BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief MEN AT WORK, by Stuart Chase (Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2). Stuart Chase wears the collar of no "ism," but he is without a peer as an interpreter and exponent of democratic...
...THE SELECTED WORK OF TOM PAINE, edited by Howard Fast (Duell, Sloan, and Pearce...
...he had the courage to stand up for his convictions when the Nazi program was taking shape...
...The "editorial" work in this volume consists of a running commentary on Tom Paine, and a series of brief sketches setting forth the conditions under which Paine wrote each item...
...This yarn is not up to its predecessors, partly because Hornblower is landlocked for too much of the time...
...He believes that his mother, just before she died, saw the unfolding of World War II down to the year of Hitler's defeat and beyond...
...A truly remarkable first novel by a girl of 22 with one German parent and one American, Drink to the Hunted is a vivid, believable argument for the "other" Germany of decent, ordinary human beings who were too busy or too indifferent to do anything about Hitler until it was too late and who stayed home to endure the consequences...
...he had the foresight to leave his native country, go to England, become a British subject, and work for the victory of the democratic spirit...
...This is the fourth in the great sea series of Hornblower tales...
...The author believes that a majority of rural and industrial workers, as well as a sizeable segment of the lost "youth" of Germany can become "the builders of a new democratic Germany...
...3.50...
...It was among the smaller farmers and in the rural villages that Nazism got its first stronghold...
...W.B.H...
...Farrar & Rinehart...
...Consequently some persons, who pride themselves on keeping up with the advance columns of the procession may regard it as "old stuff...
...He believes in the mind as a faculty, in the soul as an entity, and in fate as a determiner of history...
...The urban areas and the workers clung persistently to the Marxist parties, while the rural areas accepted Hitler's leadership without endorsing his ideological concepts...
...It was published when Hitler was still powerful and before Germany had gone down to defeat...
...The story is loose and ragged in spots, but you aren't likely to skip a page of a tale so rich in its understanding of Europeans and Americans...
...For better or for worse the people of the United States live with little awareness of an immaterial supernatural order...
...The sole merit of this book is that it contains, in 336 pages of fine print, the complete text of Paine's Common Sense, the Crisis Papers, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.—W.B.H...
...DRINK TO THE HUNTED, by Ellen Marsh (Dut-ton, $3...
...In Men At Work he has assembled 11 thought-provoking essays dealing with democratic methods in the power age...
...The crabbed Marxist with his theory of a class struggle, and the equally narrow spokesman for the National Association of Manufacturers with his jungle philosophy will sneer at these adventures in cooperation, but those who still have faith in democracy and the adaptability of independent enterprise to modern demands will find Men At Work a richly rewarding experience...
...In this Commodore Hornblower takes a British squadron into the Baltic where he succeeds in raising hell with Napoleon's plans...
...Incidentally, one ©f the finest chapters in the book, "What TVA Means," originally appeared in The Progressive as a front-page article...
...But he is an educated man...
...Such a man does not talk idle words.—M.O...
...2.50...
...H. H. Clark's volume in the American Writers series...
...2.50...
...It is easy for him to believe this because he believes in the existence of a supernatural realm in which the outcome of things here below is all prearranged...
...But the forces of evil and the forces of good which, according to this spiritually-minded German author, were locked in a battle for and against man's better nature, are graphically described in these 300 pages, and in a manner characteristically European, so that an American reader should find the experience mind-stretching...
...FROM DEMOCRACY TO NAZISM, by Rudolph He-berle (Louisiana State University Press...
...This little book, subtitled "A Regional Case Study of Political Parties in Germany," throws some light upon the depressed agricultural situation in Schleswig-Holstein from 1918 to 1932...
...Stuart Chase wears the collar of no "ism," but he is without a peer as an interpreter and exponent of democratic planning...
...THE WAR FOR MAN'S SOUL, by Ernest Jackh...
...2.50...
...THIS is not a bad time to read this book...
...COMMODORE HORNBLOWER, by C. S. Forester (Little, Brown and Company...
...The author of this book is dualistic...
...In terms of practical behavior they are monistic, and their one world is here and now, visible and tangible...
...While the book has been ignored by many reviewers, it is heartening that it was published in this bitter period...
...Students and critical readers will find this no substitute for the scholarly apparatus—bibliography, footnotes and critical discussions—which appears in Prof...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 30
