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Evening star., 1939-10-15
Americas Old Masters


By James Thomas Flerner. NeD
York: The Viking Press.
Here we have, written in an ex-
traordinarily pleasant manner, the
biographies of four early American
painters-Benjamin West, John SIN
gleton Copley, Charles Wilson
Peale and Gilbert Stuart. Mr..
Flexner has not attempted to do a
profound job of art criticism, or
for that matter to criticize at all.
He has instead told us the laborious
but romantic personal histories Of
four men who lifted American
painting above the provincial level,
treating his subjects as human be-
ings first and artists afterward. 1t
was amazing to the reviewer to
realize how little she knew of these
early makers of American art his
tory, and she suspects that her ig-
norance is not unusual, either
How many of us know anything
about Stuart except that he painted
George Washington? Or of West be-
yond that he was the first Amer
lean artist received abroad and that
he did sketch Of his sisters baby
while still a child himself? Such
shreds of fact and legend have for
long done this reviewer service in
lieu of more substantial knowledge.
To those similarly benighted she
recommends Mr.. Flexner's volume
as pleasant school by which to
shed some Of their ignorance.
OF the four histories the most in
teresting is that of Peale, who be-
gan life as saddler and took up
painting because he found that he
could paint. Knowing nothing of
the mechanics of his new vocation,
never having seen even palette. he
devised his own tools and methods
of work. He had a narrow squeak
escaping debtors prison in An
napolis, was subsequently sent to
England to study by his proud fell
loW-toWnsmen, was received in
Vests London studio and called on
DR.. Franklin. whom he surprised
land sketche6 with "a young lady
on his knee" He served with dis
tinction in the Revolution, devised
designs for stamps and patriotic
pageants, studied natural history
and founded a museum in that
science, created the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts and intro
duced life classes to the great hor-
ror of the prudish Philadelphians,
exhumed and mounted mastodons,
was friend of jefferson, executed
IA portraits of Washington, mar
ried three times and set out to
look for fourth wife in his 80s-a
brilliant, insatiably curious, inde-
fatigable fellow certainly, COM
plete American, a forerunner of
such latter-day types as Edison and
Ford. His history, even thus cur
tailed, is immensely good reading
One suggests him as a subject for
a sympathetic full-length biography.
Not much less wonderful are the
stories of the other three, all self
taught, at least to some degree, all
deriving from modest circumstances.
BY all means get Mr.. Flexner's book.
In this day, when young artists say
that they cannot work unless they
have dole, it might be worth the
general attention to give some re-
Election to the hard schools in
which their forer,lnners eYercised
their genius. MGR.
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Automatic Gadgets
Explained in Detail.

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plant life whether Of cloth will we'll
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He tells that
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at the rate of drop of emulsonto gelatin
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his physical surroundings
Evening star., 1939-10-15
People
By Henry Pratt Fairchild. Ne,c
York. Heuru Holt q Co.

y
York: Henry Holt & Co.
This is a book by scientific en-
thusiast, which means, of course.
that 1t is written from point Of
view which all of us do not share.
1t is a study of population, its in
crease and decrease and the reasons
therefor: its distribution, its relation
to prevailing conditions and thou
sand and other matters, for all of
which Mr.. Fairchild obviously has a
tender, prideful passion. To the
plain, average reader, however, to
the man or woman who has been
hearing about expansionist urges
and the need for national living
room and overcrowing and all that,
the work Is probably fated to be a
disappointment. For Mr.. Fairchild
Is too much q scientist to commit
himself rashly. He admits that the
science Of interpreting population
statistics is as yet not fully developed
and he will not 60 beyond his bounds
Of certainty So he contents him.
self by proving with great accuracy
points which most of US take for
granted anyhow, and leaving the
future to itself.
This is too bad. The reviewer her
self hoped, from the buoyancy OF
Mr.. Fairchilds beginning, that he
was going to give her the lowdown
on the world at last. But he only
concludes that when and if vital
statistics are read in the light of per-
feet understanding, people will be
able to plan their families intelli-
gently. He does not even say what
an intelligent plan will include
Presumably it will mean a family of
such size as to allow a healthful
standard of general existence to all
its members-but do we not know
this anyhow? Science, it seems, has
let us down here rather badly.
NC R.
Evening star., 1939-10-15

dle-class people, who worked hard
and feared God. They were less
moved by political upheavals than
the hot-heads one ordinarily en-
counters in novels of this era in the
South. They lived their lives and
expected to be let alone. But they
were not. First the war, then the
reconstruction. They lived as sur
vivors in another world.
How they Jared in the new world
is the latter and most moving part
of Journey Proud" They were de-
feated, of course, but there is hardly
a more appealing picture than that
of pride surmounting defeat.
Mrs. McGehee writes well, with
restraint and quiet conviction.
i. Z.
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Financing Government

By Harold NJ Groues. New York: Henry Holt G. Co.
influences than that
OF taxation the which
supported. ~
One this
all
individuals WHY
something apparently quite dull h
the OF literature
ranks who could write about
those who wrote with authority
clarity lacked
To welcome degree
iy and authority Accurately
his whole volume historical presenting develop
public
maker but taxpayer spender administrator
learned each phase OF the problem with
Not content with the relative
posed and why author poedy
OF many of the levies imposed in
1t one OF the best books Of its kind
ability should be little Of
government financing but those much
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Best Sellers
Washington.

Fiction - "The Grapes of
WRATH" John Steinbeck; "Es-
cape" Ethel Vance; "The
Bride Margaret Irwin; Queen
Anne Boleyn." Francis Hack
EFT; Next. to Valour," John
Jennings; Captain Horatio
Hornblower," c. S. Forester.
Non-f1ction-"Inside Asia"
John Gunther; The Pressure
Boys" Kenneth Crawford; Not
Peace But a Sword Vincent
Sheean; Wind, Sand and
Stars Antoine de St. Exupery;
Let the Record Speak," Doro-
thy Thompson; THE Revolu-
ton of Nihilisn," Hermann
Rauschning.
Fiction - "The Grapes of
Wrath" Watch For the Dawn"
THE Ownley Inn," Joseph and
Freeman Lincoln; children of
God" Next to Valour."
Non-fiction -" Inside ASIA"
Let the Record Speak," "The
Revolution of Nihilism,' Not
Peace But Sword Country
Lawyer" Bellamy Partridge.
Chicago.
Fiction - THE Grapes of
WRATH" children of God"
Shanghai '37," vicki Baum;
Watch for the Dawn" Capt.
Horatio Hornblower."
-fiction-"Not Peace But
a Sword" Inside ASIA" Days
of Our Years." Pierre van
Paassen; Country Lawyer"
"The Revolution of Nihilism."
New York.
Fiction - "The Grapes of
WRATH" Christ in Concrete"
Children of God" Escape"
Ethel Vance; BLACK Narcis-
sus," Runner Golden.
Non-flc -flction-"Country Law
yer" Days of Our Years." Not
Peace But a Sword" "The Rev.
olution OF Nihilism," Inside
Asia"
San Francisco.
Fiction - "The Grapes of
WRATH" Escape" BLACK Mar
ciSsus," Children of Cod"
Watch for the Dawn"
-fction-"Not Peace But
a Sword" Inside ASIA" "The
Revolution Of Nihilism," "Mein
Kampf," Adolf Hitler; "Coun-
try Lawyer" - ..,-
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Shakespeare
By Mark Van Doren. NeD York:
Henri Holt & Co.

Mr.. Van Doren has not very much
to say here-and yet the reviewer
would not be ungrateful to his VOL
ume either. She set out to read it,
she got as far as the essay on Henry
~ which, to be exact, is on page 1l6
nay, she got to the sixth page Of
that essay. But there occurs the
quotation in which Hotspur expresses
his opinion of politicians. That was
too good.
An automatic action took place in
the reviewers frame as she read it;
she rose slowly from her chair, wan-
dered toward her bookcase still
reading, withdrew a volume from the
shelves and put Mr.. Van Doren's
back in the place of it. She re-
turned to her seat and spent the rest
of the night there, astonishing Bill
the red setter from time to time by
unrestrained peals of laughter. The
volume which she exchanged for Mr..
Van Dorens sober book of criticism
was the collected plays Of William
Shakespeare. And she re-read
Henry w.
Have you read Henry Nv lately? If
not, do you think perhaps that you
remember it? And that it has no
surprises for you? Get it out then.
There's always something in 1t that
you were not looking for. Consider,
if you please, the passage in which
Hotspur comments on the modern
poets of his admittedly golden age.
Says he:
I'D rather be a kitten and cry
NEW
Than one of these same metre
ballad-mongers.
had rather hear a brazen can
stick turned,
Or dry wheel CRATE on the axle
tree;
And that would set my teeth
nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing
poetry.
Tis like the forced gait Of
shuf1ling nag"
Tket, the reviewer submits, is
| criticism.
But to get back to Mr.. Mark Van
Doren. He does not deserve to be
left in the bookcase Gin Shakespeare's
shelf indefinitely. He should be
brought out. He should be treated
respectfully. And 50 1t is duly re-
ported here that he has given his
public an essay on each Of the plays,
as well as one on the poems, and
that the said essays are perfectly
sound and scholarly and no one
need commit suicide or challenge
Mr.. Mark Van Doren to duel over
anything put down in any one of
them. In the meantime there Is still
Shakespeare. And here Is Hotspur
speaking again-this time on the
subject of bores:
"'""' I'll tell you what:
He held me last night at least
nine hours
In reckoning up the several devils
names
That were his lackeys. I cried
hum and well, go to-
But marked him not a word. O,
he is tedious
AS a tired horse, railing wife;
Worse than smoky house. I had
rather live
With cheese and garlic in wind
mill, far,
Than feed on Gates and have him
talk to me
In any summer-house in Christ
endom."
As said, there's Shakespeare. But
our Mr.. Van Doren IL sound and per.
| fectly scholarly.-M. G. r,
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Journey Proud

By ThomdSine McGehee. Ne1U
York: Macmillan & Co.
This is another Civil War novel.
The story-how a proud Southern
family met the war and was en-
gulfed-is essentially romantic and
melodramatic, but Mrs. McGehee is
satisfied to write in vein of under
statement. She writes as though
she is aware that the story has
been told many times. The impor-
tant thing is that she has some
thing new to contribute to 1t.
It is the story of large family
too large, in fact, for the readers
comfort. The Mackays love the
land and their plantation way of
life was the good way for them.
They were substantial, upper mid
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Value and Distribution

By Le1U H. Haney New York: D. Appleton Century Co.
With good number of the dogmat theories
ideas which flowed Washington
Greenwich Villages OF the Nation have of merit In
has been considerable more realism and paccaby than
there about the fomuae taught earlier generation
his study
analytical
he makes clear
passion and with wealth Of intelligent
of another day.
Particularly challenging his
ms belief that Of natonasn
thinking a
from new extremes-but perhaps all
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Durant RCrea Story of Greece Marked by Rare Qualities of People
Wel>KnOwn Scientist Does
A Fascinating Volume
The Effect of the Atom on Your
Home Life Is Explained in
An Entertaining Fashion
Atoms in Action

BY George Russell Harrison. Ne,D York. William Morroc
learning atom building
unlocking physical
Wealth consists ultimately Of the control Of matter and
the wealth of and nations science learns
useful Of the that available Science finding
that there eliminating wdrected
"atom smashing according professor
department
His pursuit the invisible
he fascinating story Though the subjects with which he
the complicated science
remarkable for its simplicity and cearness.
tells knowledge
perhaps personal laughter
entertaining millions
airpane completing flight
and electric operate the ampers which set free
the econs making possible
second and unscrambed the
also is at hand
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Technology and Labor

BY Elliott Dunlap Smith, Neo Hauen Yale University
Few firms have brought out better and
OF e problems OF American labor than has the Yale
vety Press This the
Relations Yale, is a~worthy addition
developments
improvements
entire 1t would thing
tenon that should
has frequently been the rather than economy
out OF all balance the relationships
OF the labor
Not for the solving problen any solution
exstSbut only authentic of
industrial
Nyman,
effects
similarity reaction
interested
OF
reconstruction OF industrial policies keep
devices q
American Social Problems
By Hot0ard W. Odun NeU York: e.
This is indeed ambitious volume
with
olenrnas; second
though which the questions
Fo Odum objective
tay ne nils the mind with challenging questions readers
into the jungle OF problems which complex
- - ~ f0" eSo-
nscr1oes the work primarily youth that his ma
provocative
further the growing minds reality and security S
~ AAe -'"A'' "iu SECURITY IN
The volume is exceenty and effectively illustrated for the most
part y pictures credited to the Farm Security J.
Evening star., 1939-10-15
Youth of World Shown
As Period of Brilliance
Ancient History Becomes
! Poem of Perfect Form
In Arid Prose of Years
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.
The Life Of Greece
By Mary.C ayfer Roberts.

The Life Of Greece
y By Will Durant. New York: Simon schuster.
history prevail
Ing idiom II the reviewer
apparently: filled with labor
to say Duran has not at
ing Of yw pretty e hat
sn the their g n ss n
familiar tale he has used exceptionally broad method his
elements Greek culture than find other account
the picture conprshensiys
in and Consistently yvd It s1oss
us that % n o h fairly uens bin and with Ute e. It
the factories
ses the tor a s YET
sss saSn the
o % m the o he ssoees or h c T n give ds h
This plan carried out with great Within the Of each
9n e sGss5 An ss @ % s %
S1
separate each lively realistic that has downright
althsssh a't %ssh1S ons. ns
The method has before of It indeed the oho
@ @ 0n @ is s we do n 5 1T
intimate detail Take example which
part particularly delightful when she had
any being
was the requisite Greek state of mind for attendance at the the
n a Ine aa % s that M s haS @ o 9 p 5 human nan
preaching Greek history today But Dr. Durant gives
1.-The spasnss % he n5sEssts the
have keeps
assemblages lands
k aa By "e the as % or ood aS @ the to m
about claps
beneath
expects
With may
noise So@ and %
the nsn M D Dr. esrg o fd M whole
Of that people which today with Byronc sen
very We was the youth Of the world Knowing nothing the
which pertains youth the self passion
ss @ th pssns aRd n M e M nn
nghtens the memory of the human kind
youth poem
much it. m
emily thrilling and high That book in an essentially prose
mood only a pulse m m THAT m b
Diesel engine or the rapd-ar machine gun
Eeyption InterIude
By Jo1an Fodes Translated from Hungarian by
Kenedi and Ir0n Shapiro NeD York. Farrar Rhnehart.
The which the reviewer had from this new by the
Cat that Miss Fodes had heard somewhere Frau vck Baum
royalties spirit pride Hungary
n0s We is have er no Ysnbe been
M Fg s m h m @ 1 D aHfna ss s v
all the devices of the It is her credit that
with her psntns efforts vulgar
@ literary W sn ooeS o hs book mere trying 60
said, really
forth "The Street Fishing
the family Hungarian expatae
that the denationazed
again shows Hungarian foreign
s
she concludes melancholy that has left the land
pitched her theme in Of the emotions Of her
rather than the strictly naonasc grounds
Not Political
Heronie
native land voluntarily ongentaly unfat
grief She determined independent
with somewhat limited white
which there like herself work while others exi
conclusions about from their lives She thinks
the otcass does this because the
emotional life She decides at last profoundly that
his side
toyfully meantime had which
represented
in this the abandons.
plain, muddled exile theme
little real place. The tell
merits, a
of
of
Dorothy Thompson, oo
written with amazing full
of love- full episodes concerning characters who have
relation the it, it at times ungammaca
though blame the tranaers publishers for that Yet
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Cunning Pockets
AdOrn New STYLES

Designers have developed a pas
sion for pockets used in a decora-
tive as well as useful way. The new
tailored suits have so many on the
jackets one almost loses count of
them. They have a way of ami
mating the costume without disturb
ing the strictly tailored aspect, and
it is amazing how expertly they are
injected into the scheme of design
and so ingenicusly too, as to be al
most amusing at times.
A perfectly charming vogue is
foretold in the dark crepe day
frocks that are enlivened with white
lingerie touches that especially CEN
ter about little pockets made of
white organdy or pique or rows of
dainty Val lace, these matched to
neckwear and sleeve finishings.
These clever little feminizing de-
vices trim blouses and skirts as
well.
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that fits into most any environs on
and off the ship, if you go cruising.
If you are left behind in the ex-
odus to southern chimes you will
get wear out of it under winter furs
and later on into the spring. 1t has
a simple collarless neckline, fastens
from throat to hem with little brass
buttons. Cartridge pleats at the
shoulder line and impressed pleats
for skirt fullness testify to new
emphasis placed upon the use of
pleatings of every description.
A beautiful job was done by Inter-
national in combining gay-colored
pure silk Persian print with black
silk crepe for the frock to the right
in the illustration. The softly
crushed, yet snugly-ftted corselet
waistline was inspired by Alix, and
here we have it closed up the front
with gold metal hooks and eyes.
The softly draped skirt is split to
reveal just enough of the print to
make it interesting. The deep "
AGShllllS 10 OIlG VI TIE IIlOSC HdCCer-
ing, whether worn by debutantes or
their mothers.
The daring things done with color
in the advance print fashions is
amazing. For instance one of the
prettiest frocks in the new collec-
tons uses a purple crepe panel
brought down to the hemline from
one shoulder and an American
beauty red crepe panel comes down
from the other shoulder. These tie
over silk print foundation dress
that repeats these colorings in its
floral patterning. Equally impor-
tant are modest necktie prints using
tiny conventional motifs in mo-
sale of vivid colors. Also new are
the types that print one color on a
monotone background such as yell
low on black or navy, or brown on
beige or light green on dark ground
and so on.
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THEY'VE arrived! - the new
= prints which are always so
eagerly anticipated at midseason.
They are beauties and no mistake
about it. A gay little frock of one
of these refreshing, inspiring new
prints under your fur coat and you
will not only be seeing the world
through rose-colored glasses" but
you will radiate cheer for others
wherever you go.
Perhaps the most exciting thing
about the first prints to come upon
the scene is their eye-appealing
colorings. You'll love the new Per-
sian types that fashion is spotlight
ing throughout early showings. All
aglow they are with luminous reds
and rich puppies and exotic yellows,
blues and greens sometimes with
dash of black or white but not al
ways.
Then there are the perennial bay
adere stripes. You will admire ev-
cry inch of them because of the
neWness expressed in designful and
colorful ways.
1t is not only that the new prints
are so delectably colorfll that they
lay siege to your heart, for the de-
signers who are making up these in
triguing silks into frocks are prov
ing nothing less than color-inspired.
The striking models pictured con-
vey timely and significant fashion
news. These dresses, designed by
International, are the type carefree
resorters are choosing to pack for
their winter holiday in warmer
chimes or that will take on a festive
air under winter furs of the stay
at-home set.
The hand-blocked silk bayadere
print to the left is the sort that will
see you through all but the most
formal dates, being a casual type
Many Pockets
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phrase. No matter how little Won eat
II you still insist on drinking alcoholic
drinks you are lost-for it is definitely
pound adder. True, it's hard to be
at a cocktail party and refuse a drink
without being labeled prude. Still.
II you are determined to have a better
hgure, ask your host to mix YOU up
drink with Rhine wine as a base and
any OF the fruit joices. But if YOU are
Scotch and soda" girl remember that
soda is fattening and ask for plain
water instead. Be wise in your choice
OF canapes and hors d'oeuvres, too.
Olives, shrimp, celery, etc. If you are
an lnveterate bedtime snack-eater You'll
definitely have to reform. Avoid the
cold chicken sandwiches, cakes and pies
like poison and try drinking a glass of
fruit juice or glass of buttermilk with
a dash of salt. They say grapefruit
juice is a sleep-inducer-but then. too,
sleep is fattening.