Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

SELECTED PREJUDICEs. BY H. L. Mencken.
New York: The Modern Library.
You are herewith notified that this Is -
selection of the best of H. L. Mencken's
Five Volumes Of 'Prejudices'." A very conserva-
tive selection" covering about a dozen short
chapters on one another of the outstanding
fratlties Of the human. The farmer, the polite
ian, the believer on one hand and the skeptic
on the other. Here the doctor and the scientist,
the business man and the average man. Here,
others-martyrs and cynics and relations. You
know what happens to each of these. You do,
that Is, IL you know Henry Mencken. And who
does not know this courageous man who says
just about what you yourself would like to say
but have not the insides to do it? Put this thin
little book at hand on the reading table. Then
when you are almost gone under the wearyng
ways Of largely fiat and platitudinous world
reach out for Henry Mencken and his restoring
Prejudices. He pounds and thunders, and
snarls and snaps, according to the size Of his
disgruntlement for the moment. The farmer
what he thinks Of the farmer is a scandal The
poitician-what he knows about him Is worse
And the pacifst-weH, let it 60 But, you see
you don't let 1t go. In the main, you agree
and are afraid to say 1t out. Instead you get q
grand vicarjouS satisfaction out of the open
daring Of Henry Mencken. Once in a while
once in q long while-he does give praise and O
finely critical feeling for some one. Here for
Conrad-a beautiful tribute to Conrad, in this
little book Long ago mention of this volume
was due from me- for it has fought some Of
my own battles and has, besides, given me no
end Of keen enjoyment. book Of revivals and
reservations.
THE HUNS OF POOH. Lyrics by Pooh. Music
by H. Fraser-Simson. Introduction and notes
W A A. Milne. Decorations by E. H. Shop
ard Additional lyric by Eeyore New York.
e. p. Dutton & Co.
HARD luck for the others when Christopher
Robin was too big to play with them or
thought he was. Hard luck for Eeyore and Roo
and Pigiet. Not 80 bad for POOH since he was
OF the sort that, shut on In one place, he
speedily broke out In another. Besides for some
time Pooh had been having q secret bunch that
he himself, no less than Christopher Robin was
getting along In years when play must let
down and work take on. Moreover, Pooh for
weeks, or longer, had been feeling an uneasi-
ness with his insides-a tuneful and quite
pleasing disturbance 1t was, though. Suddenly
it burst upon him that he was a genius
musical genius. more than likely q prodigy
even. Wasn't he forever singing Whatever
else might be In hand2 "Hum-hum- um-m."
Time to get busy. And he did. Believe Il
or not-but here IT is, and seeing is believing
Pooh made q music book A little help here
and there, It's true-hut not much. wide thin
book. On every page one Of his own HUNS"
marching TO notes and rests n things along q
road that Pooh said was q STAIR.
The most Of vs. are right now taking lessons
on the piano. don't know why. but We are.
And hardly q more cheering thing could We
do in this sad matter than to set Poohs music
book against the rack, climb up on the bench,
to play and sing the cozy happy "hums" O6
Winnie the-Pooh.
At this instant word comes from John Macrae
E- p. Dutton g. Coz 'Winnie-the-Pooh goes
commercial" That is the message, which means
nothing less than that Pooh has slipped out
from under words and notes and tunes and
pictures to take q stand in the open upon his
own two-or four-4egs. Now everybody will be
delighted to see this Pooh-bear in person.
though this Is not new experience. It has
been done before. Without any doubt whatever
you remember the Teddy-Bear created right
here in Washington by Clifford Bergman gift
ed artist OF The Washington Star, out Of frag-
ments Of rumor left over from the great hunt
ing trip Of Theodore Roosevelt. An over the
country this Teddy" became the beSt-beloved
friend Of children and grown folks too. So IN
such illustrious line Winnie-the- Pooh Is bound
to md big welcome already waiting for him.
Good luck to this next Of kin to that fsrst
Washington Teddy-Bear.
DAVID COLDER. BY Irene Nemirovs,x.
Translated by Sylvia Stuart. New York. Hor-
ace Liveright.
THE theme Of this novel is a sprawling one
that, in purpose at least, gathers up the
whole world. The passion Of making money on
the one hand. An equal madness Of squander-
ing it on the other. The subject Of its own ac-
cord, you see, divides the world into two parts,
Men and women-gatherers and scatterers. The
business set down in any approach to detail
would be seh-prohibitive because Of the enor-
nous bulk Of the accounting Artists know about
such handicaps to production. This writer Il
an artist who accepts no master, save only her
theme. David Colder is therefore made to take
upon himself the role Of money getter. The