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9 The Stamp Hobby Books to EJiW fcy The Globe's Weekly 0 A WYCOCK. 0 Literary News and Comment Bunker Hill Minus Myth Heroics and Blunders on Both Sides in Charlestown Battle Most Stinging Satire John Hersey's Contrived Novel Sharpest Look at Education THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE SEPTEMBER 25, 1960 1 i si ii i host who Dcnr 6) The Child Buyer, by John Hersey: Alfred Knopf, $4. The most contrived, the most gimmicked novel of the year may well turn out to be the year's sharpest look at what's wrong with American education and what's wrong with our attitudes toward American education. With much humor, more sus-i ignorance, suspicion and greed freedwi fa other forThemacive. I tit Ff 1 y.

fi Now We Are Enemies, by Thomas J. Fleming: St. Martin's Press, $5. The Battle of Bunker Hill: it was not British robots marching repeatedly into the murderous fire of an anonymous band of patriots whose military skill would have prevailed had it not run out of ammo. There are heroics and blun-i narrative, you are everywhere ders aplenty on both sides.

The on the battlefield (and behind the American lines at Cam- whole thing was much more fcri(Jge whpre worgt cm complicated than we learned, fusion reigned): with Dr. in our history books. That's the Joseph Warren, Col William burden of this book. Prescott, buzzing about with MAN WHO SELLS AIR-BALLOONS From the jacket of "The Poetry-Drawing Book," edited by William Cole and Julia Colmore (Simon Schuster, a new idea in drawing books for children, with verses for children to illustrate. pense, and the most stinging in the average American com.

satire, John Hersey has written By JAY HATCH independence? Next onthe They are Lincoln's United States list: the 4-cent "Those who deny freedom to Japan centennial to be re-others deserve it not for them- leased Sept. 28. novel in the form of hear- Delightful Phyllis McGinley ings before an investigating munity. As the hearings proceed so does the corruption, until almost everyone concerned has succumbed to the evils of "progress." Hersey's tour de force may not be literature but it is a How Fleming gets you to see Gen Israel Putman and with selves." Committee on Education, Welfare and Public Morality of a TV, a nam iicfamn definitive this involves about one half of Gen Howe in the awful mo- These appear on the green-i A new 14-stamp definitive. Here he sets ud the ment of decision when he! Times Three, selected verse from Three Decades id red.

fifth "American set was released yesterday for tne D00K n.Ye ne up .01 yesterday and certain state senate into the men ana tne conditions in oraerea a tnira tswiiuy ana With 70 New Poems, by Phyllis McGinley, with Tobago, British Credo" stamp in the appealing Trinidad which they thought and lived 'well-organized) assault. It is activities of a man who has brilliant piece of journalism, a come to the town of Pequot to: scarring piece of penetration scries started last January and West Indies. Local views in lively, fascinating and which helped shape their reading: 3 in this rmirict narartiA rivo an' buy a child for a private cor- of today's mores, of todays you'll rush through. Mour i nn.lhp.sr.pnp imnrpss nn Thp! behavior On June 17, 11(3 poration This is the slowest part of; This is battle history as it hopes and aspirations, and what they are doing to all of us. So absorbed will the reader The child is unusually gifted, a prodigy who might grow into the book almost too should be reconstructed, free But when the battle is of the cobwebs of myth and you have the understanding legend.

The one glaring omis-which makes it fall into place. for such a detailed ac- 111 tuuJJCL UUll: with the 12th annual National 'coloring is superb. There's the Postage" Stamp Show in the-trPical blue-green of the 71st Infantry Regiment Ar- ocean around the map of the mory. islands, on the top value. The date of release is this Also beautiful, is the color- vnar'a inp mi Ihp $1 5fl shnwinp a a genius.

What the corporation become in the narrative force proposes to do is to wipe out of Hersey's cntcism that it will what the child already knows, not be until he has finished, Considerable research into old count: a carefully scaled map. start from scratch and develop perhaps, that he will be aware ROBERT C. MOORE coin's most famouspeech, the" bird (then; are many! documents and the advantage of fresher insight into battle a brilliant robot of science. of the stine of the satire. That i ajj variPt nf ihio email mnit The hearings before theisting will smart for a long committee show up the usual E.

A. L. released in this series is the colored bird on the islands) as conditions fforded by Patrick Henry stamD next 11 approaches a showy hibiscus. I War II make this rewarding January. Thu7far Si seS And most striking is a scarlet! reading Foi -ins ance I lemmg we have had famous words of D1S: among nacres nasniest vivM blue The Emerald Whaler, by Science Fiction Among Best Short Stories WastogtoT iSffiin er I birds, agnst a on'of Gen.

Howe's refusal to make Jefl.e,r. itkP 9Sn amphibious landing at the foreword by W. H. Auden: Viking, $5. you delightful Phyllis McGinley, Your stuff is the stuff for me.

"Times Three" is a name that will swell your fame: I'll call for it three times three. Madame McGinley, salutations! Eliot, St. Jonn Pefse, Quasimodo and Karl Shapiro Should look to the lilt of your verse. I'm sick of the pawing metaphor And the champing simile Of frantic gallop and two-gun wallop And freighted poetry. Give me wit and the silken touch, Courtesy and a carriage, And wisdom and glee and irony-Bound in a three-way marriage.

Would that your name was Moon or Spoon And lent itself to rhymes, I'd sing your praise in a thousand ways A hundred thousand times. Now a book reviewer can never be sure, But I'm sure as sure can be When others are dead you'll be read and read Infinity "Times Three." HERBERT A. KENNY Casanova's Chinese Restau. rant, by Anthony Powell: Little, Brown $4. This is' the fifth novel in CI Jn.

WhrroWn nrinr. rear of the Colonials, long a William J. Laubenstem: Bobbs-Merrill, $3.95. This fictionalized story of the rescue of six Irish patriots disputed point. uic x-jiiiLUiil, aic VI ft-teiH denomination.

and Princess are current vis- Rpitiinitpn itors in this country, has Powell's series, "The Mu- In this the-day-it-haPPeneaVThe Amerkan short (traitors to thfexEnglish) from sjc of Time," and those familiar Stories 1960, edited by Thrills trntT' Chills Dept. an Australian prison ny a witn the English novel of man-whaler out of New Bedford has ners, wry, satirical and highly all the excitement of a wm hear in this adventure story, all the of Evelyn Waugh, Ford pense of a story of intrigue, all; Madox Ford and even P. G. the truth of history. jWodehouse, But these do not at your local postoiace the latest commemoratives, the 4-cent Francis Scott Key and the 4-cent commemorative the United Stales released Sept.

16 as Mexico released a companion stamp for the 130th anniversary of Mexican By AVIS DeVOTO me escape years earner or detract from the Powell idio John Boyle UKemy irom there was a 10-yen marking; the 50th anniversary of aviation in Japan. The plane design is reminiscent of our own anniversary issue. The, other issue, of two stamps, will be released Sept. 27th to mark the 49th Interparliamentary conference being held this year in Tokyo. James M.

Akerson of Newton will illustrate and discuss German stamps at this week's meeting of the Boston Philatelic Society at 7:30 p.m. Martha Foley and David Burnett: Houghton Mifflin, $4.95. This year'4 crop of certified bests comes from such old standby as Esquire, The New Yorker, Atlantic, the assortment of reviews that have replaced the "little" magazines, and of all things, from science fiction. Theodore Sturgeon's "The Man Who Lost the Sea," a stunner, is from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Oddly enough it has a com Mistress of Mellyn, by Victoria Holt: Doubleday.

Cornu-all ot end of 19fi centurv is settmB for another version of that old chestnut obout the governess, the motherless child, the handsome role ot a father, Romantic as alt oft out, very well done, and will tindoubt-' syncrasy. Admirers of Powell will relish this examination of tired, tormented musicians, a segment of Bohemia, aspects of marriage, and vacuous English sociptv. The time is that Esr.tae. Anyaatf among the same prisoners and his pickup by another whaler was the germ of the rescue idea. It led to quite an expedition, including the purchase of a whaler in East Boston, the nf thp Snanish Pivil War: the The Gregarious Reader dlu be a best teller and, a movie.

I search for a man expert enough in inmm Vinr rA IaitaI- prose and the portraiture, less lapidarian and less incisive than Waugh's, is surely beyond George Billias, author of the! under the supervison of such headed enough tQ effect the panion piece from the Hudson M.ltilLiaib as oil tiuuaii iiua SEARCH FOR RARE COINS JORDAN MARSH COMFAJJT will buy rare coin) nd rom coilcrtiont l.ir rol cash. are always In (hp market for large and small amounts of any material needed In our stick Including: United Sutei gold, ailver and minor coint of all types and all date United State large aiia paper money, at wall at Confederate and Colonial issues General foreign coint of all metals from both ancient and modern eountriat Bring your coins to our" Coin Dent. or out inspection and offer and immediate payment or ship them by registered mail or Railway Express. We will submit our offer to you 8t onre and keep your coins intact pending your decision. rescue, the patience of going the erosion of time, 1 ri IJ T1 H.

A. K. popular biography, "General John Glover and His Marble-J head Mariners," which has Review. "The Ledge," by" Lawrence Sargent Hall, takes place off the Maine coast, not in outer jey, on throuih enough whaling to Dr. Bronowski.

Every two-jmake the voyage look regular. page spread is a. self-con- the sending of advance agents Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Dark Lady, by Doris Faculty Club, 140 Bay State' Miles Disney: Crime near Kenmore station Club. Fan alwavt vvfime TJ hero, working on his ns always vu.uiue ph O.

thesia on American i'lan to be there, for German writers, occupies summer stamps have long been highly lSZoYo' popular with collectors A listing of all United States tnu std in detection rocket mail flights has been! space, but the theme is ident wuicu uim ui. ui.e tt-'-. to arrange details with the arrange ical: numan courage against maKing tne dook a vaiuapie gone into a second printing, has been given a Guggenheim grant to work on a biography of still another reference work. It is a sci men in prison. There were two key men, John Boyle O'Reilly in America and a priest in Australia, prepared by Ferry P.O.

Box 362, Holyoke The Pass Beyond ence guide of tremendous proportionsMost young people will find it fascinating; their parents might use it to find out what the youngsters are talking about. If you would like one, send him a request with a 4c stamp. Marbleheader, Elbridge Gerry. Billias will leave his teaching duties at the University of Maine to do research in the Boston area. Rev.

Fr. Patrick McCabe. And there was the money needed, about $30,000, collected in nickels and dimes from the irremediable disaster, something on the order of Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." Which is the best of the "best?" The editors leave it to the reader to decide. Here is a vote for Mavis Gallant's "August," a sensitive study of complex human relationships centered around one tortured mind. Elizabeth Larsh Youngs "Counterclockwise," is a touch- fliifelr Irish in America and else Kashmir by Berkely Mather: Sciibners.

Maps locating oil in the Himalayas, buried for years, are the unimportant Gimmick in thia first class norel of chase and esotonage. Hard to bent a a picture of India, from Bombau to KHshmir, mores fast bt blades, and even has a vmrvelouM touch ot humor. Brothers will award A narrative of famous sailing where. 25 autographed copies of The Catalpa's long voyage Back in stock a national bestseller The Liberal Hour by John Kenneth; Galbraith Excellent permanent position with the world's largest stamp firm for person with good philatelic knowledge, who can rapidly and accurately classify tumps according A VALUABLE BOOK FOR YOU ONLY $1.75 "APPRAISING AND SELLING YOI COINS" A complete illustrated catalogue of U. S.

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"Tall Ships and Great Captains," is written by A. B. C. Whipple. 108 nei unice.

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