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Kentuckian Shows i Jimmy Murphy Is Wed To Booze la Novel Called Blow In Solar THE STORY OF MRS MURPHY uhag iCrafor Book Reviews The Theater Aod New Recordings Lexington Ky Sunday Morning July 13 1947 Blue Grass Scenes Sketch Probes Indian Psychology Of Boy Who Made Mud Horse Stated He Was 34 RECORD JUST A FEW LINES About Methods Used By Scotch-Russian To Gather Material For Murphy9 Natalie Anderson Scott author of Story of Mrs has an amazing heritage She was born in Ekaterinoslav Russia and both her parents were Russians One of her direct ancestors was the great liberty-loving Cossack Hetman Sagaidachni and one of her great-grandmothers was Scotch Perhaps her steadfastness of purpose her Independence of mind and her devotion to the democratic American tradition are partly the result of the peculiar mixture of Cossack and Scotch blood in her veins When Natalie was less than a year old her father an engineer and a Russian liberal of the old school moved to England and established a home for his family in London There Natalie made her acquaintance with the English language first from her governess Miss Bastion and then from two English schools: The Godolphyn and Lattlmer School of London and Lady Margaret's School of Halstead Essex But Natalie's school was constantly interrupted by travel A a young girl she made two trips to Russia to visit her relatives then in 1912 her father went to Canada and from there to the United States In 1914 "hia family followed They landed in' New York and almost at once went to Dayton Ohio where Natalie went to public schooL By 1917 they were back East in Richfield Park where the family bought a home But they were not destined to lead a quiet life father felt that duty called him back to Russia and the entire family traveled to Japan across Siberia and so to Petrograd only to be caught In the turmoil of a civil war By the time they managed to escape across the Polish border mother was so ill that they could not risk a sea voyage to America They lived in Warsaw in Paris and finally in Italy where Natalie's mother died In 1922 Natalie her sister Nina and their father were back in America For a while they lived in New Jersey where Natalie graduated from the Richfield Park High school and then the three moved to New York Nina made a career of the dance Natalie divided her time between two loves: Writing and sketching and painting at the New York Art Students League Their father helped encouraged criticized and took great pride in his talented daughters Natalie Scott writing under a different name sold her first story in 1929 For the next four years she sold numerous stories to Adventure enjoying a pleasant and stimulating association wlto Mr Proctor the editor In 1935 appeared her first novel Brief the which won a Bread Loaf Fellowship for her Just as she seemed to be finding her literary stride her father became seriously ill and until his death Natalie devoted her entire time to nursing The first full-length novel to be published over the name of Natalie Scott Sisters appeared in 1946 It is a fine mature book that has as its central theme the eternal struggle between the spiritual and the emotional and physical in man To be able to write Natalie did odd Jobs: She read for the movies she worked in gift shops and in pastry shops During those dif ficult years the Irish were her best friends She found strength In their humor their mysticism their extravagance of emotion and their happy carefree dispositions At the same time wandering through the streets of New York looking and observing with the eyes of a writer and an artist she became aware of the strange weird world of the alcoholic She visited the different hangouts sometimes accompanied by a friendly policeman: she strove to find out whether alcoholism is a physical or mental disease she was fascinated by the sound and the pulse of the ghostly streets at night Out of this came Story of Mrs "The function of a novelist is not to preach or to write with a Natalie Scott believes novelist must portray life as it Is objectively with detachment without disturbing the proportion of its She feels strongly that content and word picture effects should never be sacrificed to form or the correctness of style Aboe all she believes that a novelist must love each one of his characters to bring them to life Nicholas Wreden (From Book-of-the-Month Club News) LIFE ON A KENTUCKY STOCK FARM by Dora Teel Haines $250 Dora Peel Haines who lives in Paris where her husband for many years was connected with one of the most famous thoroughbred stock farms in the United States has spent practically an entire lifetime in the atmosphere of race horses and horsemen Her story is an intermingling of fictional characters easily recognizable as people you would find living on the better horse farms and of horses that actually lived or are living the locale of the story easily could be one of a dozen or more of the noted racehorse estates in the immediate vicinity of Lexington That good living abounds in these spacious mansions no one can doubt after reading this book But it is the writer's familiarity with the language of horsemen and her knowledge the finer points of the breeding raising training racing and selling of thoroughbreds that induce the reader to follow the chapters through Stable hands exercise boys farm helpers and others who spend their lives with the horses lend colorful interest Derby victory and some of the sterling 1 races of Seabiscuit a horse that evidently is fancied by the author are described graphically Born near Lexington Mrs Haines was the daughter of David Peel who was employed by the noted Nursery Stud in the time of its founder the first Auguht Belmont It was on this farm incidentally that Man o' War was foaled When the author was three years old her parents moved to Montana where David Peel was employed for 13 years on Marcus Daly's fabulous Bitter Root ranch noted in an earlier day for the excellence of its racing stock thoroughbred and standardbred The family returned to Lexington for a time and then Mr Peel accepted employment on Dickerman's Hiilandale Farm at Mamaroncck It was here that the author met and later married George Haines himself a capable horseman a native of Ontario Subsequent engagements took Mr and Mrs Haines to Memphis when the Billings Driving Park there was a thriving member of the Grand Circuit and later to Pittsburgh in the days of the famed Pittsburgh Driving Club Later they joined David Peel at A Hancock's celebrated Claiborne Stud in Bourbon county where the author resided for many years Dickerson Mystery Writer Shares In Real Murder Cases by Natalie Anderson Scott Dutton $3 Mrs story is told with an almost Olympian detachment seldom encountered in books with a message Jimmy Murphy's mother once said to him grimly humorous in one of sober spells more married than anybody else and I mean Sue (the girl to whom he had been engaged and who was the mother of the child whom he loved more than any one or anyth frig except liquor) Booze is your wife Booze that's what you're married "The Story of Mrs Murphy" is the story of that long and tragic marriage and it will inevitably be compared to Lost It is more extended more interpretive record of the results of habitual alcoholism picturing concentric circles of the influence of on many lives and on the whole of one life rather than an intensive and factual record of one long binge Natalie Anderson remarkable book is primarily a novel with an unusual theme and not a sensational theme which is called a novel only because it is written as fiction That distinction is as fine a one as the distinction which Jimmy makes when he contradicts some one who has said that a man is drunk isn't Jimmy says is a Story of Mrs is a long fUllblooded novel which portrays with grim reality the slow inevitable disintegration of a human being The cause of that disintegration is Jimmy's lrrestable passion for drink Great novels have been written about man's destruction by other passions by greed by avarice and by other diseases of the mind or the body Whether Story of Mrs is one of the great novels is difficult for any-reader to say immediately after reading it for the impact of its material is so powerful that even trained critical judgment finds it difficult to see the forest of the art for the trees of the grim message Perhaps the very sense of the indignation for and against its characters which the book arouses is a mark of its greatness Besides Jimmy there is who can never forget how sweet baby Jimmy was never loses her faith that her prayers will restore him to that infantile sweetness Gentle quiet Sue loved him enough to tell him the one lie that she knew would bind her to him believed that their child would and must save him and gave up only when Jimmy's passion for "Mrs threatened her child's life Dolores with a Mrs Murphy of her own and oversexed tried to do with love and plenty of money what love alone do And finally Kay sensitive artist Intent in her belief that Jimmy could and would reform helped him through the blackest of his hours But Kay who could bear with filth and horror who could seek him out in the vilest spots and care for him could fight Murphy" but could not fight infidelity And she too was lost to him And always one faithfulness was to Murphy" Jimmy is not drunk during most of the book He is a drunk In these pages which are set down with no sentimentality no condemnation human compassion but not maudlin pity Jimmy slowly changes from a lovable kind affectionate human being to a drink-drugged automaton a physical machine which liquor keeps going the way gas keeps a motor running and emotionally and morally drifts into complete disintegration "The Story of Mrs is a literary blorf in the solar plexus so far as its contents are concerned And suspect that it is a better novel than it seems on first reading when the reader is so wrought up by and for its characters that he does not sense the entire skill with which the author has accomplished her difficult task The reader is stunned by what the author herself must have encountered if not actually experienced in gathering her material the human abysses to which she must have had to turn a comprehending eye and the moral degradations which she must have seen all around to record them thus dispassionately! Fanny Butcher THERE AND THEN by Christine Weston Scribner $250 The author of a novel of India filled with color (local end emotional) has recorded memories of her childhood in India in 35 brief sketches Although they are called they have little to with the conventional ihort story They are incidents unconnected by what led up to them and not followed by any consequences either of action or emotion The true short story even of incident haa a preparation and a follow up although the incident itself may well be the major part of the tale If a reader does not expect to find the conventional short story and Is Interested In disconnected minutae of life in India and some unusual characters as the author remembers they seemed to her as a child and will be interesting The sketches are intriguing for their very simplicity and for their lack of interpretation They have something of the quiet charm that made Isak Dine-son's of memorable although they lack the remarkable literary beauty of that little masterpiece Mrs father was French Her brother George de Goutiere has illustrated the book One feels in these pages the influence of the characteristic French literature of or which might well have been part of her early reading None of the sketches are long Few of them are more than visual records The first one in the book Mud hints at mysteries and probes into the Indian psychology of a small boy who had made a mud horse He insisted that he was 34 years old when he was obviously little more than 3 and he had a strange wisdom in his little head and strange things happened about him retells a tale told to the author by her mother and also bar some Indian mysticism about it as has in a different sense Emerald whicn tells of an aging couple who after waiting for many years for a child finally had a girl child unhappily When in the fullness of time the girl became a boy they and the entire village saw the pherfbmenon as a reward of their virtuous and pious lives In there is also a hint and more of mysticism And (he final sketch tells of a wise and holy man who found a simple and convenient way of disposing of a violent and dangerous madman but remained silent in contemplation when the police questioned him and left him in respect for his silence and his holiness All of the other sketches are pictorial memories or memories of people like their tutor Sander-snn a Eurasian who took them down to the village when the natives were obsessed that "The Devil Has the during an eclipse Or it will be a sketch lixe the one of the ancient beggar who guarded the mangoes until both they and he disappeared the mangoes by theft the ancient through shame Or the sketch will be about catching Atlas a cieature 12 inches in diameter or about shooting a bear the day that Bulgaria fell in the First World War If had not been such a success I doubt that and would have been published for the sketches in it while interesting have neither enough literary charm to make them Irresistible no matter what their subject matter nor enough pattern of subject matter to give one any real picture of the India of the author's childhood Lancaster Writes Sculpture Article Clay Lancaster Lexington writer and student of architecture is the author of an article on the sculptured lions of Cambodia published in the Gaette des Beaux-Arts and reprinted in pamphlet form It is well illustrated with photographs of Cambodian carvings A son of Mr and Mrs Lancaster Jr 531 Russell avenue Mr Lancaster la doing advanced study and research at Columbia University New York City and this summer is engaged in research for the restoration of a New York church He is regarded as an authority on early American architecture and has written a number of articles on the work of Gideon Shryock John McMurtry and other architects and builders of the 19th century Negroes Living Sans Racialism THE CITY OF WOMEN by Ruth Landes Macmillan $3 This book is the result of a field trip the author made to Bahai to learn how people behave when the Negroes among them are not oppressed racially It describes the everyday life of the Negro where whites and blacks live together and Quite vividly and not without humor Miss Landes tells of strange cults and exciting rites which make up the religion of the Brazilian Negro seemingly dominated by the women Although untroubled by racial difficulties Miss Landes says the Negro is oppressed by "political and economic tyrannies" which cut him off from modern thought and cause him to make up his own secure universe This book is somewhat contradictory and seems to fail in its purpose It tries to prove that the South American Negro is better off than those of our own country with only a comparison of different methods of oppression Nevertheless the book is well written and for its account of religion alone it will make a valuable contribution to the study of anthropology Xevyle Shackelford Take Poverty With Courage THE LOVING ARE THE DARING by Brooke Conway Prentice-Hall $3 Those who have read Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" will find an echo of that tale in this down-to-earth novel of a middle-class American family The story opens jn Christmas Eve 1905 with recently widowed Mary Kraemer striving to give her fatherless brood a Christmas like those they had always known On Christmas Eve 15 years later the book ends The struggles of Widow Kraemer during the interim make a story that is not lacking in merit Although somewhat on the sentimental side it never gets to the tear-jerking stage and it contains a modicum of humor This chronicle should get a good reception because it reiterates that good old American precept that poverty can be supported with courage and honor Best Cheapest FAMOUS FRENCH STORJES edited by Eric Swenson Pocket Book 25 cents an old saying holds that the best things in life come cheapest That can very well be applied to this little book which contains 16 unexpurgated stories of romance adventure passion and realism Of course these stories have been reprinted many times before but the blatant realism of such masters as Balzac and Zola the innate romanticism of Flaubert and the charm and humor of Anatole France never grow old This is truly a collection for the connoisseur of the short story Note Opera Recording Uses Words By Stein Victor has completed recording Saints in Three an opera in English by Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson with libretto by the late Gertrude Stein Recording of highlights of the opera which hsd its world premiere in Hartford Conn in 1934 was made in New York City with Mr' Thomson conducting the orchestra and principals and with a chorus under the direction of Bradleigh Carson The cast Included many singers who participated in the premiere of the work which received considerable publicity becaues of the unusual libretto and the cellophane costumes worn by the all-Negro cast The singers include Beatrice Robinson-Wayne and Inez Mathews sopranos Altonell Hines and Ruby Greene contraltos: Charles Holland and David Bethea tenors Edward Mathews and Randolph Robinson baritones and Abner Dorsey basso of Three the most recent publication of Thomas Mann contains no political pieces Most of the essays concern the great artists who were the inspiration of his youth OFF THE TWELVE CONCERT! GROSSI by fliindcl Pliytd by the Busch Chamber Flayers conducted by Adolf Busch Adolf Busch and I'rnest Drucker violins Her-nun Busch 'cello Miecsyslaw Horsiowski clavier Columbia performed by the Busch Chamber Players the concert! of Han riel are offered In their complete form in this set of three Colum-bin albums In these works are encompassed nearly every interlined instrumental form embellished with new and exciting variations Adolf Busch who has twice appeared before Lexington concert audiences has the classical approach and forceful to make him an Ideal conductor for Handel This release narks the first American recording of the Handel concert! in ticir entirety A special booklet analyzing each concert! haa been prepared by Dr Emanuel Winter-ritz and accompanies the three albums This is chamber music in its purest form Classical SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No Played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Serge Kous-srvitsky conducting Victor These three 12-inch records set pul an exciting performance of Me young Russian rewest symphonic work one that scents destined to be pronounced among his best The orchestration if superb and of course the Boston players give it a virtuoso performance The first movement epens with an allegro of Haydn-ikt simplicity The composer has cleverly handled various shades comedy with ultra-modern clas- The second movement reveals and romantic lyricism with a theme songful and romantic The fourth is a largo movement ii which a lengthy solo is played bv the bassoon with a background ri sustained chords The finale t- bounds in brilliant comedy touches The whole work is given an animated performance by the superb Boston orchestra MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Columbia) Eric Leinsdorf and the Cleveland orchestra in a soaring waltz by Josef Strauss least known member of the famous family who exhibits as much talent as his brothers Modern TANGO OF ROSES and ON AN 1VENING IN PARIS (Victor) The Three Suns uninterrupted do t-U right by the of but Artie Dunn's vocal detracts from their playing on the reverse ALL OF ME and I KISS YOUR HAND MADAME (Victor): These two oldies have never been treated nicer than on this disc featur-ng Vaughn Monroe's throaty voice tacked by his orchestra WHEN THE SUMMER IS GONE and WITHOUT MUSIC (Victor) Tex Beneke the Miller orchestra Garry Stevens and the Moonlight Sereoaders serve up a romantic bil'ad and a slightly Inane semi-coveltv FINE THING and STOP THROWING ROCKS AT THE DEVIL (Victor) Charlie Spivak's C'nl: provides a mellow background for Tommy vocalizing on the hit tune from 'Dear and for Rusty Niches' singing of the pointless Throwing GET UP THOSE STAIRS MAD-FMOISELLE and DREAM STREET (Victor) The Deep River Boys do a good Job on a risque number evidently written with t-e popular in mind A passable slow tune on the re-terse TELL ME and fBook SheuV Suggestions "Prince of Foxes i I by Samuel Shellabarger author of From A historical novel of action and adventure $3 "The Moneymon by Thomas Costain author of Black The story of a great conspiracy and a great love $3 All The Sparkle Of Well-Cut Literary Diamond In Essays NOT SO EASY TO FORGET Tony Martin and Victor i orchestra and chorus wax a swingy easy-to-take platter of two movie-featured songs the first from and the reverse from Song of the Thin LOOK NOW and ROCK MY CRADLE ONCE AGAIN (Columbia) A catchy tune and an oh so sad number are put together by Johnny Bond and hit Red River Valley Boys Johnny sings MY FALLEN 8TAR and ARE YOU SATISFIED NOW (Columbia) Vocals by George Strange and Buddy Kelly tc the accompaniment of Ted Daf-fan and his Texans featuring an Hawaiian guitar OLD MAN BLUES and I CAN FIX IT (Columbia) Big Bill and his Rhythm Band were really blue when this disc was cut A JAM SESSION AT VICTOR and SAY IT SIMPLE (Victor) Jack Teagarden and his Big Eight in a Hot Jazz Classic Very good for jazz fans TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA and GOT ME IN A LAZY MOOD (Victor) In case you already know the Page Cavanaugh trio wil tell you that the first title means fear of 13 which is used to make a fairly interesting novelty number The other tune is a mellow tune sung by the trio in a pleasant lazy manner THE JUNGLE KING and I AIN'T MAD AT YOU (Victor) Count Basie and his orchestra in typical Basie waxlngs of two novelty songs which too good TAKE THEM COLD FEET OUTA MY BACK and OLE BUTTERMILK SKY (Victor) For a good laugh listen to Lonzo and Oscar and their Winston County Pea Pickers in these two hillbilly recordings What happens to the happen to any Hoagy Carmichael song Perseverance AMERICAN MIRACLE By Van Rensselaer SUL Odyssey 34 Lt Gen George Patton needed a railroad within 48 hours to carry gasoline and ammunition to his armored troops at a critical moment In a breakthrough push But miles of the single-track 75-mile rail line to Laval and Le Mans were wrecked seven bridges were cut out throe freight yards Jumbled into wreckage by bombs or German destruction Army engineers tore into the job completed it on the deadline with loaded trains waiting even as they finished the final stretches of track and the last bridge The story is one of scores told in this book dedicated to the magic wrought by civilians Seabees Army engineers and the engineering and construction industry in wartime building throughout the world It is an accounting also of much of the $49 billion dollars spent on construction from atomic bomb plants to the Alaska highway the Ledo road through Burma war plants bridges highways ports Army cantonments Island bases and other wartime construction In five years this giant surge doubled the production capacity With facts and figures photographs and quick-paced writing Mr Sill tells the role of the bulldozer machines that laid concrete like ribbons floating drydocks of steel workers engineers and car-d enters new materials sweat heroism and plain perseverance Alton BIskeslee Man His Pipe And Ego In this day when no ego is safe from the critical eye of the psychiatrist comes Millard Taught with a definitive word on the subject set forth in a handy little volume with the striking title to Scratch a Match and Other Secrets of Successful Pipe a Garden City publication at SI Covering every trauma in a pipe life from the first stolen puffs behind the bam to the snapped stem on grandfather's favorite meerschaum the book traces the development of the total personality behind the smoker Farmer college boy professor sultan Junior all come under the zany eye of the discerning Mr Faught who puts them through their puffs for the edification and amusement of smokers and non-smokers alike And whatever hidden thing may remain after this analysis is laid bare under the scaloel-pen of Jefferson Machamer the celebrated cartoonist turned psychoanatoimsi The book which according to the title is about how to scratch a match also reveals that until somebody Invents a pilot light for pipe smokers we will continue to need between 100 and 1000 matches per man per pipe Pr day Depending upon wind conditions THE TURN OF THE TIDE by Tomlinson Macmillan $250 This brief volume ha all the sparkle of a well-cut literary diamond Consisting of one long essay and nine short- ones it is one man's view of the tendencies of the times and the hopes of the age For sheer quality of prose Turn of the is above reproach though readers may take exception to personal views expressed by Mr Tomlinson The first and best of the 10 essays is the narrative of a made from England through the Mediterranean to Turkey in 1935 descriptions of ships and the sea of the islands of the Mediterranean and of Athens and Cairo are beautiful and compelling and are worth the price of the book if one reads nothing else in it Concern With Trivial Comedy Of Family Life Makes Author Erie Stanley Gardner mystery writer emeritus has on two occasions played a vital role in the case histories of accused men In Phoenix Ariz several years back a district attorney who was conviced of a prisoner's guilt was able to secure a conviction on the basis of a Perry Mason mystery Case of the Curious which he had read the night before the case came to trial More recently Gardner on the side of the angels was instrumental in obtaining a commutation of sentence for William Marvin Lindley California share-cropper who had been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death Gov Warren upon examination of Gardner's analysis of the evidence (which provided the accused with a perfect alibi) commuted the sentence to life imprisonment Over 1200 letters were received by the governor after it was learned that Gardner had taken an interest in the case Justice Shauer of the California Supreme Court wrote in his official review of the Lindley case the interest of justice I am impelled to declare that the record leaves me with a grave doubt as to whether Lindley is guilty of the crime of which he stands The famous creator of Perry Mason is still hopeful that Lindley will receive a full pardon Princeton University has awarded a doctor of letters degree to Maclvcr author of 'The Web of Government" our stoeti at your JANE by Jean Gould Houghton-Mufflin $250 Jane Austen whose concern with the daily trival comedy of family life has made her a household literary figure is the subject of this biography slanted to teen-age girls but enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the author of "Pride and The extremely uneventful life of Miss Austen youngest child in a family of seven is woven by Miss Gould into a fairly interesting story of the provincial life of 18th-century England Miss Austen who did not marry and who never left her home at Steventon except on short visits is portrayed from the time she was eight years old until the publica Weisgard Awarded Caldecott Medal For Book Existentialism A KIERKEGAARD ANTHOLOGY edited by Robert Bretall Princeton $5 This is a shortcut if 500 pages may be called that to the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard of the greatest most individual thinkers of all the enthusiastic editor claims Among contents are in whole or in part the Unscientific now just 100 years old and Attack Upon Here are sources Among Natives BREAD AND RICE by Doris Rubens Macanley $3 An American newspaper woman this author after some parlous experiences in China went to the Philippines in time for attack In this book with a foreword by Carlos Romulo she gives a moving account of her adventures with her husband in the island's interior among natives A Filipino Fabian is a hero of this unusual tale which but for him might not have had a happy ending Farrell Writes Papers On Banning Of Novel Vanguard Press has published in Samphlet form two papers by ames Farrell on the ban imposed by Canadian customs authorities upon his novel I One of the papers is an open i letter addressed to Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the other is an article originally published in the Canadian Forum me Wind Can Not by tiard Mason is a story of a ng Englishman in India during war who falls in love with a anese girl who also has gone nriia from England tion of which many critics consider her best work Hie power of observation and the sympathetic imagination with which Miss Austen wrote are brought out in the story Her representations of the life she knew are the best in English literature and Miss Gould clearly indicates this Miss Austen's placid existence is reconstructed fairly faithfully with only a little sidetrack to men who interested Miss Austen not at all except on paper The charming fine-line illustrations by Jean Stahl add to the book a and studied art at the Pratt Institute Brooklyn The Caldecott Medal is named in honor of Randolph Caldecott celebrated 19th-century English illustrator of children's books Fantastic9 Haunts Margaret new book titled Dark haunts Like This Be and Man Without Miss new book spells suspense Judith Amory school teacher on the surface was proper gentle attractive and intelligent Actually she was a ruthless egotist quite willing to sacrifice truth and decency for what she wanted She wanted Richard Tomlinson She made herself a member of the Tomlinson household and played upon Richard's wife's jealousy of Thorne a young girl who was being brolight up with the Tomlinson children Her fiendish plot succeeded until she has caused the death of Richard's wife and became Mrs Tomlinson but she had set in motion forces she could not control (Doubleday $250 Net Omnibook Contains Vixens9 And Jericho9 Frank romance of the Reconstruction Period in Louisiana which currently is in the first group of national best-sellers Is abridged in the July issue of Omnibook magazine Vixens" is in the same mood and locale as previous best-seller Foxes of which also was abridged in Omnibook and which is now being filmed in Hollywood The other abridgements in the July Omnibook are a Literary Guild selection Walls of by Paul I Wellman a novel of political conflict and love in a Kansas town at the turn of the century Into in which the author the Rev Hodge Macllvain Eagleson gives a droll account of the misadventures he experienced when he first became a minister and Holiday edited by Bernard Smith and Philip Van Doren Stern which Includes among other famous short pieces Machine Forster's fascinating story depicting the horrors of a world completely controlled by machinery and a charming tale of China by Pear! 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