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Film Makes Old Egypt Live Today New World Opened to Blind Youth Published In England under the Hog Angeles Cfmcs 9 I'LL BE JUDGE, YOU BE JURY By PAUL JORDAN-SMITH IS philosopher, is of present interest. sswhbmbmbshsssmbbbbibbJ jtBimmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmHmmmmmmnm BEST-SELLER AUTHOR Mika Waltari, who is shown here with his young daughter, wrote the successful Scandinavian story "The Egyptian." Translated in seven countries, it is now available in English, HISTORICAL XOVELThis full color jacket shows Lady Jane Grey, nine-day queen of Tudor England, about whom Alice Harwood writes in her book, "The Lily and the Leopards." Bobbs-Merrill will publish it Aug. 29. Sansoiris First Novel Has Jealousy Theme Poetess' Life Detailed in First Biography unstated self-assertion to take, for once in life, action." Sansom not only explores the feverish mind of Henry Bishop; he describes the physical world about him with equal vividness. The picture of a storm with "the sharp, vicious, wood-splitting crack of thunder, two infinite boards of ebony slammed together then the rain, growling up its force like a crowd of whisperers" is brilliantly and effectively depicted as Henry Bishop's final "sightless wi' tight rage." Without employing any of tha familiar devices or plot surprises, the novelist sustains suspense in unfolding the nature of a delusion.

His technique resembles Kafka's but has more clarity and simplicity. MILTON MERLIN. William Sansom, one of the most original and talented of young English writers, is already known and highly esteemed here for two books of short stories. THE BODY. By William Sansom.

Har- court. Brace: $2.75. "Fireman Flower" and "Three." His first novel, richly exhibiting his insight and skill, should introduce him to a wider public "The Body" is a stunning portrait of jealousy, tense and taut, but it is not based on the familiar, romantic triangle. It is a first-person singular story, a meticulous account of one man's tormented journej' into the realm of suspicion and delusion. Jealousy Aroused Henry Bishop, the protagonist, tells his own story as a kind of confessional.

He is a 45-year-old shopkeeper and, as he notes, he is a rather dull man whose sympathies are with "the time when men and women sweated over commons with butterfly nets." He is a man "of very small passion Ordinary, from ordinary middle-class beginnings, and if at all extraordinary then in the mildest and safest way." But obsession is never mild nor safe, as Henry Bishop learns when he notices a stranger gazing up at his wife's bedroom. Henry and Madge Bishop have been contentedly married for 20 years. Domestic tranquility is quickly devastated by a casual incident followed by small events, expressions and gestures of similar am-biquity. The moment of speculation and distrust becomes an infection that spreads swiftly into an absorbing infirmity, at first secretly enjoyed by the afflicted, then erupting when he desperately desires to have hi3 illness recognized. For Henry Bishop becomes infatuated with jealousy.

Mind Explored In this remarkable story jealousy is a lonely man's pathetic violence when he seizes his "last chance before some final impotence," sacrificing his "habitual small pleasures" for "some other This is the first of Waltari's novels to be printed in America, thoueh he is famous in his native Finland and has been translated into many languages. In the supple and warmly evocative translation of Naomi Wal- THE EGYPTIAN. By Mika Waltarl. Putnam: $3.75, ford, the 500 "pages of Waltari's great novel read quickly; and there is enough of roaring action, romance, intrieue and abashingly frank amours to make the book a best seller and a magnificent movie. However.

It was not written with an eye on sales, least of all the screen box office; and nothing is in the tale which does not belong there. Pharaoh's Failure Revealed Waltarl has worked- among Egyptian relics and has done a lot of research; and this work interested him in the life of Akhnaton, the Pharaoh who tried to abolish worship of Amnion and other gods and set up a new god with no image but the sun, Aton. This Pharaoh was a man of great compassion for humanity, a lover of peace, a believer in the equality of all men and all races. He had no practical ideas for carrying out his plans save that he did destroy the images of Ammon and order the people to worship Aton. Egypt was falling to pieces economically, and, her enemies were gathering In Babylon, Syria and The Hittites were especially loud in their praise of Akhna-ton's peaceful intentions, though they laughed in their sleeves' while lauding him.

Regime Overthrown The Egyptian empire was on the point of crashing and enemy kings had actually assaulted Egypt but Akhnaton refused to save his land by bloodshed. At this point the general of Egypt, Horemheb, stepped in and Akhnaton's regime went down while the blood of his enemies and of Egyptians at last was being shed. Central character of the story is not the Pharaoh, but a boy who grew up to become court physician, Sinuhe the waif, one of many who floated down the Nile in a reed basket, an unwanted child. He was reared by a good physician of the poor and his good wife; and he repaid them by ruining their lives and their pitifully small worldly goods, even the tomb they had bought for their sojourn in the next world. Youth Converted But Sinuhe was not a bad youth, only weak; and as he grew in wisdom he began to follow Akhnaton, whose ideas gradually converted him though he believed the Pharaoh mad.

Sinuhe was sent to Syria and other lands as an agent of the general, Horem heb, and he saw what was going on. He also fell In love with a Cretan girl who was to be a sacrifice to the Minotaur and this tragic love affair had a profound effect on Sinuhe and turned him more fully against all barbarous gods, priest castes and ruthless governments. He desired only to work for and act as physician to the poor. Entertainment Paramount The story of ancient Egypt has parallels with modern times, and lessons for us, but it is to be read as a novel for entertainment, and the narrative overflows with material for that It is robust, earthy, sardonic, humane, bloody, charged with shocking action in the city streets and on the field of battle, color ful, witty, Rabelaisian, compas sionate but never sentimental (do not let the early racial slurs deceive you into casting "The Egyptian" aside) and immensely moving. H.

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Waif Wins Wealth Freud came to the lost harbor of Waccamaw, "far down the Atlantic Coast," to impel Kin Starling, "the half-wild son of aristocratic Julia and the dark, exotic seaman who had deserted her" to travel to New York and win fabulous success on Wall Street. In "Cities o' the Deep," Edward Lyons has contrived a novel of great entertainment. But, true to the form of his many ambitious author-predecessors, he has been guilty of gorging his reading pub lic. Lyons has a story to tell. He has recounted it three fold.

Love Life Failure Kin Starling reaches a rich ($40,000,000) maturity at the tender age of 30 but his life up to that age is a saga. Starved for affection and security by a bitter mother, spurned by the lovely daughter of Devereux House, driven from his home to have his heart broken in a Charleston bordello. Kin Starling lives in this "dramatic novel of the American dream." J. B. SUPER-POLLSTER Novel's Hero 'Potentially Dangerous9 According to a committee from the University of Chicago, Victor Virgil MaClnnes was "potentially 10 times more dangerous than THE MAGNIFICENT MacINNES.

By fcnephera Mead. arrar, Straus: $2.50. all the military ramifications of nuclear physics." The trouble was that the seedy-looking Scotsman who liked warm beer was the most sensitive man in the United States. In fact, he was supersensitive, a super-pollster who knew what everybody wanted before the votes were counted or the sales registered. An enterprising young man sees the possibility of Utopia with the help of Maclnnes.

What happens in this "Maclnnes Episode" in world history makes for alarm ing hilarity. BRIEF MAUGHAM WORKS ISSUED QUARTET. By W. Somerset Maugham R. C.

Sherriff. Dou-bleday: $2.50. Here are the four Somerset Maugham short stories and the screen plays made by R. C. Sherriff which have been produced in one of the superior motion pictures of the season.

The stories of course stand on their own high merit. The printed scenarios should be of added interest to those who have seen the movie. Pictorial Volume Shows Beauty of West England THE FACE OF BRITAIN SERIES. Batsford: $3.75 each. Latest in this beautifully illus trated series is "The West of England" in which Ruth Manning- Sanders describes Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and the Scilly Isles.

Historical and contempo rary matters are combined in the book, as in the other volumes of the series, among which are Doreen Wallace's "English Lakeland," and "English Downland" by H. J. Massingham. From Rags to Riches GEORGE STEPHENSON: Father of Railways. By Ada Louis Barrett.

Paebar: $3.75. First biography since 1868 of man who rose from rags to riches and changed us all with his in ventions. We Locate Hard-fo-Find Books BOOK SERVICE P.O. Btx KIT, las Francises Cat. DEBT TO ENGLAND To my mind tha top nook of this week is Gerald V.

Johnson'i witty and wls account of f'Our English Her itage" (Lipplncott: It is not just another book on our language changes, idiom, ancestors, law, faith, arts, nciencea and philos ephy. True, it is exactly all these things, but there's a vast differ ence between Johnson's treatment of these things and that by many other learned writers. Terhaps It is that Johnson's ancestors were Scots. At any rate he writes with uch perspective, detachment and humor that even ancestors become lively fellows; and his discussions of our cultural debts to England i are both profound and chuckleful. He reminds us that we (now a nation of many racial and national origins) 'Still retain our English philosophy though we have forgotten the names of the phi-, losophers.

That philosophy is summed up in "The English faith In gradualism linked with compromise, English faith in ability as at least equal to heredity, and English faith In commerce as a better instrument of conquest than war." The thoughtful reader should not miss this delightful book. CRIME AND rUXISHMEXT V. R. Burnett has written a gripping and very convincing story of crime and punishment in "The Asphalt Jungle" (Knopf: With scene laid in a midwestern big city, the story shows us a group of criminals, cold-blooded but efficient, led by (or aided by) 8 famous criminal lawyer; and, on the other hand a Police Commissioner determined to rid the city of crime and aided to that end by a pretty capable and reasonably honest force, goaded by a brilliant journalist. At the heart of the tale are Dlx Handley, the hooligan and his girl, Doll, both anxious to quit the life and settle in green pastures of peace.

Then there Is the big Job which all these forces and people' come together In conflict. Burnett tells it well, making something better than tales labeled "novel of suspense," for the suspense here is real. Hard-boiled entertainment. SCHWEITZER Even the smallest bit of knowledge about Albert Schweitzer physician, and Refugee Tells Appealing Tale Franz Sc'hoenberner, editor of the famed periodical "Simplicls-slmus" until the advent of Hitler, wrote his first book at the age of 62 "in a of lowered re- THF: INSIDE STORY OF AN OUT-StDKR. By Fran Schoenberner.

Macmlllirn: $3.60. slstance" when he was transplanted to another continent and another language. In that book, of a European Intellectual," he told the story of his youth In Germany and his experiences as publisher, editor and critic. In this sequel he resumes his narrative front his flight from Germany in 1033, through his years of exile In France, his arrival in America and 'adjustment problems to hl3 "surprise of becoming an American author." With wit, Vigor and perspicacity, the outsider manages to get inside the heart of the matter. Little 'Miss Boo9 Has Become Famous TIME FOR MISS BOO.

By Msmsret Run beck. Appleton-Ceniury-t'rofU: S3. This is a one-volume reprint of two very popular books," "Our Miss Boo" and "Time for Each Other." It is more of an event than most reprints, however, for little Miss Boo, though only 4 years old, has become quite famous. The energetic little lady's adventures are told in entertaining style by Margaret Runbeck, who is now leading a double life she Is still a writer of stories for the magazines, but she is also a screen writer and has taken up residence in Beverly Hills. Tourist Given Full Advice on Rockies MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES.

Bv Frank Waters. University of Denver: S3.50. Everything the tourist needs to know Is here, Including advice on clothing and equipment, and the trails are excellently defined. 'Midas of the Rockies" is a reprint of Frank Waters' biography of Stratton of Cripple Creek. The University of Denver issues the volumt in a special Centennial Edition.

FERR1L MARMON. Development of West THVNDER ON THE BUCK HORN. By Frank O'Rourke. Random: 82.50. Second in series of novels rlanned to show phases of the 'Vest and Its development.

The first was "Action at 3 Peaks." His "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth" is a slight book of sketch es, but they hold both charm and wisdom. There will be other and more important books of his com ing during the autumn, but this one gives a key to the man's great message (Macmillan: $1.75) VERSES FOR CHILDREN From the private press of the Tro-villions comes their 46th title (this, by the way, is the 40th anniversary of this fine press.) It is a beautifully printed little vol ume of lively verses for children, "A Tony Cart of Verse" by Blanche Rene all about animals and bird3 and such. Charming in content and tastefully printed and bound. Keep it in mind for Christ mas giving to child or lover of fine printing. (Trovilllon Private Press, Herrin, Illinois: $3).

FIRST BOOK Ross Par-menter, music critic for Neto York Times, has written "The Plant in My Adventure Not A Iways Far Aivay One of the world's greatest illu sions is that you have to go somewhere to find adventure. Emer son tried to debunk that notion and keep the seekers at home but he oidn't succeed. And yet look at the examples: 17thentury England was bursting with adventure and adventurers, yet the two inspired travel writers of that time and place stayed at home and compiled the books that sent others across the seas, and most of the, world-shaking discoveries THE PLANT IN MY WINDOW. By kors rarmenier. cToweii: z.su.

of our own time have been made by men and women seated within the confining walls of a little laboratory; Marcel Proust's great novel of spiritual adventure found its circumference within the walls of his own bedroom. Incentive to Drawing Ross'Parmenter found his adventure on the 16th floor of a New York apartment building, and the inspiration for it was a left-behind little plant, a common phllodendron, drooping neglected in its dry pot. When he was settled it occurred to him that the leaf and stem patterns might make an exercise in drawing, so he made an accurate drawing, and that was that he thought. Next he poured, rather carelessly, some water on the poor thing. And that produced results that called for another drawing.

He came to see the plant as a real, living thing that responded to light and food. He loved the thing. He began to inquire. What was its name? Where did it originate? What were its habits? What did it need? Relation to World That took him to book stores, libraries, botanists, greenhouses. He began to see the plant in relation to the whole world and to mankind.

Cosmos began to unroll before that little potted plant, and Parmenter's education took a new turn. He not only got information, he gathered wisdom. And all this he made into a book which is a record of his spiritual adventure among treasures of the humble and an extremely satisfying book it is. P. THE STAMP MART C'OHEA 1946.

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forum, 10. Al 8. MAI3T. The second great friend of her life was George Eliot. Miss Eliot had long been espoused in the field of political journalism.

She was the first to express distinctly a thought that Jews themselves had not yet ventured to frame clearly a Zionist program. As she wrote. "They will enrich the world." George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" will long be remembered for his vision- of the future of Israel. Emma Lazarus was moved to action by the words of her illustrious friend. But though she championed the cause of her people in poem, novel and pamphlet, Emma Lazarus' fame rests on the 14 lines which are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus." Her other work was for many years expressly forbidden by her sister-executor, Annie.

Sistrr Took Revengfl Annie Lazarus, whose name after marriage was Annie Humphrey Johnstone, moved to Rome and became an ardent Catholic. Because of a statement once made by Emma in which she castigated converts, Annie took her revenge by writing from Italy to forbid the printing of anything to do with a Hebrew theme. In 1920, after Mrs. Johnstone's death, the Cambridge History of American Literature rescued Em ma Lazarus from oblivion to place her in her rightful rank of an eminent woman in American let ters. H.

E. Jacob has based his biog raphy of Emma Lazarus on orig inal and painstaking research. He has truly dispelled in large measure the obscure darkness that has hitherto surrounded the facts of her life. The poetic drama of Em ma Lazarus' life here finds clas sical formulation. French Language Textbook Offered FRENCH SELF-TAIGHT.

By Fran cisco Inarra Armana Orregoirc. Random House: $3. Fourth in the Random House series of language books, pre pared for Americans who need working knowledge of foreign languages, this book follows previously published volumes on Pan-American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and modern Russian. The books are working tools, with blanks for the student to fill in proper forms and lessons to work upon (there are 24 lessons) and there is an appendix containing explanations of the article, noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition and verb. Jack Bailey of Radio Author of Cookbook WHAT'S COOKIN'r By Jack Bailey.

World: $1. Bailey is master of ceremonies at the "Queen' for a Day" radio program; and his cookbook has had considerable Hollywood publicity. The book is funny but the recipes are serious. No earth-shaking event coupled itself with the birth date of Emma Lazarus in 1849, yet her name was destined to become immortal as the poetess whose lines are en shrined on the pedestal of the Statue of Libertj'. This, the centennial year of her birth, brings THE WORLD OF EMMA LAZARUS.

Rv H. E. Jacob. Schocken Books: S3. forth the first, and a most excel lent biography of her life.

Born to an American family of Sephardic descent, Emma Lazarus was sheltered so completely that she never rid herself of a "father complex." A study of her work often reveals the imagery of a protective, dominating "father" figure. Reputation Gained Early While still a young girl, she gained a reputation for considerable talent, not only as a poetess in her own right, but also as a translator of others. Her first book of poems was written at the age of 14. However, her intellectual interests received their most formative guidance and direction from her friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, when she read a letter from Emerson in which he said, "Grief, passion, disaster are only ma terials of art, she could not help but think of Emerson as greater than Plato or Goethe, since he was more modern than they and presented a synthesis of both to her.

As her poetry matured and gained in depth of feeling and understanding, Emma became in creasingly aware of the realities of the world in which she lived. Immigrants Made Impression In August of 1881 the first batch of immigrants, fleeing from the Russian pogroms, arrived in New York Harbor. For the first time, Emma Lazarus saw persecuted people. The purely visual experience pierced to Emma's heart. A great Jesuit father once said, "a conversion cannot be painted." In a word, Emma Lazaru3 discovered her purpose.

Through the sleepless nights that followed, a new and different poetess was born. No longer was she content to sing of long-vanished Crusaders, but she herself became a crusader. Native of Guatemala Describes Homeland THE LAND OF ETERNAL SPRING. By Lily Aguirre. Watts: $3.75.

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