Evening star., 1933-05-20
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOFERMAN.

ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY. BY John
Maynard Keynes. New York: Har-
- court, Brace &c Co.
about poets, painters and musicians
from the author of Economic ConSe-
quences Of the Peace" The book is
divided into two sections: The first
contains sketches of politicians. the
Council lof Four at Paris in 1919, Lloyd
George, Bonar Law, Lord oxford
(Asquith), Edwin Montagu, Winston
Churchill, and Trotsky's views on Eng
land; the second gives brief biographies
OF economists, Nautilus, Alfred Marshall
F. Y. Edgeworth, F. P. Ramsey. The
first section will undoubtedly be of r,,ore
interest to the average person. With
two or three exceptions, these essays
are based on personal acquaintance
The essay on Nautilus. one of the most
valuable for its economic material and
Interpretation, selects those items OF
information which seemed most to con
tribute to portrait and, in particular
to enlarge little on the intellectual
atmosphere in which he grew up, at
home and at Cambridge" In view OF
the widely varying opinions about the
teachings Of Nautilus which prevail to-
day, there is significance in Mr.. Keynes
explanation: If only Nautilus, instead
Of Ricardo, had been the parent stem
from which nineteenth-century eco-
nomics proceeded, what a much wiser
todayH We are told that Malthus
about 1900, considered that prices and
profits are determined by effective dc :
mand" and speculated IN the reason
why prices for provisions had risen SO
much more than could be accounted
for by deficiency in the harvest He
found the cause in the increase in
working class incomes as a consequence
of parish allowances being raised il
proportion to the cost of living" The
essay THE Council of Four, Paris,
1918" gives interesting descriptions
from observation, of Clemcaceau, those
aspect was that of "a yAy old man
conserving his strength for important
occasions; Lloyd George, making a
private ad hominem argument to Pres
ident Wilson; the President, who, like
Odysseus looked wiser when he
was seated" and Orlando, more or less
left out in the cold. "Clemenceau," Mr.
Keynes says, was by far the most
eminent member Of tsle Council of Four,
and he had taken the measure Of his
colleagues"
YOUR JOB: How to Get 1t and How
to Keep 1t. BY r. o. Pickard. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
The author of this book is not an
economist par excellence, but he has
had much specialized economic exc
perience as personnel director and ad-
vertising manager for several large in
dustrial companies and prominent
New York hotel He first suggests a
little self-analysis for the job seeker
What are his views about the nature
of a job-does 1t mean to him just a
pay envelope, with no interest in the
work and the dull necessity of putting
in SO many hours day, no more. no
less? In that case it is safe to assume
that employers soon find out his atti-
tude and take him at his own valua-
tion, which is low one. To another
group their work is the thing of most
importance, chance for some con-
tribution to the business of living. Such
persons are likely to be the last to lose
jobs and the first to find them They
are wanted by employers. There is
some discussion of the question of
changing a vocation and Mr.. Pickard
advises against change merely because
of discomfort, without logical reasons.
II failure to receive promotion is the
reason, he suggests that perhaps the
trouble is with the person himself. If
not, other possible causes should be well
considered. The chapters all deal with
practical problems-how to locate an
opening, preparation for interviews, the
interviews themselves. following up
prospects, starting a new job, holding
a job, gaining promotion, advice to
executives, the recent graduate who is
hunting job, the girl in business, va
rious fields and their offerings, learning
to sell. The book begins and ends witt
the theme, What does a job mean?"
which shows that Mr.. Pickard places
great emphasis upon the attitude OF a
man or a woman toward his or her
work. BY implication he often notices
the importance of personality, but a
whole chapter might well have been
given to that crucial consideration.
Many a person has failed in life be-
cause Of disagreeablc personality.
BOwSPRIT ASHORE. BY Alexander
H. Bone. Garden City: Doubleday,
Doran & Co.
Entrance into the world Of romance
from the world of the commonplace
has been for many boy through run
ming away to sea. So it was for the
Scotch boy, Alexander Bone, who
travelled the world on sailing ships for
II years. then signed on aboard a
steamship. Recently, on shore leave,
he had the happy idea of writing about
some of his sea experiences and his
writing developed into q book whose
setting is the seven seas, and whose
characters are many of the sailors he
knew on his various ships and many
of the people he met ashore. His first
ship was the barque Killoran, of Clyde;
then came the Loeb Ness, of the Loeb
Line; the Lovernbank on which he
sailed into San Francisco just in time
for the earthquake of 1906; the Shenan-
doah, the tallest of ships; and the
Strathyre of Glasgow, which was load
ing at HankoW when the Chinese Revo-
luton broke into action. During the
World War he was first lieutenant
with the mine SweeperS in the North
Sea and later with the gunboats on the
Danube during the Bella Kun disturb
ances Since the war ne has con-
tinued his wanderings, among them
participation in the activities of the
rum feet in the waters off New York.
DClOllSS W q
Of people who do things. One OF his
brothers is Muirhead Bone, the etcher;
another, James. is editor Of the Man
chester Guardian; Jock is an Edin-
burgh printer, David is master OF
the r. M. S. TuScania and author OF
THE BrasSbounders" and his niece,
Freda, has done the woodcuts which
illustrate his book. 1t is said that
Alexander Bone was moved 70 write
his book by astonishment that his
brother David, a seaman like himself,
could produce a book, and the con-
viction that If David could, he could.
He makes no pretenSion to literary
art. and writes as simply as he would
talk. but he knows his subject matter
which is SO full of color and action
that imagination is hardly needed.
SHORT STORY HITS: 1882. An In
terpretative Anthology. Ed. by
Thomas H. UZZell. New York:
HarcnlIrt Rraca a. Co