Evening star., 1934-06-23
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOWERMAN.
THE YOUTH OF OLD AGE. BY
johnson Brigham, Lift. D. Boston:
Marshall Jones Co.

THE YOUTH OF OLD AGE. BY
johnson Brigham, Lift. D. Boston:
Marshall Jones Co.
Although johnson Brigham is more
than SO years old he is still actively
and effectively carrying on as State
librarian of Iowa. On every page of
this book there is evidence of his zest
in life, for he enjoys such good health
and such undiminished eyesight as
not only to be able to perform the
duties of his office, but also ito read
and read-read everything in print
the daily newspapers, the weekly news
digesters, the old stand-bys, the
monthly magazines also the
literature of today. and. better yet,
the literary survivals of our yester-
days" And it is of the fruit of this
reading that this book is largely made
up. DIR. Brigham has garnered ex-
tracts from the prose and verse of
nearly 800 authors of every age of
the worlds literature. including the
most recent writer's. who have sung or
philosophical on old age. Each quo
tation has its comment Of approval
or of protest, If it Is pessimistically
keyed. The book is commended to
elderly readers-if in this day there
are any who will confess themselves
such-with the thought that they will
read it in the spirit of the author and
anthologist, who says that "the study
has been to me a renewal of youth.
joy I would gladly pass on to others,
who, like myself, have passed life's
meridian"
A HISTORY OF THE VICE PRES
IDENCY OF THE UNITE D
STATES. BY Louis Clinton Hatch.
Phi. D. Revised and Edited by
Prof. Earl H. Shoup, Department of
Political Science. Western Reserve
University New York: The Amer
ican Historical Society.
The American people seem singular
ly uninterested in the vice presidency,
considering that 1t has six times in
our history, through the death of a
President, been the direct road to the
presidency. Attention was centered
on the office only to ridicule it by
Kaufman and Ryskind in their satire
comedy, "Of Thee 1 Sing" 1t has
been seriously treated, both nistori-
cally and constitutionally, in many
magazine articles and in sections of
books on the presidency and the Sen
ate. The late Henry Barrett Learned
of Washington wrote several articles
on the subject and was especially in
terested in the casting vote. This vol
ume by DR.. Hatch, incomplete at the
time of his death, is the only one en-
tirely devoted to the vice presidency.
Its material is handled in two parts:
First study of the origin, nature
and functions of the office, and. sec
ond. historical study OF vice presi-
dental nominations and elections.
The primary purpose of the book is
to furnish as complete historical data
as possible about what has been called
our constitutional fifth wheel" In
cidentally. much of interest is incor-
porated about the personalities Of the
Vice Presidents. from "stocky, petulant
John Adams. who bore his assignment
of second place to Gen. Washington
with wry countenance, down
through the years to John Nance
Garner. ruddy-faced cowman from
the Rio Grande country" For the
student of American political history
this volume forms companion to
Stanwoods History OF the Presi-
dency"
No ONE TO BLAME. An African