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Bach: Piano Pieces (Pianist Grace Castagnetta; Victor; 8 sides) and The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach (a book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with...
...Hawaii feel that the review (TIME, July 8) of Hendrik Willem Van Loon's volume, The Story of the Pacific, does a rank injustice to the people of these Islands, once known as the Sandwich Isles, and to their forefathers...
...Says Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon to TIME: "It's you who are in Dutch, not me." But though he did not mention cannibalism, Author Van Loon believes that, like other primitive peoples, the Sandwich Islanders customarily ate the heart, liver and eyes of people whom they killed, did so to Captain Cook. Reason: thereby they hoped to gain the virtues of their victims...
...STORY OF THE PACIFIC-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Harcourt, Brace...
...Hendrik Willem Van Loon is a big, cheerful, childlike Dutchman with a flair for historical baby talk. He illustrates his genial versions of the horrors of human history with squiggly, screwy pen-&-ink drawings; spices them with amiable prejudices (sample prejudices: against Bushmen, missionaries, Painter Paul Gauguin). In 1921 Author Van Loon hit his historical stride with The Story of Mankind. Last week he confined himself to The Story of the Pacific...