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PPYX DAILY. YORK. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929. Marriage and the Problems of Men and Women Ed Howe Other Books 10 YOUTH IS YOUTH AND ACE IS ACE A Bit About Authors Passed in Review Pirates Swarm On Pelican Coast Men in Revolt In Another Era By MARION LELAND By GEORGE CURRIE: Morley Callaghan and His.Lorretto Plan a Jaunt to Europe And a Few Notes on This Earnest Young Realisf With Blue Eyes and Black Curly Hair. i mi i iiiTTTTriiTwnnin 1 wirri milium i lhwwi And ever the twain shall part, "Dark Hetter" (Houghton, MifHin the eternal conflict.

The World Is By ROBERT Mr. Joseph Wood Krutch, Finds There Is No Health in Us And Science and Philosophy Are Merely Lying Prophets. RECALLING the terse, blunt, sentences In which Morley Callaghan sets down the winged and wingless littleness of everyday life In America (mostly Canada), you won't of course, be surprised to learn that he has been a reporter-helped out the Toronto Star, In fact, during the four years he spent at Toronto University. Recalling his propensity for writing stories about husbands (and wives) who Just naturally wander away, you may wonder at, or at least admire somewhat, the courage of Lorretto the Lorretto to whom "Strange Fugitive" Is dedicated. For Lorretto will marry Morley early In April and look after him a bit on their forthcoming Jaunt to Europe, which means, mostly, Paris.

Lorretto, you see, Is that kind of a girl. Shetl need to be, to be Morley's wife. For Independent, free, belligerent and dynamic as Morley Is himself, you Just know he wouldn't be succumbing to marriage unless the lady In question could manage him. This, notwithstanding that the first requisite this powerful. broad-shouldered erstwhile college football star says he would seek In a girl he'd consider marrvlne Is that "She must admire me tremendously." EVIDENTLY Lorretto, who approves of the stories in "A Native Argosy," Just published by Scrlbner's, admires its author whole heartedly.

She is, however, already his "severest critic." What nuzzles Morley is how she can keep on admiring him when she knows his faults so well, particularly his temper. Morley called one of his fail ings his temper, but I think what he really means Is his temperament He admits he doesn't throw things or act violently, but he Is of ten very oiten consumed witn a terrible rage over the things that happen about him. Even a lot of people he has to meet affect him that way. And then he's awful, he says. Oh, dear! But Lorretto, I know.

Is vivacious and sweet: so that's all right. bo is Morley (really) in spite of Reilly Proves Good Substitute Beating Jules Sombarthy Not very often do you find a capable substitute, but it so hap pened that Eddie Reilly of the 212th Aircraft, filled the shoes of Mickey Walters when he won a decision In the feature 10-rounder from Jules Sombarthy last night at the 27th Division Train Armory. Reilly had an easy time with Sombarthy, sticking a left jab Into the victim's face at will and then sending In Jolting right crosses. Oscar Bernard hammered and slammed Frank Neve for seven rounds in the semi-final before putting the kayo on him In the eiehth of a 10-rounder. Bernard was too clever and tricky for Neve.

In a scheduled 8-rounder, Charles Raymond rallied In the closing rounds to win a decision over Frankie Lleberman. Raymond had Lleberman on the floor In the third round. Jimmy Allen scored a technical knockout over Chas. McCann in the final round of a six rounder. McCann had been on the floor three times for the count of nine before Referee Mickey Perry Intervened.

In the opening six-rounder, Teddy Anderson had Jim Burgess on the floor three times In the sixth the fact that he feels the tremen dous unrest of life. It Is out or that acutely felt and keenly perceived unrest of life that he creates his convincing, Interestingly lronto stories of everyday people; people with inarticulate yearnings smothered under the commonplace incidents of existence: peoole naive snobberies and affectations or with crude simplicities and unself-consclous naturalnesses. With his unusual combination of shy assurance and facility in expressing his opinions or perhaps It is the maturity which his nicely trimmed little sophisticated moustache adds this young realist, whom, more than any other, I would place close to Hemingway, has a way of making you forget that he is only 26. The still fresh and unsatisfied wide-wonder look of his blue eyes and the free wave In his live-looking black hair force his youth on you, however, I THINK that, for Morley Callaghan, every contact with othef human beings is adventure, adventure which he thoroughly enjoys and aiways wants to "write home about," meaning really that he wants write them down for you. It is easy to understand why he admires Hardy and Bernard Shaw and how he feels that the best in writing "must be written out of their unrest," Well, he has plenty of unrest, and plenty of perception with which see and understand the unrest about him.

That, and the ever-domlnani part played In it by the sex relations of men and women and the drama of "things as they are" are the keynotes of most of the stories in "A Native Argosy." That hie genius for presenting his subject through dialogue, alive in natural and spontaneous colloquallsma, suggests Hemingway, and that nil forte now is in expressing himself in the Jargon of the day do not mean that he will not go further. In spite of his frequent lnclustoa of much that Is unimportant In th telling of his tales, there is nevertheless a Kipling feel and pointing of his style and understanding that promise much. round. Burgoss had sustained badly bruised face and swollen eyej when the referee intervened and declared Anderson the winner. Reigh Count Supporters Will Be at Tracksid Chicago, March 20 Reig Count, America's turf champion; will not want for supporters from his home town when he goes to the post In the Llngfleld spring stakes, April 6.

ivir. ana Mrs. Jonn D. Herts, owners of the thoroughbred, will sail next Monday. A large party of their Chicago friends also will reacli England In time to see the race Fort Wayne Clinches Pro Basketball Crown Fort Wayne's Hoosiers have captured the second half championship in the American Professional Basketball League.

Defeating Rochester. 22 to 13. at Ft. Wayne last night, the Hoosiers clinched the second half title regardless of what their closest rivals. Brooklyn and Cleveland, do in their remaining games, says the Associated Press.

The regular season closes this Saturday, after which Ft. Wayne and Cleveland, first half champions, will engage in a playoff series to determine the 1928-29 title. A Round Table Discussion of Why Husbands Find It So Hard to Get Along With Wives Ed Howe Boasts He Is of the Commonalty, the Kansas Kind, and Why Not? THE AFFINITY ol man for woman and woman for man, having at last been recognized e.s a natural impulse by no means beneath the dignity of the philosophers, inevitably has become a subject for parlor conversation ind what one hears in his Journeys up and down the earth is proof conclusive that with typical human obtuseness mankind i.ns chosen to remain most ignorant of that which concerns it most intimately. Whether "Sex in Civilization," edited by V. F.

Calverton and S. D. Schmalhausen (The Macauiay Company), will do much to dissipate the fogs which have been summoned to enshroud human sex rites in fearful and often misguided mystery Is greatly to be doubted. We have not yet freed ourselves of the ancient taboos against the de-manc of the flesh. We have read avidly of the Australian Bushmen and their practices.

We have gloated over the initiations of maidens and boys in Samoa. Some have timidly explored, In "hush" books, the ancient Hindu culte and Persian manners. But the upshot has that In America, with the highest divorce rate In the world, we iwc clung stubbornly to a belief that our inexperience even with what all philosophers agree Is a duty to the race is largely responsible for whatever native genius we have; our weakness, we fondly Imagine, is ou strength. It Is our alibi, and I think more than ordinary significance attaches to the fact that those who give voice to this doctrine most glibly are the old men and old women who, having missed a great something and discovered It too late, with characteristic human selfishness are determined that those who come after shall likewise wffer the emotional poverty of those who went before. ONE SHOULD, nowever, approach "Sex in Civilization" with caution.

"Men's Ideals are flctlous," say the editors, in the preface. "The body and tile mind hate each other In queer ways that run the gamut from tenderness to violence. In-tab'lity rie'es the mind of modernity." And who shall say them nay? Probably the most logical paper In this book, fashioned with the precision of a fine legal mind, is that by Arthur Garfield Hayes. The others, which Include discourses by such luminaries as Robert Briffault, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, Judcr Ben Lindsey, Harry Elmer Barnes, Smith Ely Jelliffc, Margaret Sanger, RobeTt Morss Lovett and Havelock Ellis, to mention only p. few, are consumed with a reforming zeal which tends to obscure the point they seek to establish.

They get no further than the simple statement that Puritan concepts have all but destroyed a rational view of the problem of sex and that the English-speaking races are taking centuries to throw off the yoke of over-repression bom of the seli-denial. Mr. Hayes, however, Is more concerned not with the ii'eal remedy but with a practicable mitigation of our afflictions. Instead of anointing his head with ashes and putting on sackcloth and standing at the city gates to cry to heaven that marriage is a failure. Mr.

Hayes prefers to examine a few of the causes and attempt to sketch possible remedial campaigns. II must be conceded that Mr. Hayes fails, finally. After citing many amazing but, alas, sadly isolated Judgments of divers Solomons in support of his contention that the sex element Is the foundation of marital difficulties, he can arrive at no other conclusion than that "it quite possible that freedom, without stigma, to dissolve an un-hippy alliance would take from marriage a part of the strain which oftc- makes it a difficult relationship. The interesting feature of Mr.

Hayes' argument, however, is that lie by no means rejects marriage as unfitted for human society. His experience in court has brought home most eloquently to him that the further complications of children in some measure restrict the rights of parents to freedom and his reflection that "children are better off in a united happy household, even with one parent missing" should not be mistaken as meaning he believes in a glorified matriarchy in which the man must eventually become the drone. i ONE MIGHT describe "Sex in Civilization" as a compendium 01 what every man and woman should know. It is a well-reasoned and Uy no means ranting book, and while one might dismiss Arthur DaUson Ficke's "A Note on the Poetry of Sex" and "Sex and the Novel," by Robert Morss Lovett, as interesting but immaterial, If not irrelevant, on the whole the round-table discussion stacks high in dignity, rcasonability and sensible information. Here is no weighty tome, calling for sexual chaos.

It strikes no blow the Stale. It merely asks the reader to lay a de for an evening a few of the prejudices instilled In him since childhood and to face a tew indisputable facts. With a sharp insight, it brings before us the fact that the human race existed in robust vigor long before the cold, chill dogma was promulgated that the world of the flesh was the world of the devil. It points out that with slow but certain steps the race Is marching with its back turned upon that doctrine. Because mos: who have written for It are honest in their beliefs, they don't to discover the destination before us.

Sufficient is it for them and us to know that the national viewpoint has undergone a change. Their plea Is that the change may be received with an open mind. That, however, Is too Utopian a hope. For flaming youth is as Intolerant as crabbed age. In no field of human expression is to be founa such bitter intolerance as in the field of national manners and morals.

The mass demands that the individual conform. If It is to be companionate marriage, eventually it must be that dissatisfaction will spring from the arrangement. Nature insists upon trapping its victims with sex. Man Is yet far from being master of his own destiny and his compromises, made for the masses, must always vex and irritate the individuals, no matter what the solution. Because Mr.

Hayes has intimations of this fly in the ointment one feels more inclined to rely upon his evidence. After all, the clergyman who speaks from the depths of his shallow expe-ience is on a par with the theorist who speaks from the shallows of his unsounded mind. It is largely because the loudest talkers on both sides come from these classes that the whole problem has been so badly muddled. This book skilfully avoids any such noisy rhetoric. Alan Le May Abo Marches Along the Path Towards Literature.

By GEORGE XOBBH. PERUSAL of a novel like Alan Le May's "Pelican Coast" (Doubleday, Doran), makes one wonder Just what the quality may be that distinguishes a melodramatic yarn from something more enduring. The materials of an au-thor like Joseph Conrad are often quite sensational, especially so when emphasis is placed upon them by the lurid illustrations that accom-pany the advertisements of his publishers. But even the most casual reader of Conrad must feel that here Is something that rises superior to the commonalty of such fiction. Quite evidently Mr.

Le May has given some thought to this matter, for he seems have arrived at some very definite conclusions in regard to it. The first discovery that he has made is that literature, as opposed to mere ephemeral melodrama, always pursues a leisurely pace. So "Pelican Coast" moves slowly. It develops Its mood with careful deliberation, exploring now a detail of setting, now a facet of character, dwelling lovingly upon the lush background of its bayous and its New Orleans of a hundred-odd years ago. But always there is movement, an almost cautious progress through a succession of minor climaxes that lead up, with cumulative effect, to a smashing finale.

Then there Is the matter of characterization. Ordinarily this Is neglected altogether in the hurry of action that rushes the reader impatiently from thrill to thrill. Individuals never emerge from types In the magazines that proved so hospitable to Mr. Le May's early productions. That is a defect that he has sought sedulously to remedy and the measure of his success is that Pere Miguel, Madame ds Vernlat and her daughter Madelon, Jacques Durossac.

and that "Yanqu1 perdu" Job Northrup thrust themselves into the reader's memory and stay there after the book has been laid aside. So. too, do Pierre La-fltte and that stubborn Bcluche who thought he could overturn the authority of that subtle pirate, Jean Lafltte himself. But there the record of Mr. Le May's successes In characterization comes to an abrupt end.

Jean Lafltte refuses, obstinately, to come to life. In spite of all the resources that the author lavishes upon him, this pirate who never trod a quarterdeck perversely refuses to take on a semblance of reality. He moves like a wan ghost among the others in whom we believe so implicitly. If one might hazard a as to why this is so. one Abut sav that it is because the author has tried too hard.

It often happens In such circumstances. One other detail must be men tioned. Mr. Le May has evidently been Impressed by the fact that too often two characters in romance fall in love at first sight and ultimately marry without having very much of each other In tiu interim. Madelon and Job are no exceptions in this respect, but Mr.

Le May's speculations in regard to the state or their feelings are decidedly un usual, finely imagined and delicately suggested. The incongruity of their inheritance and character does not presage happiness ever after for them, and the restraint and poignancy with hich this Is intimated constitutes perhaps the finest writ' ing in "Pelican coast." The book is diverting from start to finish, both because it has a fable that Is interesting in itself and because it shows no lnconsider able development in Mr. Le May's stature as an author. Murderer, Ahoy! "Murder at Sea" (Minton, Balch Co.) Richard Connell has written an entertaining story of mystery and deduction, but one which falls slightly short In Its solution of the quality of the prob lem. The situation presented is reminiscent of "The Thirteenth Chair" in its basic idea, but the locale Is given considerable Interest in its placing on shipboard.

Briefly, a wealthy man is found murdered. Motive and opportunity are found for a considerable num ber of persons; also various per plexing factors enter which com' plicate matters. In some respects the story seems to suffer from an effort to force too much mystery and complication into a rather narrow situation. Aside from this mi nor weakness It proves well con structed and the suspense created will hold the attention of lovers of detective fiction. Joe Dundee May Not Be Champ After Tomorrow Chicago, March 20 Joe Dun dee's reign as the world's welterweight champion ceases tomorrow as far as the National Boxing Associa tion Is concerned, unless he meets the association's demands.

The N. B. through Its president, Paul Prehn, has ruled that Dundee must sign contracts before Marcn zi caning for a bout with a logical contender and that he must post a certified check for 10,000. The commission has named Jackie Fields and Young Jack Thompson as the two logical contenders. Fields and Thompson meet at tne Coliseum March 28 with the possibility the winner will be declared the holder of the welterweight title by the N.

B. A. Max Waxman, Dundee's manager, wired President Prehn yesterday that the champion would sign before Thursday, but Prehan said the contracts and checks must be placed in the hands of Edward C. Foster of Providence, R. chairman of the championship committee, by that date.

Twelve of the French Revolution, With a Few Fair Enough Criticisms. By MARTHA BAYARD. IWELVE Portraits of the by French Revolution," Henri Beraud, author of a Actionized biography of Robespierre are episodic. No doubt this is by intention. Without benefit of continuity they presuppose a degree of information that may well be puzzling to a generation that knows not Its "disastrously quotable" Carlyle.

"Read Carlyle's 'French Revolution'," as George Meredith has it, and you listen to a seerl" M. Beraud does ample if not very inspired Justice to those men we ex pect to find in this galere. We nave "the complexity" that was Mlrabeau; Robespierre, for all the autnor apologia, stands as Lord and Master of the Terror: the short and tragic story of St. Just, which with the sketch of Desmoullns is particularly readable. M.

Beraud throwing up the sponge as it were, winds up his final analysis of the colossus, Danton, by a page of interrogation. Marat Is here, and Verg-niaud. When Louis-the-King is presented as a founder of the Revolution, there is evidenced the same inverted reasoning (without such scampish whimsy, however) that Guedella affects. With that King. who reigned but.

did not govern, is inseparably connected his ill-fated Queen, both of them playing Aus trian game, and thus adjudged guilty at the bar of history. Beraud stresses the point, so fre quently reiterated in Belloc's match less biography, of the Queen's (and this was also the King's) fatal Ignorance of that passion for organization and symmetrical law which characterizes the French people. There are "The women," cnici among them Charlotte Corday and Madame Roland. A long line of the future marshals of the empire, ris ing from nowhere, under stress of circumstances and conscription, ap pears under the caption, "soldiers and Generals." The Revolution guillotined its defeated leaders I Ws look in vain for Dumouriez, for De Custine. "Leaders of the Mob" gives, among others, a suggestion and it is a mere suggestion of the unspeakable Hanrlot.

Hanrlot hap pens to live ridiculous forever, in another's story of the Revolution, by his mad antics on the eve of the ninth thermldor. galloping around a deranged Paris, drunk and declamatory" kill the policemen!" The translation of this book leaves much to be desired. In fact the translation is slovenly. Frequently in the reading the text leaves sheer puzzlement in its wake. To note but a few of these bungles: Fancy the deputies of the Gironde meeting in that small town house In the Place Vcndome "where Chopin had died." Yes; Chopin was to die gt No.

12 in 18491 How awkwardly constructed Is tne plural on which the book closes "the Danton's Immortal speech Is like to lose Its flame by any translation; but why make the literal gesture of a few trifling letters? As to that gustatory feat of Louis-who-was-King eating 300 pounds of peaches on August 10, we for once do not doubt the transla tor's numerals. History has it that his brother (later Louis XVIII) ate oysters by the incredible dozens, at Ghent, while the dull sound of the guns at Waterloo rumbled in his ears. The publishers (Little. Brown Co.) are to be congratulated on the format of this book, which, with its wood engravings by Bertrand Zadig, is very charming. Mr.

Cobb Laughs RVIN COBB AT HIS BEST" I (Doubleday, Doran), is Cobb the comedian as distinguished from Cobb the tragedian. The papers and stories have all seen type before, both in magazines and be tween book covers. Of the two modes of expression, the newspaper man from Paducah makes his facts funnier. He has written more amusing fiction than "The Life of the Party," but nothing funnier than "Speaking of Oper ations." Herein the appreciative may peruse again Cobb's mellow opinion of operations, dieting and plain and fancy eating and the old' fashioned dime novel of his youth Not a book to read In the subway If you are self-conscious about chuck ling alone in public. Sinister Is Correct FRANCIS BEEDING apparently enjoys writing tales that have as their background some amaz ing European political situation.

And It Is equally certain that the ones who read his stories enjoy the poll- tics that Is so cleverly interwoven Into the plot. Every now and again Mr. Beedlng takes some outstanding European political figure, disguises the character slightly and makes it one of the outstanding persons of his tale. i He did this very cleverly In "The Six Proud Walkers." and though he has hardly done it as openly In "Pretty Sinister" (Little. Brown there Is always the exciting possibility that one or more of Mr.

Beeding's characters are drawn from life. Be that as it may, Mr. Beed-ing has written another excellent thriller In "Pretty Sinister," and one that the average reader will enjoy. If you remember Colonel Gran-by of the English Secret Service, who uncovered the plot against the Italian Dictator in "The Six Proud Walkers," undoubtedly you will recognize the title of Mr. Beeding's later book.

"Pretty Sinister" is Colonel Granby's favorite remark. Of course, Colonel Granby Is one of the central figures of "Pretty Sinister." And with a beautiful, young Russian Grand Duchess who has lost her mind, two sets of International crooks trying to control her Immense fortune, and a few other complications, Colonel Granby is right In saying that things are "pretty sinister." LOUIS DE CASANOVA. ADVERTISEMENT. D'S BOOK SHOP IS a Na-tlonl Institution. Hi stock of Rare and Cholct Books, Prints snd Autographs Is nude accessible to distent Jiuycrs by specialized catalogs.

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Pat Strati and Milk Stmt. THERE Is no God. There is no foundation in authority for ideas oi ngni ana wrong. Love Is a wry joke of the senses and the imagination. Dramatic tragedy is a lost art Immortality, a myth.

Such are some of the conclusions of "The Modern Temper" (Harcourt Brace as revealed by Joseph Wood Krutch, basing his findings upon present-day biology, psychology, an thropology, astronomy and the other special fields Included within the general term science. The polished and crystal-clear prose of Mr. Krutch constitutes a veritable statement of unbelief the Twentieth Century equivalent of a credo. Ideas such as those set forth in this book in the Fourteenth Century would have caused their author to be burnt at the stake; in Victorian England to be tried for blasphemy, and in Fundamentalist Tennessee, one surmises, to be tarred and feathered. To the "modern temper practi cally all of the commonly accepted shibboleths regarding religion, ethics and morality are fit only to be tossed in the discard.

Patriotism, self-sacrifice, respectability and other "virtues" are found upon examination to be shoddy and unreliablethough pragmatically Justifiable. For the real values of life, it Is admitted, depend upon these Illusions," and the net result of all our boasted knowledge, as Mr. Krutch sees it, is a philosophical pessimism which dessicates the soul man an ethical animal in a uni verse which contains no ethical ele ment." In fact we are pushed one step further down Into the depths of hopelessness by the announcement that it is Impossible to regain our illusions about religion, patriotism and love merely by the Intellectual conviction that we were happier when we had them. The most conspicuous and cata strophic wTeck, or perhaps only that which appears so because it is thei most recent, is the annihilation ofj the Illusion of love, particularly as that passion is regarded in, for example, the poetry of Robert Brown ing. For "whatever else love may be (and here Mr.

Krutch calls It some hard names) it no longer Is the ultimate self-Justifying value which once It was." For, alas, "to understand any of the Illusions upon which the values of life depend inevitably destroys them," and after the labors of Ellis, Freud and Krafft-Eblng, not to mention Al-dous Huxley and Ernest Hemingway, we, of course, understand all about the illusion of love! SCIENCE, too, which the Victorians looked upon as the new gospel, has not Justified the optimism of its early missionaries. It has proved, as C. E. Ayres showed last year, "the false Messiah." Although It Increases our understanding of the physical forces In the world about us, and hence our ability to control them, It Is powerless In any ultimate sense to solve the deeper problems of life. As Mr.

Krutch says, "the more we leam of the laws of the universe the less we feel at home in it. Either the light of science is somehow deceptive or the universe emotionally and spiritually empty." These remarks, and particularly the quotations, will, it Is hoped, give some hint of the Intellectual dis tinction, the logical lnevltableness and the spiritual Insight which characterize Mr. Knitch's stimulat ing essay. His final conclusion is that as "this world, in which an unresolvable discord is the funda mental fact, is the world In which we must continue to live wisdom must consist, not In searching for a way of escape which does not exist, but in making such peace with it as we may." The clarity, force and pungency of Mr. Krutch style, his oriel nality of concept and epigrammatic point of expression, lend to his book an unflagging interest, and make its JUST PUBLISHED and Anne Douglaw Sedgwick, in diicutiet the vagariei of Only a Fraud J.

CONKLIN in Sackcloth and Ashes, reading a continuous delight. The atmosphere of the discussion is as keen and stimulating, the prospect as wide-flung and Impressive, the surroundings as rocky and lce-chillcd, as those found at the top of those peaks in Montana which are known as the Garden Wall. Anyone with a taste lor intellectual adventure cannot afford to miss this frank and courageous exploration of the final implications of present-day knowledge. FOR twenty years Girty's nefarious career kept on adding to the blackness that was his name. He was prominent in the massacre at Ruddles Station.

He and his In dians killed David Rogers and most of his men as they came up the Ohio In keel boats loaded with supplies for the Virginia Militia. Al ways he was arousing the Indians against the advancing frontier of the whites. Always he managed to be on hand wherever marauding parties were being planned. His Influence in the Indian councils prevailed long after the Revolution ended and he led expeditions of his own against the settlers. Although the State of Pennsylvania put a price on his head, this "stubborn bull-necked, murderous traitor" died a very ordinary death from rheuma tic fever.

He had become a very old man. A detachment from the British Fort Maiden fired a volley over his grave one bitter, blustery aay in reoruary, ibih. PVEN if a personal history is not a aeservea concession to tne man, we have here an impressive picture of the Ohio border between the period of Lord Dunmore's War and the definite breaking of the Indian power in the West by Mad Anthony Wayne. It Is a work gathered from many sources and a bibliography is appended. With it all Girty, the man, Is still unex plained.

It seems doubtful if his motives were always clear in his own mind. He was not essentially a Loyalist: neither did he have the slightest inclination for landed claims such as actuated the border whites al most to a man. In these and other ways Gtrty was unaccountably alien Perhaps he would have been a fit subject for modern behavlorlsts, gland experts and sociological sooth sayers, ma ne uvea and died to day he might have rated the customary "$15,000 bronze casket or the well-turned off racketeer. "THE MYSTERIOU3 MURDER 1 OF MARIA MARTEN." gath ered from the notes on the case made In 1828 by a J. Curtis, la the fourth volume of the series.

It is a story nearly graphic in Its use of detail, and is a connected account of a famous case, with only cartlal minutes of the trial. The element of the supernatural is introduced by tne star witness, who claimed to have dreamed the circumstances of the brutal crime which led her to uncover the identity of the trulltv man and bring him to Justice. it is a fascinating although sordid story, and its merit lies in the fact that it Is true. Parallels of the Marten case can be found Actionized In any of the magazines catering to such reading matter. senbner announce that a niimtwr of additions will be made to this library of noted cases.

Certainly the iour now on ine stands. II taken as an indication of the quality of what Is to come, are a harbinger of truly Interesting literature of this nature. Brooklyn's Best Sellers The appended list is an actual composite scoring list, based on this week's sales from Miss Adams' Book Shop, Abraham it Straus, Frederick Loeser and A. R. Womrath.

Fiction. "The Strange Adventure" (Mary Roberts Rlnehart), Doubleday-Do-ran. "The Bishop Murder Case" (S. S. Van Dine), Scribner.

"First Love" (E. M. Delafleld), Harpers. "The Village Doctor" (Sheila Kaye Smith), Dutton. "The Case of Sergeant Grlscha" (Arnold Zweig), Viking.

"Garden Oatcs" (Faith Badwln), Dodd, Mead. Non-Fiction. "The Cradle of the Deep" (Joan Lowell), Simon Is Schuster. "Elizabeth and Essex" (Lytton Strachey), Harcourt Brace. "Believe It or Not" (Robert and Ripley), Simon Schuster.

"The Art of Thinking" (Abbe Ernest Dlmnet), Simon Schuster. "The Magic Island" (W. B. Sea-brook), Harcourt Brace, "My Mystery Ships" (Gordon Campbell, Doubleday Doran. Five (5) points are credited to each first place on a list, four (4) to second, three (3) to third, two (2) to fourth and one (1) to Win.

DODSWORTH by Sincfatt Lewh AUTHOR OF Main Street AND Babbitt Here is the novel of American marriage and a group of people whom Sinclair Lewft likes. It Is a study of the American husband and the American wife. It asks what all classes are asking today is the American husband wife-ridden? Are men and women aiming at the achievement of different value? novel of the year! $2.50 HARCOURT; BRACE AND COMPANY ED HOWE, the Prairie Sage, mildly disappoints by giving us precisely what he set out to give, a book called "Plain People" Dodd, Mead cV his autobiography. One discovers to his most unreasonable dismay that youth was golden to the wit of Atchison and that his life story is the history of his people. Ed Howe rejoices that he was of the Kansas majority and yet how well we know here in the East that he has always been a Kansas minority of one.

Not even his labored pretense that Atchison folk are as great as Paris or London or New York beaux and belles can obscure the fact that In him there came to bloom upon the prairie an exotic flower and that the Atchison Qlobe, In the course of human events, enjoyed a reputation far greater than Atchison Itself deserved. He admits he was once a Journeyman printer, and that phrase in the good old days had nothing to do with contemporary "Bix Six" terminology. The composing room called Journeymen of his Ilk "tramp printers." But Ed, with $200, started his paper and was soon to become a national celebrity. He settled down upon Atchison, went to church socials, brought good music to the town, confessed boldly that he didn't like whiskey, revelled in being of the common people and certainly was far above them, always. Not even his boastful, old-fashioned belief In good women, simple livlnf, the uselessness and futility of poverty and the needlessness of fancy ancestors can quite bring him down to the level of a Kansas townsman.

He Is the man Atchison Is proud of; down in his heart he knows It. He belongs to the other generation; his habit of mind frankly avows it. But age has mellowed his editorial outlook. Life, as one learns from homely anecdote after homely anecdote, Is the best cf all possible existences. The mere presence of wastrels, loafers tad bums is something to be recognized but not explained.

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life of Ed Howe, they don't count. And because they don't count, they hardly exist. Atchison is a snug, well-found town city, I believe It calls itself and Ed Howe is its prophet. Once a year the harvest hoboes blow into town, but they blow right out again. Their passage merely confirms Atchison In the belief that to be gossipy, God-fearing and neighborly Is the sovereign duty of a good American.

And so Ed Howe's "Plain People" become the other side of Mr. Sinclair Lewis's bombastic, spuriously cultural "Main Street." They may be Incomprehensible to the Big City, but Mr. Howe Is slightly contemptuous of our lowers and our subways and our traffic jams and apartment hideaways. His book Is an excellent antidote for Metropolitan smugness. It is, in fact, the confession of a small town man who is Incorrigibly proud of it.

And those of us reared In small towns may be forgiven if we backslide Just a few hours to meet up with Ed Howe and his 'Tlaln People" and enjoy them..