Evening star., 1938-05-08
Brief Reviews of Books

Adrian Bury. New York: Studio
Publications.
A discussion of modern paintings
with reproductions in color and half
tone. Worth having.
Movies.
THE HISTORY OF MOTION PIC
TURES. BY Maurice Bardeche and
Robert Brasillach. New York: w.
w. Norton Co.
Pretty good.
Religion.
FREEDOM, LOVE AND TRUTH. BY
the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge.
Boston Hale. Cushman g. Flint.
An anthology of religious writings
from st. Augustine to modern times.
Plays.
anese by Shio Sakanishi. Boston:
Marshall Jones Co.
Twenty-Five famous Japanese comic
interludes, with notes and introduce
ton.
Novels.
LISA VALE. BY Olive Higgins Prouty
Boston: Houghton- Mifflin Co.
Novel of married Woman's prob
lens with four children. husband
and a lover. One of those fruity
things Unimportant
IN THE FINE SUMNER WEATHER.
BY Catharine Whitcomb. New
York: Random House.
Story of a day in a summer colony.
Carefully assembled group Of people
showing you that they are a care
fully assembled group of people That
sort of thing.
ESCAPE TO THE ANDES. BY Rupert
Croft-Cooke. New York: Julian
Messner
Heavily romantic thing about actor
seeking to get-aTay-from-it-all in lit
tie Indian village. And falling in love
with little native girl That sort OF
thing.
THIS PASSION NEVER DIES. BY
Sophus Keith Winther. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
One more of Mr. Winther's tales Of
Danish immigrants getting used to
America. This one deals with post
war depression days. Serious. No doubt
worthy
FREE LAND. By Rose Wilder Lane.
New York: Longmans Green.
One of those breaking -the-Dakota-
prairie-in-the-ei eighties things. Fruity.
THREE DAUGHTERS. BY Ruth FL
eanor Mckee New York: Double
day Doran Il Co.
Three sisters who followed the army
to France in various capacities.
Meant to be searching. Unimportant.
HEAVEN COMES so NEAR. BY HUI
bert Skidmore New York: Dou-
bleday Doran & Co.
Backwoods tale. Romantic and un-
important.
Mysteries.
FRIDAY MARKET. BY Catherine
Meadows. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
Murder in little English town. COM
plicated by psychology. Pretty good.
BLACK CHRONICLE. BY William
Edward Hayes. New York: Dou-
bleday Doran g. Co.
Murder of light lady, solved by q
detective with a crouch.
BLUE MASK AT BAY. BY Anthony
Morton. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip
pincott Co.
Crooks, detectives and Spanish dons
mix it up for possession of those crown
jewels. Average.
Poetry.
SELECTED POEMS. BY John Mase-
field. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
A new and enlarged edition.
FOLIAGE. BY w. H. Davies. Boston:
Bruce Humphries.
Simple poems; good for what they
THE MERRY GENTLEMEN OF
JAPAN. Adapted from the Gilbert
and Sullivan opera, THE Mikado." ."
by H. w. Reiter and Shepard
Chartoc. Illustrated by Philip
Gelb. New York: The Bass Pub
fishers.
THE FAMOUS CATS OF FAIRY
LAND. Collected by Lowry c.
Wimberly. New York: E. P. Dut-
ton Co.
Cat stories from all countries.
PLEASANT COSEL. BY Therese O.
Deming. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis
Co.
The story of Geronimos last raid.
Told to the author. by an Indian who
went along.
MANABOzHO. BY Alden o. Deming
Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Co.
The story Of Hiawatha, as the In
dams are supposed to have told it.
BOYS BOOK OF THE SEA. BY
Charles Boff New York: e. P.
Dutton Co.
About boats and the Seven Seas
wrecks, storms, iceberggs, treasure
islands and all of it. Not stories, but
information. Should be welcome to
any lively kid.
WE GO EXPLORING. BY Mary
LIGHTER. Illustrations by Kay Peter
son. New York: John H. Hopkins
Co.
The story of the discovery and ex-
ploration of North America. For the
very young. Attractive.