European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Under a Bermuda Moon is the place for this Green skirt and White sweater with Silver leaves. The sheer Blouse held on the. Shoulders with a drawstring is Actu ally Wool worn with a while fun anal  March a ims books some fairly heavy Reading from the non fiction lists for the More serious minded bookworms James Madison. The nation Alist 1780-1787. By Irving Brant. Illustrated. 484 up. Bobbs Merrill Indiana Polis. �6. " the Post revolution period of unite states history seems to have Comein for More than its share of liter Ary examination of late. The subject seems to have attracted Many writers though most of them v seem to have aimed at popular consumption in spite of their heavy sounding titles and subjects. This one however does t appear to have been written with. Boo clubs in mind. It is written in such detail that few Light readers or Semi Light readers will have enough per Severance to see it through. Brant former newspaper Man became inter ested in the comparatively Little know political Leader of the new country while he was working in Washington As a Cor respondent. He has already had a previous volume published. On Madi son s Early life and Smice this one still leaves almost fifty years to go it i Likely there will be More volumes to follow. The Book for the most part takes the Young virginian through the  spent in the Continental con Gress and the Virginia Assembly. The. Author brings in Many documents speeches and Many of Madison s acquaintances and portrays the Short in stature five foot six but High in intelligence statesman As a hero a impression that most of his previous biographers did t have. .  gone into his study so thoroughly it is unlikely that anyone but a person equally Well read on the topic would find fault or argue with the author conclusions. Much of the Book deals with abstract political theories possibly because of Madison s occupation during these eight years but that does t Kee Madison the human being from show ing through in several places to All the Book apparently is not intended for the popular history shelf but is meant to he a scholarly unabridged work on a Man in connection with his particular time. Letters of William Allen White and a Young Man edited by Gil Wilson. 116 up. John Day new York. �2.25. Gil Wilson the recipient of White  in this Book was a bitter Young Man when he first started writing to the editor in. Emporia. He was an artist forced to live in Terre haute and had turned to communism in his disillusionment with life.  never succeeded in re converting Wilson Back to the right if indeed that was really his purpose in answering the hot headed. \ Young Man but did smooth his More Radical edges. The letters went Back and Forth Over period of. Nine years As often As Wilson would write to the editor for some encouragement. The last letter in the Book was written by Wilson after White death. Though he still denies the right Ness of White s principles the Ras Hyoung Man does give in far enough to admit there would be less dissension Between right and left if More right its were As Wise As White. Noted in passing it took nine tailors. By Adolph Menjou and m. M. Musselman. 238 up. Whittlesey House new York. �3.50. Some Days were Happy. By Loui Sobol. 210 up. Random House new York. S2.75. Two autobiographies for serving on meatless tuesdays. Though neither can be classed As literature they Are in startlingly pleasant in their reminiscences. Or. Menjou tells about his thirty four years in the movie business and How he got there. Mrs Bol relax sin his Connecticut Home memories he can smell the bread baking and looks Over his years up to his Start in journalism. Presumably from there on any one interested enough to read his Book has been Reading his column and there fore needs to be taken no further Donald of China. By Earl a Bertselle. Illustrated.-.374 up. Harper new York. �3.50. " this is an. Informal biography by one newspaper Man about a fellow news paper Man. Villiam Henry Donald an australian spent the years from 1911 to1940 in China., became familiar with the chinese though he never Learned the language was the trusted Friend of Many of them. Just before he died he told the Story of those years to or. Selle knowing he himself would t be Able to write his memoirs there is much humor in the Book and there is also much information about the country. Donald witnessed a great Deal of China modern history but from the Book one gathers he rarely took that or anything else very  lawyer merchant chief. By Robert. Lewis Taylor. 305 up. Doubleday new Yorac s3. Consisting mainly of the. Short amusing very accurate biographical sketches that have come to be known As profiles or Taylor s Book is a reprint of writing he. Has done for the Neil yorker life the saturday evening Post and red  the last six years or so. The personality stories cover a wide rang of persons engaged in rather unusual professions or businesses from Charles Atlas to Carol of Romania. There Are several pieces of fiction included handsome essays the author wrote while i the Navy during the War. None of the biographical data has been brought up to Date but most readers won t find that hard to Overlook because on the whole this is Lively absorbing Reading. Discovery. By Virginia Chase. 304pp.macmillan new York. $3.50. The problem faced by the average american housewife and Mother who has spent her life raising children an cleaning House and cooking and then suddenly finds too much time on he hands when her children have grown and left the fold is the theme of mis Schase s Book. Laurie forty tries several things to dispel her boredom women clubs extended College courses Bridge parties. None of them works but aftera year of searching she finally finds the answer to her problem which is actually in part her husband s and her children s problems too. I mostly murder the trial of Alvin Boaker. By John re Wall. 283 up. Random House new York. $2.50.by an attorney writing under a pen name this is the Case of judge Boaker accused of murdering his estranged wife. The Book is in the form of a letter from the judge who tried the Case and resigned after the decision to the local paper and turns out to be one of the better mysteries of the season. Explosion. By Dorothy Cameron Disney. 309 up. Random House new York. $2.50.a Veteran unadjusted to civilian life is suspected of being the culprit who caused an explosion in his parents Home and the death of his aunt Ara Bella. The \ Etebari s Fiancee accidentally clears up the mystery but it s Timothy Wight detective who does All the hard work. ". I " the whip. By Sara Elizabeth mason.247 up. William Morrow new York. $2.50.this is a Case for a psychiatrist or at any rate one solves it. Charlotte Ives has confessed that it was she who gave the strychnine to her now dead  writes the details for or. Sargent who then turns detective to work out the solution of whether Charlotte did or did t. _ in t it a crime by Ted Cott Wil Liam and David x. Manners. Illustrated by Leo Garel. 160 up. Arco new York. $2.50.some very amusing cartoons and enter Taining mystery quizzes for detective and even non detective fans. The puzzles can be worked out at Home alone but seem to toe destined for party games.-.17