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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Author Attacks Myths Born of Lincolns Assassination

Yet, according to this book, it was
very simple matter. In its version
Booth alone plotted the Staying of
the President. He was aware that
Gen. Grant would not be in the
presidential box; there were no de-
signs against the generals life at
all. The fact that all other boxes
of the theater were empty that
evening was pure coincidence. The
fact, too, that Stanton and Grant
had both refused invitations to be
of the Presidents party was without
other significance than that the
ladies of the Secretary and the
general did not like Mrs. Lincoln.
There was no collision nor was
Booth in the hire of johnson, as
has sometimes been claimed. The
notion that there was a plot on
the part of politicians of bitter anti
Southern prejudices has no support
in fact. Three men-Booth, Herold
and Paine-agreed to kill three other
men-Lincoln, johnson and Seward
That was all. Or so Mr.. Bryan
tells us.
Following this there come the
accumulated myths about Booths
burial, his escape, the innumerable
times he was reported seen alive,
the horde of shabby imposters, and
finally the mummy still preserved in
Memphis garage and exhibited as
the body of Lincoln's assassin. But
Mr.. Bryan is uncompromising as
to the facts. Booths family, when
they were permitted to claim his
body, identified it positively, he says.
And it was inferred in the family
burial plot in Baltimore, beside the
remains of its more honored kin.
Nothing. perhaps, makes more as
tonishing reading, however, than the
accounts of the insistence and
energy of the imposters in asserting
their false identity.
Much of this has been told before.
Yet, one supposes, books on the
life and death of Lincoln will never
cease to appear. It can be said
for Mr.. Bryan that he adduces
documentary evidence for all his
claims. If he ignores any evidence
some other writer will undoubtedly
call attention to the omission before
very long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Library Distributes Lists
OfBOoks for Christmas

plays, legends, carols, poetry and
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

surface. For the first plan which
he meditated was not assassination,
but kidnapping, and it would be
hard to imagine a plot more fan
tastically absurd. With the aid of
a band of friends he meant to
seize Lincoln in his box at the
theater, bind him and lower him
to the stage and bear him off alive
to be surrendered to Lee, who would
then demand his own terms from
the disorganized Federal Govern
ment. 1t was in this nonsense, says
Mr.. Bryan, that Mrs. Surratt and
Atzerodt were involved; they had
no connection with the murder plot
at all.
When the surrender of Lee made
such a scheme unthinkable any
longer Booth then decided on muir
der; he had cherished the idea of
revenge too long and he could not
rid himself of it. He had no con-
federates in his plot except Paine
and Herold- says Mr.. Bryan, the
former of whom was to kill Seward
and the latter Andrew Johnson. But
Herold lost his nerve and did not
even approach johnson at the ap-
pointed time.
It is around the actual murder
that the myths crowd most thickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
America Next
By Peter Markham. Indian

dpols:: BobbS-MerriH Co.
This book, written by an Ameri-
can business man with service on
the staff of the Army behind him,
and with a broad acquaintance in
European affairs, announces that,
within the next five months, Amer
lea will be attacked by a combina-
ton of German and Japanese
forces and follows this sensational
declaration with the statement that
our only safety lies in putting our
Government on prompt efficiency
basis. This we must do, he reiter-
ates very earnestly, without destroy
ing our democracy; we must take
the virtues of the relationships
without losing the virtues of the re-
public; we must adopt some modifi-
citation of the Swiss form of govern
ment, which consists in rule by
President and Council. In this way,
and in this way alone, can we be
saved, he tells us. But it must be
done instantly. The German-Jap-
anese plans are already drawn up
and, as we are, we shall be help
less victim.
That is the theme of the book;
that is Mr.. Markham's message. It
is set against history of European
events since the Armistice of 1918,
narrated from the point Of view of
the defenselessness of countries
which have parliamentary govern
ments. It's jacket bears, among
others, Endorsements by Interior
Secretary Ickes and former Post
master General Farley. NC. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

moments, would hint that he might
meet his end suddenly.
This building up of the two char
acters of the tragedy as opposites-
the one young, vital and with a ca
reer of promise just opening before
him, the other at the peak of great
ness, grieving at human folly and
violence and fatefully ready-is Ger
tainly dramatic, although one may
suspect Mr.. Bryan of forcing his
material q little for his effect of
contrast.
Then comes the picture of Booth,
the conspirator. And why did he
become a conspirator? Because,
says Mr.. Bryan, he had a patriotic
passion for the old South and con-
ceived of Lincoln as the destroyer
of his homeland. He had acted in
plays celebrating the assassination
of tyrants at the hands of patriots
more than once, and his mind was
full of adequate lines to bear out
his Installation of himself in such
role. He was simply acting in
what he believed to be q play Of
noble proportions.
And, indeed, his attempts at con-
spfracy, as produced from the records
here, bear this Interpretation out,
romantic though it appears on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.
The Great American Myth
By George s. Bryan. Ne,E
York. CQrrick & EDnnS.

The great American myth" Of
this title is none other than the
murder of President Lincoln. Not
that Mr. Bryan holds the actual
murder to have been mythical. That
crime has, however, he says, given
birth to a whole brood of legends,
many of which are still popularity
believed. And he has set out to de-
molish these wonder tales by publ
cation of the simple truth.
He proceeds by telling us first the
story of the life of John Wilkes
Booth, the myths centering about
Booth being the most plentiful. The
man so dreadfully distinguished in
history was not mad, he says; he
was not gloomy, morbid or given
to decisions. He was, instead, q
charming, gay and kind-hearted
young fellow Che was only q when
he committed his immortal crime)
and was on his way to a stage career
which critics generally held to have
more promise than that of his BROTH
er, Edwin. He was handSomer than
Edwin and, according to the dra-
matte reviews of the day, much more
vivid on the stage. He had q pride
in his individual talent and began
his career under an assumed name,
so as to escape unearned attention
simply as a member of the great
Booth family. There was nothing in
his youth-or very little-to indicate
unbalance or abnormality.
Mr.. Bryan, having given us this
picture, then describes the plot
against Lincoln which, at the time
of his first Inauguration, caused
him to come to Washington incog-
nito. There really was a plot, &C
cording to this book; Lincoln was to
be assassinated while passing
through Baltimore. Realization Of
that grim fact, says Mr.. Bryan, made
an inerradicable impression on the
Presidents mind. Thereafter, he had
fateful attitude toward death, We
are told. and, In his melancholy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
By Lorena G.. Mondereaw,
Readers Adviser, Public Library,

The public library, Eighth and K
streets NV, and its branches are
distributing three lists of books to
aid you in selecting your books on
Christmas. The first list, called
christmas" includes many kinds of
material: Customs in other lands;
poetry and Rotations; music, par
ties and games, and q long list of
stories for reading aloud. A second
list, Christmas Plays" includes
separate long and short plays, as well
as collections of plays, all suitable for
amateur production. The third list
is Christmas in Art" All these
lists are available for free distribu-
ton on request.
The following titles are examples
Of the rich store of books available:
THE Madonna" by Philip L. Hale;
christmas in Art" by Frederick
Keppel, and THE Gospel Story in
Art" by John La Fargo, will inter-
est art lovers. Especially appealing
are the books entitled Christmas,
an American Annual of Christmas
Literature and Art" The 1887 edi-
ton includes Restoration: A Story
of Old williamsburg" a Christmas
pageant, poems, stories and religious
art. Lets Celebrate Christmas" by
Horace ]. Gardner, includes parties,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Gathers Virginia
Slave>Girl Story Ranks
AS Memorable Fiction
Astronomical Research Is
Turned to Fascinating Field
Of Life on Other Worlds
By Philip II. Love.
Sopphira and the Slave Girl

By Villa Gather. NeW York: Alfred A. Knopt
lived the edge Of Vrginias beautiful
family but forgot Frederick County
k its people other people In other
her childhood homen literary
that isto of the memorable novels of 1s4o
Sapphire Girl" story as is study
neither and its plot simple
as to require only three sentences for rather fun
by her mistress Sapphire Colbert With the aid of sapphra
When she returns for brief visit Is years later one
That is all there is to the o~a there
rate But IN Miss Gathers unusually capable nana becomes
kind skill that is seldom encountered this
has taken two general trends
ing the first trend
times with but slight regard for quality the other trend have
times all too to call spade spade as the saying Is and
eyes on the lists the
But Miss Gather ignores the trends and their various aS hns
since publication of her first novel % Bridge in 1872
aa 10 he no and h n svs G
been to them ill., ia her dn nov sn snS S
fiction Nancy and her Jealous mistress as refresh
small tells tale that full of meat and Juice as
mah nxe NGf m go a0 the Slightest sacrifice Of
merely the the slave and her owner is sort literary
ing nexoraby cooruy it
Of characters thoroughly ali at
abe fearful yet sappra vigorous despite her
ouiet regio an abotoni helpful
and eonnens a mSn' s
Miss Gather lays down her pen the reader feels that he on
So far as sapphira the Slave Gr
has only one rather surprising considering
authors experience In her conclusion she suddenly ne
herself into the ] B Da g es t ee0g er
during the quarter century that the muao mas bn away ne
entirely unprepared for the quick change Of viewpoint and to leave
full of what l. Meckn has described
forgive Miss Gathers usually perfect technique
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Second Wind

By Carl Zuckmayer. With
an Introduction by Dorothy
Thompson. Ne1D York: Dou-
bleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
There is a musical composition by
Maurice Ravel entitled La Valse."
1t is said to be an attempt to trace
the evolution of the German nation
through the waltz, since that Is
such typical German form.
Through it all may be heard the
struggle of the people, represented
by the waltz, to rise above hamper
ing conditions toward freedom.
Second Wind" Is very reminiscent
of it.
The author has not attempted to
use the accepted chronological order
In narrating events in his life, he
tells about them "in the way things
happen in dreams, the way land
Scapes appear when mist rises or
an airplane pierces the clouds" The
dreams" take us with him to his
home in Austria, 'the most beauti-
full house in the world" We re-
live with him his years before the
war, his time in serving at the
front, the Berlin period in which
he was fighting for recognition.
This is intended to be the auto
biography of a man, but it Is also
the autobiography of people. The
radical Zuckmayer Of postwar days
is typical of a Germany trying to
recover from the effects of losing
World War. A shocked Zuckmayer
after Hitler's ascension to power
might be any German who had not
realized the size of the worm gnaw-
ing at the heart of Germany. And
finally, the conquerable zuckmayer
in exile in America, who sees that
he must begin again from the be-
ginning" is any right-loving Ger
man, awake at last to the fact that
Germany and the world cannot ad-
vance until the scourage of Nazi-
ism has been wiped out.
RICHARD j. MURPHY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Meet the Murderer
o, warden Iepis E. Lu1res Ne,u York: Harper & Bros

Ri Warden Le,pis E. Lapes NeW York: Harper & Bros
The huge iron Prison swing open every DAY 70
classes meeung all o
During his tenure as ch VI
institution he has compiled many case MS
whose lives and persoahes ne mas oeen
lin position to study irst-hana .o,a,a uu;++.n
writing profession having written
Thousand Years sing ana
Murderer his latest venture ne mas
histories
and intimate within the penitentiary walls
as criminals who have gone quietly ana without
There criminals VINO mace
those who killed In nj passion
Death Row have left behind trail
sordid Each
presented the reader IN
flowing there OCCASIONAL toucn
hunor .-- 49, ~. .ao 80. so.,,,o+ os n,,oso pues
walls 1t strangely that
Sing Sing Contrary
belief trouble prison than any other type OF
criminal
omeimes the prisoners would
indigestion look at the weird combination
If food the condemned
live to reach the electric
nothing hasn't
appetite to eat. - q, 49,
offering the chair place the doomed
want
that 20 the applicants
and all Sing the last 20
had never which
with their lives RO5EtsT A. ERWIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
Life on Other Worlds

BIZ H. NeW York: Macmillan Co.
outside this planet Of almost
speculation.
No one knew Jupiter
from the and hence too colo
the too not
life the because there was no
and somewhat hidden
blanket cloud There knowing
surface Mars excessively bu not mposy o
atmosphere 10 some
markings indicated the work OF Intelligent bngs
with the strong evidence
Such of its closest
approaches crystal radio sets
the chance O. hearing a broadcast English.
accumulation OF evidence which
speculation Much OF this by the
of Great Britain gathers
fields specrocopy observaonal
physics chemistry and biology III oroereo ana Iasclas
know example contains
oxygen, carbon doade Hence II
plant life for plants release oxygen from the
require There be- and probably is scanty plant lie OF
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other evidence for sort OF plant lie remains
He not
mention an extremely bit recently accumulated
the findings at Dunlap in the spectrum OF
Ihe reflected supposedly areas
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mathematical probability OF some
body in the having experienced an
pobaolty Is SO
or less has
nane spabe of the necessary chemical biological conditions
only constitute one galaxy A a'
millions perhaps billions of galaxes. . , , .
is not mpossbet pobableta somewhere and some
time thi grammatical hp) me Oh te ooei u ~ ~
higher stage OF eVounon.
seculatons upon fascinating science ana
tho presented them in fashion not unworthy Oh
Sir James Jeans OF Oh "SSiNis''A' THOMAS R. HENRY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
The Buqle Thot Woke America
John Ddy Co.
By Hermann Hagedorn.

HerMdHH Hdged0TH NeU YOfK. Day
The story Of Theodore Rooseves country
struggle in the early of the first World War
prepared ready the responsibilities thrust
conflict, curiously
There things than the Colonel believed
the American people had idoized then
On almost he led public
which eventually forced the Wilson administration
1t In 1914 that the danger
States OF victorious Germany allied with 1918
haunted the fear of military ascendency
ndreamed Of Within 20 sheer growth
Germany would dominate the Western powers
United States left
Mr. Hagedorns story OF phase of T. RS life too often SKINNED
makes interesting reading when clouds
threaten the land the Colonel called
c. BELMONT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22
The Literary World Of Current Publications Various Fields
German>Americans Are in
Tragic Position, English
History Professor Says
Scholarly Detachment Marks
Book Based on Long Study
Made Before the War
By John r. Grifes.
The Tragedy of Germon-Amerieo

The Tragedy Of Germon-Americo
By John A. Hawgood. New York: g. p Putn1ans Sons
The patient industrious German seldom afo Of his
neighbors Individual but taken in the he often
obnoxious, particularly
the according
Hawgood this scholarly before after
States particularly partisan
tans scholarly detachment outbreak delayed
publication but it takes added significance United
States major role.
The author concludes that the tragic
arrested development Other scholars this conclusion
the
unified after natonaie therein trouble
Hawgood that robust America the
conflict with aggressive Americanzaon
wounded
to his Old World customs.
blame. Naivism Of the 1850s
particularly Proud such the Germans had trouble
fitting their environment the World War; managed
retain label German Americans With the war however was
must be said
that he took his choice gracefully sometimes gratefully
Hawgood treatise divided into three parts the German
hyphenated American
land failure
possibly settler ounumbed outmaneuvered
have he lost
backisted national crisis.
concluding his book the author recites the
the impression that
United States unlikely survive World
the unexpected happens and peace returns
quickly.
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