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Evening star., 1939-09-03
Best Sellers
Washington.

Fiction -" The Grapes of
Wrath" John Steinbeck; Next
to Valour," John Jennings;
WEXFORD Point" John P. Mar
quand; Captain Horatio Horn
blower" c. S. Forester; The
Brandons," Angela Thirkell;
THE Web and the Rock"
Thomas Wolfe.
Non fiction - Inside Asia"
John Gunther: Not Peace but
a Sword" Vincent Sheean;
Wind, Sand and Stars" An
tome Exupery; "I Believe" Cliff
ton Fadiman: Reaching for
the Stars" Nora Vain; Jour
ney to War" Auden and
sherwood.
Boston.
Fiction - The Grapes of
Wrath; Next to Valour";;
Black Narcissus," Runner God
den; The Web and the Rock:
April Was When 1t Began"
Barry Benefited.
Non -fiction-'Inside Asia;
Autobiography With Letters"
William Lyon Phelps; Reach
ing for the Stars; Not Peace
but a Sword; Days of Our
Years" Pierre van Paassen.
Chicago.
Fiction - The Grapes of
Wrath; Captain Horatio
Hornblower"; Shanghai ST."
Vicki Baum; BLACK Narcissus";;
Next to Valour."
Non -fiction-"Inside Asia;
Not Peace but a Sword;
Days of Our Years: "Adven-
lures in Good Eating Duncan
Hines; Wind, Sand and Stars"
New York.
Fiction -" The Grapes of
Wrath; The Web and the
Rock; Black Narcissus";
The Brandons" Next to
Valour.'
Non-fction-"Not Peace but
Sword; "Insisde Asia;
Country Lawyer" Bellamy
Partridge; Days of Our
Years; Wind, Sand and
Stars
San Francisco.
Fiction The Grapes of
Wrath; BLACK Narcissus";;
Captain Horatio Hornblower";;
The Web and the Rock;
"Tellers of Tales" edited by
Somerset Vaughan.
Non -flction-"Inside Asia;
Not Peace but a Sword;
America in Midpassage."
Charles and Mary Beard;
Factories in the Field" Carey
McWilliams; The Art Treas
ure Island" Eugene Neuhaus.
Evening star., 1939-09-03

Mardi Gras in New Orleans and is
handled deftly as far as is possible
under its particular handicap. That.
alas, is Mr.. Basso's insistence on
long, rambling discussions of the
state of society, science, politics and
international relations. These prob
lens might have been suggested
with much effect, but set forth in
so bold manner they detract from
the picture of band of marooned
individuals seeking a way out. Mr..
Basso is carrying no special plea for
any cause; in fact, he seems about
as bewildered as his hero-or as the
reader.
There is some effective writing in
Days Before Lent" but 1t is not q
novel that will carry persuasion.
Maybe there is q new lost genera.
ton" E. T.
Evening star., 1939-09-03

lea, also has written The Mexican
Agrarian Revolution" Since the
agrarian problem is such an i'm
portant phase of Mexican life, it is
of value to read Eyler N Simpsons
THE Ejido; Mexico's Way Out"
which offers frankly sympathetic
study of the recent land reforms,
presenting both the weak and strong
points.
Oil Seizures.
Two of the most recent books on
Mexico treat at some length the
problem of oil appropriations. AN
Eyewitness of Mexico" is by r. H,
K, Marett. an English businessman
who has lived in the country for
many years. THE Mexican Chal-
lenge," by Frank L. Kluckhohn,
correspondent of the New York
Times, is a sympathetic survey.
despite the authors expulsion from
Mexico several months ago.
No one can read about Mexico
without considering her relations
with her near neighbors to the
south Two books which include
material on most of these countries
are Beals' America South" and
Samuel G. Inman's Latin America
history of economic, social and
political trends.
In 1910 Mexico is to have an cleo
ton. Current magazines discuss
President Cardenas' regime and the
possibility of his reelection. with
which is tied up the future of Mexico.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Brief Reviews of New Books

written tale about man who went
about being pious. A Southern
plantation story of Civil War and
postwar days.
THREE SUMMERS WITH POP.
BY Gertrude F. Gable. New
York: The Pyramid Press.
Novel about wise old party, whim-
sical and shrewd. And all that.
The usual toffee.
Religious.
THE BOOK OF PSALMS. Trans
lated from the Aramaic Sources.
BY George M. Lansa. Philadel-
phia: A. j. Holman Co.
Juveniles.
SHINE. BY Maria Van Vrooman.
Illustrated by Inez Hogan.
Story of little colored boy. ANUS
ing. For the very young.
MULE TWINS. BY Inez Hogan.
New York: E. P. Dutton Co.
A little story about some baby
mules, charmingly illustrated.
LITTLE MOSSBACK AMELIA. BY
Frances Margaret Fox. Illustrated
by Marion Downer. New York:
E. p Dutton Co.
Another story book developed
from a true story-the story of the
childhood of a woman who, when
she was little girl, spent six years
living in the North woods. Should
be helpful in teaching city children
about rural life.
OSCAR THE MODEL MAKER. BY
Curt Grunzig. Boston: The
Meador Publishing Co.
Book about model making Should
interest boys who have a bent for
the use of tools.
Reprint.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS PATH
TO THE PRESIDENCY. BY AL
bert Shaw. New York: Crosset
& Dunlap.
A book first published in two
volumes 10 years ago. Now in a
single volume. 1t is the story of
Lincoln's career up to his first elec-
ton in 1860 and would seem to bs
a valuable thing. Accompanied by
great wealth of cartoons and
sketches made In the period under
the authors consideration. A broad
political study.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
We Were There

By TaoelUe Foreign Corre-
SpondentS. NeU York: G. P.
Putnan'S Sons.
1t appears now that the English
newsmen have at last caught onto
the fashion of advertising their pro-
fessional exploits. The Americans
have been doing it, of course. for a
good many months. They have with
only a few exceptions written their
personal histories and disclosed the
hitherto unknown steps by which
they scored that Notwithstanding beat
on the abdication of the king of
Graustark back in the feverish 20s.
They have recorded, too, their ha-
tired of Fascism and made known
to the public which reads their
dispatches their determination to
report all news on a personally
anti-Fascist basis. They have, in
deed, taken the plain citizen into
the press sanetums and practically
overwhelmed him with passionate
condolences. But, except for a few
men of unusual enterprise, the
English scribes have not followed
in their footsteps.
Now II men who serve English
papers and are with one exception
British by birth write of their ex-
periences news-gathering. Each one
contributes a piece descriptive of
some particular upheaval; there is,
for example, the inevitable article
on the Spanish war and the equally
inevitable one on the partition of
Czechoslovakia. Other pieces 60
further back into postwar history;
F. A. Voigt of the Manchester
Guardian, for example, writes Of
the Ruhr occupation and Darsie
Gillie of the Yorkshire Post of
Pilsudski's coup d'etat in Poland.
We also have a story on Palestine by
Arthur Koestler and one on Ethio-
pia by George Steer. On the
whole, the collection is, as readers
must see for themselves, pretty
much the obvious and expected
thing.
The Britishers, it should be said,
do not 60 of the deep end in set
ting down their personal emotions,
as do the Americans, but their
sympathies are still evident. They.
too, dislike Fascism and all its
works; they would like to be log
ical in their wishful belief that
the British Empire is the bull
wark Of freedom still In this 20th
century, but they cannot quite bring
that feat Oh; they write pretty well
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Murder and More Murder

By William Roughedd. With
a toreword by William Lyon
Phelps. Ne1D YORK;: Sheridan
House.
The author of this book has
already established his reputation in
the field of crime writing. He was
editor of the Notable British Trials"
series and has made fascinating
reading of many other strange and
shocking historical misdeeds. Here
he gives us an account of seven
evil happenings which took place
in the land of Scotland, the actual
crime, the history Of the men and
women involved, the evidence pro-
duced on both sides at the trial,
the summing up by counsel, the
verdict and the final end of the
guilty one. If you like that kind
of reading you can hardly do better
than get his book. It is grueson,v
stuff at times, but it is crime writ
ing at a brilliant level.
The wicked doings recorded in the
volume date from the story of one
Sawney Beane, who lived in the
reign of James vi and who is re-
puted to have killed over a thousand
people in period of some Is years
down to the case of a Mrs. Donald
who committed her evil deed in 1884.
In between you have a wide variety
of costumes and properties-Deacon
Brodie that was hanged in his
sword and cooked hat like a great
gentleman" Katherine Nairn of the
18th century who escaped prison
disguised in boys dress, the
pompous and dignified DR.. Cantrelle
whose side whiskers were the ad-
miration of the Victorians who
thronged his trial-and so on.
Mr.. Roughead's manner is one of
mockery and discretion. The book
is recommended, though only to the
section of the public which admits
In advance q taste for criminal In
vestigatiou. NC. r.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Poetry.
A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF MOD


A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF MOD
ERN POETRY.
Edited and with an introduction
by Selden Rodman, including rep
resentative poems by Robinson JEFF
fers, T. S. Eliot, Edna st. Vincent
Millay, James Joyce, Stephen
Spender, w. H. Auden, D. H. Law
renee, Robert Frost, Hart Crane,
Dorothy Parker, Paul Engle, Vachel
Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Carl Sand
burg, c. Day Lewis, Archibald Mac
leish, Kenneth Fearing, Stephen
Vincent Benet, Elinor Wylie, John
Masefield, A. E. Housman, Amy
Lowell, Josephine johnson, Barto-
lomeo Vanzetti, William Butler
Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Malcolm Cowley, Horace Gregory,
Frederic Prokosch, E. E. Cummings,
Wilfred Owen, William Rose
Benet, Muriel Rukeyser, Louis Mac
neice, Wallace Stevens and others.
The reviewer comedies a good COL
lection-even allowing for Mr.. Cum
mings and Mr.. Cowley.
Novels.
SOLDIERS OF THE SUN. BY
Alice Curtis Desmond. New
York: Dodd Mead & Co.
Very romantic stuff about brave
youth in the army of the Inca ruler
about the time of the Spaniards.
The usual toffee.
MAID OF SARK. BY Sibyl Hath
away, Dame of Sark. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co.
Romantic story about young lovers
who lived on, or came a-robbing to.
the famous English Channel island
in the 18th century. The author
is the equally famous Dame of
Sark," which is to say that she is
practically absolute ruler over her
tiny domain. Average lively love
story with plenty of fighting and
adventure.
BUD. BY P. D. Rich. New York:
The Pyramid Press.
Extremely sentimental and badly
Evening star., 1939-09-03
You and Heredity

By Amram Scheinteld. Assist
ed in the genetic sections by
DR.. Morton D. SchUeitser. NeU
York: Frederick A. Stokes.
This is fascinating volume, writ
ten by a former newspaperman in
style that is journalistically con-
crete and simple to follow, the
language avoiding complex biolog-
ical terms in so far as possible.
Intended primarily for the average
layman possessing little scientific
knowledge, the book has a natural
charm which makes the pages skim
past. The flow of scientific data
is halted briefly at times to allow
bits of humor and the writer's OBJ
Evening star., 1939-09-03

up-to-date history The author is
on the faculty of the New York
University. Although Ernest H.
Gruening's Mexico and It's Heritage
is an older work, it is a careful
study of the political social. eco
nomic and cultural history of the
country.
The movies recently brought to
our attention the lives of past rulers.
Phantom Crown" by BERTHA Hard
ing, tells the tragic story of Maxi
milan and of his downfall at the
hands of Benito Juarez. The ruler
who dominated Mexico for 80 years
after the death of Juarez was Por-
flrio DiaZ. whose life has been told
by Carleton Beals in a full-length
biography.
Descriptive Works.
To study country and it's prob
lens, 1t is desirable to read widely
among descriptive literature.
whether one has been able to visit
the country or not. Stuart Chase
has written Mexico, a Study of Two
Americas which not only describes
the life and manners of the people,
but compares their civilization with
ours. Anita Brenner's Your Mex
ican Holiday is a good tourist guide.
Peace by Revolution by Frank
Tannenbaum, is a historical dis
cussion of Mexico since the revolu-
ton OF 1910. Mr. Tannenbaum. who
is member of the staff of the
Brookings Institution and an au-
thority on Mexico and Latin Amer
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Days Before Lent

By Hamilton Bdsso. NeD
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mr.. Basso's novel is study of the
dilemma of a modern man of science
trying to make his way to happiness
in world of contradiction and un-
certainties. 1t is not man who is at
fault, the hero means, but the times.
The hero is young bacteriologist,
Jason Kent, who is faced with the
immediate problem of deciding
whether he wants to stay in New
Orleans and minister to a world of
sorry men or to go to India and de-
vote his life to scientific research
He is helped toward his decision by
crises in the lives of his friends-a
broken down pugilist, an idealistic
priest, a too successful playwright
and an aging and exiled Central
American revolutionist.
The story Is set in the days Of
Evening star., 1939-09-03

servations of life to creep in. Such
pauses mellow the work without
detracting from the purpose at
hand
Ambitious in attempting to cover
a tremendous field, the writer does
not give the impression that he has
skimped his subject. He begins
much as child creates tower
with building blocks, starting at
the bottom and with logical steps
building the story of heredity to
the top. His crowning block is a
forecast of the future and what to
expect from the knowledge already
accumulated. In between are charts
and explanations of the workings
OF the subject, making the whole
symposium of the natural history
which forms heredity. j. K.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Christ in Concrete
By Pietro Di Donate, Indiana
polls. BobbS Merrill COMPANY.

This novel. parts of which have
already been published in story form
in the magazines, tells the story of
its authors life and tragic tumbled
tale 1t is, too, to be sure. 1t is tale
OF the tenements, where Irish and
italian laboring families are packed
into cell-like homes to live there a
meager but tumultuous existence.
The hero, as the authors name
would suggest, is, in this case an
Italian. Very simply his story is of
how, on being left fatherless in his
childhood, he took mans job and
supported his mother and younger
brothers and sisters. 1t is tale of
shocking poverty, but can one really
say today that one is shocked by rev.
elations of extreme want? They are
too common with us for that, one
fears. The extraordinary thing about
Mr.. Di Donates book must be- there
fore, not its subject, but the manner
in which it has been put down on pa
per for us to read.
That is genuinely interesting. 1t
| would seem that the young authors
effort has been to put the Italian
spoken by the immigrant laborers
into English in direct translation
translation, that is, not of general
meaning, but of literal syllable-by-
syllable implications. This is not
accomplished by an easy transfer
ence; it has produced instead
bumpy, jerky, violent style in which
there is much poetry and also much
country matter. But, as said, it is an
interesting experiment and one must
feel for the author the admiration
which one accords any original
worker. He has not tried to write
; after somebody elses manner. That
is great deal, too, in these DAYS
when the mantle of the successful is
shredded to make it 20 around
among the successful's imitators.
Another point should be made
about Mr.. Di Donates work, too.
There is much hullaballoo at pres
ent over the proletarian novel, and
the young men who, Is years ago,
would have been celebrating jazz
and gin, are now everywhere telling
the world about the great class
struggle. 1t is the fashion to do so.
Actual flrst-hand knowledge of this
famous struggle is not, unfortunate
ly, required for bright youth to
make name for himself as one of
its protagonists; there are a number
of convenient formulas by which the
adept copycat can turn out quite
sound commercial article, without
having set foot in a factory or even
! left his ivory tower. Mr.. Di Donate.
for his part, knows whereof he has
written. His book is the genuine
thing. 1t is proletarian-by a pro-
letarian. And, amusingly enough, it
makes no capital at all out of the
old tattered question of revolt and
revolution. 1t is non-political. 1t is
simply picture of laborer's fam
lily, struggling to get along. Readers
can make what they will of the
omission. The reviewer concludes,
for her part, that the young man
cares more for his art than for liter
ary fashions. If the shoe pinches in
any eminent quarter, she is SINGER
ely sorry to have given any pain.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Mexico Made Subject
OfLibrary Queries
History and Political Events
Interest Readers as Time
OF Election Nears

nghbor the recently
interest Library Eighth and streets
NV and its branches Some the questions aske
How is Mexico governed?
What kind a country S
What I Cardenas?
Will Mexico a
"A History of Mexico" by inquirer
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Mexico at the Bar of Public Opinion

By Burt M Mcconnell NeW York: Mail Express Publishing
Opinion" survey
Oil of of American editorial opinion tt
oil
Mcconnell editor
Literary technique
building his by extensive quotation from trougho
Nation.
reputation presenting
every question
might Mexican we'll
Evening star., 1939-09-03

but without the American sweep
and brilliance. The book Is, with
these small distinctions, Just one
more Of its kind. If you are collect
ing to, type you ought by all means
to get It. NC. R.
Evening star., 1939-09-03
News and Reviews of Fiction and Books on Theories of Gov
Miss Thompson's Book
Marked by Mannerisms
Study of the Times Suffers
From Enthusiasm of
Daily Comments
Let the Record Speak
By Mary.C Carter Roberts.

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bursts eaa with terrible sincerity Such
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volume which future generations might
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that Hitler friend democracy
knowledge thceWeekly
articles But repeating what already know she alive before
population before the Government
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unfortunately bringing them together and
necessarily be prepared to meet
Evening star., 1939-09-03
Former Montana Senator
Publishes Observations
Chapter on War Declaration
Called High Spot of Book
By Henry Lee Myers
The United States Senate

This book described its Jacket the observations s
interesting contained The latter
most dramatic periods in American history his two spanning
yet he only IA directly preceding
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best @ the by that describing 4 the a.
recommended declaration
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Burt Mcconnell New York Mail Express Publishing Co.
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South American Primer
By Katharine Carr. New York Reynal Hitchcock, Inc
to that % MRS. s0h car a on here o oa1
without the pondous detail school book something of the people
republics which sprawl from Panama Tisrra Fusso
in properly
different those
lifted the spirit of South America while ignoring the complexities
of
brevity easy flowing
andholders
middle of
to the States but the actually Of the Fascist
Se with
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which control, failure make
explanation South America North America
presentation
becoming
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of beautiful, almost brilliant, writing.
brief the Spanish short sketches
the 10 discussion the United
relations with America and the Fascist C.BM
Young Melbourne
By Indianapolis: Bobbs-MerriH Company
of
his influence Victoria
history of a number Of
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for the heros then issue the hero
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Evening star., 1939-09-03
Democracy Today and Tomorrow


Htlers we-known will power writes
here his disconsoate summing DR. schsngg OF Austria mas ALREADY
feature OF the Fuehrers
called complete
opponents kindly Yankee publishers Where
the discovery Of benevolent con
feared driven the horrd
necessity of simply killing her defeated populations OH VINO h WI"
improved? still fights and still
America here to take OF them
admitted, is definite progress
believe that the OF
provemen ohe written book this
his place has hopes
statement them Since renqhed
his subject the history and future of democracy
bulletins
perished
Field Marshal
History of Democracy
Inception.
democracy
the of the and French revolutions the World
European democraces failed Finally it closes with the op
mstc abovethe
called
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diagnosis
theory political progress advances
introduces
inevitably The
destructive buand calls history slowly
but steadily gained for the liberal mode
it, suffering reaction which
Fear OF the OF the political
tide will change will time
forward still farther Benes hopeful the will
than dcao and that the popular desire AS sad
position
Evening star., 1939-04-17

Pullman cars on the Mckinley
funeral train from Buffalo to Wash
ington, following the Presidents as
sassination. Likewise he had charge
of the cars on the train which bore
President McKinley's body to Can
ton, Ohio, from this city Mr.. john
son also had charge of cars on spe-
cial train for President Theodore
Roosevelt, when the President went
to the Charleston Exposition.
Subsequently Mr.. johnson served
in an official capacity with the Pull
man Co. in Chicago, and later was
appointed an usher at the White
House by President Theodore Roose-
welt.
Next, he was with the Immigra-
ton Service on the Mexican border,
serving as an inspector in both Texas
and California. From there he went
to his position of inspector in charge
of immigration in Baltimore. He was
retired from his position there last
October.
For two years he was stationed in
Naples. Italy, as immigration ad-
wiser to the United States consulate.
~ Mr.. johnson was member OF
Hiram Lodge of Masons. He is sur
Y1ved by his widow. Mrs. Mary A.
johnson; a daughter. Mrs. Edith j.
Brown; two sons, William M. john
son. jr., and Elmer S. johnson, and
three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at II
s.m. tomorrow in GaWlers chapel,
1750 Pennsylvania avenue NV. Bur-
ial will be in Rock Greek Cemetery.