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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1933 Arthur North Whitehead- -The Qreat Lion-Tamer Other Book Reviews and Notes Passed in Review Left Luigi Pirandello, trhote "One, Sone and a Hundred Thousand" trill be publithed by Dutton lale thit week. Lower Itabel Leighlon, lo tchom Jamet Rooterelt told the ttory of "My Boy Franklin" (Ray Long and Richard R. Smith). By GEORGE CURR1E 6 SK i The Greatest Show on Earth, in Clyde Beatty's Book, With an Assist From Edward Anthony A Miuimmiwiwuinw mini miaiii mi im huuw.bwmji.hui.im Detective Detects and a Lady Glorifies Herbs. Ly-ons, ta-gers, lep-pards and high-eenas, gentlemen! Forty ly-oni and ta-gers, two speecees that are mortal enemees, all in one and only one cage! Greatest animull act on earth! Step up and meet Clyde Beatty, the ly-on tamer and ta-ger master! Read In "The Big Cage" how Edward Anthony, the Inquiring reporter, extracted Clyde's story from him, to the great satisfaction of the publishers, the Century Company.

From this book we learn many things to the grave cost of illusion carried into the circus with us. For instance, the lions are not toothless; the tigers do not have their claws filed away. The hyena witli one snap of its powerful jaws can? REVOLUTION AND IDEAS LOOKING FORWARD, bv Franklin D. Roaierelt John Day. THE LOST LEADER, by Huch I'Anson FallMet Hurcourt.

Brace Ca. THE TRAGEDY OF TOLSTOY, by Countnt Alexandra Tolntoy Yale I'nlvtrnlty Trrn. ADVENT! RES OF IDEAS, by Alfred North Whitehead MarMlllan Company. REVOLUTIONS produce ideas, and ideas are amjngthe causes of revolutions. We hear it said nowadays that our country Is going through a revolution.

I doubt if many of us are quite clear as to what we are revolting against, or as to the direction in which our revolt will move us. This book by President Roosevelt brings together his recent addresses and writings, to let us understand his program for the new deal. It is a very interesting book, which may prove of historical Importance If our revolution does move us In the direction which he indicates. It is not unkind, but just, to say that here we shall find no new Ideas. Our revolution seems to be less an explosion of originality than a belated recognition of available wisdom.

A fiery radical will call this book tame, an incurable conservative might think it dangerous. If its program is successfully achieved, however, the fiery radical will find his platform unnecessary, and the incurable conservative will find himself disappointingly safe. As there is no great originality in the ideas, so there is no parade of highly technical knowledge. This will be held against President Roosevelt by some specialists, but I think it much to his credit. There are plenty of earnest men who believe they have the" solution of the farm problem, for example, and who can bowl you over with statistics and citations to prove their points.

Some of us suspect, however, that the ultimate solution of this problem will come through common sense, through feeling our way pragmatically. President Roosevelt indicates the main outlines of the problem, as the problem Is commonly understood, and he suggests the directions which must be taken by the experiments toward a cure. Whether he writes of the farm, or of the tariff, or of government reorganization, or of the railroads, or of our international relations, his philosophy holds to the modem ideal of a co-operative and controlled society. Since he is by temperament a liberal, he would have the cooperation voluntary and intelligent, and the control as light as possi and their snarling molls. And on gathers that the customers who saw the flight got entirely too much for their money's worth.

But the book is for your reading, not my telling. It is about a man who had either to change his clothes or wait in the open air for a considerable time before going to see those other beasts of which he is fond, the elephants. The smell of tiger upon him was enough to start a ponderous stampede of silly pachyderms. The elephant isn't afraid of a tiger but hates the striped cats with the same cordiality of the lion. It may comfort a few to know that Beatty does not believe in the man-eating theory; but as for man-killing It is a book to beggar all account of big-game hunting.

For it is one thing to bait a tieer for a nnt. Eddington's Universe Einstein and de Sitler, at the Two Extremes, Supply Base of a Moderatist's Treatise in Which Time and Space Are in Billions Not as Bad as Painted Edgcumb Pinchon Challenges the Prevailing Notion North of Rio Grande That Pancho Villa Was a Bloodthirsty Villain ble. But he does not believe that government can survive nowadays without a program which can be plainly articulated for the average man. This, too, is an old idea, but the sincere return to it is revolutionary, IN "The Lost Leader," Mr. Fausset considers the life and work of Wordsworth.

There is less contrast than you might suppose between a study of this poet and President Roosevelt's book of political theory. Wordsworth lived through the French Revolution, in his youth was a radical, and in his later years a very quiescent conservative. It was the Revolution as much as anything which cured him of being revolutionary, and it was his own uses of liberty which made him suspect freedom and write an ode to Duty. When Robert Browning was young he launched a brilliant and indignant attack at Wordsworth for this change from revolutionary ardor to a calm acceptance of established things. He called Wordsworth "the lost leader." Just how far he was lost I suppose we shall always debate, when LUGER onstrate that theory requires a particular velocity.

This he hopes to deduce from a combination of relativity and wave-mechanics (universe and atom), the cosmic constant being the connecting link. This is a natural constant introduced by Einstein in the revision of law of gravitation, giving rise to repulsion directly proportional to the distance, or cosmic repulsion, so-called because proportional to the constant. Seemingly the phenomenon of recession is accounted for, since the speeds of recession canbe arranged a linear series according to dis tance. Now the cosmical constant is really a measure of the radius of curvature of the universe. Since, for example, two normal hydrogen atoms in any part of the universe have the same size, because "the extent of each of them is the same fraction of the radius of curvature of space-time at the place where it lies; that is, the atom here is a certain fraction of the radius here, and the atom on Sirius is the same fraction of the radius of Sirius," the size of an atom is deductible from the radius substituted as the unit of length in wave-equations.

Hence, the cosmic constant supplies measure whereby the size of an atom is regulated. Or in other words, "to measure the mass of an electron, a suitable procedure is to make astronomical observations of the distances and velocities of spiral nebulae!" Stiff going, perhaps, but fascinating. clip a man's shin-bone in two and the hyena goes for shin-bones, ine leoards, strange to say, are quite tractable, though inclined to be dumber than a dumb animal jeed be. Bears are seldom vicious but they are mischievous, which, so lar as a trainer is concerned, amounts to the same thing. We also learn that the famous story of how the beloved lion seized the hind haunch of a tigress and hauled the snarling cat away before it could butcher Beatty as he scrambled to his feet from a fall was part truth only; the rest was press agent imagination.

The lion sank its teeth in the tigress and hauled her away; but it was because lions cherish only hate for tigers, even as do tigers for lions. We learn that tigers are Inclined to fight their battles alone but that lions gang up. Thus, once, Beatty, backing to the door of the safety cage through which it was his act to disappear as a huge lioness leapt roaring after him, missed and only a sudden row between lioae and tigers saved him. The technique of breaking up a fight between the jungle cats is to turn the fire hose on them; this method half drowns the beasts and discourages their natural combativeness. Armor in the Ring Beatty, in his cage, is armed with a whip mostly a moral weapon, for you can't whip a lion or a tiger into acquiescence and anyhow, the cowed brute makes a poor actor a chair and a six-shooter.

The chair he keeps between him and the creatures ne has trained. One blow of a paw will splinter it to smithereens but at least the four legs tend to distract the charging animal's attention and give the master a chance to back out into the safety cage. The pistol, alas, is loaded with blank cartridges. Its effect is wholly moral. The banging of blanks confuses the savage thespians, which is a fair criterion of their fundamental intelligence.

There are other things about animal training which emphasize its dangers. It is the only vocation on which every insurance company turns its back. Old age is a serious thing, one gathers, to the spendthrift master of the wild animal cages. Yet, when Beatty took up flying, his employers ordered him to keep out of airplanes because they were too risky! Beatty has several theories which rather spoil such pleasant tales as "Androcles and the Lion." Such rare occasions as he was saved by a lion he traces to some feud in the cage in which an attack upon himself gave the other feudist the chance to pounce on its mortal foe. No matter how kind one might be to the animals under one's direction, they cherish no love for the master.

They are selfish, self-centered, bloodthirsty brutes and because it is In a circus cage by no means indicates that under its spotted hide, the leopard has changed its jungle spots for lily-white and soulful domesticity. The man of the whip, chair and pistol explains the famous attack by Nero which almost did him in, thus: "It is my belief that the animal's attack on me had its roots in the fact that I had been standing near the female that had captured his interest. Her presence excited him. In a situation of this kind an animal is capable of hon-est-to-goodness jealousy. If I had been another male lion, Nero could not have regarded my closeness to his mate more suspiciously." The mother and father of all doses of antitoxin failed to prevent the onset of tetanus after that narrow escape and it required the ingenuity of a daring specialist to save Beatty's leg, the other surgeons having ordered it off to save his life.

"I was on my back for ten weeks and at one time my wound was draining through six tubes," he reports. Hence it Is that we prefer to sit on the sidelines and pay Beatty to do our animal training for us. The magic of the human eye as a lion-tamer appears, in this book, to have been vastly overrated. Beatty uses his eyes to keep him constantly aware of the exact moment when he'll have to make a forced exit. Nor are we to Judge from this book that he is using Anthony to build up his act and Its implied dreadfulness.

Take the case of Chester, the tiger. Chester, a former denizen of Sumatra, got himself ganged up by a group of lions. He fought valiantly but in his blind rage, in giving ground, he turned on Beatty. Our author had to make a run for it between a lion and a tiger still ped- cstaiea. Ana one oi rne Deasts tooK a swipe at him as he fled, ripping off his shirt, severely scratching him.

Poor Chester, once Beatty left the cage he appeared doomed. Beatty Informs us that man to man, or beast to beast, the tiger Is Invincible against all except, possibly, an elephant. But the gangster the fiction boys have delighted to call "King of Beaste," aided by his fellows and fellowesses, had him on the spot. They pumped ammonia into the cage to halt the Battle of Collins-vllle, now famous ln circus history. "The experience came as close to unnerving me as any I ve ever been ever a new revolution is on our hands.

The French Revolution started very generously, and in the magnificent manner, but once started it could not be stopped. When the machine began to run away, Wordsworth got off. There's something still to be said for getting off in time. COUNTESS TOLSTOY'S book, and Professor Whitehead's, differ widely in manner, but complement each other. Countess Tolstoy gives a sympathetic memoir of her famous father's agony with his own ideas and ideals.

This fascinating book, through letters and remembered conversations and descriptions of significant scenes, tries to explain what it was that made Tolstoy dissatisfied with his home, with his wife, with his entire world. Richly endowed in mind and in heart, he was pursued rather than lured by his Ideals. When he left his home in his last years he was trying to run away from himself. The worst revolution is that which occurs inside the single man, himself providing the battleground and the opposing parties. Professor Whitehead is well known for his philosophical and mathematical writings.

He is at home in pure ideas. He invites us in this book to read human history in terms of the ideas which have actuated men from point to point of progress, or as we might say, from revolution to revolution. If you are not accustomed to this kind of reading, you'll find the book difficult at first, but it is worth close study. When you have finished it, you will discover that it includes in their proper place the ideas of President Roosevelt, of Wordsworth, and of Tolstoy. (Copyright, 1933.

by John Ersklne). Mystery Stories Long Distance Crime and Shorter Offered to Those Avid to Detect the Real Murderer Before Reaching the Last Page i By WILLIAM M. ISAACS it Is another to make it do things and strive to save it for the next performance. Scotland Yard Again You will be delighted to know that Inspector French of Scotland Yard, the favorite creature of Freeman Wills Crofts, has solved another mystery in "The Strange Case of Dr. Earle" (Dodd.

Mmh rvi And it should be said that he has' most difficult time of it, for all that, he scatters clues through the story and in the end recalls to the reader tLvery P8" they occurred. The marks of clay upon the mat of a motor car eventually solved th three murders did I say three? four, then. The bodies of the thre were diabolically hidden under tha fill of a new road. They were slain because, they had knowledge, in two instances, of a wicked poisoning- in one instance, death by strangulation occurred because the woman had seen one of the guilty sneaking into the "house to steal the evidence. And what I liked most about the story was that Inspector French clung to the case not because he had any real blue.

When Dr. Earle and the nurse vanished, it really looked as though they had bolted upon a guilty 1 aison French simply had a hunch that smething was rotten in tie acted on his hunch in the manner of a scientific criminologist, but at least in the beginning he conducted himself as a man of mortal clay, not a superhuman man-hunter. The case resolves itself in ths end into murder to obtain money, but let us not give the author away sign that the reader will not be let mT- JoiRS ln the hnt may detect, alongside Inspector French. One of the guilty, I rejoico 1 P. I had put my thumb upon after the first interview.

Thd other fooled me. For that matter, until near the end, he fooled Inspector French, too, and the Inspector take a lot of fooling Herbs and Simples "Gardening With Herbs for Flavor and Fragrance," by Helen Mor. genthau Fox (the Macmillan Company), conspires to feed the present man upon the lotus simple of forgetfulness fantastically Hn, 6dJn tne gIamour of n-22? T2leub00k'8 author frankly states: "Perhans th dening is so healing to modern man who is speeded un imnr k. endurance by the pulsing heat of la mat it requires deliberate, loving hands, and cannot be done in a hurry." She reminds us that the seeds of and wiander come utf with the same gradual unfolding of stem and leaves ln our present-day gardens as they did in Egypt and Mesopotamia 5,000 years age Ana she commends herbs to us for the garden, because they smell so wonderfully well. us ln 0Ur Panting, she has dive Dramatis Personae," such tne beloved of Mr.

Antiphllos, Remy dt Gourmonti's lusty satyr; hvsson which Leviticus reminds' was'uSd by the priests to cleanse lepers and which was also used to sprinkle th blood upon the lintel and doorposts at tne Passover; lavender, which the Romans used to perfume their luxurious baths and which was the spikenard of the Bible, the while in nm-M Sti" used to Protect little children from the evil eye and among the Kabyle women of North Africa, It is employed to make their husbands be nice to them. One is Impressed by the lllogic of the ancients as Illustrated by their notions of horehound. Strabo records wj ue a specinc against magical poisons, but it was also believed that if nilt i to dHnt nM drink would die Drcttv fait Of basil there is much to sav it was considered a love potion' 'for horses, if not for Tristan and Isolde. However when sowing, one should curse with great enerpy, and Plinv assures us that In order to insure its rapid germination, it should be wetted down with boiling water immediately after sowing. If you grow sage, however, careful how you let the neighbors gaze upon its condition.

If it flourishes, It means that the Little Woman Is the Great Big Boss. And you can smoke sage, if you don't like tobacco. The author also In- monly fascinating and an allure experiment, By HERBERT In his clear headed, incisive manner the eminent astronomer and mathematical physicist Sir Arthur Eddington sets forth a daring, if tentative, hypothesis, which injects into the subject matter of "The Expanding Universe" (The Macmillan Company), an elment of dramatic intensity. Poising atop the imposing heap of the most recent developments in cosmic and atomic theory and the results at hand of current progressive investigations, he soon leaves fragmentariness behind in a highly speculative projection into a possible rapprochement of astrophysics, relativity and wave-mechanics. Accordingly the exposition of his thought, because he must clarify fundamental issues of basic principle, obviate conflict, and span unbridged gaps in an embracing synthesis, must include "matters of extreme difficulty necessary for an adequate discussion of the problem." A few years ago Sir Arthur was attracted to Abbe Lemaitre's theory of an expanding universe.

It appealed to him because it seemed to reconcile the two contradictory conceptions of Einstein and de Sitter, the former static, uniform, with the matter distributed throughout space in delicate equilibrium; the latter expanded, motion without matter. The new picture was that of a universe Intermediate, a dynamic concept, according to which matter and space, wherein it exists, are expanding. Thus, it occurred to him the theories of Einstein and de Sitter represented two extremes, between which could be introduced a series of intermediate universes, orieinatina from a disturbance of the former and ultimately culmi nating in the latter. That expansion was actually taking place was proved by the observations and calculations of Slipher, Hubble and Humason, who photographed and measured the shift to the red end of the spectra of the remote spiral nebulae, evidencing recession, as may be seen from the analogy that the pitch of a locomotive whistle Is lowered as the locomotive recedes. At the rate of dispersion as measured the radius of the universe is doubled every 1,300,000,000 years.

Although the theory indicated scattering, the magnitude of recession could not be derived therefrom. Dr. Eddington seeks to dem New Worlds William J. Makin, author of "Red Sea Nights" (Robert M. McBride.

is another of that goodly company of roving reporters who look into strange corners of this ever-curious planet in order to dispel the ennui of others less fortunate and acquaint them with the stirrings of another world than their own immediate. That is, with a slight difference; or, It might be argued, via the conventional route. Presumably he was sent by a London paper to cover the coronation ceremony of Ras Tafarl, otherwise Halle Selassie ruler of Abyssinia, and other events that might be of Interest; also, perhaps, to investigate the slave and drug traffic of the Near His assignment must have East. been liberal enough to permit side exploration. At any rate he used his eyes, ears and social graces to some advantage, as appears in "Red Sea Nights," the chronicle of his odyssey, with interpolations.

From Marseilles he takes his departure for regions traversed by him several times In the past. The city of ports never casts oil its fascination: here is the playground of the nervls who put the Paris apaches to shame; the seat of a ruthless worldwide drug racket; the port-of-call tor the scum of the Seven Seas Abdul the Damned's harem has long since disbanded. In Alexandria Is found a lair popuia- 1 tlon of former wives and I Conrernlne one of the latter a dra-i I malic story Is related. For the Jove his a in a Of the Making of Books TROST He was in and out of Mexico's capital like a commuter. He never became president.

Eventually he was assassinated in a barrage of bullets which inflicted 47 wounds. But that, strangely, came in peace times which made the career of Pancho Villa all the more difficult to understand. Hence, newspapers and magazines portrayed him as a bandit pure and simple, as a continued insurrectionist, foe of organized government, etc. That, generally speaking, was the view taken of this chunky, barrel-chested, fiercely-mustached, amusingly romantic, swarthy, collarless Mexican who drew regiments of American soldiers to the border back in 1913. But Pinchon paints a different picture.

Cruel? Certainly Pancho was cruel acording to our standards. As soon as captured, enemy officers were presented to a fiHnc cno But, Pinchon inquires, who would not be cruel in such circumstances' It was the law as developed by venerable Benito Juarez in his victorious campaign which resulted in the elimination of Napoleon's Maximil-lian. It was Mexican law nnrt hort not Pancho, when he was young and still known by the name of Doroteo Deen marked for the Ley Fuga for the mere stealing of a chicken or two needed to feed a starving mother and sisters? Pancho was utterly uneducated, after the manner of the poor of Central America, but he was intelligent. Escaping from the dreaded rurales, he joined the bandits and became a leader. Abraham Gonzales showed him the light so Pancho stopped being ordinary bandit and joined the revolution which sought uul lne rouing regime af old Porforio Diaz.

He bosted Francisco Madero to the presidency; then saw this softhearted friend of the people cast aside by Huerta, one of the sterner Diaz school. Pancho, one discovers had ceased playing bandit and soldier but had become friend of the poor and oppressed, an organizer of welfare work rather than a destroy-' er of property. With Huerta in control, Pancho laid aside his peacetime work and climbed into the saddle again to help elevate Car-ranza. Again victorious and in complete command of Mexico, Pancho stepped aside for another, a man of education who, Villa felt, could govern better than he. Pinchon continues with this new picture.

He delves Into the intrigues of the generals, the oppression ot the poor, the machinations of Wajl btrcet and the Bourse. Pancho Villa, says Pinchon, was rough, uncouth In ways, ignorant of much, but ever a firm believer in his people, the peons. Once told of Benito Juarez and his alms for a Republic of the Indians, Villa made that the goal of his actions. He never succeeded. Lack of diplomacy was the barrier.

Pancho could conquer but could not compromise. Pinchon arouses a great deal of 1Ui nm, ou ouuuKiy u-jv he portray all that was best in rough-looking man. Brutality according to our standards Pinchon doesn't cover. Merely does he accept It as part and parcel of old Mexico. Pancho Villa has been dead these 10 years.

With Mexico's recent revolutions of a different nature and no longer military and replete with civilian blood-letting, few, save those who galloped over the border lands with General Funston, readily recall the riotous days before th war. But Pinchon brings them back vividly. Pinchon, well as he does his tnb. may not completely obscure the Villa character he claims fictitious and supplant It with a new one. However, he will certainly alter the ordinary conception of Mexico and it peopl.

By RALPH "Viva Villa" (Harcourt Brace), a biography of Pancho Villa, Mexico's Bad Man, is Edgeumb Pinchon's contribution to illuminating Mexi-cana. It is part biography, part history of Mexico's revolutions. It is one of that type of book, which, true or false, makes interesting reading all 400 pages of it. Pinchon, author of "Mexican Peo ple" and "The Disk of Brass," is no casual student of Mexico. He has had 35 years, or so, of association with the country and its people.

Like Stuart Chase, he is sympathetic. Wise in the ways of Mexico, he attempts no severe translations of Mexico's terms or people. Measuring Mexico and Pancho Villa by Mexican standards, he makes understandable that which has portrayed Pancho as a "Bad Man" to the people of the North and a national hero to his own. From 1908 on to the War years there was no figure in the world as often featured in newwspaper headlines as Villa, pancho, it ap peared, was continually capturing the border town of Juarez. He was forever at the gates of Chihuahua.

terview concerning a new process which, if successful, will make him a fortune, passes an auction sale of unclaimed goods. He Is fascinated by the advertisement that stands in the window and shortly later emerges from the building the owner of a little wooden box with Japanese inscriptions upon it. Thus, unwittingly, Halsey has stumbled upon a prize which leads him into exciting adventure and which eventually some 800 pages later saves his fortune. While there is mystery and thrills aplenty, this latest marathon tale does not reach the standard set by its predecessor, "The Matilda Hunter Murder." In that volume, descriptive passages and other supplementary material tended to enhance the interest of the reader without distracting from the story. The action in the new tale is retarded by the author's verbosity.

Despite this, one should find "The Box From Japan" entertaining if one has a little patience. Another Dutton clue mystery is "The Nameless Crime," by Walter S. Masterman, Unlike most tales which revolve about the solving of a murder there is plenty of action In this story. When Capt. Jack Stanley identifies a body which had been found in suspicious circumstances as that ul miu.j.

ouvu, is unfolded which terminates ln the strange situation of a crime without legal precedent. Although the plot turns out to be rather flimsy, mystery fans should find "The Nameless Crime" interesting. Lee Thayer's star sleuth, Peter Clancy, stars again in "Hell-Gate Tides" (Sears Publishing Company). Murder Is done in an apartment house that overlooks the Hell Gate section of the East River. The redheaded detective had been requested to investigate the attempted poisoning of Alan McLeod i ana is on me spui wnen uie crime Is committed.

i "Hell-Gate Tides" Is another ex- I oellent mystery. COIGNARD "The Box From Japan" is Harry Stephen Keeler's second long-distance mystery. But the fact that almost 800 pages of rather exciting character are to be found between its covers is not the only odd feature of this Dutton clue thriller. The author gazes Into the future and sets the year 1942 as the time for the occurrences that he pictures. Carr Halsey, en route to an in- for Asking of a silvered manikin on display in a fashion-shop window he slew Abdullah the Handsome, and in sad despair waded over his depths Into the "Allah is great." A stop at Cairo gives him an insight into the career of the tomb-despoil-ers.

Interesting conjectures are set forth concerning like activities of Cleopatra and Tut-ankh-Amen, among others. After Innumerable discomforts en route Addis Ababa, scene of the extraordinary coronation of Ras Tafarl, Lion of Judah, is reached. There Is ample1 time to witness brutal and nobly passionate doings In one of several concessions, Beholding the strange pageant and barbaric festivities surrounding the coronation the Occidental spectator is chiefly Impressed with uneasy boredom and eventually put behind. Now the call of the Red Sea sounds clear. Hardly prepossessing in climate, these ports lure with their mystery, the while their perverse romanticism whets the curiosity.

Many spectacles pass In review: hordes of pilgrims converging on Mecca the horrible incident of the burning ship Asia Jammed with Moslems; the character and restricted existence of King Fuad of Egypt; the story of Ibn Saud's rise to power; adventures In gun-running, slave and dope traffic, very hazardous in these days; a fantastic personal experience in hashish smoKing, etc. His journey complete, Mr. Making enthusiasm Is restrained. But he smoking, etc keeps returning. By JEROME Evans Wall, author of "Danger" (The Macaulay Company), answers the charge of being morbid tossed at him by Eugene Cunningham of the El Paso Times, with a thundering avowal: "I had rather be a perfect lover than a golf champion or an expert bridge player.

Is there anything morbid about that? Aren't there a considerable number of normal men and women who would agree with me, whether they would publicly admit it or not?" And the same Eugene Cunningham, whose new novel of the Texas Rangers entitled "Buckaroo" (Houghton, Mifflin Company), contributes to the American lexicon the explanation that buckaroo, one of the real words of the Southwest, Is derived from the attempt of early Texans to twist, their tongues around the Spanish word, vaquero. Gilbert Seldes, whose recent "The Years of the Locust" (Little, Brown ife told all about the depres lion, will tell the audience of John Haynes Holmes' Community Church npxt Friday evening when it will be all over. And F. M. Clouter adds, "en passant, et a propos de rein: Miss Bip Pares, who does Op-penheim jackets, resides at The Old Brewery.

London." Tile bibliographers have a nice problem on their hands concerning Franklin D- Roosevelt's "Looking Forward." When the President insisted on corrections in seven pages, the John Day Company had already printed 3,000 copies. A second nrintinir of the same had been ordered and was actually halted on the presses, the correc- tions vere made and the edition nir Thr snrm first nrinted were corrected by the deletion of the seven pages and the tipping in of the corrected pages in their places. The nice problem concerns which is the first printing, for the second was the first to be put into circulation, one would think, however, that the real prize would be the uncorrected copy of the flrs printing, which the publishers recalled. Good Housekeeping has acquired the serial rights to John Galsworthy's last novel, "One More River," and will begin publication with the May issue. Peter Arno, It transpires from a 6 leu thing Investigation by the Messrs.

Simon and Schuster, took Jour hours to piece together his own jig-saw puzzle, "Peek-a-boo." William Steig, on the other hand, needed only two and a half hours to do his puzzle, "Oompah!" but maybe his was easier, as for Sog-low, he put "The King On Roller Skates" together In four hours the first time, two hours the second time and half an hour the fourth time. The big Narcissist, doing his own puzzle four times! Wallace Smith, author of "The Captain Hates the Sea" (Covlcl, Friede), once wrote a speech to be delivered to the Mexican firing squad ordered to shoot him for a spy. A last moment countermanding of the order left him with an unuttered speech on his hands and he says he is quite content to leave 1 unspoken. K'ltherine T. Cary, co-author with Nellie D.

Mercll of "Arrang- Ing Flowers Throughout the Year' iDodd, Mead CO), liven at No. 1 Pierrenont and Is rfsardrd us a specialist ln the subject. through perhaps a little eludes recipes for lavender prepara-Beatty confesses. The casualties Hons, and the book is uncom- were two dead tigers, unmercifully slaughtered by the leonine bad men.