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BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, JANUARY B--SEVEN IBOOKS andfl Robert Frost: Bureaucratic Verse-Man it By W. G. ROGERS nss Art E4MM) AUTHOR VLADIMIR NABOKOV wHb his wife. With' (heir son, they have lived all over Author of 'Lolfta' Resents Pornograhy Tag on Book By THOMAS B. TURLEY ITHACA, N.

Echoes, of the internatioital furor raised by- his noyc)' still reach him, Vladimir Nabokov shrugo them off. If you call "Lolita" dirty, disgusting or shocking he laughs uproariously. "These things help to sell the boot," he says. author of one of Ihe most I controversial works of fiction -in recent years teaches European literature at Cornell University, In his spare time he dlssocls insects and docs academic research. "Lolita," his Elpry of a middle- aged Frenchman's love affair with a gum-chewing, 12-year-old American girl, has been variously dt'scribcd as "outrageous," "i comedy of horrors," and It also has been called "major work of ari," and "a great book" written by a "brilliant artist -of the (irst rank." Famel In Europe "Lolila" first wfis published In Paris in ,1955.

After enjoying a sort of sublerr'inean fame In Europe for three years It was published In the United Slates lact summer and became an Instantaneous commercial success, much to Naboltov's pleasure. Bulc 1B "America, 1 1 the 59-year-old reading. says, "is the most mature 'country in the world now in this respect. Some of the reviews here have- been splendid. And there's a tremendous number of Intelligent, artistic readers in tnls country.

They ire the type a writer imagines be would like to have read his. Ask Nabokov whether his book is pornographic and his somewhat flippant tone vanishes. tcel rather bitterly on that poinl," he says. "My colleagues- oilier so many obscenities. Not a single obscene term is to be In the book, 1 detest many of the mediocrities writing enormous novels nowadays and filling Ilicrh with mural words.

1924 Best Seller Despite the success of "Lolita" and its sale to Hollywood for 5150.000, Nabokov holds a detached view of his being a storm center in international literary circles. "After all," he says, first novel, in I92V was a best seller. It is not as Jf I had suddenly i been discovered." As for life at Cornell, Naho- kov says he likes teaching anc likes the-intcllec'tual atmosphere of a college community. "I have six hours of classes here a week," he says, "When I first; came to Cornell 10 years ago my classes sometimes used to run up lo around 300 pupils. guess they thought I'd be easy.

Well, I fooled them. Now my largest class is about 150 pupils. "We analyze the essence of a novel. I want them to see how a writer continually builds up his story by packing in detail, detail, detail." He explains that in his own efforts to pack detail into "Lolita," he rode school buses for a while and sat in parks where children played. When this became embarrassing, he finally resorted to scholarly sociological and psychological Journals where vincial banality so typical ot Soviet historical background is muddled and quite false to.

Nabokov and Pasternak share a similar status as far as the Russians are concerned. Pasternak's bopk has not been published in his own country and -the work is banned there. Nabokov's books also are forbidden in Nabokoy came to the United States in 1940 and became 'an American citizen in 1945. As exiles from Russia, where Nabokov's father was assassinated in 1922, the Nabokoys (the author, hlj wife, and their son, Dmitri, 24), have lived all over Europe. What changes In.his life hav been wrought as result of the success and the controversy? Nabokov said the most noticeable Is the.

difference in his daily I.olila's Destiny "I feel obliged to keep UP with the destiny of, explains. "After al, people stop me on.the street and ask me to comment ion opinions. So I have to know what is being said about 'e." 'v Therefore, he reads several newspapers and magazines daily. Nabokov "is an indictment ot all th.e things It expresses. -It is a pathetic book dealing with the plight ol a child, a very ordinary little girl, caught up by a disgusting and cruel man But ot all my books, I like it the best.

The last bone always tastes best." a of er Robert Frost; His title in poetry to'vthe of Congress. It sounds liohoraiy dean' of kme'rican. it's real job; he'works it, every quiet joying; door market 'private," secretary, in' turn '''has secretary'; there is an elegant js for smaillsh' sociable and 'a still smaller professional' office all own--''I think they want te give'me a pad a ifix me up to write ie he jokes gruff; low- He? collects jn' hon6rarium, tr winks and remarks 'the newspaper fellows keep vying to get tell 'em how the, isn't; The poetry 7 really works.when-he comes to town, though he quired in.constant'·ttend-'i! mice. That's'' lu'cky, I can't any other, M-year- old standing the pace whlch Frost kept when I spent, -two in Washington following SAN FRANCISCO-BORN, 1 but in substance and spirit- the pcit- of New, Frost 1 has Jost; only'a little of his hair, which except for yellow lock, an' uninfentlohaily'-modisfi: effect. He' pats it.

with; ger tips, maybe to" smooth it 'though usually mussing it.thVmpre.'," always a'quizzical expression on hls-weathered You have'Uie feeling'his shrewd; eyes don't counts off gers. He 'He lets loose deep' 'chesty, chuckles. He grinds put- his in' a kind of genial but -wifii a bite in it sometimes, i Twice during (he he squeezed it in "short Besides, it's sort ol, a rest for him to slouch' the bottom of his spine front broad at HALE Fro.st, (till pholo AND BRISK AT S4--Robert Frost consultant in poetry to the.Library of Congress, I'hale, and brisk at $4, ys likes his.job but it doesn't keep him busy enough. He'll i't miss. a'-, ti lie want to consulted on" every thing." comments his he found case studies of juveniles.

Pau Pasternak criticism of other books Includes Boris Pasterni "Dr. Zliivago," which has been running neck and neck with "Lo- at the top of the best-seller lists. "My concern Is only with the artistic character of a Nabokov, says. "And from this point of ylew'Dr. Zhlvago' is, a sorry thing, clumsy and melodramatic, with stock situations rambling robbers and trite coincidences.

Here and there, there echoes of Pasternak, the gift-ed poet. But that is not sufficient to nve liw novel from the pro- Picayune Topic Spun Endlessly THE PISTOL. By James Jones. When the came over Pearl Harbor, Pfc, Richard unlike the other riflemen with him, was wearing a pistol. had been entrusted to him.for a stint of guard duty by an Army short on equipment, and he was expected to turn It in.

he spends the- next few weeks, In Jones' and If you are patient in yours, not trying to win the ward-off whom he sees neither hide, nor hair, trying to hold "off his buddies who want to get his pistol away from him and belt It In its holster around their middles. They snatch by day. and snitch by night. They use all their fuile and muscle, they put up an-arju- ment.and put up a fight. Jones a a major theme In "From Here to Eternity," and lavished the heroic treatmenfon t.

Here after a promising start he had a picayune which he spins out endlessly. Perhaps he meant to'be funny, or.to.»at- tirize red.tape.-or what? Either sultant; and I want to. be con suited. 'I've 'just once in the straight 1 poetic i A young fellow in and told- me he was the poet laureate of the 'Antarctic operation Deep showed some poems, about, the wives those men left: at horne. Pretty sexy told ButI'never caught Frost "do; Ing any waiting.

In--my short time In' Washington, he was" guest at-a poetry luncheon. 1 He conferred his 6 i ran over 'correspondence with Kay -Miirrison, i Is 'riend; answered a of questions at a press gave a dinner for a former Amherst pupil of his, George Chinese amb'ass ador th United States; and for the last minutes before some more with another, former Amherst pupil--myself. THE NIGHT he lectured In da'y after; he en tertained in his official 'parlor; he had one one more session 'be fore the week ended. In nuence does not forget the look the i face, of the grOcer front as family man al- had to. ask r.

credit; Sfock 'subjects for' his '-Joking 'e'-whit heicalls bad the llpw professor' AviuV whorn Hg big il.bri ry SYho'-neVerthel ess ises -the; public- "library rather ifn 1 hunt his -own unca- collection; i am who, ciaiined he couldn't nderstand the Weaning ol, "Good nces g'ood 'neighbors," of 'Frost's! plainest and most mous lines; the id that he. en- oys freedom his'. bwn.f be- by the poetry office, Kefrfiary and the peopltr who --his he makes Tales he has mistaken a short story for a novel, or his story-telllngjenack a i has for once forsaken him, In the 860 pages of "From Here to Eternity" he never did runout of material; in these W. G. ROGERS ready there; and he 'rnay'lrnsiki up what mil be called: shelf" of -favorite' brother pbfcts Everybody knows tel the' th the waiter, who wait' on the He al so is' ree ognized' by, Tth sl'ranger In.

the 'street, vthisl'dJne it the'next-table, the taxi'; whose -face lights; up 'hi passenger, into th back way down in'It, and begins to talk, or goes on a newtaisn's delight, if only because tilks so well and so He raconteur, 1 the term i too.fancy. But he is matchless remlnlscer, storyteller andf re teeter. Out of an" incomjwrabl rich' (tore' of 'anecdotes, aequaih ances and experiences culle from four-score years, is determined chain talker. Every audience, either the 'single person at his side or hundreds in the hall, is a no less determined chain listener, and lorei it ail. Frost savors to the fan the quirks and twists in poets teachers and people in genera he savors to full the SHORT STORY AWARD, NEW YORK--(AP) 0.

Henry Prize for the short story has been awarded 'to Martha Gellhorn, it is amouBoed by Paul Engle, editor of "frtn Stories TheTOi'to prire of with wHch he evokes item; to (ether they come out as the -I kind of theateri SOONER OK LATER you learn that. he likes "to long night ftoe walks; retards Washington wtth patriotic affection pride; spends a bnt farm, where" he grows ovrn garden; cared money it. to uander; no'w fft Isak Dinesen Comes to U.S. TpMake Educational Films Legal Romp Loses Gusto i With Aging SOBER AS A JUDGE. By Henry Cecil.

,117 pages. New York: Harper tc Brothers. is the pen-name of a British lawyer who recently found a rewarding career in gent thumbing his nose at his own profusion. You may remember, the enchanting 'nonsense; "Brothers in Law," which was both a booh and ''a and "Friends at which' followed These launched a bumbling young Briton named Rogeq Thursb'y pri a slightly bewildered life at the bar and advanced him (in 'Friends' at Courf'yto the estrfte of a attorney. Well, Roger is back "Sober as a'Judge" finds him, still young, advanced to the High Court, He-Is 'IThe honorable Mr.

Justice Thursby" now He has also become pretty'stuffy. THE UNDERSIGNED HAS been one of the many readers who greeted' the arrival oX another Thursby. with cries of joy and anticipation of gay adventure. Truth compels him to report the sad hews that "Sober as a Judge" is what is known in the trade.as a potboiler. Perhaps Cecil" is-bored.

Perhaps found it all too easy to toss off nonsensical tales of the antics, of Roger and Henry Slagrove, his irrepressible friend the earlier he reason, this is a collection ol chapters devoted mostly'to dull- npss Here, in hearings on lawsuits, -conversations, sometimes even dreamsi is a non stop night mare of-piled-up words, tanglet Noughts; whimsy painstakingly pieced "together, with orgies circumlocution Sample "You were explaining how the country permits a man 'who contracts to delive East and West Do Meet In Harper Prize Novel Currertt Best Sellers Hctloa -DOCTOR' ZHIl'AGO--Bom Pasternak, Nabokov. AROUND THB WORLD WITH AUNTTE MAME--Patrick Dennbj. EXODUS--Leon M. Urls. WOMEN AND THOMAS HARROW--lohn P.

Marouand. THB UOI.Y"AMERIOAN--wihum J. Let- erer and Eusene L. Burdfck. T1IB TERRACE--John WCTORINE--France) Parkinson KerM.

AHATOUY OF A 5HIRDER--Robert Tra- Isak' Dinesen, famed Danish arrived in'New York last week for her first visit to this Her trip, arranged bv is for the Advancement Education, is. under the au- pices of the Encyclopedia Bri' soberly' re too many cliqueiV jjj oferie's' in' poetry ne 'of the" Va'ys th ey aye to inage 'I'm lone taite' jealousy into ccouht' rm'more' jealous ow thah 'when ,1 Vas yo'ung. 'The 'freedom; to put ether, metaphors, lat's what, That -provides IB happy moments. nce you've tested that While here Miss Dinesen will make-a series jased upon some of the tales rcim her works lor cue tritannic'a educational film ser- es. Miss Dinesen'also will speak the Institute of Contemp- and be'i honored at a inner given by the Academy-of Vrts and Letters late in January.

In' 1934, when' Isak Dinesen's irst book was published in this puntry, though her editor, Haas rec- gnized that her talent was inique and of extraordinary quality, the he hoped for was a success d'estime. 'ln- tead. Seven Gothic Tales was as a B6ok-of-the Month selection and overnight became a best seller. Dorothy Can- jeld Fisher, speaking for the Book'-of-the-Month' Club Board of ght of 'his ot fit to-do any FROST TAKES of ibugh he admits 'he has had a ewbVd' falls, one riot long go on 'a piece of ice in' Vermont; and tone couple' of years: ago Cambridge: "Tlfere 'are' four front steps, nd I' didn't touch a one of them, ust -flew; over ant A neighbor h'appennc and lookW down a and never even to elp. And you know; what he said: '9(ell what' a' toug'hle! even in mind" than )ody.

The' Robert Frost'; mint lever.sits on the bottom of its pine; slumps' the- chair It's on parade -here in 'Wash ing- on "as "a "public ottlci bit when- ver people let. him alone his noughts slip back to the'one mater that hal preoccupied- him 'for onger than most men live. He with him this tirht; for the typescript of a new ong poem, which 19, intend! to include in i forth volume. He, had with could rnull. it over.

"I- kind of keep, plowing into hough all the INTO BOOK ISAK DINESEN 'cin-rlctlon IN AMERICA--Harry Golden. KU-AKU--Thor Heyerdahl. IE MEMOIRS OP FTEI.D MARSHAL MONTGOMERY. BAA BUCK SHEEP-- Papw I Inslon, All C. Wedtmeyer.

KIDS SAY THB DAKNDEST THINQBI-- Art Llnklelur. THE -NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN J1NGIJSH--J. B. Phillips. MY OWN--Eleanor Roosevelt.

ABANDON T. NewcomS. ELEPHANT HILL. By Robin While. 245 pages.

New York: Harper Bros. Robin White, winner of the just pubjished $10,000 Harper novel prize, is an author who has created an exciting book with gentle lyric moods, yet swift pace, and fascinating interest. Written with a clarity and a simplicity that Is sheer joy to read, "Elephant Hill" 15 crystalline in conception and execution. Against a wonderfully graphic background of India emerges a superbly wrought tale with many overtones and broad Implications in terms of both individuals and mrhanity. Basically, its theme.

emphasizes a shift from Kipling's East is East" to World" concept. That this is done in terms of a compelling, touchingly human story, dramatic yet amusing at times, ii part of Mr. White's literary magic. Judges, said of Seven Gothic series of vigorously presented, outrageously -unexpected, sometimes i horrifying, but perfectly real human beings laps you-will allow me, Little, Brown Is rushing to press Walter' Lippmann's bool baied on his recent; Interview wit: Russian Premier. Niklta.

Khrush chev, which provoked world-wide attention', and'hli analysis of Interview. Titled "The Cpmmunis World and Ours," the Lipp- mahn volume, an Atlantic Monthly Press. book; will published next week. -Mr. Lippm'inn's.

jyp- dicated- columns on his Russian visit" received international edir toriai attention' when were pabllihtd in, November -of ywtr, bectutcof the fuut il( of the Kremlin ttzittff tad preseat ebjectivm, as a Vermonter, to fall back on the New England language of understatement as my final report on these stories, and assure'you that in my opinion it will be worth your while to read them." AT, THAT TIME all that was about the'pseudonymous sak was that --was a Continental European, writing in though was nor native la his a that wish" his'identity revealed. In spit the success of Gothic the. author wjas to avoid any publicity and' for months she' managed to preserve ler but finally the pressure of readers' curiosity became so great, the secret had to come Only' then was it revealed that Isak Dinesen was not, her name.suggested, a man, out Baroness Karen of Rungstedland, Denmark. Baroness comes.of an old country family, and in writing she is on its tradition -for father--born Isak. Dinesen--who before her had.

made a considerable contribution to He served as an army officer in more" than one and' later, tired of fighting, went to America and lived for some years as trapper with the Pawnee In- diaps in. Minnesota. On his re turn jo Denmark he two bonks under the pen-name Boganls, he had been callei by his.red-skinned friends. In-1940, marrie her cousin, Baron 'Blixen, ant him to British Eas Africa; where they established and operated' a coffee plantation. In 1921, the) wen divorced, but she continued plantation nother ten years, until the-cbl- spse of the coffee market forced er to sell her property and re- urn to Denmark.

Her second xxk, Out of Africa, recorded many-of her experiences in the olony, was again a selection of le. Book-of-the-Month club, and gain was received with enthu- lasm by like. critics and readers EVER SINCE her return in )31, Miss Dinesen has lived' a fe of seclusion. Sometimes t) et relief from household respon- ibilities so can write without interruption, she stays rith kinsfolk'in an unused wing some famous old manor--she related, by birth or-marriage, half the noble families of Sometimes she slips way to an obscure village Inn do her writing. There, incog- Ito, she enjoys the.

conversation of provincial commercial (ra- elers and Ihe companionship of ight and nine-year-bid, school- with whom she play? cards or imaginary high For many she de- lined Invitations to Finally Alvin Eiirich, lirector of the for the Advancement of' Education, a philanthropic 'organization es- abllshed by the Ford Founda- ion, successfully persuaded her make the trip by. pointing oul low valuable her filmed' talks would be to'educational Ins'titu- ions the world over. Besides Seven Gothic Tales and hit of Africa, Miss Dinesen is he author 6f Winter's Tales, also a Book-ol-the-Mpnth-'Olub selection, Last Tales and the recently published Anecdotes of estuty. If is not generally known that she has used still another jen-name-rPierre Andrezel-rbut in-this case from motivesV. of maintaining her privacy than" to employ her great literary gifts to thwart and taunt the oppressors of her native land.

In 1944, as Pierre Andreiel she published The ApceHe Avcagert, a novel which on one level told a fascinating story of mystery, adventure and young love, and oa an- oranges to deliver orange julc insteid, and'get away with it." "It wasn't all orange juice, Lord. There were some oranges, about a tenth of the tola quantity. 7 If you came back fro' with one out of ten, what d'you think you wife would say if that the other nine had leake through the bag?" "Fortunately, my Lord, or fortunately, I am in your Lord ship's happy position, and couldn't happen to me." if you had a wife, what d'you suppose she'd say? She'd send back for, the other nine, wouldn't she?" in that case, my Lord, there would have been no special contract between me and the greengrocer," "Special contractl They bought oranges. You might just as well say that a contract to deliver butter can be fulfilled by the delivery of "With respect, no, my Lord. If your Lordship said milk, and cheese, that'-would be.

a closer analogy." "All right, I'll accept your suggestion, A contract to supply milk. The milk has turned to cheese on delivery. Cannot the auyer complain?" AND SO ON, ad infinitum. Like It? There are four mortal pages of this a case that "took seven days before the arbitrator, came to the High Court, up to the Court back to the arbitrator 'of another three etc. There are eight'pages of patient, a bored debate with a witness who objects, on principle, to taking an oath; on the ninth-page you and the judge find he was by accident.

There Is endlessly more, all confidingly offer- id as entertainment. Nonsense or ibt, one wonders what readers in England will think of It as a picture of British courts. Maugham Objects To No Avail W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Candid Portrait, by. Karl G.

Pfelffer: Norton. $3.95. Born in 187-i, the son of a dis- inguished old family, Maugham vas still young when he lost his jarents. An uncle enrolled him several schools in England and abroad, and he made tenta- Ive starts in ministry and medi- became a practicing decor--before he settled definitely writing. He wanted to be" a dramatist but managers didn't want to put on his plays.

He tried fiction vithout much luck. Tor whatever reasons, perhaps nagged on jy such handicaps as a stammer, ack of good looks and a puny stature, he was ambitious and determined fiercely not just to write but to be a success at it. Ho was 33 when in 1907 he scored a stage hit with Frederick" and ioon had three other plays running in London. FROM THEN on to the present, with Maugham 85 this month, he lias continued to be a con- ilderable literary success and an nqualified commercial success; feiffer says he has earned four --SHEPPAHD BUTLER UB Professor Plans Spring Publication Dr. Milton Milhauser, associate professor of English at the University of Bridgeport, has completed arrangements with the Wesleyan University Press for the publication of a book "Just Before Darwin," basec on his doctoral dissertation.

The book is scheduled to appear this spring. Two items have been recently published by Dr. Milhauser: a story, "Wheelhorses," in the cur rent issue of the A.A'.U.P. Bullet In and an article, "Advice to My Son, or the'Linguistics of Sub urbia," In the January, 195 issue of the English Journal. Dr.

Milhauser resides at IOC Carylnn drive, Fail-field. other was a bold and total con demnation of the Nazi conquer ors in whose power Denmar then lay Only after had been published in America making the fourth time one her books had been chosen as Book-of-rhe-Month club was Mitt Dinesen's author revealed. lion dollars. World War II crimped -his yle; his publisher Nelson Dou- eday built him a South Caro- ia home with only eight rooms, he had to abandon his yacht nd Mediterranean villa. Back lere but with only five ervants instead of 13, he still ves in the elegance and luxury lat he thinks befit an English entleman.

A friend of Maugham's for lany years, Pfeiffer "describes im as gracious but cool and ynical underneath, unfair to.the air sex, not a class onscious, with no very high pinion of the human race. But has a head for business and bsolute inlegrily and, as a writ- a remarkable flare for pic- uring people and places. Pfeifer, while mindful of "Of Human iondage," calls him "a good rifer of the second rank," an pinion I share. This is expert, revealing bio- discreelly spiced as laugham himself spiced his omments on his friends and ac- uaintances. It's a good story nadc lot of good stories, probably would have been no more interesting even i Maugham's blessing.

The novel- st in effect asked Pfeiffer to write this book, leC him make lotes and collect material, then ecided arbitrarily to object of- icially to this and all other biographies. Pfeiffer very sensibly vent ahead anyway. W. G. ROGERS AN AMERICAN school teacher," Beth Sumner, comes to India to visit her sister and brother-in- law, a medical missionary in charge of a leper hospital.

A woman of 35, she left behind her a broken engagement and carried with her Uie enduring image of a oeloved father had just died. With the roots of her life destroyed, a bleak future loomed. Her teaching contract was not (o be renewed because the breath of scandal had touched her. Destiny lakes a hand (n a crowded third class train compartment when Beth meets Mr. Alagarsami, a man of poetic.na-.

lure, cultivated interests as well as a merchant. Their immediate, instinctive rapport suffers a blunting setback when it is revealed Mr. Alagarsami is waging a bitter, if peculiar, battle with Beth's sister and brother-in-law for. the possession of his son whom they have adopted. Despite the tremendous factors of differing backgrounds, across the gulf ol two cuilures, and the highly emotional conflict over the boy, these two move towards each other.

At limes a web of fear, frustration and even.suspi- cion blots out their growing understanding and each, in a sense," revtrts to type. But a defepe.r lundamentai level of magnetic attraction, of instinctive comprehension exerts its steady power. Both have problems of maturity to face, and.Mr. White is realistic in portraying two individuals with normal Irritable responses, even verging on hysteria under pressure as when Beth and Mr. Alagarsami become lost on a mountain climb.

Mr. Alagarsami slowly thrusts off the shackles of domination by his uncle and mother, both of whom deem it treachery for him challenge their right to run his msiness and private life. Sting- ng him into action is Beth's accusation that he is a puppet. In a moment that holds equal ruth, Mr. Alagarsami forces 3eth to realize that in her devotion to her father, she has (orced other men to play a secondary role.

East'and West not only meel 3ut are combined in the boy Multhu. "Hogwash," says Belli of Kipling's famed "East is East and West is West a never the Twain shall meet." She terms it a calchy, nice sounding slogan that died with the Victorian era. MR. WHITE does not belabor this point but It is there in his sympathetic, understanding and mature -viewpoint and implicit In his charming tale. The problems of East meeting West are like climbing Elephant Hill -once the difficulties are faced, the way is quite simple.

--ANN V. MASTERS Sea Tale Given True Salt Tang MUTINY. By Frank Tllsley. Reynal. M.95.

It is 1795. Napoleon overruns Europe, England's very existence lepends on her fleet and the frigate Regenerate is manned by the cast of this excit- ng novel. 'Vizard and Evans madly plot mutiny; a new bridge- jroom is shanghaied; Stanhope, opptsh suitor of an heiress, just nlsses a beating by her guard- an's servants and also is shanghaied; Capt. Crawford meets his perverted First-Lieutenant Scott- Pagel; and we're off on a Mediterranean campaign. There are encounters with the enemy, and pretty girls appear at start and finish, but mostly this is men among men.

Out of the brutal but efficient discipline, the mastering of wind'and storm, the savage clash of jealous, ambitious and vindictive sailors and officers, and the endless hard ships there rises the unmistakable salt tang of the sea. This Is unusually abii story-telling. Harper's Engages Science -Adviser James R. Newman, author of 'The World of Mathematics" and other distinguished -books in the field of science, and member of -the Board of (Editors of Scientific American, has been named consultant on science books for Harper Brothers. In this capacity, Mr.

Newman will advise on Science books and help develop an expanding program of science publishing at Harrier's. James' R. Newman was born in New York city and educated at City College and Columbia. A member of the bar, Mr. Newman, during World War II, was chief intelligence officer at the U.

S. Embassy in London, White House advisor on science legislation, and later was counsel to to the U. S. Senate Special com- mtitee on Atomc Energy. BALLET DICTATOR "Russian Ballet Master; The Memoirs of Marlus Petipa," edited by Lillian Moore, has been published by Macmillan.

These memoirs of the choreographer of "The Sleeping Beauty" and 'Swan Lake" are now translated into English for the first time by Helen Whittaker. Vlrtua.1 dictator of the Russian ballet, Petipa molded Its course for years; his work lives, in dance history and In the repertories at today..