Evening star., 1934-01-06
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOWERMAN.
DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ON THE
ORIENT. BY F. r. Eldridge. New

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DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ON THE
ORIENT. BY F. r. Eldridge. New
York: D. Appleton Century Co.
Dangerous" is q provocative word to
use for this frank discussion Of the
Oriental status quo ard the possible
status Of the future, with sympathy pre-
ponderantly on the Japanese side. Mr..
Eldridge, now head of the Japanese De-
partment of Columbia University, was
formerly chief of the Far Eastern divi-
sion of the United States Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. He
has visited every country in the Orient
during the past 20 years. His con-
clusion, after long study Of economic,
social and political trends in the Orient,
! is that Japan is economically justified
| in her course Of action" The reasons
for his Judgment are developed through
chapters covering the history and en-
| vironment Of both Japan and China,
their relations past and present with
each other, the United States and other
nations, their commerce and industry
and their present needs for national
growth and stability. Mr.. Eldridge's
explanation of his title is best given
in his own words. I'm Japan, several
years ago, the Japanese police had a
habit Of taking into custody people who
were too precipitate in forming and
expressing judgments on matters Of ma
tional policy. They were accused Of
harboring dangerous thoughts When
we contemplate sanctions against Japan
we are also harboring dangerous
thoughts we are in danger Of
finding ourselves involved in an interna-
tional conflict that does not concern
us, of making enemies where we might
have retained friendships, of postponing
rather than fastening disarmament
In word, we harbor danger
GUS thoughts of altruism in a ma
terialistic world"
NEW FEET FOR OLD. By John Mar
tin Hiss, B. sc. D. o., M. D. Garden
City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Broken-down feet may be accepted
as one Of the disabilities of advancing
years, to be palliated and endured. A
| difficulty in the way of this non-resist-
rant theory is that so many compare
lively young people are hobbling about
on broken arches and wincing over pain
full bunions. Practically all of this pain
is needless, says DR.. Hiss, orthopedic
specialist. In this small, well printed
well illustrated book, he tells of the
cause and cure Of foot troubles, from
which three people cut of five in these
United States suffer-" Apart from con-
genital deformitieS and accidental in
jur1eS, nearly all foot ills are due to
shoes made without reference to the
normal structure Of the foot. The
wrong type Of shoe acts as an instru-
ment of torture, more or less severely
dislocating the bones of the feet y
Broken arches and bunions may be
| corrected, even in extreme cases, says
| the doctor, hut he adds what will be
| disconcerting to most women, that the
cure will be permanent only if correct
shoes are used thereafter. He quickly
offers encouragement. however, by say
| ing that ''the shoe made with scientific
attention to the normal structure and
stress of the foot can be, and in fact
naturally is, as trim and smart as any
well-dressed woman could desire" DR.
Hiss employs the method of rebuilding
the foot by manipulation and then hold
ing 1t in normal position by the right
shoe. Except in certain special cases he
considers that removal of bone or other
mutilation of the foot structure" is
unnecessary His book is very prac-
ical and will be helpful to many.
THOSE WHO COME AFTER. Henry
Legend. New York: The Dial Press
In the '40s the Blake family belongs
to the good country gentry. When
Squire John goes to town he drives in
a red-wheeled dog cart through the
muddy lanes from Quainton Grange to
the massive railway station in Birming-
ham. When he remains at home. he
| rides to hounds. eats heartily at dinner
drinks his fill afterward and never wor-
ries about his creditors In the late
| '90S the squire'S great niece, Sophie
makes her debut as Carmen in the
Milan Opera House. The events which
take place between those periods are
not those which are appropriate to
placid and refined ruSticity As the
story opens, the squire is on his way
to London to do what he can to aid
been accused Of the murder Of her little
half brother This is not a mystery
story, but the affairs of Sophie, who is
a veritable child of misfortune and heI
daughter, named for her. provide un-
welcome excitement in the squire's fam
lily for many years and prevent his en-
joying in peace his few simple pleas
ures The scene shifts at times to the
Continent, after which we are always
glad to get back to Quainton Grange,
for the English scenes are much better
drawn. The various characters are
fairly convincing The best are Squire
Blake and the vicar, Arthur st. Just
| The plot suffers from a scattering OF
interest.
POETS GOLD. An Anthology OF
| Poems to Be Read Aloud BY David
Ross. New York: The Macaulay Co
In his foreward to Poets Gold -
William Lyon Phelps says: The dollar
may go off the gold standard, and in
both foreign exchange and native prod
uctS be worth less than it vas six
months ago, but good poetry is itself
pure gold. Whether it be boarded by
those who love seclusion, or whether
it be freely circulated, it maintains its
value" Mr.. Ross, the collector, is
known to many through his readings
Of poetry on the air. His selections,
beginning with one from "The Song
of Songs" in the Old Testament, are
almost uniformly good, not only in
themselves, but in their adaptability
| for reading aloud. They range from
the very old to the very new, from
the romantic to the realistic, from the
| SdQ 10 CHe joyous, 1TOW Ile plluO-
sophical to the sentimental, from ORR
entail to European and American. Many
of the authors represented are clas-
sics-Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Mar
lowe. Wordsworth, Burns, Coleridge,
Cowley, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Matthew
i Arnold, Longfellow, Poe, Whittier; but
| there are also many moderns, including
Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg, Edna st.
Vincent Millay, Edwin Arlington Rob-
inson, Robert Frost and Padraic Colum
There are three good indexes, of au-
thors, titles and first lines.
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In prophesying another and last
World War, H. G. Wells, in his recent
book, ''The Shape of Things to Come
(MacMillan), gives its imaginary i'm
mediate cause-an absurd one, but
hardly more far-fetched than the i'm
| r,aadiota nnilca Of tho Mnrld MLnr. of