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Evening star., 1940-03-10
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MOTHER OF THE SMITHS. BY
Lorraine Carr. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
Pioneer novel located In Taos,
N. Mex. Respectable, serious job.
THE QUEENS HOLIDAY. BY
Elizabeth Corbett. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co.
Graustark up to date-an abdi-
Gated young queen incognito in New
York and q handsome American
hero. Romantic stun.
THE RED SAINT. BY Warwick
Deeping. New York: Robert M.
Mcbride.
Pseudo-medieval romance, blood
and thunder, thrills and tears. Reg
ular Deeping.
THE DARK STAR. BY March Cost.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Novel of love among the actors.
Pseudo-serious stun.
EXPERIMENT. BY Helen Hull.
New York: Coward, McCann.
-Four long stories in one volume.
Pontifcally serious trash.
THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE.
BY Harry Harrison Kroll. In
dianapoHs: Bobbs, Merrill Co.
Routine uninspired work about
natural son Of q great Southern
family who comes at last to the place
Of family head. Centers in Missis-
sippi Delta around Civil War times.
YY11 CYTDDA nv w . n,,rnn$t
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Thriller about gangster In Sierras.
Routine stun.
SIXTEEN DAYS. BY Hans Habe.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Il
Co.
Effect Of the Munich crisis on .
triangle. Or q triangle resolved
during the Munich excitement.
Neat, respectable tragedy.
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they Join. how they vote ana, finally,
how they regard America.
Mr.. Smith, Meet Mr.. Cohen" u
just what its name ilnplies-an In.
PRODUCTION to the Jews, based ON the
premise that, ut present, the Jew
Is known to his neighbor, the non
Jew, either by surface contact or
profound prejudice.
Setting out, then, to introduce
the Jew to his neighbor, the authors
use statistics where they are neees-
sary-such as what percentage Of
Jews fought In this country's wars
but more often merely paint IN
umcolored and tmprejudiced por-
trait Of the jews a. they live their
daily lives. In doing %, they ire
Queutly bring to light such para.
doxss - TIA fact that jeWS aro
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Best Sellers

The following list Of best SELL
ers is compiled weekly from in
formation obtained In WASH
ington by The Star and In New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
ican Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
kitty Foyle." Christopher
Morley; How Green Was My
Valley" Richard Llewellyn;
'The Nazarene," Sholem Asch;
After Many a Summer Dies the
Swan" Aldous Huxley; "Por-
trait of Jennie" Robert Nathan;
"The Grapes of WRATH" John
Steinbeck; THE Eagles Gather"
Taylor Caldwell: Moment in
Peking," Lin Yutang; Let the
People Sing" ]. B. Priestley;
mo More Cas-" Charles Nord-
hon and James Norman Hall.
N0n-Ficti0n.
"A Smattering of Ignorance"
Oscar Levant; "Since Yester-
day." Frederick Lewis Allen;
Land Below the Wind" Agnes
Newton Keith; wind, Sand and
Stars" Antoine de st. Exupery;
Country Lawyer" Bellamy
Partridge; Inside Europe-1940
Edition" John Gunther;; Inside
ASIA" John Gunther; Chip
on My Shoulder" Thomas L.
Stokes; Days Of Our Years."
Pierre van Paassen; THE Voice
of Destruction" Hermann
Rauschning.
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George Warrington addressed the
Rhode, Island Legislature from q
synagogue seat In Newport. that
Benjamin Franklin contributed dve
pounds to build the flrst Philadelphia
synagogue and that In Columbus'
crew were flve converted Jews, one
Of whom named the large red
necked bird he observed In the New
World . "turkey," tho Hebrew word
for peacock.
BY the time the introduction" Of
Mr.. Smith to Mr.. Cohen Is complete,
Mr.. Smith 10 likely to discover that
Mr.. Cohen's problems and aspira-
tions ere much Ike his own, but
that the two neishbors differ Ia the
characteristics, qualities and tradi-
ttons Of al ueishbors Ia any block
IN Amar1ca. MO.
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alternately accused Of the srossest
capitalism, boarding the wealth Of
the world and. on the other hand.
that they are wild-eyed radicals,
bent on destroying the only system
that his given them freedom.
Tracing the history Of the Jews In
America. from their frst settlement
In the tiny Dutch colony Of New
Amsterdam In 1854, the authors
carry them through the various
misrations Of the New World to the
present time, when immigration has
almost ceased. The authors predict
that the number Of Jews In America
win change very little In the next
decade.
In their panoramic view Of Amesi-
can history. the authors 1nearth
0oms interesting ancedoksst,aat
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Mr.. Smith, Meet M. Cohen
BY james Waterman Wis

BY James waterman WISE
and Lee J. Leutnger. Netp
York: Revndl & Hitchcock.
Preceded by q frank foreword ex-
planning that anti-semitism is the
occasion for. rather than the subject
Of, their book, Messrs. Wise and
Levinger embark on IN informal and
readable treatise ON the Jews-how
they came to America and why,
what they are interested in doing
and what they do best, what their
religion = and how 1t has Affected
their lives h America, who thsir
lsadsrs are, what Hatsrnl orders
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Burma Road
By Ntcol Smith. Indtandpo-
lis: Bobbs, Merrill & Co.
India Ink

lis: Bobbs, Merrill & Co.
India Ink
By Philip Steegman. New
York: William Morrow G. Co.
Here are two books on India. The
first is plain, surface-deep, travel
narrative, the second more
thoughtful account of an English
mans residence among the Indian
people and examination of their
minds and institutions. Neither is
particularly well written, yet there
is reason for commencing both.
In the case of Burma Road" the
reason lies in the fact that the
author made the trip over the much
talked-of new southern route from
China, the road just completed by
native workmen to be used in supply
ing the Chinese armies with NUM-
tions. Few people have been
allowed to 60 over this route, and
accounts of its condition differ. Mr..
Smiths report has the ring of au-
thenticity, and consequently it must
have interest for those who are
following the war in the Orient. It
gives convincing picture of China's S
hopeful lifeline, q trail that is full
Of danger, that lies In Wild and
beautiful country and that, above
all, expresses a peoples determine
ton to maintain its independence
against whatever odds.
india Ink" Is the work of q young
painter who, after q successful show
in London, went out to India to seek
new subjects and-one gathers
learn new truths, II such there be.
He went about with equal freedom
among his fellow English and the
natives. He found pukka sahibs
and their wives to be q great bore,
as many have done before him; he
also found Englishmen of genuine
quality holding administrative Jobs.
He met the usual quota Of native
fakirs and seers, and to about the
usual degree decided there might be
something In their representations,
but not for him. Yet, despite this
typical sort of experience, one can
not decide that Mr.. Steegman Is
himself . typical young man. On
the contrary, his individuality mani
tests itself on every page Of his book.
That makes his narrative q personal
one, rather than Just another travel
tale.
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the reviewer it seemed as 1ntelh-
gent and practical a diagnosis of
today's needs as she has come
across. It Is unorthodox and daring.
It goes as far out Of the. beaten
tracks Of modern thought as do, for
example, the recommendations OF
H. G. Wells, but it far exceeds Mr..
Wells plans for our future In depth.
detail and practicability.
It Is recommended to the free
minded. Beyond writing 5000 words
on 1t, the reviewer cannot other
wise describe 1t here.
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Dangerous Thoughts
By Lancelot Hogben. NetD
York. w W Marion A. m

YOTK. W. W. NOTION q co.
In this collection Of essays the
brilliant author of Mathematics
for the Million" expresses his opin-
ions on social organization, freedom
Of thought, modern education, po-
ntical needs and the future Of SCI
entiflc education, and includes, as
well, some studies of his forerunners
In scientific humAY1iSm."
The scope Of the book renders 1t
impossible to discuss It In any de-
tall within . short review, but to
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Selected Letters of Edwin
Arlington Robinson

The Macmillan Co.
This small volume contains . COL
lection Of the letters of the late Ed
win Arlington Robinson covering the
years from 1890 to 1885. It was in
1890 that Robinson began his poetic
career, and in 1885 he died. The
whole of his creative period Is
therefore covered in this volume.
Readers will find the letters inter-
esting first for what they reveal
about the shy poet as q personality.
He was, then, q man Of almost SELF
enacing modesty, . mild but telling
wit and . sense Of the absurdity Of
life which acted, one feels, to set
him free rather than to lacerate or
enchain him. The charm Of his
style Is never failing and apparently
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is not merely q psychological blue

Is not merely psychological blue
print.
The only criticism which occurs to
the reviewer In the case Of q writer
who uses Miss Boyle's symbolistic
device Is that there is q terrible
danger Of comicaity latent in han
ding characters conceived as forces
rather than as men and women.
For, in writing Of men and women,
almost any author remembers hu-
NOR and avoids it If wishing to do so.
But when ones men and women are
not, in ones own mind, men and
women at all, one may easily make
them talk absurdly. Miss Boyle does
this once or twice. In her fashion
Of writing, however, that can well
be an ever-present danger.
1t Was Like This: Two Stories
Of the Great War
By HerDey Allen. Ne,D York:
Fdrrar & Rinehdrt.
These are two competent tales of
modern warfare, called respectively
Report to Major Roberts" and
blood Lust"
The first describes the activities
Of young American lieutenant who,
having been detained behind the
lines right up to the eve Of the big
push which Germany made in the
Spring of 1918, is sent on alone to
join his outfit and arrives right In
the middle of the heaviest fighting
seen up to that date in the whole
conflict. Everything happens to him
he fights whole war in one day.
The second story tells how q mama's
boy type Of youth became q killer
by virtue of army hazing.
Neither story has an excess of hor-
ror. though the matter Of both is
grim enough, in all conscience. Mr..
Allen has written in that style which
so well approximates conversation
he has seemed to tell his tales by
talk. They are good war stories,
though not the best that have been
written. If you are collecting war
fiction, however, you ought not to
pass them up without q trial.
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Armies With Winos


Despite the TACT European months old has
There disgusting however
these trouous Russian
put gallant Fnns are taking to the air scale which
then. will happen to the Finnish defense?
This volume written through flying the
air its composition revealing
than a little appalling to the thinking layman.
the when air power on
the wing Here thorough discussion Of the which
various types Of combat utility
is vivid description Of aerial strategy tactics. =
The volume with amazing the test
speed test resulted IN what Ds essd
sound which about $50 experience
pilot up against day when mechanical
otpcng human capacities and the limit being set by
mechanism which must operate them.
book for al who wish M TO face stern reality which
Within Germany
By Oswad Garrison Neo York. D. Appleton century Co.
Mr. Willard reports that he found during spent
after the war began last fall that the the people
unhappy and depressed with ony the profoundest
He brands people are
frankly spoke out against their government him. he concluded
mistake think there is an early possibility Of internal collapse
make break in his opinion collapse
will come in six months of two years." he writes.
Mr. Wizards opinions certain amount Of sat-
Of went to Ger
experiences But even
the picture he paints Of conditions
the military strength organizing ability fossns
their eventual collapse
most informed persons are asking spirit the people
food supply the supply Of materials the
He is convinced that Germany cannot the
oc upon Of setting up
small but independent Czech and Polish again. Germany
and the Polish Corridor and parts what once wa; &
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Fra Elbertus,' Famed
Literary Figure, Was
Complex Character
Hubbard, Sage of Roycroft,
Won Great Success With
Publication of Magazine
EIbeyt Hubbard: Genius of Roycroft
EIbert Hubbard: Genius Of Roycroft

Ddpd Arnold Balch Ne1c York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Although entirely literary
Of the most widely read American writer's He wrote the
famous "A Garcia 100000 which
considered npaonal
1t issued standard equipment the Russian the
and his biographies Little the the
millions.
be so impressed
work of the English Socialist William re-establhing
system produce hne books and other handcaf that he began
similar
Royo Shops, which
ideaistc and the materianstic standponts
HUBBARD Illinois country
soap salesman while still in his teens He later partner in the
John 1arkn nm for which invented the CLUB plan" ana
attaining its greatest suddenly sold his interest
and entered Harvard University shortly thereafter
his unusual literary
Undertook % Publishers
Who Rejected Writings
The Sage Of known many
and made enemies In fact he the Phln hecke
rejected his writings
sarcastic ve the authors his
greatly dislked
fact that after he advised professor
writing he made colleges frequent subject
After his with
nand speak all the United States
to make vaudeville
Love reporting brought
this boaph drowning torpdoed ship
rather than risk being separated attempt
the Irish
Mr. Balch has presenting
his His book i in fact the noteworthy
characterize
Buffalo Bill Robert 1ngersou Victor Twain
and Henry Ward Beecher. F.G.K
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Literary WordRevew Of Current Publications in Various Fields

1~Ot Imper1a1St1c SUCCESS
By Mayy.Carfer Roberts.
Navy Second to None
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economic opinion the pachs opinion and the opinion
In the present book have given
policy since the and has e
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to 5 h% eu % s on h. the M he felt that
really nothing new under
technical questions of types of ships and
debate on the size
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not
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national the
his OWN the mem suggest that the vol
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application thought problems orsan
This he destiny because Of geographical position
9sionst policy
portny granted other nation planning foreign policy
Navy authorized says Mr. Davis we be
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1t to a wide public worthy close attention.
The Crazy Hunter
By Kay Boyle York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
to the 4s ob or three cas hH % @ @ % and its name
is well and and her are nsent Any Of
abe sDo the
he feels % Of Sstgsy been
impossible
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Tale Symbolizes Conflict Between
RECOMMENDATION and individuality.

In the collection the first concerned with
hon individuality evidently
Boe mind for she has written Of them before always with hatred
the character Of Engshwoman breeds individuality
symboied by this daughter and husband
blind hunter which, according
thought be destroyed The wenngh
building
Miss Boyle suddenly assumes mood Of soque farce Into the mouth
the father is drunk she plain statement
already perfectly evident thesis statement which completely
emotion which she feels about
artistic
missing meaning At
admirable hard to understand forgive
Brdegooms q
the deucvness
life giving qualities of the female It carried out terms
sporting estate where everything arranged to facilitate the destruction
the the has trained herself deal
equal footing but inarcuaey she longs for woans COM
panonsp Illness brings to the estate The lady
the existence prevailing
excitement Of the
supeby dramatic Miss Boyle has the
realize they hatred
atmosphere which surrounds them and common longing for
Fiddle" nearly narrative
g physical envelopes progress
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By Kay Boyle NeW YOTE: HdTcOuTt, Brace e Co.
giving name
to the others called THE Bdegrooms
Miss Boyle without question artist distinction Her
well devised and consistent apd her intelligent
the three
above the level the literary
GALS Yet in almost
he curious betrayed mpeceptb
reject but which, the surrounding unnatural context
not to accept.
This feeling easily explained from Miss
making tales incredibly Their action
which beyond life
beginning
perfectly
relation life indrecio
taken genuine action
emotional mental states taken complete from the authors
mind and borne the reader in single cumulative effect
occupation reading Miss then,
but in making
they did.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
McNeiII Downs Riuus
With Forcing Game
On Clay Court
New Champ Consistently
Accurate; Alice Marble
Easily Earns Crown
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 25.-Don Nc
Neill of Oklahoma City has made q
perfect take-off from the tourna.
ment they say is the "springboard'
to top national tennis honors-the
clay courts championship.
The 22-year-old McNeill won the
national clay courts singles cham
pionship at River Forest courts yes
terday, defeating the No. l amateur
of the Nation, Bobby Riggs. Employ
ing forcing game and sharp net
offensive, the Oklahoma star downed
Riggs, 6-1, 6-4, 7-9 and 6-3, to
stop the Chicagoan's bid for fourth
clay courts title.
MCNEIL, using a driving forehand
and backhand with consistent ac-
curacy, scored 43 placements to %
for his opponent, who was handi-
capped repeatedly by his own errors,
Alice Marble of Beverly Hills,
Calf, captured the woman's singles
crown, defeating Gracyn Wheeler of
Santa Monica, Calf, rs, 60. The
women's double final, involving Miss
Marble and Mary Arnold of Los
Angeles and Miss Wheeler and Helen
Bernhard of New York, was post
poned and was scheduled to be
played at Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

at Terra Mariae, while at Hillendsle
half dozen Washington women
were competing in the medal round
OF the Maryland feminine cham
pionship.
Meanwhile at Woodmont tomor.
row l8 boys will play in the Dis.
trict Golf Association "junior"
championship, limited to youngsters
who have not reached the age Of ls.
Here are the pairings:
M, Buster Mrstek tCapitaD and BIZ
stsya sSssssdy G,as atArgyif0 ;p5' Joe Bsrse and
berg fWoodmontJ and Robert xeene mo
SsSv, sIaS given; ven G' LIP Ellis Graham 1Army-
20. Ray 10y Gndisn Spring. and e. L.
Aavy, AArDy ,maneT2 aa eT % Dick Burgess Army
I:s6 Charlie Priee Pens nndsn nosan sppinE spTns snd
srsnt!sy ds. lchsvy 0hasey and Raw Lyod Tin. I'M
and Bob Stetekuh (Army-N NavyJ,
Post entries will be taken I'D to 1
pm. tomorrow.
Peacock Wins New York Tourney.
Maybe some folks wondered where
Roger Peacock was during the Mary
land amateur championship last
week. Roger was winning a chunk
OF silver in Westchester County,
N. Y.
Paired with Larry Elliott the Pea
COCK man won a best-ball tourney at
the Tamarack Country Club, beat
ing Bill Massillotti of Tamarack and
Charles C. Pettijohn of the Vest
chester Country Club, / up in a o.
hole final. Pettijohn is the same
youngster who starred on the
Georgetown golf team three years
ago.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Golf Handicap Laws
For Women Cover
9-HoIe Courses
Scores on Winter Rules
Links Not to Apply,
D. c. Group Finds =.

There isn't much doubt that the
Womens District Golf Association
keeps a closer check on handicaps
of its competing members than any
other links organization anywhere
in this sector Certainly it has a
better rating than any mems Or
ganization, for the handicaps of the
women are changed from month to
month as they improve. Which is
the reason the woman golfers of
Washington are scanning carefully
a handbook just published by the
United States Golf Association
bearing the title The Conduct of
Women's Golf"
Prepared with great care and the
usual meticulous efficiency with
which women approach any golf
matter, the booklet carries the
startling news that women who play
on a course where so-called winter
rules" are in effect must obtain
handicaps on other courses in order
to enter the national championship.
Army Navy Links Ruled Out.
This would rule out Army Navy
Club, for example, as a course for
scores made in handicapping. Win
ter rules" are in effect at that
course.
In contrast to previous concep-
tions, the U. S. G. A. now says that
a score made on nine-hole course
may be used if the course was
played twice consecutively. This is
one of the points on which the
Washington women were doubtful,
because Indian Spring, Woodmont
and Argyle have nine-hole courses.
Not more than three scores from
any one course may be used, al
though scores from as many as five
different courses may be turned in.
These matters apply to the national
championship.
u. S. G. A. System Used.
Inasmuch as almost all the wom-
ems tournaments around Washing
ton are handicap affairs they must
keep their handicaps up to date.
The u. S. G.. A. firmly believes in
this. Keep handicap lists alive, y
it says. 1T is the only way to be
fair to the field"
But here is one moot point. IF
a player cannot produce record of
last seasons play, the handicap
chairman should require her to play
from scratch until she has turned
in at least 10 scores" says the U. S.
C. A., which recommends a system
of handicapping based on women's
yardage and the best five dated and
attested scores played under U. S.
G. A. rules. The Women's District
Golf Association uses this system.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


In a way it's shame that the
gent was disqualified in the qualify
ing rounds of the national open. For
somewhere in the middle of his 37th
year AL Houghton, pro at Beaver
Dam, has come upon a resurgence
of the brilliant scoring days of a
decade ago. AL wouldn't have won
the national open. He isn't good
enough for that, nor is any man
playing golf around Washington
good enough at the present stage of
things. But Al might have gone a
long way along the road of winning
If he happened to hit the same
happy scoring streak he now is in.
Al scored a 50 in a pro-amateur
best ball affair at Chevy Chase yes
terday. The best ball of AL and
Maury Fitzgerald-his partner-was
&c. They won the pro-am, and
Houghton also was the best scorer
IN the pro sweepstakes tourney.
But above that, and the fact that
Houghton was the only man to play
that tough course in par, it was AIS
10th straight round in par or better.
If that isn't consistency Hitler is
dummy named Mccarthy.
Now Is 18 Under Par.
Houghton now is 18 strokes better
than par for his last 10 rounds.
Some of these scores haven't been
made on courses as tough as that
Canterbury course at Cleveland,
where the national open joust was
held. But AL, if he happened to
hit a streak such as the present
one, would have done all right. No
one could call Chevy Chase any
easy track. and Houghton missed
flve-footer for a So on the last
green. He picked up five brides
during the round. Try that on your
matched set some time.