Evening star., 1934-11-24
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH G.. BOWERMAN.

THE JUNIOR BOOK OF AUTHORS.
Edited by Stanley j. Kunitz and
Howard Haycraft. New York:
The H. w. Wilson Co.
The two previous Wilson publica-
tions, Living Authors" and Authors
Today and Yesterday" are among
the most used reference book" in
public libraries, and in private Ii
braries, too, when people are so fortu-
, nate as to own them. This Junior
Book" does for children's literature
| what the former ones did for adult
literature. 1t furnishes biographies
or autobiographies of over $50 au-
thors and illustrators of juvenile
books, who were selected for inclusion
! by a canvass of prominent children's
! and high school librarians and other
educators throughout the country.
The biographies are illustrated by
! photographs. Most of the authors
covered began writing after 1865,
when "Alice's Adventures in Won
derland" was published, but some
old favorites who wrote earlier are
admitted no book on children's lit
erature would be complete without
| Dickens and Hans Christian Ander-
| sen. A complete index and a list
| of pronunciations of names are pro-
vided, and at the very end is re-
printed 1.-THE Children's Almanac of
Books and Holidays" compiled by
| Helen Dean Fish, which lists some
| important children's book event for
each day in the year. In going
through the book one is surprised to
find how many important writers
of adult literature have also written
successful books for children. Boys
and girls from the primary grades
through high school will find the
volume invaluable as a companion
! to reading and study.
THE EXECUTIVES DESK BOOK.
A Practical Manual of Correct
Usage in Business. Oficial and
Social Activities Edited by Will
liam Dodge Lewis. Philadelphia:
The John C. Winston Co.
| 1t seems that any executive who
failed to find in this reference book
all the minor information he needed
would be exotic in his tastes. Capt.
talization. punctuation. spelling and
correct forms of writing and speaking
come first, as most elementary; then
forms of business writing. including
reports and briefs, and parliamentary
procedure: a digest of business laws
and legal papers; section on flnan-
cial and business management; some
useful miscellaneous information,
such as the preparation of manu-
script. alphabetic filing, calendar
| of holidays. the planning of itineraries
and a historical chronology for all
nations: finally, the Winston simpli-
, fed dictionary. with its signs and
symbols, tables of weights and meas
ures, foreign words and phrases,
census reports. gazetteer and atlas of
the world. If you wish to know what
time it is in Budapest when it is
noon in New York, turn to page 1T:
| If you are not sure how to address
letter to minister plenipotentiary
without calling up the State De-
partment) look on page 1853: If you
wish to visualize your business by
graph. look on page 395. Most
executives desks are crowded, but
| little space on a bookshelf nearby
would be we'll assigned to this book
HENRY FOR HUGH. BY Ford MADDOX
Ford. Philadelphia: j. B. Lippin-
colt Co.
In The Rash Act" Mr.. Ford re-
corded the untoward suicide of Hugh
| Monckton Allard Smith and the cir
! cumstances. very peculiar ones. which
forced Henry Martin Alum Smith to
assume the dead mans place in life
In Henry for Hugh" he reveals how
far from simple was Henry Martins
new role, what with the financial OBJ
legations, the social environment and
especially the women he inherited
from his predecessor. AS Henry re-
fleets on his complex responsibilities
and the train of events which brought
them upon him. the reader is gradu-
ally informed about all that hap
pened in The Rash Act" He thus
has the advantage enjoyed by one in
to somewhat extended minutes of the
last meeting.
Recuperating from his accident, in
Hugh Monckton's villa at st. Jean du
Var, Henry is stalked by an athletic
lady in gray, who begins talking to
him about the affairs of Gloria,
Claude, Eustace, Clotilde and num-
Der of other persons whose names
awaken no memories. The lady her
self appears to expect something of
him, but what? Jeanne Becquerel,
| whom he has taken over" from Hugh
Monckton, is even more embarrassing
than the gray lady. The only person
! who knows that he is not Hugh
Monckton is Eudoxie She has insist
ed on his growing pretender's beard.
He is more and more drawn to her
because with her alone can he relax
all the painful efforts necessary in
order that he shall not badly let down
Hugh Moncktons reputation. There
is an ending, of course. because every
thing must end, but it is not at all
inevitable and the phantasmagoria
might go on indefinitely. Mr. Ford is
a wizard with words and he here uses
them with his utmost skill to create
an atmosphere charged with confusion
and n1ystification.
WILD LIFE OF OUR WORLD.
Edited by John r. Grassland and
j. M. Parrish. London: Collins
Clear-Type Press.
A picture book. story book and ref
erence book for young people, be-
ginning with the wild life of prehis-
trio ages. Wild animals, birds, rep
tiles and insects of mountains. plains
and jungles and fish of all the seas
are described in interesting articles
by British geographers and biologists
and Illustrated in pictures which
show habitats.
IN EASTERN SEAS. With a Visit
to Insulinde and the Golden
Chersonese. BY Isabel Anderson,
IL. D., Lift. D. (Mrs. Larz Ander-
son).
End-paper maps show Mrs. Ander-
sons journey through India, the East
Indies, the Philippines, China and
Japan, and her own photographs
illustrate the scenes which most ap-
pealed to her taste for the historical
and the artistic. The rock temples
of Ellora, the caves of Atlanta, the
| buried city of Anuradhapura, the