Evening star., 1942-01-04

installed and ready to 90. His
tourney. however. was made before
| the war began. Events indicate that
his prognoSticatiOnS are not Akeiy
to be fulfilled.
Palm to Hindu.
As for travellers who came visiting
to our shores and duly wrote their
American impressions" the palm
of the year easily goes to Krish-
nalal Shridharani, young Hindu
student whose My india, My
America" is a charming thing. Mr.
Shridharani, a distinguished poet
in his own language. writes first
rate colloquial American patols and
seems likely to fulfill among us for
India the same role OF goodwin
salesman which Lin Yutang has
taken so admirably for China.
1t is to a traveller who was not
looking for political implications,
however, that the credit for the
years most utterly absorbing travel
book must 20, and that Is Gontran
de Poncins, a young Frenchman OF
noble lineage who capped a life OF
wandering by going off to King
williams Land and spending year
in an Esquimo village. "Kabloona'
is the work which resulted, written
in cola boration with Lewis Galan-
there. To form an idea OF the book,
YOU must imagine the reactions Of a
cultivated Latin to squalid Esquimo
primitivism. The effect is not a
| common one, even in books about
ut-of -the-way places.
And so one comes at last to books
on the war. Out of the tremendous
list, the reviewer offers these as
likely to provide present enlighten-
ment or future guidance: Blood,
Sweat and Tears" by winston
Churchill; BLACK Lamb and Grey
Falcon" by Rebecca West; My
New Order" the collected speeches
of Adolf Hitler; United We Stand"
by Hanson w. Baldwin; German:
Jekyl and Hyde" by Sebastian
Haffner; Berlin Diary" by William
L. Shirer; The Long Week End,
bv Robert Graves and Alan Hodge;
America Prepares for Tomorrow, ;"
by William Dow Boutwell, and
others; Digging for Mrs. Miller"
by John Strachey; Spurs on the
Boot" by Thomas E. Morgan: War
and Diplomacy in Eastern ASIA" by
Claude E. Buss; Ambassador Dodd's S
Diary" "A Thousand Shall Fall, ="
by Hans Habe, and Scum Of the
Earth" by Arthur Koestler.
Only = Sampling.
This list attempts to draw some
thing from every common category
of war work-from those which out
line the international situation,
those which deal in diplomatic his
tory, those which present popular
lied views Of events and personal
tiles. those which cover the plight
of refugees and those which show
the English people meeting the war
in the air. It Is only . sampling.
The situation changes too rapidly
to make q more lengthy choice seem
profitable.
One more volume the reviewer
wishes to mention-"Let Us NOW
Praise Famous Men," by James Agee
and Walker Evans. She will put
this under the head Of social con-
science. It is a description Of life
among poor Southern sharecroppers'
and it explains why everything else
which has been written on the sub
iect to date has seemed done to
order. 1t is a revolt against spying
on the unfortunate for the sake OF
getting material for articles, and 1t
offers a defense Of the poor which
is SO unscientific and so unorthodoS
as to rest its case on the tenets OF
good manners and Christianity. In
cidentally,i the reviewer, compiling
her lists, put the work down on q
separate sheet under the head "Fint
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