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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 01, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday october 1, 1938 Bren gun inquiry opens Page seven. Funny fish fable 1 Are crammed with data on fishes that climb Trees build nests fish with Onri ii i Boston l. C. Page. Is not a Book to leave lying around for those addicted to Ujj uncontrollable alcoholic stimulation for in a Cuccia to far More alarming and astonishing things than Green purple mils and Pink elephants fascinating pages Are shoot their Lood build nests fish with l their have Teeth and do other amazing things. Here is information abot Fis by mysteries fishy ogres fishy nightmares Here Are data on How fish steer freakish Here indeed Are seem nothing but mild distortion or apr Iii bunding array of facts about strange fish of the person o recounting after dinner yarns will fort and this must come close to the top of the list in Quality. It is about missionary and trading work in new Guinea and though there is some doubt that or. Binns Ever been closer to Papua than me British museum there is no doubt about the immediacy of the color the atmosphere and the action of this Romance. Papuan Waters and the cannibals living on them Are very real and the Tribu ids As addicted in these yarns will find a wealth of material exciting Story describes Black bar arianism saints in summertime. By Brinckerhoff Jackson. 320 up. To Ronto George j. Mcleod. Oa1nts in summertime is an exciting novel of ideas it is a delicious comedy of Man delectable entertainment with an undercurrent of seriousness. The setting is one of those Small and mythical never never lands in Cen iral Europe where the fierce conflicts of our times can be mirrored without libellous implications and where crises can be dramatized without anyone wanting to Call Cut the militia. Or. Brinckerhoff Jack son apparently a new author has exactly the right qualities for Susji a delicate and difficult task insight perspective and ironic subtlety detachment too and a Lively knowl Edge of our times. His prose style is precise and with gallic lightness and sparkling wit. Stagnation that democracies can get themselves into. The infer ence is not that Liberal democracy has failed but that like the league of nations and christianity it has t been tried yet it has t progressed far enough from the achievement of political Justice told k the achievement of economic and i social Justice. Musson Book co. Miss important. There is the fascist Appeal to youth the Promise of terror and adventure As against the Promise of vague abstract ideals. The Black front makes a place for youth endows it with a bit of swaggering authority. The Liberal democracies do not. And the movement represents a revolt from rationalism. The old humanitarian philosophy assumed Man to be a reasonable being failed to take into account the overwhelm it is ail alarmingly close to us. In Force instinct and Union so that you must shiver As you behaviour. Quite apart read this conflict Between Liberal democracy and fascism in far away selo the parades and the plots the swarming of Young Blac shirts the banners and the the Black front a Semi military organization has been until recently the laughing from fascism there is a modern swing away from the philosophy of the eighteenth Century which enthroned reason there is a swing away from Kant and his artificial division of the faculties. Reason has Moons but Moons not Stock Hodgson. And or Cabell achieving Power by Way of pro that Man is a even i Tomkins animal by Courtesy rather of missionary John car _ n and trader Roberta har Jowe Are charmingly satisfying. Here Are painted warriors dangers and escape and love of various kinds. A. Hall co. By Joseph c. Lincoln. 336 up. Toronto the Ryerson. Press. This promising title or. Lincoln hides another of his fabulously interest ing Cape cod tales. All the old ingredients Are mixed into an at Tractive dish for the Reader who likes Tang of the sea. A. Hall co. Has been in existence for generations dealers in shellfish. Its property is coveted As the site of a summer resort and the quarrel Over the land is full of surprises and logic ally contrived complications. The Romance is also up to the usual Lincoln Standard. The tree drops a Leaf. By suby m. Ayres. 256 up. Toronto Ayres goes on and on like the perpetual competent Light romantic novels. And although the general pattern of All of them is the same the de details Are so varied and the characters so diverse that the Ayres fans absorb one after the other with insatiable satisfaction. This Story concerns the Early calf later True love of Oswald for John love and the. Young Gypsy Robillard. The trouble is that Gypsy comes from a snobbish family and John operates a Gar age there is separation because of the family. There is reunion because of a series of Happy Acci dents. And the Romance has its delightful ups and Downs. Colonel Lufton an irascible old dear and Demon almost steals the show from Gypsy and John but not quite Way Vinci Al town councils and parliament itself. Its policy is a i a whole prob Brazen sort of reaction blended an Avalanche of hysterical nonsense attacking the league of nations and democracy frighten Lem of firebrands like Florian Calls for a thoughtful readjust ment not by rationalists but by reasonable distinction is ing Farmers out of their wits by ithe late a k Chesterton a declaring that socialists will con Well it is All rather frightening Fiscale their livestock and pay for and at the same time quite enter it with worthless printed Money. Or Anton Westerling the Middle Taining. But this review leaves the summer comedy of family aged and dignified assistant editor 13ife in and voluble mrs i the respectable Liberal Organ j Rudisch with her husband always the people s runs into the parades and the shooting on a summer visit to selo with his restless Young wife. He Hopes that the contrast Between her former disappearing into his study and the violent arguments with lengths of Leaden pipe and Sophie s romantic flight with Florian. The novel is All Cool urbanity on the Young fascist Home in the country town and i its message is As their Superior life together in Hoda j direct As a Strong blow Between will impress her suitably make the Eves it is this if Liberal her contented. But the wife Falls j democracy cannot Progress from political adjustment to economic adjustment if it cannot make a place for wordless youth if it cannot make a better Appeal a better Promise than vague abstractions to offset the fascist Promise of terror and adventure then the Black front barbarians will win in love with the firebrand. Florian. He is personally attractive he is reckless and adventurous minded. Florian s plight is the plight of youth in Many countries today with no Money no Hope no future no Chance of education or advancement. The Black front j offers him a uniform and a bold Public attitude toward the world As Well As the Chance of promo Tion. It offers the freemasonry of comradeship and mass egotism for his former aloneness. He is no longer doomed to obscurity As a Mechanic in a Small town motor Cycle Agency he is somebody. He can strut and show off a Little he can be mysterious and attend meetings March in parades. He cannot examine the Black front s pretensions with any skill. He has Only his untrained mind and his Boyish equipment. I party s half cocked theorizing on i race and blood he accepts their i flamboyant promises of Prosper Ity. Joining the Black front is 1 Florian s Way of taking revenge i on the world for its indifference i and for his own limitations i Florian is important As a Symbol i of dissatisfied youth today hustling into fascist parades be cause there is no other place for hem. Or. Westerling is important As a Symbol of the pseudo Liberal democracy that offers youth Noth vanity for doubting so he accepts the but a policy of Drift and the of contemplating the abstractions of Freedom As a stuffed shirt author is not striking at but at its Short com i Ings at the lofty objectivity that refuses to come Down to Earth. At stiff necked reaction and the i seiness of Raissez Faire. Or. Wes i liked to share his vague 1 humanitarian views with persons i consequence not with argue m m Story s Best part is nature s lore Here i stay. By Elizabeth Coatsworth. With decorations by Edwin Earle. 246 up. Toronto Longmans Green. Iss Coatsworth s novel of an american girl Pioneer is romantic rhapsodic and often quite readable. The Best j we Are. And perhaps this review sophistication is All that is left torchlight to Valhalla. By Gale Wlhelm 191 up. Toronto Macmillan in Canada. Iss Wilhelm s prose resembles the Blase decor of chairs reduced to skeletons of chromium and tables All ghostly plants and lines of Light. Everything superfluous is stripped away All verbal trimmings explanations phrases chapter Heads she has even torn out the quotation Marks. The advantages of sparseness after Over stuffed prose Are obvious. But the test of such writing is that it must have integrity enough vitality enough or Force or Beauty enough to withstand the stripping. Its Bony Structure must be Good or it should have a touch of the greek Hardihood and swiftness that enchanted us in the poetry of h. D. But miss Wilhelm s prose does not stand the test very Well. When All language is stripped away there is nothing much left but sophistication and More than a hint of phony sensibility. And there is a Surpris ing repetition of the word a usage still inadmissible in first rate English. Perhaps miss Wilhelm s theme is unfortunate. The plight of Morgen which is the plight of or. Compton Mackenzie s extraordinary to should have been disposed of in a Brief clinical paragraph rather than expanded into a novel. Any one who can read a whole Book about the amour of a lady and a Nati ii builder Speaks Masaryk on thought and life. Conversations with Karel Capek. Translated from the czech Totth w i or Justice h h Davis began his inquiry sept 19, into the letting of a contract for the manufacture of Bren guns in Canada. The famous czechoslovakian weapon is shown Here in action during the recent Canadian army manoeuvres at Camp Borden. Consumption per head of population and rates of Progress in Boom and depressions. Sky roaming above two continents. Harry a. Franck. Lust rated. 362 up. Toronto Stokes. A quite graphic account of a trip mostly by air to Central America and the top of South America. Ideal Reading for the Ravel minded. The life of Jules Cambon. By Genevicve Tabois. Translation by c. F. Atkinson. 399 up. Toronto Jonathon Cape. Born in Jules Cambou spent almost 50 years in dancing Book shows How to shag a leg j How to become a Good dancer. By Arthur Murray. Illustrated. 213 up. New York the Musson Book company. As Arthur Murray is undoubtedly America s Foremost dancing teacher we expected much from this Book in respect to the newest Steps and he has not disappointed us. The Book will be especially welcomed now that swing has be come so popular As much space is governmental service of France. He devoted to Steps for this Type of was successively governor general music. It is also just the thing for of Algeria ambassador to the United i the beginner and those who know ".tates, ambassador to Berlin and Only the Oid styles of dancing. The m the thick of the diplomatic daa cult big Appie is not Gles and. Intrigues that priced to by m. And r. Weatherall. 2u up. Toronto Thomas Nelsons. In a famous playwright goes exploring in the head of a famous nation builder that is an event. When the nation builder is the late president Masaryk of Czechoslovakia and the playwright is Karel Capek it is an event that concerns us All. For that much loved statesman had. The vision the mellowness of judgment and the tolerance that Are so badly needed in the world today and or. Capek has the skill for reporting. The Book is exciting to read not Only because of the plight of Masaryk s Homeland but because of the riches of mind and character the amazing scholarship and the intellectual passion that he brought to an understanding of the world s affairs. It is not possible to read far without being affected by the thrilling clarity of his thought and that deep insight so piercing and profound. The great teacher discusses men and movements and ideas Meta physics and religion and philosophy world revolutions and the mass egoism that makes Suth a comfortable theory for demagogues and dictators. He discusses the misuse of science for warfare that is a sin against the holy ghost and conflicts of cultures and theologies and1 Calvin Burn ing Servetus at the stake and the accretions of purifying Meta physics that overlay essential christianity Oriental syncretism and Greco roman and hellenistic thought As Well As the philosophy of Aristotle and the barbarous Eolk legends of the old testament. He declares that religion must come to terms with the develop ment of scientific thought and the development of social conditions. Also Christian love of one s neighbor has in front of it a tremendous task the. Just claims of Masaryk declares that democracy is still in. Its swaddling clothes that the democratic Ideal is not the citizens have their if our democracy has Only political it is social and eco nomic that it involves the abolition of degrading misery and the exploitation of one class by another. Democracy has its faults because faults its shortcomings we must Over come these shortcomings but not overcome he enjoins his countrymen to intensify All their political and cultural Endeavor. The tone throughout is temper ate it is Mellow and just and with a Christian spirit. The paragraphs of the treatment of minorities have a deep significance just now it is our task to win Over to the idea o in democratic. Re Public tile minorities with whom we Are living. Their numbers and their civilization impose both on them and on us a democratic Concord. Our procedure with the minorities is practically Given to us by our own experience under Austria Hungary what we did not like to be done to us. We shall not do unto others. This was the policy of Masaryk of Czechoslovakia it is the policy of president Benes his successor., perhaps the gods did not laugh the other Day when the great Goering raged against their countrymen As a nation of uncultured boors. T at the ale of l be big murder thrillers lady without wanting to crack their skulls together is a better Man than pages Are those dealing with will life Plant lore and the mysterious ways of the Forest. The setting is a Small Clearing in the wilderness of Maine in the year 1817, when the Farmers there tired of fierce Winters in a starving and Stony land Are preparing to leave for the Rich Fields of Ohio. But one settler stays on in her lonely Cabin. It is the Young girl Margaret Winslow fortified by the spirit of her father by Solitude and poetry and a great Gold Harp. Friendly indians attend to her Weiying an omniscient Eagle brings forecasts and portents a troop of a no at to nto her Home tentative and Small peasants own storekeepers. He liked with his head wrapped in Beautiful abstractions. What looks democracy an arraignment of Liberal Here is of the really morass h b c the Bay Book shop wafers outstanding new books of the fall. The world is Story a modern Monte Cristo by William Blake l. Despondency s a new novel by Anne Parrish author of All 2.50 Konigsmark by a. E. W. Mason. A Book society recommendation. 92 Mirl Borough his life and vol. The it. Hon. Winston s. Churchill 7.50 _ main floor from his father authorizing and permitting their courtship. After leaving her alone All Winter to fight blizzards fires and wild beasts in the barn John arrives with the blossoms in the Spring All rectitude. Co rectitude and authentic Romance. Well the Rush of it does make your heart beat faster it is rather like a legend from Longfellow. But the pages describing the wild erness Are Worth it. These Are written with deep knowledge and More than touch 1 of Beauty. Romantic novels not quite Wise. By Ann Delamon. 286 up. Toronto col Lins this romantic Story does two things. It recounts the not too successful love life of one emmy Winter and it traces the training and development of the average Ballerina s career. Miss Delaram is obviously full of both aspects of her subject. She makes emmy unusually real and. Human As she struggles with love and marriage she exploits the Ballet background with unexpected competence. A Little More explanation of dancing Steps and postures would have helped the but those who understand the Ballet s graces will have no difficulty. T. By papuan Waters. By Ottwell Bias. 288 up. London Ward lock. Or. Binns has writ ten More thaa a score of books in t very Check list of i books received j the free press has received copies of the following new books. From time to time the More important of them May be Given suitable longer reviews. Keeling and son. By h. K. Hales. 316 up. London Hurst and Blackett. Reminiscent of Arnold Bennett in both Content and style this Long Story is full of life detail from the famous five towns. The incidents philosophy and general approach to the problems of novel writing Are also strikingly reminiscent of Bennett or. Hales was in fact schoolmate of Bennett and was the prototype of the love on the run. By w. H. Love Crawford. 288 up. London Ward lock. Here is extraordinary hilarity in the romantic novel Field. Or. Craufurd is adept at concocting unmistakably uproarious situations involving Petty knavery. Carey s carnival. By Bert Shurtleff. 288 up. London Hurst and Blackett. A circus novel reminiscent of Neil Bell in which the main action is accompanied by Many unusually vivid minor episodes. E it yesterday s Lover. By Elizabeth Margetson. 318 up. Lon Don Ward lock. For the female Reader who likes an Art Motif in her stories this Bright yarn of an artist painting on the South coast of France will Appeal. Noel Falls in love with a Man who Bas lost his at the possibilities of this. F s world production and prices. 137 up. Information Section of the league of nations. Geneva league of nations. Analyses development of primary and secondary production m the world since compares changes m production with those in stocks it primary commodities profits quantum of Trade and merchant shipping elucidates changes in labor productivity production and or trick. Up. Toronto Oxford. This indeed the genial and Unac count j cannot Able or. Pendlebury s Story. Though he does not appear in it i perhaps in parts its seven Basic parts Are sufficiently explained and illustrated to make it possible for one to master them j with a minimum of practice. Learn i ing to dance by Book has always been considered hard but Arthur Murray overcomes Many of the difficulties by employing a new system of his own. Enclosed Are knife knavery Pendlebury o hat j life size footprints to be used Byj by Anthony Webb. 280 j the Pupil and with the Aid of which the most inexperienced beginner go wrong. Everything is very simple ii Ere is too my Civ simplicity. If one follows instruct immediately he appears quite soon enough and with the most laudable and satisfactory results when sir John Gutteridge minister of euro Pean affairs is found murdered with a curious knife in his ribs and tons there is no piece that a pop ular orchestra plays that you can t dance to. There is plenty of trucking Suzie Qung and shagging i there Are also Many helpful tips. Are the dramatic work of and or. I the Book we especially i recommend you to read this week j various state documents Are a to zip ii tips missing a Hullabaloo Breaks out. I throughout the Book and the last and it takes or. Pendlebury to is devoted to etiquette of see not Only the significance of sir plus dancing for Chil John s disturbed chess Puzzle but the curious fact that the Kings Are found on neighbouring squares. What does it mean events move rapidly in this murder thriller the complications exciting and Pendlebury is absolutely up to Par. Recommended to fans. Seaside sourness the twisted face. By Frederic Arnold Kummer 223 up. Toronto Dodd Mead. Or. Kum Mer has write at least 35 books but this is Only his second murder thriller. Fans will recall favourably his scarecrow murders released some months ago. And in the from things British needs some sort twisted face or. Kummer Refuge however there is a one of those finds that come along about every Twelvemonth. In this instance it is an utterly charming diary written by an american woman spending a year in England and on the continent. The author is Given As Dorothy Halsey but she is using her Maiden name. And Little wonder. Her of britches etc., to the reputation that yarn made for him. Here is something quite definitely sinister quite definitely exciting and quite definitely Satis factory in its love note. Sally mar tin is a red head that is enough to Start off any kind of Story. But when her sour old aunt Dies and leaves Sally an old and slightly ramshackle country estate and Sally goes to claim it. And Dis covers the undeniably dead Corpse shut up in other j things begin to happen. Here is the skilful judge Tyson aided by his equally skilful son who appears in fiction for the first and let us Hope not for the last How the mystery is unravelled the part played by Sally s Loose Cousin and the neatly presented background of Seaside life in Maryland has much to recommend it. Vicious vice the listening House. By Mabel Seeley. 296 up. Toronto Doubleday Doran. Here is a Long detailed intricately plotted and highly competent murder thriller by a new author in this Field. And the Good word to pass along is to keep an Eye open for miss Seeley and her fabrications in this line. She writes with exceptional effect about a group of mixed characters in a curious lodging House and by mixed characters is meant some average run of mine people and some bizarre and unusual ones. When the narrator mrs. Dacres on losing her Job moves to cheaper quarters she quickly finds herself involved in a murder mystery that enmeshed the people in mrs. Garr s lodging House. There Are outlandish death fights in dark Large sums of Money vice and deceit in this plot. Don t miss it if you re a Izal 4 jewel Jinks the Case of the shoplifter s shoe. By Erie Stanley Gardner. 310 up. Toronto Mcclelland and Stewart. If you want your murder thrillers to have body to them full of the Salt of Legal warfare Over defendants tingling with exciting then this is your dish. It is Gardner s j fifteenth yarn and perhaps his Best. Perry Mason suave and. Complis hed lawyer becomes dentally entangled in a mysterious jewel disappearance the mystery leads to murder and in a couple of., chapters Mason is in the thick of defending a mild and poised Gray haired old lady against charges. The defence leads Mason and his stenographer Dela and the Taci turn Drake into Many curious places including gambling joints and raiding private apartments. There is a Fine series of chapters devoted to Mason defending in the court this is recommended inn Lei stuff. Wholly delicious sense of humor a Fine lot o f literary jewel Ling and enough striking phraseology to turn the head of any critic. Your required Reading therefore will in dude with malice. Toward some and you will bless the Musson Book company. 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