Evening star., 1935-05-26

sports and considerable bunch OF
chits from the smoke room steward"
In leisurely fashion Mr.. Morley de-
scribes the voyage from pier 80 in
Brooklyn, through the Canal. to
Buenaventura; is it possible. you
naively wonder, that all South
America is going to be like this? In
fact. almost half of the book has been
finished before South America is
reached. but no one will care. One
does not read Christopher Morley for
the substance he spreads over his
pages, but for his method Of spread
ing it. He confesses that he knew
little of Peru before this trip and
does not claim to know enough now
to write its complete history or to
diagnose its present and future. His
comments are impressions-scenic,
economic, archaeological, human-all
expressed with the semi-serious, semi
humorous whimsicality, which belongs
with Christopher Morley. His title
is appropriately the Spanish phrase
Of friendly parting.
TAPS AT REVE1LLE. BY F. Scott
Fitzgerald. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
IN THIS collection Mr.. Fitzgerald
has chosen the l8 short stories
which he considers his best work in
this type of fiction. Five Of the
! stories are about his favorite, Basil
Duke Lee. self-aSsured pre-war
adolescent, who, after his first drink.
| decided to cut out his constant dis
| sipation." because all my family died
of liquor" The next three are about
Josephine, who is approximately
Basils age. but in reality. years older,
and is the deadly female" in an era
when females had less opportunity
than now to be deadly. Most of the
| remaining 10 stories. the best saved
until last, cover phases of American
life during the decade of the '2Os.
| One exception in this group is story
of two underworld ladies of the Civil
War period who followed the Federal
Armies to Characteristic and back
Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant short story
technique is better than his novel
technique. He is master of the COM
preston. suddenness of effect and
restraint required by the short story
form.
DOCTOR MALLORY. BY Alan Hart.
New York: w. W. Norton g. Co.
ROBERT MALLORY. on finishing
his medical course and interne-
ship. goes into general practice in a
country town. Glenwood, near the
mouth Of the Silticoos River. He
feels about medicine as missionaries
| feel about saving souls. And he per-
suades, without much difficulty, Kath-
crime Harper to marry him, though
most of his fellow medicos sagely
confide to each other that he will be
a difficult husband. One of them
ventures to prophesy that Katherine
has so much ambition that she will
push him along and make a big
man out of him" The story. involv-
ing DR.. Mallory's working out of his
career in the Oregon salmon fishing
village. his fight against prejudice
and quackery, his determination to
serve humanity and his answering to
charges of malpractice at a meeting
of the county medical society is a
thoroughly medical novel, full of de-
tails OF the routine of a medical
school and the life Of a doctor In gen.
era practice. But Katherine has am
bitions for herself. through her music,
and fails to be satisfied with the role
OF assisting her husbands ideals. So
DR.. Mallory's professional struggle
is at first, for Katherine soon leaves.
complicated by his domestic struggle.
The story is very human one, told
with sufficient vigor and insight to
insure strong appeal to many
readers.
UNDERSTAND THE CHINESE. BY
William Martin. Translated from
the French by E. w. Dickes. New
York: Harper g. Bros.
CIR ARTHUR SALTER in his intro
- duction to this book by a former
foreign editor Of the Journal de &C.
neve says that William Martin had
unusual sympathy with the Chinese,
which gave him an insight into Chi
nese aspirations and unlocked the
condolences Of those he met" This
sympathy, together with the fact that
Martin. who died shortly after finish
ing this book, was an enthusiastic lib
eral and internationalist. devoted to
the causes of personal liberty and the
rights of smaller states, believer in
the collective system of the League of
Nations. gives the key to this inter-
probation of the Chinese people. Mr..
Martin counts among the privileges
which foreigners enjoy in China that
Of being witnesses of one of the great
est collective dramas of all time" He
contends that China is not now cha
otic, because she has an almost intact
traditional organization and a strong
social framework. Economic prob
lens are proving too huge for the
mind of man all over the world, but
Gin the course Of the coming CEN
turies China will, perhaps, be one Of
the worlds great centers of civiliza-
ton and productivity"
SOURCES OF CULTURE IN THE
MIDDLE WEST; Backgrounds
versus Frontier. Edited by Dixon
Ryan Fox. New York: D. Apple
ton-Century Co.
-FOUR authors contribute the essays
in this volume of the Appleton
Century Historical Essays series. Ben
jamin F. Wright, assistant professor
of government in Harvard University,
writes of Political Institutions and
the Frontier; Avery Craven, profess
sor of American history In the Uni
versity of Chicago, writes of 1.-The Ad-
vance of Civilization Into the Middle
West in the Period of Settlement;
John D. Hicks, professor Of American
history In the University of Wiscon-
sin, writes Of "Ths Development Of