Evening star., 1936-03-28
WINTER SATIRIZES IDOLS|
Portraits of Famous Playwright and D. H. Lawrence Done
in Manner Likely to Hide Sermon on Human Frai1ty
+ Story of American Press Told in Excerpts.

Of bad reporting as well IS Of good.
It is no precept work for students of
journalism It is, indeed, . sort OF
representative slice of American news
handling through history.
Few of the reprinted articles are
signed. Who wrote them, one WON
ders? No writer can ever escape
asking that question when he comes
on COPY that has quality. It may 5e
the manuscript Of 6 medieval monk
rescued from obscurity in some
moldering library; it may be an item
in q county paper today. But If it mas
style, 1t can never let a reader who
is also a writer go without raising
that question in him. Whose is it?
Who did it? It's good, you know.
This fellow knows how to write.
Well -.
II must have been tremendous fun
to prepare Mr.. Greene's book. One
envies him.
CRIMES NEMESIS. BY Luke S. May.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
A NOTED criminologist writes here
of modern methods of crime de-
lection and debunks pretty completely
the concept of the perfect crime"
According to Mr.. May. no crime is
without It's clue, and the failure of de-
tectives to solve certain evil deeds has
been due to failure to find the clue,
not to its non-existence. For 1t Is
there, he says. 1t is always there.
Following out this thesis, he de-
scribes the solving of a considerable
number of modern crimes which have
come under his observation. He gives
the reader good working idea OF the
methods currently employed, and OF
the long training and inherent talent
needed for this kind of career. De-
tectives, he seems to say. are both born
and made, and being duly born. their
subsequent making is long, tedious
process.
Not so this book. II you like works
on such subjects, you will find this an
interesting and valuable addition to
your collection. Finger printing, ball
listics, wounds, the black light, chemi-
cal analysis-they are all here. And
all demonstrated with true stories. It
is better than great deal OF crime
fiction.
RABBLE ROUSER. BY Charles
Morrow Wilson. New York; Long
mans Green g. Co.
THIS is a book about a politician.
as its title should indicate. 1t
traces the rise of a country orator
'I stand for the men with red necks.
got one myself" obscurity
to governorship. 1t is unremark-
able, save in its conclusion, which
seems to be that the small county
Offices if honestly administered. would
furnish an adequate working basis
| for government, beside which the
Vaccinations of the greater Offices
would be relatively unimportant
This is worked out in the career
of the hero, who bristles with rugged
virtues. On the whole Q rather
futile performance.
TRUTH ABOUT THE NEW DEAL.
1 BY Robert L. Lund, Howard E.
Coffin and DR.. Charles w. Burkett
in collaboration with Earl Reeves.
New York: Longmans Green & Co.
THIS book seems to be the weeks
attack on the administration It
is not as interesting as some of the
attacks of past weeks have been.
1t becomes trifie tiresome to read
once more that we are drifting toward
communism, that our institutions are
being threatened, that the A. A. A.
Is robbing the farmers and that the
President is more socialistic than the
Socialists. However, these particular
authors, while not particularly orig
inal in their charges, do bring for
ward some impressive facts to sub
stantiate them. New Deal enemies
will enjoy it, New Deal friends will
call it prejudiced. Certainly it makes
no attempt to present more than
one side of the picture.
THE FACE OF MOTHER INDIA.
BY Katherine Mayo. New York:
Harper & Bros.
THIS large book contains Al pages
of history-a brief periodic out
line OF India's great events. After
that the volume is wholly given over
to photographs There are 392 In all.
Miss Mayo, who is famous as q writer
on Indian matters, has collected
these pictures from many sources.
The volume is both attractive and