Evening star., 1932-02-07

Panama.
In these three volumes the student as well
as the general reader will find set forth with
great detail and with broad statesmanike vision
some of the most important questions of Pan
American interest and significance In addi-
ton to being minister of foreign affairs for
many years, DR.. Uribe has also served in the
Senate as chairman of the Committee on For
eign Relations. He has, therefore not only
been in constant contact with international
problems, but has been largely instrumental in
their solution To the student of international
affairs on the American Continent these three
volumes are Indispensable and constitute the
most important contribution that has been
made in recent years.
COLUMBUS CAME LATE. BY Gregory Mason.
illustrations and maps. New York: The
Century Co.
| listen to the author himself for a minute
l. as he sets out to make clear, in part at
least that Columbus quite bit behind
time in his proffers Of Spanish culture to an
unCiVilized America. Mr Mason, scientist and
enthusiast done up in one says: To a certain
extent this is a mystery story; but it is not
one conceived in the fertile brain Of a Gaboriau,
Van Dine a Poe. 1t is also tale of great
human achievement; but it is not one imagined
by a Scott or a Dickens or a Conrad. How
ever, if you like tales such as these, you should
like this one. For it IS true and the hero is
not a single individual but a group of nations
with high civilization composing entire
people-the people of ancient America
Archeologist, self-eXacting student of COM
parative researches and findings in that field,
enthusiast in support of certain theory pic
tureSque and often poetic in speech with fire.
quent homely out-thrusts Of challenge and de-
fiance Gregory Mason bends these powers and
arts to the telling Of a great story about an
ancient America that achieved civilization
while both Europe and Asia were still on the
far side Of that high goal. He, himself, along
with others, has seen old bridges and roads and
aqueductS in their relics and remains. He
himself has helped to clear old temples from
the jungle burial, has learned to decipher old
glyphS on stone and pottery and textile inter-
weaving. In high enthusiasm he reconstructs,
in part here and part there, various phases OF
the old Mayan, Inca, Toltec, Aztec SUGGESTIONS
The IncaS were the first Communists. The
greatest pyramids of the world belong to Mex
leo The cities of that far day were agricul-
tural in the main though upon the whole
"ancent America was built by business men"
A most fascinating mystery story" which
Is taking hold of readers of average readers
as well as select ones, in a sort of passion Of
pursuit and engroSSment.
That America grew up alone that Americans
were one people, this is the contention, force
fully and challengingly declared. of Gregory
Mason. No Atlantis, sunken Pacific cont1-
nent of Mu served as bridge for either European
or Asiatic. America made it alone-so this
writer many times AYERS, dragging his evidence
after him.
Mr. Mason grows savage and busters bit
at those scientists who are shut tight against
the theory of a self developed culture on the
part of America. He cites evidence that they
are wrong that he and his school are right.
The main point with US, however, with you and
me- is to gather in another magnificent story
mystery story though it may be about the
ancentry of America, about its hitherto un-
known and unsupported peoples accomplishing
much that this amazing day itself has not sur
passed nor even reached. Mexico Central
America, Peru and our own southwest Of Ari-
zona and New Mexico are at the moment vital
focal points in the true history of America.
gorgeous historian and story teller An
out-and-out fighter besides.
FINDING LITERATURE ON THE TEXAS
PLAINS. BY John William Rogers. With
a Representative photography of Books on
the Southwest by j. Frank Dobie Dallas:
The Southwest Press.
THE general delight in "Coronado's Children"
! by J. Frank Dobie comes back with inter-
est added now through this intimate picture
Of Frank Dobie drawn by John William Rogers.
And as frontispiece to the little volume Is
Frank Dobie himself mounted easily and
shade lazly, looking much more like plains
man than like college professor. About as
much one as the other it turns out Mr. Rogers
tells us the things we want to know about
this man who hunted down for us the treasure
of legend that Texas has held from away back
about hidden mines, caches of silver and gold,
deep caves of hiding for unimaginable riches.
What kind of boy this Dobie youngster was
what set him to an errand that trailed thou