Evening star., 1935-02-09
THE LIBRARY TABLE
RY SARAH C.. BOWERMdN.


Re-Education of Sherwood Eddy.
BY Sherwood Eddy. New York:
Farrar & Rinehart.
From his 63d birthday Sherwood
Eddy looks back on a life which has
run swiftly, through many shifting
scenes, and looks forward to another
long journey around the world. with
China its chief objective. Forty of
his SO years have been spent in travel,
both geographical and theological"
as a missionary in India, as secretary
for Asia of the International Com
mittee of Y. M. c. AS Of the United
States and Canada, and, since 1920,
as head OF a travelling seminar made
UP of groups of writer's, educators,
men In public life, who wish to study
the European situation. Mr.. Eddy's
| philosophy seems to be what was for
merly called Christian Socialism. He
asks whether the doctrines of Jesus
of Nazareth and Karl Marx are "mu-
! tually exclusive and wholly incom-
patible in their contraSted solutions
of the problems of life" and whether
it is possible to effect "any creative
hI1o COIIoII uCI1tC oyAGLlCcAo DC-
tween religious and radical social
views"
HUMAN EXPLOITATION IN THE
UNITED STATES BY Norman
Thomas. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
Facts in this book are drawn from
'the immense mass of material al
ready available in Government re-
ports, and the books Of competent
authors who have dealt with particu-
, lar phases Of the problem" that is,
| they involve little original research
The Interpretation Of the facts is, Of
| course, entirely from the socialistic
point Of view. Mr.. Thomas begins
with brief account of the exploita-
| ton of land, forests and minerals in
the United States, and from this turns
to the human question. He believes
that women. children, the wage
Garner in general, and the Negro have
| all been victims of exploitation and
that there is smoldering anti
Semitism in America which must be
watched and extinguished" He con-
| cludes with a picture of the exploita-
| ton Of the consumer, the plight of the
small investor and independent pro-
ducer and merchant today, and the
Government as exploiter and the citi-
zens as exploited.
DYNAMICS OF POPULATION. BY
Frank Lorimer and Frederick
Osborn. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
Without motive other than the find
! ing of sociological fact, the authors
have made this extensive study of
| changing birth rates in the United
States and their social and biological
/ significance. Propagandists of oppoS-
ing creeds will undoubtedly find ma
| terial in this work in support of their
own beliefs. The book Is in four
parts: Population Trends Of Amer
lean Groups" Measurable Character
! isticS of American Greups," In
| f1uence of Differential Reproduction
on the characteristics Of the Amer
| ican People" and The Causes and
Control of Population Trends" Fifty
four charts give specific results. For
the five-year period preceding the last
census, rural farm women in the
| United States reproduced at a rate
| sufficient to supply an increase of so
per cent per generation; rural non
farm women about one-half that per-
centage; women in small cities at
| rate just about adequate for replace
ment. and women in large cities with
a reproductive loss of 10 per cent.
A GUIDE TO GOOD ENGLISH. For
College Students. BY George B.
Woods. Garden City: Doubleday.
Doran & Co.
Others besides college students may
find this excellent reference book, by
the dean and professor of English in
American University, useful wher
some question arises regarding good
better or best English. All the pitfalls
in the tricky language which is ours
| are accorded careful attention and
explanation. What Dean Woods says
about dangling modifiers" is especially
recommended to those who wish to
| NlAGS CAdIIly ALSIcdO VI SlOuCIlIlS. FOI
! example. it is not correct to say.
While on the way to the station the
| fire alarm rang" In addition to the
! subjects always treated in text book
on English there are chapters on the
| preparation of manuscript and letter
writing. The chapter on diction, with
its discussion Of precision, purity and
propriety, idiom, terseness and COM
| pactneSs, and tritenesS. is one which
should be studied and mastered by
| those who aspire to success in writing
or speaking. 1t includes rules for the
correct use of shall" and will" not
known, or at least not practiced, by
many people. Abundant illustrations
! and exercises assist In making the
book very practical.
TWENTIETH CENTURY FORCES IN
EUROPEAN FICTION. BY Agnes
Camilla Hansen. Chicago: Ameri-
can Library Association.
| The purpose of this little book is to
classify and explain for the benefit Of
the Intelligent and creative reader
the forces and trends of twentieth
century civilization which seem to be
reflected in European novels which
have been translated into English. A
brief preliminary essay on The De-
velopment of the Novel From the
Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
is followed by sections on social and
economic forces; political. historical
| and racial cOnceDtS and DhenOmena. :.
psychological theories and phenomena;
the new physics; the flight from
reality" urge; esthetic experiment
tation, and national literatures. Un-
| der each section are listed novels bv