Evening star., 1933-10-22
SO much humanity that what he says is very

SO much humanity that what he says is very
different from ordinary propaganda.
English statesmen have also execrated What
Would be the Character of New War;" 1t is
definitely anti-war propaganda, by ID experts
who have had experience in the art" of war
and know how ironically untrue is the statement
that any war can be a war to end war" The
authors are British American, German French,
Japanese Swiss, Swedish, Danish and Greek.
They include statesmen, army officers and pro-
fessors. They are not terrorists, trying to pro-
duce Nightmares among the great masses of
people in all countries who do not decide
whether there shall be war but nevertheless have
to make the sacrifices, at the time and for years
afterward. They write with calmness and a
knowledge of appalling facts. The chapter Of
DR.. Gertrud Woker of Switzerland. on Chemical
and Psychological Warfare" shows the sinister
progress" which has been made since the
World War, in these fields and leaves no doubt
of the results of that progress" in another war.
When this book appeared in England, the New
Statesman and Nation pronounced it "the most
terrible book which has ever been written"
HUDSON RIVER LANDINGS. BY Paul Will
stach. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co.
A S the Potomac is to Virginians and Mary
landers, SO is the Hudson to New Workers.
loved not only for its shores and waters, beau
tlIul uHUeI SUNSHINE or ClOuQS, Dut also Tor lCS
wealth OF historical and romantic association.
Mr.. Wilstach will win the gratitude of all who
know the Hudson for this turning from Tide
water Virginia to Tdewater New York "Hud-
son River Landings" is written in his usual
informal narrative style with much attention
to social customs and the local color of history
and very little to the development of political
institutions, though these are not entirely neg
lected. The excellence of nearly all Mr.. Will
stachs work is that of social history and
romantic historical narrative. His first chap-
ter, Learning the River is partly geo-
graphical. partly the story of early history.
The course of the Hudson is described with
full value given to its picturesque variety. from
its source in Lake Tear of the Clouds Mount
Marcy, in the Adirondacks, down through $50
miles of impetuous torrent foaning over rocky
barriers to Troy and Albany where it becomes
serene and expansive as it moves on with
majestic reticence over the other $50 miles to
the Atlantic In its lower course it reaches
in the highlands span as narrow as that at
the head of its navigabe waters then broadens
into Haverstraw Bay and Tappan Sea, before
it settles down to steady, mile-wide flow
ending in the Upper Bay.
OF early dScoverers and explorers in the
Hudson Valley. Verrazzano was the earliest and
Henry Hudson, Englishman working for Hol.
land. was the most famous. The Dutch and
English periods of the Hudson Valley
both full of romance at least as viewed from
today. Doubtless We appreciate the romance
better than did the settlers of those times,
who we're probably more concerned with the
hardships. Dutch fur trading, PATRON life,
and the houses food, festivities, and customs
of the ordinary Dutch burghers and farmers
furnish substance to Mr.. Wistach for as COLI
orful story they did to Washington Irving.
In the English era pirates infested the river
from its mouth to Albany and Capt. Kidd was
intrusted with the task of cleaning up the
pirates. He set out from New York Harbor
in search of pirates and nothing heard Of
him during the ensuing two years. The ironic
fact was that the pirate-catcher had himself
turned pirate" The history Of the river and
its valley, during the Revolution and on through
the nineteenth century, is told epsodcally and
impressionistieally. The last half Of the book
is devoted to the landings along the Hudson
and the great estates of former times.