Evening star., 1935-04-14
NOTES FROM THE REALM OF LITERATURE AND ART
IN SPRING BOOKS
Daphne du Maurer Writes Of Her Father and Several New
Novels Make Their APPEARANCE Toward Understanding
Japan and a "Tsar of Freedom"

study technique, but to discover II
possible what science is doing for
social needs. His Investigations con-
cerned the relation of science to food,
building, clothing, health, commune
cations, industry, war, man and So
ciety, and international needs. An
Introductory chapter, Science: Friend
or Enemy?" is contributed by Sir
William Bragg, F. r. s.. who is unable
to answer his own question, but offers
the comment that it may be true that
what was good for our fathers Is
good enough for u.s." but 1T would not
be good enough for the fathers If
they were still alive. In his sum-
ming up. which is in the form Of
conversation with Prof. H. Levy, Sir
Thomas D. Barlow, X. B. E., and
Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, F. r. S., Mr.
Huxley concludes that science should
be applied to human life "all round,
and not merely to the problems where
it will yield an immediate money
profit" also that applied science cam
not remain national, but must have
international significance, and that
scientists and laymen alike should
come to recognize more fully that
science is not "disembodied sort Of
activity" but "a social function in
timately linked up with human history
and human destiny"
THE NEW AMERICA. BY the Right
Hon. Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland,
New York: The Macmillan Co.
CIR ARTHUR EEL-MAITLAND
- was invited to come to this coun-
try by the Rockefeller Foundation
of New York to study and give an
opinion on our recovery program. He
spent several months here and trav-
eled from the East to the West Coast
and from Minnesota to Louisiana,
talking with all who had reliable in
formation to offer. In The New
America" he discusses the various
policies of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, the N. r. A., banking and cur
rency measures, agricultural policy,
unemployment and relief. He believes
that the American recovery program
is unique political phenomenon of
the greatest importance to all other
countries. He also says that it is not
merely recovery program. but also a
program of reform and reconstruction,
and that recovery is being retarded by
the introduction OF specifically re-
form measures, which might better
be postponed until the tide of trade
flows so strongly that confidence will
not be impaired" He thinks that
the public works program, or "prim-
ing the pump" is futile if, when
the engine is started, there is no flow
of petrol to supply the carburetor
when the printing Is exhausted"
Finally, he says that America cannot
| recover in isolation, any more than
Great Britain could maintain her
policy of splendid isolation" half
century ago. Before many years
have passed the United States will
be as preoccupied as Great Britain
is today with the problem of prevent
ing wars between other countries.
The weight which the United States
can throw into the scale of peace is
overwhelming. When will she come
to realize this and to play her part?"
GRANDSONS. A Story of American
Lives. By Louis Adamic. New
York: Harper & Bros.
IN THE NATIVES RETURN" bit
OF autobiography. Louis Adamic
told of his visit to his native Yugo-
slavia after 20 years in this country,
to which he came at the age of IA.
He was moved by the natural beauty
of the countryside and the simple,
wholesome life of the Yugoslavian
peasants, but saw as their tragedy the
war cloud always lowering over the
country. Since he wrote the book. the
! cloud has drawn nearer and grown
blacker. "GrandSons" is novel of
two brothers and their cousin, three
! present-day young Americans of for
| eign descent, whose grandfather came
to the United States as an immigrant
from the district of Carniola, Mr..
Adamic'S own birthplace. Peter and
Andy Gale and Jack McEeish have
no country but America, want to be
EAAAlCi Aldklob buO ok 0uIC WIldU
place there is for them. From the
development of their story it might
be commented that they do not go
about it in the right way to find a
worthy or distinguished place. Michael
Pupin, who died recently, found one.
Peter goes to college, is wounded
in the World War, becomes a news
paper man, is always moody
dreamer. He loves America, not as it
is, but as it has the possibility of be-
coming. He tries to find self-expres-
sion in poetry, but finally falls back
on the escape vices of his generation,
drink, speed and nervous excitement.
Andy, less fine in temperament, be-
come a gambler and racketeer and
Is disposed of by bigger shot than
himself. Jack is labor leader and
meets his death through T. w. w. ac-
tivities. Peter, disappearing for sew
eral years through amnesia, RECEIVERS
his personality only to die of tubercu-
losis at Saranac. He leaves the ma
terial for novel, "Grandsons," which
he asks the chronicler of this tale to
write. The chronicler, friend of the
Three young men, Is, OF course, Mr..
| Adamic himself. Written with in
tense seriousness and emotion and
with strongly realistic style, Grand
sons" Is modern tragedy of restless
ness, depression of spirit and blind
cropping for satisfaction which is
never found.
FOLLOW THE FURIES. BY Eleanor
Carroll Chiffon. Indianapolis: /:
The Bobbs- Merrill Co