Evening star., 1938-05-01
Brief Reviews of Books

THE DUSKY HOUR. BY E. R. Pun
shon. New York: Hillman Curl.
Murder, with clues leading to Lon
don night club. Good
LAND OF THEIR FATHERS. BY
Marguerite Mooers Marshall. New
York: Julian Messner Co.
Girl reporter solving crimes among
back-country Yankees. Average.
THE CLoUDED MOON. BY Max
Saltmarsh. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf.
Very awful murders along the Riv-
iera. Pretty good
GREEN WOOD BURNS SLOW. BY
Monica Brice. New York: 10TH
rop, Lee & Shepard.
Safe-cracking mystery-all done
without corpse. Fair.
Juveniles.
WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA.
BY Arthur Ransome. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
The Swallows of Pigeon Post and
so on go to sea and have exciting
adventures. Pleasant.
THE FISH WITH THE DEEP SEA
SMILE. BY Margaret Wise Brown.
Illustrated by Roberta Rauch.
New York: E. P. Dutton Co.
Stories and rhymes. For the quite
young. Very nice.
JORN. BY Terry Crested. Chicago:
Reilly s Lee. y
Story Of little Dutch boy whip
slows away on ship bound for Indias
Good tale.
THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OF. BY
Ruth Plumly Thompson. Illus
trated by John r. Neill. Chicago:
Reilly & Lee.
Another OF.
TILL POTATOES GROW ON TREES.
BY Emma Brock. New York: Al
fred A. Knopf.
Nine stories for the fairly young.
Very nice.
TALES OF LIVING PLAYTHINGS.
BY Antoniorrobles. Translated by
Edward Huberman. Illustrated by
Fritz Eichenberg. New York:
Modern Age Books.
Eight young stories, all very pleas
ant.
THE CAUTIOUS CARP AND OTHER
FABLES IN PICTURES. BY
Nicholas Radlov. New YORK:
Coward McCann.
Animal stories told by strips OF
pictures. Amusing.
THE BABY GIANT PANDA. BY Ruth
Harkness. New York: Carrick &
Evans.
The story of the famous four-footed
child-by the lady who captured
him. Thoroughly delightful. Illus
trated with photographs.
PoPo's MIRACLE. BY Charlie May
Simon. Illustrated by Howard
Simon. New York: E. P. Duttor
Co.
The story Of a little Mexican boy
and his donkey. Pleasant, with beau
tiful illustrations.
THE HIDDEN VALLEY. BY Laura
Benet. illustrated by Kurt Wiese
New York: Dodd Mead & Co.
Imaginary tale of a little white boy
being taught nature lore by young
Indian in the primitive Yellowstone
Pleasant.
Modern Library Editions.
BYRON LETTERS. Edited by r. G.
Howarth. Introduction by Andre
Maurois.
THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE. BY
Karl Pearson.
THE HISTORY OF GERMANY. BY
Hermann Pinnow.
OUR VILLAGE. BY Mary Russell
Milford.
ICELAND FISHERMAN. BY Pierre
Lott.
TCHEKov's PLAYS AND STORIES.
Edited by Earnest Rhys.
THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUS.
Edited and with an introduction
by Lin Yutang.
Other Reprints.
TOM SAWYER. BY Mark Twian.
Boston: Bruce Humphries.
A cheap pocket-size edition. OBJ
viously to catch some Of the interest
stirred up by the technicolor.
ON BORROWED TIME. Dramatiza-
ton Of the novel by Lawrence Ed
ward Watkin by Paul Osborn.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
OUR TOWN. BY Thornton Wilder.
New York: Coward McCann.
Played this season.
THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
OPERAS. A Concordance. BY
Frederick J. Halton. Introduction
by Rupert D'Oyly Carte. New
York: The Bass Publishers.
Short Stories.
THE BEST OF RUNYON. Selected
by E. c. Bentley. Illustrated by
Nicholas Bentley. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Co.
Just what it says. Worth having
by all means.
Labor.
THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMER
ICA. BY Marjorie Clark and 8.
Fanny Simon. New York: w. w.
Norton Co.
A history Of the movement, from
the days Of earliest factories tn the
country 10 the g. I q.