| Show Standard Examiner Stand Examiner rd-Examiner Book Reviews Edited by Maurice Marce Howe I THE FRANTIC ATLANTIC by Basil Woon Published by Knopf THROUGH EUROPE ON 2 A ADAY DAY by Fred Published ed by McBride THIS THIS is the season of ot year jear ear when hen henone I one begins to feel a bit sorry for forthe forthe forthe the usually peaceful ocean All Its I j time onetime majesty majest and dignity dis disappear appear appe r as the usual quarter quarter of of a million Americans go careening across it And as usual there are any of ot books turned out to tell 61 the novice how and where to go go- goOf Of Of fh this bs seasons season's list we lady recommend r Basil Woon's The Frantic Atlantic Knopf a 4 Fred FT 4 Through Europe on 2 i a a. Day McBride yoon Woon paving laving voyaged a disgust disgust- disgusting disgusting ing number of ot times as a European ld Pt sets down the the theory th ory that hat drinks divorces and ana dresses drese Jr l e are the three reasons why Americans go to Europe It is ip this worldly e mood that Woop carries on HES HE'S UNDECEIVED He lie is ili not Dot a bit deceived by the arched eyebrows WS of the he school schoolteacher teacher who tells you jou she is inter eted e ted only in travel and foreign cu cul lure ture Woon WOOl comes out flatly with the th terrible truth that there is to ti do aboard ship but drink eat sleep and gamble and andone andone andone one may as well webb do them all prop r erly He JIe issues instructions but ut gives amusing tales by way of warning t the th tea seagoing gamblers Iam ler i. Particularly does doe he warn the un unwary wary males against the Vl vamps pointing to the hypnotic In Im influence fluence nuance pf misty moons and the he dis disastrous dis- dis disastrous I results pt pf love Jove notes potes writ ten en under r the spell In JIt addition he tells you the first names of ot stew stew- stewards stewards stewards ards of captains and pursers pur those hose who Intend t really to travel and aDd not noL to vacation the hook book is the best be t we have seen Hern's Herns a fellow tellow you will envy from the first page KNOWS THE SHORT CUTS He lie seems to have thrust his nose into all the t e odd corners o of oC Europe and to have found the he heery very ery inn yoU jou have dreamed ot of going to to He knows knobs s how to eat for 10 cents an and andow J bow ow to drink for just as little how to travel ravel for little or nothing and how bow to do everything at minimum cost and do it picturesquely picturesque He lie jou ou that hat its it's cheaper to travel than to 10 work for tor a living A. A THE REVOLT OF ASIA ASJA by Up ton on Close Oloe Josef JOliet Washington Hall Published by 0 a P P. P Putnam's Sons ThREE unusually picturesque figures fig I ures urea came out of the world war and nd the ensuing ears years Lawrence of oC f Arabia and asid Count Felix von Luckner were associated in their adventures with the t e war but stir stir- stirring ring ing times have been a part of ot the life lite fe of Upton Close since those per per- perilous lIous ilous ous times Aside from his book which has been jeen heralded by Senator Borah I and od Roland S. S Morris former United tailed States ambassador to Jap Jap- Japan an n as a frank and candid treat treat- nent of the Asiatic situation lend lend- lag ing ng itself admirably to adoption of a political the he lire life ot 9 Close Clos lose is Js worth attention To become bet better better et ter acquainted with wilt him hi his works is to associate with a vigor Igor vigorous ous and stirring American Perhaps Per aps the he most mo striking poInt DInt in the adventurer r and nd d authors author's au hgr ex experience J lies les Jn In his ability l. to b be friendly wt conflicting sides s d Pur Puring ing the war far he first watched 4 th Germans and later the Japanese and nd was w offered money by tile the tJI p Ja Japanese jap japanese anese generals rals to disclose di l the be e Up Up- Upton Upton ton Close e who Was yas sending out t th t the e first eye witness eye witness reP pf of Q their thel attempts to appropriate the tl Chi Chinese phI dbl phInese nese sacred sa ed province To them th Close Wa was Josept Jo Washington Hall Today he is intimate with Y t Japan Japan- Japanese ese leaders although alth gh he be e revealed r his identity years later under q flues honing His frankness was was was' re reo rewarded re- re rewarded warded with a trip through Japan all expenses paid He lie was confidant confidant dant of ot Senator Albert Johnson author of the Japanese clause and at the same time o ot of Ambassador Ha hara who trIed rl d do so ao o desperately q avert av rt this his loD which he hI knew new his people woul regard as an insult In 1919 Close acted as counselor to the Chinese students who engl engi neared that miraculous student revolution saving China from be being ing sold by a traitorous governing clique Jn In 1922 1022 he left et the t e 1 desk pf p the Peking Dally pall t newspaper in q th the he world founded 75 B. B C C. to p engage Jr jn relief rei f ac ti during JurIng the t e terrible famine This was followed buoyed d by y an n earth earth- quake in jn Janu cans on the he Tibetan Mongolian border where lives were snuffed out and a Mos Mos- Jem lem holy war just beginning was literally bi 4 al aIl alive e e Ills fIll adventures tures were er recognized In Jn electing lim a member of Pt the he Explorers Explorers' club founded by Admiral Peary reary Nansen Amundsen and ane General Genera Greely reely C Telegraph operators in iq China gave Close his pen name a ludicrous telegraphic error Fol Fol- Following Following Following lowing the earthquake he became bed stricken bed stricken with cholera and the telegraph operators operator spread pread news pews of ot his sickness Mrs wired from Peking Bring the corpse When the telegram reached him he was again on horseback having re s-a. covered through the he Chinese C kill killor or pr cure remedy of kerosene oil and opium He ie Had flad the pleasure of ot wiring back Bringing It myself Close was born in Washington state in 1891 of ot a prospecting fa her ther and a music and art teach ng mother molher The boy bO became b n a newspaper reporter r Jn In Washington P. P 3 C C. and eoon an found himself Sij in p China hina Now this man stan is regularly em lo ed in the prosaic task aak of lee lec turing in the tho oriental department of the University ty of pf Washington But Dut he takes taku leave to write and to renew friendship with wHit oriental orton tal dig Robert Rolert A. A |
