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...WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of two children and a malevolent pursuer, was told with controlled passion. Now in The Watchman, Grubb has pulled out all the stops, piled terror on madness, disaster on helplessness. The book is a mixture of poetic rage against cruelty in man, a song in praise of physical love...
...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
...work as a columnist. It was a good pick. She had written brilliant copy for her own cream, and she did even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor old Bert Ayer's unpaid tabs before he died. And. some say, holding his hand...
...massive destruction and toward throwing a bridge between different countries." Dr. O. Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, told the meeting that "experimental tests of nuclear weapons should be discontinued, limited or controlled." His plea was solidly backed by Sir Kenneth Grubb of London, Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Dr. Martin Niemoeller, president of Germany's Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau. "As early as 1954," said Niemoeller, "the Pope pointed to the dangers to mankind in the genetic effects of radiation. The churches want to know what the World Council...
When Davis Grubb's first novel, Night of the Hunter, appeared in 1954, readers were charmed by the author's mastery of a style and tone somewhere between fairy tale and neo-naturalism. Animality and unreality existed side by side, both clarifying and obscuring one another. The unique nature of the narrative--which concerned two children fleeing from a satanical fortune-hunter--caused some readers to suspect that Grubb could not duplicate this style and tone in another narrative situation. A Dream of Kings, Grubb's second novel, shows that his style (and the particular response it provokes...