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garden life-soil, climate, plants,
seeds and weeds. A valuable work.
BESIDES BUSINESS. BY Carl Du
Sabot. ST. Louis: D'Alroy g. Hart.
An argument based on the idea that
standards governing the professions
are higher than those governing bust
ness, and that hence more occupations
should take a professional status.
Somewhat attenuated.
1896 ON THE CONTINENT. London:
w. Aldor.
A first edition of a continental
travel annual, the idea of which is to
supply travellers with the very latest
information and only such as will be
genuinely of interest. Seemingly pref
ty good.
ADVENTURES IN GOOD EATING.
Chicago: Adventures in Good Eat
ing, Inc.
A list Of recommended eating places,
given State by State throughout the
country. Description Of character
istics of each restaurant named and
blank pages for writing In your rec
ipes.
Fiction.
PRELUDE TO BLUE MOUNTAINS.
BY Alan Hyder. New York: Claude
Kendall Inc.
Adventures of an innocent muir
derer in love. English.
THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN"
BY George Worthington Yates.
New York: william Morrow 81 Co.
English lord solves murder. Pretty
good.
ARIZONA JUSTICE. BY Stuart Har-
dy. New York: Green Circle
Books,
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economy of words had been Mr.. vinal's
rule, but one is obliged to record that
it Is not. An obviously genuine poetic
feeling is evident in his work, how
ever, and perhaps he will in time come
to control his method to express 1t.
A GOOD TIME. BY Lesley Merrick.
New York: E. p. Dutton & Co.
A LAS that women will write chatty
books! Alas that women who will
write chatty books should 60 to sea!
And alas-onoe more-that women
who will write chatty books and VINO
60 to sea should have illustrous rela-
tives whose names assure their dread
full works of publication. And alas
that reviewers have to review. That
Is the real tragedy.
Well, Miss Lesley Merrick will write
chatty books. And Miss Merrick went
to sea. And Miss Merrick's papa Is
none other than the writer, Leonard
Merrick, so that, by the logic Of pub
fishers. the public will pant to read
her fathers daughters drivel. So she
has written her spirited account"
publishers adjective).
She went to Australia. America,
Hawaii and South Africa. Her readers
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Brief Reviews Of Books on Various Topics

Western stuff.
Poetry.
I IN THE WIND. By Maud Slye.
Boston: The Stratford Co.
Passable verse by an eminent scien-
fist.
VISION. BY Mary Kate Hunter. Dali
las: Dealey & Lowe.
Passable verse.
Juveniles.
THE WONDER BOOK OF THE AIR.
BY Allen Lyman. Philadelphia:
The John C. Winston Co.
Aviation made understandable for
children. An introduction by Bernt
Balchen.
WONDERS OF THE WEST. BY Oren
Arnold. Dallas: Banks Upshaw g.
Co.
Beautifully illustrated book about
the Far West. Desirable.
THE DONKEY GOES VISITING.
BY Patricia Lynch. New York: E..
P. Dutton Co.
More adventures of the turf-cutter,
his family and his donkey. Amusing.
ELEPHANT TWINS. BY Inez Hogan.
New York: z. p. Dutton Co.
For the very young. Animal story
Of the jungle.
LITTLE ME. BY Fanny Y. Cory. New
York: e. p. Dutton Co.
Verses and drawings by the author
of Sonny Sayings" .
FANNIE AND THAT PUPPY. BY
Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan.
New York: Dodd Mead & co.
Further adventures Of Tammie, dog
and hero Of There Was Tammie."
Amusing.
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Not Too Dusty.
THE dust bowl in the Sou

THE dust bowl in the Southwest, so
dubbed as result of the current
drought and duststorms, is not nearly
so badly affected as its name would
indicate.
Only about half the land in the
Southern Plains region has been seri-
ouSly eroded. according to a survey
just completed by the Soil Conserva-
ton Service covering $4,000 square
miles in 20 counties of Texas, Kansas,
Colorado and Oklahoma.
A preliminary report covering 49,
810,885 acres shows that approx.
mately 1901 900 acres, or about 43 per
cent Of the total surveyed area, is suf-
fering only slightly from wind erosion,
with a considerable area completely
unaffected. Approximately $4,000
acres are affected to an extent re-
garded as serious. Included in the
survey we're 1906 farms valued az
s189,S76,291.
I'm the Southern Plains country, as
elsewhere" said H. H. Bennett, chief
of the service, in announcing the pre-
liminary results Of the survey, there
are certain areas untitled by nature
for cultivation. Also in this region.
as in all other regions, unwise land
use and ill-advised farming practices
have contributed to the impoverish-
ment of other areas of good crop land.
Results Of this survey indicate clearly,
however, that the Southern Plains IS
not yet a desert by any means and
that the opportunity for agriculture
there is far from ended.
Nevertheless" Bennett warned, the
Southern Plains farmer must quickly
adapt himself to natural conditions.
II wind erosion is not to spread
throughout most of the region. Con-
servation farming, involving precau-
tionary crop planning, contour tillags
and other measures of soil and mois-
ture conservation must be adopted"
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able book, Grayson Kirk, assistant
professor of political science at the
University Of Wisconsin, has done a
highly creditable and valuable work
in his assembly and Interpretation of
the facts concerning the motives, the
problems and the prospects of Philip
pine independence.
Critical of an adventure which he
believes was far from purely altruistic
in our purchase Of the islands, as part
of the spoils of the Spanish American
War, he pays due tribute to the efforts
of the American Government to give
the islands beneficial administrations
since the turn of the century. And
leaving aside the moral pros and cons
of giving the Filipino his freedom.
the author effectively demonstrates
that the final enactment of the indie
pendence act was principally due, not
to love Of the Filipino, but to the
depression born jealousy of the farm
bloc over the domestic market and its
fear Of Philippine competition-fears,
by the way, which the author shows
were in the main irrational. He con-
cludes, as many others have before
him, that the economic provisions of
the independence act jeopardize the
Filipino's continued prosperity - or
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lated conditions, would intervene to
guarantee the islands safety and well
being. He does not believe this would
obligate us any more than we are al
ready obligated by morals and cir
cumstance. B. M. NICK.
TEXAS MISSIONS. THEIR RO-
NANCE AND ARCHITECTURE.
BY Charles Nation Brooks, jr.
Dallas: Lealey g. Love.
THIS is an attempt to trace to their
origins the architectural trends
found in the early missions of Texas.
1t also gives a brief chronological his
tory of the conquest of the State by
white settlers and a catalogue of the
missions. The author is assistant pro-
fessor of architecture at A. and M.
College Of Texas.
While the interest of such works
would seem to be limited, one can still
commend this book for clarity OF
style and capacity for handling tech
nical material in living manner. 1t
should also be valued for its collection
of fine photographs of architectural
details and sculptures from the vari-
Gus churches Of which 1t treats. And
1t Is beautifully printed.
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many cases not being trained in the
duties allotted to him, sensing that
artificial labor and efforts are fun
damentally wrong -"
At the end Of his piece, Mr.. Jo-
hanson does a little arithmetic over
the payments made him for his
labors. He received in cash $s44.00
in his So months Of restitution. The
approximate cost of his upkeep was
s1184.00. The taxpayers made up the
difference.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, cele-
brating his eightieth birthday
anniversary, vouchsafes an interview
to George Sylvester Viereck for the
current Liberty. 1t is disappointing,
as interviews with MIR. Shaw have q
way of being. This would hardly be
the great mans fault. however. In
the present case the interviewer asks
Is questions, most Of which are pretty
silly. Mr.. Shaw responds. giving his
views on immortality, reincarnation
and the future of mankind" with a
truly admirable gravity. Has the
Jester come at last to take himself
seriously? Reading the solemn nom
sense of this interview, one fears that
he has.
OF more interest than his words,
however, Liberty publishes two pho
tographs of Shaw taken by himself IN
1899. The Jovian beard is dark, the
poseur looks out of the eyes, it is true,
but a poseur who still was plausible.
Shaw was 43 then. The pictures be-
long to the collection of Mitchell Ken
nerley.
Concentrating the Shavian birth
day in a rather less piouS vein. Is
Frank Scully's article in the August
ESQUIRE, called Nov 1t Can Be Sold"
It was Mr.. Scully (you may remem-
ber) to whom the late Frank Harris
''Biograph of Shaw" was dedicated,
the words of the dedication being,
IT dedicate this book to Frank Scully,
who goaded me into undertaking it
and wouldn't let me have minute s
peace until 1t was completed"
Mr.. Scully now utters loud undls-
guised horse laugh over the courteous
expressions of acknowledgment. There
may be literary mysteries, he remarks,
but the question as to who wrote
Frank Harris Biography OF Shaw"
isn't a mystery. At least, it isn't to
me. It isn't to me, because I did"
Dedication, indeed! says Mr.. Scully.
He goes on then to tell how he did
the writing of the book after he dis
covered that Harris mental powers
had failed, incapacitating him for lit
erary work. He says, His mind was
dead years before his body died, and
his conscience died even before his
mind" OF the entire biography, he
asserts, Harris composed only "65
pages Of badly typed script, which he
flched from a dozen sources"-and
this was rejected by the publishers.
Yet, says Mr.. Scully, he, himself, re-
ceived neither thanks nor credit for
his work, and as for cash-his part
was $50. Harris received $500 as
advance payments alone.
While the article is certainly not
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VOORHEES,. BY Leonard S. Ken
worthy. Boston: Bruce HUMPHREYS.
A perfectly humorless biography Of
q very funny Congressman.
THE GOD WHO SPEAKS. BY Bur-
nett Hillman Streeter. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
An affirmation Of the idea that God
does speak to those sufficiently de-
veloped in spirituality. The author
is provost of Queens College, Oxford
University.
THE SPHERE OF INDIVIDUALISM.
BY Conner D. Ross. Boston: The
Meador Publishing Co.
A discussion Of whether our circum-
stances will force us into communism
or not, and q proposed remedy to end
our troubles. BY a former assistant
attorney general of the State Of In
diana.
THE ART OF LIVING. BY Charles
Arnold Borle. Boston,: Meador
Publishing Co.
Described by its publisher as "a
very practical philosophical essay,
highly idealistic, which the author
has written in everyday language for
the thinking masses" Seems like an
awfully good idea.
HIGHER EDUCATION AND So
GETTY. A Symposium. Norman:
University Of Oklahoma Press.
A collection Of articles by more or
less noted writers on the various
aspects OF the subject. Not for enter
tainment.
THE LIVING GARDEN. BY e. J. Sal
isbury. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
A discussion Of the whole cycle Of
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A NNOUNCING mat he has in
n his time run the gamut Of
Arevolutionary movements" and
Abeen anarchist, pacifist, I. w.
w. sympathizer" George Sokolsky.
writing in the August Atlantic
Monthly, states his present political
philosophy under the title, "A Con-
servative Speaks" 1t Is q thought
provoking article.
Capitalism, concludes Mr.. Sokolsky,
Is the system under which human lib
erty fiourishes best and poverty Is
least prevalent. He arrives at this
conclusion largely by contrasting the
condition Of our own country in nor
NAL times with that of the Dictator
ships-left and right. He says:
Admitting certain specific weak
nesses and imperfections in the cap
italist system, I yet retain political
and social liberties under democratic
institutions which are invaluable to
me as a human being. If sacrifice
those liberties, will mankind be rid Of
the weaknesses and imperfections Of
our economic order? Do I envisage
such results in Soviet Russia, Ger
many, Italy, Japan? -. Stain may
authorize his people to smile or to
use cosmetics, but there can be no
liberty unless we can do either or
neither without his interference"
The task before government now, as
Mr.. Sokolsky sees it, is "the improve
ment of the capitalist system and the
conserving Of democracy" The two
he feels are inseparable.
1t is interesting to read that he Is
himself not a capitalist. MY income
tax statement" he observes, Il am
sure, cannot compare with that OF
such an opponent of: conservatism as
Mr.. Haywood Broun."
THE Atlantic also examines the sit
uation of the unemployed in its
current issue, in an article called
Bread Line" by Hugo Johanson. 1t
is a personal experience record; the
author has been in bread lines, flop
houses, on relief and the like since
1881.
After describing these various make
shifts, he comes to his present status
that of w. P. A. worker. He says:
"At last, in November, 1885, took
my place among the country's boom
dogglers, a position am still holding
In May, 1886, when this is written.
A boondoggler is. as We all know, a
1856 enigma who does nothing and
that wrong. I have helped at the
building of grades which, If they
slanted at all, slanted in the wrong
direction; laid pipe lines in which no
water is apt to flow; solved the prob
lem of perpetual motion by leveling
sand dunes which the nightly winds
grimly releveled; planted grass, flow
ers and shrubs bound never to grow;
constructed outdoor terraces and
stairs too feeble for angels to tread
upon, and assisted in many other SIM
liar tasks. The boondoggler is hardly
to blame. He does what he is told.
slowly and inexpertly, perhaps, in
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BOOK is VITAL DOCU NJ EN- L
Sandman Exile Tells Story of His Fight Against Fascm in Italy,
Steinbecks First Novel Republshed Magazine Verse
Anthology-Other Reviews.

other. Nor Is its manner of wrising
sufncientiy sensational to commend
1t is work of popular" history. How
ever, the outline Of the lives Of five
generations of the great family are
here, with O certain amount Of detail.
The author Is an estimable scholar
and it is unfortunate that his work
would seem to be likely to appeal to 50
limited q public.
HURRICANE, A MAINE COAST
CHRONICLE. BY Harold Vinal.
Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press.
THIS Is q sort of Spoon River an
= thology, done in terms Of little
visited island in Penobscot Bay. There
the great-grandfather Of the poet,
William Vinal, was once possessor.
He sold his realm for $50, to
q granite quarrying company. The
industry throve for q while, and then
died. Legends of the inhabitants
lived on in the poets family, however,
and he has here retold them, usually
in terms of the subjects death. He
Is sometimes disconcertingly vague
and his verse has . distinct tendency
to take on purple passages. 1t would
seem that his consciousness Of the
awareness of the romance Of the for
gotten island was stronger than his
ability to convey that romance to
others. On the whole, however, the
volume Is not bad.
The best Of the Lives" is the least
pretentious one-the one, the reader
feels, which impressed the poet least.
That is the story of Maud Beverage.
whose husband, Cushing. plotted her
death by removing foundation stones
from their house until 1t crumbled In
high tide one night and fell into
the sea. The passage which describes
the fall is fine. 1t deserves quoting:
THE house was tottering as
though an earthquake were eating
at its vitals. At the door she
stood and cried out Gushing,
Cushing but no voice came back
and, looking down the stairs, she
saw q wet thing climbing up to
meet her"
One could wish that such effective
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Non-Ection.
Non-Fiction.
ALFRED M. LANDON: DEEDS, NOT
DEFICITS. BY Richard B. Fowler.
a. ~

ALFRED M. LANDON: DEEDS. NOT
DEFICITS. BY Richard B. Fowler.
Boston: L. C. Page 81 Co.
A friendly sketch Of the Republican
nominees career. With foreword by
william Allen White. And many pho
tographs.
THE NEW DEAL ON CARTWHEELS.
BY James o. Cade. Dallas: Banks,
UpShaw g. Co.
A Roosevelt Democrat and assistant
counsel to the Farm Credit Admins
tration tells how the New Deal can
be made to work without radical
amendment to the Constitution.
THE MODERN ECONOMY IN AC-
TON. BY Caroline F. Ware and
Gardiner c. Means. New York:
Harcourt Brace Il Co.
A statement of the problems which
q new and modern economy will have
to solve. No panaceas-an examine
ton rather than remedy.
PROSPERITY BECKoNs. BY VIII
liam j.. Hale. Boston: The STRAIT
ford Co.
How to save ourselves by "che-
mursy." A little weird, in sound any
how.
A LAY VIEW OF SOME OF THE
PROBLEMS OF HIGHER EDU-
CATION. BY Mark Eisner. New
York: The Dial Press.
Six lectures delivered last year by
the author, who Is chairman Of the
Board Of Higher Education Of the City
Of New York. Employment prob
lens, character building and 80 on.
THE TALL SYCAMORE OF THE
WABASH: DANIEL WOLSEY
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count of Spain and Of the forces which
direct its national life"
THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SPAIN,
by j. B. Trend. 1894. G40.T726o.
1.-THE serious student of Spanish
liberalism win find Prof. Trends new
book an exceptionally valuable addi-
ton to the not overwide selection at
present at his disposal" L. w. 8.
Revolution 1896.
The following list of magazine ar
ticles represents but small portion
Of the references to the present revolt
in current periodicals. Shorter articles
in weekly magazines such as the Lit
erary Digest, News Week, ETC., may
be located by consulting the Guide
to Periodical Literature" in the CEN
trail reference room, or in the refer
ence room of the major branches at
Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, North
east, Southeast and Takoma.
SPAIN Mobiles FOR REvoLU-
TON, Anita Benner. Nation
142: 546-8. April 20, 1886.
Mass interference, mass action, for
its own ends and indifferent to the
functioning Of Parliament and au-
thorities, friendly as they are sup
posed to be, IS the most remarkable
thing now to be observed in Spain"
SPAIN CATCHES UP, by Prof Bonor-
ko. Living Age $50: 423-426.
July, 1896.
ITO the advantage Of the starving
unemployed, the poorly paid workers
and the small tenant farmer, Spain Is
building up project which will give
her economic system great boost"
WILL SPAIN FOLLOW RUSSIA? by
Godfrey Brereton. Contemporary
Review $50: 1880. July, 1886.
Events in Spain during the last
few years seem to hold out hopes Of
the country becoming the first Com
munist state in Western Europe
TURBULENT SPAIN, by w. H. Car
ter. Nineteenth Century 119:
576-91. May, 1896.
Spanish Communism If 1t ever
materializes, will be, sui generiS, re-
fractory to any Moscow discipline"
MASS MOVEMENTS IN SPAIN. by
L. A. Fernsworth. Foreign Affairs
IA: 662-74. July. 1896.
mo one who has observed the de-
termined persistence Of the revolu-
tionary forces, their resurgence after
repeated repressions, can doubt that
the revolutionary tide is deep and
strong"
FOUR YEARS TO REBUILD SPAIN.
by Harold Laski. Living Age $50:
1882. April, 1896.
Spain, in the long run, needs So
cialism as Europe needs Socialism.
But in the next immediate years the
essential task Is for Spanish Socialists
to make their principles emerge as the
logical next stage on q road, travel
down which must be more devious
and indirect than they can easily
like"
SPANISH ELECTIONS. by z. A.
Peers; Henry Buckley. Contem-
porary Review 149: 409-1s. April,
1896.
Parties and possibilities are out
lined which are now In action.
SPAIN IN UPHEAvAL, by Lester
zif1ren. Current History A: 1895.
May, 1886.
Politics Is SPANS great national
occupation. 1t pervades all professions
and even pastimes. The tnpetuous,
sentimental, passionate FLOODED Span
lard seems unable to ind a middle
course, and the tug-of-war leads to
unrest and revolution"
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what there is Of it-along with the
political stability of his self-govern-
ment. He is restrained and quite sane
in his appraisal of the Japanese
menace" giving weight to the belief
that when the United States leaves
the islands, Japan. through peaceful
economic penetration, ultimately will
step in.
He does not believe we should leave.
Provided some economic stability may
be assured through preferential treat
ment of Philippine products. in ex-
change for maintaining our substan-
tial market in the islands. he proposes
q semi-protectorate, provided the Fill
pinos request it, under which the
United States, under carefully stipu-
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again from the publisher
will put down Der narrative they re-
frain from calling it an Odyssey re
freshed and happy" The reviewer did
not.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE. BY
Grayson Kirk. New York: Farrar
81 Rinehart, Inc.
THE question Of Philippine indie
pendence Is far from settled. 1t
has just been raised, as a matter Of
fact, through establishing of the
Philippine Commonwealth last No.
vember, to serve in the 10-year inter-
val before complete independence
under the proposed Philippine Re-
public. The author of this very read.
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time Is overripe for renewed effort
on each nations part. There can
be no delay.
Through past centuries tho
human race fought its way UP from
the low level Of barbarism and war
to that of civilization and peace.
This accomplishment has only been
partial, and 1t may well be but
temporary.
It would be a frightful commen-
tary on the human race II, with the
awful lesson Of its disastrous expe-
rience, responsible and civilized
governments should now fail.
The nations Of this continent
should omit no word or act In their
attempt to meet the dangerous con-
ditions which endanger peace. Let
our actions here at Buenos Aires
constitute the most potent possible
appeal to peacemakers and war
makers throughout the world.
So only does civilization become
real. SO only can We rightly ask
that universal support which en-
titles governments to speak for their
peoples to the world, not with the
voice Of propaganda but with that
Of truth.
Having affirmed our faith, We
should be remiss II we were to leave
anything undone which will tend
to assure our peace here. and make
us powerful for peace elsewhere. In
a very real sense, let this continent
set the high example Of champion
ing the forces OF peace, democracy
and civilization.