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New Books May Prove
To Be Best Smellers
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK Now you can buy
a bonk that smells.
That doesn't mean a book condemned by the critics, but Just
what it says, a book that smells
mpposrdly good.
hooks
There have been pop-u- p

for youngsters with a
effect between the pajr.es, and
"feel" books with pictures of, say
rabbits with real fur which a child
can rub.
At last it's the turn of adults.
1hy have attended the movies
tailed Aromarama. with approjiri-nt- e
smells blown into the theater.
They pet in the mail perfumed
advertising matter from department stores. Today they are hearing sweet news of another sort:
"Monarch Hooks announces its
process for
new prrfume-o-book- s
its paperbound books."
II you hked buyinu b:o's for
the Jacket colors that matched
our liviiifcroom design, you can
dor
now net yourself m (jood
with visitors by having books with
the lip lit smell.
The day is here when you can't
tell a bookstore from a drugstore,
or a bookshelf from a windowbox.
Monarch has started with an
infusion f a Chanel 5 type per- -'
fume, it says, on three novels made
from movies: "The flnemy General." by Dan Pepper, based on the
movie starring Van Johnson and
restarting Jean Pierre Aumontand
Dany Carrel; The Stranglers of
Bombay," by Stuart James, based
on the movie starring Guy Rolfe;
and "The Brides of Drarula," by
Dean Owen, originating in a technicolor item.
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"Huckleberry Finn." Mark Twain;
"So Red the Rose." Stark Young;
"Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell;
"Bitter Lemons." Lawrence Dur-rel- l;
"Vile Bodies," Evelyn Waugh.
"You'd naturally know what to
do with "The House of the Seven
Gables," unless you're forgotten
the name of the author.
We'll go into bookstores with
these requests:
"I want a book for an old aunt
but she's allergic to Jasmine."
"Something for an invalid, but
not too strong, please."
"Have you got 'Advise and Consent in sandalwood?"
Rose is for "Rose is a Rose
is a Rose is a Rose," by Gertrude
Stein; and inevitably. "Rosemary,
that's for 'Remembrance of Things
Past.'" by Marcel Proust.
There are petunia, heliotrope,
and cinnamon Just waiting; to have
books done for them.
Sex appeal will change to scents
appeal, and we shall read about
caught in fragrant
offenders
delicto.
A man with his nose in a book
will have reason for it.
Books will be printed in an
olfactory, and there will be the
usual lists of "the best smellers
of the year."
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jotnt of the novel, the smooth
equation of life nnd death and.
youth and age, as seen in th.)
deaths of Nathan's mother and hi.;
grandfather, which oppose Nathan's own youth and life. Tho
equation is extended to include
the cycle of the seasons, the plant
ing and harvesting of crops, and

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the death and rejuvenation o'
nature. "It sounded as if people':;

bodies were like seeds and could
grow up into trees after they we: ?
dead, and maybe those trees ha'1
skulls on them instead of apple
or pears," thinks Nathan at or.j
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seems somehow regrettable for V
inclusion, it is the occasional weul.
attempts at humo:
and
Though there are some genuine
passages here and then ,
but one is more struck, and ui
favorably so, by the presence ( f
incidents intended to be humor
ous which result in mere slapstic :.
One such incident occurs in a
d
passage concern
ing Uncle Burley and his.sche'r'
to make money at the fair wi? i
some ducks. Another episode tb:, ,
is hardly acceptable deals with th
same Uncle Burley who causes the
game warden to be guilty of dyna
miting fish in the river, when
is about to arrest Burley for th
same thing.
Another reason why local readers will find Berry's novel worth
while reading is that much of th?
material in the book will be fa:..
iliar. because it originally appean
in the campus literary magazi:
Stylus, as short stories while Ben.
was a student at UK. At lea. ;
three episodes in the novel f,: ;
only slightly modified from th' l:
original version as stories ; l
Stylus.
Weldell Berry was graduate
from the University of Kentuc' y
in 1956. He earned a Master's Degree in English here in 1957. a.
for a year he was an instruct
Georgetown College, before
to Stanford University in California on a writing fellowship.

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ill-tim- ed

AUTHOR WENDELL BERRY

to
a line is evident in the
following description of a tombstone, as it impresses Nathan:
"The angle on top of the monument had his wings spread as if
he were about to fly down and
write the rest of our names in the
blank spaces."
Although the setting of the story
is a localized area, that of the
Kentucky burley tobacco land, it
cannot be accused of being a "regional" novel because what this
story has to say is as universally
significant as Catcher In The Eye
or Huckleberry Finn, if not now
quite as original.
Time stands still for no one, as
Nathan Coulter must discover. Life
is a cycle of birth and death, of
meetings and partings, and all
people are a part of the cycle and
are inevitably involved in all of its
rotations.
And this Is another very strong
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Gurney Norman is a UK grad-

uate student of English from
Hazard, Ky. He has recently been
awarded the Stegner Fellowship
in Creative Writing at Stanford

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University, Calif., which Berry
held last year.

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Readers locally who remember
Wendell Berry as n UK student
three years ago will be able to appreciate his first novel, Nathan
Coulter, on several accounts.
The first of these is simply because the book is good. The editors, in their customary message
to the reader on the dust Jacket,
have not exaggerated this time
when they say: "Nathan Coulter
will stay with you for a long time,
because it has in a high degree
those things that make a good
novel: characters you believe in,
a story that carries you along, an
illumination of life and prose of
a distinguished quality."
Especially does Nathan Coulter
contain characters you believe in,
which Is the strongest recommendation for the novel.
The story concerns Nathan, a
teen-ag- e
farm boy bewildered by
new forces of life that act upon
him as he grows older.
The other characters are mostly
members of his family, his brother
Tom who matures and breaks the
close boyhood ties with Nathan;
the father whose sternness approaches extreme bitterness over
the death of his wife and the departure of Tom from home; the
Uncle Burley who refuses to have his romantic spirit
contained by either wife or property; the grandfather who must
watch himself die, plus friends of
the family who help illuminate
the principle characters.
The theme of Nathan Coulter is
a familiar one, that of the adolescent boy brought to a new maturity by a series of significant
experiences that forever separate
him from his childhood, and which
introduce him into an adult world
where he sometimes despises even
himself.
Berry's prose is effective because
of its simplicity and plain honesty.
He achieves amazing things in impressing the reader with the sensitivity of young Nathan.
The same power that often
stops the reader and leads him
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Monarch puts the odor on the
Jacket Just after the four-colprinting process has been completed, and expects it to last many
months.
It intends to use a special
saddle-leathscent for westerns,
floral odors for
books, and bacon, beef, chocolate,
vanilla, thyme, basil, and whatnot for cookbooks.
But the possibilities are unlimited. They could use brimstone
on the current best seller railed
"The Devils Advocate," and lily
for hymnbooks and catechisms.
Gardenia would be Just right
for Ronald Dahl's "Kiss Kiss."
now give your own ideas about
such titles as these:
"Inhale and Exhale," William
Saroyan;
Peter Whiffle." Carl
Van Vethten; "Cakes and Ale."
"Daisy
W. Somerset Maugham;
Miller." Henry Janus; "The Good
Earth," Pearl Buck; "The Grapes
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