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Painting.

Painting.
EYES ON AMERICA. Introduction
and commentary by w. S. Hall.
New York: Studio Publications,
Inc.
A volume of reproductions OF
paintings of the American scene,
including the work of some of our
leading artists. Interesting.
Humor.
CLOVIS CONFIDENTIAL -
HISTORY OF MODERN ENG
LAND. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
The ingenious caracaturlst'S con-
cept of the dear old motherland.
Highly amusing.
Year Book.
THE AMERICAN YEAR BOOK.
Edited by William NJ. Schuyler.
New York: Thomas Nelson &
Sons.
The oath issue of this survey of
American activity. Worth having.
Travel.
CLAUDE SHAFER'S CARTOON
GUIDE OF OHIO. New York:
j. J. Augustin.
A popularity written and illus
trated State guide. Worth getting
if you are planning to motor out
that way this summer.
The Dance.
THE POWER OF THE DANCE.
BY C. Madeleine Dixon. New
York: John Day Co.
A volume of photographs OF mod
ern ballet scenes with an explain
atory text. Not so happy as it might
be, but interesting.
Religion.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RE-
LIGIONS OF THE WORLD. BY
Albert Schweitzer. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
A comparison of the Christian
religion with the other great world
faiths.
THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT SKI
ING. BY Edwin j. Grace, M. D.
New York: John F. Winters.
A physicians argument to the ef-
feet that skiing is not dangerous II
properly managed. Good enough.
Psychology.
HOW TO THINK STRAIGHT. BY
Robert H. Thouless. New York:
Simon & Schuster.
Practical logic and how to apply
it. A bit above the average popular
psychology text.
Green Fare.
EDIBLE WILD PLANTS. BY Oliver
|. Perry Medsger. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
A great number of edible wild
plants are covered here, with full
descriptions and pen and ink draw
ings. Interesting.
The Scots.
HIGHLAND BROTHERHOODS. BY
Gurthie Shaw Patch. New York:
Pegasus Publishing Co.
The story Of the evolution and
nature of the Scottish clans. Full
Of picturesque details.
TAKE 1T FROM Me. BY Neal
OHara. Boston: Waverly House.
A volume of odd bits Of informa-
ton about everything under the sun
movie stars, the arts, science,
government and what have you.
Amusing.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

KEGS ordinarily behave at all. In
deed, a minor purpose of the book
is to do some fun-making of the
novelist of the typical variety, for
one OF the characters is made to be
professor from Minnesota who
undertakes to interpret New Eng
lands spirit; this gentleman's mind
is completely filled with misconcep-
tlons and he spends his time forcing
the facts as he sees them to agree
with the facts as he believes they
are; his book, Notwithstanding, is to
be presented as robust piece Of
realism. Mr.. Marquand indulges in
good bit of jeering at this kind Of
novelist and also, incidentally, at
the whole writing racket. And that,
OF course, was good reading for this
reviewer.
Decadent Yankee Family.
The point of the book, however,
has nothing to do with satire on
the literary trade. The work is. in
stead, an attempt to show us an
old and illustrious Yankee family
in its decadence. The Brills, Mr..
Marquand tells us, once had men
and women of force and character
in their line, but today those quail
ties have run out. The present gen.
Grafton tolls not, neither does it
spin; it cadges instead, and borrows
and occasionally cheats. It has one
claim To attention and that il, he.
lieves in with utterly sublime faith
it is descended from a famous poet
of the Golden Age and so must be
accounted as privileged and perfect.
It's members-a mother and four
children-have small intelligence
and are boring and dreary to q
degree; nonetheless, by force Of
Evening star., 1939-04-02
He Opened the Door
Of Japan
By Carl CroU. Ne1D Yorl
Yy~~oo~ p Droc

By Carl CroW. NeU York.:
Harper & Bros.
This is the biography Of one Of
Americas forgotten men-Townsend
Harris, who, as you have probably
never heard, was our first Consul
General to Japan. He was the OFF,
cial who inherited the spade work
left by the Perry Expedition. He
was the unsung civilian who went
out to take the post for which the
commodore's treaty provided, and
received on his innocent head all
the Japanese resentment which had
accumulated after Perry's imposing
fleet had sailed away.
He arrived with only one gunboat
as escort, was stationed in a tiny
fishing village from which he was
forbidden to depart a greater dis
tance than Z miles, was housed In
an old abandoned temple full OF
spiders, rats and mosquitoes and was
treated with inspired contempt by
all natives from Governor to trades
men. He was also forgotten by the
Government which had sent him
out, so that he received neither in
struction nor pay for more than .
year at time. But he survived to
negotiate our first really serviceable
treaty with Japan and so overcame
the native dislike that when, after
six years, he resigned, the Japanese
petitioned the President to have him
remain. A remarkable man evi-
IDENTIFY, and Mr.. Grow has done q
good thing in bringing his story to
belated notice.
He was q upstate New York
boy who. at the age of 16, came
to the city and set up In business
as q merchant of chinaware. In
due time he became president OF
the Board of Education and-inci-
dentally-founded New York City
College. He was q little over 40
by that time and had sown no
wild oats. He thought better of
it, apparently, and began to do
some serious drinking.
His business suffered, his friends
protested and, in remorse, one sup
poses, he resigned all posts and
bought half interest in a sailing
ship and ran OF to sea. After
years Of travel and study IN the
Far East he heard Of the opening
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Of Japan and applied for the job
Of Consul General. He had acquired
q reputation then as linguist and
authority on the Far East, and so
was appointed. The greater part
of this book is the story of his
incredibly wearying struggles with
the suspicious Japanese omcials to
get them to treat with him on
the basis of even approximate trust.
It is set down with Mr.. Crows
usual racy good style. 1t is, as said,
a good story, and 1t loses nothing
In It's telling here. 1t has con-
siderable humor, but it has some
wretched aspects, too; there was a
treaty with Siam which Mr.. Harris
negotiated on his way out to Japan,
for one thing. He did this without
pay, though ordered to by the State
Department. Some time later, when
American merchants had estab-
lished themselves in Slams capital,
bill was introduced providing
Mr.. Harris with pay for his services.
The Senate ratified the treaty and
passed the bill for compensation" +"
says Mr.. Crow, but no action was
taken on it by the House" And
he adds in a footnote, 1T would
appear, from careful search of
the records of Congress, that Harris
was never paid for his work in
SIAM"
His neglect while in Japan, too,
is an astonishing thing. 1t was so
prolonged at times that he had
no money at all; had, in fact. hardly
enough to eat, and was forced to
20 into debt to tradesmen and to
his own servants And in all this
isolation he never came to like his
involuntary hosts, but regarded them
as his journal testifies, with down.
right loathing.
1t was an experience which has
probably not been duplicated many
times and its reading is immensely
interesting.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

the pest OF the group, lnen,
Is Mr.. Singers EAST of Eden" 1t
is, genuinely, a book; it is not
merely a printed work. 1t is a
book because. in telling a specific
story, the author has used patterns
of universal human experience and
has done so beautifully and con-
sistently. 1t is, fundamentally, the
re-telling of the old tale of the
injuring of the weak by the strong,
and of the defenselessness of worldly
good before worldly evil. This theme
is worked out in the terms Of the
life history of young Polish Jew,
a simple ignorant fellow who, after
years of submission to injustice,
espouses the cause of communism.
He believes that injustice will be
ended by this system of government
and he works to bring the revolution
nearer. He is duly betrayed by the
party leaders whom he has helped
to lift to power and comes to a
most miserable end, still amazed,
still incredulous that such things
could be. The nobility of Mr.. Sing
er'S concept Is Sucn tnaC ne Illus
this little tale above its context and
makes it a record of all dreamers
in this gritty world, very good
thing. somber in tone but vivid. He
Is a Polish Jew himself and writes
in Yiddish. His book is trans
lation by Maurice Samuel.
After Mr.. Singers work the re-
viewer places "Wickford Point" by
John P. Marquard. This is novel
of a family. and the novel of a
family is certainly a type today:
therefore one must say quickly that
Mr.. Marquand does not use typical
material. He is writing of a group
OF New Englanders and he does not
make them behave as literary Yam
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Brief Reviews of New Books

Novels.
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY. BY
Harry Hervey New York: The
Greystone Press.
A novel of a poor white girl who
rises above it. Ingenious.
STREETS OF DEATH. BY Guy
Carlton Williams. Chicago: Orion
Publishers.
A novel of modern city life and
how it crushes. Maudlin though
earnest.
Mysteries.
DEAD DOGS DON'T BITE. BY E.
M. Curtiss. New York Simon
g. Schuster.
The eminent DR.. Bunce goes on
vacation-and runs into strange
crimes. Average.
The Weeks Success Text.
LET'S GO PLACES. BY Charles
E. Means. The Business Book
House.
How to get on-and all that. If =
you have to buy one, this will do
as well as any.
Juveniles.
THE HIRED MANS ELEPHANT.
BY Phil Stong. Illustrated by
Doris Lee. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co.
Story of circus which stops in
! country town and gets compli-
Gated with the lives of two small
boys. Mr.. Stong's customary first
rate humor
STORY PICTURES OF TRANS
PORTAIION. BY John Y. Beatty.
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Co.
Just what it says-well illustrated
with colored photographs.
so THAT'S THE REASON! BY r.
Ray Baker. Chicago: Reilly and
Lee.
Answers to some Of the difficult
questions which children can ask.
Parents can read it too.
ESCAPE TO PERSIA. BY Kather-
inc Hill and Pamela Whitlock.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
Unusual and good story of imagi-
native youngsters making a world
of their own. Really superior.
MAN OVER THE WORLD. BY G.
c. Carter and H. c. Brentnall.
New York: D. Appleton Century
Co.
A geography text written with the
emphasis on entertainment.
LA SALE. BY Flora Warren 6ey-
mour. New York: D. Appleton.
Century Co
A life of the great explorer for
young people. Very good.
THE THREE -CORNERED DOG.
BY Ralph Henry Barbour. New
York: D. Appleton Century.
A 14-year-old boy and his dog.
Very nice.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SILVER
CHAIN. BY Gladys Blake. New
York: D. Appleton Century Co.
A mystery for young girls. Very
nice.
FLOOD IN GLEN HAZARD. BY
Maristan Chapman. New York:
D. Appleton-C Century.
Story of flood in the Tennessee
mountains and what some young
people did to help in the rescue
work. Very nice.
AT MOUNTAIN PREP. BY T. Nor
ris Longstreth. New York: D.
Appleton Century Co.
Story Of Q boys prep school. Very
nice.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

significance of this assassination of
a man who. triumphing over inter-
nal dissension, was building up a
unified state in Southeastern Eu-
rope. Mr.. Graham. however, has
written a fascinating true mystery
story. Oppenheim could not have
done better in fiction. 1t would
have been hard to believe a few
years ago that such a complex OF
international plotting, spies, gun
men, etc., could actually have ex-
listed. Nowadays it isn't hard to be-
lieve anything in the field of inter-
national relations.
The book is we'll documented.
T. r. H.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Unions of Their Own
CHOOSING
Bu Robert r. r. Brooks. NeU
Hnren. Vale UniuerSitu,

HdUen: Yale University.
Few of the critics Of the National
Labor Relations Board have ex-
erted themselves to the point OF
studying the true purposes and re-
sponsibilities of the board under
the Labor Relations Act; equally
few have shown any interest in the
full record of the board. preferring
instead to dwell with pious horror
upon its bias"
Frankly a friend of both the
board and its enabling act, Mr..
Brooks explains this bias by re-
minding his readers that the law
was passed for the specific purpose
of protecting labor in its efforts to
organize and to bargain collectively.
Congress believed these to be es-
sential to industrial peace and most
employers give lip service, at least, to
the same principles.
Consequently, the author points
out, 1.-The act is partial to the prlncl-
pie of collective bargaining; the
board is partial to the enforcement
of the act, and the courts have thus
far been partial to the partiality
of both Congress and the board. "
There can be little effective dis
putting of these assertions, even
though the fortunes of the board at
court have been somewhat mixed in
the months since Mr.. Brooks COM
pleted his work.
OF the wave of labor disturbances
which occurred in the years since
the law was enacted, Mr.. Brooks
recalls that for nearly two years
the law was practically imperative,
as anti-union employers accepted
the Judgment of Liberty League
LAWYERS, who had proved" 1t to be
unconstitutional.
THE immediate effect" Mr.
Brooks writes, was to stimulate a
resurgent labor movement which
found its legal channels blocked by
legalistic obstacles. 1t therefore re-
sorted to the traditional methods
of strike action"
Again taking cognizance Of the
definite limitations imposed upon
the board, the author pleads its In
fluence for peace in summary as
follows:
"The existence of the board rep
resents an effort to retain the flex-
ible and evolutionary processes OF
democracy and to escape the rigidi-
ties of totalitarianism. It leaves to
workers and management the con-
troll over their own destinies. It
provides framework within which
this control may be worked out If
the parties to industry prove sufii-
ciently responsible and intelligent.
The board has become the focal
point of such an evolutionary ad-
vance. It is a product of the past,
but a positive influence upon the
future. In the long run, such In
fuence as it has Is wholly in the
direction of industrial peace"
Substantiating his broad asser-
tions by painstaking detail in the
way of statistics and circumstances
of individual cases, Mr.. Brooks pre-
sents a thoughtful and intelligent
argument in behalf of tolerance and
impartiality In judging current ef-
forts to regulate labor relations.
Although his PROFESSIONAL style and
lack of the dramatic in his writing
may decrease the reliability Of Mr..
Brooks work, it still remains a
very worthwhile contribution to
the relatively small store of au-
thoritative discussion Of this I'm
portant subject Of labor, industry
and government. J. G. II.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Volume on Secret Agents
In America Is Alarming
Gravest Disclosure Concern
Combatant Secret Service,
Long for Sabotage
Secret Agents Against America

Secret Agents Against America
trials material Rowan
writing
alarming albeit highly interesting
America who
spies, who "too few"
According to Mr. thorough
job espionage
missions operating Americas chiefly Germany
and Italy, there addition thousand
operatives most of whom key
espionage counting
information work. perhaps persons
linked to the
nations
1--WE amen invaders the author points The United
seen " 10 ebnsh
until recently having been that foreign protesting
on relations with this
organized spying tactics Revelations the New
oth recent cases have shown concuv
been too compacent in this
taxing definite steps to the situation
the spy menace planned with the intelligence
and Navy and the
ugation bearing the brunt of the
Cravest RoWans disclosures
ne terms conoatan secret service which is polite for sabotage
He pictures foreign poters working feverhy
destruction and arplane poison
Gus chemicals monster the like
how he thinks the Panama Canal explosive
laden
All In ALL the book is grim reading provoking
view current and is written
to popular fancy r. G.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Autobiography of q Cad

BIZ A. C. MacdoneH. NeU York:
Harper & Bros.
A textbook on being a heel is
this little volume. written in the first
person. Every unfair trick known
to man in his relations with his
fellow men and women is recorded
in this story of SO years of one mans
life So scurvy a person is the Il"
of the book that Mr. Macdonell
takes the precaution of making the
announcement that contrary to
what some of my readers will think.
no reference is made in this book,
nor is any intended, to its author"
At any rate, the hero as wealthy
hooligan at Oxford escapes censure
by letting down a friend. He fought
the World War in London, making
money on government contracts
while wearing an officers uniform.
Mr.. Macdonell paints revolving
portrait, what the London Times
called "a richly amusing study IN
self-deception." Some readers will
find it diverting and others will find
it cheap. V. K. c.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Alexander of YugosIovi1

~ SLepnen GTdHdm. NeU
HaDen:: Yale University Press.
In 1884 the King of war-born
Yugoslavia was assassinated in
Marseille by a Bulgarian gunman
who, Mr.. Graham asserts, really was
in the pay of Italy.
It may very we'll have been an
event as significant in the world S
history as the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and
his wife in Sarajevo by one of Alex
ander's own countrymen 20 years
before-the shot that started the
World War. The new world war, as
some have termed the constant sue
cession Of isolated conflicts that
have broken the peace Of Europe.
was under way shortly thereafter.
It is still too early to assess the
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Maxine Du Camp. Part two is
devoted exclusively excepting the
authors several comments) to the
Flaubert letters of his Oriental
tour with Du Camp Here the Eng
Ish translation of the letters is
available for the first time in the
majority. The origin and four years
of struggling development of that
petit-point of literary style. Ma
dame Bovary" is considered at close
hand to conclude this fascinating
presentation of life story. Us.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Rash of Spring Novels
Breaks Out as Usual
Story of Dreamer's Betrayal
By Party Leaders Is Best
Of Group Reviewed
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.

Of Group Reviewed
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-02
BUTTONS GIVEN
 |. CLUB SWIMMERS
Eleven Receive Prizes This Morning; Beginners
 Class Cut in Half

The vacation week Boys Club Swim Campaign, run for the ex- elusive benefit of the many non- swimmers in Waterbury, has re- suited in eleven new swimmers added to the rolls of the Red Cross.
 Red Cross Beginners buttons were awarded to the following class members this morning. They were Patsy Beradi, 9 West Porter Street; Ed Keller, IA Railroad Hill Street; Harold Hellman, 13 Fish Street; Dan Walsh, 1185 Bank Street; Ed Ryan, IA Railroad Hill Street; George Macary, 66 East Liberty Street; Joe Baptiste, 260 Bank Street; Samuel Abbenante, 677 North Riverside Street; Julie Scheggetti, 63 Union Street; Fred Bartolini. 63 Union Street; Joe Deeley, q Har- yard Street. The passing of this group cuts the class in half and the swimming instructor can now con- trate on this smaller group, in need of much instruction.
 The club still extends an invitation to all non-swimmers of the city to attend the remaining sessions at the pool each morning from 10 until II bership are established and all that o'clock. No requirements of mem is necessary is the non-Swimmer appear at the club in time for in Structions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-02
PROMOTION GIVEN
 BOYSBY MASCOLO
Trio Made Fulton Park Monitors Instead of
 Baseball Players

Three boys were given promo tion, of sorts, when arraigned be- fore Judge Mascolo today on the greviouS charges of playing base ball in part of Fulton park not specifically allotted for the en- joyment of the natoinal pastime.
 The boys were picked up early last evening by Patrolman William Barton who reported that they were throwing a ball in the center of the park. He said that the boys had been warned repeatedly to play ball on the diamond, as the lower park was reserved for other enjoyments. Moreover, the ball might endanger children who like to frolic on the glten.
 The boys testified that they were merely throwing the ball back and forth while they waited for another lad. They said they were on the diamond, being members of a base ball team scheduled to practice.
 The judge asked them if they ob- jected to being appointed guardians of the lower park, their specific duties being to discourage baseball playing anywhere else but on the diamond. The lads reported they did not object. and will live happily ever after.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-02
TANK TRUCK RUNS
 WILD,. HITS POLE
Oil Floods Street From Overturned Van; Driver
 Faces Court Monday

Frank Desiderio, 22, of 119 Clover street, owner of the 250-gallon tank truck that slipped it's brakes on Madison street, rolled down grade, plunged over steep bank, and finally stopped against a telephone pole on South Main street yeSter- day afternoon, was notified to ap- pear in traffic court Monday when his case was called Ill city court to- day.
 According to Sergt Charles Nc Weeney and Motor Patrolman John Deeley, who investigated, the Des- iderio truck was making an oil de- livery at 31 Madison street, when the brakes slipped. The driver was several feet from the vehicle when it started to roll.
 Fire Marshal Dennis J. Lahey Lieut.. Eugene A. Legge, and Private Jerry Griffin were called to the scene when Engine 3 from the Brooklyn station was summoned According to the marshal, oil flood ed South Main street on both sides of the overturned truck.
 Desiderio was notified by Officer Deeley to appear in court on charg- eS of leaving a motor vehicle um- attended with the motor running.
 City yard employees were called to spread sand on the oil.