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Public Library
By Elizabeth Ray Leyis

Fine Arts Division, Washington Public
Library.
The Fine Arts Division OF the
Public Library offers you list Of
books which add greatly to the en-
joyment of visits to local museums.
Before visiting the Freer Gallery,
which contains one of the finest
collections of Oriental art in this
country, we suggest: THE Romance
of Chinese Art" Encyclopaedia Bri-
tannica) Chinese Art" (porcelains), !,
by Robert Lockhart Hobson. and
Background to Chinese Art" by
Hugh Gordon Porteus.
The Corcoran Gallery has great
collection of American art assem-
bled over many years, one with
which all Washingtonians should
be familiar. Art in America; .
Complete Survey" by Messrs. Cahill
and Barr, will interest Corcoran Wis
itors and we highly recommend
Virgil Bakers monograph, "A Criti-
cal Introduction to American Paint
ing"
The best preparation for visit
to the National Gallery is perhaps
the gallery's own most recent Mas
terpiece of Painting from the Ma
tional Gallery of Art"
Books on modern art will be
found helpful by visitors to the
Phillips Memorial Gallery. From
many titles we select: Understand
ing Picasso; a study of his styles
and development" sponsored by the
Art Institute of Chicago, and What
Is Modern Painting?" by Alfred
Barr.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Interval in Carolina
By William AbrahanlS. (Simon
r Ccb,tptor 60

BY W1ltidm AOrahdmS. (StmOn
g. Schuster, s2J
Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
Floundering is the word for this
first published novel by Sergt. Abra-
hams. It's characters founder, the
reader founders, and eventually the
author, f1oundering also, calls it off
without having settled anything
but that some people founder.
A young sergeant in the Army
carries the story. His problem, SO
far as it emerges, seems to be that
he wants to escape reality, but
hasn't the backbone required of a
true artist. In his bout with life
among human beings he is tire
somely selfish. Glazed with intel
lectual cleverness, he is still patheti-
cally aware at times that something
basic is missing.
His search involves him with three
women. These apparently have
significance. the first representing
his past, the second "the common
people" (she cooks a meal on one
occasion) and the third a more
exaggerated state of degradation
than his own. The sergeant leaves,
of necessity, for war before finding
the solution for his confusion.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Returning Sevicemen May Find Their
Answer in This Guide to Federal Jobs

sonable amount of security and pay
fairly well. Federal positions pay
anywhere from $3.50 to $4,000 a
year. but the bulk of positions are
in the $l.600-s2 500 bracket.
Mr.. Spero, who is a member OF
New York University's faculty OF
the graduate division for training
in public service, has done a COM
petent job in listing the 500 kinds
of Government jobs available, the
necessary qualifications for the posi-
tions, and how much they pay
Working conditions under the civil
service system are explained and
the all-important questions of sal
airy and hours, vacation and sick
leave, tenure rights. promotion and
retirement benefits are discussed
In detail
The price of the book might well
prove a smart investment for the
purchaser. However. it is only fair
to add that the Civil Service Com
mission as we'll as the Veterans Ad-
ministration and other Government
agencies are only too glad to pro-
vide guidance and assistance to the
returning serviceman in his quest
for a Government lob.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
NATIVE CHEER

Grapes and Wines From Home
Vineyards, by U. P. Hedrick. OK
ford University Press) A learned
survey of the grapes grown in North
America and a discussion of the
making of American wines, with
notes on how to serve the same
Excellent.
MAKE IT AT HOME.
The Home Mechanics Book. ID
van Nostrand) An encyclopedia
of Jobs which you can do at home
In wood, metal, plaster, brick, stuc-
co, in the fields of carpentry, re-
pair, decoration and plumbing. H.
Illustrated with diagrams.
MYSTERIES.
Puzzle for Wantons, by Patrick
Quentin. (Simon & Schuster.)
Murder u. in the Reno household OF
the richest girl in the world" the
victims being beautiful prospective
divorces.
~ CARTOONS.
Stop or I'll Scream! edited by
Quincy williams. (McBride.) A col.
lection from Golfers.
Napoleon and Uncle Elby, by Cliff.
ford Mcbride. (McBride) A vol.
ume made up of the famous comic
dog strip.
Gardner Rea's Sideshow, by Gard.
ner Rea. (McBride) A collection
of the cartoons of the popular artist
Funny.
MUSIC.
Music Of Latin America, b,
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By Robert HdUen SchauHer.
Published by Henry Holt, Neu
York, s3.75.J
Reviewed by ALICE EVERSMAN.
The name of this writer in con-
nection with biography of nu-
sical composer is a guarantee that
the work will be both interesting and
in structfve Mr.. Schauffier has
established particular form in
handling his subjects, which re-
suited in most comprehensive and
illuminating histories of Beethoven
and Brahms, and applies it again to
the biography of SCnumann.
Mr.. Schauffler has a particular
objective in his approach differing
from any attempted before. At the
outset, he states that he is de-
termined to paint the character OF
Robert Schumann without dipping
the brush in. either whitewash or
tar He does the same to Clara
Schumann, who. he declares, has
been consistently prettified" until
she became "a sort of secular Ma
donna of Music" His accuracy has
extended tc the character study of
her father, Friedrich Week, who is
presented as one of the most heart
less scoundrels in musical history.
Famous Couple
But the net result, as regards
Schumann and his wife, is that the
very human qualities of both are
intensified and the famous couple
made more endearing and more
extraordinary by tempering the
genius of the composer and the
superior talent of his wife with
their quite understandable reactions
to the annoyances and sufferings
they encountered.
The author has the advantage
over biographers of some years back
OF being able to guide his analyses
OF Schumann's character and his
illness by his knowledge of psychi.
airy. From this angle he has. moi
only made the composers final
tragic breakdown understandable
but the pity of it more evident. AT
the same time, he has succeeded in
making the great spirit of Schu-
mann stand forth in crystal clarity
through the entire book. He ha.
been equally felicitous in sketching
the nobler qualities of Clara, who
inspite of her shortcomings and lack
of perceptive, is remarkable
woman.
The famous friends the Schu-
manns gathered around them are
also vividly portrayed and the
Vaccinations of Father Week be-
come blood-curdling in Mr.. Schauf-
fler's relentless honesty in depicting
him.
While the first part of the book
is purely biographical and based on
the diaries of the Sehumanns, their
letters and those of their friends
the second part is given over to a
complete study of the composer s
works. This, in particular, makes
the book valuable for the author
approaches his difficult task with a
fair and unbiased mind. Mr.
Schauffler's style is less lofty in this
work than in others, but he is en-
tertaining and very readable.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Short Is the Time
By C.. Day Le,pis. (Ortord

by L. Day LetD1S. fOTJ0rd Unt-
DerSity Press, S275.)
In this volume are collected c. Day
Lewis poems from 1896 to 1s43
They represent his maturing genius
They cover a wide variety of themes.
There are personal poems on love
and thought, and there are many
poems on the social scene, on war
and politics. Mr.. Lewis is bitter, as
becomes a poet in our day, but has
not abandoned his ideals. So much
| is evident from the fact that he
writes at all. His love poems are
truly love poems. His faith in the
earth remains perceptible, even
when he deplores man.
Writing of the war, he excoriates
politicians and sings in praise OF
| freedom, but in these time -honored
gambits of poetry he uses some lines
that may well live. There is a fine
long poem, THE Nabara," on the
fight of some Basque trawlers
against a German cruiser which
was supporting Franco; there is a
quiet, singing little set of verses
The Volunteer" on the hope OF
soldiers; there is stinging defense
of the truthfulness of poets in Self
Criticism and Answer; there is
scorn of the people in "Newsreel'
and pity for them in Sex Crime. "
And more than any whole poems, I
remember many wonderful lines and
stanzas. The range of Mr.. Lewis
feeling is wide if, on the whole, con-
ventional. The collection confirms
the high reputation he has won.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
The Atomic Age Opens
Edited by a staff headed By
Donald P. Geddes. Pocket

Books, Inc; 25c.)
Reviewed by ROBERT J. LEWIS.
The time is fast approaching, ap-
parently, when publishers will turn
out books with the speed of a Childs
restaurant flapjack chef. This book,
just off the griddle, took about three
weeks from start to finish, includ-
ing writing, editing, designing, print
ing, binding, shipping and all the
other details.
The surprising part is that, in
general, it is an adequate job. First
general book on the atomic age, it
was started by an editorial staff
August 10 and the completed manu-
script had been sent a thousand
miles and was being set into type
four days later.
All this, of course, is also tribute
to the newspaper and radio business
as we'll as to publishing For the
book owes large part of its con-
tents to press associations, radio
networks and newspapers, which
quickly sped the story of Hiroshima
on its way, and went on from there
to give us the long range meaning
of the atom bomb.
The table of contents is sketchy
and an index is lacking. But there's
plenty for your money in these 251
pages. incidentally, this is the sec.
ond feat of high-speed PUBLISHING
by Pocket Books, Inc; the first
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-A Me.
mortal" was distributed within two
weeks after the death of the late
| President.)
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coegins

When the 20 Henry Memorial
Award Prize Stories OF 1916" were
published on Thursday, the names
of the four authors, whose stories
were judged best of the % which
make up the book, were announced.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The
Wind and the Sno10 OF Winter" was
given first prize of $500. Irwin Shaw
placed second, winning 5000 prize.
Ben Hur Lapman and Capt. Lau-
renee CritcheH received 500 awards
for their "Old Bill Bent to Drink"
and "Flesh and Blood" The last,
given for the best first short story
published by an author, was written
for the Atlantic Monthly before the
siege of Bastogne, and Capt. Critch-
ellis story was not only his first, but
the only one which received a unani-
nous ballot from the judges. He is
a captain of paratroopers in the
10lst Airborne Division.
Lee Steiner interested us because
she is woman who gets people
out of trouble, not into it. BY pro-
fession she is a psychologist. Her
job is to help everyday normal
people untangle the problems which
make their lives miserable and
sometimes even drive them crazy
In her book, "Where Do People
Take Their TroubleS?" she goes
into what happens to the men and
women who turn, in their despara-
ton, to some of the self-appointed
cure -alls who promise to fix any
thing. Lee Steiner's concern over
the quacks cashing in on the lack
OF trained assistance for people
who are burdened with anxiety
caused her to write this expose, in
which she names people, places and
details.
We knew from reading them that
she would be a clear-headed
woman, but we were unprepared for
her sparkle She is small, dark,
alert woman, quite feminine in ap-
pearance and very much at ease.
She almost became a problem her
self while writing this book, she
explained.
1t was an old friend, Mabelle
Barrison, who saved her. Mabelle
was interested enough in Lee
Steiner's scientific findings to be-
come a party to the Investigations
and guide the book into a clear,
conversational style. This was &C
complished by Mrs. Steiner telling
the story and improving it aloud
until it met with critic Barrison's s
approval. Then she wrote this
final verbal version.
Mrs. Steiner rewrote the book six
times and taught herself typewrit-
ing in order to do it. The conf
dental nature of her studies meant
she could not have other people
working on her material, but must
do it all herself.
The book has already achieved
what she hoped it would do. Ed
ward J. Lucas. executive director
for the Society of Prevention Of
Crime, is intent on drafting model
legislation which will eliminate
self-appointed practitioners of the
sort Mrs. Steiner reports. 1t was
he who drafted a model bill needed
in the legal handling of boys and
girls with the single sentence, 1T
is illegal to hold a child in Jail"
Aren't you afraid of repercus-
sions from the people you have ex-
posed?" we asked Mrs. Steiner.
NO" she said thoughtfully My
files are enormous. You see, have
told such a small part of what I
could tell, none of them will wish
to tempt me to reveal more"
Evening star., 1945-09-09

permits an old country couple
(Johnathan and Matilda) to live in
the house the rest of their lives
Just as the author and his wife
are getting ready to celebrate with
a party the turning of the barn into
a studio the ancients arrive. They
put Shadrach, their horse, in the
stall which has been fitted as bar
and themselves into the best bed
room. A contest of will develops
between them and the more mod
ern owners.
The author and wife hold with
plumbing in the house. flowers and
grass. Johnathan and Matilda are
for plumbing outside and vegetables
Comes bad storm and failure OF
the modern equipment and the can
tankerous rustics seem to be vindi-
Gated. But by a deus ex machina
Mr.. Partridge finally gets them out
The book needs concentration
and edge. 1t is loose, as it stands,
and its humor is tepid. But anyway
it is a good idea.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
! Dream of the Day
By Caleb Milne, (Longmans

By Caleb Milne. (Longmans,
Green. ST.
We have here one of those heart
breaking collections of letters-let-
ters home from a soldier who is
now dead.
Caleb Milne, Philadelphian,
tried to volunteer both with our
Army and the Free French. Re-
Iected for physical disabilities, he
loined the American Field Services
Is an ambulance driver. He was
tent out to North Africa in 1912 and
year later was killed while bring
ng help to wounded French soldiers.
He had been a youth of artistic
impulses, had acted as an apprentice
IN Eve La Gallienne's Civic Roper
tory Theater, had written some
short stories and radio scripts
Nothing had come to maturity for
him, however. He was destroyed in
his promise. From his letters to his
mother and to certain friends Gn-
.luding Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
and Deems Taylor one may guess
now bright that promise was.
He wrote with great sensitivity
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Hunky Johnny
By Ed,Oard Nichols. (Hough
ton Mif1in, $780,

By Ed1Odrd Nichols. (HOugh-
ton Mif1in, $780,
Johnny Opalkos father ran a
speakeasy, his brother collected for
bootleggers, his sister was finding
it necessary to accept substitutes
for the husband who had deserted
her.
Jean Rowland came from an
all-American family with money;
Johnny was willing to bet that her
mother, unlike his own, wore shoes
in the house.
Johnny didn't like his name or
his hunky connections; he preferred
white" people but was afraid the
whites wouldn't have him. He
makes try for Mary korba and
has a go at an Irish girl named
Sally, but it's Jean he really wants.
Besides, he's the boy just out of
college, where his sports prowess
got his name and picture of his
handsome face in the papers fire.
quently, and now looking for job,
which means no publicity.
!
Important contemporary problems
are well-integrated in the forceful,
vivid characters portrayed in this
novel. There are something's which
are not very pretty but they are life
in industrial cities. Nichols belongs
to the tough" school of writer's; he
is to novelists what Paul Cadmus Is
to painters; he calls spade spade
and uses even shorter words. If you
think it's coarse you have to agree
that Hunkeytown is coarse, too;
you can't deny its vitality, its drive.
You don't want America to be like
this; well, neither does Nichols; the
way to cure it is not to hide it, but
to bring it out in the open. Any
way, Nichols final conclusions are
not pessimistic: you come, too"
says Jean.
Nichols, who teaches writing at
Penn State, is one of those rare
teachers of writing who happen to
know how to write. You'll like his
book. or you ought to.-W. G. R.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
In Defense of American Big Business
And Its Role in Tonorrow's World

process. In America big business
thrives on ever higher wages and
ever lower prices. A further re-
quirement which it has to meet is
that it produce something or things
which are of use to a great many
people. Our truly big businesses
do not look to the rich for their
customers. They serve John Doe
and his friends and neighbors.
Hence, in Mr.. Adams view, Amer
ican big business is part and parcel
of American democracy. But, not
satisfied with these generalities, he
also makes the specific examination.
He investigates the case of a par
ticular big business, in fact, the
biggest of them all-General Mo-
tors. Scrupulously stating that he
has received no fee from that COM
pany, he gives us fairly detailed
picture of its history, policies, profits
and contributions to American life,
both in peace and war. He finds
that it has been a very good and
faithful servant of our country in
deed.
For the Public Good
It-and, one understands, SINH
lar big businesses-keeps alive SCI
entific research for public better
ment, offers careers on a demo-
cratic basis to men and women who
have it in them to rise, spreads
wealth and employment and turns
out a stream of civilizing products.
The little business of our senti-
mental tradition, Mr.. Adams OBJ
serves, is by contrast feudalistic,
being usually family owned and so
affording jobs and profits only for
a few people and those not on the
merit system. Big business has
grown up in our conditions nat
urally. he says, and our future is
inextricably tied up with 1t.
There will be, of course, many
people who will cry out with horror
at so unconventional and radical
view. To disprove the accuracy of
the view, however, will, I think, be
a horse of another color.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Book Reviews in Brief

Nicholas Slonimsky (Crowell0 An
analysis of the typical national
music forms and rhythms of the
different Latin American countries.
Scholarly.
SELF, PERSONALITY EFT AL.
The Technique of Personal Analy-
sis, by Donald A. Laird. (Whittle
sey House) How to discover and
utilize your best qualities. Your
risk.
Psychology and Sex Relations, by
Theodore Reik. Farrar and Rine-
hartD A well-known psychologist
draws the distinction between sex
and "love."
Evening star., 1945-09-09
January Thow

By Bellamy Partridge. whit
tleSey House; S2.75.J
This mildly humorous novel poses
a good question but loses much OF
its effect by being too long drawn
out. 1t gives us newly successful
literary man and his antique mad
wife spending their first substantial
royalties on the usual Colonial farm.
house in Connecticut. A flaw in
their title to the dwelling, however
Evening star., 1945-09-09
SmoIdering Freedom
By Isabel de PaIencia. (Long.
mans Green S3

By ISd0et de PdLencld. fLOng-
mans, Green; s3J
Isabel de Palencia is well-known
to Americans One of the most dis
tinguished refugees of the Spanish
civil war, she has lectured widely in
our country and has published her
autobiography here. With a long
record of attack against Spain's re-
dictionary attitudes in many fields,
she was appointed Minister Pleni-
potentiary to Sweden in 1886 and
was serving in that post when the
war broke out. Her husband, sons
and son-in-law were among the
refugees who were interned in
France. The family later managed to
emigrate to Mexico. In her current
book Mrs. Palencia undertakes to
trace the fortune of the Spanish
refugees generally.
She does not have enough infor-
Evening star., 1945-09-09

Meeting links, and are sometimes re-
peated identically in different chap
ters. which gives the impression of
book quickly written, with little
understanding of its subject.
1t Is in Mr.. Larson's main object,
however-to show that man of
action can also be a man of God
that his work fails most obviously
There is something to be learned
about religion from the plain living
general who reads the Bible every
day, and allows neither smoking nor
drinking at his headquarters, yet
who has reached the highest suc-
cess in the world of war. But Mr.
Larson never goes beyond simply re-
counting such superficial facts
which are already well known.
All in all, the best feature of the
book is the fine British official photo
Of Gen. Montgomery watching a
battle from the turret of tank.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Field Marshal Bernard L
Montgomery
Man of Prayer
By Mel Larson. (ZonderUa,
Co., S1.25.)

By Mel Larson. (ZonderUan
Co.: s1.25.)
Reviewed by CATHERINE BOWEN.
Admirers of Marshal Montgomery
will like the anecdotal material in
this book. 1t contains stories about
"Monty's' hats, about his Bible,
about his informality, about his dis
like of paper work. The reader is
also reminded of Churchill's toast
in which he spoke of his most sue
cessful soldier as "indomitable in
defeat, indefatigable in attack and
insufferable in victory!" But the
stories, though they give an insight
into the character of the 9Th
Army's famous leader, are put to-
gether haphazardly, with no con-
Evening star., 1945-09-09

Some Day, by Mabel Freese Den
nett. (Kaleidograph Press.) Short
poems of newspaper verse type.
The Task, by Robert Blain Camp
bell. tFarrar & Rinehart.) The
collected poems of young man of
great promise. now dead. Fine
perceptive work of rare degree of
talent.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
BIG BUSINESS
IN A DEMOCRACY
By James TruSlo11 Adams.
(Scrihners. S275

By James TruSlolD Adams
(Scribners; s2.75J
We are all used to hearing abou
big business. We are used to hear.
ing it defended and we are prac.
tically exhausted from hearing il
attacked. DR.. James Truslov
Adams, distinguished historian, ir
this new book on the well-worr
subject, approaches big busines.
from new angle. He says it is &
function of America.
Function, he explains, in the sense
in which he uses it, means a fac
that is wholly dependent on others
and necessarily varies with them.
Big business, as he sees it then, i:
a fact which is dependent on Amer
lean conditions and varies as they
vary. Our conditions consequently
have to be understood if one is tt
understand big business. Mr.. Adams
gives the great part of his book tc
examining those conditions.
He backs up long way to get his
start for the eXamination-he be-
gins, indeed, with the amoeba ano
traces human life down to the pres
ent just as a preliminary gesture
Arriving, after this long trek, al
Dur civilization. he finds that oul
attitude toward life is a new thing
under the sun.
Better Living Conditions
There has been constant i'm
provement in human living condi-
tions since the dawn of history he
notes, but it has been glacially slow
and almost altogether haphazard
In America today, however, i'm
provement has become the conscious
end of the social system and is
being speeded by all the implements
recently brought forth by science
These are our American conditions
and nothing like them has been seen
before.
How is big business a function oi
these conditions? Mr.. Adams sees
It as growing out of them and back
INTO them, as, in short, ineXtricable
from them. Admitting the sins OF
,ur big businessmen in the past, he
asserts that they have nevertheless
Kept pace with the mood of oul
.ountry's practical idealism. Big
business purpose was primarily tc
derive profits; in that the Ameri-
:an species agreed with all past
species.
The merican Form
But the big businesses of the past
nave stopped with that; their profits
came from a combination of cheap
br slave labor and high prices. In
America we have reversed that