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Evening star., 1941-12-14
Novels Involving Children
Are Offered by Library
Bv Lucille Walsh
Readers Advisory STAFF. Central Library

days. Booth Harrington, in The
Fighting Littles," has given us an
other hilarious and human picture
of American family life in which
the love affairs, parties and auto
mobile wreckingS Of the adolescent
son and daughter keep poor father
in a continual state of near-pro-
family.
Among the older books is Mrs.
Barry" by Frederick Niven, an un-
forgettable portrait of mother who
accepts poverty without bitterness
and surrounds her little son with an
almost divine love. In "They Came
Like the Swallows" by William
Maxwell, a wise mother is seen
through the eyes Of her two problem
sons. Her handling of them is so
skillful and her influence so great
that, at her death, they are left
strong to meet life without her
physical presence.
No more powerful study of ab-
normality has ever been put into a
novel than Meat" by Wilbur Dan
iel Steele. Into a happy New Eng
land family there is born a child so
abnormal that he should have been
put in an institution. The mother
refuses to take such a step. In her
pitiless fight to raise him as a nor
NAL child among normal people, she
all but wrecks her home and ruins
the lives of her husband and her
other children.
These and many other novels
about children may be obtained at
the Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, or at any of the neigh
borhood branches.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Be Angry at the Sun
By Robinson Jefers Random House. Ne1u York.

In this volume of Jef
occupation with world conditions obviously
vision Of the whole civilization
entire book one of forebodng and the theme of disaster through
all the matter their
coroay that Mr. ers clothes this theme appropriate
awful. And he in his harsh rhythms
The volume contains long narrative Mara
Bowl OF Blood" and a number of shorter pieces.
The narrative the theme purity
remain while jealousy
California the
with her brother The neghborhood knows the situation
gossip reaches husbands its ugest
there sickness death and insanity in the world outside there mock
defement
finally, puts end to his life.
telling this Jefers wealth miscellaneous
voncea dgbe wrecked falls from bridge into the canyon
kills invalid husband
his
despair eyes world
and the end of all things.
The forecast of the Hitler to seek counsel
advice
France falls
England the ends of the
humane Hitler and larger views
poems similar despair grim and agonizng
beauy-the phrase the volume NC r.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Shadows Of Winqs
By Stella Morton. Harper
Bros, Ne1U York.

With the Manners family, this
novel presents picture of England
during the tense uncertainty of
pre-war days and the purposeful
period of all-out effort to defeat
Hitler.
Caro-, the mother of the five
Manners children, who will be par
ticipants in the war or else wives OF
participants, and John, the father,
who barely keeps them going on the
sale of his mystery thrillers, repre-
sent the English appeasers because
of memories from the first World
War. Tony, the eldest son. is with
the R. A. F.. and Jason, who desires
to be a painter, is pacifst. Tim,
the youngest son, is absurd and love-
able for his nonchalant youthful
ways. Virginia, with her young hus-
band and new baby and London
refugees, ard Judith, lovely and
worried, are the daughters. This
middle-class family, with its differ
ent views on the war prior to the be-
ginning of hostilities and with its
swing to a uniform belief as the
conflict becomes certainty, pre-
sents a clear picture of cross
section of England.
THE Shadow of Wings" is an
easily read and delightful novel
which will give the reader better
understanding of the widespread
belief that there will always be an
England"
FRANCIS G. KNIGHT.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Soma of Ariron

By Nym Wales. John Day Co, Nev York.
interviewer life
its ndomtabe revolutionary leaders Kim San auobio
authority
people
climbed the Hills of Yau River refuge
Manchura beginning there had faith
Wilson the League Nations professed champion of small
politically like
anarchism Communism the
which
tonary groups Naonalss
Kim San participated in the Canton Commune the Haofen Soviet
of the Chinese Revolution, all
1t has been his mission the Korean underground
involvement
favorable rebellion Kim only the fierce
termination his people fundamental historical when
who shall will history?
Consciousness Millions must die
BUCHANAN Jr.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

For parents who wish to supple
ment their scientific knowledge of
their children, no non-technical
field of study holds more interest
and fascination, or yields richer
fruits in actual understanding
gained, than that Of fiction.
The past year has been particu-
larly rich in novels of this type
Elizabeth OHaras My Friend
Flicka" is the picture of dreamy,
sensitive little boy and his UNDER
standing parents. They give him a
colt who becomes his dearest friend,
and in breaking the horse, the boy,
too, is broken to the responsibilities
and realities of life.
Thomas Sugrue, in such Is the
Kingdom" chronicles the events in
the happy 7th year of Jamie, who
sees life and love and death and
marriage from the safe harbor of
religious home.
Any parents of a daughter at
the awkward age will take hope and
delight from Stella Benson's Junior
Miss" the story of lumpy school
girl who emerges almost a lady on
the last page. There's One in Ev-
cry Family" by Francis Eisenberg,
is a series of sketches about a nor
NAL little girl and her anti-social
little brother-a problem child who
t,ll l.
Their sensible mother knows how
to handle him far better than the
student Of child psychology who un-
dertakes the task when the mother
is called away from home for q few
Evening star., 1941-12-14
The Young Churchill
By Stanley Mott. Fore,Dord
By Lord Haitian. ColCard-
McCnnn Inc Mem York.

~ SLQHley NOtL. FO7etooIu
by Lord Haitian. CoUard-
Mccain, Inc, Ne1U York.
This is the story of the boyhood
and youth of winston Churchill.
Beginning with his school days, 1t
repeats again and again the Church
lillian fact that the great war Prime
Minister has always been a repel
against tradition for traditions
sake, an original thinker and a fel-
low of brilliant initiative in action.
These things have been said OF hlm
before, of course. but Mr.. Mott sup
plies the concrete instances.
Churchill at school would not ap-
ply himself because he was not in
terested in the studies which ira
dition compelled him to take. He
was considered stupid and obstinate.
He did not like to play games
heresy of heresies in an English edu-
cational institution-and he founded
factions among the students to pro-
test at faculty rulings which he felt
we're unfair. So he was considered
something of radical. Churchill,
in the army in India broke un-
written laws by seeking transfers to
scenes of action, instead OF staying
comfortably in quarters. Conse-
quently, he was regarded as too ad-
yenturouS. But in following his own
hand, he seemed always to be able
to vindicate himself, and his critics
had to concede his ability. Re-
peatedly, the pattern is demon
strated-the apparent upstart con-
founding his elders.
The book makes point OF the
number of times the Prime Minister
took an active part in military en-
gagements and was under fire or in
hand-to-hand combat. and ends
with a detailed description Of what
is probably the best-known incident
in his history-his capture by the
Beers and his subsequent escape.
1t is all naively written: it some
times reads, indeed, as if intended
for children. But it serves to show
why Winston Churchill was the man
to whom Britain turned in her hour
of need. He had been building
name for originality and an ability
to think fast in tight places since
he had had name at all. He was
no accident, but a man prepared,
as if by destiny, for the peculiar
place he has had to fill. NC. r.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Yug0slav Patriot Certain of
Victory Over the Axis
Author Who Broadcasts From
Boston Relates History of
Chetnik RevolutiOnaries
Free YugosIovio Calling

PetroUtch Greysone Press Ne YORK.
conveyed title
Yugosavia continuing fight against Naz slbga-
a call to battle sighted and
outbreak World
the Slavic lands and confident prophecy of
Czechs Poles
others who live under Naz tyranny.
their
peoples evwhereboh in their
YugoaV
territory they have conquered.
filled glorious role in the history of South.
when the German occurred did not take
appointed
exile they and
guerrilla struggle against the Germans
history Chetnk the Turks tightening their
which everywhere in
the Balkans and early in the 10Th century these duk united with
Bulgarian revoutonaries form the "komtad Sub
sequent the Serb of this organization took the name
"Chetnik.'
against well the
daily their lives the Chetnk supplied with food
information hills
the ruthless German oppression.
acceeraing 1t
Petrovtch who
Paul Revere with his hort-wave
of that the free Central
regionalsm.
presents peace program that already has
resistance
occupied well an the
Mar
1884 fresh details colapse
of France
personalities of whom
positions his country The WORK
perhaps view of the authors intense enthqam
forh cause CRESTON B MULLINS.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Wolf on the Fold
BIZ NelliSe Child. l

Dy NCtttoC Stttds DOuOSSUUy,
Dordn & Co., Inc, NetU York.
1t is hard to tolerate the evangel-
izing Furie family as pictured by
Nellise Child through the more than
800 pages of her first novel. But it
is easy to see how, out of such a
group, could come the juvenile de-
linsuent who ends up trying to run
the country the way he once ran
his rivival racket.
The father, Simon, is a dreamer,
a Grand Me who Is never willing
really to work because he feels he is
cut out for something better. The
mother, Clara, is always excusing
her worthless husband. Daughter
Effie eventually throws the whole
family over for a saner, Quieter ex-
istence with a bourgeois husband
Daughter Rosemary is a sincere and
good evangelist who teams up with
a Bible-bitten cowboy to run a
travelling revival show. Daughter
I1dIlIld, Will llSI lClliOl OIl S4lC VI d4ll
is the one near-normal child, but
she treats her no-good brother as
her mother treated her father.
Out of this unstable family the
son, Jerry Otis, grows up, a victim
of his fathers temperament anc
playing on the affections of the
rest, one against the other.
Evangelism pervades the narrative
Simon sees one day how full the
hat is when Rosemary has preached
and decides that he, too. has been
given the call He tries to take over
Rosemary's show and fails, as he
fails in everything. Jerry Otis
comes along and does take over
using the alteration of his followers
to his own best advantage. Halle
lujahs echo throughout.
Nellise Child says she had no for
NAL education after she was Is, but
worked at various jobs until she
married. She has been five years
writing her novel. 1t will lrritate
you if you start to read it, but you
will finish it.
I0pJN Wy TuOh6pGNN Jr
Evening star., 1941-12-14
London Pride

By Phyllis Bottonle Little.
Bropn G. Co., Boston.
Miss Bottome has written a sig
nificant and sympathetic story of
children under bombs. The char
acterization is concentrated mainly
on the Bartons-- poor but proud
family which consists of Mrs. Bar
ton, a charwoman; her husband, a
docksman with communistic lean
ings, and their numerous children,
Allie and Vi1et, twins; Flossie, Bert,
Ben and Mabel.
Ben is the favorite of both Miss
Bottome and Mrs. Barton. His
mother named him Ben because he
was born as Big Ben struck on a
wet midnight in September, 1888.
When the bombs begin to fan in
Beulah street, Dockland, the 10
year-old twins are evacuated, and il
is young Ben who must take care OF
baby Mabel while the other men,
bers of the family earn their exist
ence.
The adventures OF the group are
told with a real knowledge of the
poor Londoner's problems, point of
view and humor. Miss Bottome is
to be commended for not making
her children the objects of pity,
which they could very easily be
under the distressing circumstances.
All are believable, from the would
e-glamorous Flossie to the infant
Mabel. Mrs. Barton is the un-
schooled but shrewd and loving
mother, while Mr.. Barton is the
brawny and sullen father. But the
book is primarily about children,
and the author knows what goes
on in their minds and hearts. Lon
don Pride" is an eloquent tribute
to peoples strength.
j. WILLIAM RUPPEL, Jr.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
The Opinions of Oliver AIIston

By Van WICK Brooks Dutt0n, NeW YORK.
of his Pretending
that the
intellectual life America
and then in the role commentator In other
words he critic Aon then the person
critic tics his criticisms You could hardly tie
tighter
pleasant not might expect the basis
formidable analysis OF the whole OF
has regarded him
writer and that he is not as the
writing
deliberately criticism as his field 1t afrms ms
OF letters which has Its own ano
from imitation OF foreign scho
thinking inquiries into the nature OF basic
that
poccupion with the basic human
socialism 1t suggests that
their
depes expaasm Gertrude stenism and the general practices
full ano
Of sound faith in human
1t benevolent gesture toTaro
lund OF
Evening star., 1941-12-14
The Armies March
:. Charles Scribner's Sons. Neu York.

By John Cudahy. Charles Scribner'S Sons NeD YORK;
backed by the united
great power the world Mr. Cudahy believes
Ambassador Poland Minister Fire and Ambassador
armies roll the Lowand has no
Hitler
the Rhneand 1886 he
view of the future The world we know
Farewell comfort and
inheritance possessions
continuity
Perhaps he adds firing will be followed
OF animals every
standard we have known will be overturned.
point is his exclusive interview with
Hitler in this country Ignoring
obviously the of the German
Propaganda itself objective reporting OF
talk with world leader at the peak of his career.
impressed by Hitler whom he
waiter
waiter.
at close hand and has felt them
deenv
question OF his
~ ~ 7 C, BELMONT FAIRIES
Evening star., 1941-12-14
-Four Years in Paradise
BIZ Osa Johnson J. B. LippncoH Co., Philadelphia

By OSd Johnson. J. B. L1ppncott Co.. PhhddeIphld
the which she and
Brit
elaborate and
ambitious undertaking.
tells little nothing about the work OF
which johnson 1t
ain obs-Which fell to her
clearly
which the
expedition them Johnson did the rest She planned
the planted the gardens hunted and she
helpers cooked washed Clothes
made furniture maintained small ZOO OF pets stood guard with her gun
photographed charging elephants and
generally the fires burning rstng up the fuel
included home laboratory
natives and acres OF garden which nr
realizes that womans work. this jungle
establishment least fair share.
tells well prepared Tor the
She vegetablesshe
troduced American watermelon and
had also brought flower seeds
studied manual
training make chairs and tables
understood
peculiar tropical conditions That she crack
telling dropped leopard
lust husbands helmet how she finished
episodes dealing
various domesiciy and jungle wild life
interest OF
irresistible The book therefore is
read.
Notwithstanding that johnson little less
tremendous
perhaps gdgng complain OF
adopting OF
writing.
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Forty Million Hoofbeots
Bu Frank M, Heath. DaDtd Turet, Nep York.

This if wish to be biologicaly exact
by the author who lives
in nearby Spring the counterplot the
matte interest denouemenhey too are Gypsy queen
S said, book about-wel but there you are
In 1870
United including every
writing his journey,
this wish for the of 1t which
words Il had strong desire to
duoy for himself The rest of his volume
entirely Gypsy Queen Seldom has writer
of a travel self efacng temper.
bogapher saddle started from the
which added
356 something Heath kept
tribute of there 1t
daily diet the Accommodations
the
health everything else which exacng mind might
did good Mr. Heath brooded her
treatment
well which of the he used ocs pride In
feel solemn
odyssey When she died she
tablet Maryland
the State University She holds says Mr.
durability adaptably
One can only say, good peace"
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Steinbeck Collaborates on
Story of Gulf Voyage
Preoccupation With Biology Is
Reflected in Volume Shared
With Edward F. Ricketts,
Sea of Cortez
BY Mary-Carfer Roberts.

Senbeck and Ed1Oard Ricketts, The Viking
preoccupaton biology
critics of his fiction than Supehcia such critics have OBJ
animal
a significance his specifically the
remarked human
kind based on biological and that he obviously regards
the simply species In this book written in coabora
symbolic treatment biology factor what passes in popular nc
@ opts m M drecv @ @ oe % T enmena @ e na Went on an ex
pedon the Gulf California having their object the collection
that they produced this book 1t is
the finished thing a unity
thinking harmony with much of Mr. stnbecks past work
laboratory and manned by and of three They made
collecting stations mostly mhabed cove ports
of The book combined record of their scientific findings their
what turns out to be- after all the old weezete Nature of Things
in camped quarters
thew m Themselves o Nam ey should use ap.
proach to his problems Man should get over his rigid habits thinking
haDting globe biological theological
that that both sensible and
comfortable Having observed the invertebrates obeyn the laws
they resistib
contain the elements which finds
this Robert Louis perfect example of the blend
attended he would fall aphosophizng Ms steinbeck and
Ricketts, follow pretty much the same formula
Of magn and obstructive nature It thought and its thoughts
would them the tide and then refuse to
and force them back against the current BY their own words
them fenes their deghuy
provocative qualities of temperament And also in personalities OF their
Indians exquiy courteous Mexican officials
boy wanted written into
from the perspective OF their and out OF the ume OF
dehyde the authors derive their philosophy from which they proceed
together book which frequently beau
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Education on an International Scale

By George W. Gray Harcourt, Brace & Co, New YORK
education medical for scientific research
Essentially spent by the International Education
John Rockefeller , and hnanced
Rockefeller The establishment Mr. Gray
mitigate far possible
facilities left the wake Of that titanic
Already gifts have been destroyed such as
the rebuilt University of Louvain. ~
of wouldn't present
which put have added few
life have mmeasraby
dced pain and sickness insight into the
of the has built more than any war can
DESTROY II has established indeructble.
Perhaps against would OF late mans
destruction and the OF the
and darkness But 1t may be- this but
passing phase. THOMAS ~ dE<Hx'
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Best Sellers

(cornpued from information obtained IN Washington by The
Chicago and San Francisco 6y the
North American Newspaper AlianceJ
FICTION.
Keys Of the Kingdom by A. j. Cronin (litte Brown
S Undoing, by Marguerite Steen Vlklng).
That Gtters, by Frances Parkinson Keyes Messner)
Strange Williams Houghon, Mlt1ln)
Saratoga Trunk, by Edna Ferber doubleday, Doran)
NON-FICTION.
Berlin Diary, by William L. Shirer KnopD.
Washington Waltz, by Helen Lombard (KnopD.
Reading Liked by Clifton Fadiman Simon Schuster).
Inside Latin America, by John Gunther (Harper)
ReveiIe in Washington by Margaret Leech (Harper).
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Storm


By George R. Steuart. Random House, Nep York.
A
othe-Joseph Tphoon Richard Hughes In
Hazard Nodof Halls Hurricane In all these the autnor selects
the storms effect them Mr. stewart
ITSELF
the junior meeoroog ar
he a Maria" and sits back to watch
California lncroe
what and
the
all and
telephone
man
Stewart
the the chief
selection
distinguished craftsmanship and planning
research which into
S there loose ends.
heroine objection that though
almost macuousy the last But then the
dealing with phenomena.
The book is reminiscent Of NIoby Dick not only because Of its
unyng
haustve explanations of natural forces the same philosophical COM
Melville mystical
skilled Storm" will be another
be-seler good solid reading that
j..
Evening star., 1941-12-14
Shake Hands With the DRAGON
Bu Carl Click. u

By Carl Click. WhttleSey House, NeD YORK.
of
IN Dragon" paints
seldom
author
boundless
Mr. Click to the Chinese when appointed athletic
pupils.
West
little fellows idea football Mr. Click introduction
remarkable
part Dragon" Of
delightful between
knitting
his the moonaced youth whose first words
think Of Enein?"
Others all their philosophy all selufhcient
n a
he
he into their solution of labor prob
neverfaing of their business dealings 1t is
understanding
by MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-07-25

Charles Cohen returned Friday
from a weeks stay at the hot
springs, California, where he has
been getting boiled out" with
those famous baths.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-07-25
PHONETIC SPELLING

Phonetic spelling which means spelling according
how a word sounds has been under consideration by
various educational groups in the United States ever
1875 But far has made little in this
country.
1t seems strange when the most learned people
have difficulty with English spelling because many
words spelling they sound, that more hasn't
been done to simplify it.
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt supported an
effort for changes in spelling and Andrew Carnegie gave
the considerable financial support, but when
Mr. Carnegie died in 1919 the plan dropped out of pub
lie attention. There is still Smpfed Spelling board,
with headquarters Lake Placid N " but little
to be heard about its activities.
The change to smpified spelling would be an easy
old and types of spelling equally correct until
everyone had been educated to the new system.
But there lot of people who would probably
object to changes though the school children OF the
nation would be delighted with it. To of who
have learned to like the appearance of English words
decent without that ugh the end. Most of the ro-
nance mystery of darkness would to disappear
if spelled might sOundS-nte. And most of us
would feel positively uneducaed if had to change the
letters ed' to phonetic spelling and write such words as
helpt, fixt followd and robd.
1t will probably be long time before English teach
will agree phonetic spelling but when they do
begin the first thing to do would be to spell the word
phonetic the way it sounds which is fonetic.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-07-25
TIME FOR READING

Trying to keep in touch with what's going in the
world today is full-time job BY quickly scanning a
newspaper every day listening to radio flashes and
viewing the weeks news in news magazine. you can
have fairly good knowledge of what's what in national
and international news. But to do that, hastily,
takes approximately IA of the 168 hours in a week
In addition, want to keep in touch with what is
at least three hours reading our local paper.
Besides current news most of want to keep in
touch with what's happened in the worlds of science,
philosophy and social progress which requires reading
national magazines. Even if conne that branch of
reading skmmng through the Readers Digest that
adds at least three hours week to sessions with
the printed page.
And of want to read some fiction and
current books which up much time
want to spend them, but which would take at least
ten hours per week to cover any ground at all.
Those of us who farmers are in profession
know that should spend at least one evening week
during about developments in particular field
So far, that's total of 81 hours of reading week
written for eedificao and entertainment.
When add those Sd hours to the Sc we should
spend sleeping the 21 should spend eating, and the
40 at least spend working only II hours remain
of week for the hundred and miscellaneous tasks
and visits which make demands time
Obviously, if we hope to be wel-read, must put
time very strict budget