Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27

SOME ROYALTIES AND A PRIME MINIS
TER: Portraits from Life BY Princess
Marthe Bibesco, author of Royal Portraits"
etc. New York; D. Appleton 81 Co.
IS political instrument monarchy is fading
out of the European picture. AS senti-
ment among the people, however, the royal in
stitution in its immediate representatives is a
near and dear thing. Kings and princes lords
and lordlings rouse prompt and sincere en-
thusiamS. In America it is different. Or is it,
This Is democracy wherein everybody is as
good the next one. Or Is its he? Why
then, the thrill when the President of the
United States passes by? Why the excitement
over this exalted one the other? Pretty
much the same, the world over, is the common
instructive up-reach of curiosity and interest
toward the well placed ones of the earth
Princess BibeScoS personal recollections of
royalty will, therefore, give the majority of
readers a very real stir of pleasure. These
memories are competentiy set out in the single
desire, apparently, to give closer view of the
human side OF these distinguished persons.
The King of Spain, the Prince of wales, King
Michael-lucky lad pushed of the high chair
by his father who wants 1t again for him
Self-princeSseS and one Queen for a day."
these. and others, provide material for the
spirited and sensible outlook of this gifted
writer. Pleasant reading for hour two.
The most substantial of these little studies is
that of the last of the Victorian Liberals, Her
bert Asquith. very touching incident in the
book relates to the Prince of Wales and his
grandfather Edward VII The King, mindful
of the benefits on every side from cordial re-
lationS with France, sent the young prince to
Paris for definite and regular tuition in French
life and outlook very wise and able King,
Edward VII, in spite of certain pious detractors.
The entire book is of good substance from its
own special standpoint. 1t Is sure to be read by
hosts of those who fnd quite powerful spell
in the doings OF the great folks. And here
these "doings" Sensiby and unassumingY
set down. just for the Willing away of an hour.
TRUMPET IN THE DUST. BY Gene Fowler.
New York: Horace Liveright.
THE newspaper is certainly the most potent
active force in the world today. Whether
one is talking of education, or of the spread
of world dongs or of social and political and
moral infiuence-why, it is the press, I'M
doubtedly that untes them all, bringing them
to the prompt consideration of the public as q
whole This powerful agency has produced q
new tribe of man. distinct from any other of
the human tribes. For q moment let US drop
the newspaper itself Let US set aside, even.
proprietors and editors, those who devise policies
and outline general plans Let US, instead drop
down to the actual newsgatherer. To that
dynamo of energy, to that dauntleSs obtrusive
digger of news, to that Unsuitable youngster
denying his possible quarry any privacy what
ever under any circumstances imaginable. This
is the newspaper element that is of great in
terest TO able to catch it in action
Trumpet in the Dust" holds that kind of news
man. Gordon Dole. Young, ambitious, q bit of
a poet hid under the outside of him. shadow
OF dreamer getting in hts way of nights
when he is out after next days bag whirl-
wind of a reporter bent to the sublime mis-
sion of scoop If that Is what they call the
thing.
This seems to me to be not only plausible