Briefly Noted

Professor of Physics and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sanford C. Brown '35 is editor of the Collected Worksof Count Rumford, born Benjamin Thompson, the practical scientist whose inventions have made life for millions more agreeable and healthy. In Volumes I and II ($10 each, published by Belknap, Harvard University Press) the writings have been arranged according to subject matter. The first contains his papers on the nature of heat and includes one never before published in English. In the second, of particular interest are his papers on the propagation of heat in liquids, chimney fireplaces, and the management of fire and the economy of fuel. Forthcoming volumes will contain papers on devices and techniques, light and armament, and public institutions.

The son of the 1902 Class Agent, Julius Arthur Brown, aged 88, who before retirement was for 40 years Professor of Physics and Astronomy and then Dean for many years of the American University of Beirut, Sanborn Brown is also the great-great- grandson of President Francis Brown 1805 and father of Stanley Wright Brown '67, an English major who received a citation for excellence from Professor Harry T. Schultz. Dean Brown has had fewer relatives attending Dartmouth, only 18, including three brothers, than learned articles, 101 at the last count, not including four books.

Theodor S. Geisel '25, better known as Dr. Seuss, author of the book How theGrinch Stole Christmas, is now even better known because CBS has adapted the book to TV. Or, rather. Dr. Seuss did the adapting. Chuck Jones of MGM was responsible for the animation; Albert Hague, the music. Boris Karloff lent to the Grinch his voice of baleful villainy. And so one heard: "There are termites in your smile ... and all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile." "You're a three-decker sauerkraut sandwich — with arsenic sauce." "You're as cuddly as a cactus. Your heart is full of spiders. You've got garlic in your soul." Plot: Old Grinch hates Christmas. "Roast beef is a feast I can't stand in the least." He hates noise and toys and boys, perhaps because his shoes hurt or his heart was two sizes too small. But he is won over, and Christmas becomes beautiful.

Though 40 years old, The Trumpeter ofKrakow by the late Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism at Dartmouth, continues to attract international attention. A British edition appearing in 1968 elicited this comment by Margery Fisher in the London Sunday Times: "The historically inclined should not miss Eric Kelly's tale of The Trumpeter of Krakow (Chatto and Windus, 18 shillings). Published in America as long ago as 1928, the book appears here for the first time. An unfinished trumpet tune (still performed from St. Mary's Church in the Polish city) has its origin in the fifteenth century, and the author uses the legend as basis for a story of a family's struggle to preserve an ancient treasure. There are still few historical novels to touch this one for the warmth and dignity of its prose and the skillful course of its action." Mrs. Kelly is now living at 11318 Duluth Ave., Youngstown, Ariz.

The translation by Gregory Rabassa '44 of The Green House from the Spanish of LaCasa Verde by Mario Vargas Llosa has been praised in the New York Times BookReview of January 12. A member of the Spanish Faculty of New York University, Alexander Coleman, writes, "The translation by Gregory Rabassa is, as always, luminous and transparent, the perfect mirror for the involuted and complex original." Winner of the Romulo Gallegas Award, the novel concerns the construction of a brothel in a Peruvian provincial town, its sensual appeal, success, decline, and eventual destruction at the hands of an outraged parish priest and his parishioners. The publisher is Harper & Row; the length, 405 pages; the cost, $6.95.

Published by the Massachusetts Correctional Association, 33 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, The Basic Structure of the Administration of Criminal Justice in Massachusetts has been prepared by a former Dartmouth psychology professor (1930-1937), Edwin Powers, Former Deputy Commissioner for Personnel and Training in the Massachusetts Department of Correction. The "Green Book," as this handbook is now known, first published in 1955 as an original 17page pamphlet, has undergone several revisions. The latest runs to 161 pages, double column, and is regarded as a useful and authoritative guide and working tool for lawyers, judges, law students, law enforcement officers, probation and parole personnel, the staffs of correctional institutions, and in. terested lay students. A member of the New York Bar, Mr. Powers, who also taught at Boston University and Harvard, is also author of Crime and Punishment in EarlyMassachusetts. In the introduction to the "Green Book," he expresses his deep in. debtedness to Henry J. Mascarello '36, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Correctional Association.

Saxton Fletcher '47 of 64 Sylvan Place, Longmeadow, Mass., is championing On theFiring Line by D. N. T., a reprinting of the best work by Darrell N. Toohey '26, the columnist and editorial writer on The Spring-field Union (Mass.). from 1936 to his death in 1961. Copyrighted by Mr. Fletcher and printed at the Pond-Ekberg Press of Spring- field, the volume, selling for $3.50, contains a picture of Toohey and runs to 106 pages. Paul F. Craig, former managing editor of The Springfield Union, in the preface describes Toohey as a gentle satirist with "a genius" for satirizing the foibles of society and goes so far in his praise as to rank him with Don Marquis and Franklin P. Adams. Saxton Fletcher's association with Toohey and his admiration for Toohey's speed and versatility began in 1954 when Saxton joined the Union's copy desk to which he came from stints on the Sanford (Me.) Tribune and the Southbridge (Mass.) Evening News.

A machine gunner in the Marines was wounded when the Second Division, AEF, helped to stop the enemy drive on Paris at Belleau Woods, July 2, 1918. Hit a second time nine days before the Armistice, he was hospitalized in the South of France and finally transported with a boatload of wounded across the Atlantic in the spring of 1919. The result? Carl Converse Colby '17 wrote a poem "Love Between the Lines," depicting the horrors of shrapnel, barbed wire, gas, smoke, cannon, pockmarked planes, "and dying and dead men. Now it appears with 34 others, mostly about Nature, in Latchkey Lines, a green paperback, privately printed by Love Printing Service Limited of Ottawa as a Golden Anniversary gift from his daughter, Margaret Colby Rand. She and her husband, Dr. C. G. Rand, were Professor Colby's students when he was on the faculty of Mt. Allison University, Sackville, N. B. Fresh from Harvard Graduate School, Carl Colby, teaching Spanish, substituted 1920-1921 in the Department of Modern Languages, Dartmouth College, for Warren Montsie '15 on sabbatical leave. Those were the days of Prescott Orde Skinner and Louis Henry Dow on the top floor of Dartmouth Hall. From 1929 to 1937 Mr. Colby was Professor of Romance Languages and Chairman of the Department of German at Mt. Allison. A charter member of the New Hampshire Poetry Society, now residing at 7 Lake St., Meredith, N. H., "latchkey to the White Mountains," he has been published in newspapers and magazines in New Hampshire and Florida.