Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11

Interesting are the threads by which
the National Capital is being bound
to some of the new books appearing
at this time.
This is no new thing for Washing
ton, of course, which has been appear
ing in the news of the Nation since
the foundation of the city, and nat
urally has found its way into books
and magazine articles.
Nor would one seek to make capital
of the fact. in the manner of those
booming the home town, except in re-
lation to the lack of literary conscious
ness Of the city.
The average Washingtonian is the
last person IN the world to stop to
realize that there are published here
two magazines of tremendous Nation
wide circulation.
These magazines, each of which has
circulation in excess of a million
copies each issue, are the National
Geographic Magazine, a monthly, and
the Pathfinder, weekly, which claims
to have been the first news magazine.
The latter In January celebrated its
thirty-fifth successful year, and this
Summer has come out with its first
newsstand issue, after functioning in an
unpretentious manner for so long.
II there is any one in the United
States who has not heard of the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine he should
look up copy at once. Probably he
will find the latest, containing an ex-
cellent article and scores of illustra-
tions, written and taken by DR.. Brandes
of the Department Of Agriculture, con-
corning his adventures with savages
on the other side of the world.
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The first two installments of Grand
mother Browns Hundred Years" by
Harriet Common Brown. wife of the
chief of the United States Bureau of
Efficiency. have appeared in the his
toric Atlantic Monthly. The second
installment, in the September issue, is
now on the stands.
Here is a Washington woman Cat
least by adoption) who has turned
out the Atlantic prize biography of the
year. Perusal Of the two issues of the
magazine prove to the reader that the
award was merited. In supple, flowing
prose Mrs. Brown Is making a real
woman live before the eyes of her
readers.
The quiet, dignifed account OF
Grandmother Brown of the old days in
the great West gives a picture as in
tereSting as sincerity always is when
it embodies the power to entertain.
MIS-. DTOWI1, Tie dulHUT, appears 10 De
standing out of the way of her sub
ject. in permitting Grandmother Brown
to talk, but in reality she is directing
the gladstone. wholesome drama, for
such these articles are.
Those interested in the genuine gen.
ius and spirit of America, free from
the ,sordid, superficial trends which of
late years work to clog our national
and community life, will rejoice at the
vivid paragraphs showing what man.
ner Of men and women they were who
made this Nation what it is today.
1t is not such a far jump from a
work of this type to Hide in the
Dark" by Frances Noyes Hart, an
other Washingtonian, as might be sup
posed. This new detective story, latest
selection of the Crime Club, one of the
new-type bookselling organizations, is
built solidly on the same power OF
creating reader interest.
The author, daughter of a promi-
nent Washington family, after writing a
score of excellent short stories, came
into her first booklength with THE
Bellamy Case" based on a prominent
criminal trial. The real feat in this
book was in making readers interested
again in something which had been
hashed over at such great length in
the newspapers.