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D—4 - CHRISTMAS TREE PROGRAM FIXED President Will Turn on Lights in Afternoon Be- fore Giving Message. ‘The National Community Christmas Tree will be lighted this year at 4:30 p.m. on Christmas eve by President Roosevelt, who will press the button setting the lights festooned on the living tree ablaze. The ceremony will mark the twelfth year of the exer- cises The celebration is sponsored by the Community Center Department, the American Forestry Association, and the Office of National Capital Parks. ‘The tree is located in Lafayette Square. There will be a half hour of music by the Marine Band. under leadership of Capt. Taylor Branson. A large chorus of men will sing carols. Roper Will Preside. President Roosevelt will be intro- duced by Secretary of Commerce Roper, chairman of the committee who will preside. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be greeted in the name of the people of the United States by Stanley Whalen. Troop 51, Boy Scouts. and Pauline Martin, Troop 23. Girl Scouts. The invoca- tion will be given by Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, and the benediction by Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J. ‘The carols will be sung by the com- bined glee clubs of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and the Po- | tomac Electric Power Co The two major broadcasting com- panies will broadcast the celebration over a coast-to-coast network. Tree Will “Sing” Nightly. A device to be installed in the foli- age of the tree will “sing” each night throughout Christmas week from 7 to 10 pm The National Committee includes Secretary Roper, Representative Mary T. Norton, vice chairman: Commis- sioner George E. Allen, Claude E. Babcock, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley, Ovid Butler, Arno B. Cammerer, Representative Clar- ence Cannon, Senator Arthur Capper, Senator Royal S. Copeland, Frederick A. Delano, Clarence Phelps Dodge, Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, Wal- ter W. Head, Secretary of the Inte- rior Ickes, Mrs. Alexander Jardine, Dr. Hayden Johnson, Dr. Joseph Lee, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Dr. William McClellan, Lowell Melett, Eugene Meyer, E. J. Murphy, Theodore W. Noyes, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson Mrs. Grace Mor- rison Poole. Mrs. George Scriven, Ad- miral William H. Standley. Col. Dan- iel 1. Sultan, Senator Elmer Thomas, Dr. William J, Thompkins and James G. Yaden. F. V. SMITH TO SPEAK General Electric Engineer Address Propeller Club. F. V. Smith, engineer of the fed-| eral and marine department of the General Electric Co., will address the Port of Washington Propeller Club of the United States Tuesday at the La Fayette Hotel at 5 p.m. This lecture will deal with the nec- essary attainment of a higQ overall economy in marine power plahts, with special reference to the part played by | electrification in the rapid develop-| ment of recent years. Airline Is Extended. LOS ANGELES, December 8 (A).— The last link in a fast Canada-to- Mexico air service will be forged to- day, when United Airlines inaugurates A& new passenger (ransport service from here to Agua Caliente, Mexico. Departing on the first plane will be a party of screen notables, including Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Leila Hyams, Irving Thalberg and Joseph M. Schenck. “Baby Doll” Infant Gains. STEVENSON, Wash., December 8 (P).—Jaqueline Dean Jackson, “doll baby” who weighed less than a pound at birth, gained 2 ounces the past week and yesterday weighed 18 ounces. to! In the World of Books | HOOVER OFF THE RECORD. By Theodore G. Joslin, Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. OST of the bare facts related in this book by the man who | was Mr. Hoover's secretary | from 1931 to 1933 are al- | ready known to the public, | through the newspapers, but the de- tailed circumstances behind the facts and the hard thinking and ceaseless effort of the President who bore the | rezpensibility for the Nation during | four increasingly difficult years are here described with the knowledge and understanding sometimes lack- ing in the public estimates of Mr. Hoover. Mr. Joslin is not afraid of the permanent evaluation which will | be accorded Mr. Hoover by history, and when that history comes to be written this book will be one of its important sources. [Even now, $o close to the events recorded, the vast | majority of Americans would prob- | ably accept the estimate of Mr. Jos- | lin's final paragraph: “To some of | those who watched the train pull out of the station (March 4, 1933), he was | a most tragic figure. But to those of | us who truly knew him through close | association behind the wall of silence he had erected for the public good he was the man who had served his country devotedly through unparal- leled disaster and under unexampled handicaps, and who could await, un- afraid and with a clear conscience, the evaluation of his acts by history.” Part of the tragedy of the Hoover administration was that it fell in time just at the end of *Coolidge prosperity,” when the boom was suc- ceeded by the depression. The other | part was that Mr. Hoover, under- | standing the disaster which was | threatening and working tirelessly, avoiding all possible publicity, to avert | it, was almost continuously thwarted | by bitter partisan opposition. Ex- | amples of this partisanship stressed by Mr. Joslin are the “smear Hoover” | campaign; the playing of politics by the Democratic House, with resultant bad effects on business confidence, and the violent attacks on Mr. Hoo- ver first because he permitted the bonus army to encamp in Washing- ton, when under the law he could not prevent it, and then because he di- rected that Federal troops be sent to | the disturbed area, at the request of the District Commissioners, “the same as a request that would be made in similar circumstances of the Governor of the State by the mayor of a city in the State.” Mr. Joslin gives state- ments made under oath by Washing- ton police officers to the effect that Maj. Glassford joined with the Com- missioners in the request for Federal troops, and quotes from the report of Gen. MacArthur, in charge of the troops, to show that the fires of the evacuated area, where the shacks were of highly inflammable material, were not initiated by the troops. Minor incidents woven into the | years show the kindliness, generosity and occasional dry humor of the man who was always too busy to spare himself and would not condescend to dramatize himself. ,When urged to yield to some personal publicity he would often reply: “This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.” The wife of an indispen- | sable high official who appealed to the President to allow her husband to resign because his health was breaking found sympathy and a holi- day and lessened responsibilities for her husband. Attention is called to Mr. Hoover’s sentiment for the Lin- dark background of the Hoover four | coln room in the White House, which for the preservation of the Union. The Hoover humor was sudden and never forced. On one occasion French Strother told a story of a man who torced himself to love dandelions be- | cause they would grow on his lawn, and Mr. Hoover, with a twinkling eye, | said: But I want to tell you there are some ‘dandelions’ growing on Capitol Hill that I never can learn to love.” There is also the story of the Quaker’lady of Pennsylvania who wrote the Presi- | dent that she had seen in the papers | that he smoked and asked him for a | letter in his own writing denying the Future of Two Political Parties Faces Obscuri (Continued From First Page.) they perceive, not on what are ordi- narily known as political conditions | and considerations, but on economic | eventualities. Politics and economics, of course, have generally had a close relation, but in the last few years politicians have come to understand that they are more closely related than hereto- fore. What confronts the Democratic party is that it will be unable to make good its promises to the country in the next year or so and that if it fails to measure up to expectations of the voters it will be thrown aside as re- morselessly as was the Hoover, admin- | dstration in 1932, Beyond that, however, President Roosevelt, able as he is in politics and diplomacy, is faced with great diffi- culties in preventing a factional split in the party. Democratic factional- ism is just as much existent as Re- Ppublican factionalism. It is flaring in various directions, as illustrated by the Ickes-MofTett clash over Government construction of low-cost housing. All efforts to smooth over this controversy failed to hide the fact of the fundamental dif- ference of thought between the pro- | gressive Democrats, of the Ickes type, ty in Next 2 Years| and the conservatives. In that deep- seated difference. many Democrats fear, lies grave danger to the con- tinuity of the Democratic party, de- spite the party’s extraordinary ascend- | ency at present. President Roosevelt's course remains more or less in the shadows of spec- ulation. The latest talk is that he will go slightly to the left. This will not satisfy his party’s conservative | elements, and may not appease the progressives and radicals. There rises the question whether the President, trying to keep as close to the mid- | road as possible. will not incur the displeasure of both right and left. It is certain that if President Roose- velt walks arm in arm with Mr. Ickes and Harry L. Hopkins he cannot keep the peace with Daniel C. Roper and Mr. Moffett and with a powerful coterie of Democratic conservatives in the Senate and House. As for the Progressive party, or | that new version of it organized in Wisconsin, with Senator Robert M. | La Follette as head, its prospects are | wathed in complete uncertainty. Democratic failure plus continued weakening of the Republican party | would give it an opportunity. What | is palpable, however, is that unless it maps a course different from the | Roosevelt course, it will not get far | nationally. (Copyright. 1934.) Depression in Europe Increases War Chances as Peace Machinery (Continued From First Page.) to back Hitler in a foreign war as the sole chance of averting domestic Red revolution. To understand the Euro- pean situation, therefore, it is neces- sary to perceive not merely the familiar territorial and racial issues which divide nations. but also the struggle between classes within certain European states which are not less perilous. Red Peril Dangerous. Today the Old World is faced by the double danger of new inter- national conflicts and fresh domestic revolutions. And the existence of the latter danger gives unmistakable force to the former. No such situation ex- isted in 1914. No great power was then faced by any threat of social upheaval. Today, however, the Red peril—not inspired from Moscow, not financed or favored by the Soviets, but arising spontaneously from domestic circumstances — cannot be ignored. Fails Were Germany or Italy to be'de!elwd in a new war or exposed to a long- protracted strain of conflict the con- sequences would be beyond forecast. Nor is it less unmistakable that unless there be some considerable economic recovery, while war may not come next year, Europe will, neverthe- | less, move ineluctably toward a future |in which both war and revolution | must prove inescapable. For all through Central Europe the material | conditions of the masses are growing | worse, just as the relations between nations are becoming more and more tense. Under the strain of the great depression, too, all the post-war ma- chinery for preventing war has broken down and been discarded. All over the world a race in armaments—naval, military and aerial—is in full progress, just as the practices of economic nationalism which are accentuating the material misery everywhere con- tinue uninterrupted. (Copyright. 1934.) "E_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1934—_PART TWO. VIEWS AND REVIEWS. V. SACKVILLE-WEST, WHOSE NEW NOVEL, “THE DARK ISLAND,” 1S REVIEWED TODAY. report. Mr. Joslin inquired how he was going to reply and Mr. Hoover answered. “I am not going to answer it,” and smilingly reached for another cigar. Mr. Joslin's book closes with an ac- count of the tireless efforts of Mr. Hoover after his defeat in the na- tional election to ward off the finan- cial catastrophe which he saw ap- proaching, efforts which included an attempt at co-operation with the President-elect. Such a work as this of Mr. Joslin cannot from its very na- ture be non-partisan or aloof in its judgments, but it is free from acrimony and shows considerable understanding of points of view in conflict with the author’s own. * ok k% BLISS, PEACEMAKER. The Life and Letters of Gen. Tasker Howard Bliss. By Frederick Palmer. Illus- trated, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. IT IS most appropriate that the Carnegie Corporation should have made an allowance of funds for the initial expense of searching the mass of unindexed Bliss papers, and eequally appropriate that Col. Fred- erick Palmer, veteran war correspond- ent and chronicler of the Wolrd War through his book, “Newton D. Baker: America at War.” should have written this biography of the man whose use- fulness to his country did not end with his distinguished military career. Gen. Bliss was a soldier who made history in Cuba, in the Philippines, on the Mexican border. in Washington. on the battle fronts of France. He was also a great worker for peace. as o | the arbiter of some allied quarrels dur- seemed to him to be filled With the | 0 tne war, as an adviser of sanity at presence of the man who toiled there | the Peace Conference, where his coun- sel fell “on sterile ground,” and by his private labors after his retirement He was personally a modest man and a philosopher. Through his combina- tion of scholarship, clear, just thinking and robust action he exerted a power- “That's & good story, French. | ful influence on all with whom he was associated. Much of the life of Gen. Bliss is narrated through his letters, so that his opinion on important events are given at first hand; but Col. Palmer's comments and connecting links are extensive and his estimates are especially valuable in the case of a man so little egotistic as Gen. Bliss. The selection of andecdotes is also designed to show outstanding charac- teristics. For example, Gen. Bliss once said to a soldier in the commissary who was gazing at the four stars on his uniform: “You are never fright- ened when you see a lot of stars in the heavens at home, so do not allow these stars to frighten you, my friend.” And when he expressed his desire to be buried at Arlington he, directed, should Pershing change his mind and decide to be buried there instead of in the Cathedral: “Do not put me on a slope where I should be above him. He was commander in the field.” Of the treaty of Versailles, Gen. Bliss said that it was “neither punitive nor constructive.” His belief, as inter- preted by Col. Palmer, was that “a constructive peace would not have laid upon Germany a money indemnity which she could never pay through the long years; it would have given some hope to a rising generation which was not responsible for the errors of its fathers, and the other nations of Europe would have given an example in the limitation of the militarism which they saw as the cause of the World War." Gen. Bliss also forecast the present economic depression very accurately: “We are in for a low period, then a high period, then the devil will be to pay all over the world.” * K ok ok THE DARK ISLAND. By V. Sack- ville-West. Garden City: Double- day-Doran & Co. NEW novel by V. Sackville-West causes a thrill of expectation in readers who know her. Perhaps it will be another as good as “The Ed- wardians,” or, hardly to be hoped, as exquisitely subtle as “All Passion Spent.” Miss Sackville-West's versa- tility is again demonstrated, for “The Dark Island” is different from any of her other work and Shirin le Breton is different from any of her other characters. Pronounce her name “Sheereen,” by the way. Shirin Wil- son is only 16 when she first meets Venn le Breton at Port le Breton, where the Wilsons always spend their Summer holiday, and is taken by him to visit the island of Storn, to which he is heir. At that first meeting she has an experience of his sadism when he twists her wrists in a fjt of temper. She is 46 when she gives Venn the kiss of death and then discovers that because Cristina is gone and her son Dominic is like his father, only not yet old enough to be coldly cruel, life has nothing more to offer her. Even before their marriage Venn has some glimpses of the obstinacy and silence which are so to exasperate him in his 20 years of life with Shirin. Old Lady le Breton, Venn's grand- mother, does not help the peace of Storn through her alignment of her- self on the side of Shirin and her taunt that Shirin has married Venn only because of her love of Storn. The lovely island thus became “the dark island,” & sinister influence in Shirin's | life with her’ husband and later the | | tional types. * —By influence which breaks the link, not very strong, between her and her son. She sees that the same mania-love of Storn and jealousy of the claim of any one else upon it which unified the selfish nature of Venn are also domi- nant in Dominic. Miss Sackville-West has, as always, drawn all her characters with great subtlety. None of them are conven- Shirin, beautiful, elusive yet brutally truthful, intuitive and | imaginative, would, except for her love judicially | for Storn, be a martyr in her life with | the violent, cruel Venn, who adores her | and is determined to conquer her | spirit. Cristina Rich, a sculptor of talent, who goes to Storn as secretary, realizes immediately that something is seriously wrong there. Straight, real and honest, Cristina becomes Shirin’s tower of strength. the one person for whom she has ever really cared, and correspondingly becomes the object of Venn's hatred and jealousy, to her own disaster. Tracey, so self-effacing in his 30 years of devotion to Shirin that she calls him “my old hearth rug,” and Mrs. Jolly, equally devoted servant, | | whose unsavory past continues with | some abatement into her 65-year-old | present, are depicted with as great care and realism as are the chief characters in the group. This most novels belongs to the sadistic school of fiction, with such novels as A. J. Cronin’s “Hatter’s Castle” and L. A. G. Strong’s “Brothers.” One scene in the ness and brevity, equals in horror al- most anything to be found in fiction of this type. And through the whole story runs the implication of the sin- | gerous circle of Storn.” | * % % x | THE SENTIMENTAL YEARS: 1836- 1850. By E. Douglas Branch. New | York: D. Appleton-Century Co. ITHE past grows rosier as it recedes and it is especially rosy to those who have never known it in actuality. | Florence under the Medici, for ex- ample, seems a city all splendor and gayety, but the by-streets with their crowded houses ,were places of filth where crime lurked; even the palaces were cold and not overclean under their rich tapestries, and Giuliano de Medici was murdered in the cathedral. The years 1836-1850 may have been years of sentimentality (sentimentality is a state of mind often unrelated to fact), but it was not until 1853 that a New York State genius invented the cast iron bathtub. Mr. Branch, a Texas man, now on the faculty of the University of Montana, has for some time been interested in the vivid interpretation of historical periods and is the author of “West- ward: the Romance of the American Frontier,” “The Hunting of the Buf- falo” and “The Cowboy and His Interpreters.” Mr. Branch finds the years while the Civil War was preparing, before feeling had reached its last acute stage, between the end of Andrew Jackson's presidency and Lincoln’s accession, the period of “the first generation of the American middle class.” His selection of material and method of treatment are similar to those of Mark Sullivan in his “Our Times.” Newspapers have been his chief source. A reproduction of John Sartain's mezzotint, “The Happy Family,” which appeared in Miss Leslie’s Magazine in 1843, forms the frontispiece. Mother, the children, the nurse, even the dog, all gaze at father, who is reading aloud at the tea table. Those were the days of the begin- ning of the factory system in Amer- ica, which has today apparently run away with the country; of the canal companies being driven to default by the rapidly developing railways; of the first agricultural horse and steam power machinery; of patriarchal mer- chants who looked after the morals of their clerks and paid them $50 a year while they “learned the business.” They were also the days in literature of Dickens’ visit to the United States; Godey's Lady’s Book; Susan Warner'’s “The Wide, Wide World,” and Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin”; “Woodmen, Spare That Tree,” by George P. Morris, now and the best-selling “Reveries of a Bachelor.” In the fine arts the Amer- ican Gothic began to appear; Currier and Ives prints were satisfying popu- lar cravings for art; the daguerrotype crystallized the faces of members of all well-to-do families; Hiram Powers produced the “Greek Slave,” defended by a clergyman as “clothed all over with sentiment”; Jenny Lind first came to America under the auspices of P. T. Barnum. Mr. Branch’s book is most readable, though a critical reader could note lack of balance in the treatment,of phases of the life dramatic of all Miss Sackville-West's | book, handled with the utmost direct- | ister influence of the “charmed dan- | | SARAH BOWERMAN Adolf A. Berle, jr., and Victoria J. Pederson. New York: The Mac- mitian Co. TH.I: oppusite of liquid assets is frozen assets, afd we are told that ‘frozen assets are s cause, or effect, at any rate part of the vicious circle of economic depression. Mr. Berla. associate professor of law at Colum- bia University and a member of the department of economics there, shows that liquidity, “one of the oldest phe- nomena in the economics of human desire,” is a subject of great com- plexity, not generally understood, and full of possibilities which the average person would call dangerous. “There is no escape from the fact that the truly liquid asset is a dead asset; as it enters into production it becomes less liquid; what has happened has been the splitting of the atom of property so that he (the original owner) has the dead part and some one else the living.” This sounds like an echo from Prof. Berle's earlier and much larger book, written with Gardiner C. Means, “The Modern Corporation and Private Property,” and we are told that the present brief and necessarily unfinished study of liquidity is an outgrowth of that book. The two forms of liquidity, proceed- ing, respectively, from human need for consumption and from a shifting from one form to another, are dif- ferentiated. The underlying assets of liquid claims, the relation of liquid claims to national wealth, the mechan- isms of artificial liquidity, legal as- pects of liquidity, the hazards of liquidity and the value or detriment of the liquidity element in property are all discussed, with practical illus- tration and statistical evidence. If there were space it would be desirable to quote many of the concisely ex- pressed, almost maximlike conclu- sions, such as: “Property to be liquid must owe nothing to its owner, and its owner must owe nothing to ft. Personality or talent or any quality of personality cannot pass readily from hand to hand.” This study was prepared under the auspices of the Columbia University Council for Re- search in the Social Sciences. The statistical work was done by Victoria J. Pederson, student of economics and financial theory and a member of several statistical staffs. EE A COMMON PAITH. By John Dewey. New Haven: Yale University Press. AS REGARDS religion, people are today divided into two camps, says John Dewey, eminent psycholo- gist and professor of philosophy. emeritus, in Columbia University. “There are many who hold that noth- ing worthy of being called religious is possible apart from the super- natural”; those in this group range from the accepters of the complete dogma of a church to “the theist or mild deist.” sists of those who think the advance | of culture and science has completely discredited the supernatural and with it all religions that were allied with belief in it.” Dr. Dewey in this little book, which is made up of three lec- tures delivered at Yale University, at- tempts to show that there is & possi- bility of a common ground of belief for 21l groups, of a faith which will help in the business of living and in the adjustment of human relations. His closely reasoned discussion has in it nothing of dogma, attack or argu- | ment. It is philosophical, not theo- logical, and emphasizes again many of the ideas which have long formed & part of Dr. Dewey's philosophic teaching. * % x % THE WORLD AS I SEE IT. By Al- bert Einstein. New York: Covici- Friede. THE essays in the five sections of this book were originally pub- lished by the Querido Verlag in Am- sterdam and have been translated with the authorization of Einstein. The first section, “Scientific,” explains his theory of relativity and after enough people have read it the num- ber of the 12 lonely ones in the world who are supposed to understand it may be increased. The second and third sections, “Judaism” and “Ger- many,” are probably responsible for the exclusion of the book from Ger- many, announced in a recent news item. The last two sections, “Politics and Pacifism” and “The World as I See It,” give something of the political and personal philosophy of the man whose thought has so markedly in- fluenced the scientific world that the popular world has become familiar with his name and his personality without comprehending his theories. Politically Einstein is an international- ist and a militant pacifist. Personally, he believes that any one who thinks life meaningless is disqualified for life and that “a knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which “The opposed group con- | ly moved by the persecutions of his|mas references may be consulted in fellow Jews in Germany, which prob- ! the reference room at the central ably seemed s parallel case. “Thej Porty Days of Musa Dagh” is listed as “undesirable” in Germany. * k x *x THE END OF A CHILDHOOD. By Henry Handel Richardson. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 'HE section of this collection of stories and sketches which will most interest readers of Henry Handel Richardson’s trilogy of Australian nov- els, “Australia Felix,” “The Way Home” and “Ultima Thule,” gathered into one volume as “The Fortunes of Richard Mahony,” is the first 80 pages, which tell of the end of the childhood of Cutly Mahony after the death of his tragic misfit of a fathers Cuffy has the sensitiveness and poor balance of his father and something of the courage of his mother. When this brief appendix to the trilogy ends, he is on his way to make his home with his Aunt Tilly, after the death of his mother and the breaking up of her hardly maintained home. His tears have already run dry and he is enjoy- ing the coach travel and the scent of wattles and hoping that Aunt Tilly will give him & pony and let his sister Luce come to live with them. The second part of the book, called “Grow- ing Pains,” consists of story-sketches of girlhood, and miscellaneous short stories make up’the remainder. The volume is something of a scrap-bag assortment, but Henry Handel Rich- ardson (whose real name was Henri- etta Richardson before she married a London University professor) writes with so much philosophy and human understanding and such maturity of style that anything she presents is worth the reading. Books Received Non-Fiction. THE CASA ITALIANA EDUCA- TIONAL BUREAU. Its Purpose and Program. By Leonard Covello. New York: Columbia University. Casa Italiana Educational Bureau. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE. By Henry Grattan Doyle. New York: Columbia University. Casa Italiana Educational Bureau. THE ITALIANS IN AMERICA. By Leonard Covello. lumbia University. Educational Bureau. THE HEART THROUGH ART. A Study of the Emotions. By George William Gerwig. Sgchool Better- ment Studies. Pittsburgh: Henry C. Frick Educational Commission. COURAGE FOR TODAY. By Pres- ton Bradley. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE MODERN APPROACH TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. By Rev. Jew- ett C. Townsend. Boston: The Stratford Co. THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY MA- GICIAN. By Morrell Massey. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. IMMATERIA MEDICA. A Collection of Prayers. By Rev. Thomas C Marshall. Boston: The Stratford Co. SCRAPS. By George W. Wear. Bos- ton: Meador Publishing Co. . NATURAL LIVING, HEALTH AND LONGEVITY. By George C. Scar- lett. -Boston: Meader Publish- ing Co. | THE GAME OF LIFE. As We Are Playing It in Our Archaic Indus- trial System. By John J. Lanier, B. D. Fredericksburg, Va: John J. Lanier. THE DESCENT OF THE ATOM. Anonymous. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. {SEX IN PRISON. By Joseph F. | Fishman. New York: National | Library Press. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S VENUS AND ADONIS. With Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Rochester, N. Y.: The Printing House of | Leo Hart. | SELF-PORTRAITS. By Doris Web- ster and Mary Alden Hopkins. New York: D. Appleton-Cen- tury Co. NATURE'S WAY. By Victor C. Pedersen. A M. M. D. F. A C.S. New York. G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. Fiction. GREENHORN'S HUNT. By C. M Sublette. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. THOSE WHO PERISH. By Edward Dahlberg. New York: The John Day Co. VAMPIRE. By Hanns Heinz Ewers. Translated by Fritz Sallagar. New York: The John Day Co. THE PRESIDENT VANISHES. Anon- ymous. New York: Farrar & Rine- hart. WOMEN IN WHITE. By Peter Delius. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. MURDER IN THREE ACTS. By Aga- tha Christie. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. DUSTY ROAD. By McDonald Feader. Chicago: Reilly & Lee. SALT OF THE SEA: RED SAUN- DERS. The Chronicle of a Genial Outcast. By “Sinbad.” Philadel- phia: J. B. Lippincott Co. BUSINESS LEADER'S SWEET- HEART. By Elinor Wolfsen. Bos- ton: Meador Publishing Co. TO EACH A PENNY. By Francis Plummer. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. THIS WOMAN AND THIS MAN. By Casa Italiana A our minds seem to reach only in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that con- stitute the truly religious attitude.” * x X % THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH. By Franz Werfel. New York: The Viking Press. 'HE defense of Musa Dagh, “that darkening ridge against the sun- set.” in the Taurus Mountains, in 1915, is celebrated by Armenians as a great anniversary in*their history. Franz Werfel, Viennese novelist, con- ceived the idea for this book in 1929 while staying in Damascus. “The miserable sight of some maimed and famished looking refugee children, working in a carpet factory, gave me the final impulse to snatch from the Hades of all that was this incom- prehensible destiny of the Armenian nation.” The story is of Gabriel Ba- gradian, his wife Juliette, his son Stephan, returning from years in Paris to the land and village, Yog- honoluk, of Gabriel's birth, in 1915, and immediately being merged with the “treacherous Armenian race,” the object of Turkish persecutions. A reserve officer in the Turkish Army, Gabriel holds himself in readiness for a call to the front, only to learn that Armenians are being recalled from the firing line and degraded to the lowest tasks, such as road making and pack carrying. His grandfather was the founder of a world-famous Istanbul business, with offices in Paris, New York and London, and Gabriel has his pride of wealth and position. These do not count in this time of revived Turkish fanaticism against race and religion. The ter- rible events in which Gabriel is an unintentional participant are part of that historic tragedy which took place in Turkey in 1915, when Armenians were driven from their homes and murdered and, following the success- ful self-defense of the Armenians of Van in April, a general and unusually barbarous massacre of Armenians was of the era and could wish for a fuller index and at least a brief bibliography. * x % % LIQUID CLAIMS AND NATIONAL WEALTH. An Exploratory Study in the Theory of Liquidity. carried out and those unfortunates who remained were deported to the desert. In writing this long and im- passioned novel about one episode in the extended tale of Armenian perse- By | cutions Prans Werfel was undoubted- Katharine Newlin Burt. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. FIGHTING HORSE VALLEY. By Will Jenkins. New York: Alfred H. King Co. PORTRAIT OF EDEN. By Margaret Sperry. New York: Liveright Pub- lishing Co. PIRATE WENCH. By Frank Shay. New Yor':: Ives Washburn. MASKS OFF AT MIDNIGHT. By Val- entine Willlams. Boston: Hough- ton Mifflin Co. MR. UNDERHILL'S PROGRESS. By Elizabeth Corbett. New York: Rey- nal & Hitchcock. GIVE ME DEATH. By Isabel Briggs Myers. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. MURDER IN THE STACKS. By Ma- rion Boyd. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. HOW GOOD A DETECTIVE ARE YOU? The New National Game, “Minute Mysteries.” By H. A. Rip- ley. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. THE DAUGHTERS OF RICHARD HERON. By Romlilly Cavan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. CHER AMI. The Story of a Carrier Pigeon. By Marion B. Cothren. With illustrations by Richard F. Bartlett. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. BRINKLEY MANOR. A Novel About Jeeves. By P. G. Woodehouse. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. * World. HERE is a wealth of material I on Christmas customs avail- mand from the teachers and students which soon exhausts the more obvious sources. In the follow- ber 2, the reference department of the Public Library has given refer- ences to less-known material in the PUBLIC LIBRARY able at the Public Library, but ing list, the first part of which ap- library’s collection. A longer and Christmas Customs Around the there is a corresponding de- peared in last Sunday's Star, Decem- more complete bibliography of Christ- New York: Co-! building or at the major branches: Mount Pleasant, Northeastern, South- eastern and Takoma. India. Wandering Words, by 8ir Edwin Ar- nold. pp. 161-78. 1894, Ireland. Lighter Side of Irish Life, by G*A. Birmingham. pp. 196-7. 1912. Isle of Man. Hunting the Wren; an Old Christmas Custom, by F. B. Davis. St. Nich- olas. 55:95 D "27. Italy. Christmas in Venice, by C. Adams. Harper's Magazine. 56:285-8 Ja| "78. i A Poet's Bazaar; a Picturesque Tour in Germany, Italy, Greece and the Orient, by H. C. Andersen. pp. 92-4. Storied Italy, by Mrs. Hugh Fraser. pp. 75-95. 1915. Venetian Life, by W. D. Howells. pp. 275-86. 1907. By Italian Seas, by E. C. Peixotto. pp. 133-52. 1906. Same in Scrib- ner's Magazine. 33:29-38 Ja '03. Roba di Roma, by W. W. Story. V. 1, pp. 70-92. 1893. Mexico. Christmas in the Rio Grande Coun- try, by M. B. Downing. Catholic /World. 110:344-54 D '19. Mexico as I Saw It, by Mrs. Alec Tweedie. pp. 189-201. 1901. Norway. The Norwegian Fjords, by A. H. Coop- er. pp. 53, 56. 1907. Norway, by Nico Jungman, 1905. p. 9. Rumania. Twenty Years in Rumania, by Maude Parkinson. pp. 196-7. 1922. Russia. Undiscovered Russia, by Stephen Gra- ham, pp. 3-9. 1912 Home Life in Russia, by A. §. Rappa- port. pp. 43-9. 1913. Sicily. R Student in Sicily. by Mrs. Nevil Jackson. pp. 88, 94, 184, 230. 1926. Spain. The Spaniard at Home, by M. F. N. Roulet. pp. 93-5. My Spanish Year, Whishaw, pp. 178-82. Land of the Dons, by Leonard Wil- liams. pp. 167-70. 1902. Sweden. Christmas Legends in Dalecarlia; Pa- gan Survivals in Christian Rites, | by K. E. Forslund. Living Age. 323:642-6 D 20, '24. United States. Christmas in Colonial Times, by Rene Bache, Harper's Weekly. 48:44-45 D 10, '04. Christmas With the Roosevelts in 1765, by Rene Bache. Cosmopolitan. 40:149-54 D 05 | Christmas Gift; a Memory of the Old | South, by V. F. Boyle. Century.| 83:305-9 D '11. | Yuletides of Yesteryear, by J. M Breese. Country Life. 39:56-7 D | 20, { Old Colonial Christmas. by Edward Breman. Catholic World. | 126:289-93 D '27. | | Ups and Downs of Christmas in New | England, by A. E. Brown. New England Magazine, n. s. 29:479-84 D '03. Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill. Har- | per's Magazine. 130:149-51 D '14. Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill. Sur- vey. 25:485-6 D 24, '10. Christmas Festivals at Bethlehem, Pa. Spectator. Outlook. 79:115-17. Ja 14, '05. ! Christmas in Old Virginia, by J. E Cooke. Magazine History. 10:443. Christmas Traditions, Overland. n. s. 84:376 D '26. ‘When America Was Found, by J. T Faris. Chap. 16. 1925. The Pilgrim Republic, by J. A. Good- | win. p. 103. 1920. i Christmas _in Boston. by E. E. Hale. | New England Magazine, n. s 1:355-67 D '89. Oldtime New England Christmas, by W. J. Hopkins. Country Life. 9:150-4 D '05. Christmas at Mount Vernon. by G.| Hunt. Century. 77:188-95 D '05./ Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill, by R. B. Kimball. House Beautiful. 43:20-1 D "17. Christmas City of the Old South: Sa- | lem, North Carolina, by Winifred Kirkland. North American Re- view. 218:790-804 D '23. Christmas in_ Littleville, by Wini- fred Kirkland. Atlantic Monthly. 108:848-52 D '11. ‘Where the Star Still Shines, by Wini- fred Kirkland. 1924. German Christmas in America, by A. J. Klinck. House Beautiful. 33:20 D '12. Christmas in Dutch New York, by W. J. Lamb. Magazine of Amer- jcan History. 10:471. | American Christmas Tongues, by J. S. Leaycraft. look. 120:665-8 D 25. '18. Old-Fashioned Boy's Christmas, by J. S. Lincoln. Country Life. 11:177-83 D '06. Christmas in Tradition, by Quaker | O'Taylor. National Republic, 21:54 D '33. Red Drums of Christmas: Indian Dance That Celebrates the Birth| of Jesus, by A. M. Peck and E.| Johnson. Pictorial R. 34:18-19+ | D '32. Oldtime Virginia Christmas, by Mrs. La S. C. Pickett. Harper's Bazaar. 41:48-54 Ja '07. | Christmas in Bethlehem in Pennsyl- | vania, by C. H. Rominger. New England Magazine, n. s. 45:421-6 D11 Christmas Day at Wakefield, the Home of George Washington, by J. W. Rust. House Beautiful. 61:190 F "217. | Christmas Eve on the Plantation, | by Archibald Rutledge. Outlook. 132:709-11 D 20, '22. Plantation Christmas, by Archibald Rutledge. Country Life. 23:57-60 D '12. Plantation Christmas, by Archibald gus‘.;:dxe Country Life. 51:54-6 Ye in Many | Out- | Carolina Christmas, by H. R. Sass. Good Housekeeping. 91:30-1+B '30. | Old Louisiana, by Lyle Saxon. pp.! 312-21. Century. 1928. | Christmas on the Mayflower, by E. C. Stanton. St. Nicholas. 28:122-3 D '00. During the Christmas: Sixty Years Ago and Today on the Plantations of the Old Dominion, by I G. Tabor. Country Life. 9:226 D '05. North Country Christmas, by M. B. :I;gomu. Country Life. 57:37-8 D Colonial Holidays, by W. Tittle. Country Life. 17:163-8 D '09. Two Colonial Christmas Days. Coun- try Life. 15:143-8 D '08. Christmas Greens, by Henry Van Dyke. ’s;conbner's Magazine. 68:753-7 D Christmas Fete in California, by L. ff'z Wall. Century. 85:210-17 D Merry Christmas From Boston, by F. L. Warner. House Beautiful. 50:445-7 D "24. Yugoslavia. Slavs of the War Zone, by W. F. Bailey. pp. 108-211. 1916. ‘Yule Log, Mistletoe, Holly. Legends and Significance of Christ- | | | Washington mas Greens, by E. Ingersol. Chau- tauqua. 12:355. Yule-Log in Provence, by T. A. Jan- vier. Golden Book. 4:837-8 D '26. Note on Christmas Trees, by W. B. Johnson. Catholic World. 138:345-7 D '33. Watching of the Myrrh, by B. Lind- say. Nineteenth Century. 60:331-6 Ag. "06. Yule-Log, by L. C. Pickett. Life. 11:191-2 D '06. With Yuletide Holly and Mistletoe by M. F. N. Roulet. Catholic World. 74:433-41 Ja '02. Christmas in America, by A. C. Sage. New England Magazine, n. s. 13:461-5. With Mistletoe and Holly, by Ada Sterling. Harper's Bazaar. 36:1114-17 D '02. Yule-Log and Other Fires, by Ada Sterling. Harper's Bazaar. 37:1142-5 D '03. Yuletide Logs and Christmas Candles, by F. M. Verrall. Catholic World. 134:339-42 D '31. Who Are You? BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. Country Hartshorne 'HERE are various theories as to the derivation of this surname, one be- ing that it originated from the horn of a hart, the male deer, an emblem found frequently over entrances of inns and shops in Old Enegland. An- other is that it was an outgrowth of the term “hathern,” meaning meeting- place. The names Hathern and Hath- earne are well-known family names found in Leicestershire. England There is also in this district a parish called Hartshorn The coat of arms displayed, which is borne by the Hartshorne family early established in New Jetsey, Vir- ginia and Maryland, gives credence to the hart's horn idea. This family was fofinded in America by Richard Hartshorne, who came to East New Jersey in 1669, at the age of 28, and settled in Monmouth County He acquired large tracts of land and became an influential colonist. He was the son of William Hartshorne and was born in Hathearne, Leicester- shire, in 1641. Twelve vears after the settlement of Richard, his brother, Hugh Hartshorne of London, was named in a deed executed by Lady Elizabeth Carteret, as one of the pro- prietors of East New Jersey, along with William Penn and other grantees. It appears, however, that Hugh Harts- horne conveyed his interest to the Earl {of Perth and never saw the land of which he was for a time part owner. ‘William Hartshorne. the grand:=on - | of Richard, the founder, moved to Vir- ginia, where he established his familv on an estate called Cherry Hill, ad- joining that of Mount Vernon. Wil- liam was associated with George in engineering projects, among which was the building of & canal along the Potomac. One of Wililam's sons moved to Maryland where the name of Hartshorne is found in goocly numbers today. Two other sons migrated to Pennsylvania, where descendants are now living. Joseph, one of the sons in Pennsylvania, was instrumental in the building and maintenance of the old Pennsylvania Hospital. 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