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THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1331 0' SOCIETY SECTION i Latest Reprints KratMl ATM HE (IIWiWI, Will Fumir 23 cent. this ds cat. Dorothy aubff laria, Bnto, ii am. Washington As A Rebel OI.OKGE WASHINGTON AXD AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE By Cunis P. Nettels i Little, Brown; $j) Five months before the in a happy union, lasting 10 oia grant or mxd Tn rot i witi, age.

Dr. Meyer became a well- uo nmr. know tuberculosis speciahst. He womiv or thk WAIT FOR THE WAGOX Bv Mary Lasswell (Houghton Mifflin; J2.30) For the fourth time Mrs. Feeley, brought out all the latent goodness W'BU.

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The previous ia tHo unhewn Jr. mat fcrnestina outama i.ji,i,,.. tktJ i charm of the book is in the accounts, cr; Bntm, 24 cents. three were hilarious; this is ter-1 f. ,1, Mrs Have Gift Problem? Here Are Some Likely Choices i BY CHARLES TBI AX Daily Newt Book a Editor The statement that books make ideal Christmas gifts unfortunately tended to become a tiresome platitude.

Yet the fact remains that books are among the easiest gifts to choose and, when well chosen, among the most pleasant to receive. More than 10,000 titles have been published this year. To select 1 I nj v.m Meyer knew. Great names of by-( nu: Bntm 35 ceate. gone days awaken delightful roa my grkat rniAT.

by Thorn a. memories. It's an interesting, if! 33 not a thrilling hnnk-n Pood refer- stRVFVORS. by Wilt Henry; B.nUm rific. With their usual biting for day-old bread and their great capacity for beer, the three aging ladies and their 1926 custom-built blue Cadillac journey toward the West Coast.

Their driver, Old Timer, and Aphrodite, a life-sized Giant, 35 cents. ration of Independence commuted the colonies to an aLl-oiit struggle for freedom, George WashingMn to his secretary, Jowih Keed: "I have never entertained an Idea of accommodation reconciliation) since 1 heard of the meas-' ures which were adopted in consequence of the Bunker's Mill fipht." Whatever thought of appeasement Washington had ever entertained, wat so slight as to make this de-l hr ence book for a modest library. F. H. R.

HK.H rHKsl BE fFult Fathom FlTt), Ahmtd Kamal BiiiUm, 2i cente. alabaster piece made over, into a A FATHER IN THE FAMILY By Louis Paul (Crown Publishers; $3) lamp," make up the rest of the party until they pick up a striptease dancer and a slightly cracked psychoanalyst. After Old The turn of the 20th century and ALLAN NEVINS ed.W luttory prujert from this list the 15 or 20 "best" is obviously impossible. Tastes vary too widely as to what is best and why. Therefore the purpose of such a list as follows is to suggest some recent books that the Christmas buyer can hardly go wrong on books that have broad appeal and at the same time considerable literary merit: jthe second floor of a New York Timer ruins the dancer's act by cision almost superfluous.

Months before, he had cast his fortune beer brownstone house at 29th st. and bursting her balloons with THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT critic' target Blasts T. S. Eliot "Myth" with the militants in Congress iress. First is the setting for this "I zA ale benes delightful story of a family.

Louis the spring of 1775, the, Casset was a young journeyman Fiction We Supply All Boots Of All Publisher! Give For Christmas printer, with no money at all, when he married the widow Amy bottle caps propelled by an expertly aimed combination of fingers and rubber band, the trip gains momentum. Proponents of Oxford' English, as she is spoke, will gyrate for some time after the three lovely -old ladies complete their bleary-eyed assault on the language. G. G. S.

sworn to nothing less than complete independence included the titans of the Revolutionary age-Washington, Samuel Adams. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, MELVILLE GOODWIY, I SA, by John P. Marquand; Little, Brown, $3.73. The Marquand magic for sympathetic satire has never been per Books Hailed Difficult is the task of the historian who, without the assistance of perspective that comes only with 4 THE T. S.

ELIOT MYTH By Rossell H. Robbins (Schuman; $3) Thomas Stearns Eliot, whom Until the British expression of1 colonial policy after Bunker Mill, the passing of time, tries to ap- formed more capably than in this novel about Army high brass. Melville Goodwin, the errant general, is the author's most apepaling character since George Apley. MOSES, By Sholem Aseh; Putnam's, $3.73. and became father to her threes remarkable children, aged 12, 10 and six.

He liked children, he liked the responsibility and he wanted to be "the best damn father in the world." But the children weren't sure that they wanted Louis for their father. They couldn't understand why mama had to bring a stranger into their house. They put Louis on probation and the period: of probation was not an easy one. wy The author of "The Nazarene" and "Mary" has retold in his new A TREASURY OF WESTERN FOLKLORE Edited by B. A.

Botkin (Crown; $4) This latest volume assembled by the editor of "A Treasury of American Folklore" and several regional folklore books, follows the pattern wmmymmiA readers of theater columns will identify as author of "The Cocktail Party," has been enshrined by many English and American scholars as the unofficial poet laureate! of the world. Some of the more presumptuous brethren of the cap and hood have however, this group was in the; praise very recent events. lie must congressional minority the 18, first eliminate all political and na-militants were only a third; con-itionalistic bias, leaving only the ciliationists and moderates still pure gold resulting from sober and seeking only redress for griev-j detached thinking, ances guided American policy'. i Two books, recently made avail-But even while Congress still pe- able in bookstore editions, have titioned the king, the royal procla-: that kind of author approach to nation of rebellion was issued, recommend them. They are "The Until this edict, the congressional United States in a Chaotic World" est book the story of Moses, Scholarly fiction readers will rate "Moses" as a novel in the most inspiring tradition of that genre.

THE CRUEL SEA, by Nicholas Monxarrat; Knopf, $1. An almost instantaneous best seller, "The Cruel Sea" is a moving 1 enthroned him on the dais This is a heart-warming story' of a warm family, living in a neighborhood of real people, when New York's "good old days" were in full swing. R. B. with 'previously set except this time the Shakespeare a placement which subject is the wild and woolly tale of the Atlantic ocean battle area of World War II and of the men of Britain's wartime navy.

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, by James Jonea; Scribner'a, $4.60. majority was satisfied that armed and "The New Deal and World West. The volume contains 500 resistance would overturn the Brit stories, anecdotes and legends told in 806 pages. It adds up to a whale ish ministry, enlighten the king WASHINGTON COMMAND POST: James Jones' blunt, outspoken novel about life in the peacetime dumbfounds even the most amateurish critic, since Shakespeare, though not having nurtured the seeds of democracy in his works, would have surely despised Eliot's apparent contempt for all hu U. S.

Army would probably win a "most-controversial" contest hands of a book as well as a whale of a value for all those who appreciate down. With many readers it has also won a rating as the best novel THE OPERATIONS DIVISION By Ray S. Cline (Superintendent of Documents, U. S. J3.25) Part of the official history, "The Affairs," published by Yale University Press.

Both have the same author-Allan Kevins, professor of history at Columbia university, a Pulitzer prize winner, and editor of the 50-volume Chronicles of America series, of which these two books are a part. In "The United States in a Cha of the year. Certainly It is one that shouldn't be missed although it's Rnd permit generous concessions. With the proclamation that hope ended. In a brilliant analysis which Is much more than the story of Washington and the Revolution, Dr.

Nettels traces the abrupt the romance and color that is a part of the American heritage. Bernard DeVoto contributes an introduction to what should be a very popular item during the Yule gift season. C.V.T. U. S.

Army in World War II," this latest study details the develop change which swept through Con I j. A a gress when the proclamation final otic World" the author unerringly ment and functions of the Operations Division, or, as it was popularly known after Army reorgani ly labeled armed resistance as JOHN C. CALHOUN! manity. Robbins, in his book's first section, discusses Eliot's earlier poetry before he left off being a man of' letters and became a propagandist for a type of religion which "rejoices in the death of the saints and ignores the positive human aspects of Christianity." (The earlier poetry is to be commended for its fluidity of meter, clear and concrete imagery, and fine economy of words.) But after "The Waste Land," the poem which portrayed the social treasonable and trartorous. Apathy gave way to resolution zation in 1942, the "OPD." The one- A few months later on July 2, 1776, front concept of World War I giving way to jnultifront warfare traces the history of our relations with other peoples from the close of World War I in 1918 to the beginning of the Franklin D.

Roosevelt era in 1933. In Secretaries of State Hughes, Kellogg and Stimson he finds able statesmen who laid the foundations 12 of the 13 colonies ratified the Lee resolution affirming independence. Two days later, the same 12 hardly a suitable gift for the squeamish. THE CAINE MUTINY, by Herman Wouk; Doubleday, $3.95. Currently holding firmly to its coveted spot as No.

1 fiction best seller in the nation, Herman Wouk's story of a captain and his crew in the Pacific war rates the many superlatives it has been accorded. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, by J. D. Salinger; Little, Brown, $3. High among the year's efforts by relatively new writers is J.

D. Salinger's story of a sensitive adolescent and his frustrations in a world he can't understand. THE HOLY SINNER, by Thomas Mannj Knopf, $3.50. The author of "The Magic Mountain" in his latest book recounts a medieval legend of a sinner who through the mercy of God is cleansed, later to become a great pope. It Is Mann at his best, which is very, very good.

Non-Fiction THE SEA AROUND US, by Rachel Carson; Oxford, $3.50. The sea is coming into its own not only have "The Cruel Sea" I he came Mutiny excluding New York again, confirmed the Declaration of Inde of the Good Neighbor policy that SECTIONALIST By Charles M. Wiltse IBobbs-Merrill; $6) This is the third and final volume in a definitive life of John C. Calhoun, nationalist, nullifier, sectionalist and senior senator from South Carolina. This last book details Calhoun's vain attempts to reconcile the position of the industrial North with the agricultural South, covering that period in his life from 1840 until his death in 1850.

His defense of slav pendence. was completed under franklin Roosevelt when Cordell Hull ce Here was an endorsement of disintegration following World War I and endeared Eliot to the younger everything Washington had stood intellectuals, something went awry necessitated the creation of- a cen-: trally located staff to plan, direct and coordinate the worldwide operations of the U. S. Army. Thus Washington, instead of a European spot, became the command post of Gen.

Marshall and it was "OPD" directives prepared for him which set the pattern of American military strategy and often Allied strategy as well. Although the value of the "OPD" was often questioned by officers, it did represent the solution to a problem never before encountered in Ameri for. Where Congress had chiefly aimed at the king's ministers, in the poeHs social philosophy. He mented the peoples of the Western Hemisphere into a single unit. He finds the work of the same three secretaries a near failure in the Far East and to a certain extent withdrew from liberality and- em By HERMAN WOUK America's 1 best seller noi el-a perfect Christmas gift that you can give confidently to any member of any family, "Best book of the year" a novel of the U.S.

Navy in the Pacific. 512 pages, $3.95 Washington had called for measures citing as treasonable any ac ery and championship of the mi tion helping the king. Where Con- in Europe. In "The New Deal and World cress had tolerated Tory moves, nority against the majority led. many said in his day, ultimately and "The Caine Mutiny" pushed steadily ahead on the fiction lists, but in non-fiction, "The Sea Around Us" is the most popular book selling today.

This beautifully written story of the ocean and its many won he had called for harsh restrictions on their activities, and to Affairs" he views Franklin D. Roosevelt an isolationist at the beginning of his term an Isola to the Civil War. But, since 1900, with the publication of the first make the colonies less tied econo mically to Britain he had called ders deserves to be around a long time. CLOSING THE RING, by Winston Churchill Houghton-Mifflin, $fl. braced the old regime of decadence.

Since then, he has identified himself with an insidious anti-Semitism of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews defense of the old Southern aristocracy and contempt for the ideas behind the Civil War and the French Revolution, belief in education only for the privileged few, and countless varieties of vague mysticism. He has used his earlier prestige as a poet to gain tionist who gave little thought to world affairs while he was spend The can military history. In this professional study, Dr. Cline indicates just how the "OPD" was a solution. I.

S. for a colonial navy. Excellently researched and swift volume of his correspondence, he has come to be regarded, even while champion of a lost cause, as a great statesman who exhibited an awareness of the basic cause of Greatest Book ly paced, Dr. Nettels' book por This is the fifth volume of the prime minister's monumental history of World War II. It covers the period of Tunisia to D-Day, 1913-44, and confirms The view that Winston Churchill is not only one a sectional conflict between two trays a Washington as patriotically passionate as Samuel Adams.

Here is no austere, detached fig THE SINGING HILLS Bv Lillian Craig (Thomas Y. Crowell; S3) ing his time and thought toward economic recovery at homo. The author traces the four-term President's change from a position of isolationism to that of internationalismthe result of the driving forces at home and from abroad. Both books are very readable and should be" studied by those who of the greatest statesmen of this era, but also a master of the English language. ure but rather an- uncompromis divergent economies.

More than a biography, this book gives an insight into the structure of the United States as it is today. T. C. THE FAR SIDE OF PARADISE, by Arthur Miasener; Houghton. audience for his religious-political views.

But what accounts for Eliot's Mifflin, $1. The life of fabulous Scott Fitzgerald, literary golden boy of the desire to keep themselves informed Ever Written FULTON OURSLER reverently retells the beloved tales of the Old Testament, in ihe manner of his million-copy btst seller, The Creaitst Story Ever Told, Endorsed by leaders of alt faiths. J04 pages; 3J maps; index. $3.93 'In handsome box with Oursler't The Grealeit Story Ever Told. 7 twenties, has been covered through fiction in "The Disenchanted." This about the events that have inevitably led us to our present state.

current prominence in supposedly forward-looking democratic nations? Here, Robbins has some interesting ideas. He divides the IT'S BEEN FUN By Annie Nathan Meyer (Henry Schuman; $3.50) There was not much fun in Annie is the factual story of the great author and his personal tragedy. Olher newly released volumes In" This is a true story of how the author spent her vacations among the people of the "Land of Nowhere" in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. The young school teacher had experiences as weird as a nightmare and others of unearthly beauty. She writes her story well and the reader is in turn amazed, delighted and distressed at the conditions Lillian Craig found in this beau-, tiful area of our country.

C. S. FDR'S OWN STORY, edited by Donald Day; Little, Brown, $4. Eliot supporters into two groups: ing realist whose vision, backed by previous military and economic experience with the British, was among the most valuable assets in voung America. -IRVING L.

SCHWARTZ. For Younger Set run WONDER BOOK OF (TORIICS, by Nary Juergeni; Wonder i Bookf, 15 cenU, far. SNOWMAN'S CHRISTMAS by inn Wild: Wonder Book a cmti. HR wovor-a rook or (hkistmak, liiufttrHtMd by Lou Myers; Wunrier Bonks, US cent. Through Roosevelt's private and public papers, Editor Donald Day Nathan's early life, with a neurotic the "Chronicles of America" series are "From Versailles to the New Deal," by Harold U.

Faulkner; (1) Those so fanatically opposed to 'Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt," has told the late President's story in his own words, The result is outstanding among the recent flood of FDH books. A FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICANS, by Robert A. Taft; Double- socialism that they find his feudal attitudes useful, (2) Exponents of the so-called New Criticism, who mother and a philandering father. Life really began for her when she met Dr.

Alfred Meyer, a great doctor and a musician of note. Their music brought them together by Denis W. Brogan; "The Struggle for Survival," by Eliot Jane- day, $3.. are willing to forget his anti-human subject matter in view of way; and "War for the World," by Fletcher For those on a Christmas list who are not likely to be pleased with JL-B-Jg-H-JUg-H-IXJai ff I his poetic skill. receiving "FDR's Own Story," Sen.

Taft's book isa good alternate 11..: V. 1- ni (hn mn.t 1 choice. In it Sen. Taft gives his views on what kind of foreign policy provocative this reviewer has read A for a while. But It is not faultless.

America should follow. WHITE HOUSE PROFILE, by Bess Furman; Bobbs-Merrill, $4. CAPITOL DRY CLEANING Irving Stone THE PRESIDENT'S LADY "She endured the insults of a nation to put her husband in the White House! The novel of Rachel and Andrew Jackson, "One of tha great romances of all urday Review. Even better than hit Immortal Wife. $3,50 In a few spots Robbins is too zealous to defeat the VEliot myth" and makes unqualified statements just as serious as those he accuses Eliot of making.

Luckily, these lapses Of special interest to women will be this new social history of the White House. Extremely well written, the volume affords intimate glimpses into the various presidential households and prominent social Jjjr on everybody's Christmas list I I I r- THE 1 Pi NEW events held through the years. are not frequent enough to weaken his overall case against Eliot, but sfuch carelessness is a dangerous habit for a critic to acquire. WALT McCASLIN. fi ICRS' 1 YfiR KFR Give Her A Del scamp UNA 1 30TH ANNIVERSARY Reader's Diqesf (Plain) 2J SSlMhi jT 25m ANNIVERSARY I 1 VV.

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