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HllllfiS Union Army Matured at Appomattox A STILLNESS AT APPOMAT-OX. By Bruce Catton (Doubleday. $5) 4 Connoisseur and Roberts Pens Lively Diary ONE YEAR OF LIFE. By Cecil Roberts. (Macmillan.

309 pp. $4.50) By George H. Straley DIARIES can be deadly dull, but these autobiographical pages by the famed English novelist (author of "Victoria Four Thirty," "A Terrace In the Sun," and a score of other books) -are a joy to discover. Cecil Roberts Is an inveterate traveler, an acute and sensi-, IN THE dark of a May night In 1864, the Army of the Potomac IPfiiloirelpRm JInqtrirtr pulled out of the trenches and bar tive observer, a connoisseur of ricades where It had Just fought the Battle of the Wilderness. The 3 23 SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1953 0 soldiers didn't know where they ass A.

p4 j- were going. a worshiper at all historic 'and romantic shrines and, of course, a distinguished writer. He has acquaintances, and friends and admirers all over Europe and America, and in his sojourns he is constantly bump But they were pretty sure an old story was being repeated- They had Gallico Pens Biography of A Snoivflake marched forward and fought a battle to a standstill with the Army of Northern Virginia; now they Will Durant Was 28, His Wife Only 15, When They Were Wed 40 Years Ago ing into them and introducing tnem to his readers. would retreat and sit down to await An this book, covering a full year of his life, the author opens reinforcements a new general, and a new campaign unless Robert E. Lee upset the schedule.

But when the troops reached a SNOWFLAKE. By Paul Gallico. (Doubleday. 64 pp. with New Year's Day, 1950, in Alonte Carlo, and closes with Dec.

31, 1950, New Year's Eve, in New crossroads, they did not turn $1.75) this book is aimed at grownups in the hope that it will be toward the rivers. They turned I lork City. In the months between he Is ever south. on the move. He spent mid-Feb ruary to mid-May in Spain, prowl This was no retreat, of the old formula.

That seedy, taciturn, stumpy Grant was going forward to fight again! Some of the men ing in the Prado and the Alham- bra, and he gives intimate im broke into spontaneous cheering; By Ralph Dighton HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 28 (AP). THIS is a love story, even if you do find words like Renaissance and philosophy. It told it ell during an interview with la-. Will Durant, one ol the world's best known philosopher-historians.

Dr. Durant's newest book, "The Renaissance," has just been published. It is the fifth in a monumental series called "The Story cf Civilization." He spends alxrnt five years writing each volume but he is well paid. The first in the serie "The Story of Philosophy," has sold 3 million copies since 1126. His pressions of Barcelona, Madrid and Seville.

Then back to Eng some sang; all along the shuffling ranks there was a lightening of land, over to France, Italy and spirit. Austria, to England again, and then to New York. come one of those few classics on which sophisticates dote, then it is a washout. In spite of being an ardent Gallico fan no cockles of this reviewer's hard old heart were warmed by this little tome. But if it can be restricted to the juvenile field, "Snuwfiake" is as much of a small miracle as its title.

A wonderful "under the tree" gift, "Snowflake" should make this a white Christmas for every child who presses his nose against the pane and wonders what makes it snow. For this is the story of a snowflake who "was all stars and arrows, squares and triangles of ice and light, like a church window. BETT ANDERSON In that hour, the Army of the Potomac attained maturity. As Cattan tells it in his third volume of his splendid history of the Army, the men realized that Grant was a man with a purpose, that the days CHURCHILL LEAVES 10 DOWNING S7T" Churchill Tells Differences Of Allies on War Policies of futility were ended. Koberts aecs with an artist's eye, hears with a musician's ear, and writes with the enthusiasm and good taste of the educated story-teller and man of letters.

His journal Is filled with anecdotes about important persons, living and dead, from Goethe to Barbara Hutton, and with a wide range of personal experiences, from dining with royalty to attending a latest, Durant says, is selling better than "Sexual Behavior in the These were not the untried men of "Mr. Lincoln's Army." Nor were Human Female." His book is about women, too. He thiaks they are wonderful. they the veterans with a vision of "Glory Road." There was a hard core of veterans, to be sure, but there also were bounty jumpers, Ivy i TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY. By Winston S.

Churchill (Houghton, Mifflin. 800 pp. $6) mercenaries, who awaited only op "One Year of Life" is an exqui "The period of man's history known as the Renaissance the rebirth of culture in tne 14th, 15th and 16th centuries could never have happened just the way portunity to desert. But the war By Harold J. Wiegand also was different.

From here on. THE sixth and final volume of his monumental Msknrv nf it was a war of attrition, deadly, I site travelogue not in the style of the modern guidebook, but in the tradition of such skilled observers as Gautier. In its personal expression It is erudite, cultured and edu the Second WTorld War, the Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, deals with merciless. it did if woman hadn't he says. "During the Renaissance she period of the conflict, from the Allied landings in Normandy to the disintegration of Japanese resistence and Churchill's own cational.

defeat at the polls. Catton weaves the fabric of his story was a deft, sure hand. It is exciting. There is little glory, but there is valor. There is fumbling and ineptness, but there also is energy and initiative.

Catton has brought a monumental literary rebelled, educated herself, made herself fit to deal intellectually and culturally with men. She learned to improve her natural charms. in oetween, prompted by his own on-the-spot recordings of events. ne guides the reader through the And from these origins came the wonderful being that is today's great pincers movement from East task to a shining, triumphant smashing new bestseller! THE blazing novel of passion and terror in the wanton excitement of the French Revolution. By the author of The Foxes of Harrow! $3.50 at all bookstores, D1AI woman." and West that ended in the Ger man surrender and Hitler's sui conclusion.

BOB PRICE It was only one easy step to Ariel Durant, the wife he wed cide; through the final sea and air Birds, Hares Are Food for Boys' Family THE TRUANTS. By J. C. Bad-cock. (Pantheon.

124 pp. $2.75) Ballet Star Finds Gift Of Mimicry GOLDEN SLIPPERS. By Lee Wyndham. (Longmans, Green. 211 pp.

$2.75) DR. AND MRS. WILL DURANT battles in the Pacific that cul minated In the dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese no reason why we should not be when she was 15 and he was 28. "My wife and I have been intellectual comrades for 4 years," he went on. "Most of ny books are dedicated to her.

She does a Franklin's Bagatelles In Complete Edition nome islands; through three meet tremendous amount of research ings with Stalin, at Moscow, Yalta and Potsdam, and an intervening conference with President Roose TTOW two English schoolboys THIS charming book, a sequel tc the author's "Slipper Under The first complete collection of Benjamin Franklin's bagatelles is to be published Dec. 8 by Rutgers velt at Quebec. These were all epochal happen ii found food for the family Glass," takes rebellious Maggie table, pocket money and their only enjoyment, by trapping birds and Jones through her first profes University Press, entitled "Frank ings, and no reader of history could be provided with a more knowing or articulate guide, than Sir Win lin's Wit and Folly." These little sional dance work. Steeped in the classical tradition of the ballet, Maggie is outraged at having to ston. rabbits, makes up this little story of the raw and tragic side of animal and human nature which has been widely praised in Britain.

He is able, as is no other living stories, first called "bagatelles" by Dr. Franklin himself, were written for the entertainment of his French friends in particular, two beautiful ladies during his sta in Paris as envoy to the court of perform comic dances, though most youngsters with an eye to the person, to give intimate details on group of children. The way they looked at her, she might have been their mother, not their teacher. I followed them inside a small building, into a room with desks. I sat down at a desk, too.

After a while they asked me who I was. I told them, and said I wanted to go to school that way, too. "It turned out to be an experimental school, and I loved it. Then one day there came a great disappointment. The woman I loved so much as my teacher did not show up.

In her place there was a man. "It was," she said pointing, "that man." Mrs. Durant attempted to explain how a girl of 15 and a man of 28 could fall in love and be married. "Aristotle," she said, "believed a woman reaches maturity 15 years before a man does. "That being the case, there was married despite our ages.

My husband may believe he was only following the teachings of Aristotle. I think, however, there was a little more to it than that." Mrs. Durant smiled. "I was young, but he was patient, and he trained me and educated me to love the things he loved. I am comes a time when a woman's life can be very empty.

"After she has rearer her family we have a daughter and a son there is nothing left for her to do but boss her children's lives, unless she has another interest. My husband has always made me a part of his work, let me share it, create It with him. Now these, the best years of my life, are full. "It has not been easy, sharing life with such a man he really is one of the greatest minds of this century. But" and here Ariel Durant folded her hands contentedly "it has been worth It." The title comes from the truancy the first policy breaks on wartime strategy between the U.

S. and I of the pair who, for reasons not for them. You might say we write my books together." Durant, nearing 68, i3 white-haired and trim. His calm, unlined face makes him seem 10 years younger. Mrs.

Durant is a i electric personality. At 55, her hair is white, too, but on the quietest day it seems ruffled and disturbed. Mrs. Durant regards her husband almost as she mlgh- a saint. "He is so good himself, and believes so much in the goodness of others, that he really needs protection," she says.

The way they met is Ariel Durant's story. Let her tell iz: "I was brought up in New York, and I hated the kind of schools I had to go to. Sometimes I just didn't go. I played hooky. "One day I was walking in the park.

There was a womt.n and a Louis XVI. future would have jumped at the chance to appear as a featured dancer in a Technicolor movie. It takes months of hard work and Ktrueeline aeainst the unwel Britain and show, almost to the minute, when the breakdown in The bagatelles range in subject from a unique but unaccepted pro the Grand Alliance with the Russians occurred. come domination of her dancing partner and discoverer, Duncan Churchill had two main differ posal of marriage Elysian to the ruefully comic "Dialogue Between Dr. Franklin made clear by the author, would have gone hungry had they riot developed skill in liming the hedges so they could carry small birds home for the pot or for surreptitious sale in the village.

The author pictures an existence as grim as that of Hardy's characters on Egdon Heath in his brief prose interpretation. FOR Elliott, before Maggie begins to and the Gout. ences with U. S. strategic policy, and he is still bitter about both.

He wanted Allied forces in Italy to realize that there can be merit in the comic side of ballet, and that Richard E. Amacher, editor, has written a general Introduction as well as introductory notes to each make a right-handed strike through Trieste into Austria and Hungary, to get to Vienna and the I McCREADY HUSTON bagatelle. Danube region before the Russians. But he was over-ruled, and the army in Italy was decimated to Green Valley em California Llewellyn's Is in South make possible what Churchill regarded as the needless invasion of southern France. Later on, Churchill appealed to both General Eisenhower and President Truman to keep TJ.

S. Philadelphia Calendar hy Sketch Club FATHERS ONLY by Earl S. Rudisill The ways of a father are learned. They are not inherited." Some of the past history of fatfier may be a bit startling to those who have not realized that fathers have a past, but it makes this a lively and readable book of practical advice and information for all fathers. $1.75 at off book ttorot Doan Boys, Bucks Terrors, Heroes of Colonial Novel FIRE AND THE HAMMER.

By Shirley Barker. (Crown. 339 pp. $3.50) By Frederic G. Hyde her own gift of mimicry, which gives her an unequalled opportunity to save the picture in a moment of tragedy, is the firm foundation on which her career as a humorous dancer will be based.

Her association with several of the great in the world of ballet, her unswerving dedication to her work, and the final knowledge that she has left the world of her childhood friends, all contribute to Maggie's "growing up," and at the end of the book we are left with the happy assurance that she will be able to make her own comfortable niche, both in her work and in her private life. A lively story, salted with humor, which will attract not only girls whose primary interest is the dance, but any girl who is fascinated by the theater and theater lore. JESSICA LYON troops in Germany moving as far east as possible, and he warned A FLAME FOR DOUBTING THOMAS. By Richard Llewellyn. (Macmillan.

341 pp. $3.75) TN "How Green Was My Valley." Richard Llewellyn's first Truman that if the Western Allies played no significant part in the FOR the second successive year, mpmhprs of th Philadelnhia I great success, he stuck close to the Welsh landscape he knew liberation of Czechoslovakia, that THE hard-riding and reckless Doan brothers who terrorized Bucks county during the Revolution and who have come down in legend as brigands are the heroes of Shirley Barker's most recent historical romance. Heroes is the correct best, and thereby showed wisdom. Now a transplanted American, he tries his hand here for the first time with the never-never land of southern California. Regretfully, one must report she has played him false.

word. The author has rescued their reputation from the cloud country would go the way of Yugoslavia. Again he was overruled, and U. S. troops pulled back from both Prague and Berlin.

The first big break with Russia came over Poland, wher Stalin at Yalta had promised "free and unfettered elections." Poland was quickly made a Soviet puppet, and Churchill notes that Yalta agreements were broken within two Sketch Club have collaborated in producing an engagement calendar that is of particular interest to Philadelphians because its illustrations are all "right around home." Such Quaker City landmarks as City Hall, Independence Hall (in a snowstorm) and other historical buildings, and the venerable Academy of Music, merit full-page pic 'Penn State Yankee' In Autobiography of obloquy under which it has lain for so many years, and has done so in a tone that has the ring of conviction. More than that, Miss Barker has told with appropriate fieriness the story of an early American family's THE life story of a college professor who first recognized the The denizens of a carnival pier jutting into the Pacific people this novel most generously. The author obviously is fascinated by them, by their colorful lingo and their mode of life. He his studied them and reports then faithfully and at length. His oceanside carnie become the playmates and advf rsaries of one Thomas Knute Follett, an errant history professor who has taken a room on the pier after quitting his'job, to get away from it all and to save money.

By sheer months. On the Yalta concessions by Roosevelt to Russia in the Far East, Churchill carefully notes that entire Nation's literature is told in an autobiography, "Penn State tures. The book also contains many smaller drawings of animate and inanimate sights familiar to visitors downton the "Lavender Man," the "Chestnut Man," parks, I Yankee" (Pennsylvania State College, 388 pages, The professor who subordinated the literature of his own New Eng "responsibility rests on the U. S. representatives; it would have been wrong for us to get in their way." Written after the break with land to deal fully with the litera struggle to be free men, in the literal sense of the word beholden to no government, no tax collector, no judge save their own consciences.

It was for this ideal, says Miss Barker, that Moses Doan and his younger brothers went night-riding at fir: to get back what the tax-collector had taken from them, and nothing more. Beyond that, they asked only to be let alone. As Quakers, even though long since read out of meeting at Plum-steadville for their pranks, they ture of the West and the South was Fred Lewis Pattee, who from and such seasonal phenomena as Mummers, and children cooling off from a fireplug. Besides the Philadelphia sights, suburbanites will recognize scenes of the Devon horse show and Tookany Greek. The calendar, done with skill and imagination, is sold at most stationery stores, for the benefit of the 1894 to 1928 was on the faculty of Penn State.

Russia has become critical, the book is heavily pessimistic at times. The author expresses his feelings in his prefacing theme: "How the great democracies triumphed, and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them their life." Dr. Pattee, who died In 1950, gained an international reputation as critic, scholar and novelist. coincidence, old Arnold Gesser-man, owner of the midway, about this time wearies of resisting the pressure of gamblers who want to open a concession on the pier, and turns the who'e business over to Follett to see what he can do with it. Never a businessman, and not overly blessed until then with self-confidence, Follett responds nobly to this challenge.

Doubt lng Thomas, with the help of the wo women His "History of American Litera ture Since 1870," published in 1915, Sketch Club, oldest art club in the United States, whose 93-year his caused a furore, was the first to deal authoritatively with the new refused to serve in the new army of the Continental Congress, and if they stole horses for King George's tory includes the membership of many famous artists. The home of Western literature. In it Dr. Pat tee gave prominence to such the club, a Colonial brick mansion at 235 S. Camac is pictured on SHIRLEY BARKER hitherto unsung writers as Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller and Mark i the cover.

Twain. I In his life, Dayton Fredc rick of the society Fredericks and Ya Valkun, the Norse refugee, opposes the racketeers despite their terrorist S. L. S. forces, it was only to get money to live.

Her picture of the Doans is probably a good bit more sympathetic than they deserve, since they did rob and torture and murder in a community which at the time still lived by law of a sort, but when Miss Barker is done, no reader who has followed her through can say he didn't understand the Doans. This is the story, too, of Lass l'Mir i EL I' i Globetrotters Are Supreme AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS. By Dave Zink-off with Edgar Williams. (Macrae Smith. 218 pp.

$235) The author, who has had an ex Moguls Liked Titles And Philanthropies THE AGE OF THE MOGULS. By Stewart H. Holbrook. (Doubleday. $5) VANDERBILTS.

with I Gould, Cooke and Drew; Rockefeller, with Flagler, Arch-bold, Rogers, Pratt: Carnegie, with Schwab and Frick; Mellon and aluminum, Guggenheims and copper, DuPonts, Ford and Fords these are the figures so colorfully packing these pages. If they spent money on titles, yachts, marble mansions, old-world castles or private railroad cars, they also founded libraries, art collections, universities. This lively volume inaugurates the "Mainstream of America Series" edited by Lewis Gannett. W. G.

ROGERS Aa tactics, to live up to the faith! placed in him by Gesserman. faith which, in the eyes of this re- viewer, would never have been so; freely reposed by anyone as shrewd as Gesserman is supposed to be. As a fable of our time, "A Flame Doubting Thomas" makes clear the author's belief that anyone who calls on his inner fund of courage can successfully combat the forces of evil; that sitting back and bemoaning evil's predominance is not the way to make the world But as a story, or as a study of Marvayne, the New England girl who came down to Bucks to visit her sister, and fell in love with the a youngest and wildest of the Doans, the forest-loving Mahlon. Such was the turbulence of their natures, the depth of Lass' love for a man who would never be tied American manners ani modes, it gets pretty thin. F.

G. H. down, that the outcome of their love story remains genuinely in ceptionally able assist from Edgar (Ted) Williams, of the staff of "Today," The Inquirer's Sunday magazine, tells here of his travels and tribulations with what is unquestionably the greatest basketball team in existence. David Zinkoff, who is also a PRAYER BOOK the gift that continues forever to give spiritual satisfaction, service and comfort. Proyers thot meet every occasion end special needs.

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