_ lard FOR a long time we have been looking for a novel to grap- ple with the roots of the French-Canadian problem. Hugh MacLennan’s “Two Soli- tudes” (Wm. Collins and Sons) is such a one, for here is the story of two nations within one country during the years be- tween World War 1 and World War II. Here is the portrait of antagonism between Canadian . and Canadien, fostered by cus- tom, prejudice, the Church and Big Business, particularly the latter. Against this background is etched the story of Paul Tal- and Heather Methuen, who find that the love that grows between them is a sharp- ener rather than a solvent of the inherent prejudices that surround them until they dis- cover that ‘love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet one another’ and find in a common future a fusion of spirit. A major work by a major Canadian novelist. Suggested Reading The White Tower By | James Ramsey Ullman O the Alpine village of Kan- dermatt, where the White Tower raises a savage imme- sity of rock, snow and ice high above a war-torn Eurone came six oddly assorted people, each with a burning desire to climb the never conquered glacier Carla, the Viennese girl, find- ing refuge from a Nazi hus- band and the cruelities of An- schluss in neutral Switzerland; Paul DeLambre, ex-poilu, dille- tante; Martin Ordway, para- chuting from a burning bomb- er, Siegfried Hein, Werhmacht officer, convalescing from bat- tle fatigue sustained at Stalinyg grad; finding on the face of the mountain the reality that they all sought in death and de- feat and forever a rejection of the narrow -boundaries of isola- tionism and neutrality. Prim- arily a novel of ideas, it is also of the long climb up the face of. one of action, and the narrative the face of the Write suwer is as superbly exciting 2s the dis- criptive passages of the storms over the peak are beautiful. The Weli Tempered Listener By : Deems Taylor De you shudder when the radio blares “Till the End of Time” and. wish that there were a law against the vulgar- ization of Chopin’s Polonaise? You needn’t worry over the future of good music, says Deems Taylor in this informal book of music and musicians, the lives and times that influ- ence both, ‘Chopin will outlast the men who write the varia- tions and (stern stuff for the purists!) were Bach alive to- day, he might be writing boogie-woogie. A’ remarkable interpetation of the place of musicians and music in the life of to-day. Amateur, musician and those who like music but don’t know why -will find it en- tertaining stuff The Challenge of Red China By Gunthar Stein Written by the correspon- dent of the Manchester Guar- dian, this book is, one of the foremost of this fall’s non- fiction publications. New Masses pays it high tribute; in- deed, describes it as better in- formed and more ably reasoned than Forman’s “Report on Red China’? and much closer to the contemporary facts than Snow’s ‘Red Star Over China’ and as a guide to the current situation in China where Chiang Kai-shek is waging an undeclared war F'GOODNESS SAKE! WHATS THE MATTER WITH JOHNNIE? HE me PASSED BY AS IF HE DIDNT KNOW ME! HEY wHos THAT FOLLOW- IGREAT DAY! HE's GOING INTO THAT HOUSE-- AND SO'S HIS SHADOW! i MON PETITE! KNOW, BABE! YOU PUT THE FINGER ON Me! you! YOU OUGHT TO Y NOLYOU ARE WRONG , BELIEVE ME! "T HATE THEES MAN AND WHAT HE STANDS FoR! BUT YOU ARE TRAPPED, JOHNNES! HE WEEL KEEL THAT'S RIGHT, JONES! HANE YOLI ANY CHOICE LAST WORDS YOU'D A LIKE TO ORATE? SOCK ‘EM FOR BABY, CARL! KE IS THIS A PRIVATE PARTY OR CAN ANY- BODY CRASH IN? HERE'S YOUR )\ NICE GOIN, BON FRIEND /CHI-CHIf HOW'S THE / JOHNNEE! HOw DEED You LET YOURSELF GE Cc ARL 5 FEDERATED yor SHE WAS FOOLED INTO IT! THAT'S TRUE, CARL! PACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 10 WNWO..-§ NOT THE GIRL! \BO NOT PLEAD FOR ME, YANKEE! PAY FOR EET! TAKE ME TO JAIL! LISTEN, YOU TWO... IMIN A HURRY ,SO IF GOOPBYS AREIN ORDER, WILL LT EVER FINO—& THE GIRL iv MWY Mind? § THE Ove WHOS MY “EAL ic gy “9 ee { Z HAVE YOU SENT é Lf FOR MY PICTURE *) Sl YET? ALL YOu. 1] HAVE TO DO IS tcl] WRITE TO ME- a y ecsces "i y