Page 6 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 26, 1964 Histories of Rome, U.S. Are on New Book Lists A SHORT HISTORY OF ROME, MONARCHY AND REPUBLIC, by Guglielmo Ferrero and Corrado Barbagallo (2 vols., Capricorn, $1.95 each). This work appeared in 1918, written originally for teachers and more advanced students in colleges and universities. The writers set out to provide a main outline of the history of Rome, stressing the most significant events and individuals. Vol. 1 treats the 754 B.C.-44 B.C. period, Vol. II that of 44 B.C.-476 A.D. This roughly, means the foundation of the city to the death of Caesar in the first volume and the death of Caesar to the fall of the western empire in the second. Ferrero and Barbagallo tell the story of the beginnings of Rome, a commercial village on Tiber, its development and rise to dominance in the ancient world, and then the grandeur of the Roman civilization and its eventual downfall. THE NEW NATION, by Charles M. Wiltse (American Century, $1.75); FABRIC OF FREEDOM, by Esmond Wright (American Century, $1.75); THE STAKES OF POWER, by Roy F. Nichols (American Century, $1.75; all three available in cloth, $4.50). With historian David Donald as general editor, the American Century series has embarked on a new set of books, "The Making of America." These three embrace more than 100 years of American history, "Fabric of Freedom" considering the 1763-1800 period, "The New Nation" 1800-1845, and "The Stakes of Power" 1845-1877. The authors are distinguished; Esmond Wright is professor of modern history at the University of Glasgow; Charles M. Wiltse chief historian of the Army Medical Service, and Roy F. Nichols dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences and vice-provost of the University of Pennsylvania. "FABRIC OF FREEDOM" deals roughly with that period including the American Revolution and the birth pangs of the new republic. Wright treats the emergence of American nationality when the United States was a feeble and struggling nation, one which had fought, in Wright's belief, 13 separate revolutions for independence. Wright demonstrates that the new nation which came into being in the 1790s was one that maintained some semblances of inequality but also one which believed every man had rights and responsibilities. "It was a society of free individuals, standing on their own feet, on native ground." "The New Nation" presents the ages of Jefferson and Jackson and the beginnings of the sectional rift. This era considers the new alliance of southern agrarians and northern city bosses, the start of the fight against slavery, the triumph of laissez-faire capitalism and the opening of the West. IN 1845, WHERE WILTSE ends his story, the nation was flexing its muscles, orators and editorial writers were speaking of manifest destiny, and a war of conquest was about to be fought. In "The Stakes of Power," Roy Nichols, who has written previously of the Civil War, describes the steps leading to war, war itself, and the unsettled America of early reconstruction, the America which in the election of 1876 almost burst again into armed conflict. This latter book won an Athenaeum of Philadelphia book award in 1961. All three books, by the way, have excellent bibliographical essays. AFTER THE LOST GENERATION, by John W. Aldridge (Noonday, $1.45). Literary concerns in recent years have been largely with important figures of the twenties. That is why this criticism, which appeared more than a decade ago, and then was brought up to date to include later persons, received such attention, and why it deserves further attention today. the writers of the forties, and reconsiders earlier writers who still were producing in that period. The old-timers he treats are Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos, paying particular attention to "The Last Tycoon." "The Grand Design" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Aldridge discusses in this book But the focus then shifts to recent names. These include what Aldridge terms the "illusionless lads of the Forties"—Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and so on. Aldridge considers how the postwar novel has become a vast panorama of war, an analysis of the racial question, a treatment of the loss of identity, a dealing with conflicts in cultures or the homosexual in society. INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF THE MOVIES, edited by Lewis Jacobs (Noonday—Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, $1.95). For several decades, aficionados of the movies have known the name of Lewis Jacobs. This is an excellent paperback original which Jacobs has compiled from some of the best writing done on the movies since the early silent period. The scope here is broad, and eclectic, dealing with artistic analyses and also glowing appreciations. These articles are by people who have enjoyed the film. There are some important and well-remembered names here. The authors include Dudley Nichols, the great screen writer of "Stagecoach" and "The Informer"; Dwight Macdonald, the critic; Vachel Lindsay, once a critic himself; Gilbert Seldes, celebrated viewer of all the lively arts; Kenneth MacGowan, one-time film producer and late teacher of film technique; Hollis Alpert, critic for Saturday Review; James Johnson Sweeney, famed critic of the past, and Sergei Eisenstein, the Russian film genius. THE INDIAN AND THE WHITE MAN, edited with an introduction by Wilbom E. Washburn (Doubleday Anchor, $1.95). This is a splendid paperback original, one of three to launch Anchor Books' Documents in American Civilization. It is a huge book, one that should interest all students of American studies, no matter what their disciplines may be. Wilcomb E. Washburn carries strong credentials as editor of the volume. He has vast academic experience, and is curator of the Division of Political History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He also, obviously, loves Indian lore, and this is a book of real treasures. First, the illustrations. We see Amerigo Vespucci and the primitive Indian woman of America, several views of Pocahontas, an Iroquois mask, Shem Drowne's Indian weather vane, the Paxton boys massacring Indians, Joseph Brant as portrayed by Gilbert Stuart, captured whites, Custer at the Little Big Horn, two views of Geronimo, Edward Hicks' primitive painting of Penn and the Indians, Red Jacket's medal, heroic portraits of plains Indians, Sequoyah, Horatio Greenough's "Rescue Group," and others. THE DOCUMENTS THEMSELVES RANGE from accounts of the earliest white-Indian encounters to the "Declaration of Indian Purpose" prepared at the American Indian Conference in Chicago in 1961. There would be no purpose in trying to list all the writers represented here. But a few are of particular relevance. Columbus tells of meeting the Indians, as does Cartier. There are the stories concerning John Smith, Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Franklin, Jefferson and John Adams all knew the Indian well; they are in this book. John Cotton gives Puritan justification for dispossession of the Indian, and our pioneer novelist, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, comments on the "animals, vulgarly called Indians." Marshall's decision in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia is here, and Theodore Roosevelt decries the pro-Indian sentimentalists. Cadwallader Colden writes of the fur trade. Franklin describes the marauding Paxton family. Captain Eugene Ware, Kansas' own "Ironquill," writes about the Indian wars of a century ago. Henry Adams tells how that Indian fighter, William Henry Harrison, attained fame. The explorer John Wesley Powell is in these pages, as is that eminent modern-day spokesman for the Indian, John Collier. There is, finally, a section on the Indian and literature. 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