Evening star., 1932-01-24
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for d Changing WorA- A-ANe70 Book BY
Andtp Maur0is
Andre Maurois.

LYAUTEY BY Andre Mauros, author OF
"Dsraen," etc. Translated by HamBn
Miles New York: d. Appleton IL Co.
IUBERT LYAUIEY established the French
II Colonial Empire Of North Africa. Sol
dier of gallantry and distinction, administrator
of affairs and of vast bodies Of men, was
Lyautey commanding figure wherein DnSn'
training associations and personality met IN
dramatic effect and moved ever toward mghef
position and power. Beside creating an en-
pire for France, this Frenchman served MS
country well at home and in Indo-China. He
gave sharp rebuff and punishment to the re-
bellious and uprising Riffs in Morocco Inc
highest of all these achievements was clearly
that of establishing North Africa as hrm
and secure and progressive colon1aI outpost
of France.
Material. seemingly made to the hand of
Andre Maurois who says II wished to write
the life of Marshal Lyautey because no char
acter appears to me more attractive than this
complex and generous one because II Is
a magnificent history and the adventurous
story of perhaps the last Of the great ou1ioers
of empire
If you have read Andre Maurois-and who
has not? If you have read ''DiSraeh' or
Byron" or Ariel" or Captains and Kings
you can see just about what this author Would
do in respect to Hubert Lyautey under the m
Spired drive of his own prepoSSeSSlonS toward
high administrator. A sweeping and dramatic
event. this biography, gathering up time and
place and circumstance of moment as material
upon which Lyautey worked so Splendldly Tor
France. Not only one of the most absorbing
of the geographic studies by Maurois, but one
that serves, as we'll to bring man OF history
into a more open place for the public gen.
orally to know. "A royalist who has gwen an
empire to the republic is the tribute OF Pr1n-
cess Marthe Bibesco to Hubert Lyautey.
THE WEATHER TREE. BY MariStan Chap
man, author of The Happy Mountain etc.
New York The Book League of America.
First Printing: The Viking Press.
THE Tennessee Mountains give background to
this story, chronicle, picture. 1t is all
three AS story 1t projects the resistance OF the
mountain people to encroachments from the
outside AS chronicle it sets down the daily
round of Glen Hazard, hillside hamlet, in
precise particularly. AS picture it photographs
scene and character of the locality with pre-
cison and clarity
Chad and Thelma Lane, brother and sister,
possessed in part of a hill farm, embody the
theme of fear, and sense Of danger from the
outer world. Change is an enemy. One that
appears from down below In the person OF
young promoter who talks briskly of opening
up some properties" and beginning opera
tions" With this experiment true drama sets
in to take place of character sketch and local
landscape A drama that becomes tragically
complicated by the fact that Thelma Lane falls
in love with the rather unsubStantial intruder
and innovator.
Here is invention whose material and method
are those of realism. Here IS actuality Of
effect that delivers bodily, to the reader
rare and important chapter OF American his
tory, unchanged from the earliest days Of
pioneer and settler. Here is art, selective, pro-
portioned, balanced and beautiful. If, now and
then, the word collector fascinated by the
strange dialect. by the idioms Of a long gone
day, gets in between the reader and the story,
why, that may be for the instant hard on
the reader, but Immediately the story moves
in and carries him along in an appreciation
and pleasure quite restored.
RECOILECTIONS OF EDISON BY DR.
David Trumbul Marshall. Boston: The
Christopher Publishing House.
THE career of Thomas Edison is being rounded