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Evening star., 1941-02-16
New Gertrude Stein Novel Is Novel by Gertrude Stein

Miss Stein at her finest or her
worst. She wishes to reiterate this
because. in her own case, this is the
first Stein fiction which she has
ever read which impressed her as
being anything but mental pot
hooks: she fears, therefore, that the
true Stein lover will find the work
an inferior example of Stein art.
Otherwise, she probably would have
been unable to get any meaning
out of it at all.
And. with this confession on rec
ord. she will proceed TO say that,
after nearly six years OF steady
reading at the average good" novel,
the respectable worthy work of fic-
ton with its fat descriptions" its
jigger of romance, its fate-pursuing-
man device and the rest of it, it
seems to her that Miss Stein, by
stripping the record of a human
beings activities down to almost
imbecile simplicity, has really done
something. She has written story
of a human life, which really is a
story of a human life and not a
story of lifes furniture. She has
put her Ida before us very much
as cartoonist puts his little Carl
catureS of human types; they are
without perspective, without back
ground, without color or much
shading. They are simply outlines.
Yet, for the purpose of telling a
story, what device is better? The
Evening star., 1941-02-16

answer is obvious. You have only to
investigate the popularity of the
comic strips to find it out for your
self.
Just such a reduction to essen
tisls is Miss STEMS accomplish
ment here. Beside her Ida" the
usual trade novel is like a pseudo
Rembrandt in a pseudo-gold frame
beside a Walt Disney. 1t is like a
Victorian cozy-corner beside a
modern sunroom. The obvious
temptation. of course, is to say that
Miss Stein has streamlined her fic-
tion. The reviewer would put it.
rather, that she has reduced it to a
sort of rock-painting simplicity.
For some time, indeed, the re-
viewer has privately wondered if the
day of the novel has not come to
an end. This, however, has not been
because there are no good novels
being written. 1t has been for the
directly opposite reason-it has been
because there have been entirely
too many good novels. There has
come about, indeed. a great dispro-
portion between good novels and
good novelists; fiction, in other
words, has reached so standardized
a stage that a clever writer can,
with some study of the right mod
els, write a book which is much
better than himself. The crafts
man stage of writing, that is to say,
has given way to the assembly-line
Evening star., 1941-02-16

stage. Our fictioneers have learned
the elements, and they simply put
them together for us. 1t is profit
able; writer's today earn as they
have never earned in the whole
course of history. And so it follows
that there are many men and wom-
en- writing. And many more of these
simulated pearls OF fiction.
History, as is we'll known. never
goes backward. (Or is it progress?)
Well, anyway. under the circum-
stances sketched above. a return to
the old days when moral passion or
satiric temper and a small eXpecta-
ton of financial returns dictated the
production of such fiction as was
above the sob-Sister level. seems
most unlikely. And so the reviewer
has asked herself more than once
in recent months, whittier now the
novel? How far will this simulated
vitality carry it? How long before
the people weary of the well-bal-
anced formula? Or better, since
the people, in their reading matter,
are notoriously indifferent to any
thing but sensation, how long be-
fore the genuine artists rebel?
One answer, of course. is to be found
In the work of Huxley, who for long
has used the novel merely as
frame within which to hang a Sc
ries of essays. Another, it seems
to the reviewer, may we'll be found
in Gertrude Stein, whc mas SIM
ply reduced the fiction business to
its skeleton.
But, If this be an answer, it is
clearly a destructive one. There
can hardly be a school of Stems.
Miss Stein therefore would seem
to have erected a tombstone rather
than a signpost.
1t will not have much effect. We
may expect, indeed, that it will
have no effect at all and that the
writing business will move into ever
higher levels of efficiency until the
day will come when everybody will
do a novel every day-you will just
buy the cellophane-sealed powder
at the chain store and take it home
and pour some hot water on it.
And there it will be, one, two or
three volumes. according to whether
you got the pink, green or purple
envelope. Yes, certainly, that will
be the direction which progress will
take. And the triumphant feet of
the regimenters will by then have
trodden Miss Stems little warning
into dust-or. to be completely NOR
bid. 1t will have become a quaint
literary monument. to be visited
with respectful admiration.
Incidentally, there is a chapter on
Washington in Ida" which no
body who knows the methods of
practical politics can very well af-
ford to miss. You don't have to be a
Stein addict to understand it. either
You only need to be q Washing
tonian. NC. r..
Evening star., 1941-02-16
German Settlers in Africa
Are Controlled by Nazis,
Negley Farson Reports
His Book, Written After Visit
To Dark Continent Gives
Fine Idea of Conditions
By Mary-Carfer Roberts.
Behind Gods Back
By Mary-C carter Roberts.


Bv Neqey Farson NeU York Harcourt, Brace Co.
Here have added
empehenVness Of the ounher works
not get around over Whoe cenhe @ = ne % % S m hcS i, % @ "
Union South A S South Ars
Equatorial Africa Gold
he gives fcass working politically, socially
that m tn. y @ n s 6 ~Gs @ d s
pnd poical futures and these
s gg M Tnsson sf p 4ns nd n
studying Belgian colonies and
plans their African holdings
tda h o6 in eVy district @ehrer under Whose party discipline
all local peorce
Nazheaton of the German Africans had gone so far indeed at the tune
refused market for his produce
year broke
onss on: 81 Hfst c4.s, %spsss Problems.
Mr. Farson ofhciahese
% @ he n And s ne found md s m es are so
when sometimes happened
Teutonc
an goosestep to be sure and it executed mobusve
by the have been formed throughout
land handle the products Of the and the
that there Germans in many the colonies than there are
He WneH that e be of @ a naye M n p n hss
they scrupuousy honorable carrying out their
for the native English rule goes But even with
of admiration he exclam diay the manner
send settlers up
ties while Engshmen merely
African
with old school
English planters businessmen and of
he had low opinion Apparently concludes COLOMBIA
the class Of Englshmn longer.
Allied
the the Gulf of
territory Africa
completely dispe dream OF
marching Chad
Tie italians marching from Lbya will
take place
Eelgian
The Belgans he found doing practical job administration
ordinary
and provide them far possible, with employment
is
far ver volume than that 1t written brief sections
stalking goria
will
him we'll believe him He superb this kind
writing.
accounts part saddenng
arfcaN
the differences between administrative PHILOSOPHERS
conditions Ovambond there excellent results these the
opposite general
The book fine Lively reporting ends earth
quake-Mr. like
Evening star., 1941-02-16
The Redemption of Democracy

Rauschnng. from, By
Barrows Mussey Nen0 York: Alliance Book Corp.
Rauschnng carry eXami
National Socialism from which he left
in The Revolution Nihism obscurel written work
the would Socialism
to date and forecast what may come tomorrow.
tells told beforethat Nazism
invisible revolution which will
all fronts civilization
national habit thinking things out their bitter end and then acting
revolution through
technology the the chronological Tech
brought freedom of the
brought them Instead technology has destroyed all the
people except
maer DR. Rauscnns length to describe the growth
where his mind found its first practical application
population,
privileged find themselves fear of the
absouism assured against
itself
but comes to world so stripped OF all values that promises
reality destruction enlistment of
this its adherents dare skechng point
Raunng combine with Russia the
To oppose this he says there only
revolution reduced life materiam
thinking which incapable
compromise especially Great Britain he
escaped desperation which technology brought
confronting each oherthe tng logical despair which logically
the other ypng the free ungulatabe growth
of humanity within the framework of kind OF government which allows
hope following
from National Socialism dangerswi be
incorporated There
what mankind the future believe he discusses the nature
tiumphs main his case given above He is as said fun
wisdom sometimes he very ELOQUENT There can be no doubt
who has vision
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Aunt Elsa
BuE. G.. Pinkhdn,. Net0 York,
Alfred A. Knopf.

oQ 4. ". 4 tftnILuHt' A'SpS W N'
Alfred A. Knopf.
E. G. Pinkham has given US a
bit of New England in the $50 pages
of his story about Aunt Elsa, who
lived in the small white house on
Salem road.
He has reproduced with charm
and sympathy some Of the qualities
which might begin TO strike the
traveller as soon as he crosses the
Connecticut line. Variously de-
scribed as New England thrift" :"
"provincialism or being set in the
ways" this way of thinking prompts
Aunt Elsa to go to bed every night
at sunset because she sold her oil
lamps when she heard electricity
was going to be put in, and then
refused to let the pole men dig in
her front yard.
Aunt Elsa's story is also the story
of the world she made for herself
and lived ina world where her
drowned husband was on his way
home and her renegade son was
Governor of Oregon-rather than
accept the pattern fate would thrust
upon her.
The delicacy of both prose and
humor combine with an underlying
philosophy to give this rather small
volume a literary flavor reminiscent
of James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr.
Chips"
MARION WADE DOYLE.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Brief Reviews

Novels.
SHORT DAYS AGO. By Renee
Brand Ne1D York: Farrar &
Rinehart.
Story of refugees from present.
day political persecution. One Of
those heart-breaking things.
BLOODBIRD. By Thomas Burton.
NeiO York: Smith & DurreH.
Story of farmers fighting to keep
their lands threatened by power in
terests. Trite.
Mysteries.
IF A BODY. By George Worthing
Yates. Ne,0 York: MorrolC.
Murder in tourist camp. Average.
PROFILE IN GILT. By Jeanette
Couert Nolan. NeiG York: Funk.
Murder among the ladies-a lady
victim and lady cop. $3.50 enter
tainment.
THE PEACOCK FAN. By Harry
Stephen Keeler. NetU York.
Dutton.
Murder with a deathhouse back
ground. Average.
THE BROKEN VASE. By Rer
Stout NeU York: Farrdr &
Rinehdrt
Murder with theatrical complica-
tions. Average.
Stories.
QUICK SERVICE. By P. G. Wode-
house. NeD York Doubleday,
Doran.
Another Wodehouse.
Science.
EARTH SCIENCES. By J. Harlem
Bretz. Philadelphia: Wiley.
A short text on meteorology,
oceanography and geology. written
for the layman Useful and inter-
esting.
THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF
SCIENCE. By J. G. CrotCther.
Ne1u York: Macmillan
A history of the development of
science through the ages. with en-
phasiS on the social conditions in
which scientists have had to work
Original and interesting.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Ida
BIZ Gertrude Stein. NeU York:

BY GeTLTuuo OtoLH. NeU OIh.
Random House.
The reviewer does not pretend to
have any critical standards for
judging Gertrude Stein. In the
past she has found Miss Stein
merely a mildly satirical thinker
who seemed to feel that, by putting
quite ordinary ideas into language
that was semi-intelligible. she was
giving these same ideas a height
ened significance. Or else she SIM
ply found Miss Stein completely
meaningless. And this defines the
only rule of judgment which she
has ever possessed for working out
a Stein-appreciatiye mechanism
could Miss Stein be understood or
could she not? The various excel
lenceS which the lady may possess,
the differences between fine Stein,
casual Stein and Stein the mill
all these have laid outside the re-
viewers awareness. So she is proud
to be able to report of the present
book, labeled by its publisher as
its authors first new novel in IL
years" amy others in the period
apparently having been old oneS)
that she has been able to get its
drift, she thinks she knows what
it is about, and that she has even
been able to draw some conclusions
from it.
This first new novel in IL years,
then, is the history of woman
named Ida. Ida, one gathers, is a
person for whom life is long dis
appointment. When she is little
girl, she has great dreams of fame
when she is old enough to realize
those dreams, she finds that she is
too old for them longer to interest
her. She then has series of hus-
bands-or it may be that some OF
them are lovers. They always go
away, or else she goes away, except
in the case of the last one, Andrew,
of whom Miss Stein says:
Little by little there 1t was. Il
was Ida and Andrew.
Not too much not too much Ida and
not enough Andrew.
And not enough IDA and not enough
Andrew.
II Ida goes on, does she 60 on even
when she does not 60 on any
more.
No and yes"
One gathers that by this time Ida
is pretty badly bored with every
thing and has decided that one
thing is very much like another
anyhow. One gathers, too, that
Ida has tried everything which in
terested her but, unfortunately, that
nothing ever really did interest her
So that all her experiments have
been pretty much q loss. That
would seem to be about all there
is to it.
Now the reviewer wishes to re-
iterate In all humility that she has
no Idea in the world whether this 4
Evening star., 1941-02-16

Readers weary of the modern
scene may find heroes and hero
ines of other lands and other times
In romances of unusual setting
among the volumes at the Central
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, and its branches.
Julian Foldes' I'm Getting Mar
ried," although seemingly American
in speech and pace. could happen
only in a country like Hungary. for
Suzy, an attractive cabinet-maker
and interior decorator who is forced
to make a marriage of convenience,
promptly falls in love with her own
husband whom she has agreed to
divorce.
The romance of Fayre Jones and
Bess Howard in Maristan Chap
mans Home Plans" has the rug
gedness of the Tennessee hills for
its flavor. The Broad Highway
by Jeffrey Farnol is the adventurous
tale of disinherited young English
man, who. although, he became a
hobo" was lucky in both love and
money. Pearl Bucks East Wind,
West Wind" portrays the struggle of
a Chinese girl to adjust her Oriental
ideas to her husbands Westernized
philosophy.
In Thomas Hardy's Under the
Greenwood Tree" carriers son
courts the new schoolteacher in a
tiny Wessex village. The charming
love story of a sophisticated Amer
lean girl and a simple Basque peas
ant is told in E. M. Kelly's
"Basquerie,' in which one comes to
appreciate the beauty of the Basque
country.
Evening star., 1941-02-16

Your favorite heroine may be
popular young lass with many
swains like Christopher MorleyS s
Kathleen" or wild and winsome
gypsy girl, as in J. NJ Barrie's Lit
tie Minister" She may be an at
tractive bachelor girl" as in H. G.
Jenkins Patricia Brent, Spinster, :"
whose make believe" soldier lover
introduces serious complications, or
even as f1ippant and wise as
Graeme Lorimer's Maude in Men
Are Like Street Cars. and its Sc
quel First Love, Farewell"
On the other hand your hero may
be the courageous herman" in
Owen Wister's "Virginian," or the
impulsiye, day dreaming boy in j.
NJ Barrie's Sentimental Tommy"
or he may be an African explorer.
as in Archibald Marshall's 'Squire's
Daughter" But whatever type your
hero or heroine is, you will enjoy the
realness of the characters in Vir-
ginia Woolf's FLUSH the love story
of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert
Browning as told by Elizabeths dog.
Mary Johnston's To Have and
To Hold" and Janice Meredith" :"
by P. L. Ford. have a realistic set
ting against the background of the
early struggles of this country. The
first is story of how a chivalrous.
Colonial husband won the love of
his purchased bride. a refugee from
England to Virginia The second
reveals the conflicts and heartaches
experienced in the love between a
Tory girl and a young general in
Washington's army during the
American Revolution.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Broadway in Review
RI John Mason Bro,rn Ne,p York: W W Norton e. Co.

By John Mason Broun Ne1o York: W W Norton Co.
faithful the heater
approached entered the 194Os could hardly be found
dramatic of the New York Post
all
results
John sliding
reputation"
foreword that ito people dramatic
criticism like to tattoo bubbles EX
n
happened
his
filed with first and of them have
stood the test of well For Broadway Review largely
this about
feld-from Maurice to Bill Robinson
chapters
Only Hypocrites 1t this chapter which
phipp
whether Cornell
is the
Barrymore
simply phrases all place the
t.
AS No n
enough for both of which
concludes column
Broadway should be at least the starting of
The collection of columns the field than adequately
the that there theatrical history
making. CHARLES M. EGAN.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Mr.. Meek Marches On
BIZ Homer CrOu.

By Homer Croy. NeW York: Harper & Bros
k-MrW to hs
full little
time the last chapter the his he
attained Like all
like of
going entirely into the channels nevertheless he paid
called
told the sheriff that he replied calmly
immovabily Gibraltar Il
Nothing 10 all out Of
town to Washington and back In his humble
all
Alger touch his
problem which his
HOWARD
Evening star., 1941-02-16
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 Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance:
FICTION.
"Oliver Wiswell," by Kenneth
Roberts Doubleday. DoranD.
For Whom the Bell Tolls"
by Ernest Hemingway tScrib-
ner's).
"Sapphira and the Slave
Girl" by Wills Gather CKnopD.
Random Harvest" by James
Hilton Little, Brown.
"Delilah," by Marcus Good
rich (Farrar & Rinehart.
NON-FICTION.
"a Treasury of the Worlds
Great Letters" by M. Lincoln
Schuster Simon g. Schuster). .
"Out of the Night" by Jan
Valtin alliance.
white Cliffs" by Alice Duer
Miller Coward -McCannD.
81 Rode With Stonewall," by
Henry K. Douglas Chapel
Hill.
"The Vanishing Virginian,'
by Rebecca Yancey Williams
Dutton).
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Your Income Tax
By J. X. LASER.

By J. X. LASER. Net6 York: :
Simon & SchuSter.
Worried about your income tax?
Wondering how you can keep it to
the legal minimum? Well, the 1941
edition of Mr.. Lasser's annual hand
book for income taxpayers is about
the best investment you can make.
1t has been among the best SELL
ers-and no wonder! 1t explains
how to prepare your return quickly
and correctly, how to. take advant-
age of every deduction to which you
are entitled by LAWN short, just
about everything the average tax
payer needs to know. And, what is
equally important. its method of
presentation is sufficiently simple to
be understood readily by any one.
p. H. L.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Suwonnee Valley

By Bernie Borchdrdt and Eu-
gene Sears. Ne1U York: Hdr-
binger House.
This is a story of Florida in the
80's, the years of that strange States
first boom 1t is about a young
lawyer who Is shining and good and
goes out to battle political corrup-
ton. He wins. The characters of all
these men are jet black or snow
white. There is a lot of talk such as
retired lawyers indulge in about
strange and wonderful cases in
courts they have seen. Not even
these apparently true-ife interludes
can help this novel its hard to
think of anything that could.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Romantic Stories Included
In Collection at Library
People of Other Lands and
Times Are Presented in
Many Unusual Settings
Br Elizabeth A. Moody.

Assistant. PetwOrth Branch Public Library.