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History Reveals District
AS Once Hub Of Hunting
For American Followers
Classic in Sporting Lore Is
Represented by First of
Four Volumes to Be Issued
By Jack ANen
The Story of American Fox Hunting

By j. Blan uan Urk. New York: Derrydale Press, Inc
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interesting
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in this country.
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interesting illustrations
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collection Urk apologies
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1850 and 1861 sporting art in America especially that pertaining
fox hunting practically non-exstent"
volumes of
to be published within months.
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determined by the sordid desolation
into which he has been born. The
hero differs from Studs in being
thin-skinned and of naturally decent
instincts; otherwise, the book is very
much like its predecessor. Its pow
er and sincerity are thoroughly ad-
mirable.
These novels, as said, are real
books, books of individuality and
power, capable of bringing their
readers honorably into the stream
of imaginative life which is litera-
ture. The reviewer has found it a
pleasure, downright self-indul-
gence, to write of them.
Two other works of 1940's fiction
must also be mentioned as standing
apart from tthe general throng OF
books, but yet not belonging to the
purely creative group listed above.
These are Kenneth Roberts enor-
nous historical novel, "Oliver Wis
WELL" and H. G.. Wells novel of ar
gument, Babes in the Darkling
Wood"
Mr.. Roberts book is really a read
ing course in the history of the
American Revolution. 1t gives us
the full period Of that war, 1t carries
us through the important battles in
both the North and the South, it in
cludes scenes from England and
France during the negotiations for a
French alliance, it portrays the lead
ing characters of the epoch. And
here is the catch-it is written from
the hitherto disgraced Tory point of
view. 1t is full of the personal ad-
ventures of it's young Tory hero, too,
and these are sometimes very lively;
but, undoubtedly, Mr.. Roberts in
terest has been historical rather
than fictional Though he never lets
his fictional duty lag, he has never
theless given us book of instruction
first and a novel afterward.
Babes in the Darkling Wood
has in it scarcely any fiction at all:
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has been guilty of some very dreadful
fiction of late years. But here he
has more than redeemed himself.
A rash of works from men and
women engaged in rural occupations
seems to have been 1940's unique
photographed development; it
has broken out lushly on most of
the publishers lists and includes
a most catholic range of confessions,
from horse doctors up to ministers
Of the Gospel. In the category the
reviewer would put Henry Hough's
story of his editorship of a weekly
paper on Martha's Vineyard Island,
Country Editor" at the top. 1t is
beautifully written and seems to
have caught the essential signifi-
canoe Of country life very fully.
Merit In Execution.
A group of books which are
peculiarly American and also have
solid merit in execution is the
following: Big River to Cross" a
study OF the Mississippi today, by
Ben Lucien Burman; "Hawkeyes," !"
an examination of the mores of
modern Iowa, by Phil Stong: THE
Arkansas a history of that tur-
bulent stream splendidly done by
Clyde Brion Davis; Gem of the
Prairie" a shocking and fascinating
record of the Chicago underworld,
by Herbert Asbury; "a Southerner
Discovers New England" a worthy
companion piece to "a Southerner
Discovers the South" by Johnathan
Daniels; "The Good Old Days" a
riotously funny history of Amer
lean taste told in terms of the
Sears. Roebuck & Co. mail order
catalogue throughout the decades.
by David Cohen, and New England
Sampler" tart, irreverent volume
of comment on some sacred and
profane Yankee traditions, by New
England newspaper woman, Eleanor
Early. All these are first-class read
ing and are heartily recommended.
The stupendous Dictionary of
American History" by James Trus-
low Adams, of course, is self-evident.
Such a work scarcely needs mention,
much less recommending. 1t is
simply there, and one knows
about it.
Somewhat similarly pre-eminent
in the field of the critical essay
Is Van Wyck Brooks New England
Indian Summer" that profoundly
scholarly study of the decadence of
New England's letters from the days
of Dean Howells to the appearance
of the first apostles of the early
Goth century renaissance. Mr..
Brooks seems to have read all the
novels of Henry James and all the
novels of Howells, and to know,
the exact significance of
each. Can one say more? One can
only be profoundly grateful to him
for having done the work for the
rest of us.
The new volume of essays taken
from Mark Twain's journal, most of
them hitherto unpublished, Mark
Twain In Eruption" edited by Ber-
nard De Voto, should also certainly
be mentioned IN the category Of the
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it is a series of conversations in
which a small group of enlightened
people try to discover and explain
what is wrong with everything-gov-
ernment, education, religion, sexual
conventions, the whole organization
Of society. The reason the work is
mentioned here is that it is pro-
foundly intelligent and genuinely
enlightened. The reviewer hopes
that the excuse is a sufficient one.
After these various works of high
individual quality there comes a
group of lesser 1910 novels which
are recommended entertainment
They are The Family" by Nina
Fedorova; The Two Wives" by
Frank Swinnerton; Chad Hanna"
by Walter Edmonds; THE Voyage"
by Charles Morgan; Tale of
Three Cities" by D. L. Murray;
Sergeant Lambs America" by Rob-
ert Graves; Might in Bombay" by
Louis Bromfield; Tree of Heaven
by Jesse Stuart, and THE Man Who
Loved Children" by Christina Stead.
The last named, it should be said,
though, is a grim and awful psycho-
logical study of family life and cer-
tainly should not be taken up lightly
just to while away an afternoon.
Another interesting thing about
the fiction aspect of the past year is
the number of Nobel Prize winners
who published Knut Hamson's
Look Back on Happiness" Pearl
Bucks "Other Gods" Sinclair Lewis
Bethel Merriday," Sigrid Undset's
Madame Dorthea," Thomas Mann's
''The Beloved Returns" all came
out in the period. Without excep-
ton, it can be said that these are
second-rate stuff, or even less meri-
torious.
In biography there has been a
number of serious additions to our
knowledge of the lives of the great.
The reviewer would list the Ste
Evening star., 1940-12-29
By Della p. Oakes,
Readers Adviser Mt. Pleasant Branch,
Public Library.

Public Library.
er-Christmas doldrums and
the persistent idea that the New
Year will bring innumerable prob
lens combine to produce state OF
mind like that of certain author
who, being depressed, tried to cheer
himself by thinking over the joys
of our human lot. But there was
not one for which he seemed to
care a button, mot wine, nor fame,
nor the consciousness OF virtue. -
Then he thought of reading, "the
nice and subtle happiness of read
ing" This definition suits the in
formal or familiar essay quite
perfectly. The Central Library at
Eighth and K streets NV. and its
branches offer a wide choice OF
essays for amusement only.
Jan Struther, author of the in
comparable Mrs. Miniver," applies
her gifts of hurnor and wit and
intense observation in TRY ANY,
thing Twice Logan Pearsall
Smith in "All Trivia is content TO
give the reader a single undevel-
oped idea in each of his sparkling
cobweb paragraph essays" Rose
Macaulay's Personal Pleasures
range all the way from getting into
bed, and not getting out of bed. to
book auctions, reading and writing.
Nature is the essayist's favorite
subject. Donald CulroSS Peattie
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Library Offers Variety of
ESSAYS for Amusement

presents his interpretations with
poetic insight in "A Book of Hours"
Victoria Sackville-West's Country
Notes" breathes the spirit of Eng
lish gardens, country life and coun-
try living.
Aspects of the book trade are
treated with Kenneth Roberts we'll
known thoroughness in For Au-
thors Only" One chapter, The
Truth About a Novel," is for the
benefit of enthusiastic would-be au-
thors yearning for the sybaritic
ease and rich rewards of literary
existence.
Literary subjects occupy VILLA
Gather in Not Under Forty" and
Lytton Strachey in Books and
Characters" The latter considers
appropriate places for authors to
be read: Pope In formal garden,
Herrick in an orchard, Shelley in
a boat at sea, Sir Thomas Browne
while floating down the Euphrates." !"
Humor is employed by James
Thurber as a revealing solvent in
his Fables for Our Time" In its
supplement. Famous Poems Illus
trated," one may see what he has
done to favorite schoolroom recita-
tions of Friday afternoons of yore.
Cornelia Otis Skinner comments
upon the daily scene in .'Dithers
and Jitters." in deft, blithely barbed
phrases. Among her subjects are
the complexities of bird study, par
ties for children and learning yoga.
A. P. Herbert mixes prose and
verse in his General Cargo"
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phenson and Dunn George Wash
ington" as an important work. An
other is Newman Levy Whites
Shelley" Herbert German gave us
a painstaking biographical and criti-
caul study of James Joyce. Stanley
Kimmel produced most entertain
ing history Of the great stage fam
lily, The Mad Booths of Maryland
Although the reviewer would have
said that there was certainly moth
ing more to be written about Oscar
Wilde, the fact remains that Frances
Winwar, in the past year, turned out
a brilliant life of that poet, a book
which, for its intelligent analysis
of the 90s, ought to be read by all
students of the period. Joseph Stain
was the subject of one more biog-
raphy, this by Eugene Lyons, author
of Assignment in Utopia" There
was also a new life of Col. Ed
ward NJ. House, Mr.. House
OF Texas" by Arthur D. How
den-Smith; the work was au-
thorized and approved by Mr.. House
during his lifetime, but with the
stipulation that 1t should not be
published until after his death. 1t
is warmly defensive in tone and
offers in explanation of the breach
in the House Wilson friendship that
the second Mrs. Wilson was to a
considerable degree responsible.
Biographies Are Entertaining.
Other 1910 biographies which are
lneritorious and entertaining are "As
I Remember Him" by Hans Zinsser;
Ethan Allen" by Stuart Holbrook";
"Trelawney." by Margaret Arm
strong; Mr.. Pitt and Americas
Birthright," by J. c. Long; "Aretino,"
by T. C. Chubb; Margaret Fuller
by Mason Wade, and Romantic
Rebel" by Felizia Seyd., a history
of George Sand.
The two Queen Carolines of Eng
land, the stormy consort of George
" and the severe partner of George
II, we're also subjects of excellently
done volumes. The life of the former,
a sympathetic and humorous his
tory, is by Howard Coke and is called
Stranger in the House" The lat
ter's history is by Peter Quennell,
Caroline of England: An Augustan
Portrait"
Mention should perhaps also be
made of a history of Anne Carroll of
Maryland, long-neglected friend and
adviser of Lincoln. Under the title
of MY Dear Lady" Marjorie Bris-
tow Greenbie has written her life
in a frankly crusading volume.
claiming for her the credit for some
of the major strategies of Gen.
Grants campaigns. Admittedly. the
source material has been hmItec,
but Mrs. Greenbie makes pro-
vocative case from what has been
at her disposal.
In autobiographies the reviewer
would put H. L. Mencken's Happy
Days" at the top of the list. It's
cheerful account of our Jerefniah's
infancy and boyhood, grand reading
from first to last. Another excellent
volume of "reminiscences is william
McFee's Watch Below" his memo
ries of conditions in the iron ships"
of his youth, the tramp fre'ghters
which. in their time, inherited the
romantic tradition of the earlier
clippers; this work is done in Mr..
McFee's best vein, and the reviewer
submits that there are few veins
better, though the engineer author
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the old warhorse is at last forget
ting the smell of powder. His Pc
riodic snortings have been plctur-
esque; is the gain of one more
urbane man of letters worth the loss
of them?
"Mr. Littlejohn," by Martin Flaw
in, is another 1910 novel of origin
ality and merit, though perhaps one
should qualify praise of its origin
ality by saving that It is work on
an old theme, freshly done. For it
is simply the familiar fantasy OF
the successful man who. in middle
age, finds his success unsatisfylng
and fees from his wealth in the
disguise of a poor tramp, whereafter
ne Joins company with other poor
wanderers and becomes enmeshed IN
a series of hairbreath adventures.
Mr.. Flavin makes his version OF this
ageless tale timely by relating 1t to
the madnesses of our particular mo-
ment: his hero is an American
capitalist beset by labor racketeers,
New Dealers, Communists and SINH
lar gentry, and, in his quest along
the roads, he tries to find the an
swer to Americas problem as we'll
as to his own.
The satire is we'll aimed and part
of a trend now setting in fairly def
nitely against the wild-eyed wor
ship of nostrums which has char
acteriled our fiction for several
years. Such a book, indeed, would
probably not have found publisher
three years ago and, if it had, 1t
would have been stigmatized at
once as reactionary. But it is lot
that, save as an effort to arrive a.
lasting verities must always be the
reaction to follow a debauch of So
cial patent medicines. 1t also is a
highly entertaining adventure tale,
fit to be read for that value alone,
if one prefers the method.
Ernest Hemingways For Whom
the Bell Tolls" very recently off the
presses, Is certainly one of the i'm
portant novels of the year. 1t has
all the customary Hemingway in
gradients of commercial success, but
1t rises above them to be dispaS-
sionate, tolerant and even tender
picture of the old human folly as it
once again exhibited itself in the
Spanish Civil War. A close and de-
tailed picture of the events and per-
sonalities of the war, the book still
preserves the perspective OF time
lessness. 1t has much mere report
ing in it, where, for example, 1t sets
forth the manners and conversa-
ton of poor Spanish peasants; but,
in it's arrangement of its material it
lifts itself above the reportorial level
If one has a criticism to make OF II
it is that it crowds an impossible
amount of action and emotion into
its time span Of four days. Not
only are there not hours enough IN
that period for the happenings and
meditations set down; there is not
nerve force enough in any human
body to live out the events either.
But that is, at best, mechanical
criticism.
Sincerity Is Admirable.
In Father and Son" James T.
Farrell gave us during the year one
more of his terrible pictures of lower
middle-class life in Chicago's Irish
settlements. It was thing much on
the model of Studs Lonigan," the
story of the growth through ado
lescence of a boy whose knowledge,
vision and dreams are all limited and
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years strictly American work. The
collection includes some irreverent
pieces on Roosevelt I, some remi-
niscences of Marks youth, and some
sketches of literary acquaintance.
1t has the real stamp of him on it
and cannot but be received with
welcoming affection.
Foreign Affairs Books.
AS for books on the foreign situa-
ton, they would fill page simply to
list their names. The reviewer
offers the following selection, GER
tainly not as being complete, but as
including volumes which can be
read and understood by the Law
public; these are not texts, in other
words:
Inside Europe" revised edition,
by John Gunther: Britain and
France Between Two Wars" by
Arnold Wolfers; Quest for Peace"
by William Rappard; The Long
Watch in England" by Eugene and
Airline Lohrke; Strategy of Terror"
by Edmund Taylor; Europe in the
Spring" by Clare Boothe; Failure
of Mission" by Sir Neville Hender-
son: THE Sun Never Sets" by NAL
colin Muggeridge; They Wanted
War" by Otto D. Tolischus: "The
Voice of Destruction, by Hermann
Rauschning; Tragedy in France"
by Andre Maurois; Seven Mysteries
Of Europe" by Jules Romans:
Stains Russia" by Max Eastman,
and Author in Transit" by Lance
lot Hogben.
Distinguished volumes of verse to
appear last year were the following:
collected Poems," by A. E. Hous-
man; Against the Cold" by Witter
Bynner; Last Poems," by William
Butler Yeats; There Are No Islands
Any More" and Make Bright the
Arrows" by Edna st. Vincent Millay:
The New oxford Book OF English
Verse" edited by Sir Arthur CUTLER
Couch, and THE Oxford Book of
Christian Verse;" edited by Lord
David Cecil.
In the short-story field, there was
an obscure volume put out by the
Jewish Publication Society which, to
the reviewers mind, contained the
finest tale of the year. This was
"Aftergrowth," in the collection
called "Aftergrowth and Other
Stories" by Haydn Bialik, original
ly written in Hebrew. It uses the
stream Of consciousness technique in
application to little boy, a child
Of Russian Jewish village in the
days of the empire; but, SO imbued is
the thing with universally that it
is moving and familiar to any sensi-
tive reader. A rarely beautiful piece
of writing, even in it's translation.
Other volumes of stories which can
be heartily commended are "Dr.
Dogbody's Leg" by James Norman
Hall: THE Crazy Hunter" by Kay
Boyle, and THE Bedside Book of
Famous British Stories" s"-this last a
marvellous collection stretching from
Chaucer to the present.
And, finally, the reviewer recon-
mends James Thurber's Fables for
Our Time" This is q book Of humor
which Is really very funny.
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Bell Tolls" Ernest Hemingway (Scbner).
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"Treawny," by Margaret Armstrong Odacmilan).
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-20
cHANUKAH PAGEANT

nils of the Talmud Torah and
|av School are rehearsing the
of an elaborate Chanukah
ant and service which will be
.nted in the Center auditor
Sunday, December 20, at 2:SO
le afternoon.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-20

Philip Selber, local attorney and
widely known leader in Jewish ac-
tivities, this week announced the
removal of his offices to 1910 Bis
bee Building, where he will con-
tinue in the general practice of
law.
Since his graduation from the
University of Florida in June,
1888, Selber has been associated in
the practice of law with Joseph M.
Glickstein. In addition to his law
degree which he received in 1888,
he was previously graduated from
the College of Arts and Sciences
with a Bachelor of Arts degree OBJ
tanned with honorS.
For the past several years, he
has been very active in local civic
activities, especially in Jewish or
CARNATIONS. He is at the present
time secretary of the local B'nai
Birth lodge, secretary of the
Jacksonville Jewish Center, Secre-
tary of the local Jewish Communi-
tv Council, former head adviser
of the local A.Z.A. chapter, a for
mer chairman of the Troop IA
committee, principal of the Cen
ter Sunday School, and is chair
man of important committees of
both the District Grand Lodge and
the State Federation. He was re-
Gently appointed to the National
Council of Joint Distribution Com
mittee and to the Board of Direc-
tors of the Leo N. Levi Hospital
at Hot Springs.
Selber is a graduate of the To-
cal public school system and OF
the local Jewish schools.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-20
"A Book by DIR. Nathan Drain, Baltimore
Briefly Reviewed by MAURICE R. sHOCHATT

While Jewish Book Week, sche-
ouled for the week of Chanukah.
december 22-29, will focus atten-
ton on Jewish literature past and
present-the spotlight will also be
IN order for the History of Jew
ism Education: From SIS BEE.
TO 22O Co." written by DR.. Ma
tnan Drain, spiritual leader of the
Snaarei Tfiloh Congregation of
Baltimore, Md, and published by
the Johns Hopkins University
Press (cloth. $3.50. Autographed
copies may be secured from the
author, 1926 Auchentoroly Ter
race, Baltimore, Md. The two
oates cover the periods of the
s second Commonwealth and the
Tannaim. Rabbi Drazin's volume is
indeed timely and fitting for this
occasion since in his contribution
ne points out that steadfast at
tention to Jewish education, far
from originating with Russian,
Polish or American Jewry, dates
pack more than fifteen centuries.
So enthused is the author, in
fact, with the subject that in the
Introductory chapter he expresses
the hope of treating eventually in
a ike manner the earlier and la
ter periods of Jewish history in
order to complete and make avail
able the unabridged story of Jew
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-20

ish education from the earliest
times to the present.
While Jewish history through
out the past twenty centuries is a
subject that has been treated ex-
haustively by scores of historians
and writers-a detailed study of
the methods through which Jewry
chung to its heritage in centuries
gone by has somehow been over
looked. But the gap is successfully
filled by DR.. Drain with his alb
sorbing treatise.
Among other. things the author
calls attention to the fact that of
the seven cardinal aims of mod
ern education = health, command
of fundamental processes, worthy
home membership, vocation, citi-
zenship, worthy use of leisure
time and ethical character-voca-
ton is the only one with which the
Jewish school system was practic-
ally unconcerned.
This history definitely belongs
on every Jewish bookshelf--for he
who will dip into it's contents will
become acquainted with a phase
of Jewish life explaining to great
extent IsraePs survival throughout
the centuries.