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SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE 9 C Herald and News Book Reviews Women Wanted To Travel; They Hit The Road and Did It GIVE ME THE WORLD. By By W. G. ROGERS Leila Hadley. Simon & Schuster. $5. AS FAR AS YOU'LL TAKE ME. By Lorna Whishaw. D o d d, Mead. $3.50. Leila and Lorna in seven-league boots set out boldly on their own. One took the high road, to Alaska, and one the low road, New York all the way around to New York again. Leila, who'd accept nothing less than the world, just about got it, and plenty of people were happy to take Lorna as far as she wanted. But the oddest coincidence of all is that each is married to a geologist, Mrs. Whishaw married all along with Miss Hadley getting her man on the very last page. Since Mrs. Whishaw's husband was called away repeatedly from their home near Edmonton and sometimes for a month or two, she decided to light out on her own. With a bedding roll, a dish or two, and $36, she left her children with a neighbor woman and thumbed her way clear to An chorage and Fairbanks and back cold, brown bears and wolves notwithstanding. Miss Hadley, married young and divorced and bringing up a son, suddenly felt she couldn't stand her New York office job a minute longer, successful though she was. So she, with the boy, took a ship across the Pacific and there ran into four young men sailing a 60-foot schooner around the world on something even less The Story Of Nelson And now comes some of the summer's choicest reading Oliver Warner's Victory, The Life of Lord Nelson (Little, Brown). For those fiction lovers who have been thrilled by the exploits of Horatio Hornblower. Victory will appear rather familiar, as it should be, since Hornblower's cre ator dipped deeply into the real- life exploits of Britain's greatest sea captain for his basic material. For the Napoleonic historian, "Victory" comes as one of the better biographies, done superbly and with a fresh, approach that ably intertwines the three phases of Nelsons life into an under sfandable pattern Warner was not content to touch only on the sea, or on the land or on the romantic aspects of Nel son's life. Each phase receives the proper emphasis as it relates to the other until a well-rounded, lull portrait comes forth. The. author is neither sympathetic nor antago nistic toward the Lady Hamilton romance, and consequently pre sents it in all its distastefulness, but with a discerning understand ing of the prime role it played The Admiral's pettiness, his im ' pulsiveness, and selfishness all are on display but as an integral part of his courage, his immense tacti cal abilities and his physical stam ina. )t is a wholly fascinating por trait and a significant contribu tion to English history. Americans Trying To Understand Japanese Americans are still strying to understand the Japanese after more than a century of contact with them. SOURCES OF THE JAPANESE TRADITION (Columbia Univer sity Press) Is a serious book of more than 900 pages that attempts to make possible better under standing by providing a wealth of source material on Japanese reli gion, philosophy, politics, social life and. culture. It was compiled by Ryusaku Tsunoda, Wm. The ockre de Bary, and Donald Keene for the general reader and seeks to achieve balance and perspec tive in assessing Japan. than $36. They were very difficult about letting mother and child join them, though she waved ber. checkbook under their noses, but it will not surprise you, especial ly after a look at her photo, to learn she wore down their resis tance. These are reassuring and salu tary stories. If you read many novels, you sometimes get the idea that man, woman and child think of nothing but sex from morning to night and do nothing but from night to morning. Here are true experiences and they're frank and warm, yes, but whole some, too. You 11 be sorry you didn I go along. Djilas Writes Another Book BY UNITED PRESS M i 1 o v a n Djilas, the Yugo slav leader who renounced Com munism and went to jail rather than stay on as one of its new ruling class, has written a second book, "Land Without Justice (Harcourt Brace). His "New Class," published here last sum mer, denounced Communism of all brands, including Yugoslavia's own Titoism. Already serving a three-year prison term for his ear lier denunciation of Yugoslavia's attitude toward the Hungarian rev olution, Djilas was sentenced to a new six-year term for writing the New Class. But Djilas' new book is not pri marily a political document. It is autobiographical and contains the key to his philosophy. 'The strongest are those who re nounce their own times and be come a living part of those yet to come, the strongest and the rarest." Djilas recalls the terror of the Austrian occupation of Montene gro and says the worst offense worse than execution was the beating of the prisoners by wet ropes. "Until that time no one had ever beaten - Montenegrins . . . their human dignity had never been affronted by beatings. They have now become accustomed to others trampling on their human pride, but they have not changed their opinion about those who do so. Another On U.S. Treatise Schools For months Americans have had hurled at them a steady barrage of self-criticism about U.b. educa tion. Now William Benton, former U.S. senator from Connecticut, offers a meaty, provocative sum mation of what all the fuss is about in "This Is The Challenge" (New York University Press). A foreword by John Gunther and a preface by Adlai E. Stevenson in troduce this collection of lectures ond essays based on Benton's 1955 trip to Russia. This is probably the most detailed analysis ol Soviet American educational systems and the challenge of Russian science that has been made available in one volume. Benton has carried on a cam paign for two years to arouse America from its "intellectual nap ping." His warnings of 1956 and 1957 are even more pertinent today in pointing up the threat ol gigantic Russian educational pro gram that casts a long shadow over the years ahead wncn tne Dai tie of "competitive coexistence' will move into critical stages. Ben ton emphasizes the Soviet chal lenge to American businessmen, the Soviet bid to capture under developed countries and the erod ing el loot of Soviet tactics on West ern unity. Male Specie Under Study THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN MALE, by the Edi tors of Look; illustrated by Rob ert Osborn (Random House): Don't look now, Joe Doakes, but you are being analyzed again this time entertainingly, if in some harsh and telling terms. It is being said that you are losing your masculinity and domi nance as women become more and more independent, find a place for themselves in the great world, have gadgets to make their house hold tasks easier and pass some of the chores that are left onto you. It is alleged that you are a con formist who has given over his identity to The Group and who is goaded to Adjust rather than live as he chooses. It is said that you are afraid to take it easy, to enjoy your leisure, to leave your office problems at the office, to buck the boss or the people next door. J. Robert Moskin, a writer and editor for Look, warns that we are on the road to "he-women and she-man" if something is not done to restore the deflated male ego. George B. Leonard Jr., San Fran cisco editor of the magazine, fol lows one Gary Gray's search for identity and individuality. (When this mythical fellow finds it, he waits that one moment, please after having placet" a phone call. then makes the person called wait for him an equal moment of two minutes five --seconds). William Attwood, Look's foreign editor, analyzes the American rate race, compares it with the more leisure ly European pace and suggests a little less haste. Now Joe, you say you've heard all this before. Then why are you hiding in the cellar? Napoleon Near End By United Press International There were 400,000 men in the Grand Army that opened Napole on's Russian campaign in June, 1812. About 100,000 of them went to Moscow, and left it on the night of October 18. About 1,000 combat troops, with some thousands of stragglers, arrived in East Prus sia two months later. For Napoleon it was the begin ning of the end. With Napoleon on that ill-omened expedition was the young Count Phillippe-Paul de Segur, a general on his personal staff. De Segur wrote a report of the retreat. For years it was a source book for the Russian ex pedition. Tolstoy borrowed liberal ly from it for his novel "War and Peace. It was out of print for 50 years. Now De Segur s classic has been republished in an admirable new translation by William L. Langer undes the title "Napoleon's Rus sian Campaign" (Houghton Miff lin). Day by day, week by week, in burning heat, in teeming rain, in blinding snow, De Segur marched with the Grand Army. Few more graphic stories of war ever have been written than his account. Half-starved, half-naked, freez ing soldiers and the disorderly horde of stragglers troops who had thrown away their muskets, women and children dropped in the snow to die as they marched, or died huddled in rings around the weak, flickering camp fires, or drowned in the rivers. Now, the Russians were hacking away at the motley column. Heroic French rear guards held them olf, and the Russians never won a battle. II was Russian space and the Rus sian climate that won. The tree farm program of growing timber as a crop on lax paying lands, sponsored by the for est industries, is helping thousands of small landowners to realize reg ular income from tree crops. Revised Vfersion Of Innocents Abroad TRAVELING WITH THE INNO CENTS ABROAD: MARK TWAIN'S ORIGINAL REPORTS FROM EUROPE AND THE HOLY LAND. Edited by Daniel Morley McKeithan. University of Oklaho ma. $5. Late in 1866 Mark Twain, 31 years old, a bushy-haired fellow with a droopy mustache, persuad ed a San Francisco newspaper, the Daily Alta California, to buy him a European tour aboard the Quaker City and to print bis travel letters. Not many papers have struck such a historic bargain: out ol the trip came Mark Twain's sec ond book. The Innocents Abroad. It was based very directly on the 50 letters, which are collected here for the first time within hard cov ers. A superb book came out of them; by themselves they make a superb book. The question is, how much did Mark Twain polish, and did he do it well? He felt that for book publication he needed to tone down his exuberance, and be more tender toward religious sus ceptibilities; he believed eastern readers more effete than western; and a new wife, Olivia whose brother he met aboard ship breathed down his neck while he revised. Opinions are divided on the comparative merits, but my own is. that his second try made no major improvement on his source, that he often weakened instead of polishing, and that he omitted some really hilarious passages like the one about seeing the Bar ber of Seville" in Spain and hoping to meet "Two Gentlemen of Vero Current Best Sellers FICTION ANATOMY OF A MURDER Robert Traver. WINTHROP WOMAN Anya Seton. ICE PALACE Edna Ferber. 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