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...Shantung province. There he lived for 2½ years in the company of 1,500 other interned civilians, most of them British and American missionaries or traders. Out of his wartime experience, Gilkey, now a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has distilled a fascinating memoir called Shantung Compound (Harper & Row; $4.95) that is both a vivid diary of prison life and a theologian's mature reflection on the condition of man in times of stress...
This brisk, absorbing account of her experiences is anything but the sentimental memoir of sweet Charity. The children were often neurotic and always rebellious of any authority. German Jews looked down on Polish Jews; Orthodox Jews looked down on liberal Jews; French Jews looked down on everyone. Author Blackstock even had to fight antiChristianism among her Jewish confreres, who warily wondered why a goy should take an interest in their problems. She may have wondered herself when one orphanage director asked her, on Christmas Eve, to address the children on the meaning of Christmas, and then followed her talk with...
...Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been published in the U.S. for the first time...
...Baldwin hoped to lift his own popularity by dumping the extremely popular King, the Beaver, who himself was a compulsive intriguer, never quite made clear. His case that Edward was the victim of some sinister plot is weakened because the author makes obvious that he was also using the memoir to carry on a vendetta against some of his own enemies. Besides Baldwin, Beaverbrook was particularly harsh on Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the Times of London, which vigorously opposed the marriage. On a couple of occasions, the editor of Beaverbrook's manuscript, Historian A.J.P. Taylor, drops a footnote...
...Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China, love, art, the foundation, and inexhaustibly about herself. The result is her 70th book and her second memoir, which echoes the earnest and vaguely vatic tone of her first, A Bridge in Passing, published...