Evening star., 1934-03-25

a reduction. AS chemist MI Harding has
had much experience in laboratory research
IN the Government service and in industry.
He is the author of The Degradation of
Science" "Fads Frauds and Physicians" and
THE Joy of Ignorance
MINUTE MYTHS AND LEGENDS. Dramatic
Moments in the Affairs of the Gods Arch
Demons. Goddesses. d mi Gods and Heroes
of This and Other Worlds BY Marie
Schubert. New York: Grosset g. Dunlap.
4 ARS SCHUBERT dedicates this collection Of
iVi folk tales and legends delightfully."- told, to
her own children. She has gone for her mar
ratives to the myths Of many lands ancient
and medeval-the Chaldean. Egyptian, Hindu
Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, japanese Polynesian,
African, Greek, Roman Scandinavian, Anglo
Saxon, Teutonic Celtic and American Indian
She herself has drawn in bold black and white
the more than $50 illustrations Every race
has had its folk lore, which has been handed
down by word of mouth cuttings on stone or
old manuscripts, and the similarity of many of
these myths give support to the theory that all
races have a common origin. Adults reading
this book will think Of that possibility and of
the alternative, that all savage or primitive
peoples follow much the same processes of
thought Children will not bother their heads
about chronological theories, but will thoroughly
enjoy the stories and will be learning much at
the same time. They will be charmed by the
tales OF the Egyptian soul bird, the Greek
Pandora, Psyche and Cupid and Jason, the
African Juju conjurer, the dragon mother of
China and Japan, the cannibal goblin of Poly
nesia, the Scandinavian Balder the Beloved,
the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and the American
Indian Hiawatha. Two other volumes in the
minute series are Minute Biographies and
Minute Wonders of the World.
DAVY CROCKETT. By Constance Rourke
Illustrated by James Macdonald New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
YOUNG people, boys and girls, never tire of
the story of Davy Crockett. His actual
adventures pioneer in the river country of
Tennessee soon after the Revolution, when the
Cherokees and Greeks were still on the war
path, were sufficient to make a highly-colored
narrative, but to these has been added an
accumulation of tales Of semi mythical exploits.
true to the character of Crockett if not in their
details. Miss Rourke. thorough student Of
American historical folk lore is also a good
story-teller. She has produced book, with a
tempting map on the end papers, which will
hold the willing attention of any boy or girl,
and many an adult, while much information is
being conveyed about the early history of
certain section of the United States The map,
which is Of the United States in the times of
Davy Crockett shows that his travels were ex-
tended. His name is written on the States from
Maryland to Alabama and from his native
Tennessee to what is Texas. He served
a scout in the Creek War, 1913; became the
greatest bear hunter in the West, where he
penetrated far into the unexplored country and
finally fell at the Alamo during its storming by
Santa Anna in 1886. One of the many songs
about him, to lively tune called Gray Goose"
contained the lines:
Remember gallant Crockett's bones
Have found a glorious bed there"