Evening star., 1933-07-15
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOWERMAN.

Pohl Lovejoy. M. D. New edition,
revised and reset. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
Women had little to do with bringing
on the World War but their service
during it was not merely the giving of
gentle encouragement and the. arrange
ment OF social diversions. Certain
SamaritanS" tells of the work of women
doctors and nurses in connection with
the American women's hospitals in diff
ferent countries. DIR. LoveJoy was pres
ident of the Medical Womens Interna-
tional Association. 1920-24; president Of
the Medical Women's National Associa-
ton, 1928, and has been general di-
rector OF the American Women's Hos
pltals' Service at home and abroad for
the past IA years. She begins her book
by asking how she happened to be on
the railroad pier at Smyrna when the
Christian population of the city left
their fathers land to take refuge in
Greece, and says that the answer to
the question would involve the whole
history of the feminist movement since
Eve. The American Women's Hospitals
were established in 1917, by the Medi-
cal Women's National Association, to
serve the sick in war-5tricken countries.
THE women of the medical profession
were not called to the co!ors, but they
decided to 60 anyway" AS in every
thing else which is started with an
altruistic motive, with no profits in
sight for any one doing the financing,
the chief difficulty was funds" And,
as in many other such projects, big
work was done with small funds. But
DR.. Lovejoys book is not mere re-
mort of what was done; it is a book OF
medical ventures during the war. told
vivaciously and with much anecdote,
and accompanied by many illustrations
from photographs. The clinics held In
Albania. Smyrna, Moscow, Macedonia
Siberia and in many other places were
not without daily amusing incidents
Not all was tragic or pathetic. Samples
which indicate the quality OF the mar
ratiye presented are the accounts OF a
Pope's appendicitis. brigand CHIEF
under an anesthetic. a visit TO luna
tic The fateful bite Of louise, ''peStl-
lence in the garden of Eden nursing
and doctoring on the isles OF Homer ana
Sappho. hunger strikers in Russia, the
relation of earthquakes to the eVll eye.
bubonic fleas, and an encounter on an
international train with wayfarer
who drank so frequently that ne pegan
to count pink rats running around the
compartment.
THE FRAMEWORK OF AN ORDERED
SOCIETY. BY Sir Arthur Saiter'
K. c. B. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
Sir Arthur Salter and Dean Wallace
B. Donham of the Graduate School OF
Business Administration at Harvard
have recently presented the arguments
for economic internationallsm ana
economic nationalism in friendly oe-
hate in one OF the New York news
papers Sir Arthur contends that IN
ternational cooperation should pe the
ultimate goal of statesmanshlp' Dean
Donham believes that the Creates
national prosperity will be founo IN
national economic independence. IHS
little book on an ordered society
not specifically on internationalsm pul
is rather plea for national econollie
planning. which is. according to MS
view. not incompatible with interna-
tjonal agreements The volume con-
tains three lectures delivered at Cam
bridge. England in February, 1888. un-
der the provisions of the recently estao-
lished Alfred Marshall lectureship
The text is stated in the first lecture
and sounds IS If Sir Arthur were talk
ing about the United States instead OF
England. He belieTes that representa-
tive government may be preserved ana
the economic system at the same time
be saved from threatening disaster on
three conditions: That parllamcnts
will delegate some Of their functions 10
the executive. without cbdicsting their
ultimate responsibility: that the eXecu-
tive will fit itself for its tasks by vel
coming the assistance Of those VINO
direct the actual economic activities OF
the country; and that these in turn
will assume the task of collectively
controlling and planning their OWL
activities. in association With govzTH-
ment and through an appTopra.e
organization This basic program Is
developed in some detail in the TWO
succeeding lectures.
FIFTH AVENUE BUS. An Excursion
Among the Books of Christopher
Morley. With a Note by the Con-
ductor Garden City: Doubleday,
Doran & Co.
Its often possible to hire one OF the
public busses for private party OF your
own" says the conductor" alias Chris
topher Morley That's what his pub
fishers have done and the party Is in his
honor. The bus-or the bcok-.is large
one and is packed to the last seat-or
page-with the book family OF Chrlsto-
pl1er Morley He is bit worried about
their seating and feels sure that kath-
leen ought to sit next to Gabrielle Bonn
pard and that the two mothers -in-law
from Thursday Evening should be IN
side. as they are not fond of climbing
stairs. Roger Miffiin and Helen will go
on top. where smoking is permitted. and
perhaps the Old Mandarin would enjoy
a talk with Mile. de Sombreuil. NO
riding on the platform-and please hold
the hand rail while you're on the stairs.
To those who like Christopher Morley
sufficiently well-and there are many
this l .2OO-page selection from his stories,
plsys and poems will come as Summer
vacation special blessing. And the print
is not the infinitesimal affair which
orc expects when much reading matter
is packed into a single volume. 1t Is
clear and large and the margins are
generous. so one may have feeling OF
luxury and leisure while turning the
rages. Some of the best of Christopher
Morley is at the party-of his fiction,
..Thunder on the Left" "Parnassus on
wheels" and a number of shorter
stories Eve wish Where the Blue Be
gins" could have been admitted to the
bus): the plays, Good Theater," The
Rocking Horse" Thursday Evening"
.Really, NV Dsar." and 'Wagon-Lits";
of his poems, the "Old Mandarin"
HOW TO CARE FOR THE BABY. BY
Violet Kelway Libby. Washington,
D. c.: The Plymouth Press.
DR.. Truman Abbe has written fore
,rorJ 70 fhiS little h0ok which makes