Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

one Oh the prime preOccupa-
tons of mankind. Again has
~ the human become a true
nomad, moving from place to
place, not in quest of forage for his
f1ocks but rather in search of Satisfac-
tons for an uneasy spirit, of easements
for an outflaring soul. And today how
amazing are the encouragements toward
! adventure, how winning the. wiles of
Vagrancy. Sails and wings and wheels
indeed, every sort of mechanical in
vention-cOnspire to lead man away
into the far corners Of the earth, look
ing for himself, the elusive self that is
forever just around the corner beckon-
ing to him, hallooing to him, Here you
are. Come find yourself" Every sort
of pretext, or no pretext at all, is
enough to set the wheels to turning
the wings to soaring in pursuit Of the
great adventure of the individual ego
Game hunting for the good of educa-
ton CD, digging up old civilizations to
show us where we, too, are going, diving
into the depths of the earth for the
wealth lying therein, or under the sea
to read the life that thrives there in
such splendid adaptation-or just go
Ing for fun and frank enough to own
up to that as the only inducement-
these and other pretexts keep the grand
way. Here is a particular one Of the
Migrants that we all are:
ENDS OF THE EARTH. BY Roy
Chapman Andrews, author of "On
the Trail of Ancient Man." ETC.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
A ND what is this mans reason for
: gathering in the very ends Of the
earth? Why, Roy Chapman Andrews
is scientist with exploration as his
energizing purpose. So, as matter of
course, he takes to travel. China
Japan, Borneo, Mongolia-all Asia, in
fact-become the exploring field Of one
who Is nothing less than born adven-
turer. This book will prove to you, If
you want proof, that Mr.. Andrews
couldn't have been anything but just
this. world-wanderer. On whaling
ships for 10 years, learning the whales
by their first nameS-Moby Dick and all
the others: finding out the ways of life
among them, how they manage their
own particular economy of existence
Why. they actually play, whales do, and
make love and get married and have
children and die and-not so different
from the rest of us. So Roy Chapman
Andrews makes perfectly clear in these
stirring tales Of his. Once, between
| whalings, he lived in q Chinese temple
that he remodeled to the plan of house
keeping, and many times he went on the
longest and most astonishing hunting
| trips into the interior of Asia, bringing
therefrom as trophies Of his good faith
and skill as modern Nimrod animals
OF strange appearance and clearly
strange ways of life. Contributions to
science, these. However, If there had
been nothing at all to go for, no speci-
nc errand, this man would have gone
just the same because, you see, his body
and soul were keyed to adventure, had
been no doubt hundreds of years be-
fore he made definite appearance upon
earth. That which concerns us here is
that Roy Chapman Andrews is as good
story teller as he is traveller. An ad-
venture leaps right into the middle of
itself and is of, both ways, in a truly
electric method of delivering itself over
to the reader. A hundred pictures, al
most a hundred, excellent and often
really beautiful, help in the bodily
transfer OF this adventure from the ad-
venturer himself to us who, for the mo-
ment, appear to be settled for the read
ing OF most spirited and most COM
municable book wherein unusual hap
penings and a big body of useful in
formation keep us racing from page to
page in an engrossment of interest.
FORESTS AND MANKIND. BY
Charles Lathrop Pack and Tom CHI
Illustrated. New York: The Mac
MILAN Co.
81 ISN'T the forest situation in Amer
lea something fierce? Sure. we're
cutting and burning too fast; something
ought to be done about It, Wonder
what salary Babe Ruth will draw
down next year?" Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the American For
estry Association, and Tom Gill have
elaborated in issuing a most readable
and lookable little volume titled as
above, which tells the whole story to
those who know something ought to be
done about it, but aren't quite sure
what. 1t Is replete with facts, figures,
interesting Illustrations and, above all,
pithy diagrams which show things at
a glance. Not only forests but forest
products are discussed, while the sci
ence OF forestry receives marked atten-
ton as regards its relations with eco
Monies, with agriculture, with water
power and with sport. AS in many
other books of many other sorts, the
Ahead" is the most interesting. 1T
requires no great gift of prophecy to
tell which way a man is headed who
spends five times his income" is its
opening sentence. The remedy, or
rather remedies, are presented, but
Already we have waited overlong,"
point out the authors. I'VE cannot de-
lay until the forests are exhausted and
remedy the situation overnight, or in
few years or even decades. If we
started full spead ahead today. there
would still be a time of privation, q
time of suffering from insufficient for
ests. 1t is important that we delay no
longer with a program that, sooner or
later, we must carry out. "-R. M. K.
ALAS, QUEEN ANNE" BY Beatrice
Curtis Brown. illustrated. Indian
apolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
IN one of DUNES inimitable Mr.
= Dooley stories the Sage of Archey
Road tries to take credit for all the ac-
complishmentS of the age of Queen
Victoria, his precise contemporary
When reproached by Mr.. Hennessey for
his presumption, he declares that he
had had about as much to do with 1t
all as had the Queen. Beatrice Curtis
Brown, in her introduction to ALAS,
Queen Anne" admits practically the
same thing about that stout monarch
and her glittering epoch. In fact, after
reading this introduction one Is at FIRST
HlCLAiOu " "OAANSA JuoV WHY hAS auIAlOt,
after explaining the situation, did no.
stop right there and decide to let the
sketch 60 unwritten. Yet as one goes
on through the pages ones interest in
and admiration for this almost perfect
specimen of feminine obstinacy is slow
" aroused. Poor old Anne-she wasn't
really old at all, having died at Soto
use modern phraSeology, didn't know
what 1t was all about" One becomes
sorry for her. impatient with her and
yet at the same time admires and al
most envies her absolutely marvellous
muliShness. The reader gets to think
ing more Of her, more and more as the
tender, devoted wife who nursed SO low