Evening star., 1934-05-06
Edith Wharfon'S Backzvard Glance.
Study of International armament
Industry NezoSprng Fiction.


art are discussed in relation to each other
Other divisions of the subject are substance
and form, the natural history of form, the
organization of energies, the common sub
stance of the arts and the varied substance of
the arts. The last four chapters more
general in their philosophic content and sum
up the place of art in its relation to humanity
as a whole. to philosophy to criticism and
to civilization. In the end works of art
the only media of complete and unhindered
communication between man and man tina.
occur In a world full of CULTS and walls
that limit community of experience"
THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR By Sir
Wilfred Grenfell New York: The Mac
milan Co.
DROBABLY no one knows more about Labra-
! dor and its people than Dr. Grenfeh. who
has spent much of his time for nearly 40 years
there physician and missionary. Knowing
all the hardships and disadvantages of the
country, all the handicaps of its people he Is
yet able to have the romantic view. The very
isolation appeals to his temperament. This
book one of a number which he has written
about Labrador. presents its history as series
of pageants. The first pageant is that of the
rocks which tell a geological story Of mountain
roots sinking into the sea, then being covered
by layers Of mud sand gravel and lavas and
finally heaved up from the water as welded
states, sandstones, conglomerates and quartz
Indians. the Eskimo. the Vikings, the Big
Four" Columbus Cabot. Cortereal and Car
tier), the French. the English, and the nat
ural history pageants of the underseas, the soil.
the animals. and the air.
Having noticed that when Labrador is men,
toned people shrug their shoulders and shiver,
DR.. Grenfell imparts that practically no part
Of Labrador is north of Scotland and three
out of our five hospitals are south of the lati-
tude Of London" Yet we notice that in some
of the attractive illustrations the snow looks
pretty deep Labrador Is not very far from
the rest Of the world; the map shows how
near it is to Europe by water. Whaling and
fishing the chief industries and DR.. Gren-
fell deplores the neglect that has thus far
missed the opportunity Of reindeer farming.
for which Labrador is an ideal place. Both
the venison and the skins could be quickly
carried by water freight to the London mar
ket, and only the reindeer, the yak and the
musk-ox can make the Barren Lands profita-
BILE Dr. Grenfell speaks we'll of the animals
OF Labrador. There poisonous snakes,
no animals which act as hosts to the tape
worm as in Greenland nor to germs of hydro
phobia anthrax. The mosquitoes do not
carry malaria and there are no vicious ticks
or parasites underfoot In fact Labrador
sounds like a health resort. More has been
written about the people Of Labrador in Dr.
Grenfell's other books. Labrador Days." "A
Labrador Doctor" and Labrador: The Coun-
try and the People" All have the charm Of
enthusiasm and simple. vigorous description.
SUPERSTITION CORNER. BY sheila Kaye
Smith. New York: Harper & Bros
THIS somber tale Of the persecution Of Cath
oics in England under Elizabeth lacks
the vigorous sense of reality and the close
to the soil of Sheila Kaye-Smiths best
novels. such as Sussex Gorse" "Green Apple
Harvest" and Joanna Golden" Its person.
ages. Squire Peter Alard. conforming to
Professionalism to his lands and perhaps
life; his wife, Lady Elizabeth who cared little
for either religious dissenSions or her husband,
and their children, Simon and Catherine,
ardent Catholics in spite of the prosecutions,
are the forerunners of the Alards in the stories
of later periods "The End of the House of
Alard" and "Gipsy Wagon" The title refers
to the pupular name given to crossroads
where the Vinehall road meets the Leasan road
in Sussex, at which stood big stone cross,
when and by whom built known to none of
the people of the county. At the beginning
of the story this cross was cast down and.
broken to pieces by a party of soldiers with
crowbars and iron-tipped slaves. In the vii
lagos round about they had found that most
survivals of Popery had already Disappeared;
it seemed a marvel that this one had not been
overthrown." The Spanish Armada had just
sailed upon England and been routed by Sir
Francis Drake and the southwest wind sent
by God, so feeling ran unusually high.
Catherine Alard is the center of the story.
Because she was open Catholic in those
perilous times, and mannish, no husband had
been found for her. in spite of her prospective
wealth. Yet she wished to marry, would have
welcomed advances from Kit Oxenbrgge.
cousin, steward of the Alard household, and
her fathers choice for her, and almost moved
to listen to the wooing of Master Nicholas