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B o T A N ATITS CTIRITTMAYY oA ia) TEP A ATTIRT e - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 6, 1930. e e S - e e = NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM. By Herbert Adams Gibbons, author of “America’s Place in the World,” etc. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. HIS book produces the effect of di- rect speech, not that of pnnt. Originally the substance of the matter in hand was given in the form of lectures, and it may be that, by holding to certain turns of phrase c¢r to other personal modes of direct communication, this happy face-to-face meeting has Dbeen achieved. At Green Acre, Maine, was held the first session of the Institute of World Unity. Its Tfist lecture course was given by Mr. Gibbons on the subject indicated by the title of this book. World brotherhood appears to be the goal sought by the World Unity Foundation. Reasoning, plausibly, that knowledge is the first step toward such issue, that acquaintance is a step in the direction of brotherhood, the foundation sought the beginning of such an advance by way of the historic equipment of Herbert Adams Gibbons. Knowing this writer, and having read this particular book, you are bound to agree to the sagacity of this move. The study follows a clean course from dynastic politics of the past into those more natural alliances of blood neighborhood that, in the course of time, produced the nationalism under which we ourselves live and with which we Save, at least, a surface acquaintance. The bulk of the six lectures is devoted to the many lines of influence, the varied forms of advance, under which nationalism made its - way out from the old dynasty idea. Surprise after surprise waits for you at this point in the work. One—not the first, but perhaps the most striking—is that the French Revolution was the starting point of this new political concept. Another is that the great Napoleon, more than any other statesman, contributed to this nationalistic idea. Read this topic as Mr. Gibbons presents it. No greater illumination of this historic growth could possibly come your way than the one that he here turns upon that stage of world growth. Many, many times you stop, merely to ask, without hoping for , just why such full knowledge of his- tory, such ripely seasoned views, such ease and confidence in the field of man’s growth—why all this could not come to students everywhere, in place of the sapless routine of events that are passed out to minds that are in the making and that, therefore, need just the wisdom® that & man like this one has for them. However, the discussion goes on, naturally toward in- ternationalism, which the author projects in the same spirit as that in which he deals with nationalism. But toward a dissimilar end. If the dynastic form gradually passed into the idea and fact of nationalism, then, of course, ‘in the long ages of development that are to come it, too, will move on into international- ism. Then, says,the world unity advocate, brotherhood will have perfected itself and world peace will follow, as the night the day. Not at all, says Mr. Gibbons, as he gives the reasons—going back for examples and proofs to the family itself—why there will be an in- ternationalism even when nationalism has reached its highest point of development. So, while the lectures must have enriched the lis- teners at the Green Acre school, just as they bound to enrich the reader everywhere, the goal of world brotherhood is far away—so far as to be unrealizable in any conceivable future. That is not the point to general read- ers. The point is that right in hand is an il- luminating study of history, important in theme, rich in projection, by the most dis- tinguished, and at the same time most useful mrim in the United States or answhere el Extravagant? You read all that he has written on history and its allied subjects. You can then answer the question yourself. H THE TURN OF THE SCREW. By Henry James. Introduction by Heywood Broun. New York: The Modern Library. HAVE you read it? If you acknowledge the art of Henry James and love it as well, you have read “The Turn of the Screw,” one of the greatest of ghost stories, certainly the most gruesome of them all. For some reason, or no reason, I, like Broun, had not read this James story. Now I have read it. How often do we hear, “I simply couldn’t let that book alone.” I've said it and so have you. While I meant to be truthful in such statement, and thought I was, not until this uncanny tale came my way did I really know what a complete thrall was. I knew then—and still do, when, like a hypnotic I return again and again to the spell of it. Let Heywood Broun tell you how it felt to him. He also was late in read- ing it: “For two or three days after it came I would not even open the parcel. I knew per- fectly well what was going to happen to me— that I would wake up staring in the darkness of the night, seeing the baleful eyes of the butler at my window, watching the cowering figures of children in the shadowy corners of my room, bound helplessly in the spell of this “man James, whose piratical hold over other men’s imaginations I could do nothing what- ever against...I opened the book, read a little of it, then a little more and, of course, finished it in precisely the hideous thralldom that had been its author's wicked purpose.” He tells more of the special horrors brought upon him by the unholy art of Henry James in passing invented horrors over into the reader’s actual- ity of impression and effect. It is the stealing, pausing, brooding suspense, I think, that holds one so completely at the mercy of these un- folding pages of terror—just one step more must be taken, and that’ but leads to the next. This tension cannot go on much longer—but it does, hurrying one back to it for the easement that does not come. Is the effect due-%o the fact of two children taking the brunt of this A Volume on Nationalism and Interna- tionalism—71he Nezwest Novels and a Book of Short Stories. ghost possession? In part, maybe. But not so much that as it is the devilish art of Henry James in portraying a purely diabolical mat- ter. THREE AGAINST FATE. By Mary Agnes Hamilton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. IiERE is a truly tragic matter. Drawn from the familiar current of modern life for its characters and action, for background and out- come, it is, in effect, nevertheless, of classic au- sterity of attitude before a fate that is uncom- promising and inexorable. Just a story of young love in the war time, a decade and a half ago. An idyl of a love and marriage to set out with. The immediate English setting has both beauty and blot upon it, but the partnership of the two chiefly concerned is a finely flexible and whole- hearted undertaking. Then the war, with the young husband going the way of the great body of Englishmen. Both good soldiers, the man and the woman alike. Home again, upon leave, the man is changed so utterly as to bring ap- prehension and fear to the girl. It was but the war, horrifying the young soldier throughout— body and soul. No doubt, like a woman, this one failed to seize the deep cause, hitting instead upon some superficial source for the great change. Once more the soldier is home, coming without notice. There he finds his wife and their friend—that clever pacifist M. P. Dis- heartened, deranged, horrified by the war, as such, he, for the moment, loses his balance entirely, merely doing over again with an in- dividual that which he had done in bulk, so to speak, in the trenches. So—you see. Here are three lives moving along the course prescrib=d for them, just as we move. No wrongdoing on the part of any one of them. All living honor- ably within a common sphere. At the last one of these is dead, murdered. Another is waiting trial in prison. The woman, blameless, yet the most heavily stricken of all. What about it? An inexorable fate marching upon blind humans. A remarkable novel. Its theme big, and por- tentous. Its conception adequate for such depth of vision. Its development steady, straight, sure, toward doom—yet working in material so human, so familiar as to engross the reader de- spite his fears and apprehensions. And is there not at the last any easement at all from this grim destiny? Well, there is a gesture of such implication—I guess there had to be—but it is hardly easement after all. A strong and beauti- ful novel of supevb workmanship. CONTACT: And Other Stories. By Frances Noyes Hart, author of “The Bellamy Trial,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. THE second coming of war literature of the war story is now at its height. For definite reasons this later appearance surpasses in effect those writings that were offered a dozen years ago and - thereabout. ‘Then deeply excited emotions were paramount. There were no perspectives for readjustments.and corrections. There were no colors save dead blacks and hectic chromatics. Print, along with every- thing else, partook of the general madness. Readings were made, when made at all, in the same extravagance of mood and feeling. Now it is different. The healing of time is in evidence. Only at this later day could the war story be written in the dispassion with which war even must be represented. It is only now that the really great war novels are coming to light—thos> that deal with the men and the trench and the slaughter and the horror, not with movements and campaigns and commanding officers. It was in this first issue of the war romance that “Contact” made its appearance. A beautiful story, rather mystic in its implications, romantic throughout. It at its original printing was a different thing, though made of war stuff. Even then a warmly accepted page of artistry. I've just read it again. The same story, the very same. Yet set in this later atmosphere of tranquillity, of radically changed attitude toward that war, “Contact” takes on a ncw fragrance, a new beauty, a new value. Not changed in work- manship, yet wholly different in its effect. In this volume there go several of the Frances Noyes Hart short stories, some of th m new, a few of them reprinted. All of them sourced, not alone in pure romance, unless it be the perennial romance of fair dealing, rich living in the things that count, fid:lity to friendship, honor among men. Yet these are tales of the sophisticate sort, even though they do deal almost exclusively with good faith and fair intent. A fine crafisman joins here with th2 imagination of the romancer. GOLDEN DAWN. By Peter B. Kyne, author of “Tide of Empire,” etc. New York: Cos- mopolitan Book Corporation. SCIENCE serves the fairy tale even better than *7 the ancient myth does. Evidence of this cames out in the current novels all around us. Peter Kyne's latest romance is a case in point. Mod- ern psychology in its probings and findings lies at the root of this matter. Double personality accounts for the bewildering behaviors of a young girl—Penelope Gatlin yesterday, Nance Belden this morning. The adventure—a true Kyne invention—gets ahead, on the one hand, by way of the ardors cf dctection and pursuit of the entire police force of the town; on the other hand, by ways of search' for the lost heiress, Penelope Gatlin. An engaging high light on the action is provided by Dan McNamara, chief of police, who is a masterly blend of human being and officer of the law. Indeed, Dan McNamara carries off the honors of be- havior so frequently and so winningly as to suggest that there is a hero in this adventure, one that stands 50-50 with the heroine herself— that two-in-one girl of elusive character. Primarily, this is a mystery yarn. It is, besides, a perfectly good love story. No, not with Mc- Namara as the lover. Instead, it is a young doctor who claims the reward after solving the mysterious problem of dual personality brought about by an accident. Rescuing the good young girl and dismissing for good and all the other one, the doctor changes his own professional cast to that of a modern Prince Charming, who rescues the new Cinderella and makes a per- fectly good princess of her. A characteristic Peter Kyne adventure, rich in action of surpris- ing turn, quick of wit, warm of heart, on the sunny side of fair-dealing and general decency of outlook—here is another good novel for the hosts that swear by this particular storyteller for stirring adventure that never does fall down on its job. AN ARMY WITHOUT BANNERS. By John Beames. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. PIONEERS of the great West constitute the army covered by the title of this romance. Hardly do we think of these as soldiers, fighting battle after battle with the most tenacious and dogged of enemies—cold and heat, storms of rain and wind and snow, breaking up of cen- turies of packed land, sowing and hoping against drought and tornado. No, these are not sol- diers. These are laborers, upon whom no glam- our of heroism settles, besidle whom no bands of music march, around whom no celebrations subsequently gather. But, nevertheless, here is a corking good story of conquest that counts in the long run far better than any record of slaughter, under any high-sounding name what- ever, could possibly produce. Here is the cov- ered wagon, the wife and the children, the household goods—all headed upon a new home in the Northwest, up in the Canadian zone of Saskatchewan. And Billy, the head of the ad- venture, turns out to be the saving grace of it as well. For, under the rough talk and the crude ways of him. Billy is the kind of person who sees things around him and feels them— the vast loneliness, the austere beauty of this unfriendly land, the wide sweep of hawks across the sky, the covert ways of wild things aground—a poet, some call this sort of man that Billy is. A neighbor family, just one, in all this wilderness of nature, makes possible a beginning for Billy and his family. And the adventure grows, sturdily, with the makeshifts of pioneer life. Good humor, and, even better, humor itself, give easement to a matter that otherwise would be a bit too strenuous and ex- acting for soft readers to enjoy—to believe even. But this is a true story in its substance and a good one in its telling. It runs along with the years and the growth of the children of these neighbors, of love and a new generation of courtship and marriage. And then, with Billy old enough to know better, there is the open- ing toward a new move by him, and the wife, out into a new West, into a new adventure of the pioneer. Foolish. I don't know—there are not sq many chances left, not anywhere in the world—not many chances to step out into the unknown and its hazards. I think Billy is all right to go, EAT AND KEEP FIT. By Lyman F. Kebler, M. D, M. S, former Government, specialist . in foods and drugs. Washington: Lyman F. Kebler, publisher. DIET. as a pursuit, has become a madness of the blocd, a lunacy of the mind. Not so long ago folks ate to appease hunger, to restoke the human engine for a new run along the job of making a living or, now and then, for the epicurean delight of pungent savors and deli=~ cate essences. But not any more. Nowadays folks eat to get lean. Without that “slight boyish figure” no female need apply at ang door of occupation or industry. A rare and occasional one eats for the sake of clothing a dry bag-o’-bones with the lure of the undulatory curve. Not many of these. The bulk of urgency is overwhelmingly the other way. This dietary scourge respects neither age nor sex nor pre- vious condition of common sense. And-along with it comes, of course, the nostrum-monger— hordes of him—who in fine impartiality promise. to cure the overfat, the overlean, both from the same bottle. Meanwhile, the scientist, the trained specialist, the expert ad- viser stood aside, no doubt under the impres- sion that this was but a passing storm, out from which those who managed to live would have learned things to their advantage, But the tempest did not pass so speedily. And, gradually, the competent ones are coming to the rescue of those who, through ignorance and credulity and vanity, are clearly in need of first aid. “Eat and Keep Fil" is a book of such good intent. It is meant for intelligent readers who have the entirely laudable desire to know a few essential things about themselves and about the best habits to form in their own bodily interest. Its author has had a wide ex- perience in both training and practice. Special- ist for the Government. in foods, medical di- rector of ‘more than one food association, asso- ciate professor of Georgetown Medical College, Dr. Kebler appears to be particularly equipped for the role which this book sets for him. A scholar and a specialist who, nevertheless, re- mains practical in outlook, direct in approach and plain of speech—such a man is well worth attention. A comprehensive and orderly treatment of a vital matter, “Eat and Keep Fit” moves from the general to the particular, from the present into the immediate past. From this point the writer passes sturdily out into the bewilderment of the public generally upon this vital matter of man-and-his-dinner in a healthful partner= ship. Dr. Kebler clears first the few essentials for life and its continued wellbeing. Just a short, crisp, discussion. A simple review of bodily functioning in respect to food foliows," and with this is coupled a broad analysis of foods classified as elements in body-building, Topics of prime importance, projected vividly, And so the study moves forward with “Scientific Eating and Feeding,” a discussion that covers fruits as food, the effects of a meat diet, the value of cereals, and so on. These are all items of general interest. They are passed on to you with the zest of a story. “Glands— the Citadel of Life” does away with some of the mystery in which these organs are involved. And if it is not quite possible to make them as plain as A B C—yet they do clear up here in a marked measure. It is not possible to do more than to indicate sketchily the high points of this admirably useful book. Each one will read it in his own way, That is, he will hunt for himself in it. Having found himself he will then read forward, and backward, until he has compassed the whole. Then only will begin the orderly reading, from start to finish, for the comprehensive view that the whole so richly gives. An interesting foreword by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley—pontiff of pure provender—imparts a gold-medal effect to the authenticity of the work, to the competency and special fitness of its author. Upon the whole, a book to keep within hand reach for frequent ready reference. Books Received PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS. By Alfred Adler, With a prefatory essay by F. G. Crookshank, M. D, F.R.C.P. Edited by Philippe Mairet, New York: Cosmopolitan. BUYING AN HONEST HOUSE. By Milton Tucker. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, YEAR "N, YOU'RE OUT. By Samuel Hoffen= stein. New York: Horace Liveright. LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES: The History and Theory of Lawmaking by Representative Government. By Robert Luce, A. M, LL.D,, a member of the General Court of Massa- chusetts for nime years; of the Governor's Council, as lieutenant governor; of a cone stitutional convention and of the Congress of the United States. Boston: Houghton Miflin. BROTHER LUTHER. By Walter von Molo, president of the German Academy of Lete ters. Translated by Eric Sutton. New York: Appleton. THE WHITE SATIN DRESS. By Mary Ray- mond Shipman Andrews, author of “The Perfect Tribute.” New York: Scribner's. ROSALEEN. By Louise Platt Hauck. Phila= delphia: Penn. THE ROAD OF THE GODS. By Isab:l Pater- son. New York: Horace Liveright. AERONAUTICAL LAW. By W. Jefferson Davis, author of “Putting Laws Over Wings,” etc. Los Angeles: Parker, Stone & Baird. "ROMANCE OF THE MACHINE. By Michael Pupin, author of “The New Reformation,” etc. New York: Scribner's. i ESSAYS IN SATIRE. By Ronald A. Knox. New York: Dutton. A WORLD COMMUNITY. By John H rman Randall. New York: Stokes. KING HABER: And Other Stories. By Alfred Neumann. New York: Alfred H. King. THE LIFE OF SOLOMON. By Edmond Fleg, author of “The Life of Moses.” Translated from the French by Viola Gerard Garvin. New York: Dutton. GOLDMAN'S. By Sigfrid Eiwertz. Translated fromi th> Swedish by E. Gee Nash. New York: Cosmopolitan. THE AGE FOR LOVE. By Ernest Pascal. New York: Harcourt, Brace. SEE CHINA WITH ME. By Jane A. Tracy, author of “See India With Me.” Boston: Stratford. ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH. By Griffith Taylor, D. Sc, B. E., B. A, etc. Illustrated. New York: Appleton. NEW FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS. By Paul R. Heyl, Ph. D., author of “Fundamental Con= cepts of Physics,” etc. New York: Appleton, HOW TO WRITE: Meeting th> Needs of Every=- day Life. By John Mantle Clapp, lecturer in Speech and Writing, New York Univer- sity, and Homer Heath Nugent, author of “A Book of Exposition.” New York: Ronald Press. THE LOVE COWARD. By Anne Gardner. New York: Clode. FLOOD. By Robert Neumann. Translated from the German by William A. Drake. New York: Covici, Friede. CLASH OF ANGELS. By Jonathan Daniels, New York: Payson & Clarke. THE EXCURSION TO TILSIT. By Hermann Sudermann. Translated from the German by Lewis Galantiere. New York: Horace Liveright. PAPER PROFITS: A Novel of Wall Street, By Arthur Train. New York: Horace Liveright. INCOMPATIBILITY IN MARRIAGE. By Felix Adler. New York: Appleton. THE SUN ALSO RISES. By Ernest Heming- way. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby, New York: Modern Library. MADDER MUSIC. By Mildred Cram. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1] -