Evening star., 1932-04-24
TWENTY BEST SHORT STORIES. Com
piled by Ray Long. Ray Long and Richard
r. Smith New York.
REVIEWED BY C. E. NELSON.

- AY LONG, not many months ago, re-
linquished his position as editor OF
l. group of monthly magazines Now he
n is q book publisher, in partnership
with Richard r. Smith, and, of course,
his mind turns toward fction-good
fiction and bad fiction, that he published in
his magazines, or refused to publish for one
reason or another. Mr.. Long is an old news
paper man, and the writer of this review first
came to know him when he was directing the
destinieS" of Cincinnati newspaper, and this
reviewer was the cubbest of his cub reporters.
1t is natural that a newspaper mans mind
should turn to symposiums and collections and
things of that sort, and so Mr.. Long has
gathered the best fiction of his vast experience.
A few of the 20 stories were turned back to
their authors with the usual rejection slips.
Later they were published in other places,
and Mr.. Long has, in some instances, changed
his mind regarding the merit of the fiction.
Such is the case with the Ernest Hemingways
Fifty Grand" which travelled from one pub
Usher to another until it arrived in print by
way of the Atlantic Monthly. Now, Mr..
Long says this is one of the very best stories in
his collecton-and indeed, the story is good
one.
AS an added feature of the volume, Mr.. Long
gives a short history of each story, or he tells
interesting facts about the author-methods
of work and little incidents of friendship. And
the stories, gathered together, make just about
as fine a collection as possible. For instance,
there is, besides the Hemingway yarn, 'The
Rented Body" by Rupert Hughes Guilty" by
Fannie Hurst who Dealt?" by Ring w. Lard
ner; "One Eighth Apache" by Peter B. Kyne
Another Lady Bountiful," by Zona Gale:
"Snake Doctor" by Irwin S. Cobb; 5000 Miles
Away" by Frank R. Adams; The City of
Temptation by Sir Philip Gibbs vale of
Tears" by Laurence Stallings; "The Juggler,"
by Arthur Stringer, and other splendid tales.
GREENLAND; DANISH COLONY. Interna-
tional Colonial Exhibition, Paris, 1881. Ed
tied by the General Commissariat for Den
mark.
GREENLAND; A HUNDRED PICTURES.
Copenhagen: Published by the Royal Danish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
TWO interesting and generally useful booklets
! that have come to The Evening Star from
the Royal Danish Legation at Washington.
D. c. In effect the two books become a single
issue. The hundred pictures serving to OBJ
jectify the text Of Greenland" on the one
hand, and, on the other, to extend the contents
of that printing.
Greenland" is, in the MAN, of geographic
and historical substance. The location and ex-
tent of this largest island in the world" its
climate its coast zone Of habitaton, its interior
of ice and snow, its penetration from the out
side by Danish explorers, missionaries and ad-
venturers. The primitive people, their racial
source and status of advance toward civiiza-
ton. The growth of recent years in settlement,
industry, trade and other of the arts of modern
living. Such, broadly, the content of Green
land"
The Hundred Pictures" amplify this story
in print by making visual the general activities
of life in Greenland Splendid natural scenery
stands here Bergs splitting from the great ice
fields and floating out to sea. Whale fishing in
one or another of its stages Rough native
dugouts and not so far away substantial mod
ern houses rising for the use of the rapidly ad-
vancing people. Schools of modern equip
ment show pupils Of varying age engaged in
the industrial and intellectual training that is
SO common among us of lower latitudes. Clinics
dental and medical, are here Field sports and
gymnasium activities are among the modern
necessities Of this long shut-in, or shut
region. The whole is a new lesson in history
and geography for the majority of readers
whose minds have not, as a rule advanced
in step with the genuine progress that is tax
ing possession Of this great island Greenland.
Acknowledgment is due here to the Minister of
Denmark, Otto Wadsted, for the courtesy and
the substantial service of the body of informa-
tion contained in these booklets on the sub
ject of Greenland in its present status of
progress.
THE SILVER HORN: And other Sporting
Tales of John Weatherford. BY Gordon
Grand Drawings by j. Alden Twachtman.
New York: The Derrydale Press
IN certain Autumn days, bright in a very
~ special way of their own, Gordon Grand,
sitting in his garden down on the Eastern
Shore" is likely to hear, or to think he hears.
a faint baying across the fields, the beat Of
flying feet, even a sharp yelp of rage maybe,
maybe of glee.
Sitting there on such day, he knows in no
time at all that John Weatherford has slid
into the seat beside him. Then the two of
HON ctr ha he nf hail
into the old days when John Weatherford
was the most famous sportsman along the whole
coast-line stretch from Canada to the Carolinas.
And the yarns they spin together! Tall tales
of salmon fishing to the north, of duck and
quail shooting to the south Best of all are