The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
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MISS Rose Macaulay in PERSONAL PLEASURES
AVA Macmillan; So 500 displays the sense of humor
we have learned to expect from her. These little es-
says record the countless minor pleasant sensations
that go together to make contentment.
She openly enjoys Showing Off," where others
might hesitate or be too priggish to confess such
weakness She also gets pleasure from Parties"
and mot Going to Parties" from Bed: Getting
Into 1t" and Not Getting Out of It." and from the
radio, electric fans, auctions, and turtles in Hyde
ParK; and she means many other blessings which
we, perhaps are inclined to take for granted and
not count as blessings at ALL
TMPAsSIONED PYGMIES (Doubleday-Doran.
l. $780, by John Keith Winter, young Eng
lsh novelist, is clever story about modern sophs-
ticates, living in a squabbng group on an island in
the Mediterranean. The group, with the character
MariuS as its center is dsturbingly like that of
u. H Lawrence and his biographers.
SAUL the older son of Marius, who is the pivot
OF the novel, is an interesting and ikable character
whose emotional attractions and repylsions are por-
trayed with skill. Indeed the whole story is to be
read with pleasure tinged with a teasing curiosity
as to the identity of the various characters por-
trayed.
N7HILE the destiny of Abyssinia troubles the
w world, readers will be glad to turn 10 THE
REAL ABYSSINIA Lippincott; So written by a
man who lived there and, subsequently, visited it
many times.
The picture drawn by C. F. Rey is one of con-
trasts. The fertile healthful plateau surrounded
by almost impossible lands burdened with oppres-
sive heat. The people, warlike by nature and
training are unable to keep order among themselves
or to protect themselves against outsiders
From long experience, they are suspicious Of
foreigners yet they treat friendly visitors with hos
pitality Partially penetrated by western civiliza-
uon the country stands one observer remarked
with one leg in the League of Nations and the other
in the Middle Ages
Mr.. Rey writes in an honest attempt to UNDER
stand and explain the predicament of people that
he knows.
VIC HURLEY, young, romantic, wanted to be a
planter in the Tropics and wear white suit.
Accordingly SOUTHEAST OF ZAMBOANGA
Dutton; So finds him alone in the interior Of
Mindanao in the Philippine coconut country, fight
ing seven-inch centipedes cobras dysentery, and
malaria, with the green creeping menace Of the
jungle always imminent.
After year he was licked" as far as solitary
life in the jungle went. He was. however, not
through with the Tropics. The next seven years,
spent as an executive with American rubber and
coconut companies in Zamboanga and Manila.
gave him a right to the title, AN Old Timer"
MEN IN SUN HELMETS CDutton; $3.50 brings
the record OF this tropic service deluxe collector
OF "other mems Stories" he relates them here with
a charming eclat
Together with the earlier account. this book
forms continuous record of eight years of life
an island that is still not white mans country.
The reader is strong minded who can read these
vivid BOOKS without gancing furtively about at the
. slightest rustling sound. just try til .