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Sunday September 1 1857 Sunday Herald -Leader 43 ItoNt Sellers ork On Medieval Cities Available lu Translation (Compiled By Weekly) New Revelations But Biography Good MEDIEVAL CITIES by llenri these towns and cities easily Pirrime Douhlrday Anchor 95 survived the fail of Rome but practically died with ihe establish- It is presumptuous indeed-and mpn? of the first reat Moslem a little turtle- -to praise llenri Ix-cause Islam was Plrcnne or his masterful "Mcdi-'lslim but auge il controlled PROPHET IN HIS OWN founder of the Illinois Republican COUNTRY by Kenneth 8 party Davis Doubleday $5 The result: there was al- ways at the back of his mind If you are looking for startling Cie need and desire to engage in a I both ihe trade routes and the eval Cities" For one thing FICTION PEYTON PLACE Grace Me- talious ON THE BEACH Nevil Shute THE WORLD OF SUZ WONG Richard Mason A LETTER FROM PEKING Pearl Buck COMPULSION Meyer Levin NONFICTION THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS Vance Packard THE DAY CHRIST DIED Jim Bishop STAY ALIVE ALL YOUR LIFE Norman Vincent Peale THE INNOCENT AMBASSADORS Philip Wylie SILVER PLATTER Ellin not Plrenne died 22 years ago full of Pl tha materials years and of well-deserved honors Then lfler hiatus Jth the development of new routes and the appearance of new Itraders and trade materials the old cities revived and were Joined by ones All this does not sound exactly fascinating and yet believe me It is precisely that In small part the fascination Is due to or al least made possible by a gener ally highly readable prose: whether this is Ihe virtue of the For another "Medieval was first published 32 years ago (in English! then again (to French! in 1927 and once more (in English agatm tn 1934 But certainly its appearance now in a reprint scries with the translation "slightly revised" deserves more lhan a passing mention for it constitutes further evidence that the work is becoming something of a modern classic portion of his illustrative ma terial from medieval Flanders! though he admits thut France and Italy would have done as well: And he conjectures broad tpes of people such as the merchant and the landowner very con- jvincingly and very plausibly Signiflcanl Book Still conscious of the dangers of i presumption I feel this is one of the significant books of our century And this brings me to a comment that I feel should be made "Medieval is an Anchor that is It belongs to one of the lesser known and more ambitious paperback series there are several such have a number of practical advantages: they are less likely fall apart during the first reading: they are printed on paper that one can write notes on they! have a somewhat stiffer paper back But most Important arc the works reprinted In these series They are aelected for the intellectually curious layman Among Ihe 100 or ao Anchor Books are a tew works of fiction tune-tested but by no means chestnuts: Colette Henry Green Kafka and to on But mostly the list comprises the great books (not the authors who excite people tn our time Cassirer Kierkegaard Malinowski Ortega Gasset Wiener Edmund Wilson and others Also Author Of The Week new revelations concerning Adlai Stevenson this biography is for you But if you want a thorough yet readable portrait of the twice-defeated presidential candidate this is the book you have been searching for Davis primarily known as the author of the successful biography of President Eisenhower "Soldier of Democracy" sees the two men who faced each other in the '52 and '56 campaigns as almost completely opposite characters Eisenhower he feels "mirrors events colors them with his personality but never in the deep sense) causes them" Sense Of History On the other hand Davis found in Stevenson a strong sense of history and the role he was playing in it This outlook is shown as the outgrowth of an appreciation of family gained early in life Above all Adlai is the product of the "Stevensons of a family which included Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson and Jesse Fell often called the im pmnloTinne nAnnneninrt A win public the kind of public service that might lead him to One Discrepancy At least one of Davis' historical references will jar local readers Speaking of Transylvania College here Adlai's great-grandfather the Rev Lewis Green was once president Davis remarks that Transylvania is now the state university Fortunately most of his information seems to be more accurate No new facts are added to the Stevenson story by this book but Davis has done a skillful job of interpreting the available facts and placing them in perspective The author his wisqly devoted most of ids space to the development of the man rather than the events of the two presidential campaigns which have already been fully covered by the press and other writers For these reasons "A Prophet in His Own is an especially valuable book for the reader taking his first look at one of the most unusual political figures our age has produced Bill Mansfield "Hell al total (key ares'! reading comic books!" Books And Authors Houghton Mifflin was the first I to complete two or three books Prof Plrcnne was a Belgian auhor or of Halsy 1 historian who did the standard! cannot say not having seen the history of his own country anna1' But far more deni ally he was himself a hero'hr rom ht of Hie resistance in World Wart Prof Plrennesaw in 1) whose extrrmely broad inter 8 of the gene sis and knowledge ranged ofme'eva' cities all social sciences and philosophy! of and aesthetics He was the iTd in mfdleval but let us hope not unique scholar J'rough Jelr conscious opposition who wrote clearly simply even daringly without incurring otth nuddle slight est risk of being scornfully J5 labeled a populariier but he found also the germs of He was concerned not so much moder" he Ytry with recording what happened as i 0 wtth synthesizing Individual events into a general pattern suggesting Vj et causes and results Hts method of romantic Marxism Mns to this lav reviewer emi- 1 tore encountered) of pop-ncntlv successful in Medieval uUr of Renal- Cities In rough summarv heance' o( Reformation attributes Hu- origin of the an- -Vuneof Plrenne'i conceptions in-eicnl Mediterranean cities to Ihe c)den4a to lrats Rese needs of trade and finds that of CtvUlxatlon are unconventional and challenging but in brief he attributes most publisher to whom cub novelist James Reichley submitted his then half-finished manuscript for "The Burying of To his astonishment they promptly a year by simply closeting himself in his study and plugging away daily for eight hours at a stretch until the Job was com- plete Even when he went fishing! he would arise at 4 :30 a and I write until breakfast On Oct 8 Wayne Overholser winner twice winner of the Western represented are significant books gave him an advance sufficiently hf t0 aIl0W the Y0Un8 mM atS fctataS to dvote five months to com-j Plettua the book begun while Writers of America's Spur Award Jfnch ittlrtg in on" Archibald Mac- will have hi 12th Macmillan dL creative writing class at Western "The Lgne Deputy" HmLchf Harvard The novel has been published mortllkened t0 John Gory Story of what is truly Western in Wes-riling book that 1 know Islncf each i set in a town that Robert Payne who between" tern civilisation to the unique if aU this sounds like a plug it beJMUe' Pa" whH was anting books legal and social concept that beds meant to bo one: if I were re- ara am Bnc ey were reared like a (he is jbe Middle Ages of Europe added to stneted to forming my own li-ana or es takc off from land both stories author of more than 40) About II istorv Of Astronomy NEW YORK When it to launch a big pitch at record the death of "I Qeaul a the trading center that was thejbrary from one American paper- of TllF i 'vi origin of practically all cities of back repnnt series I know of no: 'lev or Mr-VERSE hv ri age on any continent I more worth while one than the Re fhley ad' ERSE by de aucouleurs Interctlngly and understand- Anchor Books Swell under way before 'Ten North Macmillan -y ELIZABETH TAYLOR author of another novel that her American admirers should welcome was born in Reading Berkshire England 45 years ago She worked as a governess then a librarian but had already begun to write as a child In 1936 she was married to John William Kendall Taylor and she has a son and daughter- been heard from much lately However on Sept 25 his story of the forerunners of Stalin "The will be released by Funk Wagnalls Using source material unavailable in English Mr Payne an old hand at Russian translations tells the gory history of Sergey Nechayev "an odd slightly obscene little man Wm Hugh Jansen The author a French astron- iry I -uccecdrd in compress TodOV CrOSSWOrd PUZZ mg an amhoritatlve history o( Niwaanviu usaiv astronomy from Ihe earlieat time Frederick' came out I was tremendously shocked to find that it did deal with a very similar subject But 1 think it turns out I that they are not too much alike" Fictional Characters For one thing the 28-year-old jand his successors who plotted ACROSS I Aftermath of lesion 8 Loomed Badgerlika beut Talc jr 1 1 it LOVC Anti revolution in Czarist Russia Among them were Khallayev a poet who murdered a grand duke mHH Zhelyabov who masterminded wrongly he murder of Czar Alexander raerea a grano auxe who masterminded has no Identifiable "I never he said wrongly ul author noted his book characters who are With people In Pottsville write about real people" which rightlv or rpi a O'Hara is accused of and Azanov a peasant who in 1 he Furthermore the two mens in- MUM of he to- gyoNARA by Jamea A Michen tercst in literature differs Mr nese fellow had Bantam Books 33 cents Reichley being more concerned thelr comeuppance: Nechayev Banlaln 3j tenU' ith projecting ideas Although i ta7d a This of love and war in the he was graduated tn 1950 from fhelyabov Khallayev Wfrc available iz Docket- be University of Pennsylcma to tin- present into a volume noi larger than the average novel That 1 find this history far more interesting than the average novel i a matter of personal taste: Ij derc say a good many readers will share my view The author 2 If treats the story of astronomical "gulr discoveries as a single widening stream of knowledge to which I Cetacean of many sources contributed He Is Am' more concerned with tlw "slow strengthening of man's intqllec- 18 t-hlld of the tual grasp of the universe" than' with biographical details of the 88 Brandy greal astronpmere puturesque though they might be fl The i (including sections deal jfl Peak in with modern theories of the 2g Disposition universe and with the promise 30 Hough mierial held out by radio astronomy are 32 Risk money with philosophy he honor tn 9 not think should suicide tn Siberia Mr Payne is the author of a number of books about China including biographies of Sun Yat book editions An American flyer Lloyd Gruv-er finds that it is not his American sweetheart he is in love with 12 Silkworm 13 Grant 21 Source of power 23 Round ottoman 27 Confined 29 Singleton 30 Have a care 31 Put In words 32 Wind of Adriatic 33 the Red 34 lore 35 Group 36 Part for diva 37 Ineult at the door 39 Liability 42 Watery 45 Mother of Cain 44 Simple 48 Spare time 49 Joint 52 Lowly 53 Metal In sheets 55 Worship 56 Trouble makere 57 Bird 58 Labored breath 59 Low voice 60 Jurassic division 62 Watery deeps 64 Prayer signoff 66 Indian weight 68 Goal 98 neighbor 54 Dessert 55 Lifetime 58 Nerve 61 Type squares 63 Old sail: 2 words 65 Felon's dodge 67 Swain 69 Othelio was one 70 Condition 71 Retreat 72 Sea bird 73 Problem 74 Man's name 75 Haunt DOWN 1 Dead loss socially 2 Primitive bark 3 Put In rows 4 Legume 5 Cordial greeting 6 Eggs 7 Streak 8 Settle down 8 Shred 10 Token tor accomplishment 11 Unexciting does works of literature be turned Into rtormal philosophical discussions In other words he is opposed to I sen and ao aa weL (he thesis novel What ideas then as sever? aove particularly interest him? Poli- or two dPJJII0 by Joseph Gaer and Rabbi Alfred Wolf (Henry Holt) Revised Standard Version of tire stimulate any thinking person Politics seem to come first with Mr Reichley a bachelor as several novels and a volume comes to being funny on records Stan Freberg leads all the rest His satires on hit like his last one Banana Boat Song" 45 rpm gems They should be judging by the work that goes into them Like many funny men comedy to Freberg is a science He just go into a recording studio turn on the switch and presto out comes something like "Si George and Dragonet" or Si He first studies all music carefully watching the hits come and go He's looking (or something that first is in the top five and second that lends Itself to his peculiar treatment He feels the top five is essential otherwise there be enough people who'd know what he was satirizing Analyzes Song When singled out his prey he spends hours and sometimes days in analyzing the song What makes it tick? Why is it popular? What can he do to capitalize on its popularity yet spoof it? All this is worked over carefully then he rewrites reassembles tears down rips away erodes and otherwise alters the original The result is generally hilarious Usually the songs that he satirizes are ones that have me the wrong He looks on his own discs as Nowadays Freberg is achieving success in another field-radio His CBS-Radio program has become a Sunday night hit Between it and his records he keeps busy Next stop probably will be television "Eventually" he says '771 be driven to But meanwhile content with radio and records He thinks his style is best expressed in sound not sight Or as he puts it new sound is worth a thousand old About Angels Short Playing Betty White star of the TV show Witn the will record an album of songs that have something to do with angels like a Date With An and such Accompanied no doubt by an all-harp band Andre Kostelanetz especially intriguing to tne Inquiring layman i a Japanese Takarazuka dancer He becomes more confused about his new love each time he remembers that he formerly hated Japanese girls at least he did not understand how American men could marry and love them Because of a military restriction Americans who married Japanese at that time were not allowed to bring them into the United States The hero promised (Thomas Nelson Sons) and "An Introduction to the by Bruce Metzger (Oxford) 35 Cellar 38 Hat 40 Heraldic bearing 41 Lincoln's son 43 Discord: myth 44 Bsdge of royalty 47 Reply impudently: 2 Words 50 Sweet ootsto stardom Via MGM records Big Hit Sa! "Start is a big hit and he owes it all to a baby sitter Seems that Arnold Maxin the boss at Epic Records stepped out one evening last winter and left his children in the hands of a baby sitter named Mary Fitzgerald When the Maxins came home Mary was watching Sal on a TV drama she said with stars in her eyes "that boy could sell millions of records for Maxin found out that Mineo didn't sing but asked him to come in and try The try turned out to be For her efforts Mary Fitzgerald now gets an autographed copy of every Mineo record as it appears Possible Hit Picks: Guy Mitchell could have a big one in "Call Rosie On the (Columbia) Others: (Nat "King" Coje Canitol Tiskct A Tasket" (Ella Fitzgerald Verve): (Ames Brothers RCA) "My First Broken (Joy Layne Mercury) How It (Rosemary Clooney Columbia) "Seven Days in (Lew Quad-ling Coral) Mana Lund Liberty) "How Very (Aian Dale ABC-Paramount "That Old (The King Sisters Capitol) A new Belafonte album leads off some top-grade vocal collections Sings of the Caribbean" (RCA) is great stuff some rousing some tender but all pure Belafonte: the fine voice of tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano turns to the semiclassical with "Songs of Nqples" (Angel) that has Sole Mio" and such: the expert Norman Luboff Choir in "Songs of the (Columbia) has all the salty chanties and a gorgeous cover Carmen "After (Decca) is one of the finest yet to come from a fine artist New Operas Two new operas for your opera RCA has a new and a good one done up in a beautiful package Peters Bjoer ling and Merrill head the fine cast who do a thoroughly delightful job also good is a new from Angel with Callas making a perfect Mimi others are Di Stefano Panerai and Moffo making this one of the Central Kentucky's Largest USED BOOK STOIt who has been active in several political campaigns in Boston and Philadelphia He has done surveys for the Republican Party and was an ardent supporter of Sen Taft in the 1948 Presidential campaign Last year found him a cohort of Arthur Schlesinger I Jr on the Stevenson bandwagon Mr Reichley's family's Republicanism is of the small-town small-business variety and the ilate senator he thought personified that perfectly He still has Work in Progress: A life of his Japanese sweetheart that he John Paul Jones by Samuel would marry her rellnquishin Eliot Morison author of the his career as an officer to do so Puiitzer Prize biography of However the girl does not want Columbus Admiral of the Ocean t0 g0 j0 America and Gruver Sea and the succumbs to family and History of United States Nava is6dal pressure and givw up Ws Operations in World War of marrying her to returB t0 Tentative ttile: Jones: A Ws American gjrI TALK Little Brown The questions asked in the book What is love? What is happiness Graydon Hambrick Rochelle Girson estern a new Western Ward is on Macmillan's publication list for Civil War Dan brother returned to home But they as heroes for with the Con- wun ine (on- Biography Of Locke by Maurice Cranston has been published by Macmillan This first fuUy documented biography of the philosopher includes material from the large Lovelace Collection of personal papers bought by the Bodleian Library in 1948 uic swiwu guerrilla commander Cranston covers the many sides Pdlctf1 classical music will be programs big TV hits be very disappointed if it he says Polly Bergen is now a partner in a music publishing firm Her copartner is her brother-in-law Edward Fields a rug manufacturer Carmel Quinn were now marked! of life and career: The to be persecuted years at Oxford during the Puri-by Yankee neighbors: men caught in the nom-de-plume Anthony Peeples Under names and others of 16 books tan interregnum high politics in the reign of Charles II exile in the time of James II the Revolution" that brought William and Mary to the throne and old age as a philosopher with an international reputation during a deep respect for Old-Guard wm publish it Republicanism but said Mr Reichley "I have an active dis- like for the Eisenhower-Nixon lukewarm thing type" Working On Novel In fact Mr-Reichley is working now on a novel that takes place during a national poli-I tical convention He works on it nights after finishing his shift as reporter for the Pottsville Republican a difficult way to go at a book but he want to be without (Job "To do nothing but write is too dull for he said "How I do you meet people and how do you get involved in Smuggled manuscripts are becoming Frederick A i biggest stock in trade what with 1 first "The New Class" by Yugoslav political prisoner Milovan Djilas and now on schedule "Imre Nagy on Communism: In Defense of the New Course" by the deposed premier of Hungary I On Sept 18 Harper will bring out the 18th Western by Zane! Grey to be published since the cowboy death in 1939 'Entitled "The Fugitive it is the 58th novel by Mr Grey who left behind a large cache of i unpublished novels Although he wrote in longhand he was able "The Missourian" by Brad Sept 10 Following the Jory and his their Missouri were not welcomed they had ridden mey naa riaaen federate Quantrill and regular men destined their Missouri two honest an evil web Brad Ward Is of Samuel these two he is the author A good book friends the Martin Dr Walter Writes on the reign of Queen Anne Cranston is a lecturer for the University of London broadcasts regularly for the BBC and reviews for of the Godfrey group is about set best Bohemes available is the best of same today and Farquhar Tlfpper i literary periodicals MM HOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED THE FLYING SWANS by Padraic Coluni $500 SOVIET RUSSIA IN CHINA by Chiang Kai-shek 500 ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute 395 LIFE AT HAPPY KNOLL by John Marquand 375 Manning David Hunt's Book Market Street Shop Dial 3-3715 Education I promise you wit dancing after one hour! Solution Of Crossword Puzzle By Walter Morris What is stereo? If you are hearing stereo tape for the first time you will want to know quickly how it differs from conventional recordings and what benefits it may offer you in home listening Stereo recordings are unlike any conventional type of record whether tape or disc and no ordinary recording ran be to stereo The recorded sound comes to you on a single tape which contains two recorded channels side by side Both are of the same subject matter made at the very same instant but at different vantage points in the recording hall The two differing of vi vv" represent roughly the positions of the two separate audio systems by which you hear stereo reproduction The human uncanny sense of directionality its ability to a feeling of space by testing out the directions from which many complicated room-echoes reach it do more than merely place sounds to the left and to the right of us Many sounds also come from areas In the middle and all the way across the musical It the composite impression of right left and middle plus all the intermediate points and best of all the space itself in which the whole sound exists that constitutes a good stereo listening effect Your ears recreate that vivid sense of actual size and space that allows you to place the sound of a symphony orchestra or a large chorus as a whole inside your living room You are there! 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