The nation . om dreams as from marsh are mosquitoes biting wet flanks of natural you? Did you? Who: opend the damnd box? ButI hate locks. I wish T could give you such openness,filths, upswarms of fervor, to man held so, up-held we see in staind unmovingsea moved sustaind inHell,mannd against calm. Robert Duncan slumber, to shocking us into knowledgeof rhe peril. Which they should be ableto do superbly because such is the notion of every novel f deliberate propa-ganda—fiction is so sweet a bait, you sitdowp to eat a tasty tidbit of a story,and, whoompf!, before you k
The nation . om dreams as from marsh are mosquitoes biting wet flanks of natural you? Did you? Who: opend the damnd box? ButI hate locks. I wish T could give you such openness,filths, upswarms of fervor, to man held so, up-held we see in staind unmovingsea moved sustaind inHell,mannd against calm. Robert Duncan slumber, to shocking us into knowledgeof rhe peril. Which they should be ableto do superbly because such is the notion of every novel f deliberate propa-ganda—fiction is so sweet a bait, you sitdowp to eat a tasty tidbit of a story,and, whoompf!, before you know ityoure choking on gobbed of uncookedtruth. Not that novels rerdlv work thatway, even when they are meant to, hutthere have been novels that have pre-cipitated social action. They can do \eU bring bad news. It is their busi-ness. Even bad novels can do it. Hut the novels at hand, well-meaningas they most certainly are and urgentand rich in gloom, dont. Not lor any MORALITYAND MODERN WARFARE. (il. I consider it of the greatest im-portance.—Steve Allen MOUNTAINWITHOUT STARS >U Maurice Zermatten—Bvi\t elemental darkness and pride pia remote Alpine village, this is £tarkly dramatic novel of violent re-aellion, superstition, and religioustension. Winner of La Grand Pri&International Catholiqne for 1°^P $ STAR OVER THE FRONTIER y Edzard Sekaper—The first aplearance in English of one of th(nost highly regarded artists nowwriting in the German language. Sel• n the heavily guarded border be-i Russia and Finland, it is , moving, but completely un-entimental Christmas story of fomhildren who are led back to life it-he midst of death. $ at oil bookstores
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