Evening star., 1934-12-01
DERBY DAY AND OTHER ADVEN-
TURES. BY A. Edward Newton
Boston. Little Brown (, Co

lORES. BY a. EDWARD newton
Boston: Little. Brown L. Co.
A. Edward Newton is the most mel
low and gay OF dilettantes. though that
word seems too frivolous to be applied
to one Of his genuine scholarship. His
dearest hobby is book collecting, but
he also extracts the keenest pleasure
from travel and from writing about
his books. his travels and people. He
has without apparent effort, for he
writes only what pleaseS him, won
for himself place of distinction
among the few genial esSayiStS of the
twentieth century. This volume takes
its title from an essay on Mr.. New
tons attendance at the Derby, in a
white plug hat which, were l to wear
it at home. would be the cause OF
instant riot" There is a picture OF
him as he appeared on that gala day.
An essay follows on Ascot. which was
royal to start with and has remained
So" Then he was off to the Grand
National, at Aintree near Liverpool
''the sportiest horse race that mas
ever been run in the world" Having
had his fill of racing. Mr.. Newton
found some adventures in London and
visited the melancholy Bronte coun-
try, dingy part of Yorkshire. which
strangers would never visit except for
interest in Charlotte and Emily and
Anne Other visits which have helped
to produce these delightful essays
were to Vienna. Budapest. San Fran
cisco and to the Hearst Ranch at San
Simeon, Calf
HITLER Whence and WHITTIER?
BY Wickham Steed. New York
Review Of Reviews Corp.
Wickham Steed. former editor OF
the London Times and of the London
Review of Reviews, has an established
reputation as an authority on Central
European affairs. He is at present lee
turer in Central European history al
Kings College. London. His book on
Hitler is brief and unprejudiced
statement of the sources of Hitler's
theology and a carefully weighed judg-
ment regarding the ultimate end OF
Hitlerism. 1t is in addition a plea
for cooperation between the English
and the French, whom Hitler seeks
to separate as a part of his Ger
manic superiority policy, the Third
Empire and the Totalitarian State
German Nazism, Mr. Steed says, lis
the outcome of morbid national
mood, and of propagandiSt suggestions
working upon mass neurasthenia. 1t
is a thoroughly unhealthy phenome-
nOn.' 1t is the enemy of true democ-
racy. which lis not a system devised to
assure the economic or social pre-
dominance of any one class"
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ART IN AMERICA IN MODERN
TIMES. Edited by IIolaer Cahlll
and Alfred II. Barr, il. New York:
Reynal & Hitchcock.
This brief survey OF all the arts OF
America since the Civil War is spon-
sored by the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs. the American Fed
Grafton of Arts. the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art. the National Advisory
Council on Radio in Education and
several other organizations and the
material included has already served
in series Of broadcasts. The arts
covered are painting, sculpture, archi-
lecture, industrial arts, mural paint
ing, theater arts, decorating, photOg-
raphy and the motion picture. The
contributors know their subjects and
write of them compactly and informa-
lively. The book. profusely Illustrated
is an excellent inexpensive reference
book.
METROPOLIS. An American City in
Photographs. Assembled by Agnes
Rogers with Running Comment by
Frederick Lewis Allen. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
First q synopsis was drawn up by
the cOllabOratOrs, then photographer
was engaged to take pictures, great
many of them. to fit the plan. The
theme Is metropolitan life and the
pictures show people at all kinds OF
work and play. The scene is New
York, but 1t might be any one of 8
number of other cities. The comments
by the author of "Only Yesterday.
are filled with interesting facts. humor
and sidelights on city life. This is
one of the best of the popular picture
books for adults.
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DIAMOND JIM. The Life and Times
of James Buchanan Brady. BY
Parker Morell. New York: Simon
& SchuSter.
The pav 'q0S were according t(
Henry Seidel Candy, an ''age of con.
fidence";; to Diamond Jim Brady,
father of Broadway's night life, they
we're a dazzling, naughty period, when
unlimited money could be made from
peoples pleasures. Mr.. Morell. mem
her ofra family Of jewelers.. arst knew