THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE WORLD OF BOOKS 'Hannibal Hooker ProvesTo Be 20th Century Anthony Adverse The story deals with the career of the son of a mid-western Quaker family. Hannibal Hooker of the Waynesboro, Indiana, Hookers leaves home to study at a Boston theologi- cal seminary, to become a priest of the Episcopal church in the little town of Audubon, Mass. Following a series of political, theological and romantic incidents topped off by a marriage that lasted only a few days, Hannibal awoke one morning to find himself on a ship bound for Haiti, with his career in the church a thing of the past. In Haiti, Hannibal became in- volved in a revolution, first as a by- stander, later as a leading official. When tired of Haiti, he returned to the States, this time to Washington where 'he hob-nobbed -with Teddy Roosevelt, senators and diplomats. Then he went to Europe as a news- paper correspondent. Abroad he be- came embroiled in an Irish anti- English movement which brought him back to America once more, doing pro-German propaganda during the early days of the World War. A hec- tic, rather confusing story, it comes to no very definite conclusion. Through all this appear several subordinating characters including a woman with more ambitions for Han- nibal than he caiedto have for him- self, two fellow students on opposite sides of the theological fence, a con- gressman who was a boyhood friend, a small town capitalist, several revolu- tionists in Haiti, England and Ameri- ca and a wife who plays a very short and unimportant role. Mr. Hale writes in what may be called a progressive style. That is,. while beginning a trifle slowly and on the dull side, his narrative takes on an added freshness as his hero's character develops. Gathering speed during Hannibal's turbulent South American career, the story roars bril- liantly through his years in Europe and reaches a crashing climax in a final chapter, appropriately titled "Walpurgisnight," intoxicating in its sensual delight and bound to attract the reader back for a second perusal. His satire on the church and on poli- tics is witty, though at some points it degenerates into burlesque through undue exaggeration. The author is a Yale man and a rebel from the ranks of conservative idealism. While an undergraduate he founded and edited "The Harkness hoot," a sheet which attacked and satirized the puritanical New England point of view. In 1932 he published a manifesto for American youth en- titled "Challenge to Defeat." He has written as columnist for the Wash- ington Post and has been on the edi- torial staffs of "Vanity Fair" and "Fortune." Ex Libris BY JOSEPH GIES You will find on the bookstore tables this week a little green-covered booklet entitled Beer and Skittles, by a little girl who signs herself ''By Diana Barrett." It costs, I think, 20 cents, and is made up of 30 or 40 scraps of verse, mostly about beer. The best, however, is about the skittles and it goes as follows: I know what a beer is, What really bothers me: Oh, what in the world is a skittle? Is it hard, is it soft, is it brittle? Do you use it to cook in or spread it on bread, Is it something man fashioned for soldering lead, Is it implement, house-pet or victual? Do you mix it with garlic to season your food? Do you hunt it with guns in the bosky wood? Of all the maids I've seen love, Sure, thou art most fair. See, I have brought thee flowers, And a skittle for thy hair. Faith and I don't know, begorrah, If it's Fauna or it's Flora. Let's put out to sea again, Sailing away to a foreign land, For the sails are full with the strong wind's pull And the skittles are scuttling over the sand. Is it used in tooling leathers? Do you eat it? Has it feathers? Gi'e me my claymore, Jeannie; Weel ye ken I'm laith ti gae, But tha skirlin's a' tha skittles Ca's me oot to fight the fae. Is it red or white or blue? Do you feed it at the zoo? Whether fish or fowl or. beastie, Frankly, I don't know . . . do you? * ;* * Elliot Paul, American artist who turned writer in Spain (Life and Death of a, Spanish Town) has written a novel of industrial life in the United States, entitled The Stars And Stripes Forever. More accurately, it is an- other story of a small town, this time in. New England, the writer's own home. It will be reveiwed in an early issue of The Daily. They Worked For A Better World, Allan Seager's new book, is just off the press. (March 28). Mr. Seager, of the University of Michigan English department, re- lates in this little book the story of five people for whom the world was not good enough. Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emer- son, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Ed- ward Bellamy saw that America might be a better place to live in than mankind had ever known be- fore. Each created his ideal, "a blue- print of perfection," as Mr. Seager calls it. This is the story of America's highest hopes, and by no means a story with a tragic ending. For some of the ideals that once seemed dis- tant and unattainable are now as much a part of the country as the Constitution and corn-on-the-cob. We'll review it soon. Hillel To Hear S harfiman Prof. I. Leo Shariman, head of the economics department, will be guest speaker at the weekly Hillel Forum at 7:30 p.m. today in the Foundation. His subject will be "Racism and Democracy." Brilliant Short Story On Hitler, GermanvADDears In Book Form :hose who wanted to read it in entirety. The story is nothing new. It is its the ADDRESS UNKNOWN, by Kressman Taylor. Simon and Schuster. One dollar. By DAVID GROSSMAN "Address Unknown" is not a novel or a non-fictional study of Germany. It is just a short story. But it is not just another short story-it is the old, old story of one man's revenge perfect short story..It appeared first on another. But the sweetness of the in Story Magazine. The issue was sold revenge, the way the injured man off the stands in ten days. Walter "makes the punishment fit the Winchell called it the story of the crime," the deftness and skill with month. It was translated into several which the story was written, combine monh.It astrasltedino svealto make "Address Unknown" one of languages. The Readers' Digest print- the best books of the decade. ed an abridgement for its 3,000,0'00 The story, told as an interchange readers. 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