Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
0Y SARAH BOWERMAN
Ne70 Volume From Pen of Aldous Huxley.
Thomas Cu7eu Takes Up Modern An.
Some Of the Spring Fiction.

honest men," He has lived there for long pc
RODS and has ceased to feel like foreigner
in the cafes of Madrid, which he compliments
highly. LAS the stock exchange is the central
nervous system of New York, the cafes are
the brains and spinal column of Madrid" His
section the United States he entities
Stamped With the Eagle
BELMONTE THE MATADOR. By Henry
Baerlein New York: Harrison Smith &
Robert Haas.
\h/HETHER there is much difference between
w the bull ring and the prize ring will be
matter of opinion. There is also chance for
difference of opinion about Mr.. Baerlens state
ment that matador is not butcher but an
actor in dance complicated as ballet
can be and composed in the immediate pres
ence of death" But this is not book of argu-
ment; it offers an exciting true tale and much
information about the national Spanish sport.
Belmonte, according to Spanish critics, changed
the technique of bull-hghting. cut out the
tricks and made it Classic" He is now only
in his fortes and retired some time ago, to read
and paint and manage his farms and ranches,
for he has earned a fortune. He came of a
comfortable Seville family in which there were
no toreros but a boy he was in love with
peril" and, with other boys would swim the
Guadalaquiver to the bull pens and, with his
shirt for a cape, do battle with the bulls.
His small size, weak arms and legs and
bumped shoulders made him seem an unlikely
risk in the ring and delayed his acceptance in
the only pursuit which seemed to him to offer
the risk the unforeseen. which he demanded of
life. Mr.. Baerlein narrates his early successes,
his rise to popular favor "the phenomenon.
his many fights in Spain, Mexico and Peru, al
ways before breathlesS crowds his rivalres with
other matodors, though in rivalry the animosity
was on their side, the unruffled superiority
his. His method was his own; he copied no
md tool dyioa To
that he ought to run in the plaza, he replied:
IF the running in the plaza shall be done by
me, what is the bull to-do?" Mr. Baerlein
explains the technique of bull-fghting and how
that Of Belmonte differed from that of other
matadorS. His attitude toward Belmonte Is ad-
miring, toward a great artist, "Cervantes.
Goya Belmonte. Those three men, it has
been said, stand for their age and each of them
calls up panorama of the land we love"
SEAPLANE SOLO. BY Francis C. Chichester.
New York: Harcourt Brace Co.
THE airman-author, with the Unsuitable de-
! sire common to airmen to do something new
to create risks different from those which have
been partly overcome, undertook a solo fight
in his Moth which had already carried him
from London to Sidney, across the dangerous
Tasman Sea. Before starting he obliged to
overhaul Madame Elijah" which was popu-
larry supposed in New Zealand to be held to-
gether by bits of string and wire. When this
was done his problem was to make a plane
with 950-mile range cross a !, 450-m mile ocean"
He studied a globe for hours and finally dis
covered two small islands in the North Tasman,
which he was inclined to think had been re-
Gently placed there for his benefit. These
enabled him to plot his course from New
Zealand to Norfolk Island, to Lord Howe Island,
to Australia. He tells with great animation of
his preparations and of the actual flight, re-
producing his emotions of excitement, antici-
patton, hope, fear. His navigation problem was
serious. If he missed one of the microscopic
islands his flight would be failure and he
would never have the opportunity to try another
flight Of any kind The Tasman Sea is fire.
quented by few steamers, SO a rescue could
not be counted among the hopes. 1t is also
"dirty stretch of water breeding vicious
type of young storm that rampages up and
down for days before the meteorologists get
wind of it. None dirtier for the long distance
pilot unless he include turn round Cape Horn
in his flight" The flight was accomplished and
the destination reached in spite of q delay Of
many days Norfolk Island because the plane
could not take off from the dangerous coast,
and smash-up by hurricane on Lord Howe
Island, which the 100 inhabitants helped him
to repair during period of nine weeks. MIR.
Chichester so enjoys telling Of his adventure
and treats his accidents and miSfortunes with
so much humor and with such complete absence
of grumbling that he almost makes us share his
enthusiasm for solo flights.
A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFTNG. BY H. A.
Overstreet. New York: w. w. Norton Co.
ar. OvERSTREET, like Walter B. Pitkin,
wi is concerned that the mature individual,
who has passed the age when enjoyment means
excitement and to be happy involves doing what
others are doing, should learn to fulfill the pos
sibilities of both his work and his leisure. We
seem to be entering upon an age Of increased
leisure and Mr.. Overstreet hopes that "in the