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potpourri of mini -reviews
BY ELLEN STAFFORD
Those who enjoyed the BBC series on
television, Ascent of Man, with that
remarkable thinker, writer and performer
Jacob Bronowski, will be happy at the news
that a paperback version of Ascent of Man is
now available at 9.95. Ascent of Man,
Methuen, $9.05.
Another paperback, The People's Alman-
ac, by David Wallenchin;ky and Irving
Wallace, is a thick volume packed with
information about everything anyone needs to
know about everything. For 8.75 it tells you
what's really in ice cream and outlines
another theory to account for the Kennedy
assassinations, gives a brief history of the
automobile and lists the causes and courses of
most wars you may think of; a history of the
Olympic Games; a summary of the wills of
many famous individuals (Virgil, the Roman
poet, for instance, asked that his Aeneid be
burned: fortunately he thought better of it
before the time came to execute the will); a
round -up of natural disasters -- earthquakes,
fires and. floods, and an immense hoard of
useful information leavened with some
trivialities A sort of popular latter-day Book
of Knowledge nearly 1500 pages. People's
Almanac, Doubleday, $8.75
Harry J . Boyle's The Luck, of the Irish was
recently awarded the Leacock Medal for
Humour, an annual citation centered on
Leacock's old home on Brewery Bay, near
Orillia. Not yet in paperback, it's 9.95.The
Luck of the Irish, MacMillan, $9.95.
Leon Uris, author of Exodus and Q.B.V11,
has written another vast novel, Trinity
(S12.75). Set in Ireland, it chronicles with pity
and passion the lives of families in tragic
Ireland from the famine of 1840 to the Easter
Rising of 1916 It's a bitter yet colourful epic
that sheds light on the present-day
"troubles" plaguing a land famed for its
beauty, mourned for its problems. Trinity,
Doubleday,$12.75
The author of the best-selling Donnellys
Must Die, Orlo Miller, has moved a long way
off for the subject matter of his new book, The
Day -Spring (S10.00). Fascinated by ';,e
Central American legendary figure Quetzal-
coatl, through archaeological findings Miller
builds a theory linking European Christianity
with Central America centuries before
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Columbus. Citying evidence of Atlantic
voyaging in the first century of the Christian
era, this transatlantic connection, Miller
contends, influenced the religious develop-
ment of Mexico, and Central and South
America. This is a serious and provocative
book which the author hopes may stimulate
further research into the .legend of
Quetzalcoatl. Day -Spring, McClelland and
Stewart, $10.00.
The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford -
Howe, a dramatization of which is being
produced this season at Stratford, is available
in hard cover, puplished by Macmillain at
$7.95 or paperback from Avon at $1.50. The
book tells the story of one woman's decision,
suddenly, on receiving her first Old Age
Security Pension cheque, to look for herself,
to live in and for herself. After a lifetime of
patiently attending to the needs of a family
including a demanding and petulant
husband, she walks out, finds a cheap room
and herself. Some people find the play sad,
most find it heartening: it is thought-provok-
ing and an interesting read.
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