Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
sDA GILBERT MYERS.

LION: African Adventures With the
author Of "Safari" Illustrated
New York: G.. p Putnam's Sons.
- OUNDS hot and fierce for Summer
reading, doesn't it? Anything
but, as once in 1t you will imme'
- diately see. Here is adventure
roomy as big slice of Africa 1t.
self; adventure whose purpose is a world
away from the vanity and nan-lusl
which from Nimrod down has sent
little fellows off to shoot big creatures
elephants, lions, tigers Here you nave
lion hunt whose distinct aim Is never
to kill the lion except in case OF imme-
diate and unacceptable danger to the
hunter Something different, you see
A load Of camera records is the objective
| in this adVenture-recordS to show the
great creature at home, looking after
food, family, protection. A fine
story-let us say that at once-a gallant
adventure, If there ever was one. Step
ping away from its page-by-page lure,
| there are three points that seem to me
| to be clearly overlapping. First, here is
an enterprise in which purpose and
means to meet it are eXpertly carried
out Nothing left to chance, nothing
overlooked For such adequacy alone
| LIE DOOk ID d lcoSOI W UuoulGoS do ouCLl.
| AS a consequence of this foresight Mr..
and Mrs. johnson live in the African
wilds in a comfort and tidiness that
bear directly upon the outcome Of the
undertaking itself. Again, here Is a
| clear blue ribbon case of teamwork. It
sounds like romance, an incredible one,
at that, to find pair-man and wife, If
| you please-who are unit in every
| possible situation and demand. This is
| a stirring feat that comes out here and
there in the course Of very engrossing
matters. Homage belongs right here
| toward this competent, alive pair OF
| humane manner camera records that
have already delighted and informed
| thousands about the natural life Of the
African lion, about his private life, SO
to speak. Another matter of prime i'm
| portance is that of sending the Boy
Scouts, three of them, to partake in the
adventure OF the Johnsons. A public
spirited thing to do. Almost everything
! is catching This adventure will be
From those three boys there will go out
stories and attitudes that will in time
have a softening effect on many boys
who are cruel toward the animal world.
| In million years from now, maybe,
| parents will think it important to steer
! their boys away from the entertainment
of abusing helpless things. These boys
are going to help. as the Boy Scouts
| everywhere are helping in many ways.
| The reading of this book is an en-
! grossment. Good sense, humor, an up
! to-the-moment attitude, enterprise, in
| telligence, gallantry-all woven into at
tractive story and episode-are here in
| splendid effect. Midnight will be but
the edge Of the evening once you set out
! with the JohnSons in quest Of the lion In
| Africa.
BLUE GLAMOR: Ports and Peoples of
the Mediterranean. BY Webb Wal
dron. Drawings by Marion Patton
Waldron. New York: The John
Day Co.
THE Mediterranean must be truly a
= wizard of lake. For no other part
OF the earth seems able to register so
variouSly to the thousands reporting
upon it as does this surprising sea.
Everybody coming away from it brings
a brand-new budget of pictures. These,
generally speaking, carry the same blue
glamor." But in mood and sun-Slant
| and wave-wash. in the special expert
ence that it offers. in the individual
adventure that it invites, in the per-
sonal recollectionS that 1t rouses-this
is truly rich and tickle and various
sea. So it proves in the case of these
two Waldrons, as it does in all the other
cases. You will like this pair, one TAX
ing notes, the other drawing pictures.
They appear to have all the time there
is. The book is soaked in leisure Stop
anywhere, to speak to this wayside man
or child, to look at this unheralded
view, at this unadvertised bit of
ancientry. You like that, too, for 1t
side-steps routine, shakes its head in
denial when anything like a conductor
appears. Just Saunters along, pretty
much around the whole wide stretch OF
waters from East to West, making an
easy loafing time of Egypt and Greece
of Italy and the coast of Africa over
across. Strange islands, many. bow to
them and hanging hill towns give them
welcome. Plain people respond, always
SO pleasantly, to their greetings. There
are many Of these and they are so
worth while all along the picturesque
! climbing ways of this delectable Jour-
ney. Information, substantial and au-
| thentic? Oh, no end Of it for the canny
| travel reader who wants to get his
moneys worth. Spirit and apprecia-
ton and poetry for the wastrel who
never counts facts but is all for charm
and lure? Plenty of this, too. The
| pictures will delight you. And the
| The humor, the easy neglect toward
comfort. the full measure of experience
will make you vote for this book of
travel in glamorous region by these
englamored Waldrons.
| n X X
THE SIX MRS. GREENES. BY Lorna
Rea. New York: Harper & Bros.
MOT so many kinds of wife and
mother, after all. Despite the mil
lions of these by individual count, they
classified, settle into few convenient
groups that, for good or otherwise, pref
ty nearly dominate the important foun-
dationS of existence For instance,
| these Mrs. Greenes, six of them, pro-
vide the pattern upon which the major
ity of wives and mothers have been
| fashioned. Not that Mrs. Rea's purpose
is to supply the reader with an identifi-
cation tag for herself. She is far too
wise for that. Instead, she has written
fresh story on commonplace situa-
ton by way of clear insight, a keen
sense of human behaviors in their ts-
Sence and origin, and turn for the
drama of daily routine. BY use of the
Greene combination this author has Sc
cured room to move about freely One
family is hopeless handicap for any
sincere author, too much of a feticd,
swaddled in tradition, sentiment, cow
ardice, hypocrisy-all wholesome, no
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