Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

Books
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

In respect of the. raging paper
shortage, the reviewer dispenses
with her customary annual sum-
ming UP and offers her readers
instead a plain straight list of the
books in various fields which she
thinks shed luster on the year just
departed. It is the bare minimum
Everything which raised even a
brief doubt went into the unlisted
heap. Those who miss the old-time
leisurely ramble, blame that precious
pair, SchicRelgruber and TOTO. The
winnowings follow:
Novels
1.-The Conspiracy of the Carpen-
ters," by Hermann Borchardt;
"Capricornia," by Xavier Herbert;
1.-THE hinged Horizon" by Edmund
Gilligan; "None But the Lonely
Heart" by Richard Llewellyn;
Gideon Planish," by Sinclair
Lewis.
Biographies
Life of William Butler Yeats,
by Joseph Hone; Mitchell: Pioneer
of Air Power" by Isaac Don Levine;
1.-THE Wright Brothers" by Fred G.
Kelly; Henry Ford" by William A.
Simonds; Memoirs Of a Superfuous
Man." by Albert Jay Mock; Such
Interesting People" by Robert j.
Casey; "Tschaikovsky," by Herbert
Weinstock; Pioneer to the Past:
The Life of James H. Breasted" by
Charles Breasted.
History Present
and Keep Your Powder Dry" by
Margaret Mead; Generation of
vipers," by Philip Wylie; THE
Machiavellians," by James Burn
ham; Love in America" by David
L. Cohn; United States Foreign
Policy" by Walter Lippmann; THE
Spirit of Enterprise" by Edgar M.
Queeny; End of the Beginning"
by Winston Churchill: 1.-THE Re-
public" by Charles A. Beard; Here
Is Your War;" by Ernie Pyle.
History Past
Lees Lieutenants," vol. IL, by
Douglas Southall Freeman; Year
of Decision" by Bernard De Vote;
'Mutiny In January" by Carl Van
Doren; Spain" by Salvador de
History Future
How to Treat the Germans" by
Emil Ludwig.
So much for the SUMMARIZE
cept that, if the reviewer had to
name one of the above groups as
more important than another, she
would take History Present" with
out the slightest hesitation.
In the meantime, waiting on the
shelf for mention before 1943 is too
far behind are the following:
War Books
THE Fruits of Fascism," by
Herbert L. Matthews Harcourt,
New York Times CORE
spondent writes an analysis of Mus
solini's adventure, from its start to
the present. Intelligent.
Resistance and Reconstruction, y
by Chang Kai-shek tHarper)-
China's Generalissimo makes his
personal statement of his country's
iual program-for war and for peace.
Very fine.
"Czechoslovakia in European His
tory" by S. Harrison Thomson
princeton University Press)-This
is history of the peoples who made
up the Czechoslovakian Republic
from the Middle Ages to the present.
Paradox Isle" by Carol Bache
(Knopf)-A woman agent of the
Military Intelligence Division in
Japan writes her experiences. Rele-
want.
THE Germans Came to Paris" by
Peter de Polnay (Duell, Sloan &
Pearce)-An eyewitness of the first
weeks of the occupation of Paris
writes his memories. A terrible,
typical record
Free China's New Deal" by
Hubert Freyn MACMILLAN A fine
picture of China's two struggles
against the enemy. and toward new
democratic state.
Total Peace" by Ely Culbertson
doubleday Doran) The famous
bridge expert. lately turned to post
war planning, offers a worldwide
reorganization plan which has in
teresting features.
Peace Plans and American
Choices" by Arthur c. Millspaugh
(Brookings Institution)-The author
sums up, for convenient understand
ing, the most-discussed peace plans
to date, and presents arguments for
and against. Very helpful.
Postwar Plans of the United Ma
tions," by Lewis L. Lorwin
twentieth Century Fund)-Here is
a survey of the postwar plans of the
Allied Nations to date. While the
plans are those of various organiza-
tons, the author has added material
descriptive of conditions and prob
lens to be encouraged in the differ
ent countries. A serious study,
hardly for popular reading.