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WI L M E·T T .. E · ... '·LIFE I Febru~ry- 7, ·19JO i ·' ·COMMENT on BOOKS and AUTHORS ~. . . . . . . . . . . . . M~. . . . RMlWN SQVAR[,. lYAMnON Wilmellet J700 'ENDS OF . THE EARTH.:. By Roy Chapman Andrews. New York: G.. Putnam's' Sons. . I P. The · American Museum of Natura:l History, with an ideal of objective ·ed,.. ucation in pursuit of which far corners of the world have · bee.n ransacked for trophies, has produced in recent years a notable company ·of scienti st explorers, not the least of whom is Roy Chapman Andrews. "Ends of the Earth" is .. a personal record of his life. 'l;'he book 'Yas written. hurriedly on trams and shtps and a part of it even. on an areopJane; consequently, as tntght be expected, the construction is loose and spasmodic, and there are few . p~etel!s~ons to literary graces. But tt ts vtvtd and has a most admirable flavor of action and adventure. In days when booksellers' she lves are o~er fl owing with the travels of mediocrity, it strikes an authentic note. The author's name is usually linked w~th . whales . and dinosaurs. A dead w)late stranded on the coast of Long Island actually gave him his first chance to prove his worth to the ~1 u- se um, where until then he had not been above occasionally scrubbing floors. He was ordered· to bring in the skeleton, \Y_hich in spite of storms and lack of assistance he did, every bone. 'The account is modest, but' it strikes a keynote-a quiet efficiency which was to triumph over all difficulties in many hard and dangerous places for genuine love of the "museum game.'~ BOY SCOUT ROUND THE WORLD. By Palle Huld. New York: Coward-McCann. Summon, please, the imagination and suppose yourse.lf a fifteen-year-old Danish boy, dusting the automobile accessories· in a Copenhag.en store, reading that the · newspaper "Politiken" desires to send a smart boy around the~ world next week, wresting permission from obtuse parents, and ~eing chosen to celebrate ) ules Verne's centenary by beating Phineas Fogg about the planet~ Fairy-tales apparently still happen. Palle Huld starts, his pockets bulging with money, for Canada, Japan, Siberia, Warsaw, and home. The agents of publicity assure him a welcome at every stopping place. Fellow scouts greet him in a dozen languages. His homecoming is a triumph, and you can buy the book to see how long it took him. BOOK SHOP The Woman of Andros Thornton Wilder .Alfred A. Knopf ......... $1.50 A biographical prefaces. But Mr. Fay has done far more than this. He has ransacked the libraries of two continents-Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Philadelphia, the Mason , collection in Evanston, the Clements Library in Ann Arbor, the Huntington Library ~ for unpublished let ters. Of these he has found more than six hundred, besides a mass of untouched manuscripts not from Franklin's hand but pertaining to him. Even so, he has not seen eve rything of note that exists-for examp le, the material in the possession of the DuPont family. As this is incomparably the best biography of Franklin yet published, a book which at once answers the exacting demands of scholarship and reads like a romance. . Ilya Ehrenbourg. New Y. ork: Doubleday Doran. . Ilya Ehrenbourg, so the publishers tell us, is a youngish Russian J cw, who has been mixed up with prisons, revolutions, strikes, hunger, tramps across Europe, and goodness knows what. and now, when not in Moscow, sits writing in front of his favorite Paris cafe. A Paris sidewalk cafe strikes us as a pretty uncomfortable place in which to write a novef of nearly four hundred pages, but let the pretty picture pass. At any rate, Ehrenbourg is a cert.ain sort of person. Not the sort of novelist, for instance, who comes to America to drum up trade, to explain to delighted club ladies all about his creative instinct, and have Gene Tunney come to help him autograph books in that charming little bit of business that comes when the lecture is over. Quite different. · · If you want to see the "creative instinct" really working, instead of merely hearing t}lat there is such a thing, you have but to dip into this story of Jeanne Ney almost anywhere, but say, for example, here at the beginning, in chapter called "Sometimes ~' inter Sometimes Spring." THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY. By The Hidden City Philip Gibbs Doubleday Doran ·...... :·s.z. SQ The Human Mind Carl A. Menninger Alfred A. Knopf ........... $5 The Life of On~ Lovely .. M~ro~ Lucian Cary The Author of The Duke Steps Out. Doubleday Doran .......... $1. The Young Idea Frank Swinnetton Doubleday Doran ·....... $1.50 In the Land of the Lion Cherry Kearton Me Bride .............. S3 .5 0 The Lacquer Lady F. Tennyson Je11e Macmillan ............. $1.50 The Crystal Icicle Katherine Keith Harcourt, Brace ~ Co . . . . . $1. so Books About lincoln and His Times Mary, Wife of Lincoln Katherine Helm Harper ~ Brothers ..... : ·.. $4 FRANKLIN, The Apostle of :Modern Times. By Bernard Fay. Boston : Discoverer and Founder Little Brown & Co. of Christian Science Is there anything really new to be By SIBYL WILBUR . said about Benjamin Franklin? asks the uninformed' reader. The obvious An Authentic Biography answer is that a great deal that is new Mrs. Eddy's life is here decan be said, if only because no real picted with i 11 u min at in g biography has appeared since the pubclearness. The author, carelication of Albert H. Smyth's adm'trfully avoiding invention, has able collection of Franklin's writings presented the facts in a retwenty years ago. Indeed, in these freshing manner. Miss Wiltwenty years we have had but one imbur was not a Christian Sciportant work on Franklin, which deenlist when she wrote this serves special mention because M. Fay biography for publication in for some reason entirely omits it from a magazine of ~eneral cir· his bibliog raphical lists; this being, of culation. course, Senator William Cabell Bruce's Published by "~fany-Sidcd Franklin." But that book THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE does n~t P.re~ent. a continuous biogPUBLISHING SOCIETY raphy, tor It IS Simply an analysis of Franklin' work in his different caBosTON, U.S. A. pacities as statesman writer scientist 408 Pages - 18 Illustrations l.>usiness man, and so' on. 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