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...PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward-Farrar &Rinehart ($2.50). The Civil War, a rich mine of historical romance with plenty of still untapped veins, is beginning to be reworked again. Taking as his subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
...Peter Ashley, scion of one of Charleston's first families, had no wish to be a planter. His skeptically intelligent uncle adopted him, developed his doubts, protected his sensitiveness, sent him to Oxford to finish his education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform...
...Ashley Dukes, the author, conceived a subtle theme. The program pointedly indicates "Time: Summer 1800." This of course, is the tip-off. England at that moment was discarding the last cluttering tentacles of monarchy under the insane George III, and feeling the strength of democracy, peeking over the shoulder of France, so to speak, in order to learn a few more of the battle cries of freedom. A nobleman, Hugh Buckler; with his man, John Buckler; and one of the Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here...
Died. Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 76, hymn writer & composer; of a decline begun by his wife's death last year; in Hollywood. Associated with E. O. Excell, William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Sam Jones and Professor J. H. Kurzenknabe in hymn-publishing, he composed "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart...
Converse College (Spartanburg, S. C.) Mary Vardrine McBee, principal of Charleston's socialite Ashley Hall Litt.D...