Evening star., 1937-03-27
WAR PERSONALITIES SHOWN
Famous Correspondent Says Struggle Was Prolonged When
High Command in France Suffered From Politics.
Moving Story of Cenenceau-Books.


public for some time now by q we'll
known author, and they add, as those
who wish to count will see for them
selves, to the number of seven.
LIGHT WOMAN. BY Zona Gale.
New York: D. Appleton
Co.
THERE is very little of the zona
Gale who was once a writer of
distinction in this work, and great
deal OF the commercially successful
magazine writer whom she has be-
come. 1t is, in other words, a totally
uninspired piece 1t is a tepid little
love story about tepid little people
an upstate New York family whose
son is so revolutionary as to love an
actress. 1t can be recommended to
invalids whose physicians have ordered
for them complete quiet.
ENCORE FOR LOVE. BY Katherine
Dunlap. New York: William Nor
row g. Co.
THIS novel by Washingtonian is
= placid little love story of the
womans magazine type. 1t tells OF
group of modern people living in
tie quaint atmosphere OF an old
French chateau and finding each his
life partner in a wholly unexception-
| able manner. 1t can be recommended
| to invalids whose physicians have
| ordered for them complete quiet.
AS LIVE AND BREATHE. BY Will
lie Snow Ethridge. Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
THIS is a light, pleasant book, non
fiction in fact. but fiction in
quality, since its author so evidently
followed the plan Of making story
out of whatever she happened to do.
She is the wife of newspaper man.
Mark Ethidge. general manager OF
the Louisville Courier Journal and
Times. the mother Of three small
children, Southern girl and clearly
a good scout Her book is the record
of her experiences homemaktng in
Georgia town, homemaking by virtue
of a sense of humor. 1t Is not pro-
found, but it does not attempt to be.
1t Is amusing. at times sharp and
always very feminine. 1t tells OF
struggles with babies, with Negro
servants, with local society and with
the husband. Women ought to revel
in it. That is exactly the kind of
book that 1t is.
MEMOIRS OF A. SPANISH PRIN-
CESS. BY H. r. H. the Infanta
Eulalia. New York: w. w. Nor
ton g. Co.
IN THIS book one encounters
state of mind which the world
from the beginning of history has
encouraged and yet which is seldom
set down by any OF those who hold
it. That is the state of mind of the
individual who believes him or her
self divinely appointed to ruling
position.
The Infanta Eulalia's book gets its
chief interest from this circumstance,
as far as the reviewer is concerned,
although the remembered anecdotes
OF the private lives Of Europes late
rulers, with which she fills her pages,
may have for many the fascination OF
gossip.
She is the daughter Of a Queen of
Spain. Isabella II, and aunt Of Alfonso
XIII. Her life has been largely spent
in courts. Her friends, as well as her
family, have been people who held
her viewpoint on the divinity of kingly
rights. She does not take up this
issue directly, but it is plain from a
thousand turns of phrase that she
considers kingship the greatest re-
sponsibility which human life offers,
a position calling for the greatest de-
gree OF strength and virtue, and one
which therefore deserves privilege as
its compensation.
For the most part, her direct mar
ratlVe follows her visiting in pre-war
Europe, her friendship with the for
mer Kaiser being one OF the most in
teresting bits of the record. She
expresses, obviously, a state of mind
which has little popularity at the
moment, but she writes courageously
and her book is worth reading.
THEY SHALL NOT WANT. BY
Maxine Davis. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
HERE is the story Of relief-relief
at home and abroad The re-
viewer does not find it a particularly
enhVening narrative, but is quite
| aware that the Importance OF the
problem to the taxpayers is consider
. able. 1t may be, therefore, that this
book has information OF much value
to the long-suffering general public
Miss Davis made study of relief
as 1t Is administered In the city of
Chicago. Then she made studies OF
the English and Swedish methods of
| caring for those who, for some reason
or other, do not care for themselves.
And then she drew up her own plan OF
| what America should do in the light
OF her conclusion that relief cannot
be ended and must be treated as
permanent problem.
Her solution has considerable same
ness. as it embodies such WelI-discussed
points as unemployment insurance,
public works and direct relief, but as
the larger part of her work is of
factual nature. that circumstance de-
tracts little from the whole. The book
can be regarded as study worthy OF
| respect.
A CONTINENT LOST-A CIV1LIZA-
TON WON: Indian Land Tenure
| in America. BY j. P. Kinney
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press.
| A N UNKNOWN number Of Indians
once owned all the land which is
| the United States; now 300 900 recog-
niZed Indians own scant 50,0OO,000
acres. How this gigantic land trans
| fer came about is a theory all Ameri-
| cans should know and 1t is told au-
| thoritatively and dispasionately by