The Literary World—Reviews of Current Publications in Various Fields BEATRICE KEAN SEYMOUR. • ► —-. In "The Unquiet Field" she tells the story 'White Paper’ Consists of of a family, beginning in the England of Even Nazis Underrated George I and ending in the America of the Documents Germans Say mid-19th century. Strength of Their Army, They Found in Poland German Officer Reveals Otto Strasser Directs Strong Notable Trilogy Is Brought to Group From Exile; Another Completion With Opinions Doctor Writes a Book By Harlan Fiske Stone By Mary-Carter Roberts. By Blair Bolles. The Ge*man White Paper The Art of Modern Warfare Foreword by C. Hartley Grattan. New York: Howell, Sos- kin & Co. By Hermann Foertsch. New York: Veritas Press.

This is a collection of 16 documents which were recently published Hermann Foertsch is a colonel of the German General Staff, whose by the German government as having been discovered in the archives armies by now we all recognize, however sorrowfully, as the world’s fore- of Poland after the German conquest. A subsequent story has it that most geniuses in the art of modem warfare. He composed the book last Col. Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, sold the documents to his country’s summer, finishing it before September 1, when Adolf Hitler took the vanquishers, doing so in revenge against the Allies, who, in his opinion, fateful step that, in 10 months, has advanced the art which is Col. withheld aid which might have turned the battle the other way. Be Foertsch’s life far beyond even the author’s most imaginative flights. that as it may, the documents purport to be state papers dealing with Reading Col, Foertsch after the 1940 truce of Compiegne makes us think the relations between Poland, France and England previous to the that nobody was more astonished at the speed of the German Western declaration of war. and in most of them there is the inference to be victory than the German leaders themselves. “It seems to be a made by any reader that there was distrust and double-dealing among fallacy,” Col. Foertsch writes, “to believe that just the the three countries, and plotting against Germany. Mr. Grattan, in his efficiency of modem weapons will be the guarantee of a short, a * • * foreword, makes the observation that the documents are probably ‘lightning’ war, and of a quick prostration of the adversary. It is genuine, but that they have, with equal probability, been cut and re- only the possession of an overwhelmingly superior weapon, of a technical arranged to give the effect which the German government desires. So or chemical nature, against which the adversary has no defense, that could far. says Mr. Grattan, the “color papers’’ of all the warring-nations have justify the hope of a war of short duration. So far as can be seen been prepared for their propaganda effect, rather than for their historical today, no nation has such a weapon.” accuracy. Germans Perfected Defenses The thing which gives this collection a particular interest to Ameri- Against Own Weapons. cans is the inclusion in it of reports of conversations between the Polish Of course, the that Ambassadors to the United States and France and Ambassador Bullitt. weapon turned the trick was the tank. Col. Foertsch has much to say about tanks, but he is In these talks Count Potocki, writing confidentially to his chief in Warsaw, uncertain of their effectiveness. He expected that anti-tank indicates that Mr. Bullitt went far toward committing this country to defense would be developed strong enough to thwart the land monsters. His that he support of a war against Germany—or. that is, against the doctrine of prose implies overrated the potential Western enemy. The as Fascism. “In reply to my question whether the United States would Germans, they per- fected instruments of attack, instruments of defense take part in such war,” wrote Count Potocki, “he (Mr. Bullitt) said, perfected against their own instruments of attack. the French ‘Undoubtedly yes. but only after Great Britain and France had made Apparently, they thought and the British were keeping step with the had the first move!’” Also the Polish Ambassador to France reports Mr. defensively Germans, who a fairly reliable anti-tank weapon—the “Pak” or Bullitt sfr saying, “Should war break out we shall certainly not take part “panzerabwehrkanone,” artillery which is “highly mobile and shells with in it at the beginning, but we shall end it.” HARLAN FISKE STONE. firing extremely high muzzle velocity and fiat trajectory.” Had Gen. Maxime had These seem extraordinary declarations to come without authorization A selected group of opinions Weygand these guns facing the Germans in Northern France, perhaps the long from the mouth of a diplomat, and, of course, it would be more extraor- by this associate the justice of war which Col. Foertsch envisioned would have come. But dinary if authorization had been given. It would be very interesting to Weygand Supreme Court is presented tried to halt the advance of the mobile steel forts know the extent to which the reports in the collection have been doctored. with .75-millimeter by Alfred Lief in “Public Con- guns. They were not enough. In the meantime, plain citizens would do well, in reading any “official” trol of Business.” Col. Foertsch is a concise and satisfying writer. Like other paper, to remember that it was a governmentally designed forgery—the military Harris & Photo. men turned literary, he is in the Ems telegram—which started this whole trouble—the Franco-Prussian Ewing occasionally terrifying very calmness with which he the destruction of War in out of which contemplates millions of men in the interest 1870, grew the particular bitterness which never of expressing the “art” dearest to him. But he gives us an understanding quieted, have once more embroiled the world in arms and grief. Best Sellers of the “panther” division. He studies the use of the air arm in the army which has made the most successful use of the air arm. The following list of best spectacularly Nemesis? Modem tactics and modern the of sellers is compiled weekly from strategy, history’ war and warfare the colonel describes, and he considers the of the By Douglas Reed. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. information obtained in Wash- lessons World War from the point of vantage of 20 years after. Never for many pages, however, This is the of Otto Strasser, to Mr. Reed, is ington by The Star and in New story who, according does he let us the that more York, Boston, Chicago and San escape thought he sounds like a French the man who will some day avenge all honest Germans on Adolf Hitler. of the Gamelin Francisco the North Ameri- general school than like a German colonel. Strasser is, says Mr. Reed, the heart and soul of the anti-Nazi movement by in Germany and out, and, though in exile himself, has contrived to build can Newspaper Alliance: Predicted “More Defense” tip a formidable anti-Nazi machine. Mr. Reed met Mr. Strasser in Paris Fiction. Than Ever Before. some time ago, and now he has become convinced that the time for “Stars on the Sea,” F. Van For instance, not only Gamelin in Paris, but Foertsch in Berlin fore- writing his history for posterity has finally arrived. So here the history is. Wyck Mason; “How Green Was saw in 1939 a war of position, fought along the Maginot and Siegfried Otto Strasser came from modest surroundings, but was well educated My Valley,” Richard Llewellyn; Lines. The officer of the army which tore to shreds in 39 days the and, during the World War, acquired the rank of officer. He was a dis- “Night in Bombay,” Louis defensive of the French wrote this a year before it happened: enchanted onlooker at Germany’s confusion after the war, and came to Bromfield; “Chad Hanna,” “The impressive lesson taught by the World War, that the defensive decide finally that socialism was the cure for the republic's ills. It was Walter B. Edmonds;; “Bird in has greatly gained in strength as compared with the attack, still holds German socialism which he favored, however, not national socialism. He the Tree,” Elizabeth ©oudge; good for the future. The increased respect that is paid to defense finds makes a sharp differentiation between the two varieties, says Mr. Reed, "King's Row,” Henry Bella- strong expression in all the army regulations issued since the war, and the first being non-aggressive in aim and non-bureaucratic in practice, mann; “Quietly My Captain in the literature of military experts. The saving of strength that results and the other being, of course, what everybody knows. Waits,” Evelyn Eaton; “Mr. OTTO STRASSER. from staying on the defensive accrues to the benefit of the attack at an- Hitler was wounded the in his un- When, however, by police early Skeffington,” Elizabeth; “Cab- His work as leader of a formidable secret organization of Germans opposed to Hitlerism is other place and another time. The war of the future will see more defense successful Mr. Strasser became convinced the National Socialist putsch, bage Holiday,” Anthony Thorne; described by Douglas Reed in "Nemesis?" —Wide World Photo. than has been the case for the last hundred years.” party had fundamentally the same aims as his own—betterment of “Wild Geese Calling,” Stewart Col. Foertsch, writing long in advance of the capture of the thickly and economic conditions. became a Nazi for a social He, accordingly, Edward White; “Their Own settled Netherlands and the seizure of Rotterdam by men dropping from had the Hitler before him and while. His brother Gregor joined group Country,” Alice Tisdale Hobart; the clouds, even admits doubt that parachutists can be effective in of a chain of with Nazi was in charge newspapers occupied propaganda. “World’s End,” Upton Sinclair; Readers Turn to Brief Reviews “thickly settled, cultivated country.” Now he can have no doubt. The The 1934 purge liquidated Gregor; Otto previously had made his escape. “The Nazarene,” Sholem Asch; Library colonel's incorrect assumptions about the future, however, give the book he carried on his for first Amid hairbreadth risks, campaign liberation, “Kitty Foyle,” Christopher today a greater value than it could have had a year ago. The nature of in Czecho-Slovakia and later in Paris. Regrettably, Mr. Reed does not “Master at Arms,” Ra- is Morley; Novels. miscalculations wonderfully informing. And. in truth. Col Foertsch tell us of what the anti-Nazi machine consists. One can understand his fael Sabatini; “Before Lunch,” for Relief sound information. on the of the Philosophy THE VALLEY OF EXILE. By L basically purveys Especially question reasons, but still one must feel that he is somewhat vague. Thirkel. Angela F. Loveday Prior. New York: mechanized army. The value of his book is entirely in its picture of Strasser who, by this Non-Fiction. When the printed page, the radio is contained in “Intelligence in the Harrison Hilton. Initiative Is Soldier's time, may possibly be dead. For the rest, it is dogmatic and discursive. and the motion picture today be- Modem World.’’ “Modern Warfare,” Hermann Story of conflict between Aus- Best Virtue. More than a touch of anti-Semitism colors Mr. Reed's thinking and he wilder a person with their presenta- In 1916 another American philos- Foertsch; “I Married Adven- trians and Italians in the Tyrol. bases all his conclusions on the assumption that the Allies will certainly tion of the rapid change in the opher, George Santayana, after 20 He stresses the worth of the soldier as superior in the final analysis ture,” Osa Johnson; “A New MAN OF THE HOUSE. Muriel Win the current wTar. These factors cannot but act toward discounting European scene, leaving a general years of study, made an analysis of By to the worth of the machine. War is still a contest of men. Soldiers in England Sampler,” Eleanor New the rest of the work. feeling that nothing is stable or safe, Germanic philosophy and called it Hine. York: D. Appleton- masses, with inspiring officers quick to act and act correctly to meet the “How to Read a Book,” Early; it is to discover that “Egotism in German Century Co. needs of situations, provide the basis for belligerent triumph. Mortimer J. Adler; “Failure of surprising many Philosophy.” changing of readers are finding release from ten- This recently has been republished, Drivel about a lovely girl whc The Nazi soldier at home belongs to a political machine which weakens In Search Complications a Mission,” Sir Nevile Hender- sion The and the observations contained undertakes to break up a romance the value of but, as a his initiative is his first virtue. White by reading philosophy. initiative; fighter, Eugene de Savitsch, M. D. New York: Simon & Schuster. son; "American Paper,” between her brother and an unde- By Central Public Library at Eighth therein are as timely as they were As for the machine, "the co-ordination of the motor on the ground Joseph Alsop and Robert Kint- This book is subtitled its “A Doctor's and K streets N.W., and its branches, when they were first presented. sirable woman. in tanks and trucks, with the motor in the fighting and the transport by publishers Autobiography.” ner; "This Is on Me,” Kathe- And so it is. But its need not have limited themselves to that can testify to this current interest For those are interested in THE FIRST PORT OF CALL. B\ will be able to bring about tactical successes wThich will have the publishers rine Brush; “A Smattering of English plane, claim to for the work can also be described as the auto- and suggests certain titles that philosophy, the work done Edwin Elizabeth Jordan. New York: D influence on the duration and methods of fighting.” That, added single popularity, Ignorance,” Oscar Levant; “Po- by greatest have been overlooked. A. Burtt in “The to numbers of well-trained men. sums the story of the war in biography of an immigrant, of a White Russian exile, of an invalid in Princess Paul might editing English Appleton-Century Co. great up lish Profile,” He a a an The United States is from Bacon to Mill” of France, 1940. In that paragraph Col. Foertsch has called the turn. search of health, of poor boy who made good and after fashion of Sapieha; “Canada: America's justly proud Philosophers Story shipwrecked castaways of John who cele- will be He calls this in has written a book that, in outline, gives us the picture Explorer. All these types of life history' are currently enjoying great vogue, Problem,” John MacCormac; Dewey recently appreciated. finding strange island which is, highly interesting brated his 80th was of German mind much as Hitler himself us the picture and so one cannot but admire Messrs. Simon and Schuster for their “The Voice of Destruction,” birthday. This age Hobbes, Locke, Hume and fact, death. Superficial. of the military gave the occasion for sev- the and of Nazi and social mind in “Mein Kampf.” Theodore W. modesty in making but the single representation. Hermann Rauschning; “The publication of others, golden age, feels OF HUMAN KINDNESS. By Ruth the political eral books about him and that these thinkers Knauth translated Col. Foertsch from the German. Maj. George Fielding Actually, Dr. de Savitsch has had a most varied career. He was of March of the Barbzarians,” his philos- representative Comfort Mitchell. New York: D In the of are “the and creators Eliot contributes the introduction. upper-class Russian family and was but a youth when the revolution Harold Lamb; “Why Europe ophy. “Philosophy John prophets of Appleton-Century Co. edited Paul the 20th world.” overtook his kind. His mother thereupon carried her children off to escape Fights,” Walter Millis; “Paris,” Dewey,” by Arthur century Story of class enmities in the 17 the current horrors in Japan. As soon as he was of a proper age, the Gertrude Stein. Schlipp, great thinkers scrutinize To develop the idea that modern California ranch country. Routine Public Control of Business man Semenov's in Siberia, that by his writings, and Mr. Dewey is able is influenced young joined army naively supposing European thought by FALSE WITNESS. By Irving By Alfred Lief. New York: Howell, Soskin & Co. so was to justify his findings related to the doing he fighting for the loyalist cause—as no doubt he would the thinking done by Hindu and Stone. New York: Doubleday, problems of life. The author of of Justice Holmes” and have put it. The infamous nature of the White forces completely disil- These Men I Knew Mohammedan philosophers, Paul Doran & Co. “Representative Opinions Written particularly to honor his “Brandeis” has rounded out a notable trilogy in this selected group of 40- lusioned him, how'ever, and after their defeat he gave up any thought of By Rosita Forbes. New York: Brunton has written “Indian Phi- Story of false testimony and what return birthday, other well-known scholars odd Harlan Fiske Stone, designed to show the influence that to his homeland. Instead, Me set out for America. losophy and Modern Culture." it did to demoralize a small Ameri- opinions by E. P. Co. on of His was extreme from starvation and he Dutton contributed essays on his work which Ancient Indian texts are the of the massive New Englander has exerted the conduct poverty and, overwork, compared can community. Pretty good. thinking have been in a in 15 in the Court. contracted tuberculosis shortly after he reached San Francisco. As the The remarkable about gathered together with those of modem writers with American industry his years Supreme only thing LIFE IN THE ARK. By Russell the author’s result of this illness he two years in a county sanitarium. After volume entitled “The Philosopher of amazing clearness. The effectiveness of the presentation is heightened by spent work is that one woman should David New York: Harri- this the Common Man.” It is an Burge. Justice Stone’s that he gave up the idea of working at blind-alley jobs and set out to inter- Jacques Maritain, the eminent recital of the circumstances surrounding appointment by have around the of son-Hilton. business” make a physician of himself. It cannot be said that he did this by grit gotten divinity pretation his thought for the lay- French philosopher, recently has President Coolidge. With a background of “big connections; man. Story of family feud. Fair. of Justice alone, though he evidently showed plenty of it. He wras helped by a num- which hedges 24 kings. Or, if not In the same book is a thought had published a volume entitled “A service as Attorney General in an era when the Department essay written Preface to This LIFE AS CAROLA. By Joan Grant was still in bad for misdeeds, and as an of the in- ber of philanthropic individuals and organizations. Arriving, finally, at 24 kings, then 24 assorted dictators, provoking by Dewey Metaphysics.” is repute past opponent called "Creative The a section of a New York: Harper Bros. of Robert M. LaFollette in 1924—because his coveted degree, he went through his internship in a hospital serving presidents, regents, economic royal- Democracy: probably larger book dependent presidential candidacy usual comic anxieties of Task Before Us.” An excellent com- on the same to some Story of Renaissance Italy, he feared it would throw the election into the House—the selection Chicago's “Little Italy” where he records the the ists, emperors, soldiers, marshals, subject appear prehensive selection from his works time in the future. on mystical vein. Worthy. bitter from the little handful of Senate "liberals” ©bstretician to the superstitious tenements. admirals and so on through the cat- pitched provoked opposition i- it as a an Then, following his original scientific love, he went to the Congo to alogue of titles. Mrs. Forbes did this. OUT IN SOCIETY. By Margaret who viewed the addition of superconservative to already-con- servative court. study tropical diseases. His career has thus combined many elements She personally visited, apparently Culkin Banning. New York: beloved the Michelangelo & Bros. by biography-reading public. on terms of delightful friendship, Harper Quickly Joins He writes and with You as well choose him By Marcel Brion. Translated from the French James One of Mrs. Banning's typical, wittily good style. might the following: Hitler, Goering, by | Two Famed Dissenters. as any of a dozen other recent writers of their personal histories. Goebbels, Stalin, Voroshilov. Horthy, Whitall. New York: Grey stone Press. portentous nothings—this time It became quickly apparent, however, that this appraisal was far out King Boris< King George of Greece, This is a popularly written, impressionistic biography. It is no book about a girl who runs away from a in- of line with fact, for the new justice lost no time in joining those two other the late Alexander, the late for students, but would be an interesting and useful thing for people who prosperous home (country club The Unquiet Field King famed dissenters—Holmes and Brandeis—in lifting his voice in behalf Zaharoff, the late Ataturk and his have little knowledge of its subject and period—to such it might well cluded) and goes to New York to By Beatrice Kean Seymour. New York: The Macmillan Co. be ‘‘a club entertainer.” The of principles embodying new concepts of social justice that eventually successor, Ismet Ineunu; the Shah, serve as an introductory study. It presents the main outlines of Michel- night old stuff. were to prevail as the law of the land as the court changed front. We have here a admirable novel as far as sincerity, good Feisal; King Leopold, Queen angelo's career, gives lucid and untechnlcal criticism of his works and perfectly King It was “Mr. Justice Stone dissenting” who charged his colleagues intent and may be counted. It is the story of Wilhelmina, President Roosevelt, offers an explanation of his character. A MtiKKY swejuij. iiy w. Mac- journeyman workmanship with injecting "their personal economic predilections” into the decision a and it begins in England in the reign of George I, with a heroine Ford, Mussolini, Zog, Emperor He was, says Mr. Brion, a dual nature, half pagan and half deeply Donald Barr. New York: For- family, Henry invalidating the New York State minimum wage law as unconstitutional the then decreed state and for Gen. Smuts and Ma- Christian. He was, moreover, an admirer of the beauty of men rather tuny’s. revolting against subjection by society Haille Selassie, impairment of freedom of contract. women and to live her own life. It ends in America in the mid- hatma Gandhi. than of that of women; from women he wanted companionship and un- Story of upset in values in an deciding “There is a grim irony,” he said sternly, “in speaking of the freedom with another such heroine Three have been a derstanding, and no one of the many whom he knew, except Vittoria American suburb. Average. 19th century growing up. generations It must quite job of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their the have in the meantime. and all those Colonna, was ever able to give him those rare gifts. He turned in upon of family passed to make keep appoint- GENTLEMAN OF THE JUNGLE. service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together. But if The is not a feminist tract, however. It is concerned, instead, it must. no himself, and in his private writings are to be found more revelatory docu- Tom New York: G. P. story ments—clearly That, By Gill. this is freedom of contract, no one has ever denied that it is freedom with the of the Negro, the efforts of the freedom-loving ladies is Mrs. Forbes has felt ments than in any record of him left by other men. Putnam’s Sons. slavery doubt, why which may be restrained, notwithstanding the Fourteenth Amendment, directed at a cessation of the slave trade. In the time of the first to write more than All these points Mr. Brion explains in easy and simplified terms. He Routine thriller. being it unnecessary jungle by a statute passed in the public interest.” the is making its fortune in slave marketing. It is this banal seems to have aimed at doing for Michelangelo about what his com- rebel, family the most superficialities about SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS. By A few months later, in an epochal decision, the court reversed itself. members. And with its to patroit, Andre Maurois, did for Shelley. But his is not so adroit or that disturbs its sensitive immigration America, her truly astonishing hosts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzana: be divided on the ethics of polished in the M.-C. E. Chides Court for Its members continue to man-selling. Freedom, M.-C. R. undertaking. Edgar Ric£ Burroughs, Inc. Ed- is an field” never subdued The I. O. Decision. In other words, “unquiet wholly anywhere. j-:. fa’:?- ""'"I gar Rice B. Hague—C. solid of the work cannot be denied. It is well planned and sub- qualities Run of the Stars HOPE A It was Justice Stone who chided the court for narrowing the and FAITH, AND HORSE. By stantially built. It lacks humor, however, genuine life. It is the grounds on which it held unconstitutional a City ordinance which Dora New York: John Benton. New York: D. Jersey work of a careful worker rather than a gifted one. By Aydelotte. the administration of Frank had invoked Appleton-Century Co. Mayor Hague to prevent A Appleton-Century. meetings of the C. I. O. Whimsical, sweet love story of a that America Faces the Forties Miss Aydelotte again presents a “It is enough petitioners have prevented respondents from lady missionary who reclaimed a and ranee holding meetings disseminating information whether for the or- By Shelby Cullom Davis. Philadelphia: Dor & Co. romantic novel of the pioneer men hard-boiled race track character ganization of a labor union or for any other purpose,” he said. a of conditions in the United and set a mission with him to This book presents picture States, past and women who fearlessly fought up Another decision by the New' Englander included in Mr. Lief's collec- with a of those to come. The author discusses and present, prediction their way westward to new frontiers. help. tion is that which wiped out the doctrine of reciprocal tax immunity the political, economic, social and military affairs of the Nation from for Federal and State Government The scene of her story is the “Do- employes tracing back to John both a domestic and an international viewpoint. Country Squire in the White Marshall. is an investment economist and financial main of Dinwiddie,” in Northwestern Mr. Davis, who banker, Mr. Lief’s book was prepared prior to two major decisions Justice a of •ditar, in this book writes about such problems as unemployment, heavy Texas. Her plot covers period House Stone delivered at the past term of court. In an anti-trust in 1889 with proceeding industry, construction, crop control, relief, Wall Street, labor, inflation seven years, beginning involving the oil industry, he read the opinion sharply limiting the of the By John T. Flynn. New York: rights and the Army and Navy. He show's which New Deal agencies are likely the arrival in Dinwiddle conferred while in the other case which Doran & Co. by patents, takes rank as one to do so Sela Burchard, Doubleday, to survive and which deserve and the possibilities of America principal character, of the most important in history involving labor, he defined the condi- from to resume its and Sela’s steadfast courage in the rising the depression slump again march toward a While the Republicans were nom- tions under which labor becomes subject to the Sherman Anti-trust Act. face of disaster and con- higher standard of living. trouble, inating their candidates for Presi- These belong in a revised edition. j. a. FOX. her love These and other decisive questions are dealt with in an under- flicting emotions makes dent and Vice President, this little different from the usual boy- •tandable and interesting manner. FRANCIS G. KNIGHT. story book (131 pages of small type) was The Trail From Texas boy-wins- Long meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, making its appearance in the book of novel. By Frazier Hunt. New York: Doubleday Doran. Music for the Multitude girl type stores —a volume that they might The of two men, Lew The long trail from Texas was the old Chisholm trail New York: The Macmillan Co. struggle well add to their artillery for the of song and By Sidney Harrison. fiction. ran a thousand Grace, a ruthless yet likeable cattle- coming campaign. Its author, a It nearly miles from the plains of Texas to the From English sources comes this latest attempt to enlighten the man man, and Clint Aragon, a quiet, columnist for the New Republic and railhead at Abilene, Kans., the bustling shipping point for beef in the who thrills to the sound of but cannot its 70s and 80s. music penetrate technicalities. courageous farmer, for the posses- a chain of newspapers, attempts to Along its way was the romance of the Old West and the Pianist-Teacher Harrison in the well-known of Sela continues, short, efforts of sion of land and the love is dispose of Franklin D. Roosevelt as tragedy that blazed frequently and with little excuse from the muzzles Sigmund Spaeth. Olga Samaroff, Stokowski, et al., to explain the process a good background. both man and legend. He reviews of six-shooters. which the and of music is by production reproduction achieved. But the Farmer Aragon’s motherless 5- the various developments in the Mr. Hunt tells the story of the old Chisholm trail in this book, author further than goes that. month-old son Bud plays an im- President’s career in chronological published serially under the title, “The Last Frontier.” It is also the While he deals of the art as separately with such phases notation, portant part in the wooing of Sela, order, writing in a manner so dig- story of Ad Spaugh, son of a Kansas farmer, who left his sod house harmony and rhythm. Mr. Harrison also devotes more than attention to ride the equal who falls immediately in love with nified and so seemingly dispassion- trail at the age of 14. Restless with the spirit of the growing to some of the history—political and social—of the particular period under the little fellow. A wayward brother, ate and factual as to have—in the West, young Ad pushed his way finally into Wyoming, an unfenced discussion; he recounts pertinent biographical points regarding important gun law with resultant quick death, minds of some readers, at least—a wilderness, where in time he realized his ambition to have his own musicians and composers. His book, it might be said, is Spaeth-work of an old Indian fighter and a rough devastating effect on the prestige of empire of land and cattle. the fuller sort. better, Perhaps the reader wont be able to compose himself pioneer woman, who tries to forget its subject. It will be This is an authentic of ROSITA FORBES. surprising, story the Old West. It is an account of a masterpiece upon putting it but he will at least have learned many to become a true if the book is not the down, swearing “lady,” indeed, adopted building of the West from the point of view of a cowman, who essential and interesting facts to to a more add zest an Famous names are sprinkled all through the smooth the path complete to already interesting explorer’s by the G. O. P. as official campaign had the vision of what the West would mean when the of and days hard- understanding enjoyment art J. W. book. CHARLES latest book, "These Men I Knew." —Underwood Photo. literature. riding gunmen were * » passed. CECIL HOLLAND. of^f,he STEP^ C.^HINN. F cowboys^nd