Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-20
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS
Volume of the Speeches of President Cooidee-Th Philip
pines as a Treasure and Problem"-The
New Balkans and Korea.

this point is Mr.. Armstrong; study
or the Balkan region in it's political
aspects since the World War. From
the personal advantage point of Mill
tary .Attache at Belgrade, coupled
with a wider outlook as managing
editor of Foreign Affairs" the au-
thor here takes the Balkans apart.
so to speak. in order TO examine
carefully and to test as thoroughly
as possible each OF it's divisions
What is the racial unity of each?
What is the consensus of political
ideal and theory OF each? What
dangers threaten each from within
and what menace broods from with
out? What possible lasting agree
ments wait upon the various state
disputes, so acrimonious and oh
stinate? State by state such points
as these are examined in an outlook
that is characterized by fair-minded
appraisal and fulT information To
support such appraisal. The whole
rounds to an interesting and illumi
mating study of the present situation
I'm the Balkans. to summing OF
certain probable results. and to the
decided conclusion that the Balkans.
like other new states, will grow 20
unity and strength by their own
efforts toward cooperation and by a
staunch and united resistance against
interference based clearly upon sell
fish ends.
WILD GOSLINGS. BY William Rose
Benet, author of THE First Person
Singular" etc. New York: George
III. Doran Co.
A KIND OF human fiypaper. AS
n he I. q Itttla Mi Of
everything sticks to him. Then when
he gets home he picks off this and
that and the other fragment from his
person. And. laughing all the time,
he talks to the scrap on his sirupy
finger, or talks about it I'm a joyously
delightful way. Not much OF any
thing. the subject you know-"Just
Cats" maybe, or up in the Air" or
1.-THE Ten Worst Books" you get
nothing at all from this, only nonsense
where you hoped to have lots Of writ
ers scalped and left dead In their
tracks, or Gods Zoo (verse this, and
quite darlingl or--or anything at all,
rather hundreds Of things that have
stuck to this anbulatory young man.
Yet, despite the gaiety, the incense
quense, the open hand for topics of
every imaginable sort. the motley of
the whole, no order, no instruction. no
take,or-leave-it dictum-in spite of
general and quite damnable fiippancy
here is a joy of a book to laugh out
at you in a spare minute or so when
you need a reviving glass of some
thing. Here 1t is-the best we can do
these days, and quite good enough at
+that-any amount of companionship.
of real opinions, of rather discomfort
ing insight once in a while, OF suave
tricks of persuasion. and, above all, of
sincere joy in his own handicraft with
words. One remembers Cabell. who 80
often reverts with something like rev.
erence to the business of getting all
the lovely words together just right"
X
MONSIEUR. BY George Challis, au-
thor, of 1.-THE Splendid Rascal"
Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co.
A ND the author said. "I'll make
a monster. and with but the change
of a letter or so I'll name him Mon
sieur'' So that is what he did. And
here you have that very thing. One
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