SWORDS AND ROSESJoseph HergesheimerKnopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars,...
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