Evening star., 1933-12-02
Non-Fiction.

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FAR EASTERN FRONT. BY Edgar
Snow. New York: Harrison Smith
g. Robert Haas.
A college friend of Edgar Snow as
sures the reviewer that if Edgar Snow
lives to be 10 he will never settle down.
will always be keen for adventure. At
present he is less than 80. but has eX
perimented with people and things in
many unusual places. Some of these
experiences ought surely to make an
other book. Far Eastern Front" is a
serious work. but human. not entirely
political. After five years as Shang-
hal press correspondent, Mr.. Snow has
acquired some opinions about the value
of Manchuria. the types of people
there, why Japan wants 1t. the charac-
teristics Of the millions of Chinese in
China within the wall" the trade
struggle and the manifest destines of
Asia. His method is that of direct and
stirring narrative. much of it of his
own experiences. with personal opinions
interspersed about generals and bandits.
statesmen and peasants, spies and
merchants, new women and old
fashioned ones. The conclusion of his
study of the Far East is that "the rise
of an Eastern power, great and daring.
and determined enough to defy the
European powers and America probably
marks the twilight of Western mastery"
THERE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER YEAR.
- BY Martha Ostenso. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co.
A phalanx of wild geese in migra-
ton across the sky in V-shaped forma-
ton, gave to Martha Ostenso her title
and her symbol for her first successful
novel, wild Geese" She has never
quite equaled this novel in her later
work nor does she in There's Always
Another Year She has. however,
many qualities in her fiction which
attract numerous readers-good mar
rative, usually well-seasoned with
romance. and realistic background of
self lived as a child. She has cele-
brated the Dakota prairies as Joseph
Lincoln has celebrated Cape Cod. In
this story a girl of 20, Silver Grenoble
brought up by her gambler father
in t-and-miss fashion, with occa-
sional bits of convent education in
Alaska and Mexico, returns, after her
father is shot by fellow gambler. to
the Dakota farm of her birth and there
finds romance. There are difficulties
of course. for if happy marriage i'm
mediately followed the discovery of
love, there would be no story. But
when one is young. there is always
hope for better luck, there's always
another year" So. after Roddy Will
lard's bitter experience with marriage
to Corinne Meader, and after Silver's
love for Gerald Lucas, which seems to
her like an evil dream thew 1ook for
ward to a rebuilding of their lives,
on the land which they both love.
THE CAUSES AND CURE OF DE-
PRESSIONS. BY Whitney Hart
Slocomb. Boston: The Christie
pher Publishing House.
POEMS. BY Marie De L. WEIGH. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
PLEASURES AND PALACES. BY
Frances and Gertrude Warner Bos-
ton: Houghton Mifflin Co.
THE COURAGE OF IGNORANCE. BY
William Lyon Phelps. New York:
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Rammed. BY Samuels-B Bacon. Bos-
ton: Samuels-Bacon Publishing Co.
Fiction.
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE. A
Philo Vance Story. BY s. S. Van
Dyne. New York: Charles Scrib-
MURDER DAY BY DAY. By Irwin 8.
Cobb: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Co.
THE MASTER MURDERER. A Flem.
ing Stone Detective Novel. BY Caro-