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Library Books Deal With
Men Behind the News

With the newspapers and radios
telling us of the conflicts in Europe
and the rest of the world. many of
the inquiries received at the in
formation desk at the central library,
Eighth and K streets NV. are
about the people in the headlines,
such as: What is the reason for
Hitler's actions? Why did Eden re-
sign? Will America be drawn into
the next war?
In connection with this last prob
lem one would do well to read the
fifth and sixth volumes of Ray
Stannard Bakers Woodrow Wilson,
Life and Letters" which picture
events leading up to and through
the last war. Carl Van Dorens
Benjamin Franklin" relates similar
incidents in Colonial times. Alan
Johnsons Anthony Eden" gives his
life and political career. The most
popular book at present Is Hitlers
"Mein Kampf," which helps one to
understand his completed and pro-
posed plans. In E. F. Bensons
Queen Victorias Daughters" we
learn how the same thing happened
with Bismarck, at that time trying
to rule Europe. Emil Ludwig's BIS
marck" gives the German point of
view of the Iron Chancellor. Lives
of other up-to-date dictators are:
"Sawdust Caesar (MussolinD, by
George Seldes; "Mussolini in the
Making" by Gaudens Megaro, and
Il Knew These Dictators, +" by George
E. Price.
Leaders in other countries are of
interest. Hector Bolitho's King
George VI" will attract readers who
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According to its author, an aide and
friend of Schuschnigg's it was the
Legitimist party which might have
saved Austria and the Socialist party
which abetted the fateful AnschluSs.
This does not agree with the inter-
probation of evens made by other OBJ
servers, most of whom either accord
ed the Legitimists small Importance
or placed them on the other side OF
the ledger entirely. Among those who
have recently written to this effect Is
Mr.. G. E. R. Gedye of the New York
Times, who has made the statement
that the Socialist party alone could
have saved Schuschniggs govern
ment and that it was the legitimist
leanings of successive Austrian ad-
ministrations which so weakened
the state that it was unable to resist
the final German pressure.
So it would appear that interpre-
ters disagree and that diametrically.
It is only fair to Herr Fuchs to say
that his book indicates very close &C
uuaintance with his subject and that
its claims are pretty well borne out
by facts which he brings forward.
And after that it is only fair to Mr..
Gedye to point out that his book has
the same characteristics. Readers
may choose their own viewpoints or
may engage in pleasant reflection on
the indicated nature of all history.
That, as they will undoubtedly re-
member, was once described by a
very great man as "set OF lies
agreed upon."
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If that is so she has sacrificed ap-
pearances to some degree to in
formation. And, as the world al
ready knows of her successes, the
sacrifice would seem, In the present
at least, to be an unnecessary one.
Future students Of the American
stage will, of course, be grateful for
a bit of history so obligingly COM
plete.
AS to the actual story Of her life,
it is, as said, pleasantly direct. It
is little more than a chronological
relating Of the actress various roles,
with anecdotes of associates thrown
in. There is not much in it Of
childhood or ancestry; we learn that
Miss Cornells grandfather and
father were amateur actors and that
she thought about acting from her
earliest days. But by page nine she
is telling Of her engagement by the
Washington Square Players, and
from then on her story is theatrical
history. Her career, of course, covers
some of the greatest stage events in
recent years and to read her account
Of these successive openings is to live
over again the footlight thrills of
two decades. It is q great story, but
told with almost casual simplicity.
It is doubly regrettable that, having
shown herself so charmingly modest,
Miss Cornell should have agreed
upon the inclusion in her book of
those notices mentioned above. Un-
der the circumstances they seem too
utterly unnecessary.
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are interested in his forthcoming
visit. Cecil J. c. Streets Thomas
Masaryk Of Czecho-Slovakia" is
about its founder. Travelling to the
east, we have the lives of Chang
Kai-shek, Strong Man of China"
by Robert Berkov, and Mahatma
Gandhi, His Own Story"
Our country also offers accounts
of many prominent characters:
Carter Glass biography. "Unrecon-
structed Rebel" by James E. Palmer;
Lowell M. Limpus, This Man La
Guardia,'' and James A. Farleys
Behind the Ballots Hugh Wilson,
our late Ambassador to Berlin, tells
of his early experiences in many
foreign posts in THE Education of
a Diplomat" No list of Americans
would be complete without some
thing on the President-Earle
Lockers 'The American Way;
Ernest Lindley's FRANKLIN D. Roose-
velt," and Mrs. James Roosevelt's
my Boy Franklin"
Another side of this subject would
be about the men who write the
news. Mark Sullivan has written
THE Education of an American;
Frazier Hunt, "One American;
Pierre Van Paassen, Days of Our
Years." which gives the background
of present European chaos; Inter
mission in Europe" by Vernon Bart
lett, reporter and, radio COM
mentator. Maurice Hindus, who
broadcast from echo-Slovakia
during the crisis, writes of his life
in Green Worlds" and Vincent
Sheean's Personal History tells Of
the struggle in Africa and Palestine.
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What Is Being Read odoy?
Best Sellers in Woshinqton and Other Cities
CHICAGO.

Sh1OAUOS
Fiction-'The Patriot" Pearl
Buck; "Wickford Point" Wine Of
Good Hope" David Rame: "All
This and Heaven Too" Three
Harbours."
Non-fiction - days of Our
Years." "A Peculiar Treasure"
"Mein Kampf," Reaching for the
Stars" Doctor, Here's Your Hat"
NEW YORK.
Fiction-"All This and Heaven
Too" WEXFORD Point" "The Tree
of Liberty" THE Patriot" Dis
puted Passage" Lloyd c. Douglas.
Misunderstanding for the
Stars" Days of Our Years."
"Mein Kampf," "a Peculiar Treas
ure," II wanted to Be an Actress"
Katharine Cornell.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction-"The Tree of Liberty"
"All This and Heaven Too" "Ad-
dress Unknown" Kressman Tay-
lor; The Patriot" WEXFORD
Point"
Non-flction - "Mein Kampf,"
Days of Our Years." Reaching
for the Stars" Through Embassy
Eyes" Grandma Called 1t Car
nal," Bertha Damon.
(Copyright. 1939J
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WASHINGTON.

Fiction-"Wickford Point" John
P. Marquand; "All This and
Heaven. Too" Rachel Field; Re
becca," Daphne Du Maurier; THE
Patriot" Pearl Buck; "Tree of
Liberty" Elizabeth Page; Gums
of Burgoyne," Bruce Lancaster.
Non-f1ction - "Mein Kampf,"
Adolf Hitler, Stackpole; Through
Embassy Eyes" Martha Dodd;
Designs in Scarlet" Courtney
Riley Cooper; Reaching for the
Stars" Nora VAIN; MY Memoir" ;"
Edith Boiling Wilson; Doctor,
Here's Your Hat Joseph A.
Jerger.
BOSTON.
Fiction-"Wickford Point" "All
This and Heaven Too" The Tree
of Liberty" Three Harbours," IF.
Van Wyck Mason" "Rebecca."
Misunderstanding for the
Stars" Days of Our Years."
Pierre Van Paassen; "A Peculiar
Treasure. Edna Ferber: "Mein
Kampf," Take 1t From Me-" Neal
O'Hara.
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The Controller General
~ HarDel c. Mansfe

0y HuIOey Z. M0HSVeLG. NeD
HaDen:: Yale University Press.
Prof. Mansfield, member of the
faculty at Yale, was a co-author of
the plan to set up new accounting
system in the Government and do
away with the Office of controller
general that figured largely in the
defeat of the administrations
sored reorganization bill in the
Seventy-fifth Congress. His book
is an expanded version of the Sec
ton on fiscal management on which
he collaborated with A. E. Buck for
the reorganization study.
Timed to coincide with the reor-
ganization debate in this Congress,
and apparently in the expectation
that the subject matter again would
be a burning issue, the work lost
much of its potential force when
reorganization, after a brief furry,
fizzled out like a wet flrecracker.
Its Importance consequently lies in
whatever historical value it may
have and as basis at some future
time for new effort at change.
The book, an argument for Prof.
Mansfield's ideas on the necessity of
separating auditing and control
functions of government, reviews
Interestingly the development of
accounting legislation and the
never-ending fight of administrative
officers for freedom to handle their
fiscal operations without outside in
reference.
He devotes a great deal of atten-
ton to former Controller General
John r. McCarl, none of it flatter-
ing, and is equally free with pot
shots at the G. A. O. staff, at times
seemingly going to extremes to sup
port his case and thereby raising
some doubt as to the soundness Of
the critical reasoning in which he
indulges.
Prof. Mansfield is of the school
which favors greater leeway in
fiscal operations for administrative
ofncers. His views Of the system
administered by the controller gen.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Wells Considers the Future
Once More in a New Novel
All Governments Are Overthrow
simultaneously by Dictator
And the World Is Remade
The Holy Terror
By Mary.C arfer Roberts.

By H. G. Wells NeD York: Simon and Schuster
In this his H gone
Of writing ncona theses indeed spite
T M MS that M M Wells again writing and
deah of omc hardly
gotten abdngy
showed itself much earlier his
has been growing him There doubt about
unrefreshing Innocence
world futures that he prefers deal the
was s ehy @ delighted when any would watch him perform card
ne gives It, There probably certain sentimental loyalty this which
is, Of course, tribute in itself
to statements of and t tbe n % % t
all OF which Likely
body else In bare outline the book the life
which meets Mr.
Wells own idea Of this outline is padded with plushike
while he harken Rud telling history
not very different NA' A' O'
Indicates
May Hasten Utopia.
As far originality this book
Mr. Wells idea that his ambition
Capitalism church the present laws and mitarisa these SAYS
intrepid must wiped and wiped
good Obviously the they stand will
such end and Utopia Mr. Wells boundess disgust
they and made himself complete world might
bring this Statutory destruction simply centralized
command.
what he makes his hero do Rud ehrisened Rudolf
little wretch of child sneak and bully of school boy
steps either
nastiness
undersized afraid
he hem becomes head Of rebel political clique
point follow unfamiliar those of
control the Then by making alliance all
English people it becomes world power There is war be;
to in one book actually action
the Mr. Wells describes simply in worse in his
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great love of her craft has moved
her to tell Of it. Her book is a sort
of text, history and hymn of praise
for the sculptor's art, well combined
Much of it will be too closely tech
nical for a layman to comprehend,
but more of it will be a delight for
anyone who has a taste for shop"
talk. To students of the art it would
seem that the work ought to be
immensely helpful. AS said, it treats
of the history of sculpture, but it
does not approach this subject solely
in the conventional manner of
periods; it also concerns itself with
uses. with materials and equipment.
Coming to the present day, 1t de-
scribes the modern sculptor's tools
and the various steps which he
must follow out in making his
statue-from the preliminary study
and sketching down to the final cast
of the metal or the final finishing
of the stone. It also contains anec-
dotes of great modern masters
whom the author herself has known.
1t is profusely illustrated, not only
with photographs of famous works
of sculpture, but also with pictures
of the artists tools and reproduc-
tions of the charts and diagrams
which he must learn to use. It Is,
indeed, as its title claims, sculp-
ture inside and out. Yet probably
no one knows better than the au-
thor how little such a work can do
for those who would learn what she
has herself learned already. Any
art, of course, can be taught-to
an artist, but it also follows that
almost any artist will flnd ways of
learning, texts or no texts. Miss
Hoffman unquestionably knows this.
But out Of her boundless enthusiasm
she has nevertheless brought forth
her book. It viii serve those who
can be served and delight and IN
struct those who can only be in
structed.
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which Is as deep as Zionist feeling
and part of an even greater move
ment.
Two of the best chapters in the
book are devoted to the Histadru..
combination trade union and coloni-
zation cooperative. and to the COM
munal settlements. where $4,000
young Jews are establishing the Jew
ish state" behind barbed wire. The
Histadrut is struggling not only in
the cause of the Jews against the
Arabs. but on behalf of the Jewish
workers against Jewish capitalists,
who often prefer Arab labor to
Jewish labor because cheaper to get.
The communistic experiment is a
paradox in a lively capitalist Pales-
tine. but has come to represent the
ideal OF Palestine Jewish life.
Although Feiwel dispels the illu-
sion that the struggle is one of Jew
1sh religion against Moslem religion,
he falls into an old trap by pictur-
ing it as racial as well as nationalis-
tic conflict. He is at odds with him.
self on this point, however, for else
where he emphasizes the submerg-
ence of Jewish characteristics in the
process of assimilation in the Di-
aspora or period of dispersion.
On the whole the work is scholarly
yet full of the drama of this dream
OF re-establishing the home of the
Jews In Asia Minor. It will bear
frequent reference in coming weeks
as the British attempt to impose
upon Palestine their own plan OF
peace based on an independent Arab
state and permanent minority
status for the Jews. C.B. M.
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IWonted to Be an Actress
Bu Katharine Cornell. Men
York: Random, House,

York: Random House.
This is q handsome volume given
over to Miss Cornell's story of her
stage career, to photographs of her
In her leading roles, to record of
her stage appearances and to a
number of reviews of her plays
quoted from leading dramatic critics.
The autobiography is simple and
unpretentious, the photographs are
very good, the record of her career
Is interesting but a trifle out of place
and the reviews are in distressingly
poor taste. For most of these notices
are adulatory and for an acclaimed
and accomplished actress to publish
under her own name page after page
Of raves" is not certainly the most
dignified procedure in the world. It
may be, of course, that Miss Cornell
has sanctioned this publication in
the simple interest Of giving the
public, in single book, all the out.
standing facts Of her career. But
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nave been to the suffering Joads

have been to the suffering Joads
themselves.
And what does Mr.. Steinbeck
make of this misery? Why, he Is
too good a craftsman to take a
frankly propaganda point Of view,
but he nevertheless renders it very
plain that the workers must organ
ize for their own defense. He does
not put this idea forward as his
own, nor does he introduce any
messiah-like leader into his story.
Instead, he lets the notion grow in
the minds of the Joads as a natural
conclusion. They hear it whispered
among their fellows and they begin
at last to whisper 1t themselves.
They actually do nothing, but the
forces of property are already alert
against even the whispering and
use tyrannical means to crush it
out. In the end the Joads are
shown disintegrating slowly but
unmistakably. their family circle
broken, their pride lowered and
their destitution beyond hope. They
are the good people and the owners
are the bad people. but, says Mr..
Steinback, the owners win out not
withstanding.
The reviewers worst criticism of
the book would be against its prac-
tice of putting sophisticated wisdom
in the mouths of its ignorant and
simple characters. All too often
they speak not with the tongues of
men or of angels but with the
tongue of Mr.. John Steinbeck.
Against the sentimentality of the
work it would seem to be pointless
to cry out; it is all sentiment, that
Is; its realism in physical details is
but used to unsugar the pill. AS
said, 1t is effective-immensely so.
A word should be said too of the
concluding scene. Mr.. Steinbeck is
a good flnisher; in his earlier novel
about itinerant workers, I'm Dubi-
GUS Battle" he brought his story to
a close with a climax the like of
which IS hardly surpassed anywhere
IN fiction. That was when the
strikers bring the body of the mur-
dered organizer to their meeting
and put it on the platform from
which the organizer had been
scheduled to speak 1t is done in
few paragraphs, but it is absolutely
magnificent. In this book there is
another such ending a scene even
more terrible and dramatic. The
reviewer will not describe 1t. out of
Difference to her own readers sensi-
bilities, but 1t Is tremendous thing.
1t is sentiment. too, to be sure, but
sentiment that is electrified by
genius. 1t is unlikely that any one
will be able to read 1t without get
ting an uncomfortable jolt In his
emotional centers.
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The Midas Touch
By Margaret Ken,
York.: Random House,

"N' At~kuOHk 14OUcS.
This novel by the author of "The
Constant Nymph" is about nothing
much and is apparently devoid of
any purposeful theme. Notwith-
standing, 1t has a haunting and
gracious quality and offers consid-
erable in entertainment to those
readers whose tastes are for quiet
understatement.
1t Is an imaginative tale that is
hard to describe. In it the lives of
group of people touch on one an
other and affect one another's ma
terial course while the souls of the
people remain incurably separate
and uncommingled. Indeed, If the
book can be said to have any mo-
TIT 1t is that-the separateness of
human spirits and the futility of
acquaintance to wear that separate
ness away.
The title, '"The Midas Touch" is
taken from the characteristics Of
two OF the most fateful beings in
the work, Corris Morgan, an inter-
national financier, and Evan Jones,
his unacknowledged son. Both men
have the power to make money
easily; they are creators whose
sphere of creation Is the human
imagination; they are able, that is,
to make people believe in anything.
Both are utterly unscrupulous and
unfeeling. At the beginning of the
story they are shown as extremes
in their worldly positions; the father
Is the financial ruler of Europe and
the son penniless wanderer.
Through the course of the book they
move toward one another, affecting
the lives of an assorted number of
associates. In the end they merge
IN business partnership and finally
meet common death.
The merit of the tale lies in the
delicate exactness with which Miss
Kennedy has drawn her people and
the gentle inevitability with which
she endows a pointless and rather
arbitrary story. Or, in other words,
the merit of the tale is its author.
The same plot-if plot it can be
called-in other hands might easily
have been foolish. AS it stands, the
book is quiet example of the Ger
tain triumph Of a good writer over
Indifferent or Door materials.
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SCULPTURE Inside and Out
Bv Mdlvind Hoffman. Ne1D

York: W. W. NOTION co.
This is one of those delightful
books in which a person who knows
q subject supremely well talks OF
that subject lovingly and intimate
N. Miss Malvina Hoffman Is q
sculptor of repute; her place as a
fine creative artist is well estab-
lished; her authority Is beyond ques-
ton. She writes now Is one whose
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Brief Reviews Of
New Books
Travel and place.

Travel and Place.
GUATEMALA PROFILE. BY Ad-
olson Burbank. New York:
Coward McCann.
An artists book on this tropical
land, illustrated with his pen and
Ink sketches. Amusingly written
and worth reading.
DISCOVERING LONG ISLAND.
BY William o. Stevens. New
York: Dodd Mead g. Co.
Another artist writes Of an island
closer home, and also illustrates
with sketches. 1t makes a very
pleasant volume.
THE MENACING SUN. BY Mona
Gardner. New York: Harcourt
Brace & Co.
An American newspaper woman
with wide Oriental experience
writes book of sketches about the
peoples of Southeastern Asia. In
teresting.
TRYLONGS AND PERISITES. BY
Obey OLeahy. New York: The
Greystone Press.
A book of directions on how to
avoid friends who will want to stay
with you during the World Fair
If you live in New York. Not, some
how, as funny as it clearly means
to be.
RacketS.
NINETY TIMES GUILTY. BY
Hickman Powell. New York:
Harcourt Brace e. Co.
An expose of the vice ring. BY a
newspaper man who has specialized
In crime writing.
Your Looks.
HELP YOURSELF TO BEAUTY.
BY Helen Macfadden. New York:
Macfadden Book Co.
Information on exercises, food and
general habits designed to produce
beauty. BY the daughter OF the
famous physical culturist.
Socialized Medicine.
AMERICAN MEDICINE MOBILIZ-
ES. BY James Rorty. New York ::
w. w. Norton Co.
A picture of the struggle taking
place between the supporters of
group medical care and the opposers
Of this plan. Pretty rough on the
American Medical Association.
Allergy.
vNTT rAN~r TAT, 1-uAri ~, ryo,or
Morgan. New York: Harcourt
Brace g. Co.
A manual and recipe book for
those who suffer from food allergy
Fancy that, now!
Religion.
RARE BIBLE STORIES. Philadel-
phia: Dorrance.
A book of discussions of the per-
sonal aspects of Biblical charac-
tiers. Entertaining.
Novels.
THE RUNAWAYS. BY Kathleen
Norris. New York: Doubleday
Doran.
The usual thing.
BLUEWATER. BY Warwick Deep
ing. New York: Alfred Knopf,
Inc.
The even more usual thing.
Drama.
THE AMERICAN WAY. BY George
S. kaufman and Moss Hart. New
York: Random House.
The current success in book form
THE LITTLE FOXES. BY Lillian
Hellman. New York: Random
House
Another success in book form.
Modern Library Editions.
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES. BY Isak
Dinesen. New York: Modern Lii
brary.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. BY
Izaak Walton. New York: Mod
ern Library.
THE SHORT STORY OF AMERI-
CAN LITERATURE. BY Ludwig
Lewisohn. New York: Modern
Library.