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D—4 UNIFICATION HELD RECREATION NEED Maximum Use of Land and Other Resources Empha- sized by Weir. This is the first of a series of articles on the report of L. Wetr. exvert of the National Assoctation, who has suggested four plans for re- organtzation of the District's reereation austem. Standing out in the differences that | have arisen over the report of L. H.| Weir, expert of the National Recrea- tion Association to the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission on Washington’s muddled recreational system, is the need for unification. Mr. Weir himself emphasized it in no uncertain terms, when he declared: “The chief problem of unification of service is to secure the maximum use of land, buildings, personnel and oth- er resources.” “The problem of maintenance of areas and facilities though important is secondary as in the case of other problems involved,” said he. “No plan can be recommended which can be expected to work out satisfactory un- less there is a real desire for co- operation on the part of all those de- partments and executives involved. On the other hand, with such active | co-operation any reasonable plan would succeed.” Trend to Unification. The experience of the National Recreation Association in many cities is that there is a trend toward this unification of operation and main- | tenance, with an executive who directs | recreation operations, thus avoiding | friction, said the author of the now| T VIEWS AND REVIEWS. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR. By Fred- erick H. Gillett. Boston: Hough- ton Miffiin Co. SENATOR HOAR lived long enough and retained his interest in his own life sufficiently to write his “Au- toblography of Seventy Years,” which this biography by former Senator Gil- lett cannot equal as a veritable pic- ‘ure of the man and his work. It does, however, valuably supplement the au- tobiography. with an outside view, which can often do better justice to & modest man than he does himself, and with a reconstruction and expo- sition of the political period through which Senator Hoar lived, which, as a former Speaker of the House and former Senator, the author is particu- larly well qualified to give. Senator Gillett does not append any list of sources, but it may be gathered from the text and inferred from his con- nection with the Hoar family that he had access to many important papers. George Frisbie Hoar had every ad- vantage of heredity and environment, the best blood of New England on both sides, a home at Concord, Mass., “then an ideal democracy.” educated at Harvard, admission to the bar in | Worcester. which became his lifelong home. From such antecedents, one | would expect & resultant conservative | statesman and Senator Hoar was a strict constitutionalist and, though in- dependent in thought and action, a| strong party man. “The fundamental | explanation. of course, is that he had a profound belief that the Republican | party represented an overwhelming majority of the intelligence and con- science of the Nation.” Yet when principles were in question he followed | his convictions. Many of the acts of famous report. Mr. Weir made it clear. however,| that unification of operation and | maintenance of recreation facilities ! commonly means, and would mean in Washington, the upkeep of duplicate maintenance organizations with staff, equipment, etc, unless the schools would be willing to have their main- tenance work done by the Parks Office. “There is no clear experience to| determine which of these plans would ! be better for any given city or for| Washington,” said Mr. Weir. “Ac- tual experience in a given situation would seem to be the only sure guide.” The National Capital Park and Planning Commission secured a high degree of unity through a Recreation Co-ordinating Committee composed of representatives of all the public agen- | cies concerned, the report recites. This plan was also carried out in the de-| signing of some of the areas in so far| as the National Capital Park and Planning Commission functioned in | this field, it adds. | Co-operative Relations. “No close co-operative relations ap-| parently have been established be-! tween the National Capital Parks| Office and the Playground Depart-| ment (District Commissioners) nor | the Playground Department and the| Municipal Architect’s Office and the| Board of Education in designing | school grounds and buildings,” Mr ‘Weir wrote in his report. “Obviously, if & unified recreation| service were set up there should be| established very close relationships be- | tween this service and those public agencies responsible for planning and developing recreation areas and facil- ities. All designs of areas should be| studied by the recreation administra- | tor as to type of layout and Iacmnesl’ and also as to the relation of the fa- cilities to each other in the area. The| interior designs of recreation buildings | should also come under his scrutiny with a view to determining whether his public life sceemed to align him with liberal thought; he was an aboli- tionist, a champion of woman suf- frage. an opponent of political patron- { I age and a friend of the civil service. | SHEILA KAYESMITH, WHOSE ——By EW NOVEL, “GALLYBIRD,” WAS{ PUBLISHED A FEW DAYS AGO. brothers have known a period of not unhappy exile in France during the civil war and the commonwealth; Charles, being adaptable, has easily adjusted himself to both exile and return, when Charles II was restored, but Gervase has been restless in both {In his personal as in his public life | cnyironments. Charles is childless, i he preserved a balance which never| o, Gervase is his heir: Gervase has | permitted fanaticism. He was Iree|qiyays held a grudge against his wife, ‘frnm “intemperance and licentious- nrary Ann Pye, for presenting him | ness.” a religious man. a man of un-| it daughters only. Charles is now | usual culture, in his community “gen- | 1 lead the life of a country erous, active, and helpful. a depend- able leader and organizer in every phi- lanthropic enterprise.” He was a founder of the Worcester Public Li-/ brary and of the Polytechnic Institute | and the adviser of Jonas Clark when he endowed Clark University. Sena- | tor Hoar was born in 1826 and died in 1904. His reputation in his own time and in history is that of a sin- gularly upright man, who never aban- doned principle for policy and who, in his political philosophy was a con- scientious, moderate conservative. * % % x THE STATE PAPERS AND OTHER PUBLIC WRITINGS OF HER- BERT HOOVER. Two volumes. Collected and edited by William Starr Myers, Ph. D., Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. DR MYERS. professor of politics at Princeton University, has done a very careful piece of work in the.ar- rangement of this collection of the papers of former President Hoover, and he has provided an unusually full index. with cross references, so that it is only a moment’s work to find a message or address on any given sub- ject. The period covered is from March 4. 1929, when the inaugural address was delivered, through March 4, 1933, when a statement was issued to the press on the pocket veto of the independent offices appropriation bill. The papers include all messages to Congress and all press conference statements, executive orders, state- ments and proclamations, addresses, messages sent to organizations for special occasions, some published ar- | | effect the designs provide the kinds of in-| ticles and many important letters. The door facilities desired and also effi-| historical value of these papers as ciency and ease of administration. | source material in years to come will Changes in the interior designs of | be recognized when it is remembe; school buildings might be made which | that during the years which they coVer | would improve their fitness for com- | occurred the proclamation of the Kel- | munity recreation uses without de-|]ogg-Briand peace pact, the visit of tracting from their primary school | Prime Minister MacDonald to the use. Rapidan Camp, the London Naval Acquisition of Areas. Recalling that the Planning Com- misison has mapped out for the Dis- trict and its environs “a comprehen- sive plan for the acquisition of areas; to constitute an adequate system of| parks, playgrounds, parkways and other recreational facilities,” Mr. Weir | emphasized that this will give the; National Capital. when completed, “a system of recreation facilities such as few cities in America have.” There should be a companion plan for put- ting this land in use, he declared “Only & well planned. comprehen- sive and unified administrative organ- ization can utilize and supervise the activities of these various areas and provide for the citizens of Washing- ton the maximum recreation program &t minimum cost,” said he. “We believe that by adoption of | @ unified plan for the administration | of its expanding recreational system. ‘Washington, the Capital City of the Nation, can serve itself best and can at the same time set an example to other cities in the country in in- telligent, adequate and sensible man sgement of its recerational system.” Who_/\.fiou? [ BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. TI-IE coat of arms here illustrated s " ascribed to one Richard Ashhurst, who settled in Pennsylvania, a de- scendant of the Ashhursts of Lanca- shire, England. The surname Ashhurst is Anglo- Saxon meaning “a grove of ash trees.” It is believed that those who adopted the name as a family cognomen lived near a small wood of ash trees, and it is therefore classified as a place- | name. The first person on record who bore the name was Adam de Ashhurst of England. Richard Ashhurst, son of Lewis Ashhurst. deciding to seek his fortune in the New World, emigrated | to this country and settled in Phila- delphia. He was for a time book- keeper in the Quaker City, and grad- ually rose to prominence, becoming a leading figure in many commercial enterprises, Richard Ashhurst established the family, of which numerous descend- snts are now living in America, (Copyright, 1934 - i A | reform and a liberal jurist, Justice | ] GALLYBIRD. By Sheila Kaye-Smith, ! Conference of 1930. the visits of Pre- ! | mier Laval and Signor Grandi. the | foreign debt moratorium, continuous | pressure for bonus legislation cul- minating in the bonus army's march on Washington—and several Gridiron Club dinners. * ok ok x | THE CURSE OF BIGNESS. Miscel- laneous papers of Louis D. Bran- | deis. Edited by Osmond K. Fraen- kel, as projected by Clarence M.| Lewis. New York: The Viking | Press. SOME of the most important of the | ~ articles and addresses of Asso- | ciate Justice Brandeis, demonstrating his liberal attitude toward social amelioration measures, are here gath- ered into a volume under a title which indicates something fundamental in the attitude of the author toward modern society. “The Curse of Big- ness” is apparently a permanent curse and the only recourse is to find anti- dotes for it. As a leader in social Brandeis has spent much of his life in searching for and attempting to apply these antidotes. These papers cover much of his career and express his opinions on many public questions. They are grouped under seven divi- sions: Savings Bank Life Insurance, Industrial Democracy and Efficiency, “The Curse of Bigness” (trusts and monopolies), Railroads and Finance, Zionism, Public Service, The Law. Preceding each section of the papers is a brief note, and following it is a bibliography of articles and ad- dresses on the subject by Justice Bran- deis. There are also four appendices giving books by Justice Brandeis, | books about him, articles about him, and a topical list of opinions written | by him since 1931. / * ok Xk X New York: Harper & Bros. "THE old English family of the Alards have injerested Sheila Kaye- Smith for sorhe years. They are prob- ably a composite, of her invention, drawn from components of & number of actual families of Sussex. As I recall, they were first introduced as the family became extinct, in “The End of the House of Alard.” Their history was then taken back to the reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth in “Superstition Corner”; now in “Gallybird” it is moved forward to the beginning of the reign of William of Orange and Mary Stuart. Gervase Alard, seeming old at 56, tortuous in his thinking and accentric in his actions, has decided that, though a Protestant and no Jacobite. he can- not conscientiously as vicar of Leasan take the oath of allegiance to William, because he has already taken the oath to James II and, as a king is divinely authorized, it is not per- missible to shift formal allegiance. | Few agree with him and he is dis-| appointed when the non-jurors among the clergy number only 400, though he has expected two-thirds to refuse the oath and vacate their parishes. Gervase Alard leaves Leasan parish, with his five frivolous daughters and their horses, and goes to live with his brother Charles, squire of Conster Manor, and his French wive. Both A | have Beals’ “Crime of Cuba”; it is & succes- | end of the scale of nature, the un- | sion of pictures of Cuba and its peo- | charged neutron and the positively- | squire and to watch the operations of his iron furnace, managed by John Douce, who had been its temporary owner under the commonwealth; Gervase, with inflated ideas of him- sclf as a scholar, has hated his parish duties and been happy only when burrowing in the musty volumes he has collected in France, where he has dabbled in magic. Sheila Kaye- Smith draws all her characters clearly and vigorously. but many of those in “Gallybird” are slightly sketched in order to heighten the of her portrait of the un- accountable Gervase. The story is told with all of her usual art and the atmosphere of the historical pe- riod is striking in its verisimilitude. Unexpectedly Gervase, who knows nothing of either agriculture or iron- smelting, succeeds to Constar Manor. He easily falls under the influence of William Douce, the “gallybird,” for | “a gallybird never goes to a sound tree,” who returns from France and | follows his father as furnace-master, and finds Gervase a pliant initiate in his pretended practice of diabolism. Moved by sentimentalism even more! than by his desire for an heir, Gervase after 15 years of widowerhood, mar- ries the clumsy, beautiful daughter of the Puritan, Exalted Har- man, who has been named by her father Condemnation, as a continual reminder of his sin. The plot of William Douce to get possession of the Alard acres and furnace and troubles with the new peasant wife make the life of Gervase more and more difficult, but an Alard heir is born, in the interest of future Alard stories. P THE PAGEANT OF CUBA. By Hud: son Strode. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. HE word “pageant” is more cor- rectly used in Mr. Strode’s title than it frequently is by seekers for descriptive terms. The book is not & conventional history of Cuba, nor a broadside of attack on the political corruption and graft which have tar- nished the island called by Columbus “the most beautiful land human eyes ver beheld,” such as Carleton ple, from the landing of Columbus among its awe-stricken natives crowded on the shore to the state of complicated political and economic upheaval of the present time. Mr. Strode admits that he is infatuated with the island and that he attempts to impart to his readers something of the stimulation which it gives to him. In his “Story of Bermuda” he wrote of a land of rest, “where life has seem- ingly stood still for a very long time”; in “The Pageant of Cuba” he writes of a land where “life is so keyed that, strangely, even while you are relaxed, you are vibrantly alive.” ‘The days of Spanish colonization in Cuba make a romantic story to which Mr. Strode does full justice, but he does not fail to point out that the entry in Columbus’ journal of the purpose to “free the friendly, simple people and convert them to the holy faith” was ill-augured for those happy Indians. The search for treasure and the exploitation of the natives were of | more importance than missionary effort to most of the conquerors and the course of Spanish rule was a bloody one. Nor has the part played by the United States in Cuba been altogether altruistic. When motives are mixed, as they usually are, it seems to be a sad fact that the selfish motive is usually the stronger. So the period previous to 1898, with its “death dance of the Cubenos,” “De Soto's cavalcade.” Drake and succeed- ing buccaneers, black slavery, and the revolt and execution of Lopez, was & period of Cuban martyrdom; the | period_following the Spanish-Amer- ican War, with the conquest of yellow fever, the growth of education, and the improvement of all physical con- ditions in city and country, was not a period of complete Cuban freedom in spite of the name “republic” and be- came under the dominance of the sugar industry and its temptation to American capitalists a “dance of the millions”; and the immediate present, since the abrogation of the Platt amendment, has not yet shown signs of developing into a Utopia. Mr. Strode believes, however, that “with the abrogation of the Platt amend- ment and with the awakening in the Cubans of their sense of responsibility to govern themselves, the island, as a whole, will be far happier and better off in every way. Certainly relations with the United States will be more friendly and cordial than heretofore.” Mr. Strode's descriptions of Cuban everyday life in city and country, with the scene continually shifting from | brigand-haunted mountain districts to the gay capital, from guerilla war- fare to love-making in gardenlike patios, and his estimates of types of Cuban character make his work = |watch story of the Cuban people even more than of the Cuban nation. “The Cuban shakes off sorrow as gallantly as his own battling gamecock shakes blood out of his eyes, I the fist of bastard | | tyranny is not oppressing him, he too, like the Scotch singer (Burns), is gay of speech, full of frolic, in the midst of abject poverty. For one Cuban who can stand prosperity with dignity, a thousand can stand adversity with grace.” * x o X THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. By Sir James Jeans. New York: The Macmillan Co. TOR more than a century the Royal Institution has invited scme man of science to deliver a course of lec- tures each Christmas season, of con- tent and style “adapted to a juvenile auditory.” This volume is based on the Royal Institution lectures for 1933 But do not expect to find a children's book. The phrase “juvenile auditory” is simply a warning to the lecturer that his audience will range from 8 to 80 in respect to both age and wisdom, and that he cannot talk as if to brother scientists. So the account here given of the latest scientific | knowledge about the earth, air, sky, | moon, planets, sun, stars and nebulae | 1s in popular style, understandable by | any one who has the interest to read | with mind on the subject as well as eye on the page. A journey is con- ducted through space and time, so far away that the earth seems a mere mote and back millions of vears in time. In this far-distant past, our sun was torn apart in a great eata- clysm, a collision perhaps, and from its fragments produced the family of planets, of which our earth is one of the smallest. Originally a globe of hot gas. the earth gradually coaled until life on it was possible. Now, after a very few years in the wvast scheme of things, the queer living things which came into existence on | this scrap of the sun are learnedly | discussing how it all came about. If any one knows, it is probably Sir | James Jeans, one of the foremost astronomers of the world, and one who ! considers it worth while to explain to | the common man, simply and with the most telling illustration, the mysteries of the universe. * o ow x THE UNIVERSE AROUND US. By Sir James Jeans. New York: The Macmillan Co. | THIS is a third edition. revised and enlarged. of a work first published in 1929. It is a brief account. in simple language, of “the methods and resuits of modern astronomical research, both observational and theoretical” It is intended for readers with no special scientific knowledge. The five years | which have elapsed since the first edition have been eventful in astron- omy and physics. “At the subatomic | charged clectron have been discovered | —in & world which had hitherto been | belleved to consist solely of positively- (charged protons and negatively- | charged electrons.” Much new knowl- edge has also been- discovered about the expansion of the universe and cosmic radiation. So, many theories must be revised and others have un- |expected possibilities opened before them. This new edition was therefore | much needed. * k¥ x | THE SAAR STRUGGLE. By Michael T. [Florinsky, Ph.D. New York: ! The Macmillan Co. [ "THE Saar plebiscite is to take place January 13, 1935. on the first Sunday after the expiration of the | 15-year period set by the treaty. The | world is anxiously awaiting the out- come, for the vote to be taken on that day will be fraught with grave | international implications. Dr. Flor- insky tells what these are in his last chapter, and discusses the probable economic and political consequences of the alternative results of the plebiscite, from the point of view of the Saar itself, of Franco-German relations and of the peace of the world. He gives in his early chapters the history of the Saar region, its establishment as a separate state by the Treaty of Versailles and its con- ditions under international govern- ment since the treaty, especially labor and social relations. Dr. Florinsky, who is an associate in economics in Columbia University, spent the past Summer in the Saar Basin, studying the question through observation and interviews with members of the in- ternational government, political lead- ers, representatives of religious or- ganizations, executives in industry, the heads of trades unions and the masses of the people. * k% *x THE SECRET WAR. By Frank C. Hanighen. New York: The John Day Co. EFORE the term went out of fash- ion, Mr. Hanighen would have been called & “muck-raker.” As co- author of “Merchants of Death” he has al exposed the world-wide munitions “racket” and has warned that it is capable of producing a war at almost any time. In “The Secret ‘War” he tells of the fight for posses- sion of oil which is now being waged all over the world, none the less bitter | and determined because it is not out in the open. In his Introduction, Quincy Howe says: “Just as ‘Mer- chants of Death’ enabled its readers to scan the war-scare stories in their newspapers with fresh eyes and to the Schwabs, du Ponts and Vickers with added and informed suspicion, so this book on oil will en- able its readers to find new signifi- cance in the Chaco warfare, in American recogation of Bussia, in ‘. SARAH BOWERMAN Anglo-American rivalry and to per- ceive in Deterding and Rockefeller industrial titans at least as powerful and sinister as the Krupps and Schneiders.” Mr. Hanighen is to the journalism of 1934 what S. 8. Mc- Clure and Lincoln Steffens were to that of 30 years ago. * x x ¥ HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 2, 1934—PART TWO. In the World of Books Fiveash, the host of the Gillyflower Inn, and a number of others who fur- nish affairs and gossip to keep the vil- lage from complete darkness. High Beeching, the village, under a different name, where Mr. Mackenzie spent much of his boyhood, is, in the days before motor cars and petrol pumps, a charming place. The cottages are hung with clematis, the larger houses have a sedate and reserved dignity, the Gillyflower fly is driven to the station at Medworth once or twice each day by Charlie Nodder, in a long, blue livery coat with a double row of tar- nished metal buttons. It is such a place as one in a peace-seeking mood would like to find today. All of the inhabitants have their interests, friend- ships and antipathies, which make the story Mr. Mackenzie tells, with less effectiveness than when at his best, as in “Fairy Gold,” “Carnival,” “Sinister Street,” “Poor Relations” and “Plash- THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By !ers Mead,” but still with leisurely Johannes Steel. New York: | charm. Conquering Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, now disbanded, and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the one-over-one principle, which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. Pseudo Double Squeeze. HE team of Mrs. R. B. Fuller, Dr. Henry Vogel, Mitchell Barnes and Barbara Collyer were runners-up in the mixed- team-of-four event in the re- cent American Bridge League tourna- two no trumps and Miss Collyer prope erly jumped to four hearts. The nine of clubs was the opening lead. Winning the trick in dummy, South drove out the ace of trumps, East returning another club for an exit. Getting back to her own hand by ruffing a diamond, South drew the last trump, and then took the spade” finesse, which lost. East cannot re- turn a club for an automatic finesse is established, so she played back an- other diamond, which South trumped. | Dummy was entered with the queen of spades, and a third diamond | trumped out, exhausting the South | hand of trumps. At this point South | holds a small spade and the king and | ten of cdlubs. East is down to three Covici-Friede. TH! prophecies of Johannes Steel which have come true, Hitler'’s bloody “purge” of last June, the as- sassination of Dollfuss of last July (he predicted these in more general terms), and the industrial and finan- cial dictatorship of Hjalmar Schacht in Germany, cause apprehension over his prediction in this book—that within nine months Europe will be plunged into a second war within a quarter-century, one which will in- volve the world and from which civilization, as we know it, will never emerge. Mr. Steele’'s reasons, stated with the support of information, are alarming. | * ko % A VILLAGE IN A VALLEY. By Bev- erley Nichols. Garden City: Dou- bleday, Doran & Co. MR NICHOLS' village of Allways is in Huntingdonshire, whose eastern boundary is not far from Cam- bridge. The town of Huntingdon, in the center of the county, was the | birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, but the ruthless enemy of the Stuarts is no part of this quiet village tale. If there is any main character, it is Miss Haz- litt, who lost all her money in the | Montevideo tin fraud and was fur- | nished by the kindly neighbors of All- ways with a shop where she dispensed chocolates, head and stomach pills, hairpins, matches, cold cream and other necessities of life and ran a cir- culating library. But there are also the overpowering Mrs. M., the “i mensely rich and immensely social Lady Osprey, the willowy Undine Wil- kins, who sings the “Benedicite” es- thetically in church: the cool-headed and fact-loving professor, the manag- ing Miss Bott, who is determined to protect Allways from the intruder: Mrs. M.'s nephew Leo, who discovers the lost Allways stained glass windows, hidden from the Roundheads by the Cavaliers, and a number of other neightors whom we have already met in “Down the Ga-den Path” and “A Thatched Roof ” The village, the gar- den and the thatched cottage all be- long to Mr. Nichols himself in Hunt- ingdonshire and we are sure he must be a delightful neighbor. As a writer | he has all Mrs. Gaskell's simple “Cranford” realism and a more con- tinuous play of humor. | * % % % A HANDFUL OF DUST. By Evelyn Waugh. New York: Farrar & | Rinehart. IGH and low. conservative aristo- crat and Bohemian, are compo- nents of Mr. Waugh's “Handful of Dust.” His hard. bright cynicism | plays equally about them all. Their ! story could be made into profound | tragedy, but with his handling it be- | | comes ironical farce. Fear accom- | panies all his characters, even in their | most extravagant actions. The lines | { from Eliot's “Waste Land” on the title ) page give the clue: | * .. I will show you something | different from either | Your shadow at morning striding | behind you | Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” The story shows a so-called civilized | man pursued and trapped by savages, first the savages of modern London, then the savages, no worse, of the Brazilian jungle. Anthony Last is | the squire of Hetton Abbey, a house of 1864 Gothic in an extensive park, which unfortunately fails to furnish him the seclusion appronriate to the pastoral scene. The villain Beaver arrives, for a vague reason, and Tony's | wife, Lady Brenda, for an even more | vague reason falls in love with him. So begin the troubles of the squire of | Hetton, which reach their sinister climax in his captivity in Brazil, where he is compelled to read Dickens aloud day after day to his captor. His heir succeeds at Hetton. * X X ¥ THE PROUD SERVANT. The Story of Montrose. By Margaret Irwin. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. "THE tragedy of the Stuarts has in- terested Margaret Irwin before, in her successful novel, “Royal Flush.” She follows the same detailed method | of historical romance in this story of | James Graham, first Marquis of Mon- | trose, who succeeded in capturing | Scotland for Charles I, only to lose in the final contest. After the execution of Charles I, Montrose landed in the | north of Scotland to raise the country | again, this time for the son of Charles, | but he was betrayed when he gave | himself up to a supposed friend, after days of wandering in the hills, and | was sold to his enemies who sentenced | him to be hanged, drawn and quar- tered. The characters of this novel |are as alive as Henrietta Maria, | Minette, Princess of England. Charles | 11 and Louis XIV in “Royal Flush.” * ¥ ok x THE GOLDEN SPIKE. By Floyd Dell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. THE money in the family of Marion, Harvey Claymore’s wife, is the golden spike which separates them. One wonders why they were ever af tracted to each other, or would won-| der if such incompatible attractions. were not common. Harvey, radical university professor, tenacious of his| academic and personal freedom to let his political and economic thought lead him where it will, practicing petty and | ridiculous economies for fear that some | of the Ripley money may be smuggled into his menage, is not seriously in- convenienced when Marion leaves him and goes to her relatives in Herault, whence she telephones him to ask for | week, the reference department of the Books Received Non-Fiction. LONELY SHORES. By Ellen M. Car- roll. Atlanta: Emory University Banner Press. Spontaneous and sincere lyrics by a well known Charleston poet, full of the atmosphere of the South, yet of universal appeal. PERENNIAL CHRISTMAS. A wish (verse). By Albert Osborn. Bos- ton: Ruth Hill SHIPMATES. A tale of the seafaring women of New England. By Isa- bel Hopestili Carter. New York: William R. Scott. SOCIOCRATIC ESCAPADES. By Prancis Neilson. New York: G. P.| Putnam's Scns. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Louis A. ‘Warren, Litt. D., Fort Wayne: Lin- coln National Life Insurance Co. TWENTY-FIVE IN IRELAND. By John J. O'Connor. New York: Brent Knold Press OUR VANISHING HAIR. By Charles Nessler. New York: Alwyn-Schmidt Publishinz Co. HELEN RETIRES. An opera in three acts. By John Erskine. For music by George Antheil. Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Co. DAWN (verse). By G. Burnstein. Boston: Richard G. Badger. BALLETOMANIA. By Arnold L Haskell. New York: Simon &/ Schuster. NAOMI _ MITCHISON'S DIARY. New York: Smith & Robert Haas. NOTHING NEW (essays and verse). By Rodney Blake. New York: Pub- lishers’ Press Association. POE AND THE SOUTHERN LITER- ARY MESSENGER. By David K. Jackson. With a foreword by J.| H. Whitty. Richmond: The Dietz Printing Co. Fiction. SUMMER LEAVES. By Denis Mac- kall. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. MARIA CHAPDELAINE. A tale of the Lake St. John country. By Louis Hemon. New York: The Modern Library. AUGUSTUS. By Gunther Birken- feld. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'sche. ART STORIES FOR LITTLE CHIL- DREN. By William G. Whitford, Edaa B. Liek and William S. Gray. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. SCIENCE STORIES (juvenile). By Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Gertrude Crampton_and William S. Gray.| Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. VIENNA Harrison PUBLIC LIBRARY Christmas Customs Around the| ‘World. HERE is a wealth of material | on Christmas customs available at the Public Library, but there is a corresponding de- | mand from teachers and stu- dents which soon exhausts the more | obvious sources. In the following{ list, which is to be completed next Public Library has given references to less-known material in the library’s collection. A longer and more com- plete bibliography of Christmas ref- erences may be consulted in the ref- erence room at the central building or at the major branches: Mount Pleas- ant, Northeastern, Southeastern and Takoma. General. Christmas Traditions, by W. M. Auld. 1931. Marchpane for Christmas, by K. L. Bates. Virginia Quarterly Review. 3:13-22, January. 1927. Feast of St. Friend, by Arnold Ben- nett. 1911, Book of Christmas. 1909. s A Christmas Mystery in the Fifteenth Century, by Theodore Child. Har- pers. 78:59-77, December, 1888. Christmas in the Days of Old. Liv- ing Age. 104:332-4, February 5. 1870. Anthology of Christmas Customs, by H. E. Cummings. House Beautiful. 62:644-5, December, 1927. How Our Christmas Customs Came, by F. Davidson. Natural History. 28:617-25, November, 1928. When Christmas Was a High Festival. by G. Edgerton. Arts and Decora- tion. 30:43-5, December, 1928. Customs of Mankind, by Lillian Eich- ler. pp.45-67. 1924. Come Christmas; a Selection of Christmas Poetry, Song, Drama and Prose. Ed. by Lesley Frost. 1929. Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide, by A. E. Garvie. Contemporary Review. 89:814-16, June, 1906. Log-Fire of a Wanderer, by Louis Golding. Commonweal. 13:205-6. December 24, 1930. Welcome Christmas, ed. by Eleanor Graham. 1931 | Celebrations of Christmas. by E. E. Hale. New England Magazine, ns. 29:621-5, January, 1904. The Book of Christmas, by T. K. Her- vey. 1888. How Our Christmas Customs Came. Review of Reviews. 79:118, Jan- uary, 1929. Christmas Legends, by V. Lee and A. M. Robinson. Contemporary Re- view. 56:844-58, December, 1889. When Santa Claus Was Legally Exe- cuted; Christmas Abolished by Oli- ver Cromwell, by Richard Le Gal- lienne Arts and Decoration. 18:9-10, December, 1922. a “civilized” divorce. Marion also de- mands the child, because she does not want little John brought up to hate “grandpa’s money” and does want him to “grow up liking the world he lives in.” Marion already has her plans made for another marriage and, though Harvey is looking forward to freedom and a trip to Mexico, we are given a hint that it will not be long before he encumbers himself with an- other wife, who may also turn out not entirely in harmony with his ideas. The story is extremely realistic and thoroughly American. In the telling | it follows the detailed method of Arnold Bennett or Sinclair Lewis. The ! interest has no more ups and downs “than the campus of the Midwest uni- versity prairie town which is the scene. X K Kk THE DARKENING GREEN. By Compton Mackenzie. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. N ENGLISH village in Victorian times, the times of the author’s childhood, is the setting of this story of Mrs. Ardsley and her two daughters and Dr. Linacre, Parson Carrick, Ad- amiral. Trotter, Capt. Hawiborne, Mr, ‘ Arts and Decoration. 18:9-10, De- cember, 1922. Christmas Book; an Anthology for Moderns. by D. B. W. Lewis and G. C. Heseltine, eds. 1928. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan, by C. A. Miles. 1912. Old-Time Observance of Christmas, by H. 8. Morris. American. 17:152. Christmas in Foreign Lands, by E. T. Nash. Chautauqua. 32:242-4, December, 1900. 0Old World Christmas Customs. Play- ground. 24:513-18, December, 1930. Christmas Customs and Legends, by C. C. O'Neill. Catholic World. 124:289-96, December, 1926. Origin of Christmas Customs. Literary Digest. 107:23-4. December 20, 1930. Yuletide in Many Lands, by M. P. Pringle and C. A. Urann. 1916. Christmas and Christmas Supersti- tions, by H. K. Rausford. Chau- tauqua. 45:89-96, December, 1906. Christmas, ed. by R. H. Schauffler. 1916. Christmas Everywhere, by E. H. Se- christ. 1931. 4 ment at Asbury Park. The hands for | clubs to the jack, having discarded the most part were uninteresting, but |8 diamond earlier in the game before here is & pseudo double squeeze that Miss Collyer executed on the thir- teenth board: & A-Q-J-T v -4 4 Q-J-8-7-3 & J-7-6-4-2 .39 ¥ K-Q-J-10-9-2 ¢ — & K-10-5-3 The bidding was a trifle out of the ordinary. Mr. Barnes, sitting North, |bid one spade, and South responded with two hearts. At this point Mr. Barnes began to wish he had opened with a diamond, but he heroically bid by L. C. Ray. Catholic World 128:257-61. December, 1928. Christmas in Legend and Story, ed. by E. S. Smith nad A. I. Hazeltine. 1915. Observance of Christmas, by O M. Spencer. Harpers Magazine 46:241-57. January, 1873 i History of the Three Great Festivals Christmas, by C. Whitaker-Wilson Fortnightly Review. 129:34-7, Jan- uary, 1928. Albania. Balkan Home Life, by L. M. J. Gar- nett, pp. 73-5. 1917. Austria. Vienna and the Viennese, by M. H. Lansdale, pp. 24-5. 1902 Imperial Vienna, by A. 5. Levitus p. 415. 1905, Vienna and the Austrians, by F. Trol- lope. pp. 79-81. 1838. Canada. Christmas Celebrations. Magazine. 22:196-9- 1903. Christmas in Canada, by J. Reade Magazine of American History. 10:467. Canadian December, Denmark. Sixteen months in the Danish Isles. by Andrew Hamilton, v. 2, pp. 188-201. 1852. The Old Town, by J. A. Riis. pp 78-103. 1909. England. Book of Days, ed. by Robert Cham- bers. V. 2. A Middle English Nativity, by J. Cor- bin. Harpers Magazine, 94:4-10. December, 1896. Life in Elizabethan Days. by W. S. Davis. pp. 260-7. 1930. Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time, by P. H. Ditchfield. pp.8-36, 277-8. 1901. Christmas Carols and Customs. by H E. Krehbiel. Outlook, 78:819-26. December 3, 1904. Merry Christmas. Catholic World. 12:463-70, December, 1870 Old English Christmas Carols, by B Ostertag. Country Life. 9:145-9, December, 1905. Yuletide in Mediaeval Times, by N. Rylman. Catholic World. 72:301-4. December, 1900. The Sports and Pastimes of the Peo- ple of England. by Joseph Strutt. pp. 440-51. 1898. Christmas Legends of King Arthur's Country- by Arthur Warren and J. L. Williams. Cosmopolitan. she realized the suit distribution. West holds two spades to the ten and the ace of diamonds. The lead of the king of clubs squeezed West, since dummy holds the ace and a small ‘spnde and the queen of diamonds. | The squeeze is actually on the West ‘\hlnd at his point, but it is illusion- | ary so far as the East hand is con- | cerned—therefore I call it a pseudo | double squeeze. Tomorrow’s Hand. #5-4-3 v 8-6-5 *Q-8-7-6 *Q-10-4 This hand will be used tomorrow to illustrate a little problem in bid- ding. How would you handle it? Not the way it was actually bid, I hope. (Copyright. 1934.) ms will enswer all inquiries on at are addressed to this n self-addressed. stamped e Mr cot pape; ve.ope | MRS. BURDETTE DIES Widow of Pastor, 79, Will Be | Buried Today. Special Dispatch to The Star. DAMASCUS, Md. December Mrs. Bertrand Burdette, 79, widow of Rev. C. J. Burdette, formerly of this | viginity, died yesterday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Bessie Dixon, at Ridgewood, Md | Beside her daughter. she is survived by the following step-children: Mrs. | Bradley Watkins, Mrs. C. H. McEl- fresh. Mrs. Warren Keats. Luther Burdette and Herbert Burdette. Funeral services will be held at Mrs. Dixon's home tomorrow at 12:30, fol- lowed by church services in the Brown- | ingsville M. E. Church at 2 o'clock and | burial in the church cemetery. Have you read STANLEY WALKER'S literary scoop? | A | NATIONAL Best Seller 5th Large Printing Sit et th with S — $3.00 S'I'OKES BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS ZAHAROFF High Priest of Wer GUILES DAVENPORT illustrations. 20:115-27, December, 1895. Finland. Finland Today, by George Renwick. Fourth Printing = + o+ * $3.00 p. 233. 1911 Letters From Finland. August. 1908- March. 1909, by Rosalind Travers. pp. 289-90. Through Finland in Carts, by Mrs. Alec Tweedie. pp. 133-4. 1898. France. Versailles Christmastide, Boyd. Life on a Mediaeval Barony, by W. S. Davis. pp. 294-5. 1923. Christmas in the Thirteenth Century, by B. Murphy. Catholic World. 20:502-6. January, 1875. Christmas in Central France, by Ma- bel Peacock. Living Age. 207:813-17, December 28, 1895. Chateau and Country Life in France, hvsoléd K. Waddington. pp. 200-23. 1908. by M. S Germany. Christmastide With the Germans Before Paris, by A. Forbes. Har- pers Magazine. 72:263-74, Jan- uary, 1886. Peasant Life in Germany. by A. C. Johnson. pp. 351-7. 1858. Home Life in Germany. by Mrs. Al- fred Sidgwick. p. 176. 1908. Views Afoot; or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff, by Bayard Taylor, v. 2, pp. 108-13. 1883. Greece. Greek Life in Town and Country, by William Miller. pp. 98-9. 1905. Holland. The Kermesse, by F. S. Bird. (In Singleton. Esther. Holland as Seen and Described by Famous Authors. pp. 300-1. 1906.) Holland Sketches. by Edward Penfield. pp. 3-35. 1907. WEBSTER'S A gift that offers help and satisfaction light to abri abridgments. It ve or H novel of mod- n:: fl!}::‘f! banking. “'An arresting study of the BT ALICE DE FORD ome and moving story of b . family—snd 3 A Jove—against e mnd background. 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