Evening star., 1934-08-19
In the World of Books
BY SARAH BOwERMAN

Catholic Book Of the Month Club.
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOR
EIGN POLICY. BY John Holla-
day Latane. Revised and enlarged !
by David w. Wsinhouse. Garden
City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
MUCH used as a basic text for col |
- lege classes in American foreign |
relations and diplomacy, and as col !
lateral reading for classes in American |
history, this book by the late professor |
of American history and lecturer on
international law In the Johns Hop
kins University has had in its earlier
edition wide recognition as an au-
thoritative study. This new edition,
revised by q Carnegie fellow In in
ternational law, formerly assistant
director Of research Of the Council on
Foreign Relations, contains six en-
tirely new chapters and seven espec-
tally prepared maps, and brings all
the material up to date. The treat
ment Is chronological and historical,
beginning with the foreign relations Of
the young United States Immediately
following the American Revolution,
when the French alliance was formed,
and ending with the labyrinthine
diplomacy Of the treaty of Versailles
and the postwar period. Some Of the
final chapters deal with pan-Ameri-
canism, efforts toward disarmament,
the United States and the League of
Nations and the Permanent Court Of
International Justice, the pact of
Paris, the Sino-JapaneSe conflict in
its relation to the United States, war
debts and reparations, the break
down of isolation" As would be ex-
pected in a work of such scholarship.
there are chapter on sources and a
comprehensive index.
THE TIRED BUSINESS MANS IL
BRARY OF ADVENTURE. DE-
TECTTVE AND MYSTERY
NOVELS. New York: D. Apple
ton-Century Co.
is THE taste for mystery and de-
= tective stories, on the part of the
business man, whether tired or on a
vacation, and on the part of many
women tired only from long hours at
the contract table, typically Ameri-
can? It would be interesting to COL
lect figures from foreign countries
bearing on this type of printed mat
ter. President Roosevelt took
goodly number of detective and mys-
terry stories on his cruise, the news
papers told us. Did Prime Minister
Macdonald allot space to them in
his lIi00a0a vx,HoT1 he IaI
for Canada for rest, and does King
George carry one or two with him
when he goes from one royal residence
to another, or do they irritate him as
does golf? We are sure, at any rate,
that this Appleton Century collection
will cause the eyes of many an Amer
lean man to glisten, as he looks over
the titles.
Care has been taken in making I'D
this special library of new novels to
insure variety of locality, plot and
method of handling. "The Ready
Blade" by A. Edwards Chapman, IS
tale of dangerous days in feudal
England of the year 1903, when the
villain, Sir Fulke de Maltroit, seized
the ancestral home Of Sir John Asshe-
down. Brandon Hall, and Of what
happened afterward Scrambled
Yeggs," by Octavus Roy Cohen, gives
more Of the adventures of Jim Hanvey,
already popular in Cohen stories as q
fat, amiable sleuth, not so lazy as he
looks. Crime at Cobb's House." by
Herbert Corey, has q Virginia country
house as background, drinking party
and q double murder for intrigue.
Thunder In the West" by Robert
Crane, is punctuated from beginning
to end by the rattle of gunfire as cat
tie rustling and murder and romance
and description of the West work
Below Wall Street." by Roger De-
lancey, shows DR.. Hiram Arthur, engi-
neer and private investigator, in action
as he assists the police in finding the
murderer of the financier, Hugo st.
Lawrence. In THE Pleasure Cruise
Mystery" by Robin Forsythe, the de-
tective Is landscape painter on
vacation, to whom fate brings a case
in the shape of the murder of q beau-
tiful Anglo-South American on the
deck just outside his cabin. A Penn
sylvania Dutch detective operates in
"Out of the Dark" by George Gibbs,
and solves the mystery Of the in
generation of young girl in q cellar
for a number of years.
Inspector Higgins Sees It Through"
by Cecil Freeman Gregg, is a story Of
the London underworld and of three
crooks who, in a safe they burglarize,
find the body of confederate instead
of the jewels they expected. THE
Empty House." by Francis D. Grierson,
is unusually gruesome, for from a tall
cupboard in a large empty house,
when the real estate agent opens it to
show it to Jack Vane, a corpse lurches
out, ard imprinted in the dust of the
floor is found double figure a." An
English week end party at Banbrooke
Castle, theft of silver, two murders
and surprising discovery in the
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