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Non-Fiction

THE VOICES OF THE CATHEDRAL--Sartell Prentice--Morrow ($3.50). With the animated scholarship that distinguished his rich interpretation of church architecture (The Heritage of the Cathedral), the late Dr. Prentice here analyzes church art in terms of its living background, clearly deciphers many an obscure iconographic symbol. His thesis: that church art. most inspired in medieval Gothic, thereafter declined to ornamental gibberish because "there was no longer a body of tradition everywhere respected upon whose wings an artist might rise to heights far beyond his own capabilities."

SOME STILL LIVE--Frank G. Tinker Jr. --Funk & Wagnalls ($2.50).

Aviator Tinker, U. S. Navy-trained, flew a fighting-plane for the Spanish Leftists for seven months, earned his $1,500 a month by bringing down eight ships, quit when there was nobody left in his Russian squadron to whom he could talk. He had only one mishap: once when tight he was shot off a bicycle by a Civil Guard whom he almost ran down. His verdict on his foes: "The German pilots were very evidently the best-trained pilots in Spain. . . . If the German pilots had had the equipment that the Italian pilots had, there would have been an entirely different story-after each dogfight."

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