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Evening star., 1939-06-11
Europe in the Fourth Dimension
By V. Poliakof (AugurJ Neu 70

BY v Potakof (Augur) NeU York Appleton Cenury Co.
Here is an effort to especially since 1914
mas suffered sad negecthe politics according to the
Higher Conscience Relations
materasm without regard for
ume IS an attempt rationaliZe
Done by who ranks commentators on
world affairs combines
noo almost evangelc ideal of morality
spiritual perspective which value
and dupicity. [ - ~
geography politics Of
geometrc length breadth
geometry have their fourth
The OF the eternal
humanity
leaders
They
the collective of
served to The leaders
got Him That is how have
uled
zation have ceased feel
the wall looming Meanwhile
OF low propagandists'
Where democracy has
through the failure OF the
regard by democratic leaders of
Germany Fasclsm in Italy and Bosevsm
facets OF reaction
leaders the
Wlthers in the absence of spiritual impulse
'PoltcS-n
governed only by material considerations
also by the higher conscience mankind Democratic
spiritual foundation Otherwise
Although ms sword raised against all
M Poakofs scathng
great aggeso-Which represents the agent of destruction
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qualities of Agassiz as man and
scientist. The author herself says
indeed that she has always meant
to write his history, and that she
has never wanted to write the his
tory of any one else. These state
ments are offered as a provision of
the determining quality of the work
1t is burst of personal enthusiasm
almost more than it is a biography
Miss Robinson, like too many woman
biographers, has felt that her own
unbounded admiration for her sub
ject is of nearly equal Importance
to the subject himself, and she in
trudes constantly to urge the reader
to appreciate even as she appre-
ciates. Her approach is sentimental
and her manner gushing. The facts
of Agassiz's career are here. to be
sure. But the reading of them is
undeniably an irritating thing.
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By NC. r.
Anne Minton's Life
By Myron BRING. NeU York:
Farrdr e. Rhinehart.

By Myron BRING. NeU York:
Farrdr & Rhinehart.
Mr.. Myron BRING has produced
four novels in the time in which
the reviewer has been writing book
notices The first Of these was The
Sun Sets in the West" and the re-
viewer remembers that she gave it
a pretty good hand. After that
came The Sisters" The reviewer
did not write about that herself; it
was handled by someone on the
staff. But the book became best
seller very shortly. and that caused
the reviewer to look at it askance-
best sellers are so often nothing
more. Third. there came May
Flavin, - another best - and it
moved the reviewer to think that
Mr.. BRING had dropped his early
devotion to good writing and gone
completely Ferber. Consequently
she took up Anne Minton's Life"
with some distaste.
ollC chptNlCu ~ W DS AIi'oP' A1NiAS'
smart-aleck and aimed at eventual
Hollywood production. She says
therefore, in the handsomest man
ner possible to her, that she was
mistaken. The book is not literature
by long way, but is is not smart
aleck or facile either. The most
accurate description which comes to
mind is that it is immensely clever
1t is so clever that it is going to fool
lot of people into thinking that
is is more And it is so we'll de-
signed, from the point of view of
suspense, that practically ANYBODY
who picks it up will finish it. So
it would seem that Mr.. BRING has
done another best. But this, among
bests. is a good one.
The suspense motif centers around
the psychopathic behavior of a
young girl-Anne Minton-who, in
bitter disillusion and haunted by the
fear of insanity, goes out on the
ledge of a hotel window Is stories
above the street to think things
out She does not want to live but
is also uncertain as to whether she
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Myron Brings New Novel
Called Immensely Clever

wants to kill herself. The town
Los Angeles-goes into an orgy of
excitement over her bizarre conduct.
Nobody can induce her to move and
she cannot be brought in by force.
There she sits while photographers
gun at her and a mob defiies the
police in the street below in order
to ogle at her perch. And in her
perchlng, she influences the lives of
an assorted group of men and
women, none OF whom know her but
all of whom are profoundly touched
by her desperation
There is widow of supposed
means who is about to be evicted
from her hotel because in reality her
means are non-existent; she too has
been contemplating suicide There
is ''plavboy' who has Just Tilted
the widow in order to chase after
pretty show girl. There is the
show girl who in turn is considering
Jlltlng her faithful but penniless
flance. There is the fiance. There
is woman on relief who is fright
ened by the prospect of bringing a
child into her poverty-ridden home.
There is also Jewish refugee, who
acts somewhat as chorus and sees,
in the desperate childlike figure
perched on the abyss between misery
and extinction, all of the simple
humankind who have no ambitions
beyond happiness and no compul-
sions beyond minding their own
affairs.
All of these people see, in Anne.
a reflection of their own situation
and, in contemplating her come to
a solution of their problems. The
device is theatrical one and most
effective. Mr. BRING keeps the un-
happy girl on her ledge for hours
on end-from mid morning until
nigbtfall and reader who will not
go on with the story to the finish.
will be unusually impervious. But
just how he finally disposes of her.
the reviewer will not say. That
would be giving away his show and
not cricket. However, there is
enough pulling at the heartstrings
IN the book to satisfy most of us
even though the central device is
completely arbitrary and-one hopes
completely artificial.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
What Is Being Read Today?
Best Sellers in Washington and Other Cities

Chicago.
Fiction, The Grapes Of
Wrath" "Wickford Point" Wine
of Good Hope" Captain Horatio
Hornblower," The Patriot Pearl
Buck.
Non-Fiction.-"Days of Our
Years Autobiography With
Letters" Reaching for the Stars"
You're the Doctor Victor Heiser;
"Mein kampf," Adolf Hitler.
New York.
Fiction. The Grapes of
Wrath" "All This and Heaven
Too" "Wickford Point" Captain
Horatio Hornblower," Here Lies"
Dorothy Parker.
Non-Fiction. - DAYS of Our
Years, Reaching for the Stars"
Autobiography With Letters"
America in Midpassage,' "Mein
Kampf."
San Francisco.
Fiction. - The Grapes OF
Wrath, The Perplexed Heart"
Angela Du Maurier,' The
Patriot "Wickfort Point" Cap
tain Horatio Hornblower.
Observation-Disclosures DAYS
OF San Francisco Evelyn Wells;
Days of Our Years" "Mein
Kampf," San Francisco" "West
Coast Metropolis" Edwin Ross
kan; America in Midpassage."
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Washington.


Fiction.-"Grapes of Wrath" !"
John Steinbeck; "Wickford Point y
John P. Marquand; The Year.
ling Marjorie Rawlings; All
This and Heaven Too Rachel
Field; Captain Horatio Horn
blower" C. S. Forester; The Tree
of Liberty" Elisabeth Page.
Non-Fiction. - Garter Glass"
Rixey Smith and Norman Beasley;
America in Midpassage." Charles
and Mary Beard; "Huntsman
What Quarry" Edna St. Vincent
Mlllay, Days of Our Years. -
Pierre van Paassen: "Piccolino, ,"
Marian King Autobiography
With Letters William Lyon
Phelps.
Fiction. - The Grapes of
Wrath" WEXFORD Point" AL
This and Heaven Too" Three
Harbours." F. van Wyck Mason;
Wine of Good Hope" David
Rame.
Non-Fiction - Autobiography
With Letters Reaching for the
Stars" Nora Vain; Days of Our
Years" "A Peculiar Treasure. ~
Edna Ferber; Take 1t From Me y
Neal O'Hara.
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The Manila GoIIeon
By William L. SEIZURE. Neu
York. E 2 lnttnn &, ca

~ WNl1dm l.. Schurs. NeU
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
The first of the Manila galleons
crossed the Pacific to the Mexican
coast in 1865. Yearly, for two and
half centuries, with very few in
terruptions, the galleons made the
long and dangerous trip between
Manila and Acapulco, Mexico. The
last of the galleons put into port
in 1915
No other line of ships ever en-
dured so long. The remarkable rec
ord of $50 years of continuous serv-
ice was not made without cost: no
other regular navigation was so
trying and hazardous. The sea
claimed dozens of ships, thousands
of men and millions in treasure. The
galleons were the richest ships in
all the oceans; they were the most
coveted prizes of pirates and priva-
teers. The English took four of
them and four others beat off Eng
lish or Dutch assailants.
The galleon service had pro-
found effect upon world trade. The
old trade dollar" coined by the
United States mints until 1887 for
the convenience of Americans trad
ing with the Orient. was a recog-
milton of the standard of value fixed
centuries ago by the galleon trad
ers. 1t stands as one of the great
romances of the seas.
The galleon service grew out of
the conception on the part of the
Spanish government of the mighty
Pacific Ocean as a Spanish lake;
for nearly two centuries this
grandiose vision was essentially
realized fact. Spain laid a formal
prohibition on the use of the Pa
cific by foreigners and ordered con-
ditions so arranged that the gall
Icons might sail the Pacific with
as much security las though they
were on the river of Seville"
Mr.. Schurz has made a scholarly
and exhaustive study of this re-
markable, incredibly romantic ocean
transport service. His book is the
result of u years of careful study
and the reader will be amazed at
the wealth of detail he has assem-
bled from the records of centuries
Of history. This is more than the
story of the galleons; it is the his
tory of mans conquest Of the Pa
cific and is invaluable as back
ground for those who are interested
in American strategy in the Pacific
and in our foreign policy. 1t should
be in the libraries of all who are
interested in the annals of the sea
or in the history of the Far East.
The author carried on much Of
Evening star., 1939-06-11
The Answer

By Lud1Uig Le1Uisohn. NeU
York: LiDeright Publishing
Corp.
The answer" implied in the title
of this book is the answer of an
Orthodox American Jew to the criti-
clsms which now, and anciently,
have been made against his people.
1t is saddening and in many ways,
curious work. 1t deserves the at
tentlon and respect of the public
which wants 10 understand this
bitter business which seems to be
the Jewish problem; one unhesi-
tatingly says as much. Yet one fears
that the work will not do a great
deal to lessen the prejudices of
those who hold prejudice. For DR..
LeWisohn writes with such a pas
sion of loyalty to his own views
of Jewishness that he virtually de-
nies the sincerity of any one who
holds differing opinions. THE only
Jew who can be loyal to the spirit
of America is the Zionist" he says
fatty. This seems, somehow, mar
row definition of loyalty. Many non
Zionist Jews are assuredly loyal
Americans and DR.. LeWisohn's as
sertion that they are non-Zionist
from fear of future prosecutions
casts rather shocking aspersion of
coWardice and insincerity on very
large number of his own co-religion-
lists.
One finds this same passionate
narrowness throughout the whole
work. 1t is a somber yet fiery de-
fense of the Jewish people, a call
on them to declare their right to
the Palestine homeland, to be loyal
to their faith and race above all
other loyalties and to cease seeking
to propitiate and cajole gentle tol-
erance but to assert themselves even
to the length of martyrdom. This, as
said, calls for respect, but it is es-
sentially a theorists idea-noble, no
doubt, but strangely inapplicable to
the Jews of America, to whom it is
In the main addressed. One Won
Evening star., 1939-06-11
| Brief Reviews
Of New Books
Places,

Places.
TURKEY THE BEAUTIFUL. New
York: Turkish Commission New
York Worlds Fair.
A book of very beautiful photo
graphs of Turkish scenes so bound
that pictures can be removed from
covers. Worth having.
HISTORIC NEW JERSEY IN PIC
TURES. BY James S. Cawley.
Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
A book of charming photographs
OF historic New Jersey scenes. Worth
having.
CALIFORNIA. Compiled and writ
ten by the Federal Writer'S Prof.
ect, Works Progress Administra-
ton. New York: Hastings
House.
A new number of the American
Guide series.
Novels.
THE SEVENTH PLANK. BY Will
liam Mcdowell. New York: G.
P. Putnams Sons.
A routine sort of work about a
man who grew up among ships and
also loved to paint. The author,
incidentally, is man who grew UP
among ship and also loved to paint.
Argal, the book might be auto
biographical. AS said, it's routine
IN outlook and method.
TIGER SLAYER. BY Charles w.
Lombard. Boston: Meador Pub
fishing Co.
Very silly stuff about a man who
wanted to fight a tiger and did so.
Rankly amateur.
Mysteries.
CANCELLED IN RED. By Hugh
Pentecost. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co.
A murder complicated by stamp
collecting. Interesting. Also the
winner of the $1,000 Red Badge
Prize mystery competition.
THE FOOTPRINTS ON THE CELL
ING. BY Clayton Rawson. New
York: G.. P. Putnam's Sons.
Crime to the tune of magic-from
necromancy to psychoanalysis. In
teresting.
Conservation.
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND
THEIR CONSERVATION. Edited
by A. E. Parkins and j. r.
Whitaker. New York: John
Wiley e. Sons, Inc.
A revised second edition of this
text on the state of our natural
wealth-all of it, down to and in
cluding human begins. Informative.
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His book. therefore, differs in num-
Der OF ways from the routine parlor-
Observation-Disclosures work which
one has come to expect to be written
about Mexico. 1t is not enthusiastic,
1t is not even in parlor sympathy
with the Communists, and it has
genuine quality. Still, one feels as
one reads it that the question of
religion alone provides a narrow
vantage point from which to view
the whole development of a country.
Even without holding sympathy for
the suppressors of religion, reader
is likely to have such a passing
doubt.
Mr.. Greene, it should be said,
however, does not limit his case to
defending the right of people to wor-
ship freely. He is free about ad-
mitting that, under the Diaz regime,
abuses had grown up in the church.
But, he says, the late Pope had at
tackled these and they were on the
way to correction. He also goes into
the Catholic Action" movement now
organized in the southern republic
to combat anti-religious teachings
The book is occupied with this
aspect of Mexico above all, but, as
said, 1t avoids the appearance of
controversy. 1t contains many travel
anecdotes, it has a good deal of
humor-rather languid humor-and
some very OXfordian descriptions
of the Mexican countryside. For
the reader who wants a word on
our neighbor country, but is tired
OF the very conventional gush which
at present commonly gets written
about it, Mr.. Greene is just about
different enough to be quite salts
factory.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
We Didn't Ask Utopio
By Harry and Rebeccd

By Harry and Rebecca Tim
breS. Ne1U York. Prentice
Hall, Inc.
With a large proportion of the
population confessing to a sort of
cerebral indigestion brought on by
reading about governing and gov
eminent, which constitutes the bulk
OF our printed fare these days, this
story OF a Quaker family in Soviet
Russia is recommended as an anti
dote.
The theory of Communism and
Stains manner of practicing or not
practicing it may be skipped for
the moment, like switching off a
SWING tune too often heard on the
radio. When you've read 1--WE
Didn't Ask Utopia" you know some.
thing of the results, not in diplo.
matte circles in Moscow, but in an
outpost 700 miles away, where one
OF many new medical stations
operate. You learn what Russians
nave for dinner Gt isn't much and
lacks variety and they have not
solved the distribution problem
either, how they amuse themselves
(they are amused, how they dress
(Which is badly and the limitations
OF their public utilities In writing
her journal Mrs. Timbres is suffi-
clently Spartan not to lose sight,
In telling about her ghastly strug-
giles to keep house, to keep health
and to keep nourished, of a pioneer
spirit which uplifts the Russian
people with whom she came in con-
tact. There's plenty of morale. II
very little butter. Let 1t be heresy
or not this pioneer spirit is
reminiscent. Living in Marbumstroy
sounds very much like living In
Alaska during the gold rush.
But 1t is good that the Timbres
did not ask Utopia, for they Ger.
tainly did not find it. An expert
"microbe hunter" Harry Timbres
fought malaria for salary which
he couldn't quite live on. combined
with the salary of his wife, who is
a nurse. He died of typhoid fever
before the year was out.
One of the children developed q
stammer during the sojourn.
Although the Timbres had to dip
into their savings to subsist in
Russia, the Soviet government al
loted a monthly pension of $84.40
to the children after the fathers
death, to be paid until after they
have finished their schooling, despite
the fact that they have returned
to the United States. v.sK. C.
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Runner of the Mountain TOPS
By Mabel L. Robinson. N.

By Mdbel L. Robinson. NeU
York. Random House.
This is life of Louis Agassiz, the
great naturalist. 1t has perhaps
been composed In an effort to give
the public popularity written biog-
raphy of its subject; it is obviously
a labor of love and a work inspired
by an almost missionary zeal to
make readers aware of the great
Evening star., 1939-06-11

is to say, it is primarily that. 1t is
also book of travel observations
of general sort. But it is by no
means reportorial recording,
Journalistic telling of conditions and
situations. Mr.. Greene is, as we'll
as a religious man, poet, and his
interpretations of the world come to
him with poetic import. He writes
a delicate, almost precious, style;
he is very much the man Of letters.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Another Mexico

By Graham Greene. NeU York:
The Viking Press.
Mr.. Graham Greene is an English
Roman Catholic of great devoutness.
In 1888 he made trip to Mexico
to see just what had come about
from the suppression of the churches
in that land. This book is his ac-
count of what he founder, that
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The Best Short Stories, 1889

e
will
that unless collection OF stories OF uniform level it is almost
sible with otherwise
S she has found
There
Ellison Albert Hape Paul organ Madge nison
Merde LeSueT Alan Macdonald Albert Maz Ellis
Walter Allan seager Michael sd Jesse Stuart
Sylvester
Wolfert
lection
be quite unthinkable
Five of the taken Esquire
Review and each from the New Mexico Quarterly Harper
Magazine the Red Book Hairenk Weekly Household
and the
The best of the volume the reviewers
Willie good
L. Cohn salutaion appest
Earth by Albert Malz Berkshire
White Camel" by Eugene Wright.
would this is
uintegie
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Reorganization of the National Government

g Los Ned7n ana Laurence F. Schmeckeber The Brook
1ngs Institution. ~
mental @ by recognized authorities govern
gram no" oeng developed by An
e emphasis ad on fact that
ehclency han reshufling
tn ofen-advaned theory
tapping ana conlct OF
IN n direction would be small pointing of the
Sts Oh aomhstraton the rest tied pensions donations
poyment it is amplihed cutting abandoning these
questions of public policy" ~ -'0''o' 4a4se
me auhors see even broader
ui however declaring that the development
' "N-" o'te1 ste@'ei 1e-
major problems
o co-ofdlnad sesuppong
ne elimination OF conflicting
luton OF economic f-suanng
people ana Government
major matters would both
materially to governmental ~ N
Inc that
administered merit system Budget
cent 10 serve
the reorganization
search and investigating independent control
Evening star., 1939-06-11
News and Reviews Of Fiction Books Government
Europe Has Trouble With
Local Government, Too
Effect of Overwhelming Central
Power in Recent Years Is
Studied by Experts
Local Government in Europe

Edited by William Anderson. York. London:
D. Appleton Century Co.
The travail to which local and
ra communities has been subjected
menu power In the central this
Work OF 4odd pages One might
counts OF eaderships
account INTENDED primarily
lIauon IN England, Union
Separate chapters drafted detached point ve
describe to what extent
or now nearly the spark of been all but moh
le IN ines nations The machinery
% @ ~anneu revealing that
crises as well as will
domination OF central differences in the
tons. ~ NN "e'"'ei VIC 1--WE Ad-
Robert Kent Goch professor political science University o vir
lessor OF political science University Wisconsin on France Fritz
ose marx assistant professor of
arthur Steiner assistant political science Uni
Oh Cahiorna, Italy,
history and political Washburn College n tho saua,
D. S. w. e0 va VIC 0o'ie' oiuoH.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Gunther's Inside Asia
Is Brilliantly Done
Writes About Far East, Looks
At the Arab World and
Examines Palestine
Inside Asia
By Mary.Carter Roberts.

being indicated immensely in
who attempted in recent years e sunny
up tine ee @ @ @ some seogTapnea M region but none
Perhaps that polished off
certainly mpartaty
inside ASIA
pines hs Es @ % a % h s pp 5
in Palestine Its aim in all this territory is
don the influences necessary
sonay most the lands about which he writes
M da sn Ta years m mis- s
Sssh S taken place 1889
neveor almost The writing practically
S1 S p nssv unknown an deal for the most
Not Neglect
Imperialism and Religion.
Through the whole swing round this immense the world
the ome ss @ a and eon Iii OF
nations the and @
the n 9" e the h ve
et goes a " he n the he 5 od that sId St the breath Of Aa life
of shno and India of the nrahams The religious attitude
vicious degree Iraq
be @ acs @ 4 B s fsd en may n M M
ns o VIVA hs and @ mann & exposition they some,
with which all civilization will have before
m Indeed nc the s this 0ondags s
ton the book In Japan it shows Emperor China
which peaoeks m and an
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M An s @ bears startling Hitler
to with fanaicim which is unmagnable
being closely They makes terribly
demonstrates mpeam has had to % ke oe M 0 as mr. unheT
contrlyed rived oa to avoid l. giving religious ohense
Of the world living medieval
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poverty and the
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sti has opened the road has done hh brutal
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strong between japan and the
But ina a @ 0hla h 0nss M mo to h
Gunher force selae devotion to human
nisesss S hs
his @ shs the
that all Of hese men
exercise @ tremendous authority over vast thousands of human
men of good Three continent
question Mr. Gunther draws
will be- 0ns m s @
belief
world
Ashland that
west Iran And after he
Their fanatsm unlimited
OF designed all
Against this by implication at least Mr. Gmther the Chinese
"he intelligent
Chinese
Occiden
unhapply, Occidens
with Chang, Changs
a
1t immense prospect The book throws
The Best Short Stories 1889
Edited by EdUard j. OBren. Boston: Houghon N1f1n
is a is
deal
found
There then 80 stories the volume They
Gan Clark Robert NJ David
Ellison
Walter Stuart
Heinz Werner Ira Wofert Wright Richard
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his research work in Washington;
he dates the volume: Washington,
January, 1889 JS.E
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-08
CHICHA6OF TO
 CEASE MHNlN6Dh HI9sf C0F DEEP LODE
Miners Coming io Juneau
 Old TaiIings Are fo Be .a@ ass Worked, Floidtion asa

Miners arriving by plane from the Chichagof mine on Chichagof Island over the weekend report that actual mining operations of the famous workings are to be shut down and only small crew will be retained to carry out flotation work on the tailings dump - M
 Ten miners flew in Saturday 'af- ternoon with Alaska Air Transport and more were expected today.
 According to Saturday arrivals, new prospecting of the Chichagof Iodes showed insufficient values for continued deep operations and said ie fs believed machinery will be taken out and the workings allowed to flood.
 New Notation equipment is to be installed soon and work will be start ed on tailings, which reports have estimated as carrying a half million dollars in values.
 The old Chichagof mine has been operated almost continuously since the early nineteen hundreds and has produced many fortunes The work ings had gone to depth of nearly 1000 feet, miners said. making min ing of lower grade ores unecon- omical. F''s
 It is believed there will be enough work left on the tailings to keep a scoresof smen employed for another three or -four years. Z v