full, rich, throbbing tone. The recording is BOHEME-Ah Mimi; Tu Piu (Puccini); FORZA MARRIAGE OF FIGARO-Deh Vieni, Non Tar- Valse (Gounod). Victor. Space forbids more than a scanty mention of these records. The Beethoven arias are a pleasant refutation of Beethoven's supposed incompetence as an operatic composer. Bohnen's singing is glorious, though marred by a trace of "loudspeaker" tone in the record. The duets display impressive Italian lung power, as do the boisterous records of Gigli. Elisabeth Rethberg's charming voice is admirably suited to the Mozart arias. Luella Melius has a pleasing voice; its lightness is an asset in recording, since most of our singers insist on inflicting on the microphone their full Metropolitan volume, with unpleasant results. JOCELYN-BERCEUSE (Godard); ABENLIEDOpus 85, No. 12 (Schumann). Played by Pablo Casals. TANNHÄUSER-The Evening Star; DIE MEISTERSINGER-Prize Song (Wagner). Played by Pablo Casals. Victor. Victor. The simple beauty of the Godard song and the expressive melodic outpouring of the "Prize Song" are high points in Casals's recordings. His perfect taste in treatment leaves little to be said. TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS; ARTIST'S LIFE (Strauss). Played by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by William Mengelberg. Brunswick. Mengelberg can be pleasant in his lighter moments, as this record shows. He avoids the over-brilliant and the over-romantic alike, and gives a performance that is not too serious. AYDA-Introduction and Moorish Ballet; Grand March and Finale (Verdi). Played by Creatore's Band. Victor. Played In four WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (Rossini). by Walter B. Rogers and his Band. parts, on two records. Victor. There is much good entertainment in a well-trained concert band. Creatore's Italian ensemble is well worthy of notice-and very "brassy." Rogers offers a different variety of band music-one that is less noisy. His rich and well-rounded woodwind ensemble, with its mellow reed tone, is a pleasure to the ear. Piano Rolls TWO PRELUDES-Les Sons et les Parfums tournent dans l'Air du Soir; Les Collines d'Anacapri (Debussy). Played by Walter Gieseking. Welte-Mignon Licensee. Extraordinarily fine renditions of two of the best preludes from Debussy's first book. Under Gieseking's touch the piano acquires a veiled tone. ETUDE-Opus 25, No. 7 (Chopin). Played by Harold Bauer. Duo-Art. Though Bauer's treatment of this Etude is well done, there are evidences of a hard tone unnatural to Bauer. Did he really play it that way or is it the reproduction? IMPROMPTU-Opus 142, No. 3, "Rosamunde" (Schubert). Played by Richard Buhlig. Ampico. Into this romantic flow of melody Buhlig is inclined to put too much expression; the music is not allowed to speak for itself. This fault rights itself as the variations become more elaborate." The America of Coronado Indiandetour An enchanted land, where for three days your luxurious Harveycar carries you on a personally-escorted motor tour of ancient Indian pueblos and prehistoric cliff-dwellings in the New Mexico Rockies between Las Vegas, Santa Fé and Albuquerque. A new motor link in the Santa Fe cross-continent rail journey to and from California. Only $50 with everything provided meals, lodging with bath every night and motor transportation. In no other way can you see so much of a vast, fascinating region in so short a time-and with the same economy, the same comfort and the same freedom from all trivial distraction. On the Indian-detour you are still the guest of Santa Fe-Fred Harvey in every detail of accommodation and fine service. Mail this Coupon W. J. Black, Pass. Traf. Mgr. Please send me free picture folder about the "Indian-detour" and "Roads to Yesterday." T The Book Table Edited by EDMUND PEARSON Peace, Peace By DON C. SEITZ HE straw of the great World War continues to be threshed over vigorously. Most important of the flail users is Frank H. Simonds in his new volume, "How Europe Made Peace Without America,"1 in which he digs deep into the sub-soil of European affairs, starting with the peace of 1814 which eliminated Napoleon. Here he finds a marked contrast in conditions. Kings dictated the old alliance; the people the new one. Clemenceau and Lloyd George, the dominating figures, were servants of Parliaments, and these in turn were directly responsi STAMMERING ble to the people. Mr. Simonds holds that If the stammerer can talk with ease when alone, and most of them can, but stammers in the presence of others, it must be that in the presence of others he does something that interferes with Nature in the speech process. If then we know what it is that interferes, and the stammerer be taught how to avoid that, it must be that he is getting rid of the thing that makes him stammer. 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This Europe did not know, and yielded to his will, in the belief that America, coming into the crisis altruistically, could conquer conditions with which Europe had found itself unable to cope. Mr. Wilson, in their eyes, came as a deliverer. He thought so himself. Mr. Simonds recites his sensational appearance in Rome, his appeal to the Italian people, over the head of Orlando, to waive their claim to Fiume, with its resulting reaction of nationalism and the seizing of the port by d'Annunzio. Mr. Simonds accurately describes Mr. Wilson's journey to Paris as "apostolic adventure." Armed with his "Fourteen 1 How Europe Made Peace Without America. By Frank H. Simonds. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. $5. Points," he went to brush away the traditions of Metternich, Talleyrand, and Bismarck, "a fantastic figure" already "broken in health but morally invincible, single-handed in the dark council chamber, fighting the battle of the noble to-morrow, with the grim, sinister, graygloved Clemenceau, the incarnation of militarism, imperialism, Chauvinism, in fact of the unregenerate yesterday." Still more stricken, he was to return victor in Europe, to defeat in America, to face Borah, Brandegee, Hiram Johnson, and their supporters, and to go down to defeat in death. "Mr. Wilson's trouble," recites Mr. Simonds, "arose from the fact that his quarrel was with nationalism wherever found. This quarrel was inevitable because at the bottom of his whole conception lay the vital assumption that whenever his programme for international adjustment clashed with the view of any people as to their own essential national interests, that people would waive its convictions. This no people would do." Added to this the author discovers the "peculiar irony" that, while Mr. Wilson believed he was protecting German rights at Paris against unjust attack, for the German people "he is to-day the man who signed the guilt clause and erected the eastern frontier." All this grew out of the Wilsonian illusion that world opinion would rise beyond nationalism, which it refused to do, especially in America. "His devotion to his principles killed him," says Mr. Simonds, truly enough. Mr. Simonds finds that "all our proposals abroad are addressed to our electorate at home" in recent years, and thus it is "never quite possible to escape the disquieting suspicion that while the American Government continues to cherish the eagle as a domestic symbol, it is to the ostrich that it turns instinctively for an example in all questions of foreign policy." The book is one of value, in spite of its strong foreign slant, for giving a clear, succinct narration of all that has passed in peacemaking since the Armistice. Supplementing Mr. Simonds's work, Major André Tardieu, who was much with us during the war, discusses. "France and America." He tells a long story in contrasts, but concludes, gravely: "If we allow things to go on as they have been going for the past few years there will be danger of a total cleavage" between the republics. "That cleavage," he continues, "must be avoided." That the two have joined in great causes twice in a century and a half he holds as a guerdon that they will meet again "if on both sides the obstacle is acknowledged and measured." GREEN FOREST, By Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $2. It takes all kinds of passengers to make up the company on an Atlantic liner. Most of the passengers crossing to France with Mrs. Challoner and her daughter Suzette are the people one hopes never to meet. Among them are a corset manufacturer and his predatory wife; Arambaru, an insinuative Peruvian, who "gave the impression of having known many lonely women;" and Miss Joy, who, although penniless, is traveling to England (with what the tabloids would call her "love-child") in a first-class cabin on a costly ship, there to make her living writing poetry. The reader is led to believe that the world will be made safe from Miss Joy's poetry and her baby given a name by the ship's doctor. The scene passes on shipboard, but much of the action is indirect, and the characters on shore, who enter the story by implication, are more real than either the slightly saccharine Mrs. Challoner, or Suzette with her flaming youth. Occasional flashes of insight and humor save the novel from what threatens to be a slough of fantasy. "Green Forest" is a place of the heart as difficult to enter as it is to tell about. Barrie or Lord Dunsany can describe such a region; Mrs. Colby makes a valiant endeavor. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. By Irvin S. Cobb. The Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York. $2. Irvin Cobb has been telling stories ever since our memory runneth not to the contrary. Probably no living man has risen to his feet oftener with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen"-and proceeded, after the tumult and shouting has died, to tell a corking good story. He tells eleven in this book. The "Order of the Bath" should be read aloud wherever two or three clubwomen are gathered together. It is a satirical account of the lengths to which NO WIND CAN BLOW IT OUT! PRESS CINCINNATI I'll Pay You 40 A DAY! To Show My Mystery New Cigarette Lighter to Men Quick easy profit for you with this amazing invention. Lights cigarettes and cigars in strongest wind. 14-karat gold plated. 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"Statistics showed that for every seventy-four homicides committed in this State, only one person actually went to the Chair. Why should he have to be the unlucky one of seventy-four?" The light of a penetrating humor illumines these stories; in the case of "Killed with Kindness" and "How to Choke a Cat without Using Butter" it becomes a sardonic gleam, and "We of the Old South" is a poignant addition to the Cobb collection of humorous Americana. THE FAMILY FLIVVERS TO FRISCO. By Frederic F. Van de Water. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2. The mishaps, joys, jokes, and odd experiences of a coast-to-coast family motor journey. It reads easily and is amusing. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. By Kenneth Phillips Britton. Edwin Valentine Mitchell, Mainly the story of a disappointed woman's frantic effort to recapture lost youth and seize upon missed happiness. It is not without ability, but one becomes wearied to disgust by the prolonged tawdriness of the Parisian scenes and the absence of ordinary standards of taste and decency in most of the characters. Essays and Criticism VARIETY. By Paul de Valéry. Translated by Malcolm Cowley. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $4. When Paul de Valéry, at the age of sixty, was elected to the French Academy to fill the place of Anatole France, his name was almost unknown to the general "Variety," pubFrench reading public. lished after his election, was the first of his books to appear in a popular edition, and, though it has passed through many printings, Valéry remains a writer whose influence is transmitted indirectly through its effect upon other writers rather than through its own direct medium. These essays, still his most important work, are now brought to English readers in a finely sympathetic translation by Malcolm Cowley. In them Valéry, philosophic, analytic, yet with the mathematical precision of a physicist, studies the intellect as the instrument through which the consciousness of the artist moves to creation and to expression. Varied as the essays are-ranging from a dynamically compressed summary of the "European mind," through expositions of La Fontaine and Poe, to a magnificent synthesis of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci-they all center upon the psychology of the creative imagination and seek to penetrate that inner consciousness where, "obscure in the midst of the nets which she has woven out of words, a mysterious Arachne, muse of the hunt, watches in silence." Truly this is a remarkable book, profound yet of a scientific clarity, in which literary philosophers and critics will mine for years to come. Travel CRUISING AROUND THE WORLD AND THE SEVEN SEAS. By Stanton Davis Kirkham. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $3. Here are the impressions of a veteran traveler. Mr. Kirkham views the wonders of this mortal world, not through the rosetinted spectacles of the professional purveyor of travelogues, but with appreciation tempered by memories of a fairer past. Occasionally he strikes a faint note of cynicism, for he is revisiting after thirty years lands, once glamourous, now often far gone on the road to standardized medioc rity. Karnak, Edfu, Lima, and a score of other temples and cities still preserve their antique charm, and of these he writes in a way to make one want to visit them. Hav ing passed much of his life in Mexico, he is more apt to turn there for analogies than to the United States. The flora and fauna of Mexico, its vistas and ancient cities, have their counterparts in other continents. Comparison and contrast are frequently employed to form a picture that is memorable. One gathers that the least pleasant part of his travels is that spent on shipboard with his compatriots. He, unlike most tourists, wishes to escape from his own environment in order to enter more fully into the foreign scene. The book is in a sense extremely personal, for it presents the attitude toward life of its author, and that is not the least interesting part. ITALY Politics and Government AND FASCISMO. By Luigi Sturzo. Translated by Barbara Barclay Carter. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $3.75. Don Sturzo is one of the notable men of our times. He is a Roman Catholic priest, who in 1919 founded the Italian Popular Party, the leading features of whose domestic program are in strong opposition to those of Fascism, proposing instead for Italy a leading pacific rôle in international relations. This being so, it is not surprising that Don Sturzo should now be in exile in England. He gives us an analysis of the causes (political, economic, and social) of Fascismo and of the character of that portentous system. The criticism of Fascismo and Mussolini is the more effective inasmuch as the tone of the book is cool, magnanimous, philosophic. Mr. Samuel says that his book is written for those who have given too much to intelligence and too little to emotion. It is addressed almost exclusively to his own race, particularly to the younger generation, whom he sees as drawn either into a barren scientific rationalism that strips life of spiritual and individual values, or into the Jewish Modernist movement, which seeks to emasculate Talmudic ritual and dilute the ancient Hebrew faith. He holds up the indestructible race spirit that has set the Jew apart from all territorialnationalist groups and the individual spiritual and intellectual culture that is rooted in his religious heritage. And he sees the realization of both race spirit and hereditary culture in the rebirth of a Jewish civilization in Palestine to-day-"the blue flame of eternal fire has been preserved and breaks into flame-blossom now in the new life of Palestine." Like Ludwig Lewisohn, he has turned back to Israel as the source and fulfillment of his inmost self. Without Lewisohn's bitterness, he looks back upon his childhood in England, his sense of separatism, his successive ardors for science and for internationalism, and his final surrender to the spiritual vision of Zionism. He has made a gallant effort to achieve the impossible-to fuse impersonal scientific reasoning and emotional self-surrender. Science CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE. By Sir William Bragg. Harper & Brothers, New York. $3.50. In the evolution of a trade may be read the story of man's struggle against odds. New discoveries, varying tastes, and competition keep spurring the producer to improve and increase his output. With this in mind, progress may be measured by a study of crafts. As generation succeeds generation occupations spring up or are eliminated by the substitution of commodiies or by inventions which completely | revolutionize old industries. Thus the inherited knowledge and ingenuity of an age may be gauged by its trades-a flattering I thought to an era which calculates comfort by the amount of life's odds and ends it can turn over to mechanical agents. All this, with illuminating detail, plans, and illustrations, is demonstrated in this book by the histories of six trades. After showing how discoveries and inventions have reduced navigation to an exact science, it proceeds similarly with the crafts of the metal worker, weaver, dyer, potter, and miner. Sir William Bragg handles a mass of scientific data in a pleasingly popular manner, and, amply belying the modest "I must seem to be a Jack-of-alltrades and a master of none" of his preface, has filled his pages with information and interest, combining, happily, romance and science. THE LOST MERBABY. By Margaret Baker. Duffield & Co., New York. $2. EVOLUTION IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION. By Robert Andrews Millikan. The Yale University Press, New Haven. $1. AN APPROACH TO PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL WORK. By Howard W. Odum. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. $1.50. RECENT THEORIES OF CITIZENSHIP. By Carl Brinkmann. The Yale University Press, New Haven. $1.50. THINGS THAT MATTER MOST. By John Milton Moore. The Judson Press, Philadelphia. $1.25. BUSINESS LAW. By Samuel P. Weaver. Allyn & Bacon, New York. $1.40. CHILD GUIDANCE. By Smiley Blanton and Margaret Gray Blanton. The Century Company, New York. $2.25. ONE-ACT PLAYS. Edited by George A. Gold- SOUTH AMERICA. 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