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, By Robert Musil. Coward-Me-Cann. $4.

Reviewed by KATE TRIMBLE SHARBER "Indeed, after his involuntary experience it even seemed to VI-rich that there was desperately little use in doing away with the guns here and the kings there, and in diminishing stupidity and knavery by any greater or lesser piece of progress: for the measure of all that is disagreeable find bad is instantly made up ngain by new forms of the same t.hing. as though the world were always eliding back with one foot, while it takes a step forward with the other. If one could only discover the cause of this, the secret mechanism of it! That of course would be vastly more important than being a good man according to obsolescent principles. And so in the sphere of morality Vlrich was more drawn to with the general staff than to the everyday heroism of right-doing." In bidding bon voyaee to this rti istet piece, translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Einst Kaiser, British critics particularly are. finding meanings in every metaphor, symbolism in ail situations and excellence in everything.

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Reviewed by DEWEY W. GRANTHAM JR. In IIMO Professor Allan Nevins, prolific historian and biographer, published a two-volume, Hoo-page study entitled "John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Ag8 of American Enterprise." Based on voluminous souice materials and demonstrating; notable success in analyzing the! haracter and thought of one of the most inscrutable, of American industrialists, Mr. Nevins' biography was liailed by many as renewed proof of his high standing in American letters.

Some critics, while recognizing the importance of the work because of the information it container! on Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, as well a- for Professor Nevins' treatment of the great oilman's pi t-sonal life anil his philanthropies, had significant uservations about the study as a whole. Most of these felt that the author had la i overly rym-pathetie in his account of Poeke-fellcr and the Standard Oil Company, and that this attitude had led him to present an inaccurate evaluation of the methods and 1h" role of the man and his company in the broader setting if iv 4 Broadwav.