Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By The Bookiopsr

! has written series Of books on re-
organized world boundaries called TIE
| New Map of Europe" THE New Map OF
| Africa" The New Map OF Asia and
| THE New Map of South America" The
books are partly geographical, but even
more concerned with international Tela-
tions. In the latest volume. each coun-
try of South America is given chap
ter and there are additional chapters
on "The Background Of the South Amer
lear Republics" 1.-THE Question OF the
Pacific" Islands Under European Con.
troll 1.-THE Monroe Doctrine" and
! with each South American country,
much information Is given about size,
population, contour, commerce, history,
politics and relations with other couri-
tries in both the Eastern and Western
/ Hemisphere.
! The A B c powers, Argentina, Brazil
and Chile, are shown as rapidly devel-
oping into world powers. I'm friend
/ ly but persistent way Argentine diplo-
macy has been asserting the great
power attitude for more than 80 years.
The Argentinians are willing TO
yield points to us If We yield points to
them. Equals In diplomacy are bar
gamers. Argentina contests the hegem-
ony of the United States throughout
| the Western Hemisphere, and II she
defends others as well as herself from
the pretensions of the Colossus OF the
| North it is because she does not want
us to have everything our own way.
Brazil, the first South American courl-
| try to offer opportunities for European
| colonization, has, as DR.. Gibbons sees
it, brilliant future. 1t is nearest OF
all the countries to the Old World. AT
the time Of this writing Rome and
| Madrid are both announcing dlrec.
/ service by air to Natal, and say that
| they will deliver letters in Rio de
Janeiro in less than three days, So the
world is moving" In spite OF Natures
niggardly treatment of Chile. in giving
her only a narrow strip OF fertile land
between the Andes and the Pacific,
| Chile has great natural resources OF nj
| trates, copper and coal. To develop
| her resources, she has secured many
loans in the United States. American
interests control 90 per cent OF the
| copper. including the largest copper
/ mine in the world. We are heavy own
1 ers Of nitrate securities, and we are
developing Chile's iron ore. American
/ banking and trading firms run textile
and sugar mills and operate a chain OF
grocery stores Our International Teie-
phone g. Telegraph Co. has recently
acquired the Chilean telephone system"
| Most readers of DR.. Gibbons New
| Map of South America" for probably
| most Of the readers live in the United
| States, will be especially interested in
| the attitude of the South American
countries toward our own country
| There Is much discussion Of this. In
/ connection with the League Of Nations,
DR.. Gibbons says: Undoubtedly Brazil.
| Argentina and Chile would all feel the
necessity of active participation at
/ Geneva were the United States men,
| Der of the League. But as long rs we
belong neither to the League nor to
| the World Court, 1t is natural that our
Latin American neighbors that have
! pretensions to be great powers should
| be Indifferent to the League.
Moreover, 1t is difficult to see what adj
| vantage League membership, SO long
| as the United States abstains, has for
| the larger Latin American states
| Their foreign policy Is almost exclusive
| ly devoted to questions of the Western
I, Hemisphere" The chapter on Pan
Americanism" mentions the various
pan-American conferences which have
been Ield-commercial, financial, scien-
| tific, labor, sanitary, postal and others.
| DR.. Gibbons speaks with praise of the
work for harmony In the Western,
Hemisphere done by the Pan-American
!! Union and its director general, DIR. Leo
| S. Rowe. Much has been accomplished
| through its library, its publications, the
| facilities it offers to students of the
| political and economic history Of the
| two continents, and the full and splen-
did economic information it is dissent
mating. Every month, in its beautiful
| building, the representatives OF the
American republics get together to talk
| things over. Good will is also created
| by social functions. Most important of
| all, DR.. Rowe Is tireleSS in his en-
enlargement Of and aid to the organ
/ ization of pan-American conferences
dealing with specific problems.
4 \ X
Surely author could have no better
send-of than that given by r. H.
preface to Joseph and His Brethren"
| Mr.. Mottram says: 1T all depends on
what you want. II you like that school
of flction--I will call it the cocktail
school--which plays variations upon
such incidents as that Of Lord Shocks
shooting the lovely Miss Jones in the
/ back as she Is coming out OF the bath
room, you had better not read this
book. You will not like 1t.
After all, you had better read this book,
whether you think you will like it or
not. just as you had far better refresh
and restore yourself with joint, dump
/ lings green's, Eaters, a bit of cheese
and what pseudo-ancient inns miscall
a tankard-but Mr.. Freeman and I still
! call a mug--of draught ale, all of
which this book strongly resembles,
rather than with any cocktails ever
concocted. The scene is laid
in the eastern part of the county Of
| Suffolk In England. but, unless I am
very much mistaken. it might as well
have been laid in one of the agricul-
tural districts of New England.
| The farm, then, is the subject of the
| book. There is no catastrophe. Sew
eral sudden deaths ESQ rightly observed
by Mr.. Freeman as taking place in the
open air-'Father and mother died in
| the fields, says Benz, but no violent
| ones are there; no purple lliSts, but
| four absolutely life-like courtships
/ tongue and progressing with ac-
| curate detail from bits of sweet man
gold to chocolates, as the years adj
vance, or even emitting both and go
i ing straight to babies; no greater IN
| dulgences than beer that has been
tolerated for TOO years and tobacco for
800. No frills, absolutely none. There
is absence of far-sought effect, the di-
rect pleasure in the model that hap
pens to have been under the creators
nose since childhood. Mr..
Freeman has come across and faith
/ fully portrayed one of the most prlmi-
| tive ard outlaSting types We possess.
The Geaiters do not 60 to church. know
of no squire, dislike regular soldiers,
object to emigration soon tire OF
circus. Exactly. They are almost
dateless."
/ X X \ X
/ For centuries fermented mares milk
! has been found by the natives OF Mon
/ gclia to be the most satisfactory OF bev-
1 orn rnc Annnrdir,0 70 Ou,en Tattifn0re.