Evening star., 1937-05-01

II@ ECAUSE the sky Is so clear
- today, the sun so warm,
the grass so green, South
- Field so full Of recreating
students. the daf1odils 50 lush, we have
decided that it is fitting occasion
for vital statistic, to wit: II all the
books published last year in these
United States Of America were stood
side by side, as upon a bookshelf,
they would reach from our ofIice, at
1l6th street New York City, to the
middle of the State of From
the Pleasures OF Publishing, Columbia
University Press.
A love OF reading may be respon-
sible for about half the distance across
Pennsylvania. But from there on
there is nothing to it but hard, un-
regenerate, bullheaded determination
on the part Of young, old, middle
aged. unweaned. decrepit, STRIPPING and
nonegenarian-to write They even
publish these books at their own ex-
pense.
Well, who would know, II . book
reviewer wouldn't?
A NEW periodical-as far as these
columns are concerned-has Just
come in. 1t is called Globe, with a
subtitle informing the public that it
is an intimate journal" and that it
includes material on travel, romance.
adventure and world interest. 1t
arouses the reviewers hostility on
first sight by being Of the patent
medicine almanac formal now so pop
ular, the pocket or Readers Digest
size. But impartial review reveals it
to be pretty good little sheet
Its material seems to come from
all over the world, but 1t Is not travel"
writing, as We know that dreary trade.
To be sure the name Of the profess
sional getter- around, Harry Franck,
appears among its contributors land
is writing about Mexico tooD, but in
general the object of the magazine
seems to be something better than
to exploit the atlas.
There Is a piece about Texas by
Karle Wilson Baker and a piece about
Southern Rhodesia Dts rock paint
ings) by Douglas Fox. T. Morris Long
streth washington writer at present)
contributes a story about the Yukon,
Count Byron de Prorok one on Ethi-
opia. Ezra Pound writes cit is the
bunk) about the Roman Empire, 1887,
and Langston Hughes, the Negro poet,
about his pleasure in travelling. A
catholic magazine. Why have they
not sent it to the reviewer sooner?
A MOTHER new magazine (the re-
viewer means really new, the
number under examination being No.
l, volume l, no less) is Art Instruc-
ton, called a magazine "of practical
instruction for artists and students. !"
The reviewer, being unable even to
write legibly, feels very little compe-
tent to criticize periodical devoted
to teaching artists their trade. but,
with this admission made, she Is
willing to commit herself to the prop
osition that Art Instruction at least
seems to be sensible thing. She
would revile bitterly the notion that
any one could get the slightest benefit
out Of publication devoted to the
teaching OF writing; she does revile it.
But, knowing nothing of drawing,
she spent a highly pleasant half hour
over Art Instructions pages and feels
inclined to revile nothing.
The magazine takes up such prac-
tical (seeming) points as how to draw
a head, what techniques to use in
outdoor sketching of various kinds,
how the commercial designer proceeds
about his job and what technical
tricks can be used to what purposes.
1t also has an article on the work
OF E. Melburn Brindle, who has Gre