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P6. now fort M 74# rntAv*. £""ton ~ Didyoi byl Fuit Flévo tiy1 by Rds Nljinsky by Ro Hlot 0off. the Press I tffl ingashes of Pompeii at once inciner- qMba ated," says .Mr.. Lucas. 'There is, for GI!. 337 eample, -in one of thé bouses a wooden bWd hicb, had it been a t Pmei woul intanly aveperished. Yet here it is, daraged it is true, but'sufficiently intactfor any designer to:m a a replica. 4L "The wood of beains and,,stairs bas equally resisted the ages and.-nowv en- yclosed by glass, yl probahly for many R years ta corn testify to the excellence of .the 'old carpentry. Ma-rble sand bronze naturally, sufer less-if nde m, Miss -atadl-for; tbe.bronze at any'rate ac- quires vitb thé centurie s ,a richer patina, and you will se i the new-old Mooins.at lHercu laneum "leutiful work Re mkucw n both medimms1Icll to mind inpar- ticular the twôù marble tripod tables in F I b hunting groups, one witb such realistic Our treatinent of the heunds'. claws; while Dorb z.ame there, are several taIt bronze candie- sticks standing just where they stood ffl lunis wben the turbid overwhelming flood w WoIIett was loosed. B3ut niarble and bronze lu$ are expected to endure. More remark- éoet Cnraes able are the 'little stores of food, such as lentils, bread, and biscuits, whicb du ijbs&y were to have been eaten that day." region ses the iEmerald Biuaan.a, a small statue 'made entirely of emer- alds, and resting in a huge Buddhist temple. An unscrupulous Siamese merchant cast covetous eyes upon it, but before he can resolve to seize it, it is already stolen-and the trait leads directly into the amazing for-ý eign colony of Siami. With this book Elizabeth Morse, country once ruled by the Mongol warriors Genghis Kahn and Tamer- lane. a: A friend writes: 'Kisch is ahuost amyth in Central Europe. A fanious' journalist of prem-war ,Augtria,, he fliés today over the. face, of the earth like a will-o'-the-wisp, reporting the un- known, the astontishing, and the, sig- nificant in -a brilliant and. original style that bas earned him h ii of "The Kýing of Reporters.'r A spe- cialist. in crime, hie has solved one afttr another t ha t had baffied the official police. A student of the. ghetto of Prague, bis sketches of Îkt are classics the;re. A revolutionary who commanded the. troops. that seized Vienna after :the war, bie is today bunted by. H itler's' henchmen. A crack soccer player, the writer of famous comedies produced in the PfagZe thetar? * aboulevarder, man- about-town, be is the editor of a scholarly work called 'Classical Jour- nalism." He speaks German, Czech, Russian, Ukranian, H un ga r ia ni French, Englisb, Italian, and assorted dialects. He is a leading character in a novel by Franz Werfel. He knows thousands of important people al over Europe. He is a delightful raconteur-and can tallc for bours. He live the descendants of the Tartar warriors of long ago-the land of primitive Mongolians wba worship Allah and exist like the pastoral peoples of Biblical times. But no more. Each: of these regions i a, Soviet Republic today and each is undergoing a cultural, social, religious, and industrial metamorphosis, Kiscb spreads before aur eyes a colorful, human. panoramic view of the clash very welcçoxne news indeed. In this book, The Lark Legacy, Mrs. Risc bas lef tlber faniou : Cbbae. Patch and Ca rries , the reader to the pine-clad, surf-wvashed shore of Maine Here, Isobel Reed, an altruistic and' inisguided hostess, attempts to console an incongruous group of, relativeWho did not' share in her good fortune as beneficiaries of the Lark Legacy, And wbat a circus she' assembles.1!-deaf, talkative Cousin Ada; spoiled, beau tiful Mrs. Evans, bier two, childrén, and ber husband f rom, wbom she bas been estranged; Susie Bing,' a nurse ; and Richard Reed, a bandsone, cultivated hypochondriac. Isobel's intentions to- ward, these people are ail of, the best,. of course, but as the sto yProgresses the incorrigible Dan Cupidris introduced, and ber attempts at 'playing Providence corne perilously close to- playing the DeviLl- udeed, there enues a tangle of lives which is not 'wbolly unravelled ini the end. The whole story is writ- ten with skili, delicacy, and ligbt iron)y, and f rom it sonie very real charact'ers. emerge. Ninev.h Hou». ]Diana Patrick. Nineveh House was a relic of Tudor magnificence, and the great mystery undercurrent of- Diana Patrick's new uliillnizmisDSxthereader 15 re- cived in";to an English household to which the favorite son bas just brought homne bis bride, a girl of French bîood and different traditions. Nineveh House with its mystery is next door. The novel is pure. ro- mance, the story of how a young bride happened into surprising ad- ventures and unfolded the ancient mystery of Ninveh House. futm i MYAN~ ~JIL~ irnedov iments, ,e acoi I ueofas .,-..Jdecidedlycc >riul career-.