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lZ WILMETTE LIFE December 27, 1929 [I IOYNWN WAPl. · IYANSTON WILMETTE 3700 Comment on Books and Authors OUR AFTER CHRISTMAS CLEANUP Of BOOKS that didn,t quite survive the Christmas Rush 0 Some of them jackets torn. have Some show evidences of having been handled. A few are even somewhat soiled! 0 THE UNITED STATES OF EU· log ical. H e knows his facts and knows ROPE, by Paul Hutchinson (Win- how to usc them effectively. Everynetka). Published by Wllett, Clark one interested in world affairs would do well to devote a few hours to a and Colby. careful persual of this most important The Gnited States of Europe is a book that any thoughtful adult will find both book. interesting and profitable. It will be of special interest to north shore people, CAPTAIN MADELAINE. By Mary because the author. Paul Hutchinson, asCon stance D uBois. Century. sociate editor of the Chri stian Century. · Thi s jc; the story o f fourteen:. year-old is a well-known re sident of \V'innetka. ~ladeline of Vercechers, who, in the days The purpose oi the book, · in the auth- when Canada was 1'\ ew France, held her or's own word s, is to "describe the situa- father's fort against an attack of hostile tion out of which the movement for Iroquois bent on recapturing a French boy the establishment o f a Cnited States cf and· girl who had taken refuge in the fo r t. Europe has ari ;;en and the factors which The girl, Agne s de Clermont, had been have made the appea rance o f this situa- for three years a kindly treated prisoner tion inevitable." of the Mohawks, who regarded her as Mr. Hutchinson obtained the materials sacred because of her blue eyes and light for this political and economic study from hair. The first part of the book is deresearches and ,·isits made in Europe at voted. to her stay among these People various times and especially in the sum- of the Long Hou se . The communal mer of 1929. life is accurately, if lightly, sketched. In September, 1929, ~r. Briand. forThe main theme o f ~!i s s DuBois' story merly premier of France. in a speech is the heroism of young Captain Madebefore the League of Kat ions made a leinc, and her success in outwitting and plea for the formation of a United States outfighting the Mohawks. Most chilof Europe. In his speech Briand em- dren \\ill find it thrilling etH,ugh to read phasized the fact that the idea was nnt twicr. originial with him but had for generations been in the minds oi phi losophers "AN ANONYMOUS GENERATION" and poets. Just now, however, it seems Andrew MacLeish has an extensive as if this dream of a European federaarticle in the December 7 issue of the tion might become realized. Saturday Review of Literature enMr. Hutchinson takes up thi s idea ad- titled "An An onymous Generation," vocated by Briand and for some 200 which concerns itself with the subject pages presents a wealth of economic and of modern poetry, and a resull1e of industrial details supporting the conten- the evolution of poetry. In speaking tion that a United States of Europe should of verse of another age he writes: be established . He claims that disarm- "Eventually it changed. It renounced ament under present conditions is ~ot its world. Each poet became conto be expected. "But as the Cnitcd cerned with hi s O\\·n peculiar continent States of Europe it would be impossible and was greater a s that was stranger. to justify a continuing competith·e Originality, wh ere no greatness was armament." possible, became the sole greatness. The author's style is clear, simple and Genius, the poet \ exceptional unlikeness to the other m en, was the final praise. Not the poem but th e poem's novelty was the criterion . \Ve now percieve, in spite o f ourselves, that the external universe exist s independently of our con sciousness and that between it and consciou sness the re is no more possibilit y of communication than between a granite block and the square root of three ." Poetr y, like every other phase of ou r life, has been cffectecl by the "conq uest of t he cosmos by Science." " But ," says M r . MacLei h in conclusion, "it (the conquest) is no lordship. It gives mankind no position of honor . It is no more a conquest tha n the collection of rain is a conquest of rain. It is a finding out How. . . . We do not ·wish to be kings. We wish to knmv HO\v. And we know. And we arr bored." 1 By E. H. Thompson. Boston: Marshall Jones company. A residence of thirtv years in Yuc<ttan has ·pr ovided local color in abundance for :Mr. Thompson's book for children. Hiding from t he dangers of a Mexican revolution. three American childr en (who are the author's), born in Yucatan and . peaking the Maya language, acc ompanied by native servants, wander . for days, in a Swiss Family Robins o n sort of way, through an almost interminable ca,·e in Yucatan. Many and varied are the adventu:es of the little band. Dangers appear '.ln\! are caused to eli appear thro ugh tht" resourcefulne ·s of nature, the acumen of the nati,·e s, and the kn o wled ge of the children. · Folk-tales. nature-lore. and former experience s arc the main topics of conversation. THE CHILDREN OF THE CAVE. A HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY. Bv Col. P. M. A shburn . Houghton ).fifflin. This book. written bv the Librarian of the Surgeon G eneri:tl 's Office, col· lects for the fir st time between two covers the hist ory o f military s ur gery in the United States· from 1773 to 1928. 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