BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief THE WALSH GIRLS, by Elizabeth Janeway. Doubleday, Doran. $2.50. A convincing, discerning first novel by the wife of Eliot Janeway. Built around the conflict, barriers, and ties of...
...Macmillan...
...He is breezily bloodthirsty...
...A witty, if rather talky, version of two city people's adjustments and experiences settlinc down in Maine...
...Poetic descriptions of nature in the usual lush Peat-tie style...
...There is no glimpse of modern industrialized America, nor of the country's sins or unpleasant problems...
...Fictionalized sketches on Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and others, and better chapters on the men who fought the wilderness...
...American "psalms" by the New England poet...
...The prose is undistinguished, but Scott's first-hand knowledge of the know-how of wartime flying vividly conveys the sense of the danger, excitement, and urgency he has experienced...
...Elinor, an actress and left-winger before their marriage, bubbles with good spirits and has no control over her tongue...
...Sympathetic, rather idealized account of the "rise" from Tin Pan Alley to Carnegie Hall of the creator of "Porgy and Bess...
...OUR WAY DOWN EAST, by Elinor Graham...
...You may have met the.Grahams before, in Elizabeth Etnier's diary, On Gilbert Head, of a few years ago...
...2.75...
...The people are finely characterized, and the conversation rings with naturalness—Elizabeth Janeway has a good ear...
...JOURNEY INTO AMERICA, by Donald Culross Peattie...
...Macmillan...
...Keal too is the small Connecticut mill city in 1936, with its unemployment, WPA, and arguments over Roosevelt...
...You learn quite a lot about the idiosyncrasies of Maine people and equally as much about the likeable Grahams...
...The highly praised book of war experiences by a cocky Texan...
...Built around the conflict, barriers, and ties of two New England sisters, whose father was a stern minister...
...A capable "psychological" novel whose defects are those of a story where not enough happens and whose sweep is on too level a plateau...
...A personal, idealized, and over-written interpretation of America's past...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...He is quiet and studious and has a salty humor...
...GOD IS MY CO-PILOT, by Col...
...Elinor is the kind of woman who collects buttons feverishly but never, according to David Graham, had one for her husband's pants...
...Recommended...
...PRIMER FOR AMERICA, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin...
...Scribner...
...Hardly merits the lavish praise heaped upon it...
...Robert Scott...
...THE STORY OF GEORGE GERSHWIN...
...Henry Holt...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 43
