Evening star., 1939-09-17
| Brief Reviews
|Of New Books

ONE-HUNDRED-A ONE IDEAS
FOR SUCCESSFUL INTER-
IORS. Edited by Mary Fanton
Roberts. New York: Robert M.
Mcbride & Co.
The editor of Arts and Decora
tions has chosen 101 specimens of
well-arranged interiors from Amer
lean and foreign homes and has an
alyzed them here with photographs.
! The costs represented would seem to
be neither very high nor very low.
Should have some helpful ideas for
those who do their own designing
Lives.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A Biography
in pictures with accompanying
text. BY Agnes Rogers. Boston:
Little, Brown e. Co.
Reproductions of ITS pictures
photographs, paintings, Autographs
and prints-arranged in chronology
cal order to illustrate Lincolns life
story. The text is unremarkable but
! quite adequate.
GIST OF ART. BY John Sloan.
New York: American Artists
Group.
The authors principles and prac-
| tice as an artist-as expounded in
the classroom and studio. A text for
painters, in other words Interest
ing.
MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN
PAINTING IN AMERICA. Edit
ed by Prof. H. Tietze.
| A book of reproductions of great
masterpieces of painting which are
now in American hands. A reyela-
ton of the art treasures which are
to be found among us.
Places.
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. BY
Samuel Chamberlain. New York ::
Hastings House, Inc.
The famous Revolutionary towns
are made the subject of photo
graphic study. Really quite attrac-
tive.
NANTUCKET. BY Samuel Cham
berlain. See above.
The Occult.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OC-
CULT SCIENCES. Introduction
by M. C. Poinsot. New York:
Robert M. Mcbride & Co.
From astrology to witchcraft-
though not in alphabetical order.
Fun for the believers in fortune.
Your own risk.
Novels.
BROAD IS THE WAY. BY Emerson
Waldman. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart.
A novel of a rich man who learned
that riches are not all Ordinary.
SHE MARRIED A DOCTOR. BY
Dorothy Walker. New York:
Liveright Publishing Corp.
Physicians, patients, wives, nurses
that sort of mixup. Ordinary.
FIVE DESTINIES. BY Anna Rel
ner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Novel about Nazi Germany. More
plan and form than such works,
hastily written. ordinarily achieve.
LORINDA. BY Marjorie Carleton.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Novel of an actress who becomes
great from humble beginnings. Pass
ably interesting.
Westerns.
CACTUS IN BLOOM. BY Margaret
A. Vogel. New York The Pyra-
mid Press.
The old lawless West, lovely or
phan gal and three men. A lady
author being very earnest.
THE RED CASH OUTLAWS. BY
Ranger Lee. New York: The
Greystone Press.
Gang of ra-tough desperadoes
routed by single man. That sort
of thing.
Mysteries.
THE CHIFFON SCARF. BY Mignon
G. Eberhart. New York: Double
day Doran g. Co.
Another house party where death
stalks. And not bad, either.
THE OLD MUST DIE. BY Audrey
Gaines. New York: Thomas Y
Crowell Co.
One of those stories where there
is a series of murders in a grim
old family living in grim old homes
And right out in Alexandria, too!
DEAD AND DONE FOR. BY Rob-
ert Reeves. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf.
Murder in and around New York
-gangsters, big-shots and theat-
rical people. Average.
PAST FINDING OUT. BY Dan E
L. Patch. Chicago: Bica Press
Begins like thriller, but reveals
itself to be a tract, with the author
urging religious conversion as the
only cure for crime. A good idea,
but hardly applicable to fiction.
Poetry.
FLIGHT WITHOUT FEAR. BY Win
throp Business Palmer. Stam-
ford: The Overlook Press.
Slight, delicate poems, generally
in a mocking humor. Sometimes
they come off and sometimes they
do not.
NONE NOW ARE QUIETLY WISE
BY Arthur Inman. New York:
E. P. Dutton Co.
| Lyric verse, very good.