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C--FOUR BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, JANUARY 7, BOOKS ARTS But can if wnfe? Books Are Dead Long Live Books By MILES A. SMITH There they are, stacks upon stacks upon stacks books, in book shops around the country, in schools, in libraries. And pouring off printing presses despite dire predic ttons that they were dead or dying things in this age the computer and other electronic miracles. Contrary lo Fact In Hie face of all the challenges of new media, the current basic fact is that book publishing has been one of the fastest growing indusiries in the nation for more than a decade. The number of books published each year has tripled in the last decade, about 10,000 titles to 30,000.

The industry's dollar volume of sales has risen irom about $750 million, to well above S2 billion a year. Publishing executives say there are good reasons to believe that the "book versus computer" concept is false; that they can complement each other; that they have i jobs ng and retrieval of a compute iank, and as of today that is a i i (actor to control. For the present at least, com 'Uters are not organized to re a large number of cop es. If hundreds or thousands of certain data are want sii, you'd better take the com niter's master copy and set i nto type for a printed bool --utilizing, incidentally, som computer techniques to operat he machines that set the type. Not Edible Material Technically it is feasible the whole text of a larg jook into a computer system But it may not be economical to do.

They also have different de mands to meet. The cost factor determines which medium wili meet which demands. It all comes down to what is wanted and how much a person can pay. Cheap Storage Books are at their best in delivering large chunks of information to relatively large numbers of people over a period years. The book is a cheap compactly stored data bank for many people.

Computers are at their best in sorting relatively limited quan tities of information out of large mass of data, and provid ing a few copies of the resul quickly. Here is how the publishing people, many of whom hav corporate connections i a a nt5 up this generaliza- inus technological media 10 to which '-he publishing the electronic systems: ipt-ople agree: Fiction, biogra- Computers are for speed. es essays, commentaries. They save the burden of plays, travel and ing 'or hours, days and adventure books, how-to books, through vast a i i of i a11 "general books" search a i a They a a ct)me C3ch year aren't in seconds. Thcv deliver factual: material for the machine.

a a on a arc called "print-i Printing of these books is a them the task of storing ed by the U.S. Office of Edu- ition have demonstrated what computer, can do to help the ducator keep abreast of the ood tide of books and olher do- uments that are being publ- hed in print. The harried researcher in the ast has been forced to paw rough tray after tray of 11- index cards. Now In cer- ain categories he turns to the omputer and the microfilm for bliographical references--tie, author, subject matter, etc. When will the second genera on of technological devices ac- ually be brought into the class- oom for the direct use of the upils? It will happen like every- ling else," said McCaffrey.

"It ill happen gradually. Perhaps will come about in 20 years." (APN) Suburban Ministry Satirized THE DEVIL AND HENRY RAFT1N. By Howard Singer. New York: Wagnalls. Our hero, Henry Raftin, is rotestant minister.

But he is ar from being a typical one. Raftin is a Boston boy who lecame a fighter pilot in Viet- lam. When he comes home he lecides enter a theologica eminary. Even there he does not fit the conventional pattern His faculty mentor suggests hat be r)o his thesis on the Deac Sea Scrolls. Raftin ignored the cholarly rules and writes the lory in the form of a novel, so is turned down as a thesis.

But his mentor secretly sends he script to a movie tycoon lamed Dangel. Of course Dangel has the butchered beyond recog lition, in true Hollywood style which causes a i to figh hrough the courts to uphold his iriginal But meanwhile Raftin is ex to Hollywood's wiles, spe cifically those of a promising oung actress, Carole Cavorte. Against the background 0 hese complications, the- author in some cynically humorous comments on the life ol a 'oung minister trying to copi with scheming trustees and neu rotic members of the congrega ion. This pastor's life Is not i lappy one, and the frustration teep it from being fruitful. Al the shortcomings of suburban church life are satirized by Raf tin's adventures.

Singer writes a witty bit prose. His dialogue often is a inappy as the lines of a Broad way hit. His needle is sharp to both the Main Street complexe of a suburban town and th cliche-clobbered precincts moviedom. The result is a fane ful tale that carries a lot comic sting. and mil" of a few sheets or yards of paper, or they llash! in electronic circuits rows of coded symbols on a a i them out again, horie ray tube-- such as the So whatever else happens, in a television set.

Have Limitations But the "electronic Mystery Gets Befuddled By Philosophy KILLING TIME, by Thomas Be gcr. New York; Dial Press. Appropriate to the recent season, "Killing Time" begins its tale on Christmas Eve with the discovery of three murders. Mystery fans would do well to stop reading on page 177 when, with the arrest of Joe Detweiler. their interest will wane and disappear.

chmes" have i i i a i tTM. They can deliver only what has been put into Ihem by a human being, and often this is a long, and therefore expensive, process. It also takes some ex- "the book" will survive many of these purposes. for What it comes down to, in this age, is that the computer is a valuable tool for research in science, technology, business, education and other factual areas. But it leaves a lot to be desired in the field of the poem, song, novel, play or jokebook.

Success In Education The computer has made pertisrj to retrieve a stored information--for a knowing how lo a the ques- stririps in the field of education, tions that arc posed to the ma- "The first generation of tech- chine, and how to decode the nology now has been well ac- Elmbols. cepted," says Austin J. Mc- For some purpose, a heavily! Caffrey, executive director loaded machine delivers far more information than is wanted. As one publishing man said, "Computers have no sense at all. They out everything." In other words, a judgment has to enter into the load- Cat Lovers And Others WillLikelt ATS' KINGDOM.

By HarJley and Join Ramsay. Illustrated, New York: Boobs-Merrill. As the title clearly indicates, iis is a book for cat lovers, al- lough others, exposed to it, may seduced into joining their com- any. It is a completely charm- volume, delightful in text and eautiful in illustrations in color nd in black and white. Hartley and Joan Ramsay, an and wife, both artists, live London.

He wrote and design- 1 the book; she contributed the aintings and drawings. The re- ult is a work to be cherished. Early in its pages, Hartley rites of hts wife's close affinity cats. She not only loved and ceded them, particularly during 10 years before their child as born, but the cats recognized her a special fellow being. THEIR FIRST cat was Max, named after Max Beerbloom hose writing they admired for charm and sharp wit.

Carried a brown paper hag from the ountry where he was born to the nement where the newly mar- ed pair, still struggling for a Mthold in a precarious profes- on had made a home, he soon ecame the center of the family's iterests. His devotion to Joan, writes artley, was quite "uncatlike," dding, "He walked with her, ilked with her and perched on shoulder, like a parrot." At ight, when she pulled the cur- alns and began turning off lights, would clutch at her With his aw as she passed him, trying to eep her with him. To give Max a friend of his wn kind, the Hartleys added Diah to their household. But linah refused to be friend either cat or human being. Firmly ndependent', she made her own ules for living.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HUMOR Tamara Gilmore, Rus- ilan-born wife of the Associated Press correspondent, the late Eddy Gilmore, has written a fascinating memoir in "Me and My American Husband," to be published by Doubleday Jan, 19. The Gllmores' was one of the great suspenseful romances of World War It and their married life one of the most glamorous. Her story makes dramatic reading, which Is heightened by the fact that their beautiful life together came to an end last fall when Gilmore died. -There is much sensibility )n this autobiography and humor, too, as Tamara Gilmore laughs at "Me and My American Husband." Writings About Hawaii Offer Colorful Portrait THE CONCLUDING statement on that page: "Oh, I killed them all right. But it wasn't murder, because I had nothing to gain," will give Ihe mystery fan his alibi-less guilty party, and all other readers a taste of what follows.

That turns out to be an attempt drape by the Thomas cloak of Berger to respectable the American Educational Publishers Institute. "The audio-visual aids, the i the microfilms, the programmed instruction aids and the recordings have achieved a high measure of success since World War II. "In Ihe second generation we have the computer and other tools that are more expensive and more complex. But in education they have to deal with all the iraditional elements. The computer's costs are higher.

It is necessary to educate the classroom teacher in its use, and a takes time." McCalfey says that educational technology "hasn't reduced the sale of books," that more textbooks are being sold not just because ol higher enrollments. There has been a gradual increase in the value of books sold per capita--more books per pupil, Enhances Demand Paradoxically, the value of computers in helping people find what books are available has enhanced printed books. the demand for wfll never replace a cookbook.I Several pilot projects organ- form around an inchoate morass ol half-lone philosophies. I must confess that even 372 pages of testimony have not re vealed to me just exactly what this philosophy is. Joe Detweiler is made to be sure, but is the guilt only his or doss society have a share in it? Law and justice are bandied about as relative terms, and the word might describe equally well the murderer, his lawyer, the police or even the victims.

"KILLING TIME" has some thing for everyone. The religious reader will appreciate the sea sonal "timing" of these senseless homicides. The phtlospher will en joy untangling Detweiler's twist ed conception of "Realization 1 and life's purpose. For the moral ist, the murderer's honesty is a beacon light; he would rather kill again and be truthful than accept a favorable verdict. The mortician, though, has the mos to gain with four customers wait uig to be served.

Unfortunately, "Killing Time' applies with equal validity to the author's plot and the reader'." plight. This reviewer could have found a more profitable way to kilt an evening. But then there is the satisfaction of savings others from the same fate. DR. VICTOR SOLOMON "CATS," writes Hartley, "were he first Protestants.

They bear loft, on vertical tails, Beelze- ub's standard: Non serviam." He goes on to give, some Interest- ng facts of cat history, their place i ancient times, in Roman, in ledieval. With Increasing stature as rtists, with increasing prosper- the Ramsays moved out of he tenement and, finally, to a ouse of their own. Here It was lat Lizzie, short for Eliza Doo- ttle, a seal point Siamese, be ame a new member of the cat ommunity. The description of is one that all owners of aamese cats will recognize as authentic. 'She swore like a Billingsgate porter," writes Hartley, "and ooked like Sheba, lithe, lean, poised, with squint eyes of the ieepest cornflower blue and a lonking loud voice that would awaken the dead, She was a thief, a fighter, a liar, a tormentor, a seducer, a housebreaker, chimney sweep Lizzie had her way with cats is well as with human beings.

'Dinah she ignored. Maxie she used or abused blatantly." WHEN LIZZIE died suddenly in a day, of an intestinal germ, the grieved and then, like all cat people, bought another pel. Thus did Titus, also a Siamese, begin his reign. Describing him, Hartley writes 'Outside Titus was a Titan. Inside, at home, he behaved like lamb, unbelievably gentle and biddable.

His intelligence outstripped, that ot any dog. He opened doors by leaping up and hanging on to the handle until it turned. He ate cheese like a Welsh miner, melon like a mil lionairc. Mushrooms were a special delight." There are other cats in the Ramsay book and all have their own charm and individuality. The words of Hartley, Scottish-born, give them meaning; the Illustrations ol Joan, shape and beauty.

The volume, printed in England, a work ol art. --ROSE C. FELD HAWAII: A LITERARY CHRONICLE, By W. Storrs Lee, Editor. New York: Funk and Wagnalls.

newest state in the Union, has been the subject of much literary activity since the exotic islands attained statehood. Now we have a new volume by a college dean and scholar who tnows Hawaii from intimate experience as a United States Naval Reserve commander stationed Honolulu during an extended tour of duty. Much has happened in Hawaii and to. Hawaii since Captain James Cook first landed on the islands. In the intervening two centuries, Hawaii has gone through countless changes and phases.

The primitive Innocent order that the crusty old captain found among the statuesque, peaceful native evolved through the stages of feudalism, monarchy, democracy and statehood. THE SWEEP of Hawaiian his tory is recorded with vivid color and realism between the covers of this substantial volume. The editor chooses with loving care 54 selections that paint the color- ful portrait of Hawaii on a wide canvas. Drama, warmth, pathos and sympathy are among the Bright pigments employed by the skillful artists assembled by Dr Lee. The book covers the subject in Breadth and in depth, vertically as well as horizontally.

And the order is chronological, beginning with James A. Michener' Drimieval account. W. Somerse viaugham, Rupert Brooke, Alfrec Lord Tennyson and even Mar: Twain contribute their share the charming romance fn geogra phy which was immortalized bristle, quill and pen of numerou artists, writers and poets. DR.

LEE has rendered a valu able service to Hawaiiologists adventure lovers, and all wh derive pleasure from focusei good reading. All he asks, in re turn, Is that his collection no be called an anthology usuall consigned to the "dip-and-dabbl treatment," but a "Literar Chronicle" with selections froi literary greats which are enter taining, gracious and Instructive. Request granted. -DR. VICTOR SOLOMON Intellectual Appraisal Of Foreign Policy ALL SHERLOCK HOLMES Every word that Sir Arthur Consn Doyle aver wrote about the adventures of the world-famous and unique detective duo-the detective Holmes and the doctor Watson--Is included in "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes." Here, in two volumes, are all the 5fi short stories and four complete novels, arranged chronologically from Holmes' i case, 1874, when he was a university Student, to his signal service to the British Empire in the opening days of the First World War.

The comprehensive book is being published by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. THE LIMITS OF POWER. By Eugene J. McCarthy.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Eugene J. McCarthy puts out a book every year or so. quiet, well-reasoned, rather dim accounts of his ideas on American government and politics: this is the best fit them, and it comes out at the right time. They attract a limited audience, mainly among political theorists and other intellectuals.

The senator has remained in the background of the political scene at Washington until now. All of a sudden, this thinking reed has turned Into a flaming arrow, begun to flash across the political sky, flashing the dark that set tied over Washington when Johnson put his armour on and tackled the very air of Vietnam with the blunderbuss of McNamara's army. Few thought that McCarthy had it in him to step out of party line to face down the Texas ranger, the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States of America. Yet he has done so, and this book helps to explain why, but only partly abundance that does not com hrough in this book, lor all In Suez, Vietnam, an all. His speech urging the nom nation of Adlai Stevenson sti 'cd tens of millions who saw an icard it on TV.

There is fire i McCarthy that it all the stron er because banked so deep. On ot these days it may break on --WILLIAM READ ANTIQUE FURNITURE Antique French furniture of the century--classic pieces in the antiques world--is fully covered in F. Lewis Hinckley's new book, "A Directory of Antique French Furniture 1735-1800." This beautifully designed and illustrated volume surveys completely, in text and 362 the furniture made by the masters fn Paris and the provinces 17351800. The book is being published by Crown. HERE IS an Intellectual appraisal ol the malaise ol the foreign policy of the United States, a malaise that Is endemic in the foreign policy of every nation that becomes Mr.

Big, but more open to probe and diagnosis In the case of the United States than of any Empire that preceded It, the Chinese, Roman, Byzantine, or Holy Roman, French or British. American errors get them even greater in their own arena than did ever those row dusty dreams, while outside the coun try the carp is served wilh a sour envy of a sauce that is part love part fear, part ignorance and al gall. This is McCarthy's point: thai the U. S. never sought, or even wanted to be Mr.

Big, but Is This Is a fact, and this musi govern all her actions. THIS BOOK belies the man: It is not good enough; It is i timely decent complaint, not enough for McCarthy. He pos- cesses a wit, elegance and ability Science Fiction Labeled 'Best' SF: The Best of the Best. lied by Judith Merril. Ne York! Delaeorte.

The trouble with calling som thing "the best" of anything that one man's best often is a other man's worst. Judith Merril, in assessin her selection of 29 science fi lion stories, does admit th "while there are to knowledge, at least as mai other stories published betwei 1955-60 that are Just as good i these--these still are vei good Indeed." This Is a valid point. But ho do you refer to a collection a "the best" when It doesn't co tain one story by the best of tl science fiction writers, Ra Bradbury? Or a single entry such other top-notchers as Rlc ard Matheson, Charles Bea mont and Henry Slesar? And to compound the conf slon, she does include stories such lightweights as G. Ba lard, Cordwainer Smith an Richard M. McKenna.

Quibbling some very aside, there good things her most of them by writers who names always come up wh first-rate science fiction Is cussed--Walter M. Miller .1 Clifton D. Simak, Fritz Lcibe Robert Shecxley and Isaac A mov. The entries representing the writers really are among best. But they ought to be.

Aft all, the men who wrote the are among the best In the bu --PHIL THOMAS 'rotestors Edg Of Sanity IE EDGE. By Page Stegner. New York: The Dial Press, Inc. California, snys Page Stegner, the most obvious manifestation the nihilistic spirit that is anging our social structure om order and tradition to chaos inslability. He Bnds it a fascinating subject id in this novel writes about the kinds of people who are lured California by the mylh of Kim- line and oranges and spiritual eedom." WHERE THE SPIRITUAL free 3m comes in is hard to discover this rootless, aimless, irre xmsible crowd.

Everybody and down and goes no- lere and docs nothing. Drink, rugs, idleness, hostility and des air rule their sordid lives. "Doomed to walk the edge mity," as Slegner describes em, they are dedicated to non jmmitment. Ryan, the central character in book, runs away from his ife and child. He doesn't owe nybody anything.

He wants to free. Free to talk to girls like asha from Rye. N.Y. "That's place (she tells him) where ey forgot to put the tin roove. My daddy is the wggest ut and the smallest mind to ever de the New Haven Railroad nd he has ridden it every day his silly life for the past 25 Sacrament Study Gives Ecumenical Insights THE SACRAMENTS: An Ecumenical Dilemma.

Edited by Hans Kung. Concilium Vol. 24 New York nnd Glen Hock: Paulist Press, 1967. Lucy Van Pell, that prototype of the female predator, in Charles Schulz's brilliant "Peanuts" com- strip accurately self-styled by, a remark some month's ago: "I love mankind. Its people 1 can't stand!" Naive and humorous though (he statement may be, the reader feels strangely struck.

Most of us have days when we feel what Lucy has articulated. It is when things get out of nand (when this feeling becomes a philosophy of life) that we and those around us stand in danger. For what ensues can bs nothing less than a sordid Isolation from one's fellows. Current Best Compiled by PubUihetj Weekly FICTION "The Confession Nat Turner," Styren "Topaz," Urif Gabriel art "The Pqtek' NONPICTION "Our Crowd," Birmingham "Nicholas and Alexandra," Rickenback- SO NATURALLY Dasha wen est "on account of ail them ranges and sunshine and beauti- I people." If you don't keep loving you're dead in Dasha's orld. Acquisitions are senseless nd immoral in the minds of icse life haters.

Self-pity and an- er, mental illness and the death' total nothingness. Ryan's dreams are nightmares, wake, he is tortured by guilt hich he tries to banish with heap wine and paregoric. What rice freedom? it is raw nerves and the agony remembrance: He is the shad- of deserted nd void." Page Stegner is assistant pro- essor of American literature at ihio State university. PERHAPS in a desperate attempt to keep alive a spirit of interpersonal communion, the ecu menical. movement' strives to make men a'ware o( the convictions and religious experiences of others.

Dialogue on these matters means milch more than "You tell me your dream and I'll tell you mine." It indicates a mutual willingness tn learn, to be affected, to grow. Among Catholics and Protestants, a field of investigation which can yield a rich harvest for ecumenical insights is the realm of sacraments: those ritual signs which indicate ant affect the realty they signify points of encounter with the divine in a context of so cial i i those celebrations the identity of non-sacral liv g. Hans the young and ere ive theologian of Tubingen, ermany, has compiled a book of 1 articles dealing with some cumonicnlly aspects baptism, confession, the Euchrist and marriage. James McClendon explains In opening essay why Baptists do ot baptize infants, and this is illowed by the query of a Jesu, "What can Catholics learn om the infant baptism contro- ersy?" Ultimate agreement here may not be, but deeper isight into opposite views is DO can reward. CALIFORNIA and the thousands people who are migrating to west Interest him deeply as a rlter of fiction.

Unless you share Is concern and have any curiosi- nbout what makes these pro- estors tick, "The Edge" will eave you cold, "Why do we destroy tnal which most need and want?" sorne- ne asks in book. You won't uid an answer. -MARTHA BUTLER Fast's Tales Weakened By Effects THE HUNTER AND THE TRAP. By Howard Fast. New York: Dial Press.

Combined here are a short "The Hunter," and novel, "The Trap." The central figure in "The Hunter" is a celebrated writer vho has just come to New York "mm a big game hunting trip-a la Hemingway. On an impulse throws an all-night party ti which flock scores of other ce ebrities. The next afternoon he discovers he is "being 3y whom, he doesn't know. Bu iis instincts as a hunter tell him the tables have been switched. The story is graphically told lut the author doesn't seem ti have achieved whatever effect he has been trying for-probably because there is effort to bring out why anyon, would want to kill the writer.

"The Trap" Is a venture science fantasy, told rather ob liquely. A footloose man gradu ally Is drawn Into working fo iis sister and brother-in-law both brilliant (dentists. He soar finds himself sleuthing ihe black markets of the worli tor babies with extremely hig1 intelligence, who are to hi sister at a strictly guarded se cm reservation, These are bein raised to become auper-adulu and after 18 years a letter from the sister Indicates the experl ment has been successful--in way, too successful for everyon concerned. As an exercise of imagination the fitory holds the reader's in terest, but It is weakened by th indirect manner ol telling. APOSTLE FOR CHRIST The Rev.

Richard Wrumbran preached Christ's a through prison walls by mors code. His new book. "Christ in th Communist Prisons," Is a harrow ing but inspiring account of a Lu theran pastor's almost 15 years i the communist prisons of Ro mania. The book will be puhlisl ed by Coward-McCann Feb. 2, "Nicholas and Vfassie "Rickenbacker," "Twenty.Letteri to Afiiluyeva "Between Parent and.thlld," i ha interested reader ao, article ry the same Currents" magazine," 'Vol.

17 (1967), pp. 39-54; and 'to Bernard Cooke's "The 'Presence' ot Jesus" in "Commonweij," Wov 24, 1967. PERHAPS in an attempt to make the book totally'ecgnienical, there is John M. Oesterreicher'i "Yes, No, Nevertheless, 1 which concerns Christians! to Vatican It's statements about Jews. But even more in a book on sacraments is the final essay by Andrew a statistical, sociological survey on Catholic education In the United surely belongs in another volume.

Edward Schillebeeck has said that Church and ritual are the direct, sacral expression of man's communion with God, and lat secular life is the indirect, on-sacral expression of that ame communion; difference in 16 kind of worship, not in the egrec. This book Is a reasonably suc- essful attempt to examine some spects of the former. As luch, is a good introduction, but liould not be considered sulli- ient for an understanding ol the roblems Involved. ON THE PROBLEM of ritual enance, Max Thurian of the aize community Investigates the istory of confession In the evan- elical churches, and Walter Kas- wr brings to light a major Is ue today: confession outside the onfesskmaj. He has Roman Catholics in mind, and this reviewer feels he edged a bit too much In an ttempt to sketch out a public turgy for penance, he has tena- lously held to the necessity ol rivate confession, without Indi- ating the circumstances which make it "as obligatory ai it Is ow." But this may be an unfair de- and.

for he is considering acramental practice, not a ques- "on of moral gravities. Six of the 13 essays deal with the Sacrament ol the Lord's Sup- which is only right. This enter of all Christian cult needs he clothing of new terminology nd explanation In our day. Daid Stanley's brief article, like iis other works, is lucid and in tractive, but Joseph Ratzinger's piece on the Eucharist as a sac ifice is woefully Inadequate. Why Is there no mention srael's Day of Atonement sac ifice, which the New Testamen vriters (particularly the author of Hebrews) clearly had In mind articulating the meaning Jesus' sacrifice? Why is there no hint of the sac rifice ol Jesus as something which began on Calvary, was perfected in His glorification and jerdures forever in.

glory? 10 insight on worship as the locus ol encounter between the people and the once-for-all self offering ol their Lord? These are terribly important Issues In a theology of sacrifice, and thei absence is a sorry loss to th wok. Piet Schoonenberg's analysis he historical dimensions (ani therefore the provisional nature of the doctrine of transsubstanW ation as an explicitarlon ol Jesus presence In the Eucharist Is somewhat redeeming article alte the Ratzlnger failure, and deserves careful reading by thos who deny the development dogma. (I further recommend tc DONALD M. SPOTO Felnitit Pro Intellectual Tells How He Got to the Top MAKING By Norouw Pod- horetz. New York: -Random Home.

The author Is an Intellectual. We might call him a professional Intellectual, for certainly eems proud to a professional. In his Introduction, Podhoreti declares that he was to naive, that ha did not realize until he vas 35 that it Is better to be a success than a failure. He iresents himself as a success in he sense that in "making it." le rose from a lower class Jewsh household in Brooklyn to a comfortable Manhattan lile in what he calls the literary world --but is it? His rise in status Is only part of his memoirs--albeit the most nteresting part. Without being overly immodest, he tells his jrilliant record as a scholarship student at Columbia, his scholarship at Cambridge and his inal disenchantment there with academic life.

He decided (o 3ecome a critic rather than a professor. From'this point on, story gets into the highly convoluted complications of the Introverted, esoteric little magazines to which he became a contributor, Life among the wrangling, puerile cliques ol the so-called intellectuals who-Inhabited the' world of "Commentary," ol which he eventually editor makes for a tiresome chronicle. Podhoreti Is earnest and articulate. But he leemi to be telling more about himself than ha realizes. To gome readers, the cherished literary world Ltji which he has the may not real literary world at all, but an Isolated hot- houss far removed from Oia natural world ot creative.litera- ture.

5 Millenia Art Surveyed ART AND CIVILIZATION. By Bernard Myers, New York: McGraw-Hill. This formidable and sumptuous book, surveys five'mlUenia and more of global does readably and authoritatively and leaves (he reader with a good working concept of the creative side of man. The scope is too large to allow Dr. Myers much chance for a close examination of Individual works, artists, or even move ments, and invariably what is gained in breadth is sacrificed in depth.

Some chapters seem downright thin--for example, those on Chinese and Japtness art. What Dr. Myers can and doer' do within his framework It el- tablish key relationships and connections In the 'historical context--from primitive art to Picasso, from the Egyptian manner of using space to Gaij- gln's, front paleolithic animal art to that of the steppe peoples. This Is a new, enlarged edition ot a work published a decade ago. Numerous black and white Illustrations and excellent color plates supplement the text.

-R. J. CAFPON.