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acterization, and universal. human
theme. In addition, it describes way
OF life radically different from ours,
yet the description sounds authentic,
the countryside, the villages, the Gus
toms sound probable, the people are
human, not marionettes, in an exotic
setting
Han TIE Lin is the eldest son Of an
eldest son of an eldest son. All three
have achieved scholarship of the first
order. All three had planned going
on to higher honors, only to be de-
feated by fate and circumstances. All
three adjust themselves to the knowl-
edge that they will not themselves
rise higher than the first order in the
hope that their sons will carry on.
Frustration and hope are the bare
bones of the book, but they are clad
with flesh and clothes, of plot gov
erned by Chinese custom and growing
out of it, by characters recognizable
in any land, yet motivated by Orien-
tai training, by delicately told love
story that does not dominate the
WhOle BOOK, as 1t would IN novel
Of Occidental life.
The person interested in foreign
lands and customs will find Son Of
Han" particularly interesting The
whole ritual of tho wedding, vivid
description of the funeral customs,
the acceptance of new daughter-in-
law into the household, the ceremony
of adopting a brother and the trien-
NAL migrations Of students to the
capital Of the province for examina-
tions are especially vivid. Although,
80 stepped does one become in the
atmosphere of the book as one reads,
that these incidents do not stand out
as particularly notable until after one
has read and digested the whole.
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HISTORY.

HISTORY.
A HISTORY OF CHICAGO. By
Bessie Louise Pierce. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf
Volume of history of Americas s
second city, covering the years between
1878 and lS4S. Very comprehensive.
TRAVEL.
so YOU'RE GOING TO scANDI-
NAV1A! BY Clara E. Laughlin,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
A tourist guide to the Scandinavian
countries-Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Denmark.
LET ME SHOW YOU VERMONT. By
Charles Edward Crane. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf.
Places and personalities of the Green
Mountain State. Illustrated with pho
tographs.
ART.
JOHN CONSTABLE. A booklet on
the life and work Of the great
painter, issued by Studio Publica-
tions, New York.
AA0AAy O1O6AHpuy anu CIlLlC6m, us
lustrated with reproductions Of paint
ing.
J. N. w. TURNER. (Same as above y
CRITICISM,
AFTER THE GNTEEL TRADITION.
Edited by Malcolm Cowley. New
York: w. w. Norton Co.
Essays on American writer's since
1910. by various contemporaries
Lewis, Dresser. Dos Passos, O'Neiu,
Cabell, and so on.
HEALTH.
CANCER, THE GREAT DARKNESS.
The article which originally came
out in Fortune Magazine, now in
book form. Published by Double
day Doran d Co.
A valuable piece of popular health
education.
YOGA: THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH
BY Felix Guyot. New York: T. p.
Dutton Co.
How to attain health through prac-
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money clear. That alone, perhaps,
would be recommendation enough.

money clear. That alone, perhaps,
would be recommendation enough.
SKY-STORM1NG YANKEE. BY Clara
Studer. New York: Stackpole Sons.
THE American genius for mechani-
cal invention, as exemplifed by
Glenn Hammond Curtis, is here the
theme Of an entertaining biography
by Miss Studer.
She has captured In this volume
much Of the forgotten drama of the
earliest pioneering OF human fight In
tracing the unwilling entrance into
aviation of Curtiss, who was to be-
come one Of the worlds greatest fig
ures in aeronautics.
She tells how the shy taciturn boy,
who was named for Watkins Glen and
his home town, Hammondsport, N. Y,
first came to public notice as builder
and racer Of bicycles; how he grad
uated to motor cycles and was forced
to build his own engines, and how
this led him into aviation.
Miss Studer breaks through the
shell Of reserve which made Curtiss
an unknown quantity to his contem-
poraries, and gives us a lovable, wholly
understandable character. The book
is full Of color and excitement, as was
the life Of its subject. It Is q care
full study of the man and his days
of struggle and development.
The volume includes some 80 pages
OF rare photographs of key incidents
in the life of Curtiss and the early
days OF aeronauticx. J. s. z.
SON OF HAN. BY Richard LApiere.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
THIS Is . book worth reading. It
combines fine writing devoid OF
hiStrtOuicS, with GOOD plot and char
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II N~~S F@>>AAs VIVA 4AOWCtC2, OOC
attention is given to those pre-war
fashions in education. Young John,
coming Of prep school age, is allowed
to decide for himself whether he will
60 to private school in New York
City or to the public school In Detroit,
the city nearest his home. He de-
cides for the latter. He is then sent
to the city, where he lives alone in a
boarding house He has an allowance
OF 5000 month and $4,000 automo-
bile. With so much material for self
expression in his hands, he is given no
discipline except letters af1ectionately
advising him to be good, and no train
ing whatsoever, except that received
IN his classes at school, toward which
he adopts the fashionable attitude of
negligence, even when a subject in
terests him. There are three adults
who are responsible for him-a
wealthy father with a city back
ground and a prosperous uncle and
aunt on the farm They are all fond
OF him and truly wishful for bis good
Evening star., 1937-05-22
Brief Reviews of Books
SOCIOLOGY.

SOCIOLOGY.
COCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAM-
ICS. BY Pitirim A. Sorokin
Three volumes. New York: Ameri-
can Book Co.
A monumental analysis Of social
change during the past $500 years,
arriving at the conclusion that We are
now in an age of transition. How we
got there and where we are going.
A very profound study.
THE NATION.
NEUTRALITY FOR THE UNITED
STATES. BY Edwin BorchArd
and william P. LAge. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
How We got into the World War
and what we must learn about dt-
plomacy II We are to keep out of the
next one. BY professor Of inter-
national law at Yale University.
THE SUPREME COURT AND THE
NATIONAL WILL. BY Dean Al
fange. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran & Co
A book devoted to showing that
the court in the past has been able
to adjust itself to changing times
and that 1t has the power to do 20
now, without sacrifice OF influence.
BY . winner Of the Theodore Roose-
velt Memorial Award.
THE SUPREME COURT INDEPRD-
NT OR CONTROLLED. BY
Walter Lppmann. New York:
Harper q Bros.
Mr.. Lppmann,s aIticIes on the
court question pIblished In pamphlet
form. They originally came out In
his column in the New York Herald
Tribune.
EDUCATION.
AMERICAN EDUCATION. BY James
Rowland Angel. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
A collection OF essays covering many
aspects Of the subject Of eduction. BY
ths preadant of Yah Universtty.
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BY NC. r.

~ 1vA I'VE 1ts
Y VITAL statiticians may some
time be interested In tnvesti-
" eating the average life span
of a magazine. 1t would seem
TO be curious sort of subject, and
certainly it is one that Is not much
prospected. For most OF us follow
beaten paths among the periodicals;
II we read the slicks, we read the
slicks, and II we read the pulps, why
we read the pulps and that is the ex-
tent OF our discrimination. Even
within those bonds, sometimes we set
UP still narrower limits. The reviewer,
in fact, knows more than one intelli-
gent person who refuses firmly to read
any periodical except a certain favor
ite or two-not that there is supposed
to be any particular merit in the
favorites, but that they have become
a habit. Yet any one who is obliged
to be aware of magazines (the re-
viewer is paid for it, OF course) cannot
help knowing that there is a dying
and giving Of birth among the in
habitants OF the newsstands, even as
elsewhere In this mortal world.
Hardly week passes. indeed, with
out new No. Volume l appearing
on the reviewers desk, accompanied
by a polite little letter saying that
any notice will be appreciated. How
long do these hopeful children live?
What deaths occur to make room for
the new generation? Who gathers in
fortune from the life? Where. in
what splendid or attic offices, are these
frail print creatures brought forth?
StatHticians take note. You cannot
go on charting the depression forever,
you know. In 20 years, say, that sub
ject. will be pretty well exhausted.
There Is a whole world unexplored
waiting for you on the back shelves
and higher racks OF the magazine
stands.
In past years of course the vast
army of newborn publications was
little" Today, however, the digest
has driven the pale child Of art and
intellectually almost completely into
oblivion. And there are more digests
that can be kept track Of, for a new
one appears practically every week.
What happens to them? Once more,
statlSticians note.
TODAY, even as on other days when
magazine copy has to be pre-
pared, there is new face in the mail
1t is Famous Stories-not, for a mir
acle, another digest. 1t is a pocket
size publication, to be issued monthly
Its idea is not new one, but one
that always seems meritorious It is
the idea of reprinting the worlds great
short stories.
So the June Famous Stories carries
work by Kipling, Gaboriau. de Maui
passant, Hawthorne, Byron. Mark
Twain and others. And the July
Famous Stories will contain work by
Dickens, Tolstoy, Poe. Bret Harte
Voltaire and Reade. CHS is Charles
Reade, to be sure. but the mere juxta-
position Of the name in any form with
Gaboriau has put the reviewer in mind
of one of the best literary jingles that
she has ever heard. So. having duly
noted No. l. Volume l Of Famous
Stories, she is going to quote. Here is
the jingle:
Said Opie Reed to E. P Roe
How do you like Gaboriau?'
I like him very well indeed
CT q -
You have to read it aloud, of course
Then you will see what very neat
thing 1t is.
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BEST SELLERS WEEK END
ING MAY Is

BEST SELLERS WEEK END
ING MAY Is
The Years. Woolf. Harcourt-
Brace.
The Outward Room. Brand. 81
mon d Schuster.
Theatre. Vaughan. Doubleday
Doran.
New Wine ut Cock Crow. Ellis.
Morrow.
Buckskin Breeches. stong. Far
rar & Rinehart.
File Of Rufus Ray. Reilly. Nor
row.
NON-FICTION.
Coronation Commentary. Dennis.
Dodd-Mead.
How to Win Friends and In
nuence People. Carnegie. 81
mon IL Schuster.
Present Indicative. Coward. Dou-
bleday-Doran.
Middletown in Transition. Lynd.
Harcourt-Brace.
The Hundred Years. Guede!la.
Doubleday-Dor1n.
American Doctors Odyssey. Hell
ser. Norton.
Evening star., 1937-01-22

they are sockeye salmon, species ma
tive to Oregon and Alaska, but never
before found in the East.
How these Western salmon
became established in Connecti-
cut and how they have managed
to survive is an 'unsolved mys-
terry.
In Pacific waters these salmon as
cend streams to die after spawning at
the age of years. Although hundreds
of fish we're observed on spawning
beds last Fall, no deaths were record
ed. Residents around. Twin Lakes first
saw them in 1885, when they were
about 10 inches long, and thought
them to be rainbow trout, lake trout.
or possibly landlocked salmon common
to Maine. All three species have been
planted in Twin Lakes in past years,
but with little success.
When the trout" appeared In large
numbers last Fall they averaged IA
inches. Employees of the State fisheries
netted a number for study and identi-
flcation purposes, and also succeeded
in obtaining a quantity of spawn
from which several hundred fry have
been Matched.
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Beating Ends Career.

THAT was Steve's fast fight. The
= mar. he had beaten 13 months
before In Philadelphia had whipped
himself into magnificent condition
and was sure of himself again. He
rushed at Hamas at the opening bell
and gave him a frightful beating.
After few rounds, it was obvious that
Hamas had no chance with him. The
crowd called on the referee to stop
the fight, but Hamas refused to quit
and Harvey, out Of the old school,
wouldn't quit either. So it went until
ninth round was nearly half over,
when Steves seconds did throw a
towel into the ring and the referee led
the badly battered American to his
corner.
Steve still was white faced and
shaken by the beating he had taken
when he returned to this country a
couple of weeks later. He went into
seclusion and has remained there. AS
far as Is known, he never has seen a
fight since he was led down the steps
of the ring in Hamburg. None Of the
fight mob ever runs across him. If
I'm not mistaken, he lives somewhere
in New Jersey, is engaged in business,
and although he is only 26 years old,
is through with prize fighting forever.
I don't blame him. He got further
than any other college man until Pas
tor came swinging down the lane, but
his was bitter and profitless and dis
illusioning experience.
(copyright, 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
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sons interesting career. 1t was
strictly an exhibition bout, in the
planning, and would have remained
so had not Mr.. Ketchel perpetrated a
bit of monkey business uncalled for
by the script.
johnson was boxing around with the
smaller man. giving nice demon
stration of the science but keeping
his punches corked, when Ketchel
suddenly cut loose with one. Ketchel
was only middleweight, but he had
the power OF steer in his shoulders.
The blow caught Johnson's chin. and
the heavyweight champion spun and
reeled. Then the golden smile dis
appeared from his face. 1t was re-
placed by sinister expression which
Mr.. johnson seldom used in his reg
ular line of work. He settled down
Pole. and stretched him out on the
floor.
Soon as I seen Mistuh Ketchel
wasn't kiddin'.' he says, Il knowed I
" h4O III 6NI1s
You don want to take no more of
them punches Of Ketchels than you
can help. no matter how big you is"
Mr.. johnson is now man of busi-
ness. doing commission jobs and lend
ing his name to enterprises of various
kinds in the Harlem territory.
There was a time when he
was an artist, sporting beret
on his bullet head and slipping
beer through a straw in the
cafes Of Paris.
He once even toyed with the Idea Of
playing Othello, but the producers
baked when Mr.. johnson said that
he was planning to rewrite some Of
Shakespeare's lines that didn't seem
exactly right to him.
Today the only remaining trace of
Mr.. Johnson's artistic phase is the
beret. He sticks to business. and
flashes that golden smile. and tells
what is wrong with Joe Louis.
Copyright, 1887 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncJ
Evening star., 1937-01-22
Umpires Mar Base Ball, Speaker Holds


ting q star player out Of the game"
Speaker, former outfielder and
manager Of the Cleveland Indians,
lists "the lively ball" among his
disappointments. In Is years OF
major league competition, only
once did he fail to bat over 800.
That was in 1919 when he hit a
mere .296.
IT always was proud of finding
my name week after week among
the six or seven 800 hitters in the
league" Speaker asserted. "Now-
adays you can find the 300 hitters
faster by reading up from the bot
tom of averages. The lively ball
did that.
But in my day when you hit
300 you were stepping along with
fellows like Cobb and Sisler and
Hornsby, and I won't deny there
was Q thrill In It."
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dan or Billy Evans would say,
'okay Iris. That's your story.
You know mine-and I'm running
. this game. Get back out there and
play ball"
Speaker leaned back in his
Office chair at the liquor wholesal-
ing firm he heads, fl!cked the ash
from his cigarette, then con-
tinued:
players today are afraid to open
their mouths, especially since the
major leagues decided to enforce
the rule that fines must be paid by
the players and not by their clubs.
1.-THE result Is that fans often
decide the boys are interested only
in their pay checks, instead Of in
fighting every inch Of the way.
IT don't say umpires shouldn't
run the game-they certainly ran
it In my time-but they also knew
that the customers liked a show.
You don't help base ball by put
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Was Called a S0rehead.

WHEN he first began tossing DOR
w hicks at the Bomber, there were
rumors that Jack was sorehead. and
an envious sorehead, at that. Folks
in Caulif1ower alley told each other
that Mr.. johnson had attempted to
declare himself in on Louis contract
and had been rebuffed-with the re-
suit that his indictment of Louis was
so much Johnsonian spleen.
Be that as it may, he called the
turn. And he still is calling it, with a
sad smile on his sadlle-colored face
and a melancholy flash of the golden
bridgework
Louis don't know how to hold his
feet" says Mr.. johnson.
Anybody that walks around him
can tie up those dogs of his in knot.
When he gifts hit, he don't know what
to do.
mind you, IL he was a good
fighter, would say so, because
he's a cullud boy and like to
see cullud boy git ahead. But
this Louis-unh uh."
Evening star., 1937-01-22

like a glimpse Of Golconda-
for the nuggets still gleam in
Mr. Johnson's teeth as they did of
yore, and old-time Alaskan prospectors
and Planners still freeze to attention
at the sight of Mr. Johnsons golden
smile. From tackle to tackle, it's an
18-carat mouthful.
When the old champion opens up
those gold fields for little polite chat
and your eyes have become accus-
toned to the dazzling glare of that
dental El Dorado, you discover that
Mr.. johnson is talking about Joe
Louis again. Louis is a favorite topic
of conversation with old Jack, espe-
cially since the day Max Schmeling
vindicated Mr.. Johnson's Judgment by
betting the bomber for a row of hand
embroidered oyster-forks.
Louis Is just a fair fighter
and any good heavyweight
could lick him or make him look
bad" says the first and only
Negro heavyweight champion in
history.
&1C Sdii edhC q PuiiSH 'CAy SOoH'
he amt bright and his footwork is
terrible"
1t all sounds somewhat heretical,
the way Mr.. johnson tells it, but you
must remember that he was saying the
same things about Louis before the
Schmeling fight, when young Joseph
was even more of a legend of terror
than he is now. Old Jack Johnson has
always been very much down on young
Joe Louis.
Evening star., 1937-01-22

Washington arose today as Of
ficials reported a heavy ad-
vance sale for the Ellsworth Vines
Fred Perry meeting at University Of
Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum on Mon
day night.
Tickets at s165 and s110 still are
on sale at Spalding's, the Hecht Co.,
the A. A. A, Keystone Automobile
Club and the University of Maryland,
but few are expected to remain un-
sold by the time the first ball is served
on Monday.
Perry and Vines will play in the
opening match Of the evening.
Doubles will find Vines pairing with
Bruce Barnes and Perry with George
Lott Lott and Barnes will conclude
the program with singles match.
THOMAS MANGAN, veteran Wash
ington player and official, will UNI
pire the Perry-Vines singles. while
linesmen and other umpires will be re-
cruited from ranking amateur players
and officials in this section.
Otto Glockler, pro at the University
Club, will umpire the doubles, and Bill
Coyle of National Broadcasting Co.
will make the announcements over the
loud-speaker system.
The green canvas court, customarily
used by the troupe, will not be put
down Monday. The wood floor OF
Ritchie Coliseum will be marked and
Is expected to furnish plenty of ac-
ton for the players, as the wood sur
face adds additional speed to shots.
The players, accompanied by S.
Howard Voshell, cosponsor of the tour
with Frank Hunter of New York, will
arrive in Washington Sunday and will
stay at the Mayflower
Lawrence Baker of Washington, Sec
retary of the United States Lawn Ten
mis- Association, will attend the
matches with large party of friends.
Evening star., 1937-01-22
MAY Be TOO SOON
WITH LOUIS SCRAP
Steve, TerrificaIIy Beaten
by SchmeIing, Retires
While Still Young.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

Y OS ANGELES, January 22.-Bob
Pastor, rushing into a match
with Joe Louis that may rank
- him as an opponent for either
James j. Braddock or Max Schmeling,
Is only the second college graduate to
hit the upper brackets of the rough
trade of mauling. The first was Steve
Hamas, and now that Pastor Is up
there, they are barking back to Hamas
and the ill-starred drive he made for
the heavyweight championship.
Hamas was foot ball player and
boxer at Penn State. Prize fight man.
ayers, generally speaking, do not know
a forward pass from field goal. and
Steve's work on the gridiron made no
impression on them. But some of
them saw him in intercollegiate boxing
matches and thought so well OF him
that they swarmed after him when he
was graduated and announced he in
tended to turn to the professional ring
Charlie Harvey got to him first, how
eyer. Harvey is an old hand at the
business of managing fighters and has
had some great ones at one time or
another, and this looked to be COM
bination that was destined to go places
"a big, strong, smart kid who liked
TO fight and a wise old manager to
pick the spots for him.
For while the pair got along hand
somely. One night in Madison Square
Garden Hamas knocked out Tommy
Loughran in a couple of rounds, tear
ing into the clever Philadelphian and
battering him to the canvas. It almost
began to appear as though Steve
couldn't miss-that, with proper sea-
soning, he would hit the top of the
heavyweight division.
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Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. - John Henry
Lewis, 1862. Phoenix. Ariz.,
knocked out Art Sykes, 1873, Chi
cago 90.
BOSTON.-Tiger Terry Warning
ton, 10, Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
knocked out Ralph Chong, 1882,
New Orleans (3); Don Liable. l58,
Lewiston, Me. outpointed Eddie
Carroll, 152, Lowell Mass. ~.
TAMPA, Fla.-Chino Alvarez.
1872, outpointed Domenic Mancini,
1877, Pittsburgh G0.
FALE RIVER, Mass-Young
Lefty. 149. Fall River. knocked out
Ray Courtney, $50, Brockton, Mass.
"a; Paris APIECE. 1877, Providence.
R. l.. and Freddy Camuso, l39,
Fall River, drew co..
Evening star., 1937-01-22
MAT FANS HAPPY
TO SEE DETTON GO
Champ" Makes Sorry Showing
in Victory Over Gino, but
Collects $400.

N Fan DETTON, matdom's
feeble excuse for a champion,
| J tucked nearly S400 into his
wallet today and vacated this
cauliflower sector, but Washington's
grapple colony considered it cheap at
that price to be relieved of his chubby
frame following his disappointing
showing here last night in pinning
Gino Garibaldi at Turner's Arena.
In fact, Detton, who demanded 25
per cent of the gate to appear here,
probably would have been stripped of
his championship" if Referee Benny
Gong COUNT Bortnick had learned
to count to 10.
Evening star., 1937-01-22
cSzRpB AND STREAMes{
w. By GEORGE HUBER @N
~ ~GZS
By GEORGE HUBER.

TINE new 1887 tackle catalogues
have begun to arrive. That
may mean that Spring will
u follow shortly after, or it may
mean that the manufacturers are
taking this method of keeping our
minds on fishing during the off sea-
son.
Needless to say, they are more at
tractive than ever, with plenty color
has added several new items to his
line, and each, of course is claiming
bigger and better fish, can be taken
with their tackle. Prices are about
the same as last year, with the ex-
ception of good grade bamboo rods,
which have risen about 10 per cent.
We haven't heard anything from the
gut manufacturers as yet, but We have
a strange feeling that prices in that
field are going to be way up there
somewhere.
Among the interesting items
on the market this year Is the
Two-Oreno, a bait offering Of
the South Bend Co.
This fake minnow has eyes at either
end, and either end may be hooked
to your leader. One way it travels
near the surface and the other way
makes it travel deep. 1t comes in
two sizes and six color combinations
from the standard red and white on
down to fancy mottled frog finish.
New Heddon Devils"
THE boys at the Heddon factory
(Dowagiac) also have line of new
bats. To the River Runt family they
have added several new members in
fancy dress, and also have put a
jointed Runt on the market in both
floating and sinking models These
shore minnows also are made in fly rod
size now with single hook, the first
time a transparent bait has been Of
fered for the long pole.
The Ace, King and Queen
spoons-tried and true bass get
ters-which generally come In
nickel and gold, have been fan
cied up with dashes Of colored
bucktails and enamel.
These white and red, yellow and
black and black and white offerings
appear as unearthly beetles and have