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Evening star., 1939-07-16

Listen tor the Voices
By Anne Colver. York: Rinehart
The City Lies Four-Squore
By Edith Pargeter. Nep York: Renal & Hitchcock.
Table for -Four
By Jack 1anus. Ne,u York: Simon & schuster.
Canaan!
By Waters 7urpin. New York: Doubleday & Co.
a e for Sus sa h m now s o M 9 the
reading They make I the estimate Of hot mentality @
epus em the pen of Mister Alen win the
Mr. e An Of course known as wter of delightful
m nf 9S s s se
that is his talent And now apparently he has decided to apply the
month of July to launch serious no novel you please Mister Aen in
Just young they
indeed whole catalogue They
the growth of Fascm the corruption fostered by the
merchants of death the the class and the
as bSoah m a b webfv c m 1 h @ oa ] aao mss mr. @ nen
Unable His social hemng has safely
is no, single badly dressed character the whole book
Mister Aren morning. within inch of his life
% am M Sou n make sKs @ h more on @ %
conditioning for the occasion
wayo at least has been pushed somewhat in that direction
of have We. recently gone through the same The
what of Michael vapdy nobody
de ssss res a m NJ hse h5 nd o hh talent M for ysp
bance ~ho @ by the Drsy G and
parties r the d n s @ s no 0S u
ou we but m @ o m power m enterprise starts
industries guessed FIankensten-
In the and three
confused and confusing ~ A'' % '"e DOCK
he pored not sd coes aS sssen v
here he writes with his determned en nee ns
about the whole he e,
@ Their lesson powder puff is after ALL no t implement
accustomed last efA or 0'aef"'S Sn0uio SUCK TO his
Gonpestaon E: rpsau. of Book
tim is for the y0ces s next the list curious kind
Of hs4d T no like and saup
one the @ tn m 5 the v ss s
child MARGARET ruler Eiery
Ts Ss son foz hs ts @
1s hs @ on sy @ I5 Of M %
The point of the boon far any point show
COVER however f'isn giving
been svod
skipping pages to see anyhns sS sons
only cntralzing
life death Of shpmn
doctrines ruins her marriage almost wrecks
about because Laura bitches her
on ag Ws e s ss for her Sn any M ss
phlinic nsshbo1; whom Henry Thoreau
themselves finally
high thinking and living after all completely compatible
1t honest book It's greatest merit its resurrection of
Concord society composed of living people and of impossible dem
gods.
and
Story Presented.
Square" ought reading
ghost mystery
understand
composition Unfortunately however the author have kind
religious exaaon in consistently ctonal
distinction which convention exists between and
heavily quality indeed
practically
himself bewudeingy of
entirely
hgh-mnded endavor But is also disappointing
reading.
rivalry intensely young
and equally aec young for hand of fair maiden
world his
he find his surprise
which time the
mpatienty heavenly
the shock his ghosy life
ey nothing He forced conclude that his
soul oetes down haunting the house where used live
ghost spooks
little
believe Parge
1t off missing sweetheart sitting
all those hundred years. waiting for
The poet conjures her to the
finally and hand in hand ,r.r.n+oa ~.
lovers set out for New av ter & espe
ociNn
Evening star., 1939-07-16
An American
Musicians Story

By Olga Samarof Stokouskt.
NeU York.: Norton.
Noted as recitalist, critic and
teacher through her long career,
Olga Samaroff Stokowski writes an
entertaining resume of an active
musical life. Since her many ac-
quaintances can be numbered among
the more important persons of the
American music scene since 1910 the
reader Is given opportunity to learn
considerable of the off-the-record
lives of those who are of interest
to all.
Although Nine. Stokowski devotes
sections to serious subjects and facts
her approach remains chatty and
light, showing more interest in per-
sonalities than circumstance.
The fine work that has brought
renown to Olga Stokowski is de-
scribed here in some detail, her
work aiding music students and
cropping music addicts. Nine. Sto-
kowski (whose ancestry is as Amer
ican as basebalD is an element Of
solid commonsense in the field Of
American music. She has a COM
ment to make on art in America
which is worth repeating:
"The desire for entertainment
that requires no mental effort what
soever is widespread, and accounts
for most of the trash we hear over
the radio or see on the screen"
u, q,
Evening star., 1939-07-16

he was of on a trading expedition to
the Eskimos.
Information that the Hudson Bay
Co. pretty well covered that field,
however, deferred him here, too.
And SO he considered prospecting
for gold-but there was no gold. He
was forced to conclude, therefore,
after a time, that he was simply
yachting, sightseeing, pleasure SAIL
ing, as it were, and this seemed to
embarrass him so that he tried to
keep the news from his crew as long
as possible. But, as it turned out,
they had joined him to indulge
similar tastes and finally everybody
was happy. Their yacht" trip,
however, turned out to be bit more
than any of them could possibly
have forseen.
They had adventures, violent and
near disastrous from the time they
set out until they finally abandoned
ship in a hurricane to board a
rescuing schooner which picked them
up in no more than the nick of
time. Their own boat, after that,
f1oated not longer than an hour. They
had had good time, however. One
OF them had been lost IL DAYS,
during which time he had had no
food; they had heard tales of buried
treasure, they had been entertained
by friendly Eskimos and they had
explored a ford which, up to that
time, had never been entered by
White men. Mr.. Holdridge writes
about all this now with the humor
OF l3 years prospective. He does
not SO much celebrate his young
madness as to wonder why in the
world he was able to imagine, in
constant extreme discomfort and
much danger, that he was having
wonderful time. The answer lies,
OF course, where so many answers
lle-ln time itself. Golden lads and
lassies must, like good suburbanites,
come to value security and comfort.
But at the age of 20, no one knows
that terrible thing. And so boys 60
sailing. In this mood the book is
written, and that gives it a quality
not common to the run of stories
OF desperate doings in small open
boats.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
A Century of Social Thought

de year 19S-39 Published by Duke University
In 1888 group Msth9d suaker
ad 9ed M gnen s e ev Later Ws The
is the undergraduate college University N
psnnd e Of % 1 this founding Duke Uni
cultural m progress of the last 100 Varied
@ ssPS f of v na and
than justified in bringing these
Harold M9Hon the
Ecenomes and Of Dr. Roscoe Pound
sa the nr P
the remainder the equally high plane
% san ndnns % eu wor TAKEN tn. p advantage abb
Economics or Politics
By Paul uan iceland. Cambridge University Press.
year and half M ago former Premier Van Iceland Of
Undertaken at the instance a os
no s s sss D %
ia v bee nd % on
That lecture has been published.
e
may go and how long take bring world
sas W s ses S ee ss %
is the belief 1ad ed that the
S ahsaa tho
es s may y good
van iceland makes appeal for economic liberalism which
s. si s :sssss:s q 7:
Our Towns Business .
Co, NeU York.
BY charts pictures and words syllable
volume nave sought to reduce the worlds
OF everyday ne community
degree they succeed.
mphhed detail they discuss the influence machine replace
en OF nand LABOR the development industries
OF and the domestic
future part OF government in a nations
Obviously and with effort pretend otherwise the
1eei on knhp for Deal economic thought
And whether the reader
tn OF the colaboraos dpsonatey
informative fashion.
FOR those who like their economics applications this volume
may be recommended. JCH
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Family Life
Interests
Readers
Book List Answers
Public Library
Queries

The impact of social change has
fallen heavily on family life and is
felt by many people through the
new forms which that organization
tends to assume. Questions asked
IN the sociology division of the Pub
lie Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, indicate the concern of many
individuals in what is happening to
their way of life but leave the i'm
preston that although new methods
OF meeting the problems of life to-
gether are being developed rapidly
the institution of the family retains
many of its basic strengths and is
bound to survive in a form which
will be just as satisfying to the
modern individual as the earlier pat
tern was suitable and satisfying to
earlier generations.
Some of the questions which indi-
cate the interest In this field are
such general queries as: How are
modern discoveries and inventions
affecting family life? What in
| fluence is exerted on home living
by social changes? How can we
get along better in our family? What
can we do to increase our good times
together?
Among the books which discuss
what has happened to the family in
recent times the following give good
insight into the changes which So
biologists consider important: "The
Family and the Depression" by
Mrs. Ruth S. Cavan, a detailed
study of the ways in which differ
ent families meet the problems Of
unemployment and decreased in
come; 1.-The American Family" by
Ernest r. Groves, a general picture
of the background of our institu-
ton and of contemporary changes;
"The Family, Its Sociology and
Social Psychiatry," by j. X. Folsom;
''The Family in Changing Cul-
ture," by Mrs. Grace S. Overton. and
New Horizons for the Family" by
Mrs. Una M. Overton, both of the
latter stressing recent changes in
home life.
Workers dealing with family prob
lens have developed ways of inter-
preting the interplay Of personalities
in marriage to the individual which
help him to understand the causes
of friction and deal with them
realistically. Readable books whose
basic purpose is education for better
adjustment in the family cover a
variety of subjects. Some helpful
titles are: Good Housekeeping
Marriage Book" by William F. Bige-
low, and plan for Marriage" by j.
K. Folsom, both symposiums of ma
terial on various problems of living
together; Personality and the Fam
ily," by Hornell Hart, and "The
Happy Family" by John Levy, both
stressing the psychological aspects of
family living in terms which are
easily understood; "The Married
Woman" by Gladys H. Groves and
Robert A. Ross, and Man Takes a
Wife," by Ira s. Vile, each of which
emphasizes the special problems Of
the particular group.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Memoirs of the Confederate
War for Independence

By Heros Won Borcke. Ne1p
York: Peter Smith.
Won Borcke was a Prussian pro-
fessional soldier who served as chief
of staff to Jeb Stuart in the Civil
War. His memoirs were published
originally in 1866 and were widely
read, particularly in the South, for
many years. The major was an ire
pressible soldier and diarist. He
brought to his duties for the Con-
federacy spirit of high adventure
and he was good enough soldier
to win the respect and affection of
Gen. Stuart. He became one of the
legends Of the war: A giant of a
man fearlessly brandishing a huge
saber in daredevil exploits.
He brought also a fresh, European
outlook and it is reflected in his
memoirs. He was filled with admi-
ration for the Confederate leaders
and for their people and he had a
particularly keen eye for local color
and trivial but telling incidents. He
was with the Army of Northern
Virginia and travelled the entire
area, setting down his impressions
OF the countryside with no less ex-
actitude than his impressions of the
war itself. He was elated over the
victory at Harpers Ferry but no
less elated over the majestic scenery
of the place.
So much has been written about
the campaigns in Northern Virginia
that there would seem little reason
for bothering with reprints. But
this one is obviously an exception.
Won Borcke, it is true, adds little
II anything of any value to the mil
ltary history of the campaign and
he is too ebullient and florid to be
entirely trustworthy, but he was
always eager and enthusiastic and
there is no doubt that he had q
thoroughly good time on his Ameri-
can adventure. What is more i'm
portant is that he manages to COM
municate much of the spirit of the
flghting men of the Cos to the read
er. He had dash and color. And so
lias MS oooK. E. T.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Weeks Best
Sellers
WASHINGTON.

Fiction-"The Brandons," An
gela Thirkell; The Web and
the Rock" Thomas Wolfe;
The Grapes of WRATH John
Steinbeck; "Wickford Point"
John P. Marquand; Captain
Horatio Hornblower,' c. S. For
ester; "A Book of Miracles"
Ben Hecht.
Non-Fiction -" Inside Asia"
John Gunther; Wind, Sand
and Stars Antoine De Saint
Exupery; America in Mid
passage" Charles and Mary
Beard; Reaching for the
Stars" Nora Vain; "Huntsman,
What Quarry?" Edna St. Vim
cent Millay.
BOSTON.
Fiction-"The Grapes of
Wrath; Next to Valour." John
Jennings: Williams Room"
Alice G. Rosman: "All This and
Heaven Too" Rachel Field:
Captain Horatio Hornblower."
Non-Fiction-"Autobiography
With Letters" William Lyon
Phelps; Inside Asia; wind,
Sand and Stars; Reaching
for the Stars; America in
Midpassage."
CHICAGO.
Fiction - The Grapes Of
Wrath; Next to Valour';;
THE Web and the Rock;
Captain Hornblower';; The
Brandons."
Fiction -" Inside Asia;
Reaching for the Stars;
days of Our Years." Pierre
Van Paassen; "Mein Kampf,"
Adolf Hitler; America in Mid
passage"
NEW YORK.
FictiOn-"The Grapes of
Wrath; "The Web and the
Rock; Next to Valour";; "The
Brandons';; "Wickford Point"
Non-Fiction Inside Asia;
Days of Our Years; wind,
Sand and Stars: Reaching
for the Stars; America In
Midpassage."
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction - THE Grapes of
Wrath; Captain Horatio
Kornblower";; Book of Mira
cles';; Next to Valour";; wick
ford Point"
Non-Fiction- Inside Asia;
'Tintypes in Gold," Joseph
Henry jackson: Moses and
Monotheism," Sigmund Freud;
Reaching for the Stars;
Romantic Cities of Califor-
nia," Hildegarde Hawthorne.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
News and Reviews of Fiction and Books Theories of Government
Haphazard Exploration Trip Results
In Interesting Adventure Tale

books. But the adventure was so
innocent and the exploration was
so haphazard that one hesitates to
give it these names, either. The best
thing to do, no doubt. is to explain
the curious way in which the events
which it records took place and then
leave readers to decide about it for
themselves.
Mr.. Desmond Holdridge, it ap-
pears, decided some 13 years ago
(being then less than 20 that,
willy-nilly, he must own boat and
go forth as captain of his craft in
the wintry waters off Labrador.
accordingly he bought an 18-foot
tub and, with two companions, both
older than he but neither a master
sailor, set out on his dream. He was
not able to give any particular rea-
son for what he was doing. At one
time he thought he was going to 60
sealing, but subsequently he discov-
cred that he Wodld have to go to the
Pacific for that. and so gave the idea
over. Again, he assured himself that
Evening star., 1939-07-16

ersburg and their friends-genuine
cosmopolitans, these-getting rich
on novel which Unexpectedly
crashes the moving pictures. And
that is all there is to it, beyond that
1t is flrSt-rate fun. 1t is recon-
mended, but not to highbroWs. The
reviewer would hate to be respon-
sible for making any young couple
decide to go and do likewise.
Negro Novel
Poorly Written.
In 20, Canaan" we have another
novel on the problems of the Negro
in a white civilization. It's author is
a Negro himself, and so ought to be
able to give an authoritative picture
of the conditions of which he writes.
And no doubt, he does do this, too.
Unfortunately, he writes badly and
his book must necessarily be classed
as pretty poor. 1t is intensely SER
ious in purpose, and that, of course,
intensifies the i'll effect of the bad
writing.
1t is a story about Delta family
which goes North and settles in the
Negro district of Chicago and SO
changes in one generation from an
agricultural and Serflike existence
to a life in industry and business.
There is a hard struggle in the
transformation, and some of the
members of the group fall by the
way, but in the case of daughter
who operates beauty parlor there
is some degree at least of triumph.
No doubt the pictures of the condi-
tions in which the characters live
are truly drawn throughout the
book; one feels certain sincerity in
them, at any rate But the author
idealizes too much and is naive in
his characterizations. With the
greatest sympathy, a reviewer can
not but note these defects.
Thus the summer fiction, as far as
the reviewer. in a week of reading,
has been able to sample it. Take
Table for Four" for fun, take
Listen for the Voices" for serious
ness and don't take the others at all,
unless the hot weather gets you
down so far you haven't vestige of
critical power left.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Remember Valerie March
By Katherine Albert. Ne

YIN. oEULONt W CCHuSLST.
This may be the great, long
awaited novel about Hollywood, but
one may doubt it. Remember Valerie
March" seems to be the rather
smutty biography OF an imaginary
movie actress written by a young
woman, who, judging by her pho
tograph, used her own features as
the model for the physical descrip-
ton of her heroine. Her vocabulary
and selection Of incident would seem
to qualify her beyond doubt as the
biographer of the sort Of creature
she describes.
Valerie March is the exemplifi-
cation of burning ambition to be
an actress uninhibited by any ordi-
nary impulses or compulsions, or,
indeed, any extraordinary genius.
1t is case Of another Trilby find
ing just the right svengali. but is
somehow neither as convincing nor
as tender as the original. It is
book that will undoubtedly appeal,
however, to the movie-struck shop
girl. r.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
| Brief Reviews
|Of New Books
International Relations.

JAPAN OVER ASIA. By William
Henry Chamberlain. Boston:
Little, Brown g. Co.
A revised edition of the book
which first appeared in 1887. The
new chapters deal with the Sino-
japanese war, giving a strategic
history of the conflict up to date
and a discussion of the various mo-
tVatlng factors. 1t is written with
out bias, but with a strong will to
make the japanese position clear.
Much of the material which it
contains has already been made
available to the public through ar
tlcles and other volumes written
on the subject, but nonetheless the
work, for a well-rounded statement
OF the whole japanese position, is
authoritative and valuable.
Spiritualism.
OUR GARDEN. BY Charles Fitch
Barber. Portland, Oreg.: Bin
fords & Mort.
Purports to be an account of visi-
tations which the author has had
from deceased friends and relatives.
No attempt at the scientific attitude;
the appr oach is religious.
Guidebook.
CARTOON GUIDE OF NEW MEX
ICO. BY T. NJ Pearce. Car
toons by James Hall. New York:
j. j. Augustin.
Amusing, matter -of-fact guide to
a State about which much bunk is
written. Small, convenient volume
to pack in your luggage.
Mystery.
THE TRIANGLE MAN. BY George
Gibbs. New York. D. Appleton
Century Co.
One of Mr.. Gibbs typical ro-
mances-a beautiful gal threatened
by a desperate criminal and saved
by handsome chap whom she mar
ries. Exactly like any of the several
dozen Gibbsian operas which have
preceded it.
And Other Stories.
THE REGATTA MYSTERY. BY
Agatha Christie. New York:
Dodd Mead & Co.
A collection of Miss Christie's de-
tective tales, some solved by Poirot
and some by Pyne. Worth getting.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
presented by the publishers espe-
cially for the season.

presented by the publishers espe-
cially for the season.
1t is story of four young people
married couples-who do nothing
more original than go to Paris.
There is, in the quartet, a young
woman from Parkersburg, w. Va.
(the reviewers home town, by the
way) who has been bitten by the
H. L. Mencken germ-she is de-
termined to become cultured and to
get that way via having good time.
So she philanders pretty heavily,
but what is there against that? She
is doing it all for culture and when
she tells her good, serious, young
husband as much he can only be
respectfully silent.
Well, the crowd plays around and
by and by breaks up, with the
Parkersburgers going back to Park
Evening star., 1939-07-16

The poet conJureS her TO the cot-'
tage finally and, hand in hand, the
long parted lovers set out for New
Jerusalem. On the occasion, says
Miss Pargeter dutifully, the lady
wore light blue tulle. You like it
or you don't.
Spring Novel
Best of All.
Table for Four" which, as was
noted above, came out last spring,
Is by all odds the best of the books
under consideration. 1t is genuine
light novel. That is to say, it is
without seriousness and with wit.
There is good laugh on practically
every page and the tale, such as it
is, moves on with a lively gait to its
finish. Be the publication date what
1t may, the book is better reading
this hot July than any of the opera
Evening star., 1939-07-16
BY MIC. X.
Northern Lights

By Desmond Holdridge. Illus
trdted, by Ed1Ddrd Shenton.
Ne1D York: The Viking Press.
This is as good a travel" book
as the reviewer has read in a long
time. To be sure, it isn't really q
travel" book; it is more in the cate
CORY Of adventure" or exp, ,oration"
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Kentucky Governor i'm 1900
Called First New Dealer
Author of Book, Now Washington
Resident, Was in Frankfort
When Goebel Was Slain
The First New Dealer

When Goebel Was Slain
The First New Dealer
By Urey Woodson Louisville: The Standard Press
Except tor the kidnapping Of the Indberh baby killing
domestic news sn that when A%sca a ht Is. ov
state Stat Senator William aoebe
lent c eanR sgsa ss,s
the people Kentucky elsewhere
% :aaas na % due to the s; na
story was on the first Of the enys
from s sn
By grey %ood:on now W.
he was actor in the meodrama. "
had o % woea
ns eo Nna Ss "a at the Of helped
aid s the BIT
snd Sas 1y the late n M chairman
beaten the face e
h b u the be % 1 S before the
Goebel would be and died four days.
s::s::s s::s e,I" War
Near civil resulted The mustered an
rmble was then Speaker Of the House va b @ IN Whh m soh
HOUSE OF shs o'p0
But the Legislature declared Goebel had been
s Witnessed m M oa anq M MoG
After Gov Goee died the
e1no G W Beekham in ap-
propaed bring about the conviction killing
Among those those indicted were Caleb Powers Tayo
from whose once window
VINO previously mad held the Office Henry
the State auditors office
was IN FRANKFORT IN quest of pardon for another killing
Taylor also indicted kent
secret and he continued claim United
supreme Court months
the acon OF Kentucky
The Governor that State refused
fugitive remained in indianapolis until he
Powers was tried four times Twice
put the veds reversed Appeals
MS thro tra Powers delivered masterly
after which decided also was
reversed on cnnlcaHes and eight after
Republican Wilson pa1doned po"s ''s
Finley Elected
To Congress.
Finley meanwhile before TAYLOR He was
never tried but returned to Kentucky after
ne Powers
1883 He is still alive,
You who named Howard involved Gov
ana others
as March, 1900 He convicted October
prison. he padoned 1917
Black held that
VINO pardons others
Howard sentenced reversed
was anmed after the had the United
Court He serving life Wilson
VINO conendd Youtsey alone guilty Howard
maintained his innocence.
throughout country at the time looked m .o.
the accused particularly martyrs which the
author definitely does not share
staunch describes the loved
and best hated Kentucky Mr. Woodson
thought the
recent years The author however
oebel preceded John Aged Illinois cusadng Atged
had been elected Governor in 1892 and 1902
declares IN explaining the title of his book
among the neyspaper repoters who
covered the trials which Mr. Woodson describes
Irwin S. Cobb Charles Nicholson
Bureau OF the Democratic National Committee
the Louisville papers C.