Evening star., 1933-05-07
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Exploration and Life in the Arctic
Buceameer and Gove,uor- Vide Variety
mMes0 Spring Fiction.

based on original documents. Mr.. Roberts
allows the narrative to lose nothing in the way
Of Sensationalism in the telling. The swash-
buckling and the horrors are equal to those Of
. Sabatni novel.
ADVENTURES OF IDEAS BY Alfred North
Whitehead. New York: The Macmillan Co.
THE adventures Of this book are twofold, the
influence of ideas in promoting the slow
growth Of humanity toward what We call civili-
zation, and the authors adventure in framing
q speculative scheme Of ideas which shall be
explanatory Of the historical adventure"
philosophy of history is the result. DIR. White
head. professor of philosophy In Harvard Uni
versity. has intended it for the general reader:
and for the general reader with some elemen-
tary foundation of sociology and philosophy it
will prove an addition to knowledge and
stimulation to thought. It Is another study.
50 necessary in the process OF establishing
sociology as q science, In the evolution OF dif-
ferent social manifestations IS government. the
family finance, religious observances. warfare
agriculture commerce In this case the evolu-
ton Is traced of our entire present society from
the influence of certain basic ideas which have
themselves undergone change. For example,
there has been evolution from ideas of force
toward ideas OF persuasion. though stern facts
make us admit that there u still ample oppOr-
tunity for further evolution In that direction.
Perhaps the most profound truth in the book
Is this THE history Of ideas Is . history OF
mistakes" The changes in human ideas with
regard to witchcraft, trial by ordeal slavery.
types Of punishment for crime, the rights Of
people in their own government the rights of
women sare all illustrations of what DR.. White
heads theories include. That more changes
are IN process of development, in some in
stances Of very rapid development. every one
must be aware. Sometimes the changes are
sporadic, temporary; sometimes they are the
effect Of ever augmented universal forces. which
60 on to ultimate conclusion but never turn
back.
AS THE EARTH TURNS. By Gladys Hasty
Carroll. New York The Macmillan Co.
JAMES THOMSON eighteenth century Eng
- hsh poet. wrote in the years 1726-173o his
four-part long poem. THE Seasons" 1t Is
pleasing exception to the Journalism OF the typi-
cal eighteenth century poetry. In the division
for each season are q number OF poetic pic
lures Is the snow scene in winter" the sheep
washing In Summer" the coming Of the rain
in Spring" and the storm at harvest time IN
Autumn" Gladys Carroll has taken this same
basic earthly theme for her novel. AS the Earth
Turns" and follows through the four seasons
the life of the Shaw family on their farm in
Maine. The opening scene IS February bliz-
xard Outside the house 1t was storming,
lightly across acres of old snow left from De-
cember" During all seasons the family life
goes on in the kitchen-in Winter because 1t Is
the only warm place in the house. and at other
seasons because there all feel most at home.
The parlor is used only when the daughter Lie
and all the sons come home together and some
one must sleep there on the sofa or for fu-
neral; otherwise it is kept sacredly unused. The
bed rooms, unheated for sleeping hours
only and no one fingers long over dressing and
undressing. From the kitchen windows Mrs.
Shaw, always making clothes for her daughter
Lois May, looks sourly. and Jen, always cook
ing and cleaning. looks placidly across toward
the farm of their Polack neighbors, the Janow-
skis. These Janowskis who have taken over
an abandoned farm and are living In the barn
until they can build house. furnish the sub
plot Of the story. Stan Janowski, son Of the
family and its mainstay, Is thoroughly indi-
vidual, yet seems to represent the best type
Of Immigrant, who becomes rapidly American
lied and revives early New England standards
Of hard work and thrift
The group Of characters created by Gladys
Carroll, herself from Maine Is unusual because
no one of them fails in reality at any point in
the narrative Mark Shaw. all farmer, Is the
father of seven children. His first wife, Minnie
Foote, lies buried down in the pasture. He un-
derstands everything about his farm but fails
to comprehend his children and much that
goes on in the domestic life. After all, he can
follow the seasons in his planting cultivating,
harvesting, fence making. gathering of barks
for his Spring tonic, without thinking much
about people. We feel that q council of justice
should have set on the case when Mark Shaw
gives to his grumblng. lazy son George, on a
neighboring farm. who has lost . COW through
his own shiftessness, the one-horned COW which
Is producing butter, which is paying the ex-
penses Of Lois May at the Normal School at
Rumfret Lois May and Bun are the children
Of Mark Shaws second wife, the rather weazen-
ed red haired Cora Webster, from Kezar Falls.
John, the child Of the second marriage is
Marks pride, for John, he is sure is like him. q
born farmer. No one recognizes the fact, but
Jen, 19-year-old daughter, is the real head of
the family. She is q true daughter of the soil,