Evening star., 1936-07-04
VOLUME is DEFTLY WRITTEN
Agriculture Secretary Envsoning Changes Philosophy of Gov
ernment, Says They Can Be Achieved in American
Way-Other Recent Books Reviewed.

! she has written about them before,
The present novel. however, Is the
first, II taken chronologically.
| What Is there to say Of It? 1t is a
"rich canvas" crowded with pictur.
esque figures, grouped in = variety Of
scenes-from Paris and Vienna to
London, set in the era of the 1905.
1t tells Of the adventures Of Emanuel
GollAntz, antique dealer, who founds
the London house 1t is work Of
integrity and seriousness To the re-
viewer, even with all these merits. 1t
was just another family novel. But
readers who like family novels, par
ticularly novels about Jewish families,
ought to read It, Given the taste the
book ought to 60 down agreeably.
A CLOSE CALL. BY Eden Phillpots.
New York The Macmillan Co.
THIS story begins as If it were in
tending to be q murder mystery
with, that Is to say, missing man,
who is later found shot to death on
the lonely sand dunes. But further on
it becomes q sort of heavy COM
mentary on the nature OF justice.
For the wrong man is convicted OF
the crime, and is within half an hour
| OF execution when an accident brings
the error to light. 1t is stodgily writ
ten and has nothing particular to
recommend 1t.
/ SCHOOL FOR LOVE. BY Lorine
| Pruette Garden City: Doubleday
| Doran & Co.
THIS is one more retelling of the
tale of young love in Paris. 1t
has the variation OF an American
| heroine. very, very freshly caught
from Tennessee: it deals in such doings
as are called sophisticated" by those
who have limited knowledge OF
philology. But, summed up. 1t is the
old story. The girl and the new boy
meet in the brilliant environment that
is the literary city; they wonder: they
talk about love. they talk about love
they talk about love. Then the girl
goes back to her safe, strong Amer
ican. and loves him so much more
understandingly for what has hap
pened-or almost happened. It's read
able.
FOLDING BEDOUINS. OR ADRIFT
cent O'Brien. New York: Willett
Clark g. Co.
4 II yhnEp ho Ina ;x,,
penetrable of humor. this book
offers the facts about trailer travel
The author and his family made an
extended tour In such a vehicle, and
so, one feels, he should know He
is not all pro-trailer and yet he had
mits advantages in trailing. He puts
it all down, even as to costs. While
his book is marketed as humor, any
one contemplating a trailer vacation
could learn considerable from its
blithe pages.
MILLIONS OF DICTATORS. BY
Emil Lengyel New York: Funk
& Wagnalls Co.
/ MOT heroes, not front-page head
line personalities, but common
men who might be met in the streets
Of any city of the world are the
subject of this book.
Mr.. Lengyel has set himself the
task of familiarizing himself with
modern electorates, and he presents
his findings in series Of thumb all
sketches of the typical voter in Amer
lea. France, Russia, Germany, Italy
and Great Britain.
The author is firmly convinced that
sovereignty is still located in the
masses of the population despite the
rise of Hitlers and Mussolinis. He
demonstrates his thesis with an
abundance Of human interest yarns
and interviews with men in the street
John Doe as voter represents one
forty-millionth part of the opinion of
the United States. He is one of the
toiling maSses-an obscure, bald
headed, mediocre individual who would
be astounded to see his name en-
blazoned in history as Joe Doe. the
dictator" His deeds are never her
aided as epoch-making events, but
he nevertheless is the real master of
his country's final destiny. He die
tates to the dictators," the author
writes.
The thoughts and activities of the
average man in each 6f the important
nations, surprisingly, make an engag-
ing chronicle, no less stimulating than
the biographies of world champions.
Collected and edited by Mr.. Lengyel,
they provide an encouraging. reap
praisal Of contemporary life, signi-
ficant In its implications. r. NIX.
NANTUCKET, THE PARKWAY
ISLAND. BY William o. Stevens.
New York: Dodd. Mead Il Co.
THE HEART OF OLD NEW ENG
LAND. By A. Hyatt Verrill. New
York: Dodd. Mead 6z Co.
WHEN birds sing from thicket and
copse, when cool brooks rush
and gurgle and gulls cry over the
foaming surf in these days Of late
Spring, don't pick up these books
unless you want to come down with
= good oid-fashioned case of Spring
fever.
If YOU can read Stevens without
wishing to follow him through the
crooked, charming streets Of the old
whaling town or out across the
'moOrS" of the Wind-swept little Is
land which was the breeding place of
Yankee shippers: If you can go
through the pages of Verrill without
longing to thread the course of the
Connecticut from the cool, deep
North woods to the sea, then you may
know that you have become just an
other old home body and that the
pipe and slipper and fireside days
are come,
Much Of Stevens charm Is in his
pen and ink drawings Of Nantucket