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HAWKINS ELECTED CANP GOMNMANDER Col. Henry W. Lawton Group to Install Officers January 7. MEETINGS THIS WEEK. Camps. Monday—John Jacob Astor, United States Soldiers’ Home. Wednesday—Gen. M. Emmett Urell, Pythian Temple. Thursday—Richard J. Harden, Pythian Temple. Auxiliaries. Monday — Admiral George Dewey Naval, Northeast Masonic Temple. Friday—Col. Henry W. Law- ton, 930 H street. Col. Henry W. Lawton Cgmp met, with Comdr. James R. Henkel pre- siding, and elected the following of- ficers: Charles E. Hawkins, com- mander; Judson T. Mason, senior vice commander; William S. Carr, junior vice commander; Joseph Lane Smith, officer of the day; Wirt W. Young, officer of the guard, and James R. Henkel, trustee. The camp voted to hold a joint installation of officers, with Col. Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary, January 7, at Pythian Temple. On December 19 the camp will Join Lawton Auxiliary in celebrating its birthday at Pythian Temple, at 8 o'clock. Gen. Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary of Baltimore, Md., has been invited. Comdr. Thomas F. Donovan pre- sided at the meeting of Col. John Jacob Astor Camp on December 3. August Breunig, Oscar Vogel and James J. Dougherty were elected to membership. The following officers were elected: Thomas F. Donovan, commander; John Griffin, senior vice commander; Robert Burg, junior vice commander; William Bluemer, officer of the day; John Leishman, officer of the guard, and F. N. Davis and H. S. Steven- &on, trustees. Christmas presents were ordered for “shut-ins” and relief was pro- vided for members in distress. At the last meeting of Richard J. Harden Camp Charles D. Long, chairman of the Sick and Relief Committee, reported. William B. Gallahan and Pontus Hulton were granted transfers to King Camp of Alexandria, Va. John C. Wright was granted an honorable discharge. The deaths of Thomas D. Walsh, Charles C. Geduldig and William J. Hen- nessy were reported. ‘The following officers were elected: Charles D. Long, commander; W. T. Conn, senior vice commander; George A. Williams, junior vice commander; Herbert M. Manning, officer of the day; James J. Fitzpatrick, officer of the guard, and J. M. White, trustee. Auxiliaries. At the last meeting of Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary the following officers were elected: Presi- dent, Carrie Flaherty; senior vice pres- ident, Mabel Hesson; junior vice pres- ident, Mary Burke; chaplain, Madge Ryce; patriotic instructor, Helen Gar- ges; historian, Lilly O'Neil; conductor, Jennie Rhodes; assistant conductor, Hannah Marie O'Keefe; guards, Mrs. Rink and Mary Hagan. Col. Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary, met with President Nellie Garner presid- ing. The new officers are: President, Lora Hill; senior vice president, Al- bertine Houston; junior vice presi- dent, Helen Grissman; chaplain, Mary Farner; secretary, Nellle Garner; treasurer, Kathryn M. Lynch; patri- otic instructor, Cora Jacobson; histo- rian, Catherine Morgan; musician, Geraldine Henkel; reporter, Daisy Cressman; conductor, Marjorie Griss- man; assistant conductor, Virginia Miller; guard, Gladys Pixton; assist- ant guard, Anna Tucker. Lawton Auxiliary will hold its birth- day party December 19 jointly with Lawton Camp at Pythian Temple. The next meeting will be held December 21 at 930 H street, followed by a bingo party. CENTER SYMPHONY TO PLAY TUESDAY 60-Piece Orchestra to Give Pro- gram of Semi-classical and Popular Numbers. A program comprising semi-classical and popular numbers will be played by the instrumental ensemble of more than 60 local professional and semi-professional players, under the direction of Bailey F. Alart, at the second public rehearsal Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock in Central High School auditorfum. This was an- nounced today by the Advisory Board of the Community Center Civic Sym- phony Orchestra, which is sponsored by the Community Center Department of the Public Schools of the District. Tuesday night's concert will be the second in a Winter series. The third is scheduled for January. Inasmuch as the full strength of the orchestra has not yet been reached, officials today invited other musicians to join. Next week's program will feature numbers by Dvorak, Puccini, Wolf- Ferrari, Strauss and “Thirty Minutes of Victor Herbert,” with a vocal solo- ist being heard in a selection from “The Dream Girl.” The Advisory Board includes Dr. E. N. C. Barnes, Mrs. Henry I. Quinn, E. J. Murphy, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, James G. Yaden, Miss M. Edith Coul- son, Mrs. Edith H. Hunter, John B. Colpoys, Louis A. Potter, Mrs. Gert- rude McRae Nash, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs. Wil- liam H. King, Mrs. C. Marshall Finnan, Miss Lisa Gardiner, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, Claude W. Owen, Thomas P. Littlepage, Isaac Gans and others well known in the Capital City’s music circles. NORMAN CANNON DIES English Playwright Had Gone to Arizona for Health. ‘TUCSON, Ariz., December 15 (#).— Norman Cannon, English playwright, died in a sanatorium here. Cannon came here from London in February for his health. He was a writer of farces and also was a play broker, maintaining offices in London and New York. His latest London play, “The Cat's Whiskers,” was pur- chased by the English branch of Uni- versal Pictures. Cannon was well known in New York, where he was & member of the Lambs’ Club. In London he was & member and resident of the Green Room Club. The body will be taken to London, 2 - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 16, 1934—PART TWO. e In the World of Books VIEWS AND REVIEWS. THE GEORGIAN SCENE. A Literary Panorama. By Frank Swinnerton. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. O ONE of Thackeray's “Four Georges” gives his name to this scene of Mr. Swinnerton but the popular reigning mon- arch of England, George V. The book is a survey, with running comment, of the British authors still living, or only recently dead, who seem to Mr. Swinnerton worth writing about. As a writer of prominence himself, he personally knows most of them, but he says in a prefatory note that whether he knows them or not, he adopts the modern usage of in- formal address and speakes of “Shaw” or “Belloc” or “Rose Macauley” with- out any “Mr.” or “Miss.” His method of criticism is equally informal and in not hampered by fear of enemies he may make. 1t is certain that, in spite of his humor and tactful way of mingling commendation and caustic stricture, James Joyce, in whose “Ulysses” he finds only a .“hotch- potch”; Compton Mackenzie, whose work shows the effect of his Oxford generation, which adored “romanti- cized decadence”; David Garnett, who leads readers to expect a significance which is not there, and many others will not altogether like what he says about them. Those who are omitted from the book altogether will prob- ably like that even less. Mr. Swinnerton’s method of min- gling with his criticism sketches of personality and appearance, some merely swift flashes, others more lei- surely, results in a series of delightful literary and biographical essays, which together justify his substitle of a “lit- erary panorama.” H. G. Wells is described as “a great sufferer of fools. He is so kind that one has but to be simple and receptive to evoke his af- fectionate consideration. But he is very impatient of the long story or the aggressive or pompous manner.” Katherine Mansfield he found “en- chanting” in her ‘“beautiful idol-like quietness.” Of Hugh Walpole he says: “He is less simple than any other writer I know. His cheerfulness and good mnature, which are perfectly nat- ural to him, his impulsive friendliness, his wish to establish sincere relation- ships with those whom he likes, are enmeshed with many reserves and dis- trusts, with shrewdness and good sense and another trait which I vague- ly decipher as a power to shut his mind to unacceptable aspects of life. He is capable of great loyalty, ardent championship, candor; and at the same time bottomless suspicion, eva- siveness and deep trouble of spirit.” The literary estimates of Mr. Swin- nerton are as sagacious as the per- sonal. He has no love for Bloomsbury and its assumed intellectual superiority, the home of what Desmond Mac- Carthy calls “alert, original men and women,” but Mr. Swinnerton calls “ill- mannered and pretentious dilettanti.” Among the literary residents of Bloomsbury are Bertrand Rus- sell, who has “a great dislike of parents, schoolmasters, police- men and judges—all of whom rep- resent for him embodiments of au- thority,” and Virginia Woolf, whose books are a “constant twitter of words and notions . . . They specialize in disconnectedness.” Mr. Swinnerton is equally satiric over “the modns” and their devotees, some Bloomsburyites, others extending farther afield. Mase- field, he says, “is not the idol of really ‘modn’ people. He has become Poet Laureate, which fact in itself (despite his predecessor) is enough to alienate opinion.” D. H. Lawrence, about whom “the muss” has been largely due to the popularity of psycho- analysis, is given a long sketch, both appreciative and negatively critical. “His effect upon the young has been great; his effect upon the old has often enough been that of nausea.” But the temptation to quote further from “The Georgian Scene” must be checked. * X %% ULYSSES S. GRANT. The Great Soldier of America. By Robert R. McCormick. New York: D. Apple- ton-Century Co. 'HE “Personal Memoirs of U. 8. Grant,” much of which was writ- ten during Grant's last illness, is the autobiography primarily of a soldier who had learned how to deal with facts and situations, expected and un- gxpected, on the battlefield, who was not at home in politics. This study of Grant by Col. MeCormick, pub- lisher and editor of the Chicago Tri- bune, himself a man of military ex- perience, is concerned only with Grant the soldier, the genius who as commander in chief of the Federal Armies saved the Union, Col. Mc- Cormick does not ignore the belittle- ment of Grant in many quarters in recent years; he faces and in true military fashion does battle with “this injustice to his memory * * * due in part to unconscious political sentiment, but also to malicious and deliberate design.” Partisans still moved by emotions provoked by the , Civil War, he says, are, according as their sympathies are liberal or aristo- cratic, devotees of Lincoln or Lee. Grant, a democratic hero, has been overshadowed by Lincoln, but he was Lincoln’s chief dependence and was as great in the military field as Lin- coln was in the field of statesman- ship. “In war everything is shrouded in fog,” but results cannot be explained away even by theories of accidents or orders of the oponents gone astray or by any other “tricks” of “wishful thinking.” So it cannot be explained away that Grant was never defeat- ed and that he “compelled the capitulation of ten fortresses, five armies, and eventually of the entire hostile government.” Col. McCormick plunges directly into the military ca- reer of Grant, with his graduation from West Point three years before his “baptism of fire at Palo Alto” in the Mexican War. Resignation from the Army was followed by eight un- successful years of civil life. Then the outbreak of the Civil War brought* him back into the Army as an officer of volunteers. His success, so spec- tacular as to be almost a military | Phrase miracle, is common knowledge. Col. McCormick does not relate the whole history of the Civil War, but he de- scribes and analyzes all Grant's cam- paigns, with the aid of about 30 ex- cellent maps. With the directness and vigor which characterize all his writing, Col. McCormick handles the time- worn charge of Grant’s intemperance. He finds no evidence that Grant was a drunkard or that he drank more than “any number of successful men in and out of military life. For pur- poses of comparison I have looked up the records of all the outstanding generals in the war and find only one teetotaler among them, Stone- wall Jackson.” Of Major Buchanan and the controversy with him lead- ing to Grant’s resignation from the Arnly on account of alleged intoxica- tion, he says: “Buchanan continued in the Army and at the end of the FROM THE JACKET DESIGN OF “SOUTH STREET. A MARITIME HISTORY OF NEW YORK,”_BY RICHARD C. McKAY, REVIEWED TODAY. a smudge on the history of the mili- tary service.” Col. McCormick's re- valuation of Grant, perhaps a return to the estimate which was general throughout the North at the close of the Civil War, will probably be criticized by some historians as lack- ing in judicial coolness, but it seems a safe surmise that he is writing not for historians, many of whom he criticizes severely, but for the great body of his fellow Americans. * ok kX SOUTH STREET. A Maritime His- tory of New York. By Richard C. McKay. New York: G. P. Putham’s Sons. WALL Street for finance; South Street for shipping. Richard McKay is the grandson of Donald McKay, famous builder of American clipper ships. He begins his story of the shipping of New York shortly after the Revolution and brings it to the present time. When President Washington signed documents in a Colonial house on Pranklin Square, the international communication of New York was carried on in English vessels, brigs of less than 200 tons, called “coffin brigs” with sinister im- plication, because so many of them sank beneath the stormy waves of the Atlantic. The commerce of the new country struggled up from the wreck- age of. the Revolution and had its headquarters on New York’s East River water front. The first American vessel to sail from New York to London was the Betsy, dispatched from Cruger’s Wharf. In those days, “old City Dock was the corner stone of the commerce of our metropolis, the pro- genitor of our miles of wharves,” and there were located all the prominent merchants. The first vessel to sail direct from New York to China was the Experiment, which made no profits on the voyage because of excessive Chinese customs duties. Included in this story of New York's early shipping are lists of prominent merchants of the eigh- teenth century, and accounts of the bringing in of indentured men and women, famous old shipbuilders and shipyards, the rise of John Jacob Astor, the effect of the embargo of 1807-8, the Erie Canal project and the attitude of Jefferson and Madison toward the growth of the American merchant marine. With the end of the War of 1812 “all commercial and manufacturing enterprises bounded forward with an elasticity that bewil- dered the conservative merchant of old New York—that old New York which, because of increased immigra- tion and the opening of the Erie Canal, was destined in a few years to pass away forever!” In history al- most every period seems to be the end of an era, but hitherto a new era has always begun Through the invention of the steamboat, various Federal laws affecting maritime pros- perity, the vicissitudes of foreign trade competition, disasters at sea, rapid and radical changes in types of vessels, the gold rush of '49, booms and collapses in shipping, as in other business, Mr. McKay carries his story down to 1914, when the World War found us without a merchant marine. ~ He tells of the building of merchant vessels at great cost and the haste with which they were scat- tered, destroyed or given away at the end of the war. He frankly and heartily favors a merchant marine as an adjunct to our commerce and an element in national defense, and says that “to maintain a foremost position as & sea power Americans—East, ‘West, North and South—must be ship- minded, incurably maritime!” Mr. McKay writes with enthusiasm and concreteness. His book is full of ro- mantic maritime episodes and is illus- trated, with many reproductions of old drawings, prints, engravings and paintings. * Kk X THE OPEN DOOR AT HOME. A Trial Philosophy of National In- terest. By Charles A. Beard. With the Collaboration of G. H. E. Smith. New York: The Macmillan Co. IN HIS recent work, “The Idea of National Interest” Dr. Beard in- vestigated “professions and actions of American statesmen coming under the head of ‘national interests’ ” and found a mass of “confusions and contradic- tions.” Statesmen belonging to the same political school were found ap- proving “self-canceling operations.” Neither political school has ever been consistent in its philosophy or practice, and not even Dr. Beard’s orderly mind could arrange the governmental ac- tions of our history, logically and with- out exceptions, under either the Ham- iltonian or the Jeffersonian system. He came to the conclusion that the “national interest” was in most cases merely a formula employed for accomplishing designs in the field of foreign affairs. He has, therefore, written “The Open Door at Home" to work out a conception of national in- terest of his own, an ideal concep- tion, so the structure of the book is argumentative. He has, however, at- tempted to keep separated statements of facts and personal views. As his title intimates, Dr. Beard's philosophy is that of economic na- home, to substitute an intensive cul- tivation of its own garden for a waste- ful, quixotic and ineffectual extension of interests beyond the reach of com- petent military and naval defense.” With regard to our foreign relations, he advises withdrawing from “the war of trade and huckstering” and shun- ning “the hateful conflicts of passion- ate acquisition in Europe and the Orient.” He has nothing to say in favor of American “diplomacy of the dollar, the Navy and the Marines.” The United States is undoubtedly bet- ter able to follow such a policy of eco- nomic nationalism as Dr. Beard indi- cates than any other nation in the world, and perhaps Japan would agree with Dr. Beard as to its advisability, but the whole question is one for de- bate, one of the most important de- bates which could be joined by worthy opponents. * x % % ZAHAROFF. High Priest of War. By Guiles Davenport. Boston: Loth- Top, Lee & Shepard Co. ZAHAROP'P. a twentieth century Count of Monte Cristo in his per- sonality and mysterious career, a men- ace to the whole world in its interna- tional relations, if we are to judge by the facts and opinions presented to us in several recent books, began his con- nection with munitions in 1877 as an obscure salesman of arms. Like Frank C. Hanighen, one of the authors of “Merchants of Death,” Mr. Davenport is a journalist. His work as a for- eign correspondent led to an acquaint- ance with Sir Basil Zaharoff, sup- posedly a Greek by birth, citizen of France, recipient of the Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the degree of doctor of civil law from Oxford University, international munitions magnate and promoter of wars for profit. Presumably Mr. Dav- enport did not learn all that he tells in this story from Zaharoff himself. For one thing, he reveals that he was not, as supposed, born an Anatolian Greek, but, according to his birth cer- trificate and the view of the British secret service, a Russian Jew. More important than race or nationality are Mr. Davenports’ statements about Za- haroff’s power to foment wars for the sake of profits in munitions; he is rep- resented to have had a part in pro- ducing every war in Europe for the past 57 years. Efforts for world peace will apparently be futile while under- ground operations like those of Zaha- roff are going on. “He has both the mob and the organized to thank for what he has and what he 1s.” Only an official investigation could confirm or disprove Mr. Davenport's accusa- tions, but many of them have been made with positiveness by other writers. * ok x % THE RIDDLE OF JUTLAND. An Au- thentic History. By Langhorne Gibson and Vice Admiral J. E. T. Harper, R. N. New York: Coward- McCann. "JDTLAND was & predestined event, foretold by innumerable far-see- ing minds,” but about its story have grown up rumors and false versions so that in the public mind it has become a mystery. The authors, an American student of naval affairs and a British vice admiral, adhering to actual Brit- ish naval records, have in a clear ac- count, with the aid of 15 diagrams, reconstructed the famous “Armaged- don of the seas” of May 31, 1916, when the British and German navies met in the North Sea and changed the course of the war. “Jutland caused Germany to resume unrestricted submarine war- fare and led, indirectly, to the entry of the United States as a participant in the world conflict. * * * Thehigh sea fleet's inactivity after the battle was at bottom responsible for the mu- tinles which appeared in the German Navy in 1917 and went on to destroy the fleet in 1918. Jutland rightly came to be seen as the most important and fateful single military episode during the World War—the episode which had the greatest effect upon the era that followed.” EEE THE WORLD OUTSIDE. By Hans Fallada. New York: Simon & Schuster. German title of this novel by the author of “Little Man, What Now?” is less vague than the Ameri- can title; literally translated, it is “Who Once Ate From a Tin Plate.” Willi Kufalt has only two days more of his five-year sentence to serve in prison; then he will be returned to a world which does not particularly want him, and will, like Pinneberg, be obliged to ask, “Little man, what Among several million un- tionalism, and he marshals many and | pri strong arguments in its favor. He says that our historic policy of e open door” abroad has resulted in “the present economic calamity,” and that for recovery and further economic advance we should abandon that pol- icy and adopt one of self-sufficiency. He writes: “‘The open door at home’ means the most efficient use of the natural resources and industrial arts of the nation at home in a quest for security and a high standard of living. * ® * 1t implies a reversal of reliance on imprudent risks and invites the American Nation &0 open doors at 4 SARAH BOWERMAN self. When Kufalt breaks away from this environment of serfdom and attempts to start a typing agency of his own he is arrested on the chargg of having stolen his machines. Other attempts to earn a living are thwarted by the suspicion of all the respect- able, a handicap added to that of general economic stagnation. Finally Kufalt again resorts to crime, becomes & purse snatcher, shortly allows him- self to be taken by the police, and with relief finds himself again in prison, where he can abandon effori and accept defeatism. Hans Fallada shows in this, as in his earlier novel, his sympathy with the lesser bourgeois, whose position in modern society is far worse than that of the organized “worker,” and his scorn for in- trenched and hypocritical respect- ability. “The World Outside” is more sordid and hopeless than “Little Man, ‘What Now?”, for there is nothing in it to lighten the gloomy picture as the persistent courage of Pinneberg's wife does in the earlier story. * % x % CONCERT PITCH. By Theodora Benson. New York: The Mac- millan Co. A PICTURE of back stage life, with its hectic fascipation for its par- ticipants, as long as the fascination lasts; its loves, hatreds, jealousies, loyalties and zest. The chief char- acters are Val Mellon, her husband Johnnle, who has arrived as a highly paid star, so that family finances are no longer near the dole line, and the not particularly good dancer, Alber- tina, to whom Val is mistakenly kind. Movement is the -one quality. su- premely possessed by the narrative and partners are changed all around before the end. The author is the daughter of Baron Charnwood. * x % % THE GREAT MR. KNIGHT. By Dorothy Whipple. New York: Far- rar & Rinehart. THE Blake family is fairly con- tented in its standardized semi- detached house in the London suburb, The Grove, except for the periodical threat of old Simpson to sell the works, which would mean that Thomas would be out of & job. Then Lawrence Knight, “director of in- numerable companies, chairman of the immense corporation known as Allgoods, creator of Fairbay, that in- credible bungaloid growth by the sea” and recent purchaser of a country house near Trentham, slips on the railway station stairs and drives his elbow into the stomach of Thomas Blake—a literal stroke of luck for Thomas, who clutches the millionaire and saves him from falling. From gratitude and perhaps other motives more instinctive Lawrence Knight raises the Blake family to dizzy heights of prosperity only a little lower than his own. But the heights arc too precarious and the path to them has been crooked, so there is a bad fall for both the leader and the eager follower. Both “The Great Mr. Knight” and Dorothy Whipple's earlier novel, “Greenbanks,” illustrate the power of good writing to enlist a reader's interest in a set of char- acters, whatever the events which constitute the plot. We should enjoy following the lives of and Celia Blake and their children, Freda, Ruth and Douglas, under any circum- stances, * k% % A PIN TO SEE THE PEEPSHOW. By F. Tennyson Jesse. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. F TENNYSON JESSE is so versatile * that she has never established a characteristic genre in her fiction. “Tom Fool” is a sea epic, “Moonraker” Is a feminine-vagabond tale of an ad- venturess in Burma “The Lacquer Lady” is an Oriental miniature. “A Pin to See the Peepshow” is the story of Julia Starling, wife of Herbert Starling, in present-day London, who by stages unrecognized by herself pro- gresses from a normal girlhood to the status of a criminal. As Julia Almond rides to school on the top of a tram she feels that she is having her daily adventure. All the noises of grinding brakes, street cries, c! bells and rumbling traffic delight her as “the orchestra of Greater London.” She feels herself as “not only part, but the very central core of life. Im- possible to imagine any life in which she would not, at some time, share.” Later she marries Herbert Starling without enthusiasm, chiefly to escape from her tearful mother and her organizing aunt. The tragic course of disappointment, infidelity, crime is traced with such skill in the descrip- tion of shifting emotions that Julia grows more and more real as her in- herent weakness becomes terribly evi- dent. The final scene, in which Julia, between nightmare dozings and hor- rible awakenings, awaits the hour when she will no longer be any part of the life of London, is a pilece of Intensely dramatic writing. * % ® % SUZY. By Herbert Gorman. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. USAN DILLWORTHY was Ameri- can-born. Her name would indi- cate New England. She first appears in this story in London in June of 1914 as the niece of Mrs. Napp, and and before she has finished her career rivals the famous Ninon de L’Enclos and Julle de Lespinasse. She first dances in a Left Bank cafe, but from that beginning her sphere of influence extends until it reaches diplomats, military officials, +aristocrats, politi- cians, even Socialists. When she really | WEEP ard. New York: Alfred H. King. AND APTER THAT. By Kenneth Britton. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. “Suzy looked ravishing |SLINGS AND ARROWS. bara Goolden. New York: Mac- millan Co. CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND. By Sigurd Christiansen. New York: falls in love she selects an aristocrat, Charles d'’Eze, son of the baron in “Jonathan Bishop,” and marries him. Her second husband is the Duc de Miraumont. in her wedding robes. The long veil flowed about her face and down her slender back like a filmy waterfall and in it glistened the sewn pearls like tranced globules of crystal liquid . . . One had to look intently before one made out the tiny lines of grimness about the mouth and eyes, the patient acceptance of the fatality, the knowl- edge of the world lost yet remaining like & withered apple in the hand, the acceptance of things as they were be- cause there was nothing else to do.” Herbert Gorman, whose first success was in blography, with “The Incredi- ble Marquis” (Dumas) and later “The Scottish Queen” (Mary of Scotland), won immediate recognition with his first novel, “Jonathan Bishop,” as a brilliant writer of historical fiction, with an especial giff for pageantry. He and Philip Lindsay, author of “London Bridge Is Falling,” are the two novelists of today who excel in painting the historical scene with ac- tion, color and interesting detail. The research for “Jonathan Bishop,” a story of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, undoubtedly left a residue which Mr. Gorman has utilized in “Suzy.” Books Received Non-Fiction. “I THINK I AM SLOWLY RECOV- ERING.” Letters from a Forgotten Democrat to his Government. By Winston Norman. New York: The John Day Co. BOSTON UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE ISSUE. 1934-35. Boston: Boston University. THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE. By Richard B. Gregg. Philadel- phia: J. B. Lippincott Co. OUR LOONEY LIBERALS. By Frank L. McKinney. Columbus, Ohio: Stoneman Press. TERTIUM QUID. Ratiocination. By C. F. Elrick. St. Louis: Privately Printed. INTREPID BIRD (Verse). By Mary Britton Miller. New York: The Macmillan Co. STORIES OF HYMNS WE LOVE. By Cecilia Margaret Rudin, M. A. Chicago: John Rudin & Co. COME SEE THEM DIE. By Harold Hadley. New York: Julian Messner. TALL ONEIDA MOUNTAIN AND OTHER POEMS. By Violetta Lansdale Berry. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ECO- NOMIC SECURITY. By Edward H. Ochsner, B. S, M. D, F. A.C. 8. Boston: Bruce Humphries. HANDFUL OF SAND (Verse). Translated from the Works of ‘Takuboku Ishakawa by Shio Saka- nishi, Ph. D. Boston: Marshall Jones Co. TRIGGERNOMETRY. A Gallery of Gunfighters. By Eugene Cunning- ham. New York: The Press of the Pioneers. REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC. By Ar- thur Schnabel. New York: Simon & Schuster. THE WIFESAVER'S CANDY REC- IPES. By Allen Prescott. New York: Blue Ribbon Books. HOW TO PRESENT THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS. By Albert O. Bassuk. New York: The Bass Publishers. FAMOUS AMERICAN ATHLETES OF TODAY. Fourth series. By Charles H. L. Johnston. Boston: L. C. Page & Co. YOUR INSURANCE. Its Problems and their Solution. Chicago: Robert Rand Harold. TWENTY QUESTIONS ON THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE PEOPLE. A Study Outline (pam- phlet). Prepared by the Indus- trial Department of the National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations in co-operation with & group of industrial, insurance and labor leaders. New York: Asso- ciation Press. Fiction. WHAT MAD PURSUIT. By Martha Gellhorn. New York: Prederick A. Stokes Co. WAY OF THE BURNING HEART. By Cecil R. Murrow. New York: ‘The Westministers. THE CHARLATAN. By Sydney Hor- ler. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. POLLYANNA'S CASTLE IN MEX- ICO. The Eighth Glad Book. By Nebraska Legislative Proposal Designed to (Continued From First Page.)s Likewise, it is easy for bad records to be covered up. He says: “It must be understood that special interests, monopolies, corporations and the like are not as a rule interested 50 much in the passage of legislation as they are in preventing legislation which regulates their activities and prevents injustice. In order to pre- vent the passage of legislation, it is not necessary to control both the Sen- ate and the House. It is necessary to control only one body, which may mean only a few leaders or a confer-, ence committee. In fact, good legis- lation is sometimes prevented by the controlling of one man, and the records, good and bad, are hidden under legislative maneuvering. Roll Call on Every Bill. “Under our one-house plan a roll call will be had upon every bill and upon every amendment of any im- _ | portance. It will not require an ex- pert to determine just exactly what the record of any member is. Honest t.” pay of legislators in most States. If the maximum of 50 members is pro- vided there will still be an annual salary of $750. ‘Which brings us to the third strong t the Senator uses in : Less cost with End Buck Passing complishments will inevitably result in more efficient legislative action.” Selection of members upon a non- partisan ballot will give serious pause to political leaders in other States contemplating one-house Legislatures. It disturbed the Nebraska party lead- ers greatly, but acceptance of this feature was doubtless made easler for tt.:;e;oterx because they are accus- to electing the judiciary and school officials upon that basis. Judges of all State and county courts and county and State superintendents of schools are all ncminated and elected upon ballots separate from those of the party nominees. The selection of non-partisan legislators will require only one other such bal- lot. But in other States, unused to independent political elections, this hurdle may be hard to get over. Assembly, an- nounced that he will consult Senator Norris’ wishes before writing his mes- sage. “‘And I promised that if they passed this amendment I'd keep hands off gg:xfl By Ellery Queen. New CITY OF FRIENDS. By Elias Toben- kin, New York: Minton, Balch & Co. JOSEPH, THE HUSBAND OF MARY. By Hiram Graham. New York: Ronald Preelander. The Yorktown Press, “y. 8” By Kate Mayhew Speake Penny. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co. RESURRECTION. By William Ger- hardi. New York: Harcourt, Brace Co. DARING THE FLYING TRAPEZE AND Dubbe. Caldwell, Idaho: The Cax- ton Printers. RED SUN OF NIPPON. By Herbert 0. Yardley. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. THE VISITING VILLAIN. By ‘Wells. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin- cott Co. MURDER IN THE OPERA HOUSE. By Queena Mario. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. UBLIC LIBRARY INCE one of the real accom- administration has been to stimulate thinking along eco- Public Library has prepared a list of books on the New Deal. be published in The Sunday Star in three installments, of which this gen- eral list is the first. in favor of the New Deal will appear on December 23 and a list of those against on December 30. Books deal- ing exclusively with the N. R. A. have not been included on this list. books on this latter subject see The Sunday Star for March 4 and 11 and September 30 of this year. Towards National Recovery. Ameri- can Academy of Political and So- cial Sclence. “The many new lines of effort which have been followed in the United States since the Spring of 1933 have progressed to a point where it is pos- | sible to formulate at judgments about them . . dicate which ones . . priate and which ones need to be modified or (Preface) E. M. Patterson. Washington and the Revolutionists; a Characterization of the Recovery Policies and of the People Who Are Giving Them Effect, by R. W. Babson. “A popular discussion of the poli- cies of the present administration and of the personalities of the men who are carrying them out.” Current Economic Policies, by J. B. Hubbard, ed. “Under the editorship of members of the economics department of Har- together sentative discussions of the various problems associated with New Deal economics.” Roosevelt Year, by Pare Lorentz, ed. 1934. “A photographic record . . lively captions, showing significant or dramatic events of the first year of Roosevelt's presidency.” New Pioneers, the First Picture of the American People, East, West, North, South, Under Deal, by J. R. McCarthy. HC83.M1217. 1934, “In the course of & 12,000-mile tour Frederick A. Stokes Co. people tions.” N YOUNG MAN ON 1933.” FOR ME. By Kathleen Shep- By Bar- lace. Caralyn THE NEW DEAL. plishments of the Roosevelt nomic and political lines, the gram . . It will A list of those For Recent Works. (1933). 1934. HC83.Am37t. 1933. least a few | . to in- . are appro- | perhaps abandoned.” N216. 1934, F83525.B2. Roosevelt 1934. HC83.HB863. Rust. there have been gathered analyzed, for the benefit eral reader . . repre- nic. F83525.L88. sy . with the New Genuine Leather of the country, Summer of 1933, with the purpose of finding out what the people really thought of the New Deal, the author interviewed many different types of A topical digest texts of the laws embodying the ad- ministration’s New Deal program Program, by Rodgers. “A lucid friendly supporter, of the complicatec program instigated by the Rooseyel administration, and a history of its operation during the first six months.” Roosevelt Takes Hold for National and World Co-operation, by O. G. 1933. [F83525.R92. “March 4, 1933, was the end of an epoch and the beginning of & new era. This pamphlet is intended as a chronology of what took place.” It also gives briefly the causes of panics, previous depressions in Amexp ica and the beginning of the 1929-3C undertaken in the He records his im- presshmi in .Lhe form of conversa- Social Change and ihe New Deal, by W. F. Ogburn, Ogldsc. “With no idea of propaganda, each of 12 editors of the American Journal of Sociology has made a brief ap- praisal of some phase of the recovery and reconstruction achievements of ed. 1934, H. New Federal Organizations; an Out- line of Their Structure and Punc- tions, by L. F. Schmeckebier. 1934. JV83.Sché. “Among the features of each unit discussed are the authority for its creation, its purpose, the location of fleld offices and a summary statistical measure of work and expenditures if figures are available.” New Deal in Action, by 8. C. Wal- 934, “He describes and explains each of the most important ventures of the New Deal, telling why each action was taken and presenting briefly the arguments on all sides of several con- troversial issues.” The New Deal in 1933. Our Economic Revolution; Our Depression Problems Through Public Control A. B. Adams. “The author appraises the recover: efforts of the Roosevelt administra- tion and sees the need of an even larger measure of Government con- trol of private industry.” The PFuture Comes; a Study of the New Deal, by C. A. Beard and G. H. E. Smith. “A careful survey of the measures and policies of . with an analysis of the principles involved in the New Deal as a phase in a movement of ideas which marks a distinct break with the past.” Primer of “New Deal” Economics, by J. G. Frederick. “The first thorough and very read- able presentation of a far-reaching, social-economic reform that is still in the blueprint stage and must await the test of that very pragmatism which the author so persistently in- vokes as the driving thought behind the ‘new experiment.’ E. K. Lindley. Solvinr of Industry, b: 1933. HCB83.Ad120 1933. HC83.B38f the recovery pro- 1933. HCB83.F87 ’* Louls Rich ’ Third American Revolution; an In- terpretation, HC83.L234. “A fair-minded, mainly sympa- thetic attempt to explain the pur- poses and probable effects of the New Deal as it had developed up to last Autumn (1933).” Economic Reconstruction Legislation of 1933. National Industrial Con- ference Board, Inc. by B. Y. Landis 1933. HCs2 as well as th Clevelan 1933. HCB83.R614. interpretation, by Early Sleeping Advised. From 8 o'clock until midnight ar the “natural” sleeping hours, declare an English scientist, who adds tha sufferers from insomnia should re- tire early and get as much sleep a possible before 12 o'clock. Special Gift Offer —You won't forget your driver's license and registration card with one of these sets. They're with ybur keys all the time. Lost keys are easily identified. 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