Evening star., 1933-11-12
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Friday and meteors. ocean liners and the Maid
of Orleans, redwoods and Cardinal Richelieu
zebras and zermatt. The contributors know
their subjects and include Sir j. Arthur Thom-
son, Marjorie Bowen and Prof. A. M. Low.
Nearly every page has several Illustrations,
which in themselves carry large amount OF
education.
ALL THE WAYS OF BUILDING. By L.
Lamprey, Illustrated by Helene Carter.
New York: The Macmillan CO.
THE evolution Of architecture, from caves 10
cathedrals, is here traced, with much inter-
esting detail, for young people. Miss Lamprey
gives such information viii make travel more
profitable and staying in a Summer camp or
cottage more than just loafng. All that boy
or girl who helps build Summer camp dis
covers has been discovered long ago by primitive
forest dwellers The wild men In their forest
huts or caves, the desert nomads in their tents,
the Egyptians and Babylonians, the Greeks and
Romans, the Moors, the Orientals of different
national groups, the feudal lords and the monks
of the Middle Ages, and the moderns all the
way down to the steel and concrete age, have
all sought the same thing-homes. In pre-
historic times that was the only aim. Then
other aims were added-places of Worship places
of amusement, places of government. The black
and white Illustrations admirably fit the text.
We should call this unusually good type OF
book for young people. informative and en-
thralling. Two other Macmillan books for young
people might supplement this-"Men at Work,
(builders of skyscrapers), by Lewis Hine and
How the Derrick Works. by wilfred Jones.
AN ELEPHANT UP TREE. BY Hendrix
Willem Van Loon. New York: Simon 81
Schuster.
HE story of Sir John, a delightful philo-
sophical elephant who travels about among
human beings to learn their habits and to see
whether they are really superior to elephants
Is, on the face of it, for children. The children
would have to be very precocious, however to
taste the full flavor of this new Van LOON
extravaganza. Like Swifts "Gullivers Travels"
its surface story will please the children. but
its satiric significance is for adults. The witty
drawings, by Mr.. Van Loon, will please every
one Sir John Ephelas, jr., was special envoy
selected by his father, Old Sir John to 90 forth
from the jungle and study the ways of the
White Men," and America was decided upon an
the only country capable of showing the heights
OF clvillzation He was met in New York by q
corps OF reporters photographers, sob sisters
and representative Of Elephants just Ele-
phants." He to be taken to his suite or,
the nrnety-second floor his hotel by means
OF block and tackle, but became dizzy at the
seVenty-sixth floor and requested to be housed
IN the basement He made friends with
Noodle, dachshund, and Diogenes, cat. He
was kidnapped and had such a successful fight
with gangsters that when the Federal agents
arrived there was nothing left for them to do
When ne came to draft his report to the asso-
ca1ed elephants of Africa, 1t took hours. an
minutes and IL seconds to read and concluded
with the discovery that glorious and superior
as Is the civilization of the human race. there ia
yet something lacking" The report was fol-
lowed by resolution, presented by young
elephant: BE it resolved, That We Elephants
Remain Elephants Forever" Mr. Van Loon has
written clever modern beast fable