The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-04-05

more has at last taken the Ito OH
his vast and exclusive knowledge
of Asia. What he says will have
a direct effect on the war and the
peace since it will be read in
Foreign Offices throughout the
world. He discusses China and ia
pan and all other Eastern areas,
from their real basis the people
in them. He points out the road
American policy must take to
achieve a victory for democracy in
Asia and why the solution of the
problem is political and economic,
rather than military. Mr.. baltimore
is well qualified to speak for Asia.
He spent twenty-five years there
and has held official positions in
both the American and the Chinese
governments.
Jamaica Inn, by Daphne Du Maui
rier, is a romantic and full-blooded
adventure story. The coach avoided
Jamaica Inn, hidden in the Cornish
mooors not far from the coast, for
its name was evil and no man knew
what horrors it's dark shutters hid
Yet it was to Jamaica Inn that Mary
Yellan went when her mother died,
to join her aunt who had married
the landlord of the inn. Only too
soon was she to learn the full tale
of it's horror, of smugglers and
murdererS and riffraff of the coast,
wreckers whose profession it was
to lure ships inland by fake lights
in a storm. Youth and love and
death and treachery all play their
part in the unfolding of this thrill
ing tale.
Do you know the Whiteoak family
of Jalna? If not, you have been
missing one of the most delightful
of fictional families. With the re-
cent publication of The Building of
Jalna, Mazo De La Roche has COW
cred almost century in the history
of this numerous and lively family.
While this book is the most recent
in publication, it is cronologically
the first of the series of nine books,
going back to 1850 when young Phi
lip Whiteoak resigned his commits
sion in the English army and came
to Canada to take up an inheritance
left him by an uncle. With him
came his beautiful and dashing
young Irish wife, Adeline. They
built home in the new English
settlement near Lake Ontario. Thus
was the home of the Whiteoak clan
built and named Jalna after the
army post in India where Philip
had last been stationed. Adeline
lived to be hundred and her per-
sonality dominated the family of
children and grandchildren that
grew up around her.
Her grandson, Kenny, is really
the central figure of the series. He
is the child of Adeline's youngest
son, Philip, who inherited Jalna. He
is head-strong, tempermental, but
nevertheless entirely engaging per-
son, devoted to his horses and dogs
and out-of-door life. Kenny has
sister, Meg, and four half-brothers,
Eden, Piers, Finch and Wakefield.
AT his fathers death Kenny be-
comes head of the family and mast
er of Jalna. This responsibility he
takes very seriously and it leads to
many dramatic and exciting situa-
tons, for these Whiteoaks are a hot
headed, self-willed lot. To watch
their lives unfold is most absorb
ing experience. We read about
them with the same vivid interest
that we give to the life stories of
people we know. They are all high
ly individualized, selfwilled charac-
tiers, some of them eccentric, some
of them quarrelsome, nearly all of
them hard to live with, but at the
same time there is power of kim
ship, family pride and sense of
common past that knitS this diverse
tribe together. ;,
Young Kenny, the second book of
the series, takes place in 1906 when
old Adeline was eighty and young
Kenny in his twentieth year. This
is followed by Whiteoak Heritage,
in which Kenny returns to Jalna
after four years in the English
army, to become the actual head of
the family. The next, Jalna, is Civ
en- over to Eden's and Piers marri-
ages, both of which. for special rea-
sons cause much disturbance in the
family. Meg's long standing love af-
fair with their neighbor, Maurice
V a u G h also comes to a
climax WhiteOaks of JaIna brings
the death of old Adeline and the
CONSERVATION caused by her leaving
all her money to Finch, the problem
child of the family Tn Finch'S