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1 I I i -m Success' ompson -ft ShY tn1atnullar? Sundo Novl, 1964 Letters igifDwf School Frost 1 14 Jt BOOKS Reveal AFoet -mmmm mm "HOW CHILDREN FAIL, by John Roltt Pitman Publish ing New York, 19634 $4.50, ''SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT rntitffr edited by Lawrence Thompson! Bolt, Rinshart and Winston, New York, -By these children he- does not mean the pew littler children In school fail," declares teacher John Holt on me nrst page ot wis lascinaung oook. Robert frost wrote no autobiography ai luch. But a man of deep convictions and Intense personality reveals himself somewhat in hU poetry and hii letters evenjnori fully. Babcock Vietvs unfortunates whtL brine home report cards full of rFs and in mis generous volume, Law- Ds. The failures he speaks, of i in i ranee Thompson, a Princeton here, loms 'of them for the first are often bright and capable; mam a time.

and even do well on the record. mm Frost wai man of sorrows. but they have never developed who suffered torment over the more than a fraction of the potential for learning and understanding with which they were Illnesses and troubles of his loved ones. He was aloof and professor who has been considered Frost's official biographer for the past 25 years, presents 466 letters from Frost to friends and acquaintances, together with 40 letters written to Frost by distinguished figures, and 59 letters about the poet, most of them by Froati wife. As it stands, it is revealing reading.

This is the raw materi "JAYBIRDS GO TO BELL ON FRIDAY," by HavUah Babcock: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1964, $3.95. The blgmouth says HavUan Babcock, 1 by habitat a born. wiinarawn, proua ana some times peevish. In later years, "How Children Fail" Is no dry, statistical tome. It is in the smallmouth a Yankee.

"Yet molt of the theories he was quite aware of the charming image the public had it 'about bas fishing art propounded by Yankees; and tome of stead written in the form of a diary or journal made from actual observations of children in their theories about southern of mm, and worked consci ously to preserve. Annotated and explained, "Se class, full of love and warmth, al, as a matter of fact, for a two-volume biography now be i Humor In Wall Street Journal? Non-subscribfrs wouldn't suspect it, The Wall Street Journal being so famed as a financial journal, but this collection of top cartoons from the Journal's editorial page showi that even millionaires enjoy a good chuckle. The sample above is from "Here's Looking at You" a delightful anthology published by Dutton, $3.50. fishing will not hold up in court For instance, they tell us to fish deep fifteen, twenty, even thirty feet. There is one and sadness, too.

lected Letters of Robert Frost' is thorough and lengthy read ing written bv Thompson. These studies were made with This collection does not paint the fifth grade at Shady Hill ing, out is ideal for a study in depth of a great American man an entirely complimentary por thihg they overlook: Northern ponds were built by the Lord, School in Cambridge. trait of the beloved American and followed a number of years of letters. B.H.H poet. Thompson, who probably of teaching in elementary and knew Frost as well as any man, secondary schools He found that watching from takes care that the many facets of Jus personality are revealed 'Farnham's Freehold? His 30th the sidelines rather than teach ing is a novel experience, for Southern ponds mostly by the Democrats." Havilah Babcock ranks with Robert Ruark, Dick Starnes and Corey Ford among the finest writers on nature viewed with a Humorous eye in the country For more1 years than you can imagine, Babcock head of the English department at the University of South Carolina has this time it is not only the at Comedy, Dancing 'Bajour' Features tentive, children you see, but those who are not getting the lesson as.

well. His indictment is harsh we adults, both parents and teachers, destroy most of our chil Science Fiction By Heinlein Always A Treat For Fans Norman Katkov i busy writer Mattson' A Bleeder 'In Coldr? NEW YORK (AP) Dancing in the comedic vein is to be the i ail dominant element in "Bajour," been wetting fishing lines and dren's intellectual and creative musical about modern day pulling triggers over Southern capacity by making them gypsies. fields and ponds. lein on a piece of science fiction afraid-of not doing what other The venture is scheduled for ant place of strange values and customs. Few men know as well as automatically marks it as a people want; of making mis Babcock the way of the Bob special treat, for he is a man It's all mystifying and thor November on Broadway under the sponsorship of Harris Mas- "FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD," by Robert Heln-leini P.

Putnam's Sons, New York, 1064, 14.95. The name of Robert A. Hein- takes, of experimenting, of try- Havilah Babcock eyea 'Jaybird White quail and the bass. oughly entertaining for those of rare imagination and ng the difficult, afraid of fail terson, Texas rancher and busi Fewer still can write about ableiio combine antasywith who enjoy this type of imagi ure nessman; them with the warm enthu the commonnlace to achieve native relaxation. "How Children Fail" follows siasm, the humor, the under something far above the routine.

B.H.H. a line of thought which has ao- standing that Babcock brings to "Farnham's Freehold" is his peareo mere and more of late. the pases of his widely ac 30th novel, a milestone in itself, one which is sobering to any claimed books. and as fresh and exciting as the one who works or bves with "ERIC MATTSON," by Norman Katkov: Doubleday Company, Garden City, N. 1964, $5.95.

The rubber glove, scalpel and vial of medicine on its sur-gical-gown green dust jacket proclaim "Eric Mattson" another tense and torrid medical novel about a brilliant young ssur geon at career's crisis. The title names the doctor, These have included "My rest. Art Topics Are Offered At Library -B. H. youngsters.

Health Is Better in This one involves an Ameri "I Don't Want To Shoot an Ele phant," and "Tales of uail can family saved from a world- Survivors On Island Find Selves Cooking Fun destroying atomic attackby Such" and numerous features quick retreat to their bomb for Field and Stream maga shelter. After a final, particular- zine. violent jolt, they test the His pages are always filled Eric Mattson, 34 years old, finishing his fifth year as resident in surgery at University out-of-doors and find not a with wit and originality and the ghastly, radioactive ruin, magic of the sportsmen world By PEG BANISTER Enthusiasts of the arts will be pleased to learn that the An-'. niston Public Library has sev-; era new books in this field. Hospital, eager, compassionate, the beautifully green hills of and they have a strong appeal home without a house or a to anyone who has ever held With Jug In Europe "THROUGH EUROPE WITH A JUG OF WINE," by Morrison Wood: Farrar, Strauss and New York, 1964, $4.50.

"SMOKE ISLAND," by Antony Trewi Random House, New York, 1964, 14.95. dedicated, and ambitious. As the story opens, Eric, dead-tired from four major op or dreamed of holding touch of manr Obvlouslyrthey have been jolted across the "Art: U.S.A.: Now" by Allen fishing rod or a gun. S. Weller is a two volume set erations within a 24-hour peri threshold of time into the past One an old literary chassis- They are delightful, uniquely I containing biocraDhies of art- or the future.

civilized people plunged into simple and completely winning, od, is awakened to a police ambulance call. In quick succes lists. Each biography is accom- panied by colored, and black and The pioneers in this strange CODY HALL primitive Antony world are middle-aged Hugh white plates illustrating Trew constructs, in "Smokt Island," a fine vehicle of human works of the artist. Another This is a third cookbook for beings under stress. sion, he is summoned to the side of a heart attack victim at a small ice cream parlor, performs an 'emergency Cae-sarian on a Boston bulldog mother-to-be, and hospitalizes Farnham, his complaining, alcoholic wife, their daughter Karen, and their son Duke; Joe the colored house-boy.

Barbara, Morrison Wood, food editor for book covering American art is the new volume of "Art ip There are nine of them, sur the Chicago Tribune since 1946. vivors floating on a raft in the America." whose cooking column "For a visiting college; girl, and Doc Indian Ocean after their airlin Arthur Zaidenbere's "Prints a gallant old man with acute tor- Livingstone I Presume, Men Only," bas been nationally syndicated. and How to Make Them abdominal pain. Graphic Arts for the Beginner" Yule Book Is Happy Potpourri "ONCE UPON A CHRIST Along the way, as the night Last year Wood and his wife a handsome yellow cat. Their Eden is shattered, however, by the arrival of a strange discusses woodcuts, linoleum made a leisurely tour of Eu er sinks.

Alter agonizing days, they land on a small, un-habited spit of an island. Trew's story revolves chiefly around three men. There is Jos Lombaard, a white SoutlrAfri- blocks, etching, lithography, rope, exploring 156 towns and silk screen, and others. These progresses, the other characters of the story appear Dr. Kiiute Inuanralmost legen dary chiet: of surgery Katin- airship, which whisks them away into a futuristic society cities a total of processes are each illustrated more than 10,000 miles.

can of independence, strengtn with works by well known artists. A special section in the of some 4,000 years hence, a weird and not altogether-pleas- They must have- enioved it ka Christianson, the little dog's owner; the Philip Whiteheads, MAS TIME," by Thyra Fer- book explains two new methods thoroughly, for they came back with more than 300 recipes, all II and III, a father and son re Bjorn: Holt, Rinehart and developed and practiced by the By Butler Winston, New York, 1964, author himself. combination who publish the Daily News; Eric's adoring of which they'd tried in the various inns and note's on the con $2.95 Raphael Ellender's book also tinent. introduces new methods 4n art, and courage but of deep hostility toward the second of the three, This enemy is Ezekiel Wana-li as strong and as brave as Jos and a successful, Oxford-educated politician to boot and a black African. The third man.

is Victor Canning, a rich and cunning industrialist, ineffective under -con The first Christmas book "of nurse-sweetheart, Peggy and it double handful at others, i The younger Whitehead fires Though the dishes are as the title suggests "Basic the year always catches us un edly European, each could be a wares, but we are glad to see made In the American kitchen. it, anyway. Most of the ingredients are one of his reporters, JKatlnka re cieves a caller, the old patient hemorrhages in lurid living col or, and everything gets under And when it comes from Thy readily obtainable at any good ra Ferre Bjorn, who has kept ditions of distress but not satis- us in delighted laughter- for Drawing: New Ways to See and I Draw." Books in other areas of the arts are "Daniel Blum's The-: atre World Season 1963: 64" and Curt Sachs "The His-; tory of Musical Instruments." This last xovers everything from the primitive, and pre-his toric to the twentieth century. food store, and in other cases, the author lias substituted another food available in this coun way. years with tales of her Swed This is a tried and true for fled to follow rather than lead.

Stranded with them are Nada, the airliner's stewardess. 'and mula for an exciting -novel, -r try. ish Papa and Mama, it's special treat. 'Faulkner Country The illustration is one of Campbell Grant's numerous sketches for Richard Armour's "American Lit Relit," published by McGraw-Hill. Armour brushes away the cobwebs which age or English class may1 have bestowed upon America's most distinguished writers from Puritans to moderns.

In Bright Satire American Literature Germany Is Topic "LOYALTY IS MY HONOUR," by Ewan Butler: Viking Press, New York, 1964, $5.95. In Udo von Effling, the chief character of this novel, the author has presented a study of the 20th century German mind influenced by World War II, the Nazi movement, the horrors of the Second World War, and the changes of the postwar years. Needless to say, these recipes only surviving crewmember; a There is no plot to "Once though certainly nothing new. -The medical column crowd win find it fascinating. are on the exotic side, more for the gourmet cook with guests Upon a Christmas Time." It' Plates and drawings illustrate just a happy potpourri of Christ Norman Katkov has been a expected, than for the mother mas recolle i from her newsnaperm a n.

magazine writer, and a TV and motion i of six frying up something for Saturday night supper. But they're grand exploring for childhood in Swede, where the dark, cold i ad the beautiful Eurasian, Angelique; and Sarah Tripp, an embittered Englishwoman. There are also Canning's timid, subservient clerk; a con man determined to take care of his own survival; and a strange Britisher from Kenyan picture playwright. He Is also warm fireside glow seem ideally tnose wno enjoy cooking with the author of "Eagle at My Eyes," and 'A Little Sleep, A suited to Yuletide celebratio. imagination, of Here, of course, she tells the custom of the Festival Uttle B.

H. H. BRADY RETURNS Under the pressures of months on the island, these nine the text. Turning to applied arts, we find several new books pertaih- ing to home, decorating. One, "Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen Ideas for 1964" pre' sents hints on planning, color schemes, storage, appliances, and so forth.

Another Better Homes and publication vis "Garden Ideas for 1964." Such items as patios, land-; 6caplngrannuBls, lawff-Tare; raising fruits and vegetables are discussed. Still a third by I Better- Homes and Gardens is HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Scott It is told by an onlooker, an classics and they'll never be English journalist, Richard Brady returns to movie action Lights on' Dec. 13, when the ehold's oldest daughter lights a crown of candles for her head and serves early people learn new truths 'about themselves and about people playing a fighting minister In and Trew's adept pen sketches Jack Chertok, producer of "My Favorite Martian," produced 182 "Lone Ranger" shows, the original "Sky King" and 40 "Cavalcade" subjects. "Black Spurs" for Paramount morning and fat "Lucia Studios. the same again.

Who else but Armour could come to tne conclusion that the moral for young girls in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," is "stay away from-church!" these changes in habit' and thought with quiet, natural cats bus to the family stil "AMERICAN LIT RELIT," by Richard Armour: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964 $3.95. The only writer funnier than Richard Armour is Richard Armour. Arid that's because reading Armour again is as much fun as reading him the first time you always find as in bed. strokes. A C.

H. Martin, who has watched Udo throughout the years, and himself plays a third person part in the narrative at the same time. Indeed, it is Martin's sweetheart who falls in love with Udo and marries him. Von Effling is portrayed as the son of a stern German offi Then there baking, com Purchased By; Universal Pictures? HEADACI4E? See Your CHIROPRACTOR Current Best-Sellers cer -who has taught him obedi aJtWb-cuSE ence and bonor In an inflexible "H-o Building Ideas for 1064. volume Includes both floor plans and decorating I helps.

i ii i Robert MarkeH, producer of "The is a graduate ci engineer. He once designed dams, bridges and Navy aircraft. form. fThese traits, added to FICTION 71 1 KCTTl unuvuiiTM si BelUw HERZOO Autktarltu THE EECTOE OF Udo's natural tendency to take advantage of opportunities as they arise; makes him an Gotham Riots Are Subject "RACE RIOTS NEW YORK 1964, by Fred Shapire and Jamfi-W. Sullivan: Cro-well, New York, 1964, $4.50.

plete with recipes, and the Christmas pig, raised throughout nthe summer and early fall for the winter feast, and the cleaning was vital, complete to a Christmas Eve bath for all the And of course, there was church, and the tree, and presents few by modern standacds) and above all, the love of family' and friends. Small and attractive, "Once Upon a Christmas Time" seems ideal for early Christmas giving. B. H. H.

LtCarre THE 8FT WHO CAME IN FROM THE C0LD mi mm ft PiWMii ftaalfctra CANDT ideal citizen for a totalitarian aBBBHI -IAiBbbM-'. government When Hitler came into Udo found the cause he was Rtw.rt THIS BOUOH MAGIC VMal JULIAN I'Ttl AIMAOEDDON Wallace THE MAN Flamlaf TOD ONLT LIVE TWICE FrMnua A MOTHEE'f II8SEI GENEEAL MaeAriaar REMINISCENCES fh.pl'p MT AVTOSIOOEAPHT Hhafmaa HARLOW looking for. When Nazi Ger The detailed; dramatic and i (.11 u. ru violent story of the race riots much 'and often more to laugh at the second time around. He is the master of the spoof, the quiet phrase with the loaded meaning that erupts suddenly with a megatonnage of hilarity.

He has skewered history All Started With, Columbus," a classic of its kind), literature Tales From Shakespeare" andj "The Classics and, in other favorites, golf, medicine and adolescence. Now, in "American Lit Relit," he goes back to literature this time our native product. From Cotton Mather to Hemingway, he weaves his own magical blend of learning laughter around the American HamlBfwar A MOVEABLE FEAST vr uvii vvrii4 if it iu Vi 1 4 Ithat swept sections of New York, Banlal THE ITALIANS watching for the good opening, Wl THE INVISIBLE GOVERN VOLKSWAGEN he managed to find a political MENT Adler THE KENNEDY WIT Hallarar A TRIBUTE TO JOHN T. FNNtnV YWM career under the Adenauer gov ernment. Bill Bixby of "My Favorite Martian" includes among his motion picture, credits "Lonely Are the Brave" and "Irma La Doucer." OT.ritr.at THE ITtANOE TAC NORWOOD HODGES Motor Inc.

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