Evening star., 1939-01-22

unnatural quality of the adven-
turers. The hero is pallid and the
heroine chrome.
The book on the whole is an i'm
pressive performance. 1t is, as said,
deafening in effect. 1t produces
that numb acquiescence which one
notices sometimes after hearing too
large a noise. AS always, with Mr..
Faulkner's work, the question Of
whether a reader can believe him or
not is beside the point. He believes
himself. And he has the force, for
the moment at least, to ride down
any kind of mental opposition.
FOX-HUNTING IS DIFFERENT.
BY Samuel j. Henry. Illustrated
by Paul Brown. New York: Der
rydale Press.
Sportsmen, note. This is a book
to have. 1t is collection of hunt
ing anecdotes, remembered by a
veteran hunter and lover of the
sport, Mr.. Sameul j. Henry, Wash
ingtonian who has ridden to hounds
in our country and in Ireland and
England, too. He writes charmingly
and his book is eXquisitely illus
trated.
There are stories of famous
hounds, famous horses and famous
foxes There are also stories of many
hunters, some of them we'll known
in the hunting country about Wash
ington. All these tales are told in
that most delightful of manners
the manner of the man who has a
deep personal knowledge of his sub
ject and an equally deep love OF it..
The reviewer went through the book
at one sitting and has spent a good
bit of time aimee then poring over
the splenud drawings. She can
hardly ilnnusuc n hunter-or lover
of outdoo. NE and sport-failing to
rush off to buy a copy, once he has
seen this book Readers are asked to
remember how seldom such enthu-
siasms are registered here and TO
draw their own conclusions.
In addition to the good stories
there is much information, though
this comes in casually. There are
comments to the breeding of dogs,
on the merits of horses and on hunt
ing technique generally. There is
also mention of the primitive" fox
hunt-the one carried on by the
dogs alone, notably in the case OF
the Gold Tooth" fox, when hand
full of country dogs stayed on long
after the club pack had quit and
left. And there are tales of the
characters incidental to the hunt
the Negro fans and countrymen
who have lived in the shadow of the
hunt all their lives-and so on. But
you had best get the book and read
1t yourself. That is always the re-
viewers ultimate word on anything.
LUNACY BECOMES US. BY Adolf
Hitler and his associates. Edited
by Clara Lesser. New York:
Liveright Publishing Corp.
This book is a collection of gems
gathered from the speeches and
writings of the Nazi leaders. Its edi-
tor, in her foreword. says that she is
refuting by her work the often made
claim that the Nazis have no sense
of humor. The reviewer wishes to
interpolate at this point that she,
for her part, has never made or be-
lieved that claim. She had to re-
view the 'Nazi Primer" some weeks
ago and took the occasion then to
say that she considered the author
of that book the greatest deadpan
comedian since Buster Keaton; in
fact, she even said that she suspected
Buster of being the author. She is
delighted, therefore, to find some
one who holds her own view and
readers are advised here and now
that Miss Lesser, claiming that the
Nazis are exquisitely comic, presents
her proof in very impressive man
ner.
She has divided her work into
chapters by subject. Some of it ex-
presses the Nazi attitude toward
education, some toward the Jews,
some toward the Catholics. some to-
ward the Protestants. There are
also chapters on woman's duties, on
eating substitute foods and going
without; on art, music and poetry;
on the press and on international
relations. The selections from the
words of the Fuefrer and his friends
are all short, none of them being
page long. And to most of them
Miss Lesser has supplied captions
of her own-neat, brisk and pointed.
At the end of sthe book there are
some pages left blank for readers to
use in making their own addition to
the collection.
Inasmuch as none of Miss Leiser's
quotations is without its authenticate
ing note, and inasmuch as they are,
without exception, expressions of
shameful and horrifying attitudes,
her book seems to be one to be COM
mended in the simple interest Of
truth. The only refutation possible
would be denial that such utterances
had been made. For there can be
no explanation.
incidentally, Miss Lesser is, by her
own words, "undiluted Nordic-Ar-
yam" She also says that "the Nazis
themselves have certified the i'm
peccability of the L. family tree back
to the 18th century"
Likewise incidentally. the title of
the book comes from the words of
Col. Goering-"If what we have done
here is lunacy, then lunacy becomes
u.s."
THAT'S MY STORY. BY Douglas
Corrigan. New York: E. P. Dut-
ton Co.
The engaging young man who
flew to California by way of Dublin
and Belfast is really not much of q
writer-but who cares about that
anyhow? We seem to have . con-
vention In this country that any
one who does anytime shah write a