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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.
Even more striking is a group of
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