Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-11
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By the BookIoveT

Salvador de Madariaga, for 1--WE years
chief of the disarmament section OF
the secretariat of the League OF Ma
tions, now professor Of Spanish studies
at oxford University, gives his views on
one of the most important questions in
politics and life today in his book,
Disarmament" His two arguments in
favor of disarmament are the huge ex-
pense of ornaments, and that they are
continual menace to peace. AS
part of the expense OF ornaments, aside
from the direct cost met by taxation,
he reckons the drawing away OF large
numbers of men from occupations which
create values instead of preparing for
the destruction of values. Among the
obstacles to disarmament Prof. de
Madariaga considers the chief to be
the slowness of methods of the League
of Nations. which cannot move with
the ease and swiftneSS of flapper in
Jazz; the complex machinery of ma
lions, which are also slow in getting
into action, especially peaceful action;
crises, and vital differences in national
temperaments and psychology, subject
on which he has already written much.
1.-The discussions carried on in several
dozen varieties of French and English
are fed by intellectual waters coming
from all climates and lands-white, yell
low and brown; Catholic, Protestant,
orthodox, Moslem, Buddhist, atheist, old
tradition and new progress, the abstract,
the empirical, the impatient, the ira
ditional. the skeptic, the enthusiast, the
obvious and the euigmatic." AS an
elmer obstacle" he mentions the de-
mands of pacifists for instant and COM
plete disarmament, regardless of inter-
national cooperation and practical de-
tails. Prof. de Madariaga gives a his
tory OF past efforts at disarmament
which have failed, and then tries to
suggest hopeful measures for the future.
His solution is the organization of
world community, which shall possess
a court with compulsory jurisdiction.
The responsibility for such an organi-
zation would rest chiefly upon the
United States and Great Britain. It
would be necessary also to have the CO.
operation of Soviet Russia. Germany
and the other defeated nations should
be brought in. In fact, it should be a
world affair. The League of Nations Is,
according to Prof. de Madariaga, a good
start in the right direction, but much
improvement, extension of powers and
more general acceptance Of jurisdiction
are necessary to achieve world peace.
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Instead Of taking dashing libertine
or beguiling courteSan as the subject
TO" novel, Honore Willsie Morrow has
che en- missionary, the Rev. Adoniram
JudSon, missionary to India. The story
Of his life as told in the romance
"Splendor of God" is one of varied ad-
venture, inspired by lofty, almost ia
natical purpose In 1918 DIR. Judson.
accompanied by his young first wife,
al of II hell
that he was sent by God to save the
natives from being eternally lost, but
his reception by those natives was a
hostile one. The hardships of his life
and the obstacles which were placed in
his way were such that only a zealot
could have endured them. He never
lost for a moment his belief in his mis-
sion. To his task Of converting the
Burmans he added that of traflslating
the Bible. During the years of exhaust
ing work and insanitary living condi-
children. Shortly after marrying his
third wife, Emily Chubbock, a frail
woman, writer of verses and sketches,
DR.. Judson himself was stricken with
disease, and with the forlorn hope of
prolonging his life he embarked on a
sea voyage, but died only a few days
from land. 1t was some weeks before
Mrs. Judson, remaining in India and
herself i'll, learned of his death. The
novel "Splendor of God" ends with Dr.,
Judson's second marriage.
Eleanor H Woods in her book Rob
ert A. Woods" has told the story of the
life of the man who was for so many
years the head of the South End House
in Boston. She tells of her husbands,
stay at. Toynbee Hall, London, where
he learned by experience what the Eng
hsh settlement movement was accom-
plishing, and then of his constructive
work at the South End House and in
establishing the National Federation Of
Settlements. 80 5.:7
No group of contemporary writers
has so influenced the trend of modern
literature as have E. M. Forster, Lytton
Strachey, Maynard Keynes, and the rest
of the group associated with Virginia
and Leonard Woolf and their printing
venture, THE Hogarth Press" The
first issue of the Hogarth Press was
series of essays in pamphlet form which
was so successful that it was followed
by a second series. This volume is
made up of seven lectures, two essays
and two memoirs. In MIR. Bennett and
Mrs. Brown Virginia Woolf predicts
that we are on the verge of great age
Literature" Logan Pearsall Smith has
his doubts about the immediacy OF the
golden age: In Hunting the Highbrow,"
Leonard Woolf discusses literary tastes,
especially the taste which does not ap-
preciate the novels of Gilbert Frankau.
other papers are Anonymity; an En-
quiry," by Z. M. Forster; In Retreat"
by Herbert Read: "Catchwords and
Claptrap," by Rose Macaulay; 1.-THE
Future of the Art Of Poetry" by Robert
Graves; Homage to John Dryden, by
T. S. Eliot; Henry James at Work." by
Theodore Bosanquet; THE Artist and
Psycho-Analysis," by Roger Fry, and
Composition as Explanation" Gertrude
STEMS oxford essay.
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An interesting literary discovery Is
that of the papers of Boswell, famous
biographer of DR.. johnson. 1t has been
supposed that the papers had been lost
or destroyed, but they have all the
time been in the possession OF Boswelfs
descendants. Boswell's viii provided
that any proceeds from the puohcat,on
of his manuscripts should go to his
younger children, but for some reason
or other the papers were not published.
Perhaps the elder son, Alexander, pre-
vented publication. In 1922 the two
sons, Alexander and James, both died
and the papers came into the possession
of Alexander's son. When he died IN
1857 the heirs were two daughters, one
of whom married Lord Talbot de Mala-
hide and the other Mr.. George Noun
sey of Auchinleck. In Mrs. Mounseys
attic Boswell's valuable papers lay I'M
disturbed for years and on her death
in 1905 they came to Boswells great
great-grandson, the present Lord Tai
bot de Malahide, who granted the copy,
right to Lieut.. Col. Ralph Hayward
Isham who has published them, "Pri-
vate Papers of James Boswell from