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Evening star., 1940-02-11
On q DorkIinq Plain
By Wallace Stegner. Neu York

Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Mr.. Stegner two years ago won a
Nation wide contest in the field of
the novelette,. The winning work,
Remembering Laughter was con-
seqnently pretty well celebrated, and
his first full-length novel naturally
must come in for serious eXamina-
ton. The reviewer, however, has to
admit that, having read it, she finds
nothing in it to indicate that the
award of the prize called forth
genius. Mr.. Stegnar writes lucidly
and with some accomplishment-yes.
But he also writes to plan and order
with deadly arbitrariness, and his
thinking seems to be immature, to
some degree, at least.
He makes use in his novel of that
familiar lay figure of Is years ago
the y lung man who, wounded at
Ypres, finds himself in a state of
despair and bewilderment and goes
of into solitude to think bitter
thoughts-uninterrupted. The soil
tude in question is the Canadian
prairie, where the young man builds
himself a sod hut, and where the
nearest neighbor is miles away.
There he settles down to drink his
mental aloes.
Ah-but the neighbor has a daugh-
ter! Imagine, If you can, the sur
prise of that. The young man, how
Evening star., 1940-02-11

United States, as viewed by the soci-
ologist, are contained in Caste and
Glass in Southern Town." by John
Dollard, and after Freedom" by
Hortense Powdermaker. Both books
are based on first-hand observation
in the deep South.
"A Preface to Racial Understand
ing" by Charles S. johnson, Is a
more popular and somewhat briefer
approach to the economic and social
aspects of Negro life, while James
w. Johnsons Negro Americans,
What Now?" considers the racial
system as it exists today and what
1t means to the Negro as a citizen.
The Negro Yearbook" should be
mentioned as an invaluable source
of information on the progress of
the race as a whole and on the
achievements of outstanding indi-
viduals.
But the Negro is not Americans
only racial problem. Bertram j.
Schrieke, in Allen Americans dis
cusses some of the other groups
with which the white race has yet
to work out satisfactory relation
ships. Believing. the problems of
race relations remarkably similar,
regardless of what groups are in
volved." Donald r. Young, in Amer
ican Minority Peoples" suggests
some possible remedies. Race Dif-
ferences." by Otto Klineberg, is
study of the psychological as well
as the physiological barriers between
races.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Best Sellers

The following list of best SELL
ers Is compiled from informa-
ton obtained in Washington by
The Star and in New York,
Boston, Chicago and San Fran
cisco by the North American
Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
'Kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley; "The Nazarene, Sho-
lem Asch; Escape" Ethel
Vance; Moment in Peking,"
Lin Yutang; 'No Arms, No
Armour" Robert Henriques:
"The Grapes of WRATH" John
Steinbeck; "Let the People
Sing" j. B. Priestley; Portrait
of Jennie" Robert Nathan;
THE Eagles Gather" Taylor
Caldwell; "The Star-Gazer,"
Zsolt Harsanyi.
Non-Fiction.
"A Smattering of Ignorance"
Oscar Levant; Country Law
yer" Bellamy Partridge; Land
Below the Wind" Agnes Newton
Keith; Days Of Our Years."
Pierre van Paassen; Wind,
Sand and Stars" Antoine de
st. Exupery; Happy Days."
H. L. Mencken; "All-American
Front" Duncan Aikman; In
side Europe" John Gunther;
Caroline Of. England" Peter
Quennell; Your Income Tax"
j. K. LASER.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Brief Reviews
OF New Books
Mysteries.

Mysteries.
TINE OFF FOR MURDER. BY
Zelda Popkin. Philadelphia: J.
B. Lippincott Co.
A girl detective and the numbers
racket. Average lively.
THE MAN WITH TWO NAMES.
BY John Palmer. New York:
Dodd, Mead 6z Co.
Plot deals with the machina-
tions Of q world wide narcotic ring
Interesting tale.
THE HOUSE PARTY MURDERS
BY Edgar Allen Poe, jr., Phila-
delphia: ]. B. Lippincott Co.
One Of those queerly assorted
house party things in which two
or three people contrive to get killed.
Mediocre.
THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF
MICHAEL SHAYNE. BY Brett
Halliday. New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
Gangs and gambling in Miami.
Average.
MURDER LOVES COMPANY. BY
John Mersereau. Philadelphia
]. B. Lippincott Co.
Murder at the San Francisco Ex-
position with a lovely newspaper gal
sleuthing.
NO MOURNERS PRESENT. BY F.
G. Presnell. New York: The
Morrow Co.
Z Murder in politics. Readable.
Juveniles.
FAMILY FOOTL1GHTS. BY Kitty
Barne. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.
A group Of young people engage
in amateur theatricals, making a
lively story for boys and girls about
8 to IL years of age.
WHISTLE FOR GOOD FORTUNE.
BY Margery Bailey. Boston
Little, Brown Il Co.
Six fairy tales-genuine fairy
tales. A very pleasant book for any
one of any age who enjoys such.
BOO AND THE BIRDS. BY Leila
Smith Grifln. Boston: Meador
FuDuSNlnR 20.
instruction in bird lore for the
young.
SINGING BIRD. BY Janet Ram
say New York: Thomas Nelson
g. Sons.
Story of a high school girl who
made good as a singer. Average.
JUVENILE JEWELS. BY Grace
Gormly. New York: Pyramid
Press.
Collection of children's stories.
Average.
JOAN'S FRESHMAN YEAR AT
STANFORD. BY Dorothy Plum
mer. New York: Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard.
Just about what it sounds like
For the II to is year olds.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Inside Europe-7940-Wor Edition
By John Gu7ther. Ne1o York: Harper & Bros

By John Gunther. Ne1O York: Harper & Bros.
Here Is the last word
background of events narrated the
become international leading
allies
Finland Russia interpreted coordinaed relationship with
everything that has before.
lowed publication his edition included
Daladier
Grand Churchill the Pope and other leaders,
subjects Russia oen relations internal conditions the
Aaland Islands Lihuana Civil
Europes conflicts intensity indispensable
the American
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Portrait of Jenny

By Robert Nathan. Ne1D York:
Alfred A. Knop1.
If one likes Portrait OF Jenny"
1t is good novel; If one doesn't, it
isn't. Which is to say that Mr..
Nathan's current brainchild may be
rated as either good or bad, depend
ing upon how one chooses to regard
1t And this reviewer chooses to
regard it as very good, indeed.
It is written in the first person,
from the viewpoint of a.half-starved
young artist named Ebeh Adams.
When he meets Jenny, she is 4
child so small that she is just learn
Ing to add 2 and 2. IT wish you'd
wait for me to grow up," she tells
the artist. But I guess you won't" I"
That her guess proves wrong is due
to Mr.. Nathan's trick of telescoping
past, present and future into what
his publisher advertises as "a new
and important concept Of time"
New and important or not, this bit
Of literary sleght-of-hand enables
the author to raise Jenny from
childhood to womanhood In less
time than it takes a girl in real
life to 90 through the first grade.
So Eben waits.
Readers who are too lteral-mind-
ed may argue that Portrait Of Jen-
ny" simply does not add up, that
the girls lightning growth is illogi-
cal, that the manner Of her meet
ing with the artist is not true to
life, that some of the things she
tells him do not make sense. But
other readers will retort that the
test Of novel Is not whether it
adds up or makes sense, whether It
is logical or true to life, but whether
it is written with suficient artistry
to make its reading q pleasure. And
II that Is the test-as this reviewer
believes that 1t ts-then Portrait
Of Jenny" Is = fine book, written
with great akin and to he read with
equal enjoyment. Pill
Evening star., 1940-02-11

ever, does not fall IN with the plot
too easily. He rejects the daughters
love until, in the stress of the flu
epidemic, he realizes-well, realizes.
But then it is too late-the daughter
has died. So he is about to plunge
into despair afresh-and why not?
Well, because he is needed. Service
to humanity calls him. His despair
passes, his crisis is behind him, and
he leaves the dismal prairie at last
q new man.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
No More Gas

By Charles Nordho1 and James
Norman Hall. Boston: Little,
BrO1Un & Co.
Here is a delightfully."- rollicking
novel by that Incompatible pair of
collaborators, Charles Nordhof and
James Norman Hall, who have
written the doings of the IMPROVE
dent family of Tuttles of Tahiti into
a joyous comedy.
The Tuttles are descendants of a
certain Nathaniel Tuttle, a New
England sailor who, when ship
wrecked, landed at Papeete in 1858.
He married Polynesian who
brought to him as her dowry the
Valley of Vaipopo. A large house
was built. When we meet the
Tuttles, 1t is after three generations
have lived in this mansion. The
original beautiful furnishings have
been sold piece by piece to buy gaso-
Evening star., 1940-02-11

line, food and drink and in their
stead are tables made of packing
cases and chairs of hogsheads.
Jonas, the patriarch of the pres
ent Tuttles, is the hero of the story.
He is generous, lovable, impractical,
brown n-skinned man of enormous
girth who is never unhappy for
more than five minutes at a time.
That he has his five minutes"
when he seems to be capable of
feeling real tragedy is evidenced
when at one time he gives up as
lost at sea his four sons and grand
child; at another, when he mis-
places the money to pay of the
mortgage, and at still another, when
he comes back to remove the last
vestige of the few belongings left in
the Tuttle mansion. However,
something always seems to happen
at the right time for Jonas and it
makes one wonder if DR.. Blondin,
the Tuttles' berefactor, is not wise
when he remarks to Lawyer Dorme
twho thinks the Tuttles an un-
worthy lott, There will never be
enough Tuttles in the world"
Wy n
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Hugger-Mugger in
The Louvre

By Elliot Paul. NeU York..
Random House.
The reviewer, having read this
detective mystery tale by Elliot Paul,
wonders that Mr.. Paul tries at
times, as he does, to write any other
kind of novel. For his serious works
are unnotable, to say the least.
Concert Pitch,' done a couple of
years ago. was a dreary perform
ance dedicated to the mother COM
plex, and The Stars and Stripes
Forever" was strictly imitation
strike novel in which all the strike
novel cliches were assembled in such
uniformity that, at first, the re-
viewer thought that Mr.. Paul was
doing parody. Unhappily, as it
turned out, he was not. He was
trying to write a book in the FASH
ionable manner; and both he and
the manner suffered from the ef-
fort. But let these unkind men,
cries die. Mr.. Paul. as a detective
novelist, is the best the reviewer
knows
For, though it might seem impos-
sible. his detective story has real
humor and style. 1t is nothing but
farce, but it is farce at its best
1t begins with the disappearance of
a famous Vatican from the Louvre
and proceeds through the disap-
pearance of a middle sized Amer
ican businessman" to the exchang-
ing Of the mummy of Tout-or- NADIA
in his sarcophagus for the recently
slain corpse of the minister of
Beaux Arts. It is enlivened with
a sinister quack doctor, lovable
taxidermist, a Wild West lady pistol
shot who plays the harpsichod, a
gang Of Apaches and a Negro blues
singer. It abounds in broad, not
to say downright bawdy, humor,
absurd anti-climaxes and farcial
situations. It is, in other words,
great fun. The reviewer is not going
to give the plot away. She just
recommends that those who like
their mysteries merry 60 out and
get a copy. NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Walk Like q Mortal

0y DUU W1CESUUeU. VcU OTk.
William Morro,o & Co.
In common with many other au-
thors of modern fiction, Dan Wick
enden has used the mental turmoil
of his characters as the cornerstone
of his plot. Walk Like Mortal
is based upon the psychological
problems that worry 17-year-old
Gabe Mackenzie when his mother
leaves his father for another man.
Much can be said for the under
standing and finesse with which
the author develops Gabe's char
acter, for he is a typical boy In
thought and speech. His senior
year in high school is q treat to
be enjoyed greatly by all who are
not too old to remember their
schooldays.
Mr.. Wickenden has the capacity
for making his characters live. This
coupled with an exceedingly pleas
ant vocabulary and . plot that never
lags make this novel one that 10
enjoyable to read =. L. @.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
One-Woy Ticket
By Eugene O'Brie11. Ne1D York:
Doubleday, DOran & Co.

Doubleday, D0ran & Co.
This is another of Mr.. O'Brien's
grim tales of the lives of the Navy's
enlisted men. His first novel, "He
Swung and He Missed" told the
sorrowful history of young fellow
who joined up to see the world and
found only the direst disillusion. It
was a small and unimportant book.
but yet had a precision about 1t
which made the reviewer say that
Mr.. O'Brien perhaps should be
watched.
The present novel, however, ad-
vances very little. It is just another
tale of how a bad officer, by in
tolerance and stupidity, can mess
up the lives of the men under his
command. Like HE Swung" it is
sufficiently convincing, and since
Mr. O'Brien has himself done q four
year term of naval service, 1t is
full of genuine service talk and
nautical description. But that is
all 1t would appear that the
author can write adequately, but
that he has nothing more to say
than that life at sea is a heart
breaking sort of business. NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Woe Unto You, Lawyers

By Fred RodeH. NeW York: Reyndl & HITCHCOCK.
pulled readable treatise the law and
University
cares learning
in the last he insists, modern "med
cine men,"
Pointing out that unable to transfer his property die
supposedly naenable rights without the
such intricate
they talking
the time situation the professor that trials
be into the vd in the subjects with which
deal that the Constitution similar documents be written in sph-
positions eventually
business
reading whether agrees
with the authors presentation
expounded JAK
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Since Yesterday: The Nineteen Thirties in America

By Frederick LeUis AHen Neu York: Harper Bros.
thousands Aliens .only
Yesterday published Yesterday"
the sequel provided rushing
Allen. It is fascinating book
with interesting and intelligent detail events with which
familiar but which
decade He begins his book
the crest the Of the prosperity reflected
And that chapters
the depression the
with
ena-soca and economic-of depression and recovery.
Reading this
with neeng fckeness Of public
fashion Men
few short lost the
precipice
Mr. Aliens humor his impartial
clear add interest and reliability having
M.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Hamlet Had an Uncle

By Branch CdbeU. NeD York: FarrGr Rinehart.
that is familiar
thadbaness little that freshly
arranged For the tale dreay characters situations
attitudes taken of earlier set with little
inspiration the reviewer has encountered the work major
maid of single all consuming
tewed handsome the witty aging amoist
the Cabling adequate" wa these
setting before public
appears badly nicked and costumes
faded
distressing than the deterioration Of the figures
skill of manipulating
than this reptions
rangements Justification the mastery dnes their
reviewer grieves
justification to be found Mr. Cabe writes his
quoting himself largely at random When
has lacked pat sentiment he apparently has just put down
mind The effect he had
profound and the result book that bores less
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Coal and Unionism

BY DdDd Mcdonald and EdUdrd Lynch
Cornelius Printing Co.
America founded Columbus Ohio
that the efforts of this organization
directly American Canadian
American should be reviewed today compreenely
been done in this volume.
In foeword John Lewis ninth president
Workers. points out that the
record accomplishment
done in the of social
OF country the people industry
Although the 5 anniversary of the United Mine Workers
being commemorated the history
American fostered Irhmen
Scotsmen the
British 1sles far older 1t 849
coal miners into existence in this country under
named John Bates in the anthracite
no was and before another union
OF local the American Miners Association
less than months before the start of the Civil War
The troubled story Of the miners
from that day to 1880 graphically told is
episodes
and harwon victories which paved the unionm
today.
understanding the con-
dons which American labor
10 the OF the development OF America.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Book Carries Fragrance
Of Miss Mansfield's Fine
Spirit and Tragic Power
Scrapbook Brings Memories
OF Lonely Career and Deep
Appreciation of Others
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.
The Scropbook of Kotherine Mansfield
By Mary.C Carfer Robert.

Edited by Middleton Murry. New York; Alfred A. Knopt
Of Mnse It's include compse
1rsinta
nd Of pieces ns nd the ma
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gone pretend
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which fine the
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FORM sentence of standing alone that matter
phrase apt tale Who say
which
Answer" probably the best The Lost Battle Miss Mansfield
ss s ss
be read with sense Of incompetenss.
Usual Usual Ma Manner es'ef'ne Of the a Author
the authors usual deal familiar
the the w sn ss e s Of sa s
found depon which the other side Of the balance
d s esS @ n1 @ n s s
Of former touching to; % followed %
gath and understandings After Keats letters Fanny
And read his letter which he she
another
feeling
written.
a
which hestating
appears Mansfeds
following
Notes Indicate Marriage Was Passing
Through Stormy Period
period
despair which her illness plunged it, He abso
lutey entanged himself"
H. Tomlnson,
I suppose everything worth doing but
certainly from literature there
amazingly things it, but prefer without them than
price, but simply don't
believe"
OF she writes sharply Lawrence denies
declares of imagination He
denies Ife-I human life -"
is all intensely characteristic said and the with which
brings us to the end Of Katherine Manselds life inevitably casts
OF detect
fragile scattered realization Of her
artistic fe hectic flush her
small
personal therefore has
beloved a respect
The book will be Mansfield whom
despite the Of II there STILL good number
Evening star., 1940-02-11
The Medical Career
Rn Hnr1,en Cnshin

By HarDey Cushing. Boston: Little, Broun & Co.
This collection Cushngs papers and addresses
physicians doubt want have because Of its
sion AS it happens however DR. Cushing something
wrote and spoke with therefore
appeal to considerable part Of the lay public also
The work discusses career re-
history
and psych and examines the early medical
try also contains biographical
clans and Henry WEIGH William Beaumont william
Stewart Hasd James Rhodes
Iams Harvey Abrecht
There also present for
public medicine this Gushing opposed idea of Govern
ment coercion he called laid IN the
medical to the
Lett alone he insisted the doctors would set their for
themselves For the politicians
ea1eu "ouo ony make CONFUSION worse confounded r.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Europe: Versailles to Warsaw

BY Ronald Stuart kan. Ne1D York; H. W. Wilson Co.
The series Of events Europe will he s
ced greater and scrutiny experts ayen as
and the time
In book which No Of Volume 1s Of the Reference Shelf
meet the lay readers need for
and Judge the which provoked az
last August and early September -
The author connd published
neS ana the outstanding and most significant writing
development Of the European crisis Collection
documents through which projected the Europe pungng
into the abyss Of military struggle
The author
great powers the lesser the Balkans supple
nentng this encyclopedia digest with
Tor the years l0s2a There also m extensive oaph CBM
Evening star., 1940-02-11
One Mans Fight for a Better Navy

By Holden A. EU1ns NeD York.: Dodd, Mead & Co.
1t Comdr Evans autobiography
which holds the readers interest
successful vanity
striving needs
of business methods naval activities.
Comdr shortly Civil War His family met
with his struggles gain education
evidently impressed him with the
profitable him in Construction
Corps of the Navy able introduce
building ships
His book
Naval Academy 1888 until his
trying his Government and its
for his education
story layman who unfamiliar with the
Navy and its problems G.W,D,
Evening star., 1940-02-11
The Literary WordRevews of Publications Fields
Humanist Produces Book
Of Outstanding Merit
On Estimates of China
Native Types Are Observed
AS Writer Wanders Through
Land; Story of Naval Man
Throuqh. Chino's Wall

By Graham Peck. Boston: Houghton Mi6ln Co.
Peck artist who with thousand
holiday set out 1896 for round
the West Coast when he China
what he wanted paint
abandoned In favor Of trek through Cnas
szechuan the deal indeed and
he has written about 1t charminely. -
The book little hard to describe to be
e and that OF artist
methods OF transportation the
method OF all travel writer's But
made on trained and sensitive
China. - -@ ~ ~ eN '
Perhaps the best humanst For
broad informally without whimscates does
he treat Of his memories of his Journey
He went the natives
weeks with Mongol family sought
farmers herdsmen bggars merchants indeed
who would talk to him. - -
Apparently Has Of
Gaining Confidence of
He has apparently the gift Of gaining
some these down his
material backwadness which he
this the remarkable
the automobile still unknowna thing which
very surprising
The 1T should be said little
Mr. Peck arrived
confident suggested in
the air When the trouble actually
shortly met with injury which ended his
the stories already written about
never glossng the drtness compatibility
the Asatics. His sympathy for them unmistakable
types selected drawings the course Of
his wanderngs These
OF which
metoiou China the reviewer
Evening star., 1940-02-11
The Loon Feather.

By lola Fuller. NeD York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
This Hopwood Award, richly romantic
Oneta the daughter Of
the Indian Temseh and falls into mode and fashion
that American readers the OF James Fen
Cooper Its author seemingly has felt bound for her
material written hardly
presentation
of Mans Happily she less She
inescapably reminiscent
tells the life of the little Indian girl her
people their lodges the north woods the white man had
materially punges
troubles which sought themselves
after Tecumsehs
Macknac
little girl thrown contact for the first time
with the whites Here mother Frenchman and here
she introduced which the two She learns
the both finally ad
vantage She also the love Of white physician and with him
add spreading hygiene her already
wisdom 1t feels what
little Indian maiden would the circumstances
noble
which undoubtedly will large, admring public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-07
Big Ovation Expected
 For Willkie Wednesday
dential Candidate When He Visits City; Due Here at Noon; Speaks at Library Park

Republican leaders predicted to- day that Wendell L. Willlxie will get tremendous reception when he comes to Waterbury early Weakness day afternoon. The schedule has been advanced bit, so that the Willkie party is now expected to enter Waterbury at 12:30 p. m. and the candidate to speak at Library park at about 12:45 r. m.
 Following Willkie's talk, which is scheduled to last about Is minutes, the official party will go to The Elton, where newspapermen and of ficial members of the entourage will have lunch. At 2 o'clock the motor caravan will leave Waterbury.
 To be met by police escort and the official reception committee headed by Town Chairman Vernon Hall the Willkie caravan is expected to enter Waterbury from Naugatuck at 12:30 p. m. The official cars will proceed along South Main street to Grand street, then west on Grand street to Library park. After Will kIG ; dUui CSS, ULlC CdI VIII SO WNo0 on Grand street, to Meadow street, to West Main street, to The Elton. The caravan will leave Waterbury for Bristol and Hartford via East Main street and Wolcott street.
 Music will be offered at Library park by the consolidated high school band.
 All along the Willkie route through Connecticut, airplanes vii flash over head. Chairman J. Kenneth Brad ley of the reception committee said that 20 planes cruise ahead of the official party, with one of the planes equipped with loudspeaker which will announce the time of the can- didate's coming.
 The local reception committee has arranged for the parking of cars of visitors, from out-of-town at the American Brass Go. lot on West Main street, at Thomaston avenue.