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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

what have been the recent trends
in Soviet foreign policy?"
rs there steel exhibit at the New
York Worlds Fair?"
What are the arguments against
mercy killings?"
What has Japan to say in defense
of her treatment Of China?"
These are characteristic inquiries
received at the Central Public Lii
brary, Eighth and K streets NV,
and it's branches. Much of this
timely or controversial material is
not obtainable from either circulat-
ing OF reference books, but has to be
secured from the Library's extensive
pamphlet collection, which contains
up-to-date pamphlets and clippings
on wide variety of subjects.
For generations pamphleteering
has been a potent form of propa-
ganda and it has recently received a
new lease on life. Therefore, even
pamphlets of factual nature have
to be evaluated by close scrutiny
of the agency which issues them. A
few pamphlets which are of especial
value in the present European situa-
ton are the following: Develop
ments in the European Situation
an international Cancellation PAM
phlet published by the Carnegie En-
dowment for International Peace;
Russia and Europe" a radio dis
cussion by the University of Chicago
Round Table; "Hitler's Cry for Col
onies." bulletin of the Story Behind
the Headlines, published by the Co.
lumbia University Press in co-opera-
ton with the American Historical.
Association: Shadow Over Europe,
q pamphlet published by the Foreign
Policy Association In the seriel
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Best Sellers
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Alexander Hamilton

Cdrrick & Exams.
to death. it that
nvincible combination
prodigou youth from ST CIoX notwithstanding
good thing Whatever the extent Hamilton library
will not find MI. Loths volume unworthy addition.
straightforward history
its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

however, is of itself 50 interesting
and its authors manner is so fe-
lcitous that the purely informa-
tional quality of the narrative does
not for moment weigh on the
reader or otherwise intrude itself.
If ever the fictionized thesis justified
itself, it does so here, and the re-
viewer has no hesitation in recon-
mending the work for its high
entertainment value.
1t is no more nor less than a
lengthy report on the habits-social,
political and economical tribe
of Africans previous to and during
the penetration of their territory by
the white men. Ostensibly, it is the
story of one family of the tribe,
and through the adventures Of this
family the revelations of the tribes
customs are made. But the adven-
lures are turned about so as to
cover the whole range of tribal
activities. We have therefore &C
counts of cattle raids. Of magic
treatments for illness, of the initia-
ton of the young men and women
to the status of maturity, of mar
riage customs, family organization,
division of responsibility between
the different age groups and between
men and women, the administration
of justice, the placing of curses
and other primitive customs too
numerous to mention. The descrip-
ton of each is given in detail and
set down with good deal of vivac-
ity. One very soon forgets that one
is being taught body of knowledge,
as one reads, and goes along from
pure concern for the narrative. 1t
is remarkable achievement in re-
search and a no less remarkable
one in its particular kind of writing.
The first half of the book treats
of the tribe before the white men
entered the country, when the ma
tives were living in an iron age
culture. Their wealth was in goats
and their necessities were cared for
by a primitive kind of agriculture
carried on by the women. The
| Willie lll6Il lllUl OOuCCu A1AO4lCy dAAA
the system of exchange by other
means than barter; they thus dis
organized utterly the tribes we'll
balanced economic system and made
it possible for the lazy and weak
to thrive along with. the brave and
the industrious. This led to dis
organization, in turn, of the social
system and the destruction of the
authority of the old magicians. But.
while the change cast out the habits
of the iron age culture, it did not
replace them with any other system
for, as Mrs. Huxley makes clear
the people failed utterly to under
stand the reasoning which lay be-
hind the white mans conduct. They
took his orders blindly, realizing that
his magic was stronger than theil
own, but they learned nothing Of
his wisdom and, at the same time
they lost their own. It Is . disheart.
ening kind Of picture, even though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
People Get Timely Facts
In Library Pamphlets

called Headline Books; 1.-THE Po-
lish Corridor; Symbol for Two
Nations" geographic news bulletin,
published by the National Geo.
graphic Society.
Two series of pamphlets which
are particularly worth while are the
printed records of the weekly radio
programs, university of Chicago
Round Table" and Americas Town
Meeting of the Air" These are val
liable for their presentation of diff
ferent points of view on subjects of
timely interest.
Another useful function of the
Librarys pamphlet collection Is to
produce biographical material on
ment and women who have recently
came into prominence, such as Mar
tin Dies, chairman of the Dies Com
mittee on Un-American Activities;
John Steinbeck and Yards Fisher,
authors of two current best sellers;
Anne O'Hare Mccormick of the edi-
torial staff of the New York Times,
who was recently named the "out-
standing woman of 1882; Fritz
Kuhn, head of the German Amer
lean Bund, and countless others in
the current news.
The pamphlet file is also the
quickest and most convenient source
for locating material on wide range
of controversial material, such as
District If Co1,,yohio SUFFRAGE Anoer
lean neutrality, Government reor-
ganization, third term for President
and a wealth of economic and So
cial questions. Thus experimenting
the book collection, and often useful
as a substitute, the pamphlet COL
lection is an invaluable part Of the
Library's printed material
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Brief Reviews
|Of New Books

War.
ADJUSTING YOUR BUSINESS TO
WAR. BY Leo NJ. Cherne. New
York: Tax Research Institute.
A study of industrial mobilization
scheme which is part of our M-Day
plan. Or-what will happen to bus
mess in the event of war. Inform
alive and thought-provoking.
Biography.
SIDNEY HILLMAN BY George
Soule. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
Life history of the well-known
labor leader, written by one of the
editors of the New Republic. Slant
ed as you might expect.
Places.
LAND OF THE SOVIETS. BY Nicho-
las Mikhailov. New York: Lee
Furman.
A leading Russian geographer
writes of his country-its topography
its climate, its natural resources, its
economic development and its men
and women. Informative.
Politics.
AN ATLAS OF CURRENT AT
FAIRS New 1889 Edition. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
The second edition this year OF
the well-known handbook on world
developments. Containing eight new
maps and substantial revision in
material. Informative.
Photography.
A collection of reproductions OF
Outstanding photographs from va
riety of countries, also short his
tory of photography. Very beautiful
work; worth having.
Philosophical Compilation.
THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS
Edited by Edwin A. Burt. New
York: Modern Library.
From Francis Bacon to John Stu
art Mill-selected writings from
England's most famous philosophers
Animal Stories.
WILD ANIMALS. Compiled by
Francis E. Clark. New York
The Macmillan Co.
Stories of animal life, worth hav-
ing If you are an animal lover.
Novels.
CHARLEY MANNING. BY Eliza
beth Corbett New York: D
Appleton-Century Co.
Pleasant sort of work about a
cheerful bachelor. who finally sue
cumbed to love. Summer reading
THIS PORCELAIN CLAY. BY
Naomi Jacob. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
The perennial Miss J. writes an
other book This time about a
Christian who pretends to be Jew
Her usual level-competent and mo-
notonous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

IOl lllS leIO ID ODNlOuS, TIC SccS
Hamilton as one of the geniuses of
history: his subtitle indeed is
PORTRAIT of Prodigy and through
out the work the emphasis is on the
superiority of Hamilton's mental
processes to those of most of his
associates. But a man is seldom
loved just because he has first
rate brain. and Mr.. 10th, moreover,
is too good a writer to fall in love
with his own hero. He has appre-
ciated Hamilton, but has not gulped
him down. He writes of him, there
fore. with delighted detachment,
demonstrating his brilliance as if
he were some astounding clock
work toy, emphasizing his early de-
velopment Che was managing a
shipping business when he was 14 &,
his phenomenal feats of mental ex-
ercise, his grace, his charm, his
pride and his courage, and recording
also-and in exactly the same ap-
preciative spirit-his vanity, his
coldness, his temper and his occa-
sionaI minor double dealing. 1t would
seem to be a case where the subject
has charmed. rather than won, his
biographer, and there is markedly
stimulating quality in Mr.. Loths
keen and humorous treatment.
But the rounded picture of the
hero which energies is, nevertheless,
one of pathos. An impression OF
slightness, of delicacy, of lonely
pride and thwarted hope is the COM
posite one which a reader is likely
to retain. The Hamilton of the book
is a man who, by his very greatness,
was cut off from accomplishing the
great things he desired. Too lofty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Behold This Dreamer!
By Walter de la Mare. Ne1C
York. Alfred A. KnODf,

VI ~ <AtJ Wv "A. AA'toPJ'
This volume is one for the COL
lector of literary oddities. 1t is an
anthology of the literature of sleep,
of dreams, of visions and of the
trance-like condition between sleep
and waking Mr.. De la Mare, to be
sure, has contributed some chapters
of his own, but the large part of
the very large volume is drawn from
the works of other men and women,
some poetry, some prose. The selec-
tons are excellently made, they are
all gems of writing; exquisite frag-
ments worth rereading under any
circumstances. The volume, there
fore, is for lovers of literature-of
the pure, the rapturous. the ecstatic
in literature-rather than for re-
searchers into the somewhat too
well-known subconscious. 1t is a
work of art. 1t is not-heaven be
praised-a work of psychology.
The reviewer found it impressive
for another reason also. She has
mentioned in these columns occa-
sionally in the past. and always in
a discourteous and ribald spirit, the
struggles being made by the maya
zine transition" to develop what 1t
calls Language of night" Its edi-
tors have been greatly concerned
with a study of those very states Of
the soul with which Mr.. De la Mare
has here occupied himself and 1t is
their contention that, If these states
are ever to be adequately described,
a new whole tongue must be de-
vised. This the reviewer has set down
unkindly as an idiotic notion. She
has further termed the efforts of
Eugene Jolas, transitions" chief,
toward formulating this new Jan
guage as no better than gibberish,
and low-grade gibberish at that. She
finds here, in Mr.. De Ia Mares
volume, very pleasant confirmation
of her assertions.
For his book is, as said, given
over to celebrating night states of
mind and, also as said, 1t Is filled
with well-nigh perfect writing. That
the present tongue can be made to
serve In creating the atmosphere OF
dreams is beautifully proven by this
anthology. It's selections date from
very early English to modern times
and at no period have the writer's
found it necessary to go beyond the
bounds of the accepted language
or the forms of accepted writing to
set their visions down. And nothing
so far brought forth by Mr.. Jolas
and his associates is fit to be men
toned in the same breath with the
least of these pieces. So much for
the need of a new language. What
the book demonstrates Of the need
of certain modern writer's to learn
to write is quite another matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

Juveniles.
A CHRISTMAS STORY. BY Vir-
ginia Cole Pritchard. Illustrated
by Frances Hickey. New York:
E. P. Dutton Co.
Quaint little tale of German child
in America and a blessed shrine
which she brings with her. 1llustra-
tons really delightful.
YOUR LOVING DAUGHTER. BY
Harriet Austin. illustrated by
Donald Mckay. New York:
Doubleday Doran.
Letters written by child in orphan
age Pathos and humor, too obvi-
ously mixed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Hardly q Man Is Now Alive
By Dan Beard. Ne1D York.:


Doubleday Doran.
Dan Beard is known to Americans
chiefly as the grand old man of the
Boy Scout movement. He Is some
what less we'll known as a popular
illustrator of the late part of the last
century and the early part of the
present one. He is hardly known at
all as young surveyor of frontier
towns and territories in the post
Civil War days, and it is safe to say
that his boyhood passed in the Civil
War period is not known to anyone
outside his immediate circle. Conse-
quently, setting out to write his
autobiograp ply, Mr.. Beard has wisely
allotted space to the successive
periods of his life in reverse proper
ton to the knowledge already cur
rent.
The greater part of his book deals
with his childhood; after that, he
gives most time to his surveying
days; and after that. he treats Of his
artistic career as Of next Importance.
And, coming to his interest in the
Scouts, he uses only a scant 10
pages, and those the last of his book
Many people have heard Of his name
since he assumed his eminence in
the Scouting world. But 1t is prob
able that not nearly so many know
anything definite of his previous his
tory. That history is here put be-
fore us. It should remove Mr.. Beard
from his position of fabulous but
dim picturesqueness and make hu-
man being of him.
The long story of his boyhood is
practically Twainian. He lived In
Cincinnati and Covington, rough
river towns in the pre-Civil War
days, and he engaged in just those
games and sports which occupied
the young Tom Sawyer, over in Han
nibal. More, he lived in about the
same kind of society-slave holding,
feudal and touched with frontier
roughness. Another America-an-
other world, comes forth from his
pages, halcyon- tinted by distance
1t is Americas Golden Age and no
one who loves its traditions can read
this autobiography without being
moved by the glowing picture of our
past.
Coming to his more mature years,
Mr.. Beard keeps much the same at
mosphere about him. AS surveyor
| he moved on in the forefront of CIV
ilization and so remained for long
in the frontier country. He re-
manned In that country. indeed. as
long as the country endured. When
it had passed, he settled down in
New York City, there to live. by
great contrast. the life of a success
full artist. Few men, indeed, have
had so variegated career.
He wrote and illustrated for Judge
Puck, Life, st. Nicholas, Harper
Round Table, Youths Companion
and still other magazines of noble
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News and Reviews of Latest Books Leading Magazines
Boone and Hamilton Are
Subjects Of Interesting
New Biographies
Books on old Daniel and
First Secretary of the
Treasury Are Reviewed
By Mary.C Carter Roberts.
Daniel Boone
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

By John Bakeess Neo York: William Morrov Co.
John Bakeles apparently who challenge legend
heassy with facts in the of figures whose hea1say had
M so he has a into into a the
white of nconestabe records One must suppose that habit
the intangible in the Of
the chsopheF Move about whom romantic msgnng have
@ on his own account put in SOME s. years ears OF v nd
' For t Ha demonstrated o4 ao"0 History 4of will weld her secrets
student patient enough seek them out also gave p and meaning
her showed fact that though the legends built Kit
legends would inevitably adhere It did not cut the creeping vines
they honor
P Dfofsa this 6h M the Of
the same as those which obtained in the case the Ezabhan poet
he has been able do BY dnt of intricate study must be
m @ its end He dpoyed
the @ @ Boone properties to be sue u.s. fo examp
the woods hat instead that he far from eate that he
he did countrys ngratude
the legend horouehy Old become
represents being
which bekoned him youth the greatest adventure of
trip exploration consuming
lucky homeland He did help in the settlers in TOO but his
m he Wo e 9 oo h nd
from fro him. and the last stage of the Kenq Viii
State and his vow never to set foot within it again
adoption by the which
Boonesborough
o a e 5ouFs his son the M hands Indians
these events detailed treatment 1t must have
the better of him. Apparently anything which Boone did
going obviously upon
te ehrono but hou much o e ro ms Sy
narrative that sometimes lacks perspective big and little episodes being
Kentucky territory
E'rss The es w9r G psa 1 continuity
Out Of this mixture Of small and great dongs there
strip the rappngs of from its hero indicate
physical
GOODNESS in the face of these legends the book confirms with
PLANTATION for them sufficiently proc for the modern And that
his associates
according
which, by his applied and white inhabitants alike
in their resistance the settlers while as the settlers themselves
they we're s and wort g @ red they would
few virtues Only handful of them wodmen records
and in their indifference to their deeses it implies that they demon
strated lazness rather than bravery.
in his environment it given the human being to become He
sought out and deferred in times @ he
fact all
which deal
history given rise to the folk legend The of his particular
the
the part savior and consequently he remembered
M Bk has Gne m0s say 4ara tasn @ M
@ m of H. neat and Just lent on the dry
the he has dropped his delightfully."- mehodca and
% n whom HE he
plainly fell in love his work he ihted for
along His book is absolutely first reading Legend history
Alexander Hamilton
By Dauid 10th. New York G. Exams.
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place in our journalistic history. He
Illustrated Mark Twain. He was q
friend of Charles Dana Gibson, Fred
erick Remington, Theodore Roose-
welt, A. B. Frost and Mark Twain
himself. He brought to the artistic
circles Of the Eastern city that same
gusto with which he had gone among
the duellists, DULLES. bad men and
heroes of the frontier, and he has
knack now, in his 91st year, of max
Ing all this past live sturdily before
one. His book is a stout chapter out
Of our history and the reviewer is
quite whole-hearted in her recon-
mendation Of it.
In a Word
By Margaret S. Ernst. With
drawings by James Thurber.
Ne11 York.: Alfred A. Knopt.
This is a humorously- INTENDED
text on word derivations. 1t is pretty
successful, though one feels that
without James Thurber's genuinely
funny drawings it might be much
less effective. 1t is very limited in
scope, for less than 300 words are
discussed in it, but those words are
common ones and, if you are not
already a philologist, you may be
surprised to learn how some OF our
articles of speech have come to us.
"Chagrin," for example. derives from
a Turkish word which meant saddle
leather so rough as to cause irrita-
ton: sarcasm" is the Greek for
tearing the flesh like dogs. And
so on.
Mrs. Ernst is sometimes really
amusing, but too often she seems to
be forcing her effects. And when, In
her discussion of maroon" she says
that "cimarron." its source word,
was used by Edna Ferber as the title
Of "a grand book" one may pardon
ably feel that her attempts at cute
ness are somewhat irrelevent. She
is not, obviously. real humorist.
But the general effect of the work is
amusing. Mr.. Thurber has seldom
done a better job, and his drawings,
being numerous. give the work its
predominating quality.
Magma
By iona Gale, Ne1D York: D.
Appleton Century Company.
This posthumous story of Miss
Gales is a sweet little thing, saved
from oversweetness only by that
genuineness which was her special
property. 1t is tale of young
girl, who, on the verge of marriage
with a man whom she loves, is
fascinated by another admirer and
has a difficult time making up her
mind. All the background of the
small town, the humble people, the
little lives, is in the work. One is
touched by the fidelity with which
Miss Gale caught this modest cur
rent of living-and that is about
all. Lovers of her work will no
doubt, want the book 1t would be
a sort of sentiment to get it, and
she was a writer to whom sentiment
was very precious.