Evening star., 1932-09-04
% IDA GILBERT MYERZ
Splendid N0veb on the Autumn B00kheIf
Ellen GIasgozv Coutributes Her Best
Work-OfheyW Wmth- -While Fictiou.

to throw the world into huddle The old
jostled the new. Tradition came to fists with
current happenings. Peoples of diverse custom
and training bundled into common camps of
place and intercourse The element Of contrast
Is one of the most forceful and telling instru-
ments Of art. The novelist knows this as the
newSn1an knows it. Here was clear opportunity
Seized and put over. triumphantly in '"The
Grand HOTEL in Promenade Deck" and other
novels less conspieuousiy successful.
They Came to the Castle" is another case
IN point. Background. an ancient castle in the
Austrian Alps. Old as the Holy Roman Empire
itself, in whose tradition its aged holder had
been SO thoroughly STEPPED as to believe him
self in truth count of that empire.
But his daughter and his granddaughter
knew better. The crumbled fortune had left
nothing but the gloomy pile itself To turn
this to account was the only thing left to do
And so, the castle opened to a flock of Summer
travellers thrilled at the glamorous romance of
the place. So having set the picture having
given himself free play with contrasts of per-
sonality, temperament and feeting Summer
plans. the author travels much the same course
as that followed by his two or three prede-
cessors The spirit of vacation pipes pleasant
tune of gossip, sport, lovemaking all slightly
subordinated to deep curiosity about that old
castle, its treasures, its old tales. And remote
passage. sits the old Graf himself content over
the lordly hospitality that he is dispensing. or
thinks he Is. while his distracted daughter is
trying to please her paying guests" and save a
bt besides. The hard present against faded
and seftened past Yet the present was not
toe hard, at FIRST, to invite very touching love
story. that OF n modern youth and Cenltesse
anna Maria of the castle. Bat. at the last even
this idyllic moment became part OF the long
af E{clv
An artful and beautiful blend of old romance
and modern fact
BEAUTY OF FLIGHT. Edited bT Manfred
Curry, author of Wind and Water" etc
Forevcrd by Rear Admiral Richard II Byrd
o. s. ~, retired New York: The John Day
Co.
a PICTURE book A hundred rosmy pages
each spread for the accommodation of
speeding airShip OF plane fotillas i'm formation
and Clouds Of various name and habit OF ussn
tain tops and other scenic features of the skv
In It's response to the modern science of flixiat.
The BOOK positively tingles with life You
casch. you almost catch, the stir and sweep of
fright ~ pages turn under the hand Clouds
curaulls, pile up before the eye, feather clouds
cart sheet clouds spread wide and su,oeth
thunder clouds threaten and rain clouds deliver
their spoil Here, high are tiae sy,sw-ciad
Africa. Prom speeding plane Niagara Is seen
TO make its plunge. Seemingly silent about it
too, from that far height. A sunset over New
York Is q literal splendor and the skyscrapers.
from ON high. are less raw and rasfcous than
from below.
Description is futile i'm this case. save from
. master Of word painting To see the book to
leaf 1t, to feel it, to SO along with its life and
mo"ement-this the supreme effect Of The
Beauty OF Flight"
DR.. Curry, editor of this book is an Amer
ican living in Munich. From 10, 900 pictures of
European and American source were chosen
the hundred Of this book. Reproduced by a
German printing house, put out simultaneously
In Germany France, England and the United
States, this beautiful book offers, for the first
time complete and adequate expression of the
magical effect of planes in flight OF the seenic
surroundings Of that adventure OF the skies.
A short foreword by Rear Asmiral Byrd gives
enthusiastic testimony TO the thrilling ioy of
Hight, to its permanent seizure of the blood
and then, in definite point, he wholeheartedfy
praises THE Beauty OF Flight" adding II feel
sure that DIR. CurryS book is invaluable not
only for its Illustrations, but because of the
scientific data Interpreting these pictures
HUBERTA GOES SOUTH: A Record Of the
Lone Trek Of the Celebrated zululand Hip
pcpotamus; 192S-1S31. BY Hedley A. Chill
vers, author of Out Of the CrucibIe" etc
South Africa: Central News Agency, Inc
TT was in 1923 that Huberta, turning vaerant-
as sooned or later any one is likely to do
wandered out Of Zuluand over into Natal For
two years and half this happy vagabond, in
deed this beloved vagabond" moved at will up
and down and roundabout, along the coast into
ports and settlements, till she had made prob
ably thousand miles all told. And we may be
sure that in this trek Huberta was the sensa-
ton of many an hour. In many places her
kind had not been seen before. So terror and
awe fell upon the natives at the appearance of
Euberta- An evil spirit, they thought An
omen of disaster they said. And, no doubt,
they went thrnIlgh nuccr rites and carerraonies