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Novels of Early America
Are Popular at Library

With the attack of the totalitarian
creed upon all democratic institu-
tions and ways of life many Ameri-
can novelists are re-creating our
country's beginnings-proving by
history that liberty was fought for,
not given, and reminding us that
the courage, blood and sacrifices
of our forefathers won from a will
derness this land that is ours. And
that such themes are increasingly
popular is indicated by the requests
received daily at the central Public
Library. Eighth and K streets NV,
and its branches.
evolves Against the Moon" by
Julia c. Althocchi, is a tale of the
fur traders of the old Northwest
frontier from 1894 to 1882. River
Out of Eden" by Shirley Seifert,
is a story dated 20 years earlier,
dealing with the founding Of st.
Louis and fur trading on the Mis-
sissippi. Quietly My Captain Waits"
by Evelyn Eaton, is based on the
romantic story of a brave and fasci-
mating woman, Nine Louise de
Freneuse of Quebec, in the early
years of the 18th century. ..
oh, Promised Land" by James
H. Street, is a long melodramatic
novel of the Mississippi frontier
from 1894 to 1917, when the first
white man broke trails overland
from the Georgia border to the
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Ten Years in the Conqo
By W. E.. Dauis. Ne1p York
Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc.

Reynal e. Hitchcock, Inc.
Medical treatment in the Belgian
Congo must be augmented by the
needle" before the natives will
believe in its efficiency. This is
typical of the unusual problems
that met Dir. w. E. Davis during
his 10 years of practice as a
missionary doctor"
A physician in this area must be
something of a psychologist before
he can administer effectively to the
sick, as superstition and fear have
to be conquered in addition to the
disease. The natives believe the evil
spirits causing the sickness must
be driven out before the body can
heal. Consequently, the successful
use of the hypodermic needle to
cure the tropical disease of Yaws
makes this, to their untutored
minds, the most potent force against
the demons and they demand it's
use in the treatment of any ailment
they may. have, from a hernia to
an upset stomach.
During DR.. Davis last year in the
Congo, at the Lotumbe dispensary,
some $1,000 patients came to him
for treatment, and he performed
536 major operations. In addition,
he spent three months of the year
visiting the native villages, treating
many thousands more.
Something of the jungle phy-
sician's sincerity and tenacity of
purpose has crept into his book,
giving it a charm and driving force
rarely encountered in works of this
type. FRANK L. CARTER.
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of the cities or to trade in the great
majority of the shops. And the
Germans commonly drink a toast,
"Sterben Juden!" which means "let
the Jews die!" Concentration camps
are healthtul places where habitual
criminals are put to useful labor
Herr Himmler himself told Mr.. Stod-
dard this. Censorship is absolute on
the German papers, films and radio.
but foreign correspondents have
great liberty. The church is not in
terfered with by the government;
Pastor Niemuller's trouble was not
religious, but political-Herr Hmm
Ter gave his personal word on this.
And lastly, the war is being fought
because Germany was threatened
with extinction by the Allies.
Mr.. Stoddard does not tell us that
he believed all this. He does say,
however, that wartime Germany is
friendly and courteous to CORE
spondents and that the outward ap-
pearance is not at all sinister He
did not care to go beyond that ap-
pearance, however. Again, an ade-
quate comment. NC. r.
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Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in Wash
ington by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
lcan Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
How Green Was My Valley"
Richard Llewellyn; Night In
Bombay" Louis Bromfield;
Stars On the Sea-" F. Van
Wyck Mason; Kings Row."
Henry Bellamann; Chad
Hanna" Walter Edmonds;
Native Son." Richard Wright;
Kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley; The Bird In the
Tree" Elizabeth Goudge; Mr..
Skeffington," Elizabeth.
Non-Fiction.
American White Paper"
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kint-
ner; Il Married Adventure"
Osa Johnson; Failure of a
Mission" Sir Neville Henderson;
This Is On Me-" Katherine
Brush; "The Voice of Destruc-
ton" Hermann RauSchning:
s Isolated America Raymond
Buell.; Polish Profile" Princess
Paul Sapieha; Ethan Allan"
Stewart Holbrook; "A New
England Sampler" Eleanor
Early
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Mississippi River and opened up
trading routes. 1t is history inter-
woven with romance and high ad-
venture.
The Trees" by Conrad Richter,
is beautiful in poetic description,
terrifying in primitive cruelty, and
undoubtedly authentic. 1t is the
story of the progress of the pioneer
through the wilderness west of the
Alleghenies and north of the Ohio
at the end of the 18th century. The
same region and historical period
is described by Louis cara in This
Land Is Ours" a red -blooded pano-
rama OF Indian warfare as the In
dians were driven across the Ohio
and Indiana country westward to
the Mississippi by waves of oncom-
ing settlers.
Stars on the Sea-" by Van Wyck
Mason, is story of the Revolution
during the fateful years of 1776 and
1777 when the Colonies were plan
ming navy that could break the
British blockade, and the divided
loyalties of the people complicated
the pattern. The beginning of the
Revolution is introduced into The
Dark Stranger" by Constance Dodge,
a novel which has its beginning at
the battle of Culloden, in Scotland.
in 1745 and its ending after the
hero has sailed with John Paul
Jones.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Into the Darkness
By Lothrop Stoddard. Neu

By Lothrop Stodddrd. Ne1U
York: DueH, Sloan & Pedrce.
This is an account of a foreign
correspondents stay in wartime
Germany, pleasantly written but not
so informative as one could really
wish. For the Germany which Mr..
Stoddard saw bears suspicious re-
semblance to the Soviet Russia
which used to be seen by the visit
ing tourists-it is, if not all velvet,
a good deal more plushy than we
have been led on good authority to
believe. One feels, somehow, read
ing the book, that it's author was
victim of gentlemanly run-around.
Nobody waved "verboten" signs un-
der his nose, but he was, neverthe-
less, guided to the places which
his hosts wished him to see And as
to the places which they did not
wish him to see-Why, he admits
himself that it was worth his press
permit to avoid them voluntarily
That, perhaps, is the most compre-
hensive comment one can make on
the volume.
However, it shows us a nation of
people who are solidly behind their
government in the war which it is
now fighting, even though they de-
test the fight. Food conditions are
very bad as to quality, but not bad
enough as to quantity to make the
population have an undernourished
look Jews are no longer actively
prosecuted; they are simply for
bidden to enter the central streets
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etc. Also, I hadn't voted for
the whole Roosevelt family. I was
sick of Sistie and Buzzie and
Jimmie and Elliott and John, of
My Day and of the everlasting
smile on the Presidents countenance
which glowed d" in every picture
however serious the issue or how
ever disturbing the speech. thought
it would be nice to get away from
politics, economics and class con-
sciousness. A few months without
politics.! I will seek the quiet by
roads where there are peasants and
mountains, fields, streams, poulet
roti, soupe loignon and Pernod."
When, however, he took passage,
he was Immediately engaged by his
fellow voyagers in political discus
sion. He fled their insistence by
joining, as a friend, totally strange
woman whom he took to be a snake
charmer. He was delightful per-
son, certainly. Indeed, as DR.. Zins-
ser shows him, he was irresistible.
AS for DR.. Zinsser himself, he
was a colleague and associate of
R. S.; he is author of the best seller
of a few years back, Rats, Lice
and History" and is one of the
group of Harvard Medical School
bacteriologists who recently an
nounced the development of new
method by which typhus vaccine
can be produced in quantities suf-
ficient to protect an entire nation.
He has done splendid job on his
friend-and, even better, has shown
us a kind of American mentality
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to be on .he
verge OF joining the buffalo and the
passenger pigeon. "a NC. r.
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Brief Reviews

Travel.
RUTH AND I GO TO BERMUDA
BY Julia c. Hewes. New York
Pyramid.
Just a guidebook to the island
but a pleasant one, nicely illustrated
with photographs.
MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAG
Compiled by workers of the
Writers Program of the Work
Projects Administration in the
State of Arizona. New York:
Hastings.
A descriptive and historical guide
to the famous mission, attractively
illustrated.
PASSPORT TO ADVENTURE. BY
Elizabeth w. Donaldson. New
York: Field.
Sketches about the authors ira
vels in the Pacific Islands, Africa
and South America. Routine. ma
terial. t@
OUR SOUTHWEST. BY Erna Fer
SuSSOll, INCW vi AllOp4.
The romantic desert. Routine ma
terial.
ALASKA HOLIDAY. BY Barrett
Willoughby. Boston: Little
Brown.
Alaska native writes of her home
land Good stuff, but gushy style
LET'S GO WITH BOB DAVIS. BY
Robert H. David. New York:
Appleton-Century.
India. Ceylon, Venezuela, Puerto
Rico, Alaska, Gaspe and the Chesa-
peake with a professional traveller
Lives.
A QUAKER CHILDHOOD, 1871
1883. BY Helen Thomas Flexner.
New Haven: Yale University.
A charming memoir of childhood
in a large family of Friends, the
Thomases of Baltimore. Revealing
the beauty and fullness of the life
of the orthodox Quakers. Worth
reading
Evening star., 1940-06-30
A Man Who Found q Country
By A. Nakdshidn. Ne1D York:

6y a. NuhuSfttufI. NtU VI N.
CroUeH Co.
1t has been said often in the last
few months that the first prere-
quisite for writing a successful book
is to study and practice medicine
1t is a prerequisite that DR.. Nakash-
ian met with flying colors. Not only
did he study and practice medicine,
he did so under such romantic con-
ditions that, regardless of how
poorly the estimable doctor writes,
his autobiography is still of absorb
ing interest.
The son of an Armenian carpen-
ter who, even in his most pros
porous days earned only 20 to 80
cents a day is not likely to be pos
sessed of inordinate ambition and
the perseverance to satify that am
bition, come what may. DR.. Nakash-
ian proved his mettle by acquiring
the necessary education under the
most adverse circumstances, by
practising all over Turkey during
the worst of the Armenian perse-
cutions, by acting as a medical
captain in the Turkish forces during
the World War, and by his dramatic
escape with his family at the con-
clusion of the war.
Although his introduction to this
country via Ellis Island was any
thing but pleasant, the title OF his
book would indicate that he for
gave ALL" and is now prepared to
live happily ever after.
R. R. TAYNTON.
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As | Remember Him: The
Biography of R. S.
By Hans ZinsSer. Boston:
Little, Bro1Dn.

By Hans ZinsSer. Boston,
Little, Bro1Dr.
This book seems to be a sort of
experiment in biography. Maybe
it is because its subject, R. S., was
a physician, and physicians me-
moirs are now flooding the book
market in an all-time high of mo-
notony, that the author has felt
that a new technique is needed.
More likely, however, his method
has been chosen because he has
attempted to write the life of a
man who represented certain type
of citizen, a very valuable type, but
one almost completely ignored by
social historians. He has wanted
to describe that type, rather than
any particular individual, and has
felt that he can best compass such
a description by taking an indi-
vidual for his subject, and treating
him anonymously. Thus, he gives
us the sharpness of outline which
derives from fact, but avoids the
narrowaess which pertains to the
straight biography.
AT any rate, here is his book, told
ss if by the subject, but with inter-
pretative passages by the author. 1t
is the story OF an American Of up
per middle-class origin and edu-
cation, Of the standing of pro-
fessional man In society, of genu-
inc hberality in opinion-which
means that he subscribed to no
Iideology-of q humorous mind,
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universities in Japan and China.
He was with the American Army
in France, and he followed famine
into Russia after the revolution. He
helped fight disease in Serbia in the
early days of the World War, and
he examined rats in Mexico for
typhus. And when he went to Ge-
neva to attend a conference on epi-
demic control he gave a reason
which may well be quoted as sam
pie of the books fortnight style:
"I wanted to get away from all
the New Deal business and the
headlines about Messrs. Wallace and
Ickes and Eccles, Madame Perkins,
the G. I. O., the w. P. A., P.
w. A., S. E. c., T. v. A., ETC.,
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healthfully skeptical and broadly
curious. 1t is a type which, in some
of its elements, might be found in
many countries, but the peculiar
blend is certainly American. One
might describe that blend as demo-
cratically aristocratic-the democ-
racy lying in what such man will
accept from his fellows and the
aristocracy lying in what he will
permit himself.
In more specific detail, r. S. was
a New York boy of good family who
practiced medicine for little while
and then devoted himself to bac-
teriology. He taught in Columbia,
Harvard and Stanford Universities;
he also belonged to the faculties of
Evening star., 1940-06-30
7 he Story of the Pacific
Ne,U York. Harcourt. Brace
By Hendrix Willenl

By Hendrix WiIem Van Loon. New Harcourt Brace
In hearty hardheaded outlines the stories
the successive explorations which
serans OF his subjects
ms material 1t is tosup whether
But the maybe should at any
point of the
He devoe some attention to the almost
Poeans Who he knew all about their
freely over IL long before Columbus
ne their
Woo known SO beautiful existence
coming OF the white
sententaAy OIL to live them
longer native peoples
ancestors came small all
"oey scattered Islands still maintained
steering by the stars Vikings
knowledge OF the great which
paradise. - wv 1 -N'0
Then come chapters the white explorers words for the
Spanish better words for the for Mr. Van
Looms compato Duhmen Navy however
taxes the highest individual
great sous OF all time Mr. Van
oV ano mapping OF Australia
racine exploration AS for Magellan
wandered through his strait without t
lew miles 10 the south he would have
!-Whlch Is practically miraculous
10 geography was only patch addd-b he
never knew the difference ~ 01' -i0
ana SO on Mr. Van Loon likes history he be-
keeping
Is "hat one gathers from reading his Pacific anyhow
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Thank You, America!
2 S. Brookes. Ne,u York: Dodd. Mead.

autobiography the tribute of Engisman expression
who became citizens
There insecurity
Midlands
in a nut and factory pm, the
devil compostor
willing
n a railroad
question where % a
position something
gently
of
you?" Thus DR. Bookes had his beginning American
First jobs printing
preacher AS Dr.
courtesy Success slowly certainly Eventually
with honor the circles
attributes his
cooperate with the stranger within spirit which declares
always has overwhelmed him. CLEVE H. STAUFFER.
Evening star., 1940-06-30
Mongols' Rise to Power
Over Ancient World Is
Subject of Fine Book
Scholarly Historical Work Is
Written in Style Possessing
Qualities of Good Fiction
By Joseph S. Edeerfon.
The March of the Borborions


In present European blood BATH some people ar.
finding comfort thought past there were similar storms
human making which moorngs
churned them together kaleidoscope horror left
humanity the better for its knd
progress '''''lS VI
oarlan the Mongos
ana Chinese civilizations made the history
The author tells US that he spent the years
1osaieR. rne and Latin working knoHedgs
osa and ss tR Rs he might
the lands occupied by the Mongos.
Human knowledge
serves the sa S em en- sos
they he a % of the n d
b the ENC Mono LEFT few records and much of their history
which is a solid contribution O knowledge WIN
Wh dos e TSss snd ds hssU5y sood @
fSeep n9n and He ns1d. d m justice story which
peoples peoples from their obscure origins Northern Siberia
Marches Russia into tropical Palestine
the Of soviet etefsn Rpuos s as
mastered M Fs he 0ny sv clans la s Of
from from th packs OF running horses the Mong
up @ was one the successful the world
Pacific to the Voga and r m hS saS to
Persia before his death in 1927. ~
Was v" hHnSns endangered
almost e m family CnSh was to contemporary mankind
op Eho were to rule the known world for fearful
10 to Finland through
qaed and but for the death of the hakhn
Mongo hordes for the traditional Kutai
might - NN-0F0
Inc nomad Mongo reached their peak Kubia Khan
VINO p IN cathay city of such splend that
OF men the world around through telling
only nan the wonders this
of his 0''0A
Persia After tse kSsa aasd snd his anatsd sosa sn
ncne
tions ~ ~
Here volume place the shelves of the his
comonaon of high scholarship
- ~
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A Lion in the Garden

By q. 3. SteTN. NeU fOTK: NIucH1EEuH
This lightly philosophical novel dealing with the effects Of
held All the
in story under sort fixed idea and all the ideas in turn
without reality of
bemused is the whole of the
three all delusion
dashing little
Norman who in his YOUTH ubdued circus lion
imagined himself
magnificent adershp only he could get the chance to them
the will their
circumstances They devote them
sporting
then
life renake his hopes And
light intelligent stuff
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The Literary WordRevews of Current Publications in Varo1
Psychological Aspects Of
War. Are Examined by
Paris Correspondent
Result Is History of European
Crises That Is Unaffected
By Military Developments
By Mary.Certer Roberts.

Dy NIH1tdIy bCNSIOpiIlCIIlo
By Mary-Ccrter Roberts,
The Strategy of Terror
By Edmond Taylor. Boston: Houghton Mf7n.
dealing present which
a h % % a 40 g0 o Sor or 10 a sure ENDS T with the Ing
% he actual a
@ n fompTeg M engsd & since the the WORK os went its @
% military m instead d. %
logical aspects Of the What it sums to history sensitive and
as they responded to influence prior the opening
hostiite i % and during the first stage of the hghing
Chicago tribune
ens tone But the spirit of the examination none the less "D
Sssn Msap2s Psyehsogean aas
His basic idea that Germany has been at for long mea
party opening military
] M says, Is 0n new Paase OF tins war and @ mot ] the the most
nc Hsr bscsms be s @ m ss b Des other thee
logical one Specifically has been but the common inter-
War utterly Inadequate describe the German tactics of destruction
says Taylor
natural result international balance
eeany Hapagn & Wegna @ ana msea TO p6oce uneo
M It t ho this W u that has R no b M
tory Of Of the them military i @ operations nS crisis t o. n ~ e
major German offensive values The
revions
bung, they by
and their before eS amed m
any definite course In France says Mr. Taylor they succeeded to de-
ected the French people what disgrace
that lay the disonorng treaty physical
sss's ssssl Tsssn sssap.
describes considerable detail the dissoent tactics by which
to cut across the Binding oaes Of all the social groups These
he continues were mainly in two camps and the Germans man
thing which happened this" Taylor
civilized world
rel two great pocal egion Gh @ @
Civilization Each served as the common bond between number
which turned later cared nothing respectively for either
Civil War spain lesser the late
promoted problem
place in the m p4nd @
conditions article of faith the democratic
ry eous dmocacy Nothing more natural then that all
sa should rally to the
AnRsass%sa' 1. Rsansnsa Propaganda
the friends and 4so the the wrong M E
% ene h 9e ] BE But n ueh
obvious that the czechs
did for business In the
ed no m 1888 and were
n o ofqn D and @ or the sa
conteractng the propaganda of the anti
s passion Of the Syss s,s oe so
wa n9uh s man 0s1s H f
The effect on the people poutico
ral made the creation of successive crises still easier The history
lows on then d M the s @ the Mp prelude m 1T to & the @ @
continued
dssenion
involving prestige abroad of
hoihties had been averted
his
talked likely
highly valuable historical document distinction from other
main
beside Hermann Rauchnings Revolution of Nihism
in is of spirit of destruction.
Lion in the Garden
By G. B. Stern. New York: Macmillan.
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Ask Me Tomorrow

BY James Gould CossenS. Neu York: Harcourt Bruce
The fact that Mr. Cozzers is author better
IMAM ne has allotted himself here
from being entertaining study
palnful habit OF examining his futile emotions. ~ =
everything Francis Elery the into rnn
or worse still something revolving just when appears he Is
aoouI 10 possess It, That ITSELF
Cozzens ably dresses it until the he has
1ound something the wen-written pages. '
Eerys own dissatisfaction high lighted finds himself
IN as ne tutor OF rich widows crippled He
courage as used TO sweep across the Europe
grand hotel after another He that
not eor in the literary world author the cE
analyzlng emotions his his
nately he doesn't know where analyses things out ~
existence. N' "
The psychological vivisecon young isn't too
difficult for Mr. Cons but somehow author
OF IS s. San Pedro" and THE Last Adam"
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What's Democracy to You?
By Joseph Gollomb. N

6y 1oSeph GoHomb. NeD York: Macmillan.
In ll8 Mr. Golomb to 49,,
ueihocrac concentrating
III our past present and with
700 mun ground for small book as If he had
LOOKED o kaleidoscope filled with particular pattern Nv
acon norts and case histories however
eeoed IN presenting
ana unoemocratlc methods of meeting problems
dow from the liberal viewpoint the book present.
landmarks OF such of
Neg IN from iron sour our industrial history examples of
Souh attacks Father
uton IN Nazl Germany The and
vanzetu cases which consume practically chapter timely For II
conceivable hat during the period
pass rough the counterpart of
iomeo a background for these two famous ~
Mr. oomb indicates Europe" the bridge n the
III VIII BE- ne believes like the country some
some Save 10 the dictatorship
OF the World the author declares will
WIN but with the will present
OF oeVaauo that is not altogether pleasant prospect
rprcrr
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Miss Sylvia Schmidt Weds
Mr.. Bernard Berliner.

The marriage of Miss Sylvia Ruth
Schmidt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
David S. Schmidt of 1912 Georgia
avenue, Washington, to Mr. Bernard
Berliner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Berliner of Great Neck, L. L., took
place on New Year Eve at the Ad-
miral Club Officiating at the cere-
mony was Rabbi Henry Siegel of the
BNai Israel Synagogue.
The bride was eXquisitely goWned
in egg-shell Duchess satin fashioned
along period lines, princess waist,
long leg-o-mutton sleeves trimmed
with real Alencon lace over the
shoulders and yoke, which were out
lined with seeded pearls. Tiny self
covered buttons fastened the back
of the gown from neckline to waist,
from which hung a graceful, flow
ing train.
A halo headdress of orange bios
SONS made of seeded pearls held
the veil of bridal illusion net and
completed the ensemble. The bride
carried a bouquet of white roses and
lilies of the valley.
Miss Cynthia Michaelson of Wash
ington, cousin of the bride, was
the maid of honor and wore an old
fashioned gown of orchid net with
a flowing bouffant skirt.
Dr. Meyer Berliner of Great Neck,
the bridegroom's brother, served as
best man.
The canopy was beautifully cov-