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D. C, JANUARY 6, 1935—PART FIVE. In the World of Books |iisemss Paul. New York: Liveright Pub- lishing Co. ACOB WASSERMANN died January ,» 1934, while the translators were at work on his novel. His reputation has thus far chiefly rested and prob- ably will permanently rest on his RICHBERG SPEAKER By VICTOR BRIDGES BEFORE TOWNHALL Subject Tonight Will Be “Economic Freedom and Security.” Donald Richberg, executive direetor of the National Emergency Council, - will be the speaker at the meeting of the Town Hall of Washington tonight at 8 o'clock in the Shoreham Hotel. His subject will be “Economic Free- dom and Security.” This is the fifth meeting of the Town Hall, and when the N. R. A. co- ordinator completes his address, he will be questioned and will hear his views discussed by a panel of six mem- bers, including for the first time a woman member. She is Representa- tive Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, ©of Massachusetts. The other members who wili discuss his views before the audience are Sen- ator Alva B. Adams, Democrat, of . . Colorado; Mordecai Ezekiel. economic T.adviser to the Secretary of Agricul- < ture; Leon Henderson, economic ad- viser to the National Recovery Admin- istration and ex-officio member of the N. R. A. Board; Elliot Thurston, polit- ical writer on the staff of the Wash- ington Post. and Dr. Leverett S. Lyon . of the Brookings Institution. " Dr. John W. Studebaker, commis- sioner of education, will preside, ARMY ORDERS. Knight, Brig. Gen. Harry E., from Boston, to here, February 1. Lincoln, Brig. Gen. Charles S., from Fort Mason. Calif., to duty as as- sistant chief of staff, War Department general staff, here, January 26. Huddleson, Lieut. Col. George H., Quartermaster Corps. from Fort Hua- chuca Ariz, to the Philippine de- partment, orders revoked. Brown, Maj. Robert W., judge advo- cate general’s department, from Fort Lewis, Wash,, to here, January 26. Allen, Maj. Leven C.. Infantry, as- signed to duty in the office of chief . of Infantry, here. Wilhelm, Maj. Glenn P., ordnance department, retired from active serv- ice. December 31 Kluss, Capt. Walter L, Field Ar- tillery, from Fort Bragg, N. C. to Governors Island, N. Y., February 1. Slauson, Capt. Kingsley W., Quar- termaster Corps. assigned to duty as| constructing quartermaster at Max- well Field, Ala. Bogart, Capt. James H., Chemical Warfare Service, ordered home to await retirement Carter, First Lieut. Clifton C., Coast Artillery Corps, from Fort Totten, N. Y., to Baltimore, Md., February 18 Barnett, First Lieut. James D., In- fantry, from New York. to the Hawaiian department, about April 26. Darrah, Second Lieut. John W., jr., Air Corps, from Randolph Field, Tex., to Fort Brown, Tex. Andrews, Second Lieut. Omar K. Medical Administrative Corps, from San Francisco to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., about April 2. McCray, Second Lieut. William Jasper, jr. Air Corps Reserve, from Parksdale Field, La., to Denton, Tex., _January 2. Redus, Second Lieut. James Leary, Infantry Reserve, promoted to first lieutenant, January 2. Patrick, Second Lieut. Bream C., Field Artillery, assigned to Fort Myer, Va., upon completion of his present tour of foreign service. Leave of absence is granted to each of the following officers on or about the dates specified Bishop, Brig. Gen. Percy P., 2 days January 4. Thummel, Lieut. Col. Claude B, General Staff Corps, one day, Janu- ary 7. Shartle, Col. Samuel G. Coast Artillery Corps, 3 months and 17 days, January 13. Lowry, Capt. Ben H., Quartermaster Corps, one month, January 2. Wheeler, Maj. Lester M., Infantry, two months, January 3. Gill, Maj. William H., General Staff Corps, one day, December 31. Walker, Capt. Nelson M., General Staff Corps, one day, December 31. Walker, First Lieut. Harold E., Cav- alry, 2 months and 21 days, Janu- ary 1 McKenna, Capt. Joseph W., Infan- }1; 1 month and 18 days, February Hobson, Warrant Officer Henry, 3 months and 11 days, January 20. Morrow, Warrant Officer Mose D., 8 months and 28 days, January 3. NAVY ORDERS. Bureau of Navigation. Smith, Ensign Levering, orders De- cember 21 revoked; continue duty U. © 5. 5. Texas. Medical Corps. ° Workman, Lieut. (J. G.) John A, detached Naval Medical School, Wash- ington, D. C.; to treatment Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C, Deaths. Hughes, Lieut. Comdr, Frank Alex- ander (Medical Corps), retired, died December 23, 1934, at Lexington, Ky. Wilson, Chief Machinist Samuel Au- gustus, died December 23, 1934, at Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif, MARINE CORPS ORDERS. .~ Betts, Maj. James E., orders to Ma- rine barracks, Quantico, Va., for duty with the Fleet Marine force, modified to Marine barracks, Naval Proving Factory, Indian Head, Md., to report not later than January 11. Metcalf, Maj. Clyde H., on January 2 detached Marine barracks, navy yard, Washington, D. C., to headquar- ters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C, Presnell, Capt. Raymond T. d tached headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., ordered to his home and retired on April 1. ‘The following-named officers have .. been promoted to the grades indicated, subject to confirmation, on December 27 with rank from the dates shown opposite their names. . MONEY TO LOAN. PRIVATE PARTY HAS SUFFICIENT SUMS to loan on 1st. 3nd and 3rd trusts on owner-occupled dwellings in D. C., repay- able in small monthly payments. Loans negotisted on auto. chattels and to_re- lgnslhl. parti Address Box 313-2, Star office. o ONEY TO LOAN, FIRST TRUST ONLY. 'Eaz fincu:c:?dcgladfim Property must be N o 3 WALSHE, INC. 107 Eye 8t. N.W. National 209! 301 : TR B - 3303 R. 1 Ave. €N WO FIDI 'Y PLAN CORP. .—Credit service; courteous, reasona prompt. Phone National 6150. o ERMS LOW COST—EASY T SERVICE CORPORATION Woobward Bids .. 15th and H Sts. N.W. Phone Natl. 2003. WANTED—MONEY. OF $1.500. GOOD SECURITY: rAenEg)Albleoxl!t interest. Address ?ax 266-2, Star office. vErn 1.0 FOR 1 1a; dwelling, Md. ¢ %0adtrees Box B62°Z. Star ofce. Securits near D. OWNER Jarge suburban store Groc yeas 'ANTS $3.. .00 1st TRUST ON e el Houi'ss Co. for 5 years at X T © Address Box 2812 Star office. GOV'T CLERK. %300. FAIR WANTED—BY security. _repsid ie S piareat 8008, St = FIRST _TRUST FOR AN _ON 3 first-class con- fFable e m"-‘}:’?;n tection. ‘Ad- 35-2. "Star office. : VIEWS AND REVIEWS HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION. By Thornton Wilder. New York: Harper & Brothers. HE unexpectedness of Thorn- ton Wilder and the long in- tervals between his books con- tribute to making a new book by him a literary event. Those who have read the enigmatic and symbolic Peruvian romance, “The | Bridge of San Luis Rey,” and the Greek-patterned tale of “The Woman of Andros” will anticipate in “Heav- en's My Destination” similar delicacy | of style and far-away setting. They will at first be disappointed, until they have caught the spirit of this differ- ent type of fiction, different yet like the other tales in screening beneath the surface story a profound allegory. The title page bears, in explanation of the title, the “doggerel verse which children of the Middle West were ac- customed to write in their school- books” as follows: “George Brush is my name; America's my nation; Ludington’s my dwelling place, And Heaven's my destination.” George Brush is a text book sales- man in the rural Middle West. He is more than that. He is a primitive Baptist. an ardent soul-saver, being aware that he lives in a wicked world, | which, however, he does not at all | understand. He is a pacifist, a de- | votee of Gandhi even to the extent of | a vow of voluntary poverty, a total abstainer who also frowns on tobacco, a firm believer in the American home. That puffy-faced Margie McCoy, with | the “fine head of orange, brown and | black hair,” thinks “he's nuts” and | that the cashier and president of the bank in Armina, Okla., where he goes | to draw out his savings of which he | is ashamed and to refuse interest, | | think he is almost a criminal, matter | |to him not at all. “I didn't put my- self through college for four years and go through a difficult religious conversion in order to have ideas like | other people’s,” he says. George Brush acquires & criminal record soon enough, quite innocently, | but it dges not prevent his further i/ pursuit of souls. His revivalistic ef- forts are not carried on in churches, but in shoddy hotels and boarding | houses, corner general stores, jails, | bawdy houses, on the street. Good- ness is his single-minded aim, but he knows and cares nothing about com- mon sense. He insists, for the good of his own soul, on marrying the woman he has seduced, though she has no desire to be made into “an | honest woman.” This experience is | responsible for the loss of his faith. | | But he does not lose his frankness and | |tells the Rev. Dr. Bowie that one | thing which “shows that there is no God is that he allows such foolish people to be ministers.” George Brush | is not an imitation of any other char- | acter in fiction, but at every stage in i his vear’s journeyings he reminds us of the seventeenth century Don Quixote, with his crusade against materialism, his watching of his armor over night, his rescuing of dis- tressed damsels, his battles with wind- | mills, wineskins and flocks of sheep. | Don Quixote and George Brush are I both either crazy or too idealistically | sane for the world in which they | have to live. * ok ok % THE BRITISH ATTACK ON UNEM- PLOYMENT. By A. C. C. Hill, jr., and Isador Lubin. Washing- ton. D. C.: The Brookings Insti- tution. DR EDWIN G. NOURSE, director of the Institute of Economics, un- der the auspices of which this volume | is published. states in the preface that | the manuscript was prepared before | Dr. Lubin became United States com- missioner of labor statistics and Dr. Hill assumed a connection with the National Recovery Administration. Both authors have studied their prob: lem at first hand in Great Britain. | Their book is one of the most timely of the many timely works published during the past year by the Brookings Institution and should be of great assistance to all those struggling with the problem of unemployment in this country. “Policies of unemployment | relief, formulated in a period when a | fourth of our working population has been unemployed, have unavoidably taken the form of emergency meas- | ures. Mcre and more, however, the | conclusion that no temporary plan will suffice is gaining ground.” Unless our country is inclined to accept the cynical advice of the British pub~ Ncist, Sir Ernest Benn, to “keep away | from England” in studying unemploy- ment, advice which the authors of this book do not indorse, it may learn | much of both positive and negative vaiue from Great Britain's varied ex- periences. Tn describing and assessing the at- tacks on many fronts made by Great Britain on unemployment, the au- thors divide their subject into four parts, dealing, respectively, with back- ground, Britain’s efforts to find work for her unemployed, her methods of providing the means of subsistence and evaluation of those methods. “When the British worker is deprived of his wages because of illness, health | insurance provides him with the | means for maintenance and medical attention; when he becomes incapable of work because of industrial accident or disease, workmen's compensation assures him of a minimum income; when he becomes too old to work, he receives a pension, and when he is unemployed, he is aided by a compli- cated tangle of services popularly, though frequently without justifica- tion, called the ‘dole system.’” British methods of providing for the unem- ployed include many co-ordinated de- vices, among them contributory un- employment insurance, non-contribu- tory relief to insured members, poor relief, employment exchanges, relief works, machinery for retraining the unemployed, moving them from one area to another and stimulating their emigration. In the administration of these various schemes the national and local governments, trade unions and private industry assist. Employ- ment exchanges are handled by local employment committees, and a valu- able development of the system is to be found in the juvenile advisory committees for assisting boys and girls from 14 to 18 in the choosing and finding of jobs. In the evaluation sec- tion, or critique of British methods, the authors discuss the charges that ‘the dole” method has permitted num- bers of “good risks” to escape the payment of premiums and numbers not strictly “unemployed” to receive benefits, and, most important of all, that it has interfered with the “func- tioning of industry and lowered the morale of the working population.” * %X ¥ % PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATIVE OR- GANIZATION AND ADMINIS- TRATION. By W. F. Willoughby. ‘Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution. THE Institute for Government Re- search of the Brookings Institu- tion, of which Dr, Willoughby was di- rector 1016-1082, hes salready pub- i { | cameral THORNTON WILDER, WHOSE —By SARAH BOWERMAN NEW NOVEL, “HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION.” HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED. tion” and “Principles of Judicial Ad- ministration.” The present volume completes the series, which has great value for students and practitioners of public administration. The author says: “The three volumes, taken to- gether, thus represent an attempt to examine the whole organization of government, s it presents itself in the United States.” The subject is treated in three parts: “The Legislative Branch as One of the Grand Divisions of Government,” “The Structure and Composition of Legislatures” and “Or- ganization and Procedure.” Such problems as the legislature in relation to the electorate, the legislature in re- lation to the executive, the legisiature in relation to the administration, which have practical and current im- portance, are fully analyzed. Dr. Willoughby does not preserve an aloof, entirely scholarly attitude, but frankly gives his own views on contro- | versial matters. For example: “From | every standpoint, moral or material, | it would seem desirable that members of legislative bodies shoul, in all cases, prefer the general to the special interests whenever the two are in conflict,” and “In default of this (a | system of legislative leadership in the | legislative branch), however, the as- sumption of leadership by our Chief Executives has undoubtedly brought about an improvement in practical workings of our political system.” Some of -the organization problems discussed are the unicameral or bi- legislature, the committee system, bill procedure, with special ap- propriation bill procedure; leadership under party organization, legislative aids, such as legislative reference and bill-drafting services, and organiza- ion and procedure in the States. The verage citizen may find in this book a vast amount of information about the structure and workings of his Government, * ok ok CLOSED AND DISTRESSED BANKS. A Study in Public Administration. By Cyril B. Uprham and Edwin Lamke. Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution. YEAR ago the Institute of Eco- nomics of the Brookings Institu- tion published ‘“Current Monetary Issues,” by Leo Pasvolsky, the first in a series of “current studies of signi- ficant developments in the financial system of the United States.” This present volume is the second in the series and is closely related with the first. The monetary changes which Dr. Pasvolsky discussed coincided with the collapse of the country's banking system, which is the subject of the study by Mr. Upham and Mr. Lamke. The closing of the banks in March, 1933, was the culmination of a period of distress. Then fcllowed reorganiza- tion, or obsequies, processes not yet complete. This volume is a study of the conditions under which some banks were reopened and licensed to resume normal banking operations, some were reorganized, and some were liquidated and placed in receivership. The authors state that “any present appraisal of the results of the Federal | Government's policy of direct financial aid to banks must be very tentative, as the full results are not yet ap- parent,” but they believe that de- positors have benefited by R. F. C. loans, not through s greater return, but through the making of payments available sooner and through savings in the cost of liquidation. As to the general effect of R. F. C. aid, “it Is undeniable that the R. F. C. has bol- stered the capital structure of the banking system. But this is scarcely sufficient justification for the imposi- tion of the degree of control which would follow from s failure of the banks to amortize this new capital at the rate of 5 per cent a year.” * kK X ADMINISTRATIVE LEGISLATION AND ADJUDICATION. By Fred- erick F. Blachly and Miriam E. Oatman. Washington, D. C.: Brookings - A FOG of bewildering confusion” has settled -over the structure of our Government because of the es- tablishment of more and more admin- istrative commissions, possessing a combination of administrative, legis- lative and judicial powers. Such commissions have seemed necessary because of the inability of the legis- lative body, “a large deliberative body, a cross-section of the public, and not a professional group of public admin- istrators,” to keep up with the rapid development of the country in industry and other fields. All of the “confu- sion and uncertainty” in connection with special commissions has'‘“obvi- ously been accentuated by the new administrative agencies created to deal with the present emergency.” The authors of this book, published under the auspices of the Institute for Gov- ernment Research of the Brookings Institution, show the reasons for this overdevelopment of administrative leg- islation and adjudication, and suggest how order could be brought out of the present chaos. Six hundred adminis- trative authorities and 60 different tri- | lished two other extensive works by I hundreds of thousands of cases, In | him, “Principles of Public Administra- | which individuals protest what they | | consider the violation of their private rights by the Government, seem to constitute an unnecessarily compli- cated and unwieldy system of machin- ery. The suggestions of the authors for changes, after their extensive | study, are embodied in 10 para- graphs, covering both legislative and | judicial functions of administrative | | agencies. The system they suggest would still be complicated; that is probably unavoidable, but it is more | coherent and logical than the pres- ent arrangement, which is the result | of a process of accretion. | * ok X % THE FABLE OF ECONOMY ISLE | (Told in Words of One Syllable). By Max Shoop. Paris: A. Jourde. \'OT a children’s book, though the + Y “one syllable” annotation might suggest that. In fact, the statement | that this allegory is told in words of one syllable is itself allegori vious ideas with clarity, but they are not monosyllabic. { cated “to the idea that two and two make four.” It begins “Once upon a time.” as all fables should begin, and tell the story of Johy Doe and Richard Roe. who were chance companions in a storm at sea, managed to reach shore in a battered life boat and dropped | exhausted on the beach. When they ! recovered some vitality, they discov- | ered that they were on a Robinson | Crusoe type of island, uninhabited, but fertile, and began, on opposite sides of a river, to work out their ideas | of a new existence. Trans-river re- lations began when John returned from a trip into the interior and ex- | changed some nipa leaves and timber. | which_he had brought for a house, with Dick for some fish and fruit. | Later Dick rented tools John had made, in return for more fruit and | fish. John was energetic, Dick rather in- dolent. Results of this difference in temperament were soon apparent. John acquired more possessions, lived better and had the advantage in all the | bargains with Dick. John even in- vented robots to do his work. But { when Dick began to learn John's economic philosophy, trouble ensued | and once or twice Dick drove a hard bargain. Estrangement came when Dick got into debt heavily to John, but could find no way to pay, because John had all the gold nuggets (gold | had been discovered and the island had gone on a gold basis), all the | wheat, tobacco, sugar, gasoline and | machinery he wanted, and refused to take anything in payment which | Dick could produce. They arrived at |an entente by agreeing to divide the industries so that each would | produce certain things, part of which would be exchanged for the products of the other. The moral on the reverse of the last page of the fable is hardly necessary: “Pro- duce efficiently—but let the other fel- low make and sell you something in exchange!” }the words are simple and convey ol * k ok SOUNDING HARBORS. By Eleanor Mercein (Mrs. Kelly). Illustrated by Amy Hogeboom. New York: Harper & Bros. ‘WO harbors of the Adriatic are the settings for these six tales, which have all the charm of style and atmosphere familiar to readers of Eleanor Mercein’s Basque stories. One of the harbors is Corfu, where en- tered “the first adventurous prows of Phoenician trading galleys” and “the bold-questing pinnaces of the Argo- nauts.” The other is ancient Raguso, “called now by its even more ancient Who A The Romance Simmons TmB name is generally understood to be a derivation of the name Simon, & Christian name introduced into England by the Norman conquest. Becoming itself a surname, it also be- came thé parent 6f many others, such bunals for'the adjudication’ of the VasSim; Sims;Simes; Simson, Simpsons The book is dedi- | Slavic name Dubrovnik or Forest City.” The Adriatic littoral is the haunt of contending winds, of which the two dominant are known in Dal- matia as the Bora and the Jugo, “the first, a wind out of the north, sud- den and terrible as Serbs in battle, a war horse of a wind . . . the other, suave of caprice and brightly perilous, so that many a good ship, lingering along the shore where Ulysses also lingered, goes to its sudden doom with the breath of flowers in its salls.” From these two winds are named the two sections into which the six tales are divided. The American Miss Endicott, the! younger. a disguise, perhaps, under which the author herself hides, ap- pears in several of the stories. “Slava” tells of the celebration of the Slava, or saint’s day, by the Kranik family, comfortable Maika, her husband Ante, an old one-legged soldier, their re- maining unmarried daughter Toush- ka, their son Nikola from America and his American friend, Miss Endi- cott, at their terraced home, with the little food shop, on top of the cliff overlooking the Adriatic, and how Maika promotes the marriage of her son. “The House Orasac” is the story of the recluse Gospodja Ivana Stanic and “her orphan” Annushka in the House Orasac and how the young American couple Alan and Astaire make the acquaintance of the great lady and are present, behind | the listening screen, when the King! of Serbla visits her. ‘“Michaelmas Moon"” completes the romance of Sonya Endicott and Nikola Kranik, one of the conservative American Endicotts and, as Aunt Sophia Endi- cott from Boston calls him, “a for-! eigner, from some unpronounceable Balkan country one never heard of— socially speaking — Yugoslavia or | Czechoslovakia or some such place. Not even a noble foreigner.” The remaining stories, “Two Lovers Pass,” “Corfiot Idyll” and “Ile de Mort,” are shorter pieces. Mrs. Kelly has re- cently traveled and remained for some time in Yugosiavia. * ¥ * X | JOAN OF ARC AND HER COM- | PANIONS. By Jehanne d'Orliac. Translated by Elisabeth Abbott. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 'HE miraculous power of Joan of Arc, not oversusceptible mystics but overhardened soldiers, has always been the subject of puzzled discussion and tentative theory. Some call her | saint; some call her epileptic. Shake- speare scorned her as a camp follower in “Henry VI, part 1”; Voitaire treated | her even more vituperatively in his | burlesque poem, “La Pucelle.” The French biographer, Jehanne d'Orliac, author of “Prancis 1" “The Lady of | Beauty: Agnes Sorel” and “The Moon | fistress: Diane de Poitiers,” writes ith as much enthusiasm as any re- ligious worshiper of Joan the Maid. but she considers her not a “stained- glass figure,” only a human being moved by unusual patriotism and un- usual faith. She attempts to interpret Joan through the opinions of her com- panions. The biography follows, how- ever, & more or less conventional chronological course and other au- | thorities than Joan's contemporaries | have doubtless been drawn upon, | though no bibliography is given. | The life of Joan of Arc falls into | three periods, corresponding with the presence of three different groups of ! captains as her associates. In the first | period, that of the departure for Nancy and the coronation at Rheims, she was surrounded by adherents of the House of Anjou. From the coronation to the ! battle of Lagny, she was deserted by the Angevins and left to the evil offices of their rivals, the followers of the | favorite, La Tremoille, who worked for her ruin. In the last period, deserted by her former protectors, she was | given over to adventurers, and her fate rapidly came upon her. Some of | the companions of these three periods }she trusted, often mistakenly, others she distrusted but could not escape. Of them all she was the victim. They served political parties, of whose imacmnatiuns she was ignorant; she |served only God and the King. As | Jehanne d'Orliac tells the story of the | brief rise of Joan to a glory she did | not seek and her swift fall to tragedy, |and analyzes the conflicting political | currents, national and international, | we feel the inevitability of the result. | A deeply religious and sincere, ignor- | ant peasant girl was no match for the astute politicians, secular and | clerical, of the Prench court and army. | Bernard Shaw has emphasized this | inevitability and the irony that the victim of one period becomes the saint | of another, in the best of his plays, | “St. Joan.” e | STORMY ROAD. By Thomas Rowan. New York: Ives Washburn. GRUESOME scene begins this story of family strife in a Ten- nessee Valley cabin. A terrified 7-} year-old boy sees his father sprawl- ing dead on the hearth, while his older brother, the murderer, crouches in a corner beyond the firewood, his mother is backed against the wall, holding & butcher knife beneath her gingham apron, and his sister cowers behind the bed with its crazy quilt and puffy pillows. “Stormy Road” tells of the long chain of events and, even more, of the conflicting character qualities which have brought about this tragic end. It is, in its raw material and harshly realistic method, a story such as T. S. Stribling might have written. - * KERKHOVEN'S THIRD EXIST- | ENCE. By Jacob Wassermann. re You? of Your Name BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. also Symonds, Symondson, Sym, Symm, Symes, Simond, Simonds and Simmons. There are at least adozen other variations which are attributed to this name Simon. The coat of arms here shown is ascribed to John Simmons, who came to America about 1746. He was born in Scotland about 1712. On arriving in this country, in Philadelphia, he set about to establish his future home and decided to settle in Prince Ed- ward County, Va. He was twice mar- ried. Tradition in the family states that he was himself a Revolutionary soldier in addition to his 20 sons, all of whom were in the armies of Vir- ginia and North Carolina, except one, who, because of his Tory inclinations, was disinherited by his father. John Simmons moved to Georgia at the close of the Revolution, having received a tract of land for his services. ‘The Simmons family has produced men and women of outstanding achievement in America. The name has been ‘prominent in the political and economic, edueational, industrial 4nd artistic realms of American life, (Copright, 10853 [} novel of universal humanity, World's Illusion.” He also wrote “The Triumph of Youth,” a fantastic medi- eval tale; “Wedlock,” “Faber, or the Lost Years,” “The Jews of Zirndorf,” all novels, and the autobiographic: work, “My Life as German and Jew.” “Kerkhoven's Third Existence,” the translators say, is quasi-autobiograph- ical; Kerkhoven is obviously Wasser- mann himself. The story is typically German. The chief characters are Joseph Kerkhoven, a neurologist and psychologist; his wife Marie, the famous novelist Alexander Hersog and his second wife Bettina. These four characters are brought together in Kerkhoven's sanatorium on the Lake of Constance, where the “third ex- istence” reaches fulfillment. The first and second existences are described in the previous novels of the series, “The Maurizius Case” and “Etzel Andergast.” The style of all Wasser- mann’s work is naturalistic and in- volved and his thought is strongly influenced by the Freudian psychology. * * X X THE DOCTOR IN HISTORY. By Howard W. Haggard. New Haven: Yale University Press. THE history of medicine is a “grim tale of man'’s ignerance and hope, his life and death.” It goes back to the savage, who originated, Dr. Hag- gard says, the principle of nearly everything of value in medicine today, | in addition to many other things long since discarded and still others which | is! should be discarded. “Disease older than man.” Dinosaurs had broken bones, probably the result of some gigantic struggle; saber-toothed tigers had toothache, always a hig one; the bones of other prehistoric monsters show traces of rheumatism and abscesses. preceded men, and men have been obliged to fight them without ceasing through all the historic ages. Dr. Haggard, associate professor of ap- plied physiology in Yale University, traces the practice of medicine and surgery from the Cro-Magnon medi- cine man, who treated disease by deal- ing with spirits and ghosts, to the modern conquest of yellow fever, diphtheria and diabetes and the ms-l covery of the value of vitamins. The practice of medicine in ancient Egypt by the physician Imhotep, who was also the priest, included control of the evil spirits of disease. Some of the temple papyri of Egypt, recently dis- covered by archeologists, describe va- rious diseases and their treatment— the earliest medical books. Medicine among the Arabs, under whose pat- ronage all science flourished, through the Middle Ages, when the black death was the most dreaded pestilence; the transfer of European medical know- ledge to America and its development there are all part of the story. This brief and popular narrative of the place and value of the doctor in his- tory includes glimpses at every stage of parallel developments in other de- partments of human progress. The earlier periods of medical experi- mentation seem more adequately treated than the multifarious phases of present-day medicine. Books Received NON-FICTION. THE COMPLETE WINE BOOK. By Frank Schoonmaker and Tom Marvel. New York: Simon & Schuster. 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EW events since the signing of the treaty of Versailles have held the potentialities for the making or breaking of peace in Europe that are inherent in the Saar plebiscite on January 13. The Public Library presents a list of refer- ences to recent periedical literature on the subject. “The Powder-Keg of Europe.” The Saar—and Human Nature, by E. P. Dean. Harpers, 170:224-236. January, 1935. “Whatever the outcome—Germany or the League—it is apparent that even in this day and age man does not live on bread alone.” Saar Plebiscite, by M. W. Fodor. Amer- ican Mercury, 35:465-72. Decem- ber, 1934. “As the days draw nearer to the date of the plebiscite the situation re- mains unclear and not without poten- tial dangers.” . Fight for the Saar, by Leo Huberman. Scholastic, 25:19. November 24, 1934. “Whether one is superstitious or not, January 13 is a significant date. With- real reason, impartial observers (S So, disease bacteria | CHAPTER XXXVIIL NEW SORTIE. ELL, Osborne wasn't the | [ sort to waste a chance | like that,” Molly con-‘ tinued. “He’d start mak- | ing love to her right | away, and you can take it from me | that that’s just about what happened. 1 don't know how her husband (ound; out, but he evidently did. ‘T guess it knocked him clean off his balance, and since then he’s been walking around half drunk and three parts crazy. Doesn’t need much to | send a man like that over the edge, and when Nick said he was a friend of Osborne’s—" she paused. ‘ Jerry looked at her with admira- tion. “The girl has brains,” he marked. “There's no doubt about it. “It was Nick's idea in the first place,” protested Molly modestly. “I've only worked it out.” “You've worked it out jolly con vincingly, anyhow. Gad, I'm sorry for that wretched woman! She must ! have been leading a ghastly life.” “We must get hold of her again alone, somehow or other,” I said. 1 “If she's Osborne’s friend he may ' have told her quite a lot about him- |self. I'm certain she knows some- i thing or she wouldn't be so deadly scared.” | “Gowlland and that brute of a dog are enough to scare any one,” ob- jected Jerry. “All the same I'm en- tirely of your opinion. Another in- terview with the lady is distinctly in- dicated, and with the permission of the syndicate I'd like to handle the | job_myselt.” } “Well, you can’t make a bigger mess | of it than I did,” I observed, a trifle | bitterly. “It wasn't your fault, Nick,” Molly put out her hand and squeezed mine | comfortingly. { “I'm not blaming the lad,” said Jerry. “Still the fact remains that as | far as Mrs. G.'s concerned he seems to have torn it pretty badly. If we | want to get anything out of her we'll | have to approach her from a different | angle.” “What angle?” “Bluff,” returned Jerry. “It's my | strong suit as a diplomatist, I shall tell her that we've found out all about { her relations with Osborne. and that | unless she’s perfectly frank and an- | Swers our questions, we’re going to hand on the information to the po- lice. Seems a bit brutal, but that can't be helped.” We sat silent for a moment con- sidering his suggestion. “It sounds feasible” I admitted: “the chief objection is that after what happened yesterday I'm not overkeen | on your going up there by yourself. If his dog's too sick for work, that | lunatic’s quite capable of taking a pot | shot at you througzh the hedge.” | Jerry grinned. “I intend to be ex- j tremely wary. No one’s more pas- sionately fond of a whole skin than | I am, and there's not going to be any | charge of the ligh* brigade about this business. I mean to hang around un- til I've seen Gowlland safely off the premises. As for Fido, or whatever the brute’s name is —-" He slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a dainty-looking six-chamber revolver. “Where did you get that?>” I de- manded. “Borrowed it from Dawson,” was | the answer. “He sleeps with it under | |feel that the Saar has been aptly | named ‘The Powder-Keg of Europe.'” | Quandry in the Saar, by A. E. John- son.” New Outlook, 164:19-22. No- vember, 1934. “Torn by conflicting political pas- | stones, dominated by deep-rooted re- ligious convictions, the Saarois have | but one common anchor to the wind- ward, pamely, their racial homo- geneity, with Germany.” The Ides of January. by C. P. Thomp- sgn. 938|>hare. 139:442. December, 15, 1934. | *“The worst possible thing that could | happen would be a large majority vote and an attempt on the part of the League to detach communes on ! the basis of the voting or in any way | prolong the agony of the Saar uncer tainty.” | Before the Plebiscite in the Saar, by | Elizabeth Wiskemann. Ninteenth | Century, 116:627-639. December, 1934. “For the time being the whole im | pulse of Nazi energy is directed to- | ward the Saar, which has thus for a time become almost the pivot of Euro- pean affairs.” | The Riddle of S and Nation, tatesman December 15, 1934. | “The riddle of the Saar is as hard as the riddle of the Sphinx; no one | can tell what will happen.” Under the League. | The Fate of the Saar, by S. B. Fay. Current History, 41:399-406. Janu- ary, 1935. A careful review of the Saar prob- i lem, weighing the factors which make the outcome of the plebiscite of Janu- ary 13 both fateful for Europe and doubtful for the future of the terri- tory. Knox of the Saar, by H. T. Hopkin- son. Living Age, 347:230-3. No- vember, 1934. The New 8:893-4. the Saar. any one who cares to see a task of difficulty carried out with efficiency, detachment and without loss of a sense of humor.” Knox of the Saar, a Man on a Volcano, by Dorothy Thompson. Saturday Evening Post, 207:14-15. Novem- ber 10, 1934. “Just what will the Saar cost Europe and peace?” An excellent review of the whole Saar problem. To Be or Not to Be. Dare the Saar Vote for Freedom, by F. M. Isserman. Christian Cen- tury, 51:1453-5. November 14, 1934. “Not only does the injection of the issue of patriotism make impossible a clear-cut decision for or against the claims of the totalitarian state, but a reign of terror . . . envelops the Saar like a fog at sea.” What the Saar Really Wants, by Prince Hubertus Loewenstein. Con- temporary Review, 146:666-670. December, 1934. “The prospect of building a Ger- man model state on the Saar, an ex- ample for the rest of the 65,000,000 people within Germany, seems intol- erable to national Socialism. For this the Saar people who wish to retain the territory for the coming Reich.” The Saar on the Auction Block, by Philippe Soupault. New Republic, 81:182-184. December 26, 1934. “It is realized by workers, manufac- turers and business men alike that if the Saar re-enters Germany the press ent prosperity will be quickly trans- l!ormed into commercial ruin and widespread unemployment.” “He should get the sympathy ot| | reason, they are combating the will of | his pillow in case there’s a Communist rising.” “When do you propose to take the fleld?” I inquired. “As soon as the rain stops. It's been hopeless up to now. No one would go out working on a day like this.” “I believe it is clearing up a lttle,” remarked Molly. “By jove, you're right!” Jerry heaved himself from the bunk and, pushing open the skylight, peered out through the crack. “Wind’s shifted a oit west,” he an- nounced, “and it's getting lighter all round. I wouldn't be surprised if we were in for a fine evening.” “Well, here’s your chance” ex- claimed Molly. “If Gowlland's been shut up in the house ali day he's sure ‘w go out now!” | “Worth trying, anyhow,” agreed Jer | ry. “What are you two going to do2” “We're coming with you,” sald Molly. 1 want to have a look round the factory, and so does Nick.” “There’s not much to see.” | Jerry reached up for his shoes, | which he had placed on the rack to |dry. “The most interesting part is | the room I told you about, the one on the right, where I take it that Os- borne used to work. Like a big prison cell with a steel door and all serts of odd gadgets in the way of furnaces and sinks. If he’s left any clues be- hind him that's where they ought to be.” i “We'll have a good sea?:_ any- how,” I said. “By the way, I suppose it will be all right leaving Jimmy alone on the boat?” | “He won't be alone. I'm not taking George ashore. His foot's still sore | where that brute bit him.” | I leaned down and patted my res- cuer who, with his paw in a bandage, was anxiously contemplating our ace tivities, “Never mind, old man,” I said con- solingly. “When all this is over I'm going to buy you a large silver bowl to drink out of, with the date of the battle engraved round the rim.” | Jerry chuckled. “You needn't waste | your money. Fighting is ome of | George's two favorite hobbies.” | He did up his remaining shoe lace | and, pushing back the sliding door of the fo'c’sle, addressed himself to Jimmy. “We're all going for a walk, James, so you'll be left in command. Feel equal to the responsibility?” | *“Quite, sir,” came back the crisp answer. “You should say ‘Aye. aye’ to be | strictly nautical. By the way, the | rain’s stopping. so if you'd rather you !can sit up on the deck and admire the scenery. I don't suppose we shall be more than two hours.” He jumped up and. donning an old sou'wester. edged his way aleng to- ward the cabin door. “Shove on your bibs and tuckers, children,” he added, “and I'll get the dinghy ready.” | Five minutes lat with a thin drizzle still dappling the surface of the water, we were pulling in toward the small natural beach off which the Seagull was anchored. We grounded a yard or two from our destination, but by standing up and using his oar as a pole, Jerry succeeded in forcing the boat’s nose well up the bank, and scrambling ashore, I helped Molly disembark “Better get her a shade farther in* observed Jerry, following with the painter. “The tide will be up by the time we get back. and we don't want to have to wade out to her.” We dragged our little craft over the mud and made her fast just below high-water mark. Above where she lay the ground rose sharply in a steep, sandy bank, on top of which straggled a few stunted gorse bushes. | “Makes a nice bit of cover.” re- { marked our skipper, eying the latter approvingly. “You're not afraid of her being { stolen?” inquired Molly. He shook his head. “I was thinking of our friend. Gowlland. If he was taking a stroll in this direction and happened to spot her, it's quite likely he'd shove his foot through her side. Nothing makes people so spiteful as jealousy and bad whisky.” “Keep that well in vour mind.” I | admonished him. “Unless you're quite | sure —" | Bang! | The distant report of a gun rang out clearly across the saltings and, ! with a loud rustling of wings, one or | two startled birds rose hastily from | the surrounding grass. “There you are” I continued. | “That’s probably Gowlland venting | his spleen on some innocent rabbit. If you hurry up you may reach the | farm before he gets back.” | “I'll cut straight across from here,” he replied. “There's a path of sorts that joins the lane about half way |along. It will save me at least 10 minutes.” | He paused. “If I'm not around when you come out, don't bother to wait for me. Take Molly back to the | boat, and when I show up I'll give | you a shout from the shore. I don’t want to tie myself down to any exact time.” Jumping up the bank, he set off quickly through the rough grass and, at a more leisurely pace, Molly and I turned our steps in the direction of the factory. Nick and Molly walk into a terrible | trap, tomorrow. — MAYOR EVADES SERVICE OF ORDER IN POWER ROW Huntington, Ind., Executive De- termined to Furnish Munici- pal Electricity to Homes. By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, Ind., January 5.— C. W. Bangs, mayor of Huntington, enjoined by the Circuit Court from carrying out his program of furnish- 1 ing electricity generated at the muni- cipal light plant to Huntington homes, continued his successful evasion of at- tempts to serve the order on him. The injunction was obtained by the Northern Indiana Power Co. Bangs, an attorney, has been en- gaged in a controversy with the utility company for more than a year. 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