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SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 20. 1931. TPART II.l 7 1 Mtif lkuld it trlti hi it 't New Books and Their Makers Mf ly SAMUEL BUTLER. A rt Conducted by PAUL JORDAN-SMITH Do Machines Serve Man? Is He Now Their Slave? The Questions Are Asked and Answered in Detail and With Illustrations in Mumford's Rook Family Flies From Russia; Writer Raps Her Policies 'Russian Woman Writes Thrilling Account Escape; English Journalist Justifies Her Fears BY PAIL JORDAN-SMITH 1 4 -v1 vKwr BY WILRIR NEEDIIAM ESCAPE FROM THE SOVIETS tions, had made a friendly call upon By Tatlana Tchernavln.

Dutton. MSdamea husband; the OOPU WINTER IN MOSCOW. By Mai TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION. By Lewis Mumford. Illustrated.

Harcourt, Brace. Lewis Mumford's magnificent vol colm Muggerldge. Little, Brown agents called and arrested him. And ahef Well, she unluckily objected. She even denied thst he was guilty of conspiracy, so she also waa arrested.

The child was left to shift it Co. ume amplifies the studies of Marx, Aside from the account of Casa nova escape from the Lead. I Ocdde. Veblen and Chase. It is a history of the machine through krydw of no more thrilling story of for himself.

Finally Mme. Tchernavln was re selfish reasons, to admit the world, is altering and to allow it this trans formation. MACHINES RAN WILD Rising out of European society'! collapse (a sudden turn from Ufa values to pecuniary In which time as well as money became a com modlty) the machine took on the form of a destroying dragon during the paleotechnlc phase, though It was the rush for fortunes that made the dragon, not the machine. Power, time, speed, so-called efficiency, increase In enercv. monev thea he.

Its type than this of Mme. Tcherna vlri. The outside of this book does the centuries and a crystallization of Ideas about the machine and lis not engage the eye and It has leased. Her husband had been sent to the prison csmp at Kern, on the White Sea. Twice a year she might apply for permission to visit him.

And It was on the first visit that cnect on man and man's effect Upon It. For If man Invent. th not been heralded by pressure pub Hetty. I picked It up with the ex machine, he also created the civili pectatlon of dismissing It In fifty words. But I couJd not put it the plan to escape was made.

On sation tnat made It possible; and he built UD a ClVlIilktlon tnrnuoh the second, by reason of his knowl down. It has the palpitant feel of reality. It communicates hope the machine wherein mankind has came ends In themselves Instead of louna itself in bloody chaos of war, physical starvation and cultural and fear. When the trap is sprung edge of marine zoology, Tchernavln had been allowed to move up under the Arctic Circle to another fishery. And it was from there that father, mother and child sailed, rowed, walked, and swam to freedom In stagnation, economic disruntinn an It the reader who Is caught and hurled into a suffocating tunnel.

a means to further progress: and the result was a criminal waste: all gains In speed and efficiency were frittered away by inept production, lack of proper distribution of the fruits of toil, and failure to build social reactionary backwash. There The, walls close In: the reader pants tiki oeen too mucn loose talk of the failure of the machine, of what It has done to man. The machine never failed and never did anvthin Finland. SO THEY FLED up a social organization with faclll to man save what he iinwrf it for air, and knows that It he will but, persist he will find it. Surely this must be the wsy to light and sunshine and freedom I FIRST THEY BELIEVED Mme.

Tchernavln was a teacher back in 1918. and she wu the moth er of a newborn son. Her hus ties ror nandiing this startling out put of the necessities and luxuries of life. Without rational planning and In the hands of children playing with toys, the machine ran wild. in.

Mme. Tchernavln tells her story simply and without hysterical outcries. It is circumstantial, detailed and convincing. As their feet are torn by sharp rocks; your feet bleed. The ice in the air bites you.

As they drsw near the Finnish border you bawl was professor of toology in one of the Russian universities. The eptness. overproduction, extrava gance, cornering of enormous prof-Its by a few Individuals all parts of human failure In the use of the ma. chine broueht the nainthni can scarcely breathe. When the do; man failed, and man did crude, Idiotic things to the machine.

THE AGE OF WASTE The eotechnlc phase of the modem world runs from about the years 1000 to 1750. During that time, machines were being Invented, constructed and foreshadowed and, sometimes, actually put Into use, but never on a mass scale. With the rise of coal mining, the paleotech-nlc Dhase waa ushered In tw an revolution had not frightened either family la safe within four friendly walls, fed and comfortable after, of them, for they had been brought up among liberals and felt that the BLAIR NILES AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON years of cruel hsrdshlp, you sit back phase of civilization to a point where anyone could throw monkey wrench overthrow of autocracy meant the in your chair exhausted but happy. f''i'NI "Mrl Pun novel of the Quiche Longmans.) Zora Neale Hurston tells the life story or an Alabama Indians of Guatemala during the period of the Spanish Conquest Negro In the novel. "Jonaha Oourd Vine" (Uppincott.) You have had a real experience.

into tne gears and it would no longer make much difference. If for no other reason, read this as the most exciting adventure tale explosion that violently disrupted LAUGHTER AND VIOLENCE THEY NEED TAMING But the result at tha naiiyi. of trie yer. tne world and left a pall of smoke and srime over lta clean lanria and A JOURNALIST TALKS Gossip of the Book World I'll Be Judge You Be Jury BY PAUL JORDAN-SMITH clear waters, fouling the air of Eu Mr. Mugceridge.

correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, went to saws and the lustiness of free flesh. This John Pearson Is a real, happy-go-lucky fellow, high yaller and high-stepping and ready with a sermon, his fists or his fetching ways rope ana America. The age of waste and filth and robber barons followed an am wherein va Russia a liberal, prepared to find the good things. But he found that still living, for the paleotechnlc has he could not report the facts. There with women.

Out cf the sweat and 4 was a strict censorship. He had to Ambrose Blerce once compiled a thin volume called "Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Lit ovenappra tne neotechnlc phase, and some of the features of this new erA are actually belne used ta leave in order to write. And he has JONAH'S OOURD VINE. By Zora Neale Hurston. Uppincott.

With this first novel, a young American Negress has taken a giant stride Into the little group of writers who are doing valid work among the darkles of our South. Born In the first Incorporated Negro town In America, she grew up in the environment into which she leads John Pearson when his native Georgia becomes too hot for him and he goes to Florida. After done a book of amusing indirections, erary Faults," which every writer should keep on his desk. I know tables and allegories. He laughs at pink tourists and serious thinkers carry us back into the old days.

Electric power, a clean use of natural elements and altent offlrinnt. phase, disastrous as It was, had lta valuable lessons; for It was a period of transition and It showed men the way to order out of disorder; by Its very violence and destruction of human life and human values, it pointed out a better way for mea to go. Technics must be broughl into harmony with cultural and so. cial movements forward, for tha machine Is only a sequence of in. struments, to be used as they may further mans life, and to be dis.

carded or curtailed when they have no excuse for existence save to llm. it or spoil man's development. Ma. chines will always do that whea used as an end in themselves or to bolster piracy; In the right hands, a machine never reverses itself and threatens organized society. PULITZER TRIZE AWARD The PullUer Prize for the most distinguished American novel of the year has been awarded Caroline Miller of Georgia for her "Lamb in His Bosom," a Harper book, which was rather loudly praised on this page at the time of Hi publication.

The biography award went to Prof. Tyler Dennett. lor his "John Hay;" Robert Hillyer won the poetry prize. IDENTITY REVEALED that I need It, for my daily sins are many: I suspect that many machines, is transforming the world. others would profit from its con dawn of freedom.

Both of them set to work with high hearts. Par-lovsk was their headquarters; while he taught at the Agronomical In stltute, she worked at the Palace Museum. But while these people had thus far been unmolested, their salaries did not enable them to eat sufficient food. Health was being undermined. They accepted extra work.

"For translating a long novel of Balzac I received Just enough paper money to buy two pounds of black bread; and my fee for writing a children's story in a magazine edited by Gorki amounted to the price of three lumps of sugar." Even so. they were happy through all the famine period, from 1918 to 1921. Then trouble de-scendrd. THEN TROUBLE CAME For in 1925 "the government failed to get from the peasants as much grain as it had reckoned upon and the government decided tha the peasants were an obstacle to development of socialism." From that time until 1630 all nonparty members were under suspicion. Intellectuals and specialists of every kind were watched.

In September. 1930. forty-eight of these men, accused of btlng wreckers, were shot. Unfortunately one of these, eighteen months before the accusa stant use. It has Just been reissued by the Union Library set oaca oy tne war and by business men and politicians who do not want to BO forward, for ta cdvanro on the lookout for signs of progress; laughs at our misinformation about Russia.

At capitalist papers who overstate and abuse; at red papers that are credulous. He swears at the treatment given foreign Journalists in Russia: but most of all he swears at Bernard Shaw's gullibility. And he tries to give his impression of the dlctstorship of the proletariat as a whole. To do this means the destruction of obsolete poverty of his mother's life, he steps Into a good thing when he goes to work for her old master of the days when she was a slave; but he steps Into more than that. Women are waiting for him, as they will wait for those rare men who walk the earth, incarnations of an ancient symbol There Is little Lucy, who is always with him, even after she dies; but there are others, and he cannot pass them by.

He becomes a preacher, and his congregation proves a rich field Indeed too rich a field for any peace of mind. But John was never meant for peace-fulness; and he lived and died in the violence that was his nature. The only peace he ever made was with a God who must have smiled on him. w. N.

A PRACTICAL BANKER is the way in which Mr. machines wherein there is Investment, of obsolete economic ideas whereby many men persist in living, unaware of changes or unwilling, for James P. Warburg describes himself in the opening chapter of his a course in anthropology under that splendid teacher, Franz Boas, she made it her business to learn even more thoroughly the things her youthful life and inherited instincts had taught her. She lived and worked among Negroes, collecting data, and none of It was dry. Her novel is a natural out-growth of her own life and of the keen eyes with which she has seen her people.

The noval is alive with Negro laughter and violence and old "Hortus Sanltatls," the first Latin edition, nrinted hw The mystery surrounding the identity of Isak Dinesen, who! best-seller, "Seven Oothic Talcs." has all its readers In a ferment of curiosity, has been revealed by Smith Hass, the publishers. Baroness Blixen of Rungstedlund, Denmark, is the author. Dinesen was her maiden name. Much of her life the Baroness has spent on a plantation in British East Africa But she wrote her book at the Mainz In 1491; one of the very few "The Money Muddle" (Knopf.) Only thirty-eight years of age, Mr. Warburg is nevertheless a man of more than common experience.

He was born to finance. His father, Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Locb was one of the organizers of the Federal Reserve system and was one of the few bankers who warned the public. In the early he has thought It best to write as a novelist: "Thus the episodes in my book are truth imaginatively expressed and the characters real people imaginatively described." Mug-geridge has made no attempt to hide his violent prejudice; but the reader will yield to him more read WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN manor of Rungstedlund, which is days of 1929, of coming disasters of ily who has first read the account of Tatlana Tchernavln. identical with the inn which Mme. speculation.

In the first third of received, printed and bound the book, which is called "Exploring the Upper Atmosphere," by Dorothy Fisk. EDITH OLIVIER Viking Press announces for fall publication Edith Olivier's biography of Alexander Cruden. Cruden is famous for his Concordance to the Bible, but on looking up the facts of his life Miss Olivier (author of the; discovered him one of tha most unique and fascinating figures of eighteenth century England. TWO MAGAZINES In the May number of Kaleldo-KTanh. a Texaj mairazin nf vprcp vwjwca Known, me othef book to note is "Le Pastlssler Fran, cois the 1655 Elzevir edition of the worlds most famous cookery book, of which only twenty-nine copies are known to exist.

Romantic Mexico LEGENDS AND DANCES OF OLD MEXICO. By Norma Sehwan. dener and Averil Tibbela. Barnes, Detailed directions and diaeramt Balk passed on her drive from Flsi-nore to Copenhagen. It was once Georgina Hogarth, and she, in turn left it to Dickens's youngest son.

his book Mr. Warburg tells, in layman's language, of the basic elements of the money mechanism and -NINE NOTABLE PORTRAITS the home of Johannes Ewald. the Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, who THE LIFE OF OUR LORD. By Charles Dickens. Simon St Schuster.

It seems incredible to a reviewer that in 1934 he should be re attempts to clarify the muddles died in London last December. In BY MILTON MERLIN his will Sir Henry expressed the about central bank, managed currency and the different kinds of wish that the matter of nublica together with music and some curi. currency. The remainder of the book tells the story of what has been done in this country since March, 1933, and makes some sug tion be left to the wishes of the majority of his surviving heirs. And thus it comes about that a first edition of Charles Dickens is ous old native Illustrations, make this mingled descriDtion nf lppenria NINE ETCHED FROM LIFE.

By Ludwlg. McBrlde. who prefers to be regarded as a historian, is In effect a portrait painter. In this field he enjoys a wide reputation, and the reasons for his popularity are fully one notes among other distlnamlshed and dances of great value. It will contributors the name of Irene gestions as to our future financial policies.

Believe it or not, this is a book on money that reads as Wilde, author of "Driftwood Fires oe possioie to put these dances on With the exact costumes, utlno tha now within easy reach of a twentieth-century public. The book requires no formal review. One remembers when it was written; the theology of the Deriod The Other maeazine tn nnte tho easily as a Satevepost essay, and correct Instruments and retaining great lyric poet of Denmark. AT CENTRAL LIBRARY Helen E. Haines will close her group of four lectures on vital books of today and yesterday with a talk on "Patterns in Biography" at Central Library on Tuesday, the 22nd at 7:30 p.m.

Among other books she will contrast Bos-well's "Life of Johnson" with fchauncey Tinker's "Young Bos-well." TITLE REVEALED The title of Richard Aldington's forthcoming novel will be Women Must Work." His "All Men Are Enemies" Is now showing as a film. HOME FROM FRANCE Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen Boissevain, have returned to America after several evident in this volume of nine free May issue of Littell's Living Age, the atmosphere of the Mexican In his comments on the possibility of international co-operation on gold hand sketches. If we judge these, character and historical estimations are not so felicitous. The nine statesmen presented In this book are grouped as "servants of the people:" Nansen, Masaryk.

Brland, Motta and Rathenau; and "rulers of the people:" Lloyd George, Venlzeloe, Mussolini and Stalin. Conceiving "world history as definitely based on the work of Individual personalities," the author invests his heroes with enlarged features, magnified traits, and grandiose influences, usually at the sacrifice of historical causes. Consequently, he draws large-scale figures that loom like giants on a rather small stage. But, Mr. Ludwlg knows his public, and the sale of his books rewards him for his Jour and the sentiments of the author.

not so much as likenesses, but as aian ana Spanish Mexican dances. A pictorial maD shows wher tho viewing the first in print, of a book by that master of all English novelists, Charles Dickens. Not that such things are in themselves Incredible. Robert Burton, who died in 1640, had written a comedy in Latin which was not discovered until the nineteenth century, was not printed until 1862 and not done into English until 1930. But for a novelist as famous and as popular as Dickens to have hid away any of his manuscripts from the publisher's hungry hands Is little short of a miracle.

For eighty-five years it has been a family secret. It was written between the years 1846-1849 for his children. When its author died, he left it to his sister-in-law. valuation are at least worthy of nere aressea out lor its ninetieth anniversary. A WONDERFUL BOOK Among a number of remarkable attractive blU of portraiture with serious consideration.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN of the mating impulse, and how has it evolved down the ages? Dr. Curt Thesing attempts to an volumes now on display at Dawson's Bookshon are twn that evprv dances originate, and the introduction to each description gives the symbolism behind the movements. A valuable and carefully compiled book that should have great popularity. W. N.

an' outline of marked features, we cordially conceed the author's achievement. Whether he depicts Nansen, the colorful viking adventurer and philanthropist, or Stalin, the dominant figure of the soviet it is sufficient to say that it was done with charming simplicity and that it is now fittingly printed and bound in a format that should delight the eye of any collector. The frontispiece is taken from a portrait by Marcel Maurel, and concerning It his son declared that "it will go down to posterity as the most striking reDre.senfnt.ion nt lover of rare old books will rejoice to see. They are a fine copy of swer these questions in "The Genealogy of Sex" (Emerson Books.) This volume, translated from the union. Mr.

Ludwlg accentuates those elements which make most for reader's interest. His Judgments of months In France. On their fall German by Eden and Cedar Paul, nalistic instincts. M. M.

list warpers are announcing a new what he was." h. D. E. volume of Miss Millay's poems, HERE IS HILARITY after. For.

as a labor of inv EAVESDROPPERS HEAR PARTY WIRE. By Bruce Manning. A QUICHE ROMANCE ROADSHOW. By Eric Hatch. Lit The es- Vtyytl 'By ANN BRIDGE Author of PEKING PICNIC has devoted years to historical research and published, aside from hi.

maria PALUNA. By Blair Nilcs. Llverlght. tle, Brown. ixmgmans.

Compared to Wodehouse and "Epitapn on the Race or Man." FRIENDS AND ENEMIES Doubleday-Doran have Just published the story of good germs and bad in "Your Germs and Mine," by Berl ben Meyr. Here is a book that will explain bacteriology to the lav- outstanding "Sir Francis Drake's Voyage," "The Plains and the Rockies," "The Spanish Southwest" "Saki," Eric Hatch really has little The party wire has been called the "nervous system" of our rural districts, but in this story It runs through the lives of the people of the little town of Rockridge like a of the humorous style these two men ana bpanish Voyages to the North. are famous for, and a lot that is Atlantic Prize Novel Romantic and colorful, Mrs. Niles's novel attempts to reconstruct the lives of the Quiche Indians of Guatemala, who felt the steel of Cortez, though not as terribly as did the Aztects. Always difficult, this sort all his own.

Here is hilarity, almost man and, in particular, to the moth west Coast of America," many brochures that are both unique and full of Interest. Very modestly Mr. unrestrained, but admirably intel ligent; here is marvelous conver sation, carried on between people siier speaKs or tnese books of his and refers to the fact that they were printed at his own nnn who do not seem to bother about syntax of ideas, and who suit their er, it contains a foreword by Dr. Albert Einstein and Is illustrated by Jerome D. Laudermllk who, like Mr.

ben Meyr, is a research scientist as well as artist. The book will be reviewed on this page next Sunday. ROSE MACAl'LAY NOVEL Harper's announce that thev have would refer him to Samuel Butler's remarks in the same kpv shout, hi actions to their words. Drogo Gaines, having suddenly discovered books which, a few years later, fait- iy jeapea into popularity. and introduced by Dr.

Smith Ely Jelllffe, traces the manifestations of sex from the unicellular organisms, through the crustaceans and all the rest down to the mammals. The book is an encyclopedia of curious information and is excellently illustrated. FOR THE FIRST TIME oddly enough, we have, within the compass of a single volume, an outline story of England's architecture from the, time of the Roman occupation to the period of the Liverpool Cathedral and that unfittingly modern Memorial Theater at Stratford. It has been done by Thomas E. Tallmadge In "The Story of England's Architecture" (Norton.) Mr.

Tallmadge is a Chicago architect whose "The Story of Architecture in America" Is favorably remembered. Not Just the story of cathedrals or manor houses, this is a study of the buildings of every type from Berwick to Penzance and from Canterbury to St. David's. Moreover, it is far from being a dry, technical affair. It tells of Norman arches, perpendicular "Gothic, Saxon "crucks" and Romanesque barrel-vaults.

It gives the history of Sir Christopher Wren and his multitude of churches: and gives us a study of the new "international" style and its abominations (the ad- jectlve is mine.) But while Mr. THESE COOL MEN will bear watching, even the received the manuscript of a new Rose Macaulay novel, which will appear on their fall list. that his making of millions is all futility, suffers a nervous breakdown and wakes up in a bughouse politely called a club. Here, he meets Col, Carraway, whose people could not starld the relief with which he cast off -conventions and began acting natural. nervous disorder.

The homes of the town are all connected by one wire and Marge Oliver, who is too busy with her own business to be Interested in the gossip over the wire, becomes its victim. A hastily spoken conversation by Marge's father is as hastily misinterpreted by the entire listening town and the whispering malicious gossip grows until it sweeps the whole town Into it and brings tragedy Into Marge's life. The story is cleverly developed first the trifling Incidents which excite the small-town listeners then Increasing in Interest as the party wire gets in its vicious work. The writer is fully conversant with small-town psychology. The book will find many readers who want entertainment and a good story.

I. D. respectable ones. And Phmin Oppenheim draws an excellent por UPPER ATMOSPHERE Oxford University Press has fust trait oi one tnat needed more than watching. Oppenheim is the author of ninety novels, but this tale of the Sandy waves crimes.

"The Mn Together, they go on the road A new novel of Peking-far richer than the first of the cosmopolitan society of the Legations, where life is a melange of dispatch boxes, horse racing, cocktails and illicit love. Into this group comes a young English girl with a broken heart, who soon learns that her one romantic experience was only a short chapter from the Book of Life. with a camera; they fall in with a published the first book In any language about the "Stratosphere," which will be reviewed on this page. One remarkable feature of this publication is that eight days after its Without Nerves" (Little, Brown,) Is millionaire who spends his time being unhappy and getting fried, and becoming more unhappy when the one or tne most exciting. If you want a tale that will enilnt.

vonr acceptance oy cable, the publishers let-down comes and getting twice of novel is made harder by the destruction of written records which too-iealous priests Inflicted upon the empire of Mayapan they destroyed, Indeed; more than the soldiers ever did and Mrs. Nlles cannot be Judged too critically for her backgrounds. But the language she uses to evoke brown faces and carved temples Is highly stilted and sentimental, never getting the real flavor of Indian thought. Maria Paluna is merely a projection of Mrs. Niles's' thoughts Into the dead skull of a beautiful Indian girl; and this makes not only for a style that is anything but Quiche, but for a self-conscious attitude about life on the part of Maria.

She has tried to rewrite history in terms of Individual thought; and she has tried to make one small brown maiden see the whole of the sixteenth century, and beyond. All very entertaining, if you do not take the book as seriously as Mrs. Niles does. w. N.

A Good Western LARAMIE RIDES ALONE. By Will Ermine. Morrow. A good, orthodox, unheretical western, violating none of the ten-ets of the school, not even the Kid interest and sympathy from the outset, try this one. as fried; they fall in.

too, with a Expert Embarrassed 2.50 LITTLE BROWN CO. Light Fiction, But Good CAMILLA. By Anne Stretton. Morrow. These romantic English books EFFICIENCY EXPERT.

By Flor- girl-named Penguin Calliope Bird, dealer in lingerie and bad grammar; and, finally, they fall in with a fire engine and an Arabian nightmare of a fashion show, conducted like a luxurious circus. 1 If yoil cannot laugh at the ideas Eric has hatched and the way they come out of the shell, you are ready to Join Klne ciice converse, jonn Day. It was the expert's Job to di nnituitmmtiitmniititimifflm seem to have, in their style and atmosphere and backgrounds and in minish the human factor in the mill, the people who move against them. so he made figures on paper that would cause 300 men to lose their Tallmadge has given the lay reader a veritable treasure of architectural Information, he does it with such enthusiasm, such reverence, that the reader Is unconscious of the instructor. One feature of the book that will appeal to tourists is the "List TO THE Tut and the rest cf the mummies.

work. "But anything displaced will Story of Corpus Christ! of Places of Architectural Interest," SAGA OF A FRONTIER SEAPORT. wmcn, together with the map and the list of London buildings, will so much more of reality and Interest than there Is In American romance. Neither flippant nor heavily sunk in sorghum or tears, it is the story of a boy and girl brought up by a brutal father and taken over by a cousin who is equally stern but more understanding. They go their mistaken and separate ways when their guardian marries, and all three find unhapplness and tragedy, with a final happiness for two of them.

Light fiction, yes, but good. W. N. By Coleman McCampbell. South-West Press, Dallas, Tex.

This is the story of Corpus enaoie him to gain a comprehensive Brother business. w. N. 'THE HIGHEST TRIBUTE" Last January 1st, more than four months ago, we guaranteed this book, "A Gay Family." We offered any purchaser the privilege of returning the book for full credit if he or she did not enjoy it. To date not a single copy of this book has been returned to us by anyone.

This is a unique record in the history of American publishing, made greater by the fact that "A Gay Family" is a national bestseller and is now in its 10th printing. What higher tribute could American readers pay to any book. GAY FAMILY By ETHEL B0ILEAU told with skiJ'. and idea of England's architectural history such as- he can find in no other single volume. Sly humor and broad sympathies make this a book novelty by a newspaperman.

In a flash hi6tory," not unlike a film t5NfflM06KIT I BY LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE 1 Dorothy GnfeJ says: I "Is it worth your while to read it? Certainly yes, if you like to know what is going on in the literary I world, and if you like once in a while to get from a book a violent and entirely new sensation." ror real enjoyment. 23 are To A UNIQUE BIBLIOGRAPHY is "The Published Writines turn up somewhere else In an equation as In a universe." There was the Mission House with Its bread line across the street; and that was very annoying to the expert, for It made him think of things outside his job. Miss Converse has turned out a novel In verse wherein the depression is pretty neatly tied up, with and without rhyme and reason. W. N.

FOR SUMMER READING STAMBOtTL LOVE. By Anne Duf-fleld. Knopf. This novel may describe the social life of Stamboul; but we doubt if anything so mad goes on under Mustapha Kemal. It will entertain the seeker after mild sensations, and it seems a forerunner of what we are In for this summer; but it is merely a slightly outrageous melodrama an Irish girl marriage to a Turk, of Henry R.

Wagner." a limited treatment of events, Mr. McCampbell traces che career of Corpus CHrlstI, from Its founding by Col H. L. Kinney, to the present day. This is a model of local and regional An Elegant Detective.

MURDER OFF KEY. By Kathieen Sproul, Dutton. Lavishly distributing 810 bills as WIS edition of which has been privately pruned at the Fine Arts Press in Santa Ana. It is an extremelv val history, combining authenticity with uable record and wUl meet a weli tips for clews, and accompanied by an American Jeeves, elegant detective Wilson unravels the sensational murders of a concert singer and a spirited reproduction of events. come from all students of Western You don't have to be interested in American history and the SDanish Second printing 15th thoisand.

$2.50 nurse. Highly colored, highly im- By Gerald Breitigim "He hii written an nptlmiatle tnd challcnrlns book. He tackle the mclor problem of life from national point of ie. Harry Banaen. "Filled with arnuine nueU of shrewd, commonKenne pointer on how to ShreTDrt Jnnrnal.

aj.on FALCON paesS, W. ii N.T.O. period. Especially so since many if not most of Mr. Wagner's books proDBDie, ruled with a plethora of Corpus Chrlstl to enjoy this book; but if you read it, you can't help but be interested In Corpus Obviously, the author purpose has been fulfilled.

M. M. i highly villainous people, the tale is amusing without being either con have been issued in limited editions that are destined to become Boson LITTLE BROWN COMPANY Publishers I vincing or mystifying. extremely rara and much sought.