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Steinbeck novel  \nA Double Selection  \nTHE  \nSHORT REIGNOF PIPPIN IV  \nby John Steinbeck  \nWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BYWILLIAM PENE DU BoIS  \nandTHE  \nBRAINTREEMISSION  \nby Nicholas E.Wyckoff  \nEDITORIAL BOARD:John Mason Brown·Basil DavenportClifton Fadiman·Gilbert Highet·John P.Marquand  \nHE five judges of the Club all came in to theirI last meeting delighted with these two shortnovels—one by a great established name,the otherby a newcomer—and promptly decided they wouldmake an excellent double selection for members.While the novels are poles apart in subject matterand style,they have one thing in common.Oneembroiders gaily upon present-day events,the otherimaginatively upon the past,to heighten the sense ofthe underlying actualities of history.Mr.Steinbeck'sbook is really a parody upon French politics...“filledwith farcical situations and studded with epigrams...a free-wheeling satire...that rare find,a book ofhumor that is also a book of ideas.”Mr.Wyckoff'snovel goes back to the American Revolution,and isdescribed as \"faultless in the beautiful precision ofits style...in its quiet humor...in its neat,vividportrayal of two cultures...and particularly in itsunderstanding of the origins of the American spirit.”  \nOn the front cover:Detail from CHRIST BEARING THE CRoss by an unknown Flemish painter (see page 12 for description)  \nThe Short Reign of Pippin IV  \nREPORT BY Basil DavenportIF I WERE KING,the title of thenovel on which The Vagabond Kingwas based,is a phrase that sums up  \none of the universal fantasies.Who  \nis there who has not said to himself,when young and foolish or confident,\"If they'd just let me run this country,I'd show them how it ought to bedone”?It is this which gives its perennial fascination to the theme of Kingfor a Day—the beggar waking to find himself caliph,the ConnecticutYankee risen to be Boss of all England,the commoner suddenly investedwith royalty.  \nA Frenchman who has kingship thrust upon him is the subject of JohnSteinbeck's new book,which is filled with farcical situations and studdedwith epigrams.It may be called an extravaganza,a free-wheeling satire;but like all good satire,it has a serious and even a sad subject—in this case,the perennial difficulties of the French in establishing a stable government.Mr.Steinbeck takes us to a conference of French party leaders(held,presumably,at some time in the immediate future)where,when all the otherparty leaders have talked themselves hoarse,the Royalists have a chance tomake themselves heard.And once they listen to the Royalists,all the otherparties begin to think that royalism may have something in it for them.The Communists decide that monarchy is the natural starting point forrevolution;the Socialists,that a king would keep the Communists in check;and so with all the rest.The Radical Conservatives,the ConservativeRadicals,the Right Centrists,the Left Centrists,the Christian Atheists,the Non-Tax-Payers'League—to mention just a few of 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