FAULKNER EXPOUNDS REALITIES BOOK EDITOR OPENS HER MAIL ' Does Unforgettable Writing in Dramatic Tales; Veteran Hunter Returns From Vacation to Find Correspondents Have Been Busy; Offers Charming Book on His Favorite Gems Sport; Member of Omnibook Staff Makes Protest; Verses From Nazi Are Collected Speeches by Talented Young Writer Quoted By Mary-Carter Roberts. book about It. and the result Is that WASHINGTON’S moie than one shining spirit has M.-C. R. they are the same thing as to say THE WILD PALMS. By Willia-n By BEST SELLER LIST come to dullness In print. The WEEK’S 10 BEST SELLERS IN that a double entry bookkeeper and Faulkner. New York; Random thing Three weeks ago the reviewer, in to do, in such a case, Is to the OTHER CITIES. Shakespeare have the same occupa- House. Week Ending buy these columns, gave notice to her book—for that the brave Boston. tion because both use pens. Both January 18, 1939 helps ad- readers that she was forthwith about As far as the reviewer can write, of course. Therefore are both make venturer who, by his gay courage, Fiction—“All and FICTION. to take herself a vacation. She This Heaven writers? Mr. William Faulkner is a man has helped us all—and then not read out, •Rebecca” (Du Maurier).— must have phrased it badly, she Too.” Rachel Field: “Rebecca,” it. It would be a very good And the reviewer would *• who, if confronted by a brick wall, Doran. general realizes now. For, on returning to Daphne du Maurier: “Three add. griev- Doubledav, rule. that F. van Ma- ing she must be so harsh to Mr. would prefer battering the obstacle "All This and Heaven, Too” her desk, all fresh and renewed Harbours,” Wyck But with little Mr. Knauth's publication when he has (Field'.—Macmillan. Corrigan it again, with the depressing memory son; “The Yearling,” Marjorie down with his own head to been so climbing be well to read at a Kinnan aimiable himself, that, of all "My Son, My Son” (Spring).— might least of a year’s best sellers wiped quite Rawlings; “Wisdom's over it or around its end or as the digests, the one which deals in walking Viking. part—as much, anyhow, makes It away, she found, to her surprise, a Gate,” Margaret Ayer Barnes. how can — fiction is the worst. For. with those to using any other method of "Man’s (Malraux).— plain flying take hold on number of letters ex- Non-fiction “Benjamin pas- Hope” gratifying that deal in a boy's mind and dominate his ar- Franklin,” Carl van informative articles There is no Random House. pressing regret that she was Doren; sage. question about it; whole existence. only, there is at least the “The Sword in the Stone” Corrigan, from ranging to leave The Star. It seems “Fancy This,” Jack Frost; "Lis- justifica- he loves for its own sake. the time he took tion that they serve those seekers difficulty (White).—Putnam. his first flight, and that her statement about the vaca- ten, the Wind,” Anne Morrow Now the reviewer before there was for information who, in their turn, would not say “Royal Regiment” (Frankau). long coined the tion had been read to mean resig-. Lindbergh; "With Malice To- word “air-minded,” was air-mind- ward serve them. But the digest which that Mr. Faulkner is lacking in ac- —Dutton. nation. Some,” Margaret Halsey; edness’ self. He went without all “Alone,” Richard E. Byrd. cuts up a work of fiction has no In over NON-FICTION. Well, the reviewer can only say, complishment. battering the things which young people, for such ground of extenuation. It is “With Malice Toward Some” the If she took her his various literary walls with his the most part, today consider theirs perish thought! Chicago. applying the short-cut method to (Halsey).—Simon & Schuster. departure from The Star she could, Fiction—“All This works which have been brow he by right, in order to be able to oper- and Heaven written To-’* intrepid has, unquestiona- “The We Watch” no a on the Federal Ramparts ate some “crate” or other. As fast doubt, get place Too,” "Rebecca,” “Wisdom's delectation of the taste and the a and a bly, technique skill. The (Eliot).—Reynal & Hitchcock. Writers’ Project, and there is, of if a as he earned any money he put it Gate,” "The Yearling,” “My intellect; man had snapshots reviewer even “Listen the Wind” course, something maliciously satis- would say that of | (Lindbergh). into a plane. He was hopping back Son, My Son,”*Howard Spring. of famous paintings run before him —Harcourt Brace. fying about the idea of being sup- * all writers who habitually overcome and forth across the country for Non-fiction—“Alone,” “Ben- on a band as he ate his breakfast, "Puritan in (White). ported from the taxes of working their material by main strength and Babylon” years before he flew backward into jamin Franklin,” "Listen, the with the end in view that he improve —Macmillan. newspaper men and women, former "With Malice his violence he is one of the most im- fame, as persistent a winged crea- Wind”; Toward acquaintance with art, it would "Benjamin Franklin” (Van colleagues, instead of paying those Some.” “I'm a pressive. You get more violence, ture as a migratory duck—and as Stranger Here be about the same thing. Doran).—Viking. taxes in the simple, unromantic Nash. that is to say. in a page of Faulkner unnoticed by the general public. Myself,” Ogden So it does not matter that Omni- "The World Was My Garden” How such fashion to w'hich one has become ac- than you do in a couple of pages of many young fellows are New York. book choses works which are (Fairchild >.—Scribners. WILLIAM FAULKNER, customed. But they do say that anybody else. You can there, one wonders? Is that where popular. Indeed, the better the practically Whose latest has the new is to be a Fiction—“All This and Heaven the romantics us novel, “The Wild, Palms,” just been published Congress going see him as you read, surrounded by among are to be books, the worse the crime of mutila- adven- found—while the by Random House. bit tough about remembering the Too,” "Rebecca,” "Three Har- malignant hosts of writhing paren- unnatural quality of the conventional souls tion. And then—again—when did dear old Forgotten, and, too. the re- bours.” “The Yearling.” “Royal theses, slippery adverbial clauses, turers. The hero is pallid and the agitate for security (the young!) and popularity become the criterion of. viewer has a long-standing habit of Regiment.” Gilbert Frankau. heroine a chromo. talk of larger doles and worth in literature? The is dancing semi-colons, blocky syn- unemploy- — public ment insurance? working pretty hard when she works Non fiction "Listen. the onyms and sentences, The book on the whole is an im- practically always wrong in the page-long at all, so that she might not fit well Wind”; "Benjamin Franklin,” struggling with them as with a It is, as said, books which it likes; if it does like pressive performance. THE MAN WHO MADE THE Brief Reviews of into the gentle, dreamy scheme of “We Saw It Happen,” 13 cor- Books a it likes it nightmore, disdaining any victory in effect. It produces good one, for the wrong deafening PEACE. By Stuart Hodgson. New the Projectors, welcome her tenderly respondents of the New York W'hich is It is an awesome that numb which one reason—for the sins within it. rather easy. acquiescence York: E. P. Dutton w’ould. So she Times: “With Malice Toward Co. though they certainly than the merits. So the reviewer vision, too. But nobody is likely to notices sometimes after hearing too reiterates, the As Some,” “The Importance of This is a brief of Neville Biography. tion by Harold Rugg, editor; perish thought! comes back to the first sentence of claim ever that it is a restful a noise. As always, with Mr. biography thing large E. long as The Star allows her, she will Living,” Lin Yutang. the of Chamberlain, culminating in a dis- WOODROW WILSON LIFE AND George Axtelle, Hollis L. Cas- Mr. Knauth's letter. She is not to read this literary gladiator. It Faulkner’s work, question a Barkis for cussion of his conduct in the Czecho- LETTERS. Stannard well, George S. Counts, Paul R. remain, very being San Francisco. offended at his her Miss, be- is, instead, absolutely exhausting. whether a reader can believe him or By Ray calling slovakian latest BAKER. New York: Hanna, Pickens E. Harris, L. willing. cause she is a Miss. The same In his present book he has used not is beside the point. He believes trouble, Europe's Doubleday, Fiction—“All This and Heaven goes headache, in case have Doran & Co. Thomas Hopkins, William H. just tne same, sne is not sorry tnat for her of the word his familiar turgidity to expand and himself. And he has the force, for yoti already Too,” “Rebecca.” “The Year- application Mr. of Kilpatrick, J. Paul Leonard and the misunderstanding arose, for the to Omnibook. expound the realities behind two the moment at least, to ride down forgotten. Chamberlain, The seventh volume of Mr. Baker's ling,” “Wait Until Spring Ban- digest course, has been greatly in the public life of the Caroline B. Sachry. New York: glow she got from those above-men- such events as might be reported in any kind of mental opposition. former President, cover- dini,” John Fanti; “The Long * * * * eye since that time, and the D. Appleton-Century Co. tioned letters was something to re- any in about 50 words. partisans ing period between April 6, 1917, Valley,’’ John Steinbeck. newspaper member a time. One of them A long time ago, when the re- FOX-HUNTING IS DIFFERENT. have been peculiarly violent over A long — The first would read something like and February 28, 1918. An im- publication of the John Dewey Non fiction “Listen, the Samuel J. Illustrated his conduct. The reviewer cannot came all the way from St. Augustine, viewer was new come to The Star, this: By Henry. mensely interesting work, consisting Society given over to criticizing the Wind”; “With Malice Toward New York: Der- think one Fla. It was from Mrs. Katherine S. by Paul Brown. of any who has been car- of documents, official and unofficial, present system of education and Some.” “I'm a Stranger Here she was asked to act as a judge in r ‘‘Harry Wilbourne. former interne describes herself as rydale Press. tooned more unpleasantly, and yet arranged in order and reforms. Should be Lawson, who “Dithers and New Orleans, was revelatory advocating Myself.” Jitters,” local poetry contest among college at-Hospital, she has not read a "the senior news woman I reckon in Sportsmen, note. This is a book word of sugges- accompanied by a minimum of com- stimulating to those in the teaching Cornelia Otis Skinner; "Leon- sentenced today to serve 50 years ♦ he as first was the students. She and duly re- of hunt- tion as to what Mr. Chamberlain ment. contribution to country, my job ardo da Antonina Val- accepted in the State for to have. It is a collection Important profession. Vinci,” Penitentiary per- Sheridan death watch and the New a sheaf of verses. anecdotes, remembered by a could have done that he did not do— history of the World War period. Jobs. lentin. ceived large Some forming an illegal operation on Mrs. ing York Tribune didn't know that I veteran hunter and lover of the except, of course, declare war. One PICK YOUR JOB AND HOLD IT. (Copyright 1939.) of them were terrible, some were Francis Rittenmeyer. Mrs. Ritten- Psychology. was a female in with the Mr. Sameul J. a Wash- must conclude that the unhappy S. W. and M. G. Edlund. New competition died as a result of the sport. Henry, YOUR EXPERIMENT IN LIVING. By simply undergraduate and, of these meyer oper- minister was cast for the role of biggest men in the game, much less ingtonian who has ridden to hounds York: Prentiss Hall. reviewer feels, a kind of childish ation. Wilbourne pleaded guilty to that his By Michael A. Cassidy, M. D., did they even suspect that I was a last, the level was fairly high. But^ in our and in Ireland and goat and enemies, and the country and Helen Pratt. New How you can be a success mentality. It is hard to imagine an were no more the charge." considerable of Gay York: by ap- scarcely through rolling up my high still they than earnest too. He writes charmingly body anglophobes, adult of And the second would read about England, Reynal & Hitchcock. plying the principles of salesman- school Mrs. Lawson adds well-rounded development —earnest of the or is illus- have not neglected the opportunity. diploma." copies great and his book exquisitely A on to whole life. such a line. as follows: book the problems of ado- ship your Dreadful. that she was assigned to Washing- taking earnest efforts to be free of copying “- trated. The present book is a word on the written in For, after who cares -, who is serving a lescence, terms designed Novels. ton during the Cleveland and Har- all, enough Among the whole collection the work mere are siories oi iamous other side of the question. It is for to to about his to feel 15-year term in the State Peniten- appeal intelligent young people. MY FAMILY "ITS OF THEE. By rison administrations when "we were literary opinions of only one of the young poets hounds, famous horses and famous the Prime Minister, most unquali- Plain and useful. that they have to be secret? * tiary for train robbery, had 10 years Marguerite Brenner. New York: but three newswomen besides a few kept seemed to the reviewer to be marked foxes. There are also stories of fiedly. Unfortunately, its author j be over a added to his sentence today for at- many THE TROUBLED MIND. By Harry The Macaulay Co. society reporters.” At present Mrs. Why anonymous matter by real fire. The verses had been hunters, some of them well known overbalances. He is so deep in ad- so extremely The re- tempted escape. He was put to Roberts. New York: E. P. Dutton A rather foolish book, designed to Lawson is acting secretary and ! impersonal? submitted anonymously, and so the in the about Wash- i miration of Mr. Chamberlain that viewer, in her time on The has work on the levees during the flood hunting country & Co. show that the family is a useful librarian of the St. Augustine His- Star, reviewer did not know who this un- All these tales are told in he loses his sense of proportion. He had to write of seven weeks and broke ington. A of the of the institution. torical and Institute of books by her own mistakably gifted writer was. After ago away is study makeup Society that most delightful of manners— positively tender about the beau- friends and, on more than one occa- from the guards. Until his re- mind, the various ills to which it is SONG OF YEARS. By Bess Streeter Science. the voting and awarding had been the manner of the man who has a ties of the prime minister's charac- sion, has had to criticize those books capture he was thought to have a prey, and some of the causes of Aldrich. New York: D. Apple- Of the reviewer's supposed resig- done, she took the trouble to find of his sub- ter: one might almost say that he been drowned.” deep personal knowledge these troubles. Not technical, but ton-Century. nation she has these kind words to adversely. This, sometimes, has out. It was Miss Annette Temin, a and an love of it. croons. Such a work, of course, is made a friend but never Out ject equally deep written in terms which a A novel of the once angry, in student then at Teachers’ of these two happenings, so neither layman frontier again say: College. The reviewer went through the book informative to the public nor a personal way. The anger has been routine in our civilized life that no can understand. —this time Iowa. Serious and re- "Is it really true—that final para- So fine did Miss Temin’s wor?f at one sitting and has spent a good helpful to its subject. It must stand directed against the reviewer's obvi- one would for the of of your January 1 page? I seem to the reviewer that she did pause reading as a lost effort. Travel. spectable. graph bit of tirqp *1nce then poring over ous stupidity, at her inability to see a report of them, and no one, hav- Poetrv. do hope I haven’t caught its real what was probably unethical in a the She can HANDBOOK FOR A HAPPY HOLI- spVtviiii drawings. After it three the beauties of the brain child in ing read Ihe report, would remem- MUSE ANTHOLOGY. New York: DAY. HARP IN THE MIDNIGHT. By meaning. reading judge—she told Miss Temin person- n hunter—or a lover By Mathilda W. Gantt. it hardly ii„„„nw' am to write question. And has beer, expressed ber it i a econds afterwaru, Mr. Carlyle Straub. New Alethea Garrison. New York: times I compelled you ally that she thought her work the of outdoor iky :iiid sport—failing to York: Pyramid Press. quite freely, too. Faulkner nas bludgeoned into Robert W. Kelley Publishing that letter I have promised myself best submitted and that she be- being rush off to buy a copy, once he has This book, now published almost A travel book, a practical combining to write after each of your If. between friends, such lieved her to be a real powerful emotional book. It is a Corp. reading exchanges poet. From seen this book. Readers are asked to year, is a memorial to Allan the ieatures a • * * Edgar of guide with those over a are it actually two short stories, com- Delicate verse, rather precious. pages for year. possible, is hard to see why that time on she did not see the long how seldom such enthu- Poe, prepared by a of con- of a remember group text—such information, for "I miss that more than to separate as to characters THE SECOND POETRY HOUSE shall page strangers, wishing disagree, should young writer again. It was with pletely siasms are heic and to temporary writers. It is comprised as how to tickets lightered example, get your Edited I can express. It lias been both a fear to sign their names to their dis- then discovered, and Sellings, told in alternate seven ANTHOLOGY. by Michael pleasure that she chap- their own conclusions. of parts. The first consists of in various what to • * * iiraw countries, shops a stimulus. statements. The ters. First one reads of the an- Everett. New York: Poetry- House. relief and Long ; renting reviewer in the January Poetr> World two of In addition to the good stories tributes and essays and poems to where, what hotels, and • • • patronize I most The welcomes discussion. She will ex- Miss Temin’s guished doings of Dr. Wilbourne the second Pretty sad. ago quit reading, poems. They do not there is much information, though Poe, is Poe's essay on so on. Should be of real service to of and his Charlotte LIKE A METEOR. By Emma Lee Star has been my one best bet. pect, course, to keep her own end seem to her the best of Miss Temin * mistress, Ritten- this comes in There are “The Poetic and his own the amateur casually. Principle’’ globe trotter. • •• I am and she meyer. Then one of Glenn. Dallas Kaleidograph too busy day up: very seldom makes a state- work which she has seen, but in reads the comments to the breeding of dogs, poems, the third is a collection of Education. Press. night to do much reading except ment which she is not prepared to them there is the remembered despairing puzzlement of the train of and on hunt- modern the fourth on the merits horses lyrics by writers, and it defend. But it has robber who never wanted DEMOCRACY AND THE CURRIC- Woman’s magazine type of verse, on St. Augustine research, always been her fluidity of line, the music and deep to escape ing technique generally. There is is a collection of sonnets, the fifth is ULUM. earnest. has been unP safe landing when I policy to give space to the emotion. The reviewer is from his safe warm and who, a collection of Written in collabora- serious and dissenters, mystic go- prison also mention of the “primitive” fox quatrains and light * • • get your page. I do thank j and she means to continue to do so— ing to quote the work of this talent- having accidentally been swept hunt—the one carried on by the verse, the sixth is given over to vers you for saying things just as you provided, of course, that the opposi- ed young Washingtonian whom she * sway from his guards, had but one dogs alone, notably in the case of libre and the seventh is addenda, have." tion will but come into the open and discovered by such an accident. thought to his mind—to return and the “Gold Tooth” fox, when a hand- including facsimiles of the original The thanks are mutual. The re- put its name freely to its communi- surrender. ful of on manuscript of “The Raven,” and The Wheat Fields. country dogs stayed long viewer has mentioned the cations. The effect is as of a of the already deafening after the club pack had quit and pages in the Evening Mirror * * ^ * feeling which sometimes overtakes Do not attempt to walk these fields counterpoint. In the Wilbourne left. And there are tales of the and the American Review on which her. as if she were working in a On December 25. the reviewer tonight. story the theme deals with an ef- characters incidental to the hunt— the poem was first published. The vacuum and as if the words which, wrote in these columns of a new They will not sustain you. being fort to find liberty, ending in dis- the Negro fans and countrymen volume is almost 900 pages long. in bright conviction, she directs at magazine called Omnibook, a river, aster. In the convict story we have who have lived in the shadow of the As far as the Poe material goes, it peri- her public ended right there, af- odical which is made up of excerpts Being at most a silent bed of light the effort to escape from hunt all their lives—and so on. But is excellent. The volume has been liberty, more than a little from books so Your body, this, will fai^ likewise fecting nothing chosen as to give learning ending in disaster. In both you had best get the book and read prepared reverently and is a gift fit and absorption of ink into paper. When readers a general idea of the whole quiver, ^ the atmosphere is one of pure it yourself. That is always the re- to be offered in the name of Poe's this happens, a letter such as Mrs. contents of the work. The reviewer Your hand will cry for root where nightmare, stiff, dreamlike, incred- viewer's ultimate word on anything. greatness. John Gould Fletcher, Lawson s is a great revivifier. To characterized Omnibook as a ‘'di- there is none ibly prolonged and devestating to Charles Hanson Towne, Clement get such a note is, for the reviewer, gest” and uttered a low moan. And seek for earth where now is the reader's instinctive resistance. LUNACY BECOMES US. By Adolf Wood. Edwin Markham. Burton Ras- always to be amazed—amazed at the Now Mr. Victor W. Knauth of only rain. Of the two tales, the reviewer Hitler and his associates. Edited coe, Joseph Auslander, John Erskine pre- of the writer in so Omnibook Returned to water, will lie Clara Leiser. New York: and goodness taking staff writes to object. you upon fers the one dealing with the con- by Nathalia Crane are among those much trouble for a stranger who, “Dear Miss Reviewer.” he ‘‘I The frosty darkness in its field of vict. In it there Liveright Publishing Corp. inscribing the tributes. The says, is some humor; print- after is more than I am of the all, doing nothing hope not offending you more pain hence it comes a great deal nearer This book is a collection of gems ing book has been done beau- her paid job. The thanks are by addressing you as Miss than As once you were; the fish will be life than does the from the and tifully and its vou other one. The gathered speeches physical appearance mutual offend your brother, is indeed. Omnibook by calling it a di- convict, with his fixed is a sort writings of the Nazi leaders. Its edi- harmonious to its purpose. idea, gest. This silver planet still without a tor. in her foreword, that she is As for the material in the anthol- From somewhat closer home comes of low-life Quixote. He is pitted says "In name, made another letter, from Dr. John B. preparing Omnibook, we against the awful force of the Mis- refuting by her work the often ogy sections—Sections 3,4, 5 and 6— And Nichols of 1607 Sixteenth street learned a lot about digests, you, intrepid child without a River in the claim that the Nazis have no sense it is the same stuff, in the main, because, sissippi flood; stream above all, that is mother. of humor. The reviewer wishes to which seeps into all N.W., who writes as follows: what we didn't carries him farther and farther from contemporary want Will claim the tideless “I am sorry, if I understand it Omnibook to be. channel his desire—the warm interpolate at this point that she, anthologies. There are some eminent penitentiary— that "We asked people and most told whence you came. and rolls for her part, has never made or be- names among the contributors, to correctly, your weekly contri- and tumbles him about in us that a is lieved that claim. She had to re- be sure—Robert G. K. bution to The Sunday Star is to be digest something that a way which would utterly destroy Bridges, you can The fallen spirits lie where they discontinued. I a put in your So we the view the “Nazi Primer” some weeks Chesterton, Padraic Colum. Countee hope it is only pocket. have integrity and dignity of any hu- made Omnibook left to Walter de temporary suspension. It is the a size which man the one ago and took the occasion then Cullen, la Mare, Robert The shelter of the being except whose wouldn't go even into road, and, say that she considered the author Frost, A. E. Housman, Aldous first thing I always looked for and Hendrick Van Integrity and dignity lie in some- Huxley Loon's floundering deep —to read in the Sunday edition. Your pocket thing beyond himself, that of that book the greatest deadpan mention only a few. But with Across the moon-washed being, comments "Some told us that a yellow comedian since Buster Keaton; in all these there is a leveling residue were always entertaining- digest Is a with the wretch in question, an un- rewriting of fields, bereft fact, she even said that she of mediocrity, too. ly shrewd and pungent: and I would something else. Not a shakable determination to go back suspected word in Of hope for finding home, gone'* Buster of the She is like to see you get into a field of Omnibook is rewritten We and a being author. down to surrender. He is fantastic have fixed it so sleep delighted, therefore, to find some PORTRAITS FROM A CHINESE rivalry with Dorothy Thompson as that, by almost puppet tossed by the ruthless waters miraculous the one “who holds her own view and SCROLL. By Elizabeth Foreman a commentator.” editing, books in Here where the wheat has and by the no less ruthless hands of Omnibook grown, readers are advised here and now? Lewis. Chicago: John C. Winston Now that is very nice, indeed. It hang togther and make the Mr. William but seedling bloomed. Faulkner, despite Co. sense without or that Miss Leiser. claiming that the is not only kind and generous of changing adding a Beware to set your foot, O two such taskmasters he retains his one of the author's change- Nazis are comic, This volume consists of a num- Dr. Nichols to bother to write. It is original words. ful and his readers’ His exquisitely presents And. ghost. gravity respect. ber of to the reviewer as to Omnibook her proof in a very impressive man- formal, conventional char- perfectly delightful being for Lest In the Infinite your flesh be story is an unforgettable bit of writ- people who do not care for ner. acterizations of Chinese citizens to imagine herself rivaling the great literature doomed. ing. done in the and do not care for books She has divided her work into old-time geography test Dorothy—without, mark you, ever (that is The soul dismantled and the bodv The other tale is less well book what the reviewer we chapters by subject. Some of it ex- manner. For instance, the having been chased out of any said), beg to lost; grounded in essential truth. Its say that the books presses the Nazi attitude toward Chinese merchant is characterized as fascistic or communistic country, or abridged in And here not land but theme is a conventional one—that Omnibook are the ones water, every- some toward the a shrewd trader whose word is his One the illustrations Paul Broum in having married a Nobel Prize win- which people education, Jews, of many striking by have where of the star-crossed lovers, no less, the usual been buying and some toward the Catholics, some to- bond, conventional patter. “Fox Hunting Is Different,” by Samuel J. Henry, well-known ner. And then, of course, there is, talking about The of the and who flee the world only to And the most. It would be sweeping sea, far* ward the Protestants. There are However, each of these brief sum- sportsman of Washington. —Derrydale Press. too. Miss Thompson’s reputed $100.- easy to fill and wide i world constantly at their door. The maries is 000 Omnibook each month with also chapters on woman's duties, on followed by a sketch or the year. Imagine yourself literary The maiden leaning with her yellow l young doctor first abandons his flops. But you should see eating substitute foods and going dramatic incident which gives life rivaling somebody who is accgunted us strug- hair career for his with mistress and elopes to the otherwise dull worth so gling publishers to get the books ^ without: on art, music and poetry; formalizations. much, and just see what Across the swell upon her yellow with her on stolen money. She, The people do as on the press and on international merchant, the coolie, the tailor, happens to the size of your head. want, shown by side in her turn, gives up her two chil- the Youth Movement Invades relations. The selections from the beggar, the scholar, the clerk, To every one who wroW. the re- And lifting darkly in unblemished dren and a prosperous home for her the "Honest we don't think words of the Fuehrer and his friends woman, the child, the postman, viewer extends her thanks. She we are motion love. besets the two, but mutilators (the reviewer Poverty are all none of them and that usual concomitant of life would like to all the letters, called them short, being publish that Like summer swallows from the they prove that it has no terrors in China, the Public too). In fact, we are confident a page long. And to most of them foreigner, are all de- Library Daily but considers that perhaps two bou- barren tree. for them. Then men- that you will learn to prosperity Miss Leiser has scribed. The tales which follow these quets are to throw at her- love Omnibook supplied captions : enough with the At last arisen from the cosmic aces their togetherness and they are The movement invades the erick Jackson Bell, is handsomely passing months.” of her own—neat, brisk and pointed. descriptions rather tenuous, for youth self on one occasion. ocean. abandon their success for illustrated Pauline Glidden Bell. Now, to the money At the are the most part, but have some ele- Public at and K by | * * * * literate. Mr. Knauth's end of'the book there Library, Eighth letter The tawny child, submerged the sake of their sacred passion. ments of It re-creates the atmosphere of life ! (which is certainlv pri- * some pages left blank for readers to drama which stick in the streets N.W. and its several There is one very pleasant thing good- mevally. Finally the itself overthrows on the old-time Navy frigates in its natured. coming from one whose passion use in making their own addition to memory. This is particularly true, j about The Star readers, however. are to have a child and branches every afternoon about 3 of brain child has been them; they the collection. of course, of the more frankly descriptions routine, discipline, When they write they almost always severely Song. do not dare to. The doctor o'clock. Hordes of schoolers sea battles and end- criticized) will bear out, with What words they Inasmuch as none of Miss Leiser's propagandistic ones. high superstitions, sign their names. Sometimes—not perfect your lips may utter in the precision which performs illegal operation, his is without The illustrations Hol- and ing with a collection of blue water to be everything the re- betraying ^ quotations its authenticat- by Virginia advance upon the bookshelves often, sure, not more than half viewer mistress dies and he is said. A digest is a The older of imprisoned ing note, and inasmuch as they are, linger Stout are particularly appeal- leave them riddled and bare like songs. a dozen times in the past four years digest, language your heart for the rest of his life. He is and “The of a Sailor,” Alan big or little, and, as far as this Will like water given without exception, expressions of ing have much the effect of the trees of a forest after a plague Making by —an anonymous letter has come pass even In your to and also to is a in of reviewer goes, they are all opportunity escape shameful and horrifying attitudes, well-done etchings.—R. R. T. of locusts. This group has decided Villiers, story pictures creeping horribly onto the reviewer’s equally saying the of sailors. It accursed. The fact that Omnibook Above commit suicide, but he refuses it. her book one com- on the other making youthful me, separate and seems to be to be likes and dislikes; but, desk, giving her that peculiarly livid is apart. A life will be a life of A GOOD HOME WITH NICE is a beautiful of work and not a rewriting does not its punishment mended in the Interest of are voracious readers piece shock which the sneer help simple hand, they only nameless a You of his and he PEOPLE. By Law- should to all who are sea- case: rewriting is honestlv that, cannot bruise me with your memory beloved, truth. The refutation Josephine and like all kinds and conditions of appeal can And these letters all only possible give. haye at least. But an idle would rather have that than any rence, Boston. Little, Brown & to minded. "abridged edition” speeches. would be denial that such utterances things from “Frankenstein” been unpleasant. But the gteat vol- is Co. The new rink has inexcusable. It is a no You cannot wound me with a other possible existence. So he had been made. For there can be as a ice-skating mutilation, “Figure Skating Hobby.” ume of the mail has been kind— matter enters on his sentence. Of made as a how it may allow a book to word, no explanation. course, if you like your Sunday These questions are typical of “Figure Skating Hobby,” and shamelessly signed. The Star’s The weakness of this is in Diane one of the most "hang together.” Hanging is execu- Who once has known how a story Incidentally, Miss Leiser is, her school tracts slightly disguised and those that are asked by Cummings, the reviewer are long ^ by frequently: readers, concludes, tion and whether it be silence the characters themselves. The served as books. it was done in the reaches, own words, “undiluted Nordic-Ar- up moral stories for good Can you give me a story of college popular sport Maybe to an overwhelmingly large degree, whole or after a and Who once before, O has heard doctor is hopelessly vague; not once She children, will find “A re- wishful thinking, but even during drawing quar- love, yan.” also says that "the Nazis you Good life? Where can I learn the very nice people. of assume a tering the victim, there is The quiet measure of breath does he believable shape; themselves have certified the im- Home With Nice an into West the mild winter weather “The Art nothing your People” edy- quirements for entrance And as to the anonymous com- else to call it. not once does he seem to be work. of Skiing” and other ski books were in waking. saying peccability of the L. family tree back fying If you don’t happen Point and Annapolis? Have you munication, there is nothing that his own but those to in for in demand. Moreover, any digest at all—big, Nay, love has made me deep and thoughts, always to the 13th century.’’ go that style of literature, any books on aerial navigation? any one can do about it, of course. of Mr. William Faulkner. And the little, abridged, rewritten or what wise; Likewise incidentally, the title of you may concur heartily in Miss Have you any books on ice skating? Many are the requests for books The writers of such letters must have you—exists for the sake of And I shall swear I saw this heroine is one of those awful mon- the book comes from the words of Lawrence's sentiments about with motion promise what Have you a good historical novel? picture titles, and more know that themselves. They are those “who do sters which male novelists from is not care for literature breaking Col. Goering—“If what we have done wrong with the servant situation School and stories are often than not those titles never certain that will not be an- j college they and do not care for books,” for In bitter from time to time create when they de- here is then becomes in the modern world, but would and John R. the shelves of the Public Li- only treachery your lunacy, lunacy you naturally very popular, rq^ch swered and they can hardly expect such as those make cide to nature as a source the success of eyes. forego us.” probably prefer to read about it Tunis presents a picture of Har- brary, but there is a book, fairly that ahy suggestions which the they — digest form The re- —— of material and rummage about as a sermon possible. straight or article of vard life in “The Iron Duke” which new, too, by I. A. R. Wylie, called make, without their own acknowl- viewer has instead in the old of de- THAT'S MY STORY. social nothing against such grab-bag By Douglas research. As a theme for a does not the eager “The in Heart.” will be can disappoint Young edgement, accepted. One readers: she supposes that To Consider Taxes sire, bringing up a half dozen or so Corrigan. New York: E. P. Dut- novel, it is out. Even were writ- I they the reader. Kendall Banning has “Here Stay,” by Elizabeth Coats- only conclude, therefore, that there “read for information.” Admirable! isolated traits and shov- ton Co. novel more Pending tax legislation now be- arbitrarily skillfully constructed, ten two books called “West Point worth, with simple illustrations in is no behind such a com- purpose But reading for information ant fore Congress the Pat- A ing them together, making such a The engaging young man who even if the characterization were and black and white which fit particularly Today” “Annapolis Today,” exactly munication except a wish to wound. from a love of man creature as has haunted a reading literature chain store tax bill, and a good flew to California by way of Dublin less wooden and stereotyped, even which are not but are the is about a novels, they story, very young Well, that is natural enough, of are two completely different things. port the many dreams since the world began and Belfast is not much of a if the were more and by Suffrage really prose arresting, brimful of color and incident woman who braves the early Maine course. If any one constantly irri- Both involve the use of the Committed^® but which has ever eyes on will be the principal business of the^M nobody yet writer—but who cares about that it would still be out. In the book have much information which every wilderness alone a tates through long, you, you can hardly escape but otherwise have no met In the flesh—or could endure. print, they Mid-City Citizens’ Association at Its anyhow? We seem to have a con- as written It Is a glaring example plebe will be glad to know before weary winter. Quiet courage and a to back. But to hit wanting hit by points in common whatsoever, and meeting tomorrow at 8 In the The poignancy of the adventure vention in this country that any of what not to write a novel about. the love of all pm. entering academies. living things pervades anonymous letter la to hit from be- there ought to ^e two verbs to ex- Thomson itself suffers from tire one who does School, A. J. Driscoll, naturally shall write a RR.T, the book. hind Md then run. It Indicates, the pires them. It is as foolish to say president, announced pesSevdev, anything l i > / A I