Evening star., 1930-11-30
% IDA GILBERT MYERT
More Concerning the League Of Nations.
Se0eralNe7O No0els and a Record Of the
Andree Adventure IN the NorthIand.

all Of them in this respect. Nearer to the spirit
of the modern day comes the matter of geology
and mining of the borax field, of the promise
Of mercantile values buried within this region,
hitherto counted irremediably inimical to hu-
man uses. After letting himself go on some
Of the strange vagarieS Of nature in this re-
gion the author settles to picture of an in
dustrial town set up around the borax deposits
of the valley. Here the benevolent overlord
OF the region is the Pacific Coast Borax Co."
under whose good Offices a modern town has
risen, with schools, churches, hospitals courts
and other whatnot of town life everywhere o
mark its advance from place of death and
destruction to one of activity and life Inter-
esting, and, under It's claim of factual treat
ment most useful as scientific contribution
to the knowledge Of a unique geographical
point Of the United States.
WATER AND, GOLD. BY Lewis Stanton
Palen. AS told to him by Charles @. He'd
lund. New York: e. p. Dutton & Co.
ETIE said that she said'-an unfortunate
beginning to any yarn, since each re-
move from the original source Of action is
like thin veil dropped in between a listener
and the narrator. That is. such is common
effect of the PLAN leave it TO you in respect
to the adventure in hand. If, at the end, you
do not admit having gone-drst-h hand, so to
speak-pretty much all over the world with
reassert your statement against such course.
For my part, fail to gather any sense Of wear
dimming to the astonishing adventures of
Charles Hedlund from their passage through
the mind Of Lewis Palen. However, the young
Swede has been just about everywhere, and
from each quarter of this everywhere he has
drawn astonishing amount of succulent and
picturesque life. chimney sweep at first,
what boy of spunk would not flee such an
existence, just as this one did? The sea-world
claimed him first, naturally, since all up that
way once were Vikings. No other way of eS-
cape And so it Is first the life of the sea and
of the sailor that tumbles out with such rich
exuberance in this book of Lewis Palen's
Then in the course of time, South Africa and
diamonds and gold railroading, trekking the
veldt, hunting lions, getting into the Boer War
and then into prison ship-and finally back
home. These but few of the points of ex-
citement and hazard that stood waiting, all
round the world, for the deeting chimney sweep
of Sweden. Desperate business a good deal
of it-yet what is the human for if not to
meet odds and get away with them! So this
fellow would say if he were in the way of
thinking such thoughts and talking such lingo
Great stuff, if you looking for something
big doing every minute of the day through a
handful of years.
COLLECTORS LUCK IN SPAIN. BY Alice
Van Leer Carrick. Illustrated Boston:
Little, Brown q Co.
EVERYBODY wants to go somewhere. Every
body possesses the instinct, deep and fore
casting, to gather and hold this, that and the
other The first-God willing-developS the
traveller. The second the collector. This book
presents the two-in-one. It does more. Through
a happy accident of circumstance, it offers ad-
venture to the modest purse and purpose. Moth
ing else than to travel up and down Spain after
the fashion of the commoner in ways and
means. Something to look into. that. And, be-
Sides here is a chance TO measure the collectors
zeal by simple things, old and beautiful and
not too money weighted. Something mere to
consider, right here. Then there is the writer
herself. A woman of good cheer, of wit, Of
gayety, who refuses to grow ponderous and tire
some over the wholly joyous to-do of ransack-
ing old land of beauty and romance for
interesting and movable bits of its earlier
household art. practical woman, this one.