The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

Alberta Pierson Hannum
Alberta Pierson Hannum cele-
brated her 25th birthday Aug. 3,
two weeks after the publication of
her first novel, Thursday April,
by Harper 81 Brothers.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
NTHEN a country gets into
w trouble, one likes to find good
books which give an authentic
background to the days happen
ings.
Cuba has been making front page
recently and the best book on Cuba
that 1 know of just now is THE
Martial Spirit" by Walter Mills,
published by Houghton Mifflin
Company.
This is study Of our war with
Spain and gives the facts on what
our policy toward Cuba and the
Philippines really meant when it
was Matched.
Mills takes away all the glamour
of the war and shows that we could
have received a terrible defeat at
the hands of more powerful ma
ton than Spain.
The author also shows that con-
ditions in the navy and the army
were far from being ideal, and gives
new slant upon the ambitions of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Here is exciting and fine read
ing, giving the real background of
Cuba.
NNE of the fall books on the
~ Lippincott list, THE Eagles
Shadow" is by Arthur D. Howden
Smith, who wrote Porto Bello
Gold" Smiths latest adventure
story is of the stormy plots which
conferred around Napoleon after. his
exile to st. Helena.
One of the leading biographies on
Houghton Mifflins fall list will be
Harry M. Beardsley's Joseph Smith
and His Mormon Empire" The
book originally was announced I'M
der the title of Prophet of Polyg-
amy"
Houghton Miftlin just have pub
lished Plain Anne Ellis" a sequel
to Mrs Ellis Life of an Ordinary
Woman"
In the second mid-year list of best
sellers compiled by books of the
month Or. R. Bowker Coz and COW
ering the period from July, 1880,
through June, 1881, 1.-The Story of
Sam Michele" still heads the nom
fiction list. This book has been a
best seller for two consecutive years.
1t is one of the two oldest books
on this particular non-fiction list,
having been published in November,
1929, and it is the oldest consecutive
best seller on the entire list.
y
Stuart Palmer has recently been
wondering whether travel by air
plane isn't safer than motoring
after all. Returning with his wife
from a motor trip to Wisconsin a
few days ago. he was rambling along
when another automobile came
roaring down upon him and knocked
the car and the Planners galley-weSt.
But Palmer was able to reach New
York in time to see his new mystery
story. The Penguin Pool Murder, -
published by Brentano's on Aug. II.
A FTER staying in London for the
"a opening of the dramatic pro-
duction of Mrs Fischer's War"
Henrietta Leslie and her husband
have gone to Salzburg for the sum-
mer music festival The new novel
upon which Miss Leslie is working
has musical background.
John c. Moore, the young English
author of Raven Rough" has just
started on a walking trip through
Wales, gathering material for a new
book which will cover the country
from north to south.
New light on the Wilson admins
tration and on Americas part in
the great war is promised in the
autobiography of william Gibbs
McAdoo which Houghton Miff1in
Company announce for publication
this fall under the title of "A Ten
derfoot in Politics"
'DiggerS and Builders (MacNIil-
Ian. so was written by Henri Lent
for his 6-year-old son and Mr.. Lent
answers the. questions children ask
and 1t is really vivid and instructive
For boys and girls of II on there
is by Rocket to the Moon" by Otto
Will Gail (Sears Co. $3.50. It is
thoroughly interesting.
TOR the mystery story lovers may
Il we mention:
Cd THE Columnist Murder.
by Lawrence Saunders Farlnr &
Rinehart, so. If you know Broad.
way it's yours. 1t is the MAR
Stem, in person.
90 The Murder in the Arch, b,
H. W. Higginson (Thomas Y
Cromwell, so. Smooth and sur
prising.
CD THE Face in the Abyss" b.
A. Merritt (Horace Liveright, so
Full Of horror, fantastic, swift snC
diyerting.