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a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1962 Reu -First 'month -of First World War 'si Robert Nathan Writes of Israel In his new novel NEWS 0 1 Illustration from "The Song in My i Drum," by Russell Hoban with pictures by Lillian Hoban. (Published by Harper.) Books for children Ipfulubclpfiij Inquirer new titles "A Short History of Mexico" by J. Patrick McHenry carries this cover drawing by Doris Rosenthal in the Dolphin original edition. (Dolphin Books. 95 cents.) knows the jeweJs were stolen from her aunt and that she was not asleep when the sick woman was smothered.

"Be quiet," answers Helen Vorvorcano. "Pay attention to the play." THE YOUNG MARRIEDS. By Judith Heiman, (255 pp. Simon and Schuster. $3.95.) Judith Helman's book has a provocative title but its eon-tents fail to fulfill its promise.

To be sure, her two major characters are a young married couple living in a wealthy Westchester community but what happens to them also happens to not so young married people as well as to those not married. They fall in love, they fall out of love. THE CALIFORNIA I LOVE. By Leo Carrillo, with Ed Ains-worth. Illustrated by Don Perceval.

(230 pp. Prentice-Hall. $7.50.) A cavalcade of history and legend, tradition and adventure in tribute to the pioneering spirit of old Spanish California. The late Leo Carrillo, whose Castilian family played a part in this history, discusses the explorers, vaqueros and mission padres of old California, as well as his own life and the highlights of his career in show business. IEd Notes on A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME.

By Anthony Powell. (211pp. Little, Brown. "A Question of Upbringing," "A Buyer's Market" and "The Acceptance World" the first three books in Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series in one volume. Powell's sparkling portrait of English society between the two world warsrhas been widely praised by critics in England and the United States.

BETWEEN ONUS AND JUMNA. By Arnold J. Toyn-bee. (211 pp. Oxford Informal sketches of a journey in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, with Toynbee's vivid descriptions of the people, incidents, landscape and history of the region.

His most recent book, "Reconsiderations," is the twelfth volume in his "Study of History." FOUR PATHS TO PARADISE: A Book About Jamaica. By Hugh B. Cave. (308 pp. Doubleday.

Informative, interesting view of the people, places and history of Jamaica, where Cave now lives. The emphasis is on the inhabitants of the colorful island, the small towns and the countryside, rather than on the big tourist resorts. Mr. Cave has written "Haiti: High Road to Adventure," "Black Sun," "The Cross on the Drum," and other books about the Caribbean. INDIA: A Modern History.

By Percival Spear. (491 pp. University of Michigan Tress. A volume in the University of Michigan History of the Modern World Scries, giving a general view of India's past and discussing her transformation under the impact of the West into a modern nation state. FAMILY JEWELS.

By Petru Dumitriu. Translated by Edward Hyams. (437 pp. Pantheon, $4.95.) On the final page of Petru Du-mitriu's novel, two of his characters, Madame Vorvorcano and her daughter Elvira, each lavishly clothed ar.d bcjcweled, are sitting in a theater box in Bucharest. Laconically, Elvira informs her mother that she i exhibit ge recais Tragic odyssey our REFUGE, By Maurice Meier.

(Norton. 241 pp, By ELISABETH CADE In the many volumes of concentration camp literature, some occasionally appear which throw a new light on this eternally tragic story. The majority of the Jews murdered under the Nazi regime went to their deaths passively, knowing there was no way out, In some rare cases, Jews did take drastic, action in an attempt to save themselves. Meyer Levin's "Eva" was one of those novels which arc thrillers as well as documentaries. Others such as "The Diary of Anne Frank" and Elie Wicsel's "Night" have dealt with the effects of persecution on the human spirit with the bitter realism of the victim, yet also with the hand of the.

artist. Maurice Meier's "Refuge," however, can only be classified as a typical case history of the German-Jewish refugee. The rotation of events is familiar escape of a family from Germany, in this instance to France separation of the family in the country of refuge internment of the husband as enemy alien deportation of mother and children to Auschwitz annihiliation. Unfortunately "Refuge" is marked by a lack of writing ability which might have served to engrave this suffering deeply enough in the minds and hearts of readers. The book jacket refers to Maurice Meier's narrative as having "The impact of one of Kafka's tales of horror and bureaucratic tyranny." Any comparison between Maurice Meier and Kafka is about as far-stretched as the limits of a blurb writer's imagination.

'Savage Sam' On Feb. 14, Harper will Sam," story of the son of Old Yeller, by Fred dip-son. Set in the East Texas of the 1870's, the novel is concern-ned with a dog named Savage Sam, and his pursuit of the Apaches who have seized two children. Burnside show The Women's City Club, 1622 Locust is holding a sale of water color and oil paintings by the late Cameron Burnside through Feb. 20.

nity Art Gallery of Friends Neighborhood Guild until February 4. Paintings and terra cottas by Jovan Obican are on view at the Newman Contemporary Art Gallery until February 17. Works by Tom Ross are on view at The Studio Gallery until February 9. Paintings by Giovanni Mar-tino are on exhibit at the Penn Art Center Galleries through February 7. Lehigh University's fourth art exhibit of the 1901-62 academic year, "New Techniques in Painting" will open with a tea from 2 to 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, January 21 in the Alumni Memorial Building Galleries in Bethlehem.

An exhibit of paintings, water colors and drawingi by Judi Oscr will be held starting Feb. 4 at the Cheltenham Township Art Centre, Ashbourne Road and Oakland Drive, and continue through March 4. Lithographs by Michael Lou-ridas will be on exhibit during February at the Universalis! Church, Stenton ave. and Gor-gas Lane. 4 i THE GUNS OF AUGUST.

Ey Barbara VV. Tuchman. (Macmillan. $6.95.) The first month of the First World War was a decisive turning point in history if there ever was one, and this book is a minutely detailed account of all its major events. Appropriately, Mrs.

Tuch-man's first chapter sets an introductory keynote by describing the gathering of all the crowned heads of Europe in 1910 for the funeral of Britain's Edward VII. This event served as a requiem for a past age, for the world never was the same a.gain. The last chapter takes the war to the Battle of the Marne, a point at which Germany's Schlieffen plan for a quick sweep to victory had been crushed and the struggle had begun to settle down into a four-year stalemate in the trenches. WAR EXPECTED The author presents a merciless picture of policy makers and generals in these pages. It was a war which everyone expected, but for which only the Germans had prepared and they had made preparations, only for a short blitz.

As outlined here, it was a time when civilian officials were blindly unaware of what needed to be done, and uninformed about what a few military officials were haltingly trying to do; a time when military staffs were clinging stubbornly to outmoded and inflexible paper plans, and field generals were temperamentally ignoring orders or improvising the wrong things. The author has dug throughly into the theories and battle plans which preceded the first shot; has assembled a vast amount of personal detail about the individuals who played a part in the drama; and with the aid of maps and a day-by-day narrative has depicted vividly the flow of battle. TACTICS DOMINATE She has not nad much space to delineate the reactions of the little people, but has turned a bright light on the reactions of the upper brass. And she hasn't pulled any punches. Some readers will be fascinated with the military strategy and tactics which dominate this book.

Some will be a little depressed by what the author presents as massive stupidities. Perhaps some will be a little overwhelmed by the technical detail. On balance, it is a prodigious feat of putting raw history into perspective. MILES A. SMITH Is story key THE LATTIMER LEGEND.

By Ann Hebson. (325 pp. Macmillan. The lively 110-year-old Joel Lattimer, survivor of Appomattox, is the link between two plots. His garrulous reminiscences enrage his grandson, for Tom Lattimer, with nightmare memories of Germany and 'Korea, feels that any war talk is odious.

In fact, although Tom is handsome, rich, respected, and happily married, he finds the past repugnant, the present dreary and the future hopeless. There comes a night which Tom must pass in the old family mansion, high above the Ohio, while Grandpa sleeps off the excesses of a Fourth of July celebration. He chances on the diary of Grandpa's stepmother, a siz-2ling document covering her girlhood affairs, her wretched marriage, and her elopement in 1863 with one of Morgan's Raiders. Its perusal and Grandpa's subsequent revelations about the wicked Kate leave Tom a changed man. RETIRE TO PORT CHARLOTTE FLORIDA Cjfi'andmg Horn Values.

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(Doubleday.) Everyone dreams People who claim that they never dream will be surprised to learn that not only does everyone, dream, but that everyone follows a universal pattern of dreaming. In "The Science of Dreams," which Doubleday will publish on Feb. 16, Edwin Diamond, the science editor of Newsweek, reports that studies have proven that in an eight-hour night of sleep, every individual dreams approximately once every nirety minutes averaging four or five dreams per night. art In exhibit at American Academy NEW YORK, Jan. 27.

-The American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters is holding a memorial exhibit of Max Weber's paintings, drawings and sculptures (till Fe.h. 18). Weber's own work wavered between fauvism, realism, abstract, primitive and expressionist art, and many of his paintings suffer from the faults he himself diagnosed. Especially his cubist paintings, as well as of his exceedingly abstracted cartoon-like -figure compositions, belong to the dusty past. On the other hand, all his eastern Jewish ghetto themes are painted with poetry and deep understanding in a gewe well chosen to survive the coming and going of many art styles.

(American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 W. 155th St.) FINCH MUSEUM Two years ago the Finch College opened its small but beautiful museum to the public ami added yet another cultural point of interest to New York's lively art scene. Its exhibitions change about every two months and consist of drawincs and paintings donated to the Finch Collection. The current exhibit consists of lesser known Italian and Flemish Renaissance masters. The star painting is Pieter Brueghel the Younger's "Carnival versus Lent." Much like Brueghel the Elder, the Younger used figurative symbolism to convey the conflicts of the Reformation.

Carnival riding on a barrel holding speared chickens is opposed by a nun riding a similar barrel enclosing fish. The respective following of the two opposing parties symbolizes the figures in conflict during this tumultuous time. Other paintings in tho exhibit are in the manner of Holbein, Veronese. Titian and others. They arc of interest to the public precisely because they show the lesser masters of the great Renaissance, so abundant in European collections but not well represented in the U.

S. (Until Feb. 15, Finch College Museum of Art, 62 E. 78th CTLRLOTTE L1CIITBLAU Max Webe at Makler Gallery A STAR IN THE WIND. By Robert Nathan.

(Knopf. $4.50.) In this novel about a young Jew and the beginnings of the state of Israel, Nathan has encompassed many of the motives of mankind. It is a story about Joseph Victor, who was running away from life. As a boy in Cleveland he had been prodded by his family into a frustrating attempt to be a child prodigy of the violin. In escaping from that imbroglio, he had become a news correspondent in Rome.

And it was in Rome, that he met Priscilla Greene, of Boston, who at 23 was remarkably adept at managing her own life and those of several others. They had an affair, which both of them realized could not last for long, and it didn't. Then came an assignment for Joseph to cover Britain's withdrawal from the. Middle Eust, which would leave the infant state of Israel to the mercies of the bloodthirsty Arabs, as everyone believed. Joseph made the trip on a refugee ship, crammed with European Jews who had managed to survive but maimed spiritually and mentally the horrer of the German concentration camps.

And there on the ship he met Anna, whom he was destined to follow to the little hill fortress in Israel called "Star in Wind." These later episodes on the frontier of Israel are graphic and moving. Nathan tells his story with a sharp sense of irony and pathos, blended with a fine feeling for the inevitability of fate. He spins well the words that convey ideas and emotions. fleOn'S rgr Napoleon's mother is the subject of the biography, "Madame Letizia." by Monica Stirling, which Harper will publish on February 14. Letizia Ramo-lino was born in Corsica during the reign of Louis XV and died in her Roman palace the year before Queen Victoria came to the throne of England.

Russian people The Russian people and the rigid, collectivistic world in which they live are the subjects of Joseph Novak's new book. Entitled "No Third Path," it will be published by Doubleday on Feb. 9. Sculpture By DENNIS LEON An exhibition of contemporary sculpture is on display at the Makler Gallery until the end of February. The 45 pieces in a great va-rity of media represent the work of 26 invited local and out of town sculptors.

The collection enjoys an aura of quality not apparent in a Philadelphia sculpture show since the Art Alliance's "Central Europeans Exhibition" of last year. But whereas that exhibition concentrated on work from a region, the Makler exhibition attempts to show the broad gamut of style and media that characterize today's sculpture. For many years, painting has held a more dominant role than sculpture. The investigation of experience and the construction of a personal reality which together form a large part of the artist's quest were perhaps more expressable in the non-real illusions of a painted canvas. The sculptor has, at times, attempted to use painterly devices to aid him in his comparable search.

Works in this exhibition such as "Leander" by Robert Mallary, "Relief" by John Chamberlain and "The Brigade" by Bernard Langlais attest to the persistence of this approach. But the main reply that sculp-ure has offered involves the utilization of its most obvious characteristic its own physical existence or the reality of the object. A piece of sculpture, be it bronze, wood, stone, plastic or steel no matter what it does or does not represent has a reassuring actual physical existence. Almost all the pieces on display are carefully contrived to take advantage of this aspect. There are variations of surface textures, careful distributions of masses, studied images of provocative associations, and so on.

With these devices (and more, of course) the sculptor has emphasized more and more the ob-ject-ness of his creations. Some pieces notably the early Lee Bontecov, and all of those by William Entwisle, depend almost entirely on this sense of the real object. They tend to become, as a consequence, an element in the narrative as though a real explanation for them does exist somewhere in their causation. The aforementioned construction of a personal reality (that can be meaningfully translated) i i the narrative and research are excellent. At $3.95.

The story of "Keo the Cave Boy," and his growing up in the dawn-of-man era is an interesting one with a curious sense, of realism. The mistakes he makes and the ways he learns are no different than those of a young boy today ex- riftnl in I i iMA and I'liriArl Hoi iile ii jji in wine ouu taiau utiauj, It is unfortunate that so fine a story should be hampered by grotesque illustrations of the "can't draw" school. The prehistoric buffalo resemble black English sheep dogs, the mammoth looks like a child's impressionistic drawing, and the people like dwarf corpses. The author is Lois Hamilton Fuller, the illustrator, Donald Bolog-nese. (Abingdon Press.

128 $2.75.) "The King's Thane," by Charles A. Brady, is a fine tale of a lame fifteen-year-old boy who served Beowulf so well that he finally attained his goal of becoming a knight at King Edwin's Court. This is high adventure during early English history. Illustrated by Henry Pitz in exactly the right spirit. (Clarion Books.

191 pp. $2.50.) Biology prof Poses questions On man's goals THE WHOLE CREATION. Rv Theodore Morrison (Viking, There are three main characters in this novel, deftly chosen to set up a crossfire of ideas about the human creature's notions of his own destiny. The central figure is a biology professor at a hypothetical eastern university, a scientist who has some questions in his mind about man's ultimate origins and purposes; a faculty man who lets administrative politics push him around until the last minute, but who has an intellectual integrity worth admiration. The second is his brother-in-law, an industrial engineer in a big industry.

He is the ex-athlete, raconteur and earnest Corporation Man who inevitably gels caught in the double-crossing world of big business, but who leaves behind him a trail of generosity and good will. The third is a writer who happens to take a lecturing job at the university at a time when he has hit a dead end of frustration in his creative effort. He is a specialist in irony, who comes to the realization that irony is not all. There is a ub-theine of a modern romance, and there are plenty of overtones related to the sociology jf modern marriage. Morrison has done a skillful job of story telling.

There is plenty of action, but the pace of his writing is rather leisurely. The dialog is a bit "talky" but at least it has meat in it. The book may not create any sensations, but it has depth and quality. Gallery 10 show Gallery 10, New Hope, is showing oils and watercolors by member artists: Angclo, Castellon, Chen Chi, Dchn, de-Knight, Landau, Laugier, Paone, Shure, Smith and sculpture by Utescher through January. Gallery will also show work of its guests: animal sculpture by George Papish-vily, and etchings by Harold Altman.

Tell Me Some More," by Crosby Newall Bonsall, is a delectable plug for the wonders to be found on library shelves an elephant can be held under one arm, a camel in your hand, a lion can be petted and seeing is believing! An excellent little tale that can be dramatized for a book or library program by beginning readers. Pictures by Fritz Sicbel (Harper. $1.95.) "A Is for Anything," by Rath-arina Barry, is a novelty with the letters based on old wooden type faces. It probably will not teach the alphabet effectively since simple, catchy rhythms that do are lacking, but it will amuse the grownup reading stand in spots the puzzlycd child listening. More arty than useful.

(Harcourt, Brace World. $2.50.) "Sea Treasure," by Willard Manus, illustrated by Lee J. Ames, tells of skindiving for gold, which takes Bill Bryan through the risks and dangers of the under-water world after he starts a diving school in South America. In "The Blood Red Belt," Pete and his Iroquois friend defend the trading post against the Chippewa and British spies. Story by Robert Oberreich, illustrations by Geoffrey Biggs.

"Kendall of Coast Guard," takes up a hitch in this branch of the service and provides Tad Kendall with many adventures and work he is proud to do. Written by James Wyckoff, pictures by Gil Cohen These are additions to an already popular series. All are about 140 pages, published by Doubleday, at $2.50 When artist traveler, M. Sasck, fixes his bright and penetrating eye on a major world city, enchanting and unforgettable (acts emerge. "This Is Venice" where "things begin and end" on water, is another perfect addition to the series.

For grownups as well as juniors. (Macmillan. $3.) Two new volumes in the excellent American Heritage Junior Library series arc now available. "Trappers and Mountain Men," edited by Evan Jones and Dale L. Morgan; "The California Gold Rush," edited by Ralph K.

Andrist and Archibald Hanna. As in the previous Heritage books, they each run over 150 pages (oversize), are profusely illustrated, ana both Tops ill Hooks This list is compiled from reports supplied to The Inquirer by the following bookshops: Balis, Cefra, Fireside, Frigate, Gimbels, Lits, Mid-City, Reilly, Sessler, Snellen-burgs, Strawbridge Clothier, Wanamakcr, Whitman and Wumrath, Philadelphia; Greenwood, Wilmington. FICTION Franny and Zooey. Salinger The Agony and the Ecstasy. Stone Daughter of Silence.

West Little Me. Dennis The Ivy Tree. Stewart To Kill a Mocking Bird. Lee Chairman of the Bored. Streeter A Prologue to Love.

Caldwell Assembly. O'Hara Captain Newman, M. D. Rosten GENERAL My Life in Court. Nizer The Making of the President.

White Living Free. Adamson The New English Bible. Calories Don't Count. Taller The Coming Fury. Catton The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Shirer Before I Sleep. Monahan A Nation of Sheep. Ledcrer My Saber Is Bent. Paar "Carnival versus Lent" by Pieter Breughel (the Younger) is one of the items in current exhibition of Renaissance masters now on view at Finch College Museum of Art in New York. if Ptlabclpuu Yela Brichta.

Alexander Calder, Aldo Casanova, John Chamberlain, Natalie Charkow, Adolph Dioda, Tom Doyle, Wharton Eshcrick, William Entwisle, Chiam Gross, Edward Higgins, Fritz Jaschka, Bernard Langlais, Dennis Leon, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert Mallary, Mirko, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson. Erick Ny-holm, James Rosati, Julius Schmidt, Karl Slirner and James Wines. An exhibition titled "Abstract Artists of Philadelphia" is on display at the Penn Art Center Galleries until mid-February. The seven represented artists are: Michael Ciliberti, A. P.

Hankins, Tom Gaughan, San-ford Greenberg, Sam Fried, Fran Lachman and C. Robert Bechtle. Paintings by Frank Vavricks are on display at the Commu- Ifif becomes even more difficult within the implications of narrative and problematical shows such as the Museum of Modern Art's "Assemblages" result. Thus, in a sense, the virtue of sculpture (its object-ness) is also its central difficulty. The object may have all sorts of intriguing qualities but those object properties must be part of the search to uncover experience.

With this thought in mind some pieces in the exhibition (even though they are good examples of what is going on) are perhaps too narrow in implication. Yet even with this stringent yardstick the collection is good and tonic in Philadelphia. Some highlights of the exhibition: "Red Feather on a Black Cross" by Alexander Calder and the untitled relief by Lee Bontecov. Artists represented are; Lee Bontecov, Bernard Brenner,.