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Evening star., 1940-11-24
Virginia Woman's Story of
Her Father and His Era
Is Admirably Executed
Rebecca Yancey Williams Is
Author of Amusing Book
Marked by Tolerance
By Edrin Tyibbie.
The Vonishinq Vrqinion

Heoeccd Ydncey r. q
personality
member of vrnas distinguished Colonial families On
the surface he deprecated his distinguished heritage but sbcon
sous he failed to live to it. Professionally
weahs Lynchbug occupation
living otousy
enough
catch williams daughter
here memoir which is intimate and aectionae vet oov objective
always
did exactly pleased confod psychologists that
nevertheless he led useful life and died
knowing
could
Ss the o AMID s the ps & War times ge
particularly said calling
upon Sd @ aU wn rs al s the @ small Va sna Of man m writes Mrs & hs
His and my father said called upon God to
fasehood Gods and that something would
The captain ANYTHING tn.
spent
least ann ss lie ms 1 devoted sHe % % p sn work. a T he @
Sunday The ndamental might what
hypocrisy
that world which
canzed"
liked him When nsuted them
than
D T person. y ran d to s al m H h to o a s
and pretendns draw him out cant give him esther
he has both and "a doesn't IKE to tax sd % I It an 9 sns % % m
something damned nsncere
whom nobody wants to listen TO-
ought listeners 1t silly to encourage
them anything else"
a Old his wife
South
failed change She always GENTLE
could quite pockebok
the captain doubt found
these vices steady warning to himself not slip into
Mrs admirably recreating "capn Bob
light amusing has the hne quail
tolerance that found the old captain himself
7 the King
By Translated from the German by Geotrey
Dunlop. York: Longnans Green Co.
this brilliant historical novel
Philip II Of Spain will draw
may exactly Hitler Philip
Inquision dreadful picture
of IS happening today.
approaches his the viewpoint Of the
few writer's Of historical fiction
whcn
Philip this He from these pages
squeamih blood
parallel history dabola madness petty rewd-
medocrity which Europe
appalling picture of spider-lke monarch sitting IN
waiting the blood OF the peoples he
matter
ushes himself victories for God
garroted
nations revolt he regarded gloangy as
glories for religion.
participated the conquest of the Netherlands
small nations and in the attempted invasion
of England.
attempted conqests Philip and his treat
wes VIII OF ms
victims Column activities the police
espionage the plotting of today be startling
JOSEPH s. EDGE7TON.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
The Tide of Fortune

By Stefan ZUeig. Translated
from the German by Eden and
Cedar Paul. NeU York. viz
ing Press.
This is a series of 10 essays of
uneven merit on moments in history
or in the lives of individuals when
a single chance has decided great
issues. The style is dramatic and
tense, and throughout the collection
1t has been the authors effort to
make his readers feel emotionally
the strain Of great decisions. He
gives up Grouchy at Waterloo, max
ing up his mind not to join the
battle and thus bringing about Ma
poleon's defeat. He gives us Capt.
Scott arriving at the South Pole
only to find that Amundsen had
been there before him and to be
defeated by chance on his return to
his base. He gives us the story Of
Rouget, who composed the Mar
seilles" and became a genius for
one night" Cyrus Field, Goethe,
Cicero, Balboa, Handel and Lenin
are the others 1t is, in the main.
an effective volume, though, as said,
not all the pieces are of the same
level Of goodness. Still, as an ex-
ercise in a highly special kind of
writing, 1t Is well above the average.
NC, r,
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Hitler's Germany
By Karl LoeDenstein.
York. Macmillan Co.

York: Macmillan Co.
Prof. Lowenstein's survey of the
Nazi background for war, first pub
lished shortly after the outbreak Of
the conflict. has been revised to
bring its picture of the Reich under
Hitler up to date. No radical revi-
sion has been required in substance,
for the Third Reich was a war gov
ernment from the start.
But Germany today, undisputed
master of continental Europe, defied
only by Britain's Navy and r. A. F.,
presents quite a different picture
than did the Reich of 1899, sitting
tight behind the West Wall. The
German version of the totalitarian
state which then appeared only an
example of streamlined despotism,
today seems more likely to be the
blueprint for the future of large
part of the world.
Prof. Lowenstein, before 1898 a
lawyer and teacher of constitutional
law in Germany, traces the rise of
Hitler and the creation of the Ma
tional Socialist party and state. The
survey, a remarkably objective one,
is valuable as a brief yet compre-
hensive analysis of national move
ment which is also a political reh-
gion of worldwide Importance.
C. BELMONT FAIRIES.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Jonathan Swift, Giant in Chains
By Frank Stier GoodtDin.

By Stier GoodtDin. Neu York City: Liuerioht.
genius who lived in and died
lived almost r. and English
chains" Mr. Goodwins thesis
the life Of Swift
story Goodwin who lives Washington makes Of
extraordinary biography Of
type biography factua
swift record of strange he told with all
great historical 1t novel, But 1t is
history. And enhancing story
whom Mr. Goodwin chose present in this fashion
difficult fellow. lived the world it and he lived
of his fellows He INDUCED what he considered the
stnted that he destroyed the happiness OF
Stella and Vanes Esther johnson and Esther vanhom-
realization of his greatness cost him the fruits
that greatness might have brought him He lived Mr. Good
abundan clear life of tragedy He to the last his
prisoner
Swift Ireland 1863 and he died there In
145 He resented Ireland because him from being English but
odd fought for Ireland the last While he still
Irish priest he became the friend and intimate OF cabinet ministers
His brilliant bitter the potent England
and though seldom that he published work with his name
attached guided for while the destn of Queen Annes
and brought about the downfall of the great Duke of a
winston Churchill.
In these times the first introduction to Swift through Guers
published in London November 16 and Alex
and Pope pophesd 1T will be hereafter the admiration Of all
child reaches high school who has not read It, But
written adult book sharp satire the times Guver in his
Lipu bound the little Swift himself
Guliver-bomd all his life
Swift themthat makes this story disturbed
genius. BLAIR BOLLES.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Brief Reviews

Conservation.
MY COUNTRY IT'S OF THREE.
BY Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Flea
nor Bowman and Mary Phelps.
New York: Macmillan.
The story of three natural re-
sources-soil, coal and Oils out
lined from the point of view Of
conservation. Scientific but under
standable.
MODERN WILDERNESS. BY Will
liam Arthur Babson. New York:
Doubleday, Doran.
Observations Of the author in a
game refuge. Very pleasant read
ing.
Novels.
JAMIE. BY Josephine Bentham.
New York: Dial Press.
Story of a girl at what used to be
called the flapper age. Humorous.
RECKONING RIDGE. BY Emer-
son Waldman. New York: Holt.
Story of the struggles of a border
family in the Civil War, its suffer-
ings from both armies and its es-
sential neutrality. Very good writ
ing.
KATE BIRMINGHAM. BY Frances
Frost. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart.
Story of two highly individualized
old ladies in a little New England
town, much activity compressed into
a short period of time, effective and
worth reading.
THEY LEFT THE LAND. BY Ma
omi Jacob. New York: Mac
milan.
A story of a family of Yorkshire
countrymen who leave the land for
the city. Disaster follows. Solid
and worthy.
Science.
SCIENCE ON PARADE. BY A.
Frederick Collins. New York:
Appleton Century.
An account of the very latest
devices of the scientists, how they
were invented and how they work.
Interesting.
IT is YOUR LIFE. BY Dr. M. M.
Rosenberg. New York: Scho-
lastic Book Press.
How to keep healthy and live
long. A medical man is the author.
The Theater.
MODERN ACTING. BY Josephine
Dillon. New York: Prentice
Hall.
A well-known coach of actors
writes some instructions.
THE BEST PLAYS. Edited by
Burns Mantle. New York:
Dodd, Mead.
Mr.. Mantle's annual selection.
Experiences.
YANKEE SKIPPER. BY Joseph A
Gainard. New York: Stokes.
The skipper of the City of Flint
tells of that ships exciting voyage
after its capture by the Nazis.
Worthwhile
THE NEWS AND HOW TO UN-
DERSTAND IT BY Quincy
Howe. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
How news is gathered and written
and what to believe and what to
discount. Rather elementary in
approach.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Life and Law
By Samuel Williston. Boston

By Samuel Williston. Boston:
Little, Bropn G. Co.
This is the autobiography of a
man distinguished as a teacher,
practitioner and writer in the field OF
law. DR.. Willston has been pro-
fessor of law at Harvard University
and lecturer at the law schools OF
Columbia and Chicago Universities.
He is an eminent writer In the field
of sales and contracts. and he has
had a practical career in distin-
guished law firms and offices, not
ably in Washington under Judge
Horace Gray. His life has been. as
his title indicates, literally stepped
in law. Yet, of this formidable sub
ject he writes with discoursive
humor and untechnical lucidity. He
follows simply the course of the
years, which makes the bulk of his
book take in the latter part of the
10 century. Of this now picturesque
period, its manners, its pleasures, its
sports, and, of course, it's courts. he
writes with gentle affection. The
tone of his book is conversational
but dignified. 1t is the kind of life
history which can be taken up or
put down at will, or opened and
read at almost any point with en-
tertainment. Lawyers and law stu
dents probably will find more in it
than the lay reader, but it can be
recommended for either kind.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
With Love and Irony
Bu Lin Yutanq Ne1p York: John Day Co.

written by the distinguished
Critic published in English by
neectuas Nanng The pieces Of interest to
much the that the doctors previous
modern Chinese scholars opinions
written
English style which inevitable cramping
of translation
writes of
white yellow writes of
China But he also writes purely
involved
charming collection He describes moving he gives piece Of
Addisonan his OF into the merits
explains should the movies He
Mouse and produces delightful thing about
fully The collection informal writing a
already American public
admirers his train nothing that
quality definitely endearing
Embezzled Heaven
By Franz Werel Translated from the German by Moray
Firth Nep York: Viking Press
We touching little story of the quest of simple unedu
wealthy decides
middle herself earth salvation for
soul Heaven by financing education Of nephew for the priest
hood So M savings that undertaking. nephew
whom she scalawag regards his aunt simply
hghfu source OF spending he early from the
and himself various dishonest practices but keeps his
bnefactor ignorant of his deception sending him
retired
charge Of parish that discovers
broken life contv failure priest
ernbezzle
ingenuity The book gently written
going through.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Novel by Kenneth Roberts
Shows British Views on
War for independence
Christina Stead Writes Grim
But Accomplished Story of
Poor Wasl ington Family
Oliver WisweH
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

Kenneth Roberts. Nep York Doubleday, Doran Co.
past Monumental fairly
hs Rsvolutionay between other
from on the ni if you t M % oys po
OF view.
hero of the
lawyer father training him be writer history Oliver therefore
dpassonate through divers mouth begin
ns % % a2 to Hns sTs s pa0 other
n The 5snnss of Revolution instead Mr. Roberts through
desperate hope for their condition through
Hancock Adams according
his own talent for ancoc was conved mupoler who
had fined 100000 the British
Roberts worked the emotions
great point dissenting
people and that the was not pop as we
ppon pSn to eeTa % the n has sna Sn @ @ the great BODY he
which esss % psa M and s e1so4 fact ses Se
Continental 1t looked with enthusiasm he the arrival
SSs @ :s m
hn psn eao9s T @ h takes f the @ Ssn
Oliver ensts with the Royal and in intelgnce
cers Information Shch could have bsn to bring
victory says Mr. Roberts was due the
English and not to the commission of our ancestors
lines scope wonderfully
on Of Boston after the seng Of Dorchester Heights by the
he he n Ps a 5 to s % h @
fights the campaigns the South He demon for getting
determined to act on what he tells them after
diusoned hero still unable to accept the despsed
loyals
reunited with his sweetheart, leave him.
which
the Comic relief this
ovable
finding necessary
documents printing The
clasay along of famous
Howe throwing victory after charming
lady George washington fuouy beratng his fleeing troops at the
battle Island Sa Benjamin Franklin the King of
Benedict Arnold tn
altogether book of action and that indispensable ingredient
minimum However, the action carried
of civilians and the prisoners Of respect these uoruna
neither side record to be proud Of
criticism make of work which
would
there much Of it, much information much
could
entertainment.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
By Carvei Painter,
Readers Adviser. Public Library.

With the passing Of the quadren-
nial political contest. most of us are
becoming less Democratic or Repub-
lican and more American. So, to
provide useful information and pro-
woke thought on the many serious
problems which confront our Nation,
the Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, herewith presents a
few recent books which are, or soon
will be, available.
National defense today is the
prime consideration. But as war
fare now is total, so. the concep-
ton of defense must become all
inclusive. Total Defense" by Clark
Foreman and Joan Raushenbush,
looks at American problems in this
full light. Expert opinion agrees
that minimum defense of our
vital interests would encompass the
hemisphere, south at least to the
bulge of South America. The latest
treatment of this subject is Carle-
on Beals' Pan America" and a
worthy second is the Hemisphere
Defense Edition" of Duncan AK
mans The All-American Front" :"
The problem of defending the vital
Panama Canal is adequately treated
in j. Fred Rippy's The Caribbean
Danger Zone" while the problems
involved in our relations with the
British dominion to the north are
surveyed in John MacCormac's
Canada, Americas Problem" The
recent signature of the tri-power
pact linking Japan to the Rome
Berlin axis brings home the two
frontier character of our defense
problem and makes particularly
timely Robert A. Smiths book, Our
Future in Asia"
To implement our foreign policy,
all arms of our military services will
be strengthened. AL Williams dis
cusses "Airpower," and a recently
published Senate document (No. 81,
rs Congress. 1st session. discusses
''The Army of the United States" in
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Books on i. S. Problems
Are Listed by Library

all its branches. But national de-
fense also requires a mobilized civil
ian population, backed by mobiliza-
ton of resources and productive
energies. Brooks Emeny's mono
graph, THE Strategy of Raw Ma
terials" Q934, remains an impor-
tant study. H. j. Tobin and p. w.
Bidwell's "Mobilizing Civilian Amer
lea" reports the results of a two
year study of the technique of in
dustrial and civilian mobilization.
Fully as important is the problem
of psychological defense, of building
immunity to foreign propaganda and
ferreting out fifth column activity.
An understanding of the problem
and direct means of combating 1t
are elucidated in the Institute OF
Propaganda Analysis Attack on
Democracy" (January, 1880; in
Propaganda, the War for Mems
Minds" by H. L. Childs and others,
and in H. Franke's Psychological
Warfare and How to Wage 1t"
Far more important are the indi-
rect means of combating evil, meas
ures calculated to make the Nation
strong by solving our domestic prob
lens and revitalizing our faith in its
institutions. We arm for defense,
but we must know what we are to
defend. Is it capitalism? Read
Charles E. Carpenters Private En-
terprise and Democracy" and Walton
H. Hamilton's The Pattern of Com
petition" Are there limitations to
the patience with which we tolerate
abuse of democratic tolerance?
Read Ralph Barton Perry's Shall
Not Perish From the Earth"
While this is only partial list
of the recent books on current
problems of defense and well-be-
ing, to read them all will take
perhaps a month or two. For those
who need or prefer shortcut, the
library can provide brief articles
and pamphlets, many by the same
or equally responsible authors
which, while less complete and less
satisfactory, will provide some use
full coaching toward intelligent
citizenship.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
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
American Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
Mrs. Miniver," Jan Stru-
ther; For Whom the Bell
Tolls" Ernest Hemingway;
"The Family" Nina Fedorova;
Foundation Stone" Leila War
rem: The Voyage" Charles
Morgan; You Can't Go Home
Again." Thomas Wolfe: "Invi-
tation to Live" Lloyd c. Doug
las; Mr.. Littlejohn," Martin
Flavin;; THE Great Mistake"
Mary Roberts Rinehart: THE
Stone of Chastity" Margery
Sharp.
Non-Fiction.
"The Wave of the Future"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Tire
lawny," Margaret Armstrong;
Pilgrims Way" John Bu-
chan; "a Treasury of the
Worlds Great Letters M. Lin
coin Schuster; Europe in the
Spring." Clare Boothe; Il Mar
ried Adventure" Osa johnson:
THE Vanishing Virginian,"
Rebecca Yancey Williams;
White Cliffs" Alice Duer
Miller; BET It's a Boy" Betty
Bacon Blunt; Tragedy in
France" Andre Maurois.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Americans Wanted

By Maj. Gen. Stephen o.
Fuqua. u. S. Army RETIRED.
Ne,D York; Smith & DurreH.
Americans Wanted" can be
termed correctly handbook of the
military organization of the United
States. The author has given an
informative discussion on the func-
tions of the arms or combatant
forces and the various service
groups in the United States military
establishment. Other related sub
jects, such as how the draft operates,
the age and physical qualifications
for peace and war time service, the
duties of non-combatants and the
percentage of casualties in the va
rious branches of the military or
ganization are dealt with in this
book. The text is adequately Illus
trated from actual photographs.
F. g. K.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Families

By Karl Schrgiesser Ne1u York. Ho,ueu Soskin Co., Inc
This collection biographies
lies Adams Barrymore
Vanderbilt Guggenm Du Pon Rockefeller and Roosevelt Many
have been written about various in each of these
groups dobly family
biographies appeared
merely repeion his ineeate and critical
,sssy ;
M are M The
writing LYMAN Hn, Ward the Psrs,der
xss Ms to the s an pDa her sister,
The and d. not easily dn
vanderbs whom schrsesser
expected
ss ty DO n9 ns nss s.. o
The people in all these chapters were individuals first and then
members notable families 1t when get to the ouggenhems
that
another one Du ront from another This no fault Of the authors
eer And does Franklin dominate the clan in
gives hardly more than seneaosca nod to the
type group biography dc 1t calls
nsssy lon @ DID .s ye .ns S s
he shrewd his always readable. EFT.
Monetary Management Under the New Deal
By Arthur whipple Crawford Washington American Council
on Public Affairs.
In this on rs s n M M cTsHerS a s D has
this study New Deal monetary policies and since 1898
during the administration
money appeared in the 1882 campaign
major portion of the vomeeigh chapters devoted to
managed system 1933ea
1885, banking laws changes
n currency, and constitutional powers
eight chapters problems
results powers the and Federal
System obecv of monetary policy operation Of credit
results of silver policies international management the gold
problem effects monetary and the future OF the monetary
Crawford critical Of New Deal monetary policies whole
policy but the Federal Reserves
technique the Teasys part IN
promoting stahlsaton Of cREsToN MULLINS
Evening star., 1940-11-24
The Man Who Loved Children
hristina Stead. Mem York: Simon G. Schuster.


highly accomplished
Washington the Washington
lives the affected the
residents the Capital
contrary, the family Pol might have been
history history psychological
physical deeds the aherth
loved chldren scientist Government employment His second
children
father exavagant to the point of complete ponsibty and the
grandfahers
inheritance In this of false values there develops
terrible psychological conflicts.
Sam is the complete egocentrc requiring an audience incapable of
feelings driven maintain his hold
spiritual trickery immediate
his children he his whole time dominating them his
his oldest daughter Louisa unwhoome desire
a
q
destructive influences the girl
beievab
carried
this picture Is further heightened by the failure Of
Henta inheritance develop The family then sinks from it's
@ Sans nperturbaby untouched by this wretchedne but the
denouemen OF genuine
power worked out the revolt and of Louise While the book
reaching Miss Stead nothing produce atmosphere
of twisted and abored emotion which downright ocous In Its impact
naturac writing would
recommended quiet evening
Evening star., 1940-11-24

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