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SP p»9» Fcfll'llBB THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Thursday, May 23, 1963 - McHenry Library earner Main and Gireeii St*. lis FrI „ to 9 p.m. Daily, Inrltiding Saturday: 2 to 5 p.m. "Grandmother and the Prlentn" by Taylor Caldwell Rose McConnell was 4 years old when she first went to visit her grandmother in Leeds, England, in the year 1904. That grandinot her was a rich, worldly Irish widow who loved good company. She gathered round her a group of priests Who dined regularly with her and sat by her fireside talking of their experiences while Rose, now a child of six, listened spell bound. From the lives of these men, Taylor Caldwell has woven a rich tapestry of adventures, fiphts against tyranny and Iriumphs over suffering: th^ struggle of a priest against th^ hatred of the local landowner who finally reveals his unhappy past; the dilemma ol the priest who is sent, to a desolate Scottish island to marry the laird to a kidnapped girl; the bishop who outbargains the devil; the priest who investigates the murder of one of his parishioner? in order to clear the stain of suicide from the dead man. Essentially, ."this is a story of heroes," as Taylor Caldwell writes, "whose lives were indeed hard and perilous, and who often, like their Lord, had no place to'lay their heads and only random shelter. They lived in an atmosphere of faith and fantasy and wonder and joy in life. Moreover, although they were often oppressed, they were truly free men, often lacking in deadly caution and never afraid." "The Tenth Fleet" by Ladislas Farago Tn this urgent and hardhilt in^ n;nT;!!u<> Mi Par.i'-o provides a daring re-«xamirmt ion of World War II's most perilous phasc-the mass attack of the U-boat-ami comes to some frightening conclusions with regard to the state of our preparadness today. The little known Tenth Fleet of the U.S. Navy was a phantom force, a mere handful of men housed in two buildings in Washington. At the beginning of the war, (hey had little more than brain-power with whirl) to face the Nazi onslaught. A: no time did they have a single ship under their command, yet, under orders from Admiral King, they could detach any ship from duty anywhere at any time. The author was one of those men. In an unprecedented departure from all die-hard convention, the Tenth Fleet paved the only way to victory at sea and causcd a concomitant reappraisal of naval thinking. It is ihe author's firm belief that the lessons learned by the Tenth Fleet are essential lessons, that we should put them into practice immediately, when World War III could begin at any moment with an -attacked launched by enemy submarines. The Ten Fleet story is taken wholly from documented navai records, and draws upon the author's personal experience, With the evidence he presents, the submarine emerges as decisive weapon of today and tomorrow. He concludes that an immediate re-evaluation of our military appropriations policy of past years is vital to national survival, and frankly pleads for the creation of a new U.S. Navy built around the submarine. Mr. Farago's thesis, certain 1c unleash bitter debnte, is one that had to be presented frankly and openly to the American public. Up to now they have not been told the facls. "That Summer In Paris" by Morley Callaghan "That Summer in Paris" is the delightful narrative of, an intimate personal adventure with two great American Writers, Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was the fabulous summer of 1929, when the literary capital of the United States virtually moved to the Left Bank. At 6 rue Ferou, Hemingway was reading prools of a "Farewell to Arms." A few blocks away, Fitzgerald was struggling over "Tender Is the Night." And Morley Callaghan, a young man whose first book had just been published to great critical acclaim in the U.S., arrived In Paris to share the felicities of (lie IiIt'l'Mry life with his two friends, boof whom had heljied launch hirtt^on his career its an author. Hut beneath the conviviality of long aftcrnoonsr.'t sidewalk cafes and friendly boxing bouts at the American gym, Morley Callaghan was drawn into the drama of a three-way friendship that, like most human relation*. was an intricate tangle of fierce passions, wounded pride and warm affection. The ui* hot of his summer with Hemingway and Fitzgerald was a barrage of alarums and explosions - by turns hilarious, violent, and sadly moving. In probing his relationship with these two utterly human giants of literature, Morley Callaghan has revealed Ihe complex tensions that shaped their lives and generated their art. It is a humorous, subtle, and profound work, demonstrating <4he skill and maturity Alfred Kazin recognized when he wrote; "I am very deeply impressed by the precision with which Mr. Callagh'in can describe obscure and complex emotions'for. which these are few names in our language." In addition to the vivid portraits of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, "That Summer in Paris" presents charming vignettes of the great and near great, in New York and Paris, from the viewpoint of a bright young author in the first flush of success: James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Ford - Madox Ford, Sylvia Beach, Robert McAlmon, Maxwell Perkins, and many others. "Devil's Harvest" by Frank G. Slaughter In Laos, on the Chinese border, the complex process of convening algae into nutritious food by natural photosyntesis presents a harrowing challenge to (wo scientists who are morally committed to rival ideologies. Summoned back to the valley of his youth, Dr. John Merchant, noled microbiologist, becomes involved in a highly competitive struggle with his foster brother, Chan Thomtonalso a microbiologist-to develop a technique for producing enough algae to feed the world. Merchant would contribute the discovery to the cause of world peace and plenty; Thornton's ambition is to see the process used as a weapon by the Communist Chinese. Hot as today's headlines is, this vital novel about the struggle of two men, rivals in love as well as in science, to claim the final harvest that might feed two nations opposed ideologically and politically. "The Serpent and the Hope" by Jtaja Rao 'The Serpent and the Rope" introduces to American readers India's greatest novelist. Reflecting the flavor and wholeness of the traditional Indian way of life, where fact and fable, philosophy and the matter-of-fact, blend into Me. this semi-autobiographical novel can be called timeless, just as India herself seems to be tireless virtue of her unchanging rituals. But the novel also portrays a very definite period of time, describing the full implications of the meeting .of East ami West on the most Intimate plane through the1 story of Rama, an Indian, and Madeleine, n French girl, who meet at a French university shortly after World War II. Their marriage is the central thenae of the book, and it is in telling the story of this marriage that Rama reveals, more deeply 1han most writers are able to •-uggest in their lifetime, the meaning^of love. For these two people it becomes a question either of preserving their identities or of sacrificing an inherited background in order to make their marriage a success. Family ties on both sides do not help, and R.ima's trip back to India for his father's illness forcibly reminds him of the underlying contrasts between India and Europe, unci of a certain conflict hetween them and himself. While there he meets his friend Pratap's fiancee, Savithri, an event which is to bring many forgotten questions to the surface and to alter the whole perspective of his life. When Rama returns to France, he and Madeleine have to face Iheir problems and find their own solutions. To express his fundamental and universal message, Raja Rao has created a memorable style, a compound of the unhurried breath of the Eastern sense of time with a fresh and personal imagery. Together with the compelling story be unfolds, this provides for a remarkable new literary experience. "THE CASTLES AND THE CROWN" By Townsend Miller Spain rose out of chaos through the genius of one woman, Isabel the Catholic. Aided by her skillful consort Fernapdo, she brought the nation to a peak of dignity and Internal security which it had never known before, and was never to enjoy again. For through a series of disasters which few novels could parallel, her crown went to that one of her children least suited to wear i t , the passionate ami tragic Junna la Loc®. Her reason already undermined by the infidelities and sudden death of her handsome young Austrian husband, Juana was unable tc prevent the assumption of power by her foreignborn son, the Emperor Charles V. And it was Charles's rule, with its tendency to regard Spain as only a treasure house to finance his imperial Habsburg commitments which planted the seeds of Spanish decline. Such is the absorbing theme of "The Castles and the Crown, ' Dr. Miller's brilliant new contribution to the literature on a country more and more in the public eye. The book teems with dramatic events-the conquest of Granada, the discovery of the New World, medieval battles, royal intrigues and house parties, poisonings, shipwrecks, imprisenments, abductions. A gorgeous procession of charactcrscmperors and popes, kings and queens and cardinals and chancellors and archduchessessweeps through its turbulent pages. In addition to its immense readability, the volume fills a long and lamentable gap: it is the first major work on Isabel the Catholic to appear in English for more than thirty ye-»rs, and the only serious study of Juana la Loca ever published in America. Scrupulously reseaisc.hed, drenched in a profound love and understanding of Spain, lighted throughout by the play of a lambent and penetrating wit, it is unquestionably destined to join the few classics of Spanish historical writing in our language and to place its author at once in the high compmiy of Prestott and Washington Irving. . ^ "The Hourglass*" bjr Edwin Gilbert. "The Hourglass" dramatizes the twenty-year span between, youthful rebellion and middleaged conformity. This is the saga of all the young people who come to New York each year with their hopes and aspirations, of the loves, hates, chances and mistakes that shape their lives. Here is the cycle of a generation - from Greenwich Village to Greenwich, Conn. Gabriel Mario, who pursued beauty and discovered the law. Clair Chamblis, the Virginia Girl whose beauty destroyed her and almost destroyed Gabe Mario. Richard Willford, the sexexploring writer whose war novel was banned for obscenity and because a cause celebre of censorship. There are also Phyllis, the young free-loving Communist, and Noah Stirnberg, the muscular young painter from Detroit, and all the others who went hungry during the Depression, fought in the war and adjusted to prosperity with varying success. Here is Edwin Gilbert's most passionate and lyrical novel, a moving study of love and of a good man for a beautiful and unworthy woman. One big difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has some limits. 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