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Shalom’s Spiegel has written some
thing substantial in “Hebrew Re
born . It gives the layman an extra
ordinary introduction into the spirit
and the accomplishments of modern
Hebrew literature. Don Levine’s bi
ography of “Stalin” and Isaac Gold
berg’s history of American popular
music in “Tin Pin Alley” are prod
ucts of careful writing and mature
thought. Considering the controvers
ially of Don Levine’s topic he has
been singularly independent in his
judgments. “Christians Only,” by
Broun and Britt, is anti-Semitism
viewed by two Christian newspaper
men. The material is comprehensive,
but the writing is sloppy. “Studies
in the Literature of Natural Science”
is the finest introduction to modern
scientific writing, and at the same
time, an excellent resume of the de
velopment of scientific thought during
the past century. Cecil Roth has
resurrected Jewish historical writing
from its normal stodginess with his
account of the “History of the Jews
in Venice”. David Loth’s biography of
Charles II has humor, historical
scholarship and felicitous writing.
There were published during the
past year a number of books by au
thors whose names are more or less
famous, but who apparently now sub
stitute their past laurels for present
effort. A new author came to the
front in the person of Irving Fein-
man, who won the Longmans, Green
$7,500 prize with “This Pure Young
Man”. His writing is cold, studied,
dispiriting. For some strange reason
the publishers brought out in English
an early novel by Arnold Zweig called
“Claudia”. It was a waste of paper.
“Spawn”, by Nat J. Ferber, and
“Wide Open Town” by Myron Brinig,
are two excellent novels dealing with
frontier American life in two differ
ent sections of the country. Ferber’s
study of the sexual degeneration of
a large community needed only more
restraint to make it an outstanding
epic. Manual Komroff is another au
thor for whom publicity is being al
lowed to make up for ability. His
“Two Thieves”, a novel involving the
two men who are alleged to have been
crucified with Jesus, sprawled list
lessly over several hundred pages of
boring writing. Charles Yale Harri
son, who became famous with “Gen
eral Die in Bed”, did not do half as
well in “A Child is Born”, a portrait
of American social justice. Stefan
Zweig’s “Amok” might have been in
cluded in the list of ten best, except
that it is a short story rather than
a novel. Other novels published dur
ing the year included “Goodbye and
Tomorrow”, a far above the average
first novel by Leane Zugsmith; Pig-
boats”, a naive story of submarines
by Commander Edward Ellsberg;
“The Orchids”, a cameo-like novel
ette by Robert Nathan; “The Weigher
of Souls”, a peep into immortality, by
Andre Maurois; “A Night in Kurdis
tan”, a saccharine novel by Jean Rich-
ard-BIoch, of “ & Co.” fame;
and “The Shortest Night” a mystery
story by G. B. Stern.
For the worst book of the year we
nominate “Haym Salomon and the
Revolution”, by Charles Edward Rus
sell. That very eminent gentleman
was obviously at a loss for material.
He might have done better to insert
blank pages rather than filling them
with meaningless padding. Of course,
there is competition for Russell in
“Freud and His Time”, by Fritz Wit-
tels, who has written pompously and
repetitiously about psychoanalysis,
dragging in Freud’s name by the tail.
A number of solid biographies were
written, however. They include the
excellent “Black Napoleon”, by Percy
Waxman; “Roosevelt”, by Lewis Ein
stein; “The Dreyfus Affair”, by Jac
ques Kayser; “Schliemann,/ by Emil
Ludwig; and “The Incredible Yanqui”,
by Herman B. Deutsch.
Among the essays, the following
are of interest: “God in Freedom”, a
posthumous collection by Luigi Luz-
zatti; “Mencken and Shaw”, by Ben-
GINO LAMBOSO
jamin De Casseres; “Conversation”,
by Andre Maurois; and “The Con
temporary and His Soul”, by Irwin
Edman. “Civilization and Its Discon
tents”, by Sigmund Freud, added
nothing to our knowledge of con
temporary manners. Dr. Meyer Wax-
mann’s “A History of Jewish Litera
ture”, though written horridly, has
sufficient material to make it an im
portant volume.
The number of volumes on Pales
tine that were published during the
past year should have indicated a
wide interest in the subject. All of
them were flops, however, from the
commercial point of view. The most
imposing was the two-volume “Holy
Land Under the Mandate”, by Mrs.
Fannie Fern Andrews. Her book rep
resents an impressive collection of
facts and makes no attempt to pass
judgment. The best of the volumes
undoubtedly Maurice Samuel's “On
the Rim of the Wilderness”. Its study
of the Jew and Arab in the Holy Land
is objective, thoroughly informed with
fact, and convincing—as well as easily
written. The worst of the collection
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