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1938 THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, Shirley went in to dinner beside Willinm. iznorincr Oliver except for Unfamiliar Faces fly QlicsL $Aant flcAmon. ICopyrlrht: 1938: Br Alios Grnt Bmniu. was by no means sure that she would ever care to try the experiment again. She liked him immensely none the less.

There were few men, she thought, who at the end of years of exile and a long voyage would have endured with so much patience this holiday with his children to get to the root of the trouble with the girl. "Fine-looking chap, your boy," Andrew said to her on meeting and glanced across at the group she had left. "The scamp has already contrived to make Shirley's acquaintance," she confided, "by the simple method of an altercation over the magazines, apparently. He is nicely caught, for he didn't dream she would be in my party. I've been treating my children to a little mild neglect and not writing to them." "No wonder he came after you," said Andrew grinning.

"Not disciplinary methods surely?" a little On both sides." "Well if you have any nonsense with him, call on me and I'll punch his head," offered Andrew. "That would be lovely," she said in the tone of gentle raillery he was beginning to know and love. They went off together to see the head waiter about moving Oliver's seat to their" table, and at the door Andrew glanced back at the two young people sparring happily together. Shirley caught the look and stiffened, the laugh fading from her face. "Now, what have I done?" asked Oliver.

"Nothing. But if I glare at you coldly throughout dinner, don't be surprised," she said almost urgently. "On the contrary, I shall burst into noisy tears and howl the place down. Have a heart?" "No, I can't glare when it is your mother's party," she amended thoughtfully, and missed the sudden frown with which this item of news was received. "I'll have to be just distantly polite." "What is the great idea though? Do you mind telling me?" She was surprised at his almost confidential tone, and looked at him doubtfully.

"Oh, nothing much you may notice," she said. "Just a private idea of my own." "I hadn't realized it was my mother's party," remarked Oliver, fishing for her reaction to that. "Yes, rather! Marvelous of her, isn't it? She's one of the few people in the world I can bear at present." dead on the field," said Shirley to Oliver. "I was dying to throw something at you." "Why didn't you?" he asked, delighted at even this doubtful interest, "You might have taken It as a compliment," she returned gravely, "and you looked so dashed superior at first, anyway. "Ah, that's better," he exclaimed.

"My face grew on you. It does, you know. You'll get quite to like it in time." William, bored by this form of repartee, went back to his newspaper and left them to it. Of all the party, he had no anxieties which might wreck the evening. The rest had had what he would have termed a fullday, and the minds of three at least were doubly occupied.

Elizabeth had pulled herself together and could even see the funny side of Oliver's arrival on the heels of Andrew's rather absurd proposal. She could not believe that he seriously wished to marry her or that it would be fair to take any notice of it even had she wished, and she laughing and talking with Andrew Leicester as they entered the hotel, or the later edition of her upstairs. His mother's well-dressed short hair, the satin dressing gown into which she had slipped while they talked, and her new air of well being altogether were aids to her authority by appealing to something that was part snobbery but more an unexpected pride In her. As for the things she had said he believed Andrew Leicester was responsible all this stuff about her job being done. That was no phrase of his mother's Flattering her putting Ideas Into her head Oliver called for his mother in due course, told her she looked a dream and took her downstairs ceremoniously on his arm.

Here the presence of the villain's son and daughter in the week-end party gave his suspicions pause, particularly when the girl turned out to be the' gorgeous looking creature with whom he had tried to converse during the afternoon. Shirley and William were exam ining a map of the district and turned round at the sound of his mother's voice, viewing the newcomer with polite' astonishment. She introduced them. Shirley gave the dazzled Oliver one look. He's yours?" she exclaimed.

"Yes, really!" mocked her hostess, smiling. "She thought I was something the cat had brought in," complained Oliver. "We've met before. She snubbed me and planted her things all over the magazines so that I shouldn't get them. She doesn't like me, mother." "That must be a change for you, darling," said his mother.

"So Mr. Leicester introduced you, did he?" "Nobody introduced us. We just fought naturally." "Who won?" asked William. i won all right. Your sister retreated and left me in command of the field." Andrew had come in and Elizabeth went to meet him and suggest cocktails.

"It's lucky I didn't leave you SYNOPSIS Elizabeth Sandal 1 shocked to find her children, Dorothea and Oliver resent their father's will that unexpectedly lefi a fortune to her and did not mention them. She goes off to Switzerland for a Change and rest, and meets Andrew Leicester, who was a groom at her wedding. Andrew, a widower, Is returning after years of absence in india to meet his children. William, his son, lives with a bachelor relative. His daughter, Shirley, with his wife's relatives.

Shirley was in airplane accident with a young pilot, Tony Voisin, after which Tony's engagement to another girl was broken. Her mother's people believe Shirley was the cause. Andrew hopes to have It out with Bhlrley before seeing his in-laws. Shirley believes he Is aligned with her hated relatives and treats him coolly. Andrew turns to Elizabeth for sympathy.

She tries to make friends with the boy and girl. Dorothea hears from a friend about a stranger's attentions to her mother. Oliver pays her a surprise visit. INSTALLMENT 25. UNEFFECTED PRIDE.

LIVER for his part, more deeply disturbed and suspicious than before, decided that cunning was the card he must play. The change in his mother was staggering. He had never seen her like this, and he did not realize that what surprised him almost more than anything was her appearance. He had always beeen fond of her, but of late with the faintly condescending affection of a rather spoiled young man for one who adores him but is not, of course, his mental equal. The stand she had taken about the money weeks ago had not changed this view.

He had thought it due to the shock of his father's death; she must be distraught and obviously unwell to faint as she had done. She would be all right when she had had a rest and change and be her old self again. The trouble was that he had forgotten the old self and did not recognize it in the spirited figure It IV 1 Bertrand Russell's "Power" Coleridge And Wordsworth casual politeness, and kept steadily to this pose throughout the meal. Elizabeth had put the girl between the two young men, which brought her father opposite. Let him watch her then if he had nothing better to do, and, much good might it do him! Oliver, to do him justice, played up to her commands very well, exchanging trite remarks with her without a smile.

He was already more attracted to her than he had ever been to Prissy Bryce, and in considerable confusion of mind. Her mother the hostess of the party? He had never seen her look better, either, and he was torn between pleasure and dismay. He was not at all sure he liked It, so soon after his father's death. "Did you come straight through to Montreax, Sandal?" asked Andrew. Oliver explained that he had flown to Geneva, and immediately his mother's protest and William's enthusiastic questions engulfed him in talk.

Shirley thought: "I wonder if he would possibly know Tony?" CONTINUED TOMORROW. put an end to poetry. Perhaps Coleridge was not really a poet after all. He had a mind which naturally turned to abstractions, and if he had not had that kindling association with Dorothy and William Wordsworth that "blessed interval" as he called it, to strengthen his hold on actuality, he might never have been a poet at all. Miss Winwar, however, believes that in this very association with Wordsworth lay the secret of Cols-ridge's poetic destruction.

She suggests that Coleridge's admiration for Wordsworth destroyed his own self-confidence, and when his idol showed increasing doubt of his powers, Coleridge was so bitterly wounded that his poetry suffered a mor tal blow. It is true that Wordsworth was egotistical and seldom generous toward the work of his contemporaries; that he grew increasingly cold and narrow. Yet one doubts whether Miss Winwar is justified in making him the villain of her piece. She has given us, however, a thoughtful and vivid picture of a fruitful literary association. Margaret G.

Trotter. We urge you to read WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT By the Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill A survey of World Affairs 1932-1938 A provocative hook written in Mr. Churrhills usual Sparkling Style. Every thinking American will want one.

St.OO 19-23 East Fourth Street mm FAREWELL THE BANNER. By Frances Winwar. Doubleday-Doran. A wonderful year in the life of Coleridge was 1797, when, living only a few miles from the Words-worths, he had almost daily association with the poet he most revered. It was a wonderful year for the Wordsworths also.

The two poets stimulated each other, and Dorothy lent them her beautifully sharp perceptions and delight in the world of nature. Wordsworth began to find himself as a poet. Coleridge, developing more rapidly, wrote most of his masterpieces in that year. Then the fountain ran dry. After returning in 1799 from a sojourn in Germany with the Wordsworths, Coleridge, deserted by his muse, turned more and more to the consolations of opium and transcendental philosophy.

Wordsworth lost patience with him, and an open break finally followed. By this time Coleridge the poet was dead; Coleridge the erratic but brilliant critic survived in a sort of posthumous existence, growing more and more irresolute and flabby. There have been various explanations. Perhaps the opium habit Cincinnati Choices Best sellers in Cincinnati during the last week as reported by John G. Kidd and Son, the H.

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Revolutionary power is always naked toward the power it is attempting to supplant, but may be traditional with respect to its own followers if it is based on a creed to which 'they subscribe. If, however, a revolution replaces a traditional regime with a period of skepticism and unbelief, its power will be naked. The life history of successful power organizations then tends to consist of three stages: (1) The rise to power by means of a fanatical but not traditional belief revolutionary power. (2) Acquiescence of more, and more people in this oelief, making the new power traditional in its operation traditional power. (3) Gradual weakening of the belief and use of force against those who reject tradition naked power.

The present tendency of power is to coalesce in all its forms, military, economic, propaganda, and moral, in the state. Ethically and practically such a position is indefensible. The ultimate aim of those who have power should be to pro Newspaper 35,000 DAYS IN TEXAS. A History of The Dallas News and Its Forbears. By Sam Acheson.

Mac- millan. This is not only a history of the best known paper in Texas but an interesting case history of how a newspaper can achieve civic leader ship. "Sam Acheson, a member of its editorial staff, does notcontent himself with covering its pictur esque origins with the conventional glamor of pioneer days, and gloss over its prosier later development in what might pass for a centennial chronicle. He doesn't even bother to brag about its recognized influence throughout the Southwest, or speculate as to its-comparative place among the nation's molders of opinion. Instead, with intelligent and urbane level-headed-ness, giving credit where due, he traces his paper's role in the development of its community and state.

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POWER. By Bertrand Russell. Norton. Power, the ability to produce intended effects, is the fundamental concept in the social sciences in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Power, like energy, must be regarded as continually passing from any one of its forms into any other.

The laws of social dynamics, therefore, are only capable of being stated in terms of power in its Various forms. From this fundamental position Bertrand Russell, after analyzing the various types of power and power organizations, proceeds to the conclusion that the primary form of power is force, which must be controlled in its operation by political and economic democracy if it is to be used for the social good. To safeguard such a democracy two conditions are necessary; that the populace should be kept from mass hysteria, both by preventing the conditions causing it, such as war and the ftfar of war, and educating to reduce susceptibility to violent collective excitement; and that channels of prop aganda be equally open to all groups within certain limits. The Marxist contention that eco nomic power is primary is rejected, on the ground that within a state it depends upon law or public opinion and in foreign affairs on mili tary powers. Similarly power over opinion cannot be regarded as pri mary, because such a view disre gards the forces creating opinion.

Basically moral codes are also an expression of power. As a so cial Institution analogous to law morality is on the side of the powers that be and does not allow any place for revolution. Power appears in three forms, traditional, revolutionary, and naked. Power is traditional when its exercise is accepted by those subject to it Power is naked, however, when its subjects respect it wholly because it is power. Traditional power thus becomes naked power when the tradition on which it is based is no longer accepted.

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BERTRAND RUSSEL'S POWER A Social Analysis An important contribution to the field of political thought by one of our foremost philosophers. 315 Pages Indexed 3.00 Tffl mote social cooperation, not in one group as against another, but in the whole human race. To ensure that power will be used in this way, the concentration of power in the modern state must be hedged about with safeguards. The nineteenth century relied on the principle of competition between political and economic institutions to control the arbitrary exercise of power, but this is no longer possible. We must now control power by economic and political democracy, freedom of propaganda within certain limits, and a tolerant public.

Throughout his analysis of power Mr. Russell constantly challenges the position that the dictatorships are essentially stronger than democracies. One of their many weaknesses which he points out is the tendency toward self-hypnotism of the leader and his consequent tendency to overshoot the mark, of which Herr Hitler's overpressing on the Czechoslovakian issue seems to be a case in point. Because of his realistic approach to the problem of power, Mr. Russell's case for democracy is much more convincing than the flood of moralizing other writers are spewing forth on the same subject.

William Stephens Dietz. Case History ahead of its competitors, it could take an unpopular line (as against the pseudo-Klan of our generation) and temporarily lose thousands of subscribers. But its chief virtue was its constant concern with practical measures of civic progress and regional advancement. It is doubtful if any city can be come or stay great at least in a democracy without at least one great newspaper whose executives share actively in the conception, di rection, and promotion of its civic enterprises. Dallas is not alone in having such a paper.

It is a city which has grown tremendously in the last few decades. It has also changed with the times like all other American towns. What makes this book so intriguing to' me as a newspaperman is its read able correlation of the life of a city and state with the life of a journal. And without assuming that the his tory of one journal is equivalent to a city's journalistic history, or that newspapers are the authors of every good gift and never make mis takes, it is safe to say that the part a paper is allowed to play in poll tics in the best sense, and the part it declines to play in petty politics, are measures of its social worth and criteria of the society of which it is an indispensable instrument. Thank you, Mr.

Acheson, for making this so clear in a unique factual narrative! R. A. are the reports of Maykosen, a German secret agent, to the Kaiser. His letters throw light on the Italian situation, Merry del Val, the secret treaty with France, and the "Sect." A vast stage, crowded with al most all of the important characJ ters, -ine Black Flag" opens with the meeting of the old friends, Jallez and Jerphanion. Marie, after her desertion by Germaine, has turned to religion the usual solace of bankrupts and suffering lovers.

Having discovered the purpose of life, Sammecaud goes to Bruges to meet his mistress. Champcenais indulges in a curious love scene with a woman doctor whose vice is the hobby of discovering the erotic preversities of her patients. Lenin Jallez, Maykosen, and Gurau hear of the Sarajevo murder. War is declared. Readers' of Romains's precious volumes need no recommendation to read "Death of a World." And those unfortunates who have not read him are advised to read this particular book, certainly the keystone of a magnificent creation.

John O. Chappell, Jr. Actress THIS WAS SANDRA. By Beren Van Slyke. Funk and Wagnalls.

This is the beautifully written, emotionally powerful story of Laurie who loves Jan, and of Laurie's elder sister, Sandra, an actress with a mysterious past, a charming, tender creation whose life is strangely entangled with the lives of a press-agent husband, some sweat-shop picketers, a cruel father; Lawdor Hughes, who loved and who died, and her audience to whom she gave the last hours of her life, The book is written by Laurie, the young sister, whose emotional relationships to her sister and to her lover are among the finest writing in a good book. Minna Bardon. the divine wisdom of the "Eternal World Emperor" Jesus Christ, who had returned in 1960, 210 years before the period of this story. R. W.

L. Frontenac: And The Maid Of The Mist. By Lancelot Creasy Servos. Rodale. Love story of Frontenac, French-Canadian Governor of 1680, and a beautiful Indian maid chosen to go over Niagara Falls as a sacrifice to the Iroquois' water god, Pedantic and prosy.

S. D. F. Mystery, Western, Lore Murder Goes To The Dogs. By Timothy Duiton.

Anthony Adams finds out why one of the judges was found murdered on the greyhound track. A Gentleman For The Gallows. By Sidney Horler. Hillman-Curl. A gang of smiling men looking exactly alike kidnap a man about to be hung for murder.

Death In Five Boxes. By Carter Dickson. Morrow. Sir Henry Mer- ivale looks into the reasons one famous person was found murdered at a dinner table with three others in a poisonous stupor around it. A hard-to-beat mystery super shocker.

The Yellow Strangler. By Colin Robertson. Hillman-Curl. Murder in the presence of dozens of persons, kidnaping of a man and girl, lead Inspector Wilson to thrilling pursuit of an elusive master criminal. Guns Of The Round Stone Valley.

By Vingie E. Roe. Mill. Young Texan defeats handsome, wealthy villain of Southwest mountain valley. Unusually good.

Hell's Hip Pocket By Dane Coolidge. Dutton. Feuds over land and water rights in the Old West. Droughts and sandstorms. Cattle men's Association detective disguised as outlaw cleans ft up.

Rebel On The Range. By Ranger Lee. Groystone. Young eowpoke clears up crime for which innocent man is in jail; outfights villain; wins girl. Superior.

Lost April. By Sydney Thomp son. Crowell. Star actor leaves stage to seek something he has lacked. Take A Chance.

By Sheila Burns. Hillman-Curl Wealthy aunt brings beautiful country cousin to city to decoy men to homely, but kindly, city cousin. Tomorrow's Promise. By Temple Bailey. Penn.

Idealistic dauhtei shocked by parents 'divorce, falls in love with a divorced man and flees from it Love Will Find A Way. By Vivian Radcliffe. Gramercy. Attractive young men love Janice, but there is tragedy for her romantic heart, too. Hetty Looks For Local Color.

By Rosemary Rees. Arcadia. Girl author finds adventure and romance in coastal town far from railroad. Forever Yours. By Harriett Thuman.

Macrae, Smith. Nice girl has beautiful sister 'trouble. Thirty Days In Eden. By Peggy Dern. Arcadia.

Eccentric-million aire brings two shopgirls, society! parasite, and bookkeeper together on his estate as prospective heirs. Gallant Traitor. By Mary Frances Doner. Penn. Two fine families, orchardists and dairyists, not speaking to each other across a1 North Michigan highway.

Laughter For Tomi. By Peggy I O'more. Hillman-Curk Love, much' laughter, and a freak will, on a' California of-all-things frog farm. Sunrise By Request By Ethel I Owen. Furman.

Featuring aj young artist who impulsively be-1 comes business man; a girl, and three other couples. On The Side Of Romance. By Eleanor Browne. Arcadia. They married young and poor, but she got to be a successful actress.

He ends up a successful husband (hers) anyway. Discuss Players and Games In Contemporary Sports. FAMOUS AMERICAN ATH LETES OF TODAY. Sixth series. By Harold Kaese and Others.

Page. The constant striving of athletes to establish new records yearly grows more difficult as existing records are pushed upward. Nevertheless, new records are made each year. This volume recounts the careers of such record breakers as Forrest Towns, high hurdler; Earl Mead ows, and Bill Sefton, pole vaulters, and Glenn Cunningham, the mller. Other stars described include Rudy York, Ducky Medwick, and Charles Gehringer, baseballers; Katherine Rawls, swimmer; Cecil Smith, pol-oist, and Joe Lewis, boxer.

The Davis cup matches of 1937, the Rose Bowl football game, and other outstanding sporting events are discussed. This is a grand book for sport fans. A. Breyer. Quick Looks We're right in the middle of the 193S autumn publishing season, which means there are so many attractive books coming out that we haven't room to tell you fully all about all of them, much as we'd like to.

What we can do, though, is review the reviews tell you briefly what whose book is about, and what The Enquirer reviewers think of it. So Biography. Tatches Of Sunlight. By Lord Dunsany. Reynal and Hitchcock.

Unconventional autobiography in that it tells of the simple, everyday experiences in which Dun- sany's flights of fantasy were root ed. Youth in London and Kent; Eton, Royal Military College; service in Gibraltar and the Boer War; return to English gentleman's life. Slowly progressed toward a writer's career; dismissed as literary amateur until his work caught public taste. Delightetful. J.

O. C. The Captain's Chair. By Robert Scribner's. Celebrated motion picture director tells how, as young prospector, he explored North America's bleakest region, the Ungava peninsula, with two Eskimo companions.

Tells, too, of Captain William Grant, who opened up chain of trading posts for the Hudson Bay Company. Eskimos and adventure. A book of outstanding interest. F. A.

B. Wings In The Night. By Willis S. Fitch. Marshall-Jones.

One of the first Americans sent to Italy to serve with the Italian Royal Air Force tells' of his training at Fog-gia (Major Fiorello H. LaGuardia was his commanding officer), and of the hazards of almost nightly bombing raids over enemy lines. Photographs. F. W.

M. That Old Gang Of Mine, By William Tamplin. Fortuny. A harmony quartet, and the brother of one of tne four youngsters, hoboing their way about the country by freight 25 years ago, singing in saloons, movies, the streets. Seldom did their efforts fail to produce revenue and girl friends.

They reached success in vaudeville. One by one they dropped away, into matrimony. A real, live tale of youth's adventure. J. F.

C. The Life Story of W. Lee O'Dan iel. By C. L.

Douglas and Francis Miller. Regional Press. Eulogistic but interesting account of the successful flour broker who recent ly won Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas by campaign ing with sound truck, Hill Billy Band, and promise of $30 a month for everyone more than 65 years old F. A. B.

Miscellaneous Non fiction Speaking From Vermont By George D. Aiken. Stokes. Ver mont's Governor challenges anti-New Dealers to frame progressive political platform, condemns ex penditures to win favor of popula tion groups, indorses general idea or social security, urges careful, economical planning, and encour agement of business. Presents many thought-compelling facts.

F. A. Puerto Rico and Its People. By Trumbull White. Stokes White ex plains why this delightful tropical island of beautiful harbors and his torio Spanish background is neg lected by tourists, and why it shouidnt be neglected.

Also ex plains problem presented by its tendency to resent American con trol. Sometimes wordily explicit, but comprehensive and authoritative. J. P. R.

Care of Infants and Children. By Harry Lowenburg, Sr. Whittlesey Presupposing the mother knows nothing, this pediatrician starts from scratch and tells simply how the expectant mother must care for herself, then the newborn infant, then the older child. M. B.

Books Slng-A-Song Playerbook. Tunes and Verses Selected and Arranged by Sam See. Illustrations by Co-rinne Malvern McLoughlin Brothers. For 4 to 10. Sixteen well-known children's songs, not only with words, music, and pictures, but with simple scores keyed to the eight numbered plates of a tiny glockenspiel set right into the book! Dandy but test the Instrument J.

T. C. The Golden Cockerel. By Elaine Pogany, from the original Russian fairy tale of Alexander Pushkin. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.

Nelson. Gorgeously illustrated tale of war and magic, of a fat, lazy old king and a wicked magician, of enchanted princes and princesses. For 5 to 10. J. T.

G. The Band of the Red Hand. By Margaret Bau. Knopf. Bandits, pirate junks, and a wily beggar are the rascals in this Chinese mystery story in which a fourteen-year-old China-born American boy disguises himself as a Chinese beggar to best At New Books the murderous band.

Exaggerated, but fun, B. W. F. Posey and the Peddler. By Maud Lindsay.

Lothrop. Sympathetic appealing, happy-ending story of a little Southern mountain girl, who has been unable to walk for six years, and her steadfast friend, Peddler John. For 10 and 12 year olds. M. T.

The Story of Ebird. By Charles Cleek. Morrow. Conceived, written, and illustrated by a boy 13 years old, this is the side-splitting melodrama of a mongrel dog and the kind tramp who found him. For 3 to 6.

S. D. F. Fiction The Monument. By Pamela Hansford Johnson.

Carrick and Evans. The stories of four people in London brought together by chance: Barradan, young, connoisseur of painting, good businessman and member of an outlawed race; Mary, successful, beautiful, woman novelist; Albert Whye, anemic clerk, trying to make a home for his blind father and restless, delinquent, younger brother; Mrs. Sel-lars, busy housewife, earnest Labor party worker. Mary and Barradan together make one story of misunderstanding and fulfillment. More absorbing is the drab little tale of Whye, his poor attempts at romance, his smallness.

Less memorable, somehow, is the story of Mrs. Sellars, firm in the face of disaster, looking bravely forward. There is the background of the troubled European horizon, and the author succeeds in making us feel her characters are a part of today's un steady world. A novelist to watch M. G.

T. The River Breaks Up. By I. J. Singer.

Knopf. Scenes of unfor gettable drama some stories of in dividuals and groups in moments of crisis, others carefully plotted short narratives created by a microscope-eyed realist, an ironic humorist, the author of "The Brothers Ashkenazi." Translated from the Yiddish by Maurice Samuel. Stories as fine as any in contemporary literature in any language. J. O.

C. Meek Heritage. By F. E. Silanpaa.

Translated by Alexander Matson. Knopf. The hard and simple life of a Finnish peasant, Jussi, early orphaned, runaway from a -cruel uncle's home to another household scarcely less cruel, wandering lumberman, hired man, share farmer, husband of a slovenly, wasteful wife, father of too many children finally, half-hearted revolutionist, shot as a traitor to his country. A revelation of that great section of humanity whose perceptions are obscured by a great fog of stupidity, but whose lives are lived in hopeful groping toward cessation of suffering S. D.

F. The Trial of Helen McLeod. By Alice Beal Parson. Funk and Wagnalls. Early wakened, in a New England textile- town, to the class struggle, Helen Purdy later found herself trying to be a conventional voune matron in Dalton, Illinois manufacturing town.

But still in terested in workers' problems she joined the Communist Labor party in time to be arrrested in the redbaiting campaign of 1919. The fol lowing trial turns Dalton upside down. The high point of the book is Clarence Darrow's now famous plea for American tolerance and freedom of thought. Characters not always particularly effective, some times a study rather than a novel, yet the material is inherently dra matic and sets one thinking. M.

G. T. The Cleft Stick. By Walter Green wood. Stokes.

Graphic scenes, in short story form, of the brutality, misery and shame of England slums, by a man who has lived in them while on the dole. Powerful illustrations by Arthur Wfagg. Razzle-Dazzle. By Francis Wal lace. Mill.

Ignorant of college poli tics, Larry Todd makes a thrilling comeback to Capitol University after he has incurred the enmity of the freshman coach by defending Pop Hensley, "grand old man of football." Plenty of football, dra matic action, humor, ard romance. M. E. S. The Windbreak.

By Garreta Bu- sey. Funk and Wagnalls. Story or an Illinois farmer boy who escaped his oppressive father by journeying to New Orleans with a peddler, re turned home two years later to find his sweetheart married, allowed his sister to push him into an unhappy marriage, and rose to prominence and "success." Inept. R. H.

W. The Man Who Could Not Sin. By Newman Watts. Revell. Cecil Mar-key, 1945 experimenter with extend ed longevity, is the vehicle through whom the reader travels through time to a Utopia where all economic, political, and moral problems are abolished or solved by, Romains Issues Vol.

VII A Special Edition .49 DEATH OF A WORLD. Jules Romains. Kopf. j- In this, the seventh volume of his continuous novel, "Men of Good Will," Romains brings his story to the outbreak of the World War. It closes with the tocsin cry of "mobi lize!" ringing through France.

The volume is divided into two books. "Mission to Rome" is an exciting, suspense-filled narrative of international politics and its agents; "The Black Flag," keyed to a monochord of foreboding, is the somber overture to the death of a world. Although he uses his snap-shot technique of revealing his characters in moments of crisis, Romains has placed a central, dominating story in "Mission to Rome." Aware that certain activities of the Roman Curia are cleverly inspired by hostility to France, Poincare instructs Gurau with the task of sending a secret agent to Rome to investigate the matter. Garu selects the young Abbe Mionnet, who after an inter view with Poincare, accepts the mis sion. Under the guise of writing a thesis on Vatican diplomatic poli cies, Mionnet begins his inquiry.

He receives assistance from the pro- France laity and clerics Dom Charles Magloire, the Fontmongcs, and the Lacchlnis. Despite their warnings of danger and the attentions of the Vatican secret police, the Abbe determines to find the answer to five questions put to him by Poincare. Soon Mionnet learns that the brilliant Spanish Cardinal, Merry del Val, is the power behind the papal throne. He unearths the MacWrench scandal suppressed by orders of the Cardinal. A blackmailer offers him a compromising photograph of del Val, and, while awaiting Poincare's decision to buy it, he is summoned to an audience with the Cardinal.

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