Show 12 LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 28‘ 137 THE SALT fc Book Discussion and News of Literary Folk Outstanding Novel Concerned With Historic Migration of Boer Pioneers — By E E Fleet Recited HOLLIS Publish- - ' THEY SEEK A COUNTRY By Francis Brett Young ers Reynal and Hitchcock Inc New York City with admirable restraint yet moving and powerful TOLD Brett Young’s story of South Africa and the great Boer trek will stand with tfie best if it is not “the” best of this Based on historical events it English novelist’s long list of books its scenes conceived vividly imagined but with is fiction finely verisimilitude its characters drawn with firmness among them looming some of the heroic figures whose purposeful courage and qualities of leadership were factors in this tremendous migration It is not strange that two writers should have dealt coincidentally with this page of history since to Stuart Cloete descendant of Boers it is intimate material and Brett Young is but returning to a scene which has engaged his interest for two decades as indicated in some of his earlier novels What may be strange however is that it is not the Dutch Cloete but rathef the English Young who shows us most clearly the crass stupidity and flagrant injustices of the English government creating grievances that impelled these Dutch farmers to forsake their homes uproot the growth of more than a quarter century and set the ox teams lumbering northward into the unknown on that epic trek beyond the Orange with Natal ortheTands across the Vaal as goal Mr Young concerns himself also with other aspects of English rule of that period a century ago picturing a singularly grim example of the pernicious inclosure act and a sample of the sort of justice applied in a question between peasants and landed gentry This is to tell us how John Oakley a fine intelligent young Englishman came to be joined in that trek of Boer farmers to settle in Natal territory only to recross the Vaal into the High Veld country where his son is born first of a family to be Afrikander not Dutch nor English John Oakley son ftf a nailer in the Black Country’ growing up i sound of the forge escapes it to find his way as a youth to the Convoy By Produces Englishman Rosy Future for Farley Predicted by Biographer Perils Faced Again the Boer Trek Artist's Conception of Novel''s Scenes Reproductions of J O'H Books of General Interest Brides Take Note! LIVE WITH A MAN AND LOVE IT! By Anne Fisher Publishers Dodd Mead and Co Inc New York City Anne Fisher is one who remains a little skeptical about the "career woman” who has no time for love and marriage or the Marjorie Hillis clients who “live alone and like it” She insists that every normal woman wants to love and be loved to be desirable in the eyes of men— a Cosgrave’s illustrations for jacket of “They Seek don’t deny it! Also that if women have found marriage a failure ten to one it's because they haven’t lived up to the rules Marriage she tells her sisters can be just as satisfying a career as the stage the professions or the business office Wiat the romance and glamor will last if they go about marriage with the same common sense they would apply to another career With O Soglow abetting the fun with his numerous drawings Miss Fisher sets forth the formula for living happily though married First a chapter of hints on how to catch the man then the twelve (only twelve!) sure rules for the bride’s guidance Summarized these might read: Avoid trouble compromise never nag diplomatic handling of avoid garthe relative problem rulity gossip adding fuel to the fire of his temper don’t be fussy or critical when he wants to help know how to dress without’ being expen- sive don’t be peeved when he brings home an unexpected dinner guest keep your temper when he’s late to meals (maybe he couldn’t help it) don't go to sleep on a quarrel don’t lose your head about “thei other woman” and above all don't give him cause for jealousy of the chil- By DALE L MORGAN BRITTANY PATROL By H Wickliffe Rose Publishers W W Norton & Co New York City The role of the United States soldiers in the World war has many times been recounted and the deeds of sailors and marines upon the battlefields have also been often related But probably the only fact relating to the United States Navy as a navy which is popularly remembered is that every American troopship was successfully convoyed to France without the loss of a Now in “Brittany single man Country1 News Reporter Turns Fictionist Louis Paul Kirby a former well known newspaperman in Salt Lake City and other western cities is the author of a new book on the list of the Meador Publishing company Boston Under the title ‘The First Ophelia and Other Stories" a collection of 14 short novels and stories are assembled fiction widely varied as to type and material the title story going back to the period in London when boys filled the feminine roles in the theater The group includes “The North-glad- e Avenue Mystery” “Kingmaker by Chance” in which humor is chief element “In the Days of Supermen” “Two Adams in Eden” and “Dreams of Old Men” This is Mr Kirby’s second novel the first being "John's Son John" Mr Kirby was a member of The Tribune staff while in this city Patrol” H Wickliffe Rose narrates the dangerous and difficult work of the convoy fleets Being gradually starved into submission by Great Britain’s sea blockade Germany early in 1917 risked the danger of provoking the United States to war and attempted submarine through unrestricted warfare to starve Britain in return Largely dependent upon her Britain was vulnerable imports through her merchant shipping For a period the submarine warfare seemed likely to succeed ill its purpose shipping was destroyed faster than it could be built j To meet this pressing danger the convoy system by which merchant shipping moved in small fleets guarded by armed vessels was evolved almost simultaneously with the entrance of the United States intothe war To such perfection was this convoy system brought that the tonnage sunk dropped from 870023 tons in April 1917 to 186742 tons in September 1918 Quite apart from its function in safely carrying the American troops to France therefore the American Navy played a vital role in keeping the allies in the war Mr Rose served first as enlisted man and then as junior grade lieutenant in the patrol which operated dren Amusing as it is wisdom underlies this discussion and human Don’t consider the understanding divorce court until you’ve read It green country of his mother’s girlhood there to become innocently" involved in an infraction of the game laws and less for thiS than because he had dared speak his mind to the court against social Make Writing injustices sentenced to deportation for seven years There are weeks horrible and degrading on the convict ship sailing to Van SHORT STORY WRITING FOR Diemen’s Land then the plague struck Minerva putting in for waPROFIT By Elliott Blackiston ter at a point beyond Capetowh John and Dicketts a toughened The Publisher Writer Inc veteran manage to escape into the bush and long later Boston stagger more dead than alive fo the safety of the Prinsloo farm THE 42ND PARALLEL By John Perhaps those who aspire to litWelgelegen — and John to find in the ministering hand of Lisbet will not wholly admit fame Dos Passos erary Prinsloo the touch that was to guide his future destiny the thousands who are the fact The'love between Lisbet and John supplies the element of ten- TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Vir- attemptingyet to crash the great pederness to a story mainly of struggle and violence of savage assaults The Woolf Publisher ginia riodical market have one objective fire and storm and death John's arrival is at the moment when Modern Library Inc New York in mind —cash returns for their fresh outrages of the Kaffirs whose raids are not discouraged by efforts City the English have brought noble old Adrian Prinsloo a man of judiMr Blackiston author of this This introductory volume in John cial mind to whom it is no light matter that a man should leave his treatise recognizes this fact QualS ”U Dos Passos’ his of to home and garden and the children buried at door the decision long narrative ified by years of experience in the his sons have urged to trek with the leader Piet Retief A” which was followed by “1919” writing and publication field he The simple Retief Gert Maritz gay and debonair Pofgieter “The Big Money” remains one has endeavored to help the aspiring Pretorius Piet Uys — figures known to history — appear in these and his His discussion makes aubest known novels an in- writer of more a business than an stirring pages but none seems of greater stature than old Prinsloo thorship of And bulky Jacobs of gentler Huguenot blood is his fit mate her geniously planned presentation He reduces high sounding art courage and greatness of Soul making memorable passages during contemporary life in America It terms to simple language He makes the panorama of the trek In grave mannered reliable Sarel killed introduced such novel devices as rules understandable He explains with Retief and his party by th£ treacherous Zulu Dingaan who had The Camera Eye" as representing why formula-writin- g is necessary if just signed a treaty with them the titanic Jan Bothma turbulent the observer of the scene and you want to sell your product He spirit who hated everything English proving himself a man in that ‘iNewsreel” through which was con- also consoles the struggling writer last battle when he died that Lisbet might escape Mr Young has veyed the reactions to events of with the thought that formulthe general public It was a method awriting does not of necessity created other figures of vital life “They Seek a Country” is in whatever aspect you like as his- productive of extremely vivid pic- stifle individuality torical fiction as pure adventure and romance or as social com- tures The book contains much sound In a new foreword to this reprint advice As it is designed obviously ment an exceptionally interesting and satisfying work of “The 42nd Parallel” Mr Dos to reduce the number of rejection Passos considers the present condi- slips admittedly Mr Blackiston has tion of American writing since done a good job—N C C Theodore Dreiser’s shattering of the "genteel tradition” and finds it has "become A commonplace of journalManners ROBINSON OF ENGLAND By ence for his country John Drink-watism advertising and the applied arts Good Publishers John Drinkwater who’finlshed this work just of the “The Blue Bool of no ETIQUETTE: other trade” In period New The MacMillan Company Social Usage" By Emily Post before his death in March of this has “every slight imaginative adYork City been so fast exploited Publishers Funk and Wagnalls has created a character who vance This posthumous book from the year Co New York Qity is content to forego material suc- and absorbed by the great mass of distinone of of pen England’s Mr Dos Passoe cess and worldly fame in order to the population" time this For the twenty-riftis not at all writers easy guished come closer to the heart i of his holds the hope however that the dean of all authorities on correct be is to to classify hardly jt and called a nbvel although it takes country and to interpret if for present acceptance of new “stereo- usage and custom has rewritten This Robinson Dare son types” may be but the lull before revised her classic volume of “Etothers the form of a fictional narrative of won another "outburst of inventiveness iquette” incorporating in it all the it is neither a travel account nor an an ironmonger of Oxford and distin- and a new broadening of the field changes that social custom has Oxford scholarship deals it with however history himself taking a double of language” made acceptable and the problems places and with figures and in- guished Which that the radio and "travel by air” novel first classics in and athletic Woolf's the' in Virginia is cidents of England’s past It honors' as well and a brilliant ca- the autobiographical element pre- have introduced Emily Post’s wide really in a category of its own reer was vails is a novel of human relation- experience is guarantee of the impredicted for him revelation what of in effect a being of fine perception of char- portance of the book and its com' To of the gredt disappointment ships traditions England and English his proud father however Robinson acter In its method it has been prehensiveness his one who loved meant to deeply not to want to occupy likened to the painting of Seurat Every possible situation in which appeared trawas in its steeped country and of employ one of the modern masters Its counsel offers himself may be required has been refusing ditionalism not alone for the woman the in covered ment bus! action in chiefly politics 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(Bob) Davis “people behind the er ) Ch m ' as n 135 200 250 200 NON-FICTIO- N 300 300 250? 200 400 9 I barter-and-tra- ball-play- er The Rockefeller Successes Pay h fbered that Farley backed Mahoney By RAY B WEST JR FARLEY AND TOMORROW By in New York John T Casey and James Bowles Beginning his political career as Publishers Reilly and Lee com- a candidate for office in an obscure upper New York town election pany Chicago “What about James Farley and genial Jim becomes town clerk then tomorrow?” ask Messrs Casey and county chairman New York state "He has developed and boxing commissioner chairman of Bowles built ka organization which is sec- the Democratic state committee ond to none in the history of Ameri- manager for Franklin D Roosevelt can parties he has himself studied and finally chairman of the Demoand practiced the business of gov- cratic party and postmaster genernment from every angle until no eral His rise to power and his one can deny the Farley training domination of the party machine for elective office With these at- are told interestingly if not untributes it is not much of a task critically to conceive the Democratic leader The “inside” events surrounding during the next few years as the the Democratic conventions of 1932 occupant of the governor’s mansion and 1934 Roosevelt’s nomination in Albany and as a resident of the election and renomination reveal methods of homestead on the chief executive’ Pennsylvania avenue in Washing- American politics at their best (or ton” worst) but with never a word of One wonders what the authors critical comment by the authors of this book might have added in Farley and his cohorts represent the light of the La Guardia vic- the last word in streamlined Ameritory in the recent New York City can political manipulation The policies of Hoover municipal elections for “Farley and Tomorrow” portrays a long line of and Landon are denounced yes successes of the burly “Democratic” but in the same manner that the boss and as the above quotation owner of a 1938 limousine might deindicates predicts an even more ex- ride the occupants of a 1916 derepansive future It will be remem- - lict: “Your day is done” The early part of the book is out of Brest Through his eyes come by far its weakest section Young the pictures of cpnvoy duty first Jim Farley the amateur on converted yachts and then on the popular young man resembles destroyers although this story is too much the Horatio Alger heroes not restricted to personal adventure who “sink or swim” rise from the Too much of Farley’s later — the morel dramatic encounters of ranks all the ships in the region are chron- success is explained simply by pointicled in this book Mr Rose brings ing to his victories on the baseball his readers a vivid understanding diamond where he learned to “take of the dangers of wartime seas — it on the chin” or to his popularity submarines mines storms danger- with the young ladies of Grassy ous channels and accidents of many Point We fail to get inside the sorts combine Into a formidable list man to find genuine causes for the of hazards Though this story pri- virile ego that must have driven and him to his marily is a fleet story many inci- that seems topresent position project him into “todents of personal valor accomplish- morrow” Unless of course Mament panic and cowardice appear honey’s New York defeat is the bethrough its pages The function of the American ginning of the end Navy in the World war has too long been ignored and Mr Rose Fowler Title is congratulated upon an able deIn the review appearing last Sunpiction of that function "Brittany Patrol” is well illustrated with many day of Gene Fowler’s "Salute to arresting reproductions of photo' Yesterday” the title of his excellent graphs and paintings and must be biographical work “Timber Line” placed on the season’s list of more was inadvertently given m “Big Timber” interesting nonfiction whose "Oriental Odyssey” tells of sun” ORIENTAL ODYSSEY -- By “Bob” Davis Publishers Frederick A Stokes Company New York City Genial Bob Davis world rover and one of the most interesting of raconteurs contributes here his eleventh rereport of his travels the' papers published under the title of ?Orien-tOdyssey” having first appeared in the New York Sun Mr Davis is one who might follow the conventional tourist path in his travels but the stories he brings back are of matters unobserved or never uncovered by the ordinary traveler H has an eye for the unusual his anecdotes have an element of the unexpected His present collection of tales comes entirely from the Orient results of a trip through Japan China and Hawaii But it Is not of war that he speaks or the causes of the present conflict that threatens to destroy ancient Cathay except as he gives us the reflections on the business of war of the military strategist Baron Sadao Araki former Minister of War for Japan who in his retirement deplores that the world’s manpower is being "utilized in abolishing what has been built the up through the centuries” On other hand Admiral Nomura of the Imperial Navy tells him that "every generation hungers to participate in war’ and Japan a nation of fatalists "knows that what is to be will be” no matter the consequences to al the individual But Mr Davis was Interested In its sacred Japan's legendary lore mortal eye treasures never seen by Animal cycle the curious the "dog the touching history of afford as many fascinating and incidents — of rickshas jade Chinese food books superstitions legends and night life Mr n and Davis reverses the tells of “One Night in Ten Barrooms" and from Hawaii comes the ” idea tale that the The artistic as was Manila-bor- n well as the curious claims this observer and he tells of Hawaii’s botanical marvels of the magnificent Altar of Heaven by moonlight with other delightful fragments from the Far East pageant His own photographs augment the text amusing time-wor- “dime-a-dance- monument” five to long classical dramas Noh plays which are mysteries to this generation cormorant fishers amazing methods g which would never of unsatisfy American sportsmenthe the kimoprecedented wedding of nos! He holds a quaint Interview with No 158 champion news carrier pigeon anj there’s an excellent story of Theodore Roosevelt anda the time when a President lighted Japanese guest to his room with a tallow dip! Peiping and China and the Islands to assume a strictly impartial point of view concerning the fights between independents and monopolies and between monopolies and the government it is obvious that his story is written from this end of Rockefeller’s life when his charities and endowments have given a roseate glow to acts that were for- merly but sanguine in hue Then came John D Jr with his vision of capital and labor as partners each receiving a fair share of the rewards of business and the Great War with the public demanding gifts from Rockefeller and finally the appointment of a general relations committee headed by Ivy Lee about whom volumes Mr have already been written Winkleman presents Lee in the light not of the “miracle man” he is so often considered but of an honest straightforward adviser of the oil magnate He "presented the' facts and let the facts do the talking” But miracle man or not he did effect a very marked change in the public’s attitude toward Rockefeller and his vast fortune The last chapters of the Winkleman volume deal with "Neighbor John” his philanthropies and his hobbies On the whole this is probably as fair a biography as one could find Obviously Rockefeller's use of his great fortune must be taken into consideration in one’s estimate of the man as must also the business and political conditions of the times and the changes in public opinion If one errs on the side of generosity it is no worse than and perhaps not as bad as erring on the side of intolerance — O W B AUERBACH'S THIRD FLOOR Outstanding Books L of Distinction 350 CLEOPATRA— By Emil Lud wig A itory of a Quaan O HENRY'S PRIZE STORIES 4 Rft 4 Rfj 00 lO WWU fc-'P- FOR 1937 X ar eight-hou- JOHN D ROCKEFELLER By B F Winkleman Publishers The John C Winston Co Philadelphia Written by a man who thoroughly understands Wall Street and the figures that dominate the world of stock market and ticker tape this biography of “the richest man of all time” is more than a recital of biographical data It affords a glance behind the scenes and traces the change of the public attitude toward riches and monopolies during the past 50 years Starting with the death of the "incredibly wrinkled wasted to less than 90 pounds” possessor of millions the biography then turns back to his humble birth his peripatetic father and his financially harassed mother his first venture into business with a flock of turkeys when he was but 8 years old and all the traditional anecdotes that go with the early undertakings of any great business man That “John D" was unfailingly successful in every undertaking is not unbelievable when the reader pauses to reflect that he accumulated the largest fortune evtr amassed in the history of the world and that his gifts alone amounted to more than 530 million dollars The history of the Standard Oil company the bitter antagonism it evoked and its place in the development of the country’s history are treated in full If Rockefeller appears as ruthless and domineering at this time it is nothing to what lie was accused of by the public which suffered while it benefited from his methods of development and exploitation And while the author has assumed or endeavored r I'® CHILDREN'S BOOKS t e of duck-huntin- OF THE ROSEWOOD I BO- XBy Halan Fullar Orion Rfl WESTWARD— By Arm-itroWAGONS Tha itory Sparry of tho Old Trail fo Santa Fa fcWU 4 pn DWYER S BOOK SHOP— Third Floor 0 k i y4 V V?° RUFUS THE FOX— By Famwal Calico THE SECRET ae b 0 Naw and Diitincfiva A ’ |