European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 06, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Books Caesar returning vets Ana australians Are among those present in the newest stateside publications i the ides of March. By Thornton Wilder. 246 up. Harper new York. .$2 75.this is in the author s own words a fantasia on certain persons of the last Days of the the Book or Wilder s first novel since 1935is As unlike any of his previous books As they in turn have been unlike each is however one common de nominator among then All the excellence of or. Wilder s prose or. Wilder Calls his Story a fantasia be cause he admittedly has not tried to write accurate history. He wanted to capture and did capture the tone and personalities of the sophisticates of Caesar s last Days and the atmosphere of the society of which the dictator of Rome was part. He invented characters changed the chronology of events to suit his purpose and wrote a series of imaginary letters and documents of Nich this Book is composed the character of Caesars kept above the level of his quibbling Petty fria Licious fellow men of roman High society particularly in the letters Caesar his Blind and crippled Friend Ramilius who lived on Capri away from. The world. Ramilius is one of the creations of the Wilder imagination in these letters Caesar looks at life and a himself with honesty courage and a High level of intelligent reasoning out of or. Wilder s Book a Shin ing Light a hero. Such historical per. Sovages As the roman poet catullus and Clodia the no virtue Are expanded quite fully by Wilder s fancy. The event around which the plot of the Book centers is the Entrance of j Clodia s brother publius Clodia dres Sedas a woman into the sacred rites of the Bona Dea reserved for women alone Clodia about whom Ca tullus writes in Many of his poems parts of which Wilder has translated and quoted in his Book. Throughout Caesar s and the other letters in the Book Are bits of chatter and gossip about such persons As Cleopatra Cicero and Marc Anthony giving a View of the meanness the suspicions the human discontent and bitterness of a few months in the lives of a group of men and women. Whether these men and women during that time were decisive in any Way in influencing history is open to question. But there is no question that has written another interesting and impressive novel. Lucinda Brayford. By Martin Boyd. 432 up. Button new York. $3. Lucinda the heroine is a third generation australian. Her two grandfathers had left Cambridge together As Youngmen to seek their fortunes Down under. In. The new land the englishmen married and in turn the daughter of one mar ried the son of the other1. Their daughters Lucinda. The Story takes the Reader along with Lucinda Back to England and the turbulent world of the twentieth Century in the end the aristocratic Lucinda has lost her Lover her Only son and her English husband but not he Hope for the future. Or. Boyd an englishman writes in a Calm unhurried. Style and covers most of the sixty years of his novel As . The Book has been chosen As the literary Guild selection for March v the f best7 is none too Good. g. Martin. 297 up. Farrar Straus new York. $3.75.the author a wartime yank writer took a trip through the states when he got Homeland out of uniform to see what other returned gis were doing now that the had become civilians again. The Book is the collection of Short pieces he wrote for the new Republic on what he found out during the trip. Or. Martin set our to find How overseas dreams of Home stacked up against postwar reality. He found that Many of r the dreams had ended in disillusionment. Some of the vets decided that life overseas was Moreto their liking and returned while others decided that though life in the states might not be very Rosy they were a pretty goo d place to be. The Book is weekend March ,1m8 Clear Friendly in approach and an unbiased picture of the Many things veterans returned to both Good an bad. The author tries to make no Der visions. He presents his findings whim make a Well written worthwhile record of the problems facing the returned Veteran. ,." the Harp in the South. By Ruth Park. 30i up. Houghton Mifflin Boston. $2.75. More about Australia this time a. Warm simple Story of Australia today a not romantic Story of the wealthy sheep a homely tale of the Irish in the slums of Sydney. The author an australian herself has taken the Hap piness and the woes of the Darc y family and Woven an everyday account of their sordid existence. The lives and births and deaths of the Darcy family Arety Picato the residents of shanty town and miss Park about Mumma an Hughie and their two girls with tender Ness from Hughie s wonderful sprees on raw iiqu6r, Muscat to the daughter Roie s finding Joy in marriage after he factory Job there is Little in the novel that does t move with a love for living. The enduring federalist. Edited by Charles a. Beard. Illustrated. 391 up. Doubleday new York. $4.mr. Beard has left out Little of the orig Inal the federalist in making his abridgement aside from deleting obsolete passages adding headings an introductions. The author has mainly rejuvenated the eighty five essays nonpolitical science written by Jay Madi son and Hamilton. The lasting Quality of the papers and their pertinence to. Government problems today certainly make or. Beard s edition Worth read ing or rereading since he question Ofa Federal world government is not far removed from the questions after the ".revolution. The tender men. By Willa gibbs.246 up. Farrar Straus new York. $2.75.the author of Telb your sons has written a rather frightening expose of the Workings of the communist party in the . The plot deals with one Case that of a farm boy who goes to the City. There he finds life difficult an Falls into the hands of the party which offers him a policy that seems to pro vide a Refuge. From there the author goes into an outline of the tender men of the party who change to Carbon copies of their soviet counterparts. The accept the farm Boyi take him in test him and finally shoot him because befalls Short of standards. Miss Gibbs might not be quite convincing but Sheds sensational. Step Down elder brother. By Josephina Niggli. 374 up. Rinehart new York. $3,miss Niggli s novel takes place in Mon Terrey in the Northern Section of Mexico. Monterrey is one of the few Industrial towns of Mexico and because of its position it is influenced by the . And its manners. The characters Are members of an old wealthy family who have been living by the dictates of elder brother Getulio. The next in line elder brother is Domingo a half Hearte objector to this despotism and the novel concerns his Choice Between his love and his duty to the family. The Story itself is weak but the portrait of the City is vividly done. Mostly murder Island of escape. By Hugh Law rence Nelson. 235 up. Rinehart new York. $2. Four women on an Island after the same Man Henry Gough Harding rejoined by four shipwrecked persons. All of which make up a Story of murder revenge and maybe a buried treasure. The Black piano. By Constance an Gwenyth Little. 192 up. Crime club new York. $2., wealthy Gloria is a Little tired of being on the dangerous end of attempted murders. So she goes away and comes continued on Page 19 is if Kim a test near the Bazaar Ellen wonders How to begin her search Istanbul quest photographs. By Bert Brandt Acme an american girl looks for hairpins and discovers a subterranean world As she winds through an Eastern City when miss Ellen Murdock of Greenwich Connecticut who was visiting Turkey set out to buy a package of hairpin san Istanbul she became involved in a Day Long search. The Purchase which she might have made Back Home in a few minutes took her through the shopping Jungle of the Eastern Section of Istanbul. It was evening before she emerged at last victorious trom her quest. Meanwhile she had visited every Remote Corner of the City s subterranean Bazaar which successively sought to Foster upon her walnuts melons turkish embroidery a turkish carpet and an american phonograph. Prices ranged from five cents for the melons to two thousand dollars for the carpets. An exhausting afternoon but i got my hairpins she smiles at Day s end. Continued on next Page 17
