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It Seems to Me HIYWOOD CM CHARLES H. SHERRILL has often shown a fondness for denouncing pussy-footing, and so it is just as well that he has at last come out frankly as a Fascist propagandist. There is no reason now why there should be any confusion as to the issue of America's participation in the Olympic Games. The general was rather successful for a while in muddying the waters. In the beginning he asserted that in spite of the obvious connotation of his re-

marks he was a strong supporter of Jewish rights. He argued that the sort of government whi<!h obtains in Germany was no proper part of the business of any American who wished to compete in Berlin or to aid others to compete. Naturally, he had to ignore the fact that Hitler himself had publicized the meet as a demonstration of Nazi power and glory. Up to the present time Gen. Sherrill was an old-fashioned Democrat who believed in free speech, free assembly and at-

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tendant ideals. But suddenly he has quit the masquerade and come clean if you could call it that. In a speech before the Italian Chamber of Commerce in New York, the general not only kowtowed to the Fascist system as exemplified in the rule of Mussolini but vigorously attacked America's policy of embargoes against the land of the Duce. a tt tt Anri No Return Tickets “ T SPEAK,” he said at one point in his address, * "for a gallant father who has sent his own two sons into the thick of the fighting for their beloved homeland—the new Italy.” I assume that Gen. Sherrill refers to those threatening maneuvers which the Ethiopian Navy was holding off the coast of Venice until Mussolini decided that he must save the homeland even though it east the life of very mother’s son. And again Gen. Sherrill declared in ringing tones: ‘‘The black night that fell over Italy came to an end when Mussolini launched the Fascist movement.” Indeed, the genial general went into some detail about the fate worse than death from which the Duce saved Italy. It seems that before the dictatorship was established "the trains were always late.” And now. I suppose, they run every hour on the hour, and so do the troopships, which is the invariable price which stiflering humanity must pay for Fascism. I wonder if it may not be that there are mothers in Italy who would prefer to miss a train rather than a first-born son. tt a tt “ Protecting” the Minorities IT will be sheer impudence if Gen. Sherrill contends from now on that he is taking no political position in urging participation in the Berlin games. But- the general is a brass hat, and the metal seems to have entered into his speech, his soul and his mental processes. Hitler welcomed him warmly when he went abroad to see if any sort of racial discrimination was being practiced in regard to the Olympics. The general has publicly stated that the rights of all groups were being protected. Fortunately, for the sake of further clarification, Hitler has just issued a definition of what he means by the word "protect.” In justifying the policy of persecution and segregation Hitler told Hugh Baillie thai, this policy "protects” the Jews. In other words, when a non-Aryan is sent to a concentration camp he is told that, he is being imprisoned so that his rights may not be trampled on. The issue has always seemed clear to me, and I do not see why there should be any confusion. The question is as simple as this: “Do the American people want to applaud Fascism or rebuke it?” Sherrill has come out openly for Fascism. The challenge is plain. It must be answered.

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

AS I have said, there are wide differences in digestion between individuals. One person may digest substances which are impossible for others. You can learn a great deal about your digestion simply by watching the way in which you react to different food substances. You should consider diet not as the taking of a single food substance, but as the sum of all the materials that you put into the stomach in a period of 24 hours, and then in periods of weeks. Milk, vegetables or fruit, Is desirable in every meal, but the person who is sensitive to milk finds it a poison. Some people seem to benefit by use of peculiar diets. When they do, remember that the mind has considerable effect on the way we feel, and that much of the result may be due to the optimism and increased care associated with a special diet. It has been suggested that we ought to eat only when hungry, and then only in very small amounts. Here again adaptation should be made to the individual. B B B \ FOOTBALL player or a heavyweight boxer needs several steaks and lots of potatoes. A business man having the same materials for luncheon would be incapacitated for the afternoon. A lumberjack will eat a half dozen sausages, a dozen or more wheatcakes with sirup, and two or three cups of coffee for breakfast. A pre-school child with the same food would spend a few weeks thereafter at. home. Among other factors, we know that strong emotions will stop digestion. Much is said also of the relationship of chewing to digestion. In first and second childhood we can get along with liquid food. However, nowadays many of us have good teeth in second childhood and try to masticate foods for which the stomach is not prepared. A certain amount of dry. crisp food is desirable in the diet, because it helps to cause a flow of saliva. Some bulk is necessary for adequate digestion, since movement of the foods along the intestinal tract is regulated to some extent by the bulk of the waste material. You should not suddenly increase or decrease amounts of food you take, because the digestive tract requires time to adjust itself to the changes.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

acquainted with “sima” and "sial" if you want to talk the technical language ol geologists these days. "Sial ' is the name which geologists have given the granite rocks which constitute the continents. •'Sima" is the name for the heavier basaltic rocks which constitute the floor of the oceans and which underlie the continents. Sial floats upon sima and according to certain recent theories, the theories of continental migration, sial moves about due to the periodic melting of the sima beneath, a melting brought about by radioactive heating. Originally, it was supposed that the interior of the earth was in a molten condition. Then it became popular to believe that the earth had a solid interior. Now geologists, chiefly because of the studies of the propagation of earthquake waves, are inclined to believe that the earth has a liquid core. This hquid core is believed to have a diameter of about 4300 miles. Surrounding it. geologists now believe, is a layer of heavy rock, silicates impregnated with iron. This layer is thought to be about 1056 miles thick. Next comes the sima, about 700 miles thick. At the top of the sima is a layer of ultra-bftic rocks about 14 mtlea thick upon which the sial £oats.

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tumbling Ssn Fran in, h. t umtis , mu. m. ..itil.i. gradient. . <f tj f age 0/ speed. Coming back, how Customs and immigration offices, .t top) of the C hina f j;f f ever, the clipper will scoop thai . . , I. . , „ clipper, showing the distribution f •w* / ™ I®s f nut. of the water withou lounge Tnd and of the considerable interior space. The controls of If/ Mfe X pause, toss it in the lap of the airBut we. with the 10 others who the passenger quarters is as solid t * ie China Hi At Wake we find palm seedling: are to fly with us and the friends as the rail along a liner's deck; it Clipper and at -bii j ifflf Wk SSi coming along niceiy; there is i here for the “sailing party,” are is unshipped, of course, for flight, ’ pm/ / 4Sfr \\ flgh. - gif cooling green of grass before th< most interested in a black and but its solidit y is a comforting the right, MM. \ i ■ airport buildings; the hotel serve: whte IS a gate symbol of the clipper’s strength. Wj; i J JSw S it R fresh vegetables from it: which gives, in turn, onto a glass For strong she is and seagoing, f j/j- •' t: II kitchen gaiden. door too; her hull subdivided like that berths with if?” Jm f \ Already the hardships of the “China dinner ” the sien reads ' of a steamer; licensed after c:-:- l\M* ;W I V A l i North Haven pioneers who carvec “r>pmr,s 4 n m for Honolulu’ haustive tests to carry more than models posing > v ' ; ‘ Jm*- this base out of the uninhabitec Maiflla and via Midway her own 25 >, tons in passengers, !/'/'#, % \ i coral have become legend-some-Wake* Island and Guam. Mails fuel and cargo. to show that .\j W , \\ t Sjr '' th ing for the veterans, off watch close 3 p.m.” We are “below,” perhaps stand- occupants are not /M -*gZWI ■ • to yarn about. a c tt mg by the pursers office to ask /' s y . |h||| MsT ' ' ' a tt a BEYOND that glass door, at the f, bout dinner : when we feel a gen- cramped. ' A LOFT again the next day foi tie movement beneath us and usn f r\ foot of the ramp which leads to one of the big window-like j t , S; „„ - f/l J 1450 miles of daylight flying awav from Dasseneer waiting ports just in time to see the air- *“*• ■'■afowma ttm■ . ... ■* to Guam. Here, where the Mala)

In the article below, eleventh of a series telling the dramatic story of transoceanic air line pioneering, Sutherland Denlinger takes us on a trip to the Orient by seaplane. BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer afternoon in Alameda. As we come up to the Pan-American Airways Pacific Terminal, Oakland behind us, a westering sun sheds its gold upon the tumbling hills of San Francisco, across the bay; envelops the rusty flanks of a dingy outbound freighter in momentary radiance. Down from the auto, luggage to a porter, into the airport. An odd and exciting place, thus: railway and steamship pier shaken together with anew and magic ingredient. Customs and immigration offices, ticket and information wickets; lounge and restaurant and bar. But we, with the 10 others who are to fly with us and the friends here for the “sailing party,” are most interested in a black and white sign set over against a gate which gives, in turn, onto a glass door. “China Clipper,” the sign reads, “Departs 4 p. m. for Honolulu, Manila and Macao, via Midway, Wake Island and Guam. Mails close 3 p. m.” a t> B TYEYOND that glass door, at the foot of the ramp which leads away from passenger waiting rooms and operations headquarters ; hangars and machine shops and the sentinel tower set hard against the tall radio masts, the China Clipper already is moored against her float. Her broad cargo hatches gulp tons of mail and express; the hand baggage of passengers, ticketed for the cabins they are to occupy on the overnight, is carried aboard by the amidship gangway. Up on the glassed “flying deck,” as far above the ship's main body as is a liner’s bridge from her promenade, navigator and co-piiot and engineer officer and radioman pore over charts, familiarize themselves with the “flight plan” worked out by the skipper for this particular trip from reports of weather, ceiling, wind speed and direction—a score of factors. Still further up, busied about the four huge engines streamlined into the leading edge of the clipper’s 130-foot monoplane wing, the airport's chief mechanic and his aids are engaged in a final checkup. 3:30. The skipper collects his papers, shakes the hand of the field operations chief, comes abroad. a tt tt AND now the gate swings open, and from a babble of farewells we pass into a single-file line, tickets in hand. Through the door, down the ramp, up the gangway. The handrail which assists us along the rubber-covered pathway to the stairs leading down into

Science Advisory Board Asks SIOO,OOO a Year in Report Attacking New Deal s Failure to 'Save Millions' by Acting on Findings

fly T'vitrd Priai WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—Fifteen leading scientists today urged an annual appropriation of SIOO,OOO to co-ordinate and put to practical use the modern miracles constantly being developed in America's laboratories. They recalled the New Deal's failure to act upon several of their past recommendations which would have saved "millions of dollars.” Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chairman of the Science Advisory Board, said that the report to the President today concluded the board's 28 months of existence but that its committees would continue to work on two major pieces of “unfinished business"—a study to make airships as safe as human beings can devise and improving safety at sea so that ships may be able to conquer fog. Members of the board wrote in their second and final report: “If the service is not of far greater value than this (SIOO,OOO annually! to the government, it is certainly not worth the time of the co-operating scientists.” a a a THE report estimated that the board's services during the past 28 months would have cost private industry at least $250,000. It cost the government nothing because of a grant of $50,000 from Rockefeller Foundation for operating expenses. Under the proposal for annual appropriations. $25,000 would be used for similar costs and $75,000 would be used for further application of scientific knowledge to make American life better. The group also asked immediate appropriation of $1,750,000 for the next two years. This $3,500,000 fund would be alloted to nonprofit making institutions for further research. Asserting that some of pre-

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A diagram (top) of the China Clipper, showing the distribution of the considerable interior space.

the passenger quarters is as solid as the rail along a liner’s deck; it is unshipped, of course, for flight, but its solidity is a comforting symbol of the clipper’s strength. For strong she is and seagoing, too; her hull subdivided like that of a steamer; licensed after exhaustive tests to carry more than her own 25 V- tons in passengers, fuel and cargo. We are “below,” perhaps standing by the purser’s office to ask about dinner, when we feel a gentle movement beneath us and -ush to one of the big w r indow 7 -like ports just in time to see the airport manager, on the float, raise his arm. Four o’clock, and w r e are under way. a a a /YUR four tw-in Wasp engines, each of 800-horse power, are roaring now, and the great propeller blades slice swiftly through the air, but we in the lounge or the cabins giving off the 80-foot long main corridor can hear nothing, since the interior of the ship is w'holly soundproofed. The transition from the water to the air is something of which w r e become cognizant only when we find ourselves looking dowm upon the gaunt towers of the San Francisco-Oakland bridge, upon the tall headlands which form the Golden Gate. The great clipper sits as solidly in one element as in the other. Up on the flying bridge, roomy for all its number of radiumdialed instruments, the radio officer has turned from final “goahead” conversation with Alameda to work with Honolulu, 2400 miles away. It will be some hours before the Clipper can start “riding” the Hawaiian direction-finding beam, but until then the San Francisco direction-finder station will supply course data to check against the findings of the navigation officer, even now beginning a celestial observation. a tt T’\ARKNESS and dinner time find us far at sea, hurtling “beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars” at 150

vious recommendations which would have saved the government ‘‘many millions of dollars,” had not been adopted, the report said: "In the evolution of our national life we have now reached a point where science, and the research which has discovered and released its powers, can not be left to accidental application. Its relations to our social welfare are constantly growing more intricate and intimate.”

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The controls of e the China Clipper and, at the right, a section of the berths with models posing to show that occupants are not cramped.

miles an hour—plus. From our altitude of 8000 feet the tumbling waste of Pacific rollers is a smooth and silvered floor, a-shimmer with moonlight, vanishing occasionally as we plunge through a bank of clouds as if into a tunnel. Sleep in a comfortable stateroom, on berths more generous than those of Mr. Pullman, while the clipper tears on through the night, collapsing the five days of the swiftest steamer passage to Honolulu into a brief 17 hours. If the morning sunlight wakes us early we may be up and stirring about the time that the skipper, who has been snatching a moment's rest on his ounk, takes the controls from the co-pilot in preparation for landfall. 6 A. M„ and the clipper is sliding home al(ng the directionfinder lane as accurately as if she were on rails. The radio officer calls Honolulu. “Flight No. 7,” he says; “Flight No. 7 calling Honolulu.” “Okay, Flight No. 7. Go ahead.” “Flight No. 7 on schedule 75 miles east Honolulu. Altitude 8000” . . . “Honolulu to Flight No. 7. Okay, Flight No. 7. Come on in. Ceiling unlimited, visibility ...” tt tt a VEN as the radio operators talk the clipper thunders forward, winding up the spool of etheric thread which binds her to

-pvR. COMPTON said that the two major problems unfinished by the group would be carried out under a science advisory service which will be established by the nation’s most select scientific group, the National Academy of Sciences. He said that research in the design and construction of airships to improve their safety by complete analysis of their stresses would be finished by a committee

the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, to play in the national championship tournament. The various titles at stake are the women’s team of four, mixed pair, board a match open team of four, and the national open pair. While all the defending champions are Eastern players, I predict that several of the trophies this year will be won by Western players. By having the tournament in Chicago, Western players are attending in larger numbers, since they do not have so far to travel. There are some mighty fine card players amongst the Westerners. Greatest interest for Chicago players centers around the team of four championships, as the trophy for this event was presented to the league by Chicago bridge players in 1929. This cup is now held by a New York team, captained by Bernard Rabinowitz, Mr. Rabinowitz brings out a simple but important play in today’s hand. Asa spade is the natural opening against three no trump. South should not win until the third round, thereby exhausting East's hand of spades, v Three rounds of clubs should be cashed and when the club suit

the port of destination. A few minutes, and a passenger calls delightedly to his traveling companions to “come and see.” We are in sight of Diamond Head. Palm trees, houses, churches, a strip of gleaming beach, vessels at anchor. And now down, rushing easily along a descending ramp of air until we make contact with the water again, taxi up against the float at Pan-American’s Pearl Harbor base. For some of us this is destination; others are going farther west along the incredible highway, and these are joined by westbound passengers from Honolulu several score of them, perhaps, for we are to clip along to Asia by daylight stages and will not require the berths. A swarm and a bustle about the aii port as mechanics overhaul the motors, make hose connections with the huge fuel tanks, check the whole tremendous, intricate structure which is to bear us along to China. It is fast work, too, for we are scheduled tc descend on the lagoon at Midway well before nightfall. tt an A ND now, off once more, shooting along above an ocean broken by the vt ’canic dots which are the westerly Hawaiians, tiny islands somehow reminiscent of the barren Caribbean keys. A little more than nine hours,

under Dr. William F. Duran, professor emeritus of Stanford University. Dr. Compton said that for the first time scientists had gone over the entire airplane structure and made analysis of effects of varying stress conditions encountered in flight so that planes will be as safe as human ingenuity can make them. Another committee will complete its work on signaling for

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and we are above a cluster of surf-inclosed atolls—the Midway Islands. Down into the lagoon, and up to the float, and ashore for dinner—perhaps for a bit of tennis to limber up unused muscles before the tropic dusk reminds us that the hotel’s beds are comfortable and that the takeoff for Wake tomorrow will be early. The “voyage” to Wake Island is unbroken bv any sight of land; we traverse 1242 miles of ocean in just about eight hours, but at the end of our flight we have, thanks to the International Date Line, lost a day. The astronomers have had their little joke at the expense'of an age of speed. Coming back, however, the clipper will scoop that day out of the water without pause, toss it in the lap of the airport manager at Midway. At Wake we find palm seedlings coming along niceiy; there is a cooling green of grass before the airport buildings; the hotel serves us fresh vegetables from its kitchen garden. Already the hardships of the North Haven pioneers who carved this base out of the uninhabited coral have become legend—something for the veterans, off watch, to yarn about. a a a \ LOFT again the next day for 1450 miles of daylight flying to Guam. Here, where the Malay strain predominates among a people who call themselves Chamorro, we feel ourselves for the first time actually in contact with the Far East. But the island flies the American flag, is a United States naval base. The following evening, however, after we have completed the 1500mile flight to the great city of Manila, we are really in the Orient —only 700 miles from the mainland of Asia. Here the flag is the new banner of the Philippine Commonwealth, and Alameda airport, so close in point of time, seems very far away, indeed. The flight to Macao, Portugal’s possession at the mouth of the Canton River, in China, does not even consume an entire morning. Less than five hours after we have cleared Manila on the last leg of our 8682-mile journey we are dropping down into a lane kept clear of junks and sampans, taxiing up to the float. Canton is only 40 miles away; planes of Pan-American’s Chinese lines stand ready to speed us on to Shanghai or Peiping. Our trip to China has taken us less than five days; add the day lost crossing the International date line and we have still done it in under a week. Yet this, before either of us is much older, will be called slow time. Tomorrow—The Future.

safety at sea, Dr. Compton said. Devices perfected during the World War for detection of enemy ships and submarines and short wave developments are being studied to see if they can be adapted to protecting lives on the seas. Three zones—the high seas, approaches to harbors, and harbor navigation—are being studied and recommendations will be made. a a a A LTHOUGH Dr. Compton said that in general the board had the complete co-operation of the government departments, especially of the secretaries, the report to President Roosevelt cited two examples of “very important” recommendations which had not yet been put in effect. One was a proposal to spend part of the $4,000,000,000 Works Relief fund on scientific projects and the other would have consolidated numerous Federal mapmaking agencies. Concerning the latter, the scientists said: "Though approved in principle and generally in detail by all department heads concerned, and though demonstratably leading to savings of many millions of dollars. the administrative difficulties in the way of major modifications in existing governmental bureaus have apparently thus far blocked action.” Signing the outspoken report were Compton, R. A. Millikan, chairman of the California Institute of Technology: Charles F. Kettering, president of the General Motors Research Corp.; Frank B Jewett, president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and others of equal attainment. Their researches through the years have concerned such diverse things as cosmic rays, automobile brakes, the reason for grass being green, telephone cables, the forecasting of the weather months ahead and. the study of infantile paralysis serumi^r

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Fdir Enough mi nut GIBRALTAR. Dec. 2.—The parade of the wooden soldiers, officially known as the ceremony of the keys, is held Wednesday evening at sundown at the lar.dport gate of the Fortress of Gibraltar. It is a needless reminder to the scrubby and harmless Spaniards who are permitted to work at menial jobs in the English settlement, of the carelessness by which their own nation lost the key to the Mediterranean and the Eastern seas. It is also a perfect demonstration of the robot

nature of the thoroughly disciplined soldier. The ceremony of the keys has become today merely an expression of the little bov character of the professional man of arms. In the begining it was not a ceremony but a practical precaution. The British took Gibraltar in 1704 by landing suddenly and walking right in. In the same year and again in 1779 the Spaniards tried to take it back. The second attempt was a three-year siege, but Sir George Eliott always kept the cates locked

After the siege Sir George wished to impress on all his subordinates and successors the importance of locking the gates at night and keeping the keys in a safe place. So he wore them on hi.s sword belt and appointed a sergeant keeper of the keys. The sergeant was accompanied on his rounds by an armed guard. Having turned the keys in the locks, he returned to the governor’s house and handed them over to the governor, who put them back in his belt. In the years since then the gates have become merely historical landmarks, for the fortifications have been moved up the rock and the Spaniards have acknowledged the futility of trying to recapture Gibraltar. tt tt tt No Man's Land Behind the Rock ON the land side behind the rock there is a neutral zone, or no man’s land, about half a mile wide, traversed by a motor road, with a passpost and a customs office at each boundary. The contrast between an ambitious nation and a country which has simply chucked it and doesn't give a damn any more is apparent at the two ends of this road. On the British side a Gordon Highlander walks his post as though he were full of clockwork and someone had wound him up. He turns square corners in measured beats. There is neither expression in his face nor muscular action in his movements. He does as he does because the gears inside are turning with tradition as the mainspring unwinds. The English streets are clean. The English bobbies are big, erect and majestic. At the other end is a dirty frontier station manned by soiled and rumpled guards, who smoke if they like and shave only if it's their pleasure. Aloof, sinister, dirty and always menacing are the three civil guards in their patent leather hats. tt tt tt Scarlet Jackets With Gold Trimmings THE escort of the key sergeant on this occasion was that of the King’s own Yorkshire Light Infantry, known as the Koylis. They wear scarlet jackets with gold and white trimmings, and their sergeant ivears in addition magnificent gold epaulets and a white belt and red sash. They form on the parade ground and march to the governor's house, where they flourish their silver bugles and play a few rousing snorts of repetitious music to summon the sergeant. After some time he comes strutting from the mansion with a mechanical stride and a mechanical swing to his arms, dangling the keys about a foot long from a ring the size of a small hoop. Now three sergeants emerge from the guard room and cross the square and fall in. one on each side, the third behind him. with bayonets gleaming to protect the keys on the march to the landport gate. This march ends in Barrack Square, where the key sergeant falls out attended by bayonets and proceeds with heavy dehumanized steps into a sort of tunnel. Meanwhile the band plays the bugle music in a shrill monotonous ton" over and over and the buglers execute robot movements with astonishing precision at the command of the sergeant. a tt a Il \\ ould Re a Ghastly Faux Fas NOW they rest, and three officers in mufti approach to inspect and criticise. The robots make no human sign as the officers point to this one and that one like judges in a show ring giving an impersonal appraisal to horses and dogs. To do so would be a ghastly faux pas. The officers are withdrawn. and the key sergeant with his guard, having loitered an appropriate interval in the gateway, is deemed to have performed the ceremony of locking the gates against the Spaniards. Actually, however, the Spaniards are shuffling along the way for home, oblivious of the parade of robots who took their fortress w-hen their ancestors forgot to lock up for the night. They have until 10 o'clock r o get out of Gibraltar, failing wfliich they may be locked up and fined The sergeant gives a yell, which touches off a certain impulse in the mechanical men in the gaudy uniforms, and they set off again for the governor's house, where the key sergeant turns in the keys. Now the sergeant gives a final yell, and the robots walk around the corner. I didn’t see what happened there, but I am sure they all fell down, as wooden soldiers ilw’ays do when the music stops.

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IF you have ever wondered who started the idea that the poet must be the victim of a strange disease which makes him scowl, sigh, get drunk, brood darkly, and go into irrational trances, you might profitably read “Byron: The Years of Fame,” by Peter Quennell (Viking; $3.50). For Byron seems to have been the lad who set the style. Mr. Quennell studies him through the four or five years when he was, as you might say, the Rudolph Valentino of English letters; the years which followed publication of “Childe Harold," when England forgot all about the Napoleonic wars to gape at this handsome, cynical, restless, perverse and remarkably gifted young poet. aan BYRON was all the things that a poet is popularly supposed to be. He wrote, seemingly, by pure inspiration; he was forever consumed by some secret sorrow or other; he looked romantic, knew it, and tried to live up to it; he had love affairs by the dozen and got inash notes by the ton; he ruined a a whole senes of happy marriages, including his own, and he was a creature of violent and contradictory moods. With it all, however, he was a real poet; and Mr. Quennell remarks that so many of his imitators leave that one ingredient out when they strive valiantly to be 3yronic. Naturally, a book about such a man can be fascinating affair. Mr. Quennell has done a. fine job on this eccentric genius, and his book is one of the most readable aiographies of the fall-<fiy Bruce Catton.)

Literary Notes

The untimely death of Dorothy Scarborough, well known author and member of the Columbia University faculty, came just as Columbia University Press was preparing to publish her last work, “A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains.” Flicific Weekly will have its first special bo k number next week.

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