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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1960)
MCDALD AND NCWi, Kl.maNl Fallf, Or. Sunday, toe. II, IW lt. it The Reader's Corner By ADDIE MAY NIXON City Librarian "L'p, Into the Singing Mountain' by Richard Llewellyn. In the year 1940 Hit-hard Llew ellyn wrote and published a novel called "How Green Was My Val ley." The book was very, very popular. 1 don't know how many copies we wore oul here at the library. It also became an Acad emy Award-winning movie, and many of you will remember the excellent movie that it was. This new book is a sequel to "How Green Was My Valley." Here arc new adventures for Morgan as he emigrates from the Welsh mining town, and goes to Patagonia, South America, and lives with a colony of Welsh people even though they are thousands ol miles from. Wales they are as Welsh as their miner forbears. The book is written with the same delightful Welsh twist to the lan guage, and is full of Welsh phras es. Sometimes the beauty and apt ness of a phrase makes you stop and think. How Morgan becomes very successful as a cabinet mak er, and the story of his love for the lovely I,al is very well done. The characterization of the char acters is most interesting, and this book will hold your interest throughout ' from cover to cover. It is based on a real colony of Welsh people in Patagonia. The author has lived among them for several years. New Books at the City Library: "Cookbook. New and Basic Rec ipes" by Ladies Home Journal. A fine new cook book with ev ery recipe that a cook might want. It is the first cook book published by the Ladies Home Journal, and every recipe has been tested at least three times. "Nubbin Itidge My Boyhood on a Texas Farm" by Lewis Nor- dvke. written a powerful yet tender book about a great and irreplace able American author." This book is deserving of much more space than I am giving. It is truly a great book. "Progressive Relaxation" - by Edmund Jucobson. . This is a second edition of a book that doctors often request their patients to read and prac tice. A good book for this ten sion filled age in which we live. "The Golden Man" by Frances Richard tockridge. This is another who-done-it for the mystery fans. This one has to do with a kidnaping. A good book to help you forget your trou bles. . ..-..' I, BENEDICT ARNOLD: The Anatomy of Treason, By Cornel Lengyel. Doubleday, $3.95. ' Pretty Peggy Shippen, daughter of a Quaker judge in Philadelphia, had two suitors: John Andre, a cultured young Englishman among His Majesty's troops occupying her city and, after their with drawal, Benedict Arnold, the mil itary commander assigned by Washington. Her father didn't like Arnold; the officer still had a bad leg wound acquired in the loyal serv ice of his new country; he would rouse up enemies who brought disgrace on him. Just the same, Peggy was as ambitious and un scrupulous as he, and she mar ried him. Even while he pas sionately fought off charges brought against his ability and his patriotism by Philadelpliians he had offended, he was nego tiating with the English, with Andre as intermediary. Washington s formal reprimand tipped the scales, and he plotted in Hie fall of 1780 to surrender West Point and the person of color photos of Civil War battle fields, taken today but at the season and hour and in the wea ther of the battles. There are 84 such photos and the cameramen have blurred or avoided all signs ot modernity, so that they start- lingly catch the mood and atmos phere of the fields of war. The editors of American Heri tage have made a superb contri bution to the war's centennial lit erature. Robert D. Price Tourist in Africa. By Evelyn waugh. Little, Blown. $3.75. "I have to winter abroad," says this English author, and at the start of 1959 he set out from chilly London for Genoa, Port Said. Tanganyika and the Rhodes. ias, Cape Town and then South ampton and home just in time for spring. This is a record of people from Stanley to contemporary native leaders, and there are cutting re flections on the gifts bestowed by whites on blacks, the "pacifica tion" by Europeans of Africa, and race prejudice. But mostly this rounds up an infinite number of intimate oddities women cook mealies, officials wear open shirts shorts and monocle, the plum ber stays to dinner, the elephant twitches its ears menacingly at the autoists, signs urge modest dress instead of Bikinis on the European ladies who a genera tion before covered black naked ness with Mother Hubbards. It's the informality of this ac count that will charm you most. If it tells who took the 19 photos, I missed it; but the photographer could have been too ashamed to admit it. W. G. Rogers Heaven Knows Who, By Chris tiana Brand. Scribners. $3.95. Jess M'Pherson, about 38, was murdered in the home of her em ployer in Glasgow sometime dur ing the night of July 4, 1862. The record of the trial of Jessie M'Lachlan, about 28, the M'Pher son woman's dear friend, as the murderess, has been called by an expert "the best murder trial I ever read." Miss Brand, au thor of nine crime novels, writes a completely factual account of the case. - It was a brutal killing; the au thor even spares hardened mystery-story readers the more grue some details. A meat cleaver, a hammer or both had inflicted multiple wounds, and blood was spattered around on floor and walls, in Jess M'Pherson's bed, and even on shirts laid away in a drawer. . , I Miss Brand carefully pictures the background: Jessie M'Lachlan wed to an often absent sailor, with one child, desperately poor, and sickly; Jess M'Pherson, stout enough to fight off a man's ad-' vances if sb4 wanted to though not always wanting to; James Fleming, for whom she worked, aged, arrogant, demanding; and lettered plans of the two floors in the Fleming home and the street on which it stood. In that long night July 4 to 5, several people passed the win dows behind which the dreadful crime was committed. In the day or two afterward, Jessie M'Lach lan ran about town mystifyingly mailing packages, redeeming pawned articles, bringing home odd bundles and carrying them off to dispose of them. But James Fleming resorted to puzzling be havior, too, like finding the body inexplicably late, answering the doorbell before he was supposed to be up in the morning, and changing his routine so that even the milkman's boy noticed. Both Fleming and Jessie M'Lachlan are arrested; Fleming is freed so that by Scotland's curious laws he can testify; Jessie is brought to trial before a hostile judge. Two-thirds of this is trial, and a gripping one: The sharp probe of the lawyers, the witnesses now angry, now muddled, the preju dice of the the bench, the desper ation of the prisoner. Pick this up and you'll read till the gavel brings it to a thrilling end. W. G. Rogers ' Associated Press g Put "MAGIC" This is life on a small farm in 'Washington, too. His mercenary the Texas Panhandle in the dec ade from ino to 1919. It wasn't an easy lile, but a time of un complicated pleasures and family ties. The author recreates these years of iiis boyhood, and 1 h e book is filled with anecdotes of his friends and family. "The Listener" by Taylor Cold well. Taylor Culdwcll has written many successful novels.. One ol her most recent and most popu lar was "Dear and Glorious Phy sician," a story of the Biblical Luke. This new book is a reli gious book also. butcntirely, dif ferent from "Dear and Glorious Physician." The author says no one lias time to listen to a per son anymore, and feels it is so important. This book is a story of listening, and of the different peo ple who needed to be listened to. This is an inspirational book. "Wedding Train", by Margaret Siherf. This novel tells the story of Nel- lie Thompson who goes lo Meri field. Mont., in the year 1902. The unusual thing was thai she wcnl to marry sight unseen a cousin. The slorv tells of all the many things that happened to her before she finally found hnppi ness. Tins is a light amusing book. "Kobe of Honour" by Alexander Cordell. This is another novel about Wales, and is written by the au thor of "The Rupe of the Fair Country." which is also about Wules. This one portrays t h e courage and valor of the men as well as the patient spirit of the women. "Corporation Wife" by Catherine Gnskin. This novel by a popular novelist Is about a new industry coming to a small (own, and it deals w ith the women who marry the men of modern business the company they promise to love, honor, and obey. "Thomas Wolfe a Biography" by Elizabeth Nowell. This is a fine scholarly book written by Thomas Wolfe's liter ary agent. She has with "pain staking detail years of research and a loyal devotion, she has maneuvering, his abominable de ceit and callousness were climaxed in the capture and execution of Andre, while Arnold got away with only minutes to spare. . v In a gripping tale familiar and yet fresh, too, Lengyel pictures the man who, made of the ruth less stuff of a dictator, gave us our name for traitor. W. G. Rogers ' Associated Press ' The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. Amer ican Heritage. $19.95. I To be blunt about it, this is a magnificent book a pleasure to read and a joy to behold. Two years of effort and $2 million went into the production and the result justifies time and expense in ample measure. There have been many histories of the Civil War, but never one like this. In scope of text a panorama of war and its comple mentary conflicts in economics, politics and social areas and in pictorial splendor, it is in a class by itself. Bruce Catton. who is close to becoming identified in the popu lar mind as "Mr. Civil War," wrote the narative and that fact is enough to warrant that it is eloquent and moving. There are no sensations in it nor should there be, fqr sensation is not within the province of the work but it is a thorough treat ment and the writing has the fluidity of expression that is pe culiarly Cation's. Yes. good though it is. Cation's text must be regarded as sec ondary to the illustrations. The true magnetism of the book is in 836 pictures wash, drawings, wa ter colors, etchings, photographs, lithographs and posters, one-third of them in color. Many of the illustrations never before have been published. In the aggregate, they offer a rare panorama of the period that, as Calton has written, was our great est emotional experience as a nation. The maps are striking artistic birdsove views of the battlefields on which troop movements arc depicted with unusual clarity. 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