BOOK IN BRIEF
Kasper, Sydney H.
Books In Brief Noisy Windbagger AGE OF THUNDER, by Frederick Prokosch. Harper and Brothers. $2.50. Reviewed by Sydney H. Kasper WE talk, talk, talk. Why must we always talk?" asks one of the...
...A. * * * THE CHURCH COLLEGE OF THE OLD SOUTH, by Albea Godbold...
...and they fought valiantly against the irreligion of science which led only to "misery on earth and much agony in hell...
...THE PACIFIC ISLANDS HANDBOOK, 1944, by R. W. Robson (Macmillan, $4...
...Juneval, astronomy, and moral philosophy made up the core of the curriculum, and only rarely did the American constitution, chemistry, geology, and electro-magnetism get in for more than an occasional lecture...
...Godbold's study of the enthusiastic religious life and the dull intellectual life of Southern church colleges before the Civil War...
...It includes 731 pages of excerpts of biography, philosophy, fiction, poetry, maxims, and letters, and it ranges over the last 2,000 years and from Plato to Mark Twain to Dorothy Parker...
...This North American edition of a standard reference work is a valuable sourcebook on the major islands of the Pacific—covering their governments, industries, anthropology, and economics...
...The students prayed often, drank seldom, and never danced...
...Cothern's admirably illustrated 64 pages which should be widely circulated among those who think that mining is simply a matter of mucking around with a pick and shovel by a bunch of "fur-riners" who don't think about anything but filling their own bellies...
...Selected with great care and taste, here is an admirable "personal anthology" of writing selected for its readability...
...Livy, Xenophon, and algebra...
...He should have addressed the question to his creator, for seldom has a book been so heavily populated with such loquacious characters...
...MODERN critics of higher education, who allege that present-day colleges and universities are archaic institutions which fail to keep abreast of the times, would do well to take a backward glance at education a century ago...
...Cothern, in good miner style.—M...
...There are a lot of facts about coal and the men who mine it in Mr...
...The critics might indeed ponder these things—and they might conclude that although modern colleges still have a long way to go, they have come quite a way in a century.—W.B.H...
...asks one of the characters in this book...
...Ideal for wives and families following the war in detail...
...READER'S COMPANION, edited by Louis Kronen-berger (Viking, $2...
...You have "loaded your turn," Mr...
...They might begin with the Rev...
...The faculty preached much, read little, and eschewed research...
...If, as Mr...
...They combatted the rival state universities, which were almost as pious as the colleges, as atheistic...
...The colleges lacked stadia and laboratories, student unions and libraries, hot water and scholarship...
...The talented British novelist writes with sensitivity and feminine detail in this probing of a powerful, charming, and evil woman who crushed the lives of people within her orbit...
...THE BALLAD AND THE SOURCE, by Rosamond Lehmann (Reynal & Hitchcock, $2.75...
...Fine maps...
...Kronenberger contributes a fine introduction...
...BURIED TREASURE, by Marion B. Cothern (Cow-ard-McCann, $1.50...
...This may be well extended to the next Jump of coal you run upon, with its enormous potentialities of by-products from nylon stockings to the sulfa drugs...
...You have a new respect for the American coaldigger when you have finished the book...
...Up and down the hills of Southern France wanders a French-American spy, seeking the traitors in the underground movement...
...Her technical device of telling the story—flashbacks of scenes and conversations where everyone has total recall and a slip of a child understands an adult world—is rather absurd and often tedious...
...This is an interesting little book for youngsters of' high-school age, and for plenty of newspaper editors who write pieces about the "slacker miners" as well...
...No matter whom he meets—peasant or priest, patriot or collaborator, artist or soldier—all speak, not of food and freedom as you would naively imagine starving, tyrannized people would, but of life and love and death and fear in the best traditions of Plato, Kant, and Santayana...
...prokosch seems to be trying to say, this noisy windbaggage is the result of the present war, then the horrors of war are much worse than we have been led to believe...
...Duke University Press...
...I can foresee what few reserved Europeans there are left retiring to the quiet confines of the Skoda, Krupp, or Schneider-Crusot boiler works...
...Horror, particularly subtle horror, has fascinating properties, and the overtones of polite horror pervade Miss Leh-mann's novel, a Book-of-the-Month club choice now reaching best seller-dom...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 25
