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ý.ý$3. Fioltuîn.Squr. vnsu p avi tsomu TheWs' No Moratorium, .iSQKS N'ew orne& rec.w.ed evey day Cet.your CuabrtsSumnmary $1 1724 OPJUNOTON AVENUE O)rriugton Rotel Bidg. ÉVANSTONi sky, DJe Rivera-have failed in their aenpt, as encouragement .f or others who would -follow- in their footsteps. Keenly and impersonally, the author r eviews the political careers of such muen as Stalin, M.ussolini, Pilsudski, and Hitler. Like a surgeon, he does not spare the knifeof bis arialysis on their actions,-.the courses tbey followed, their successes and failures. Mir., Mala-- parte points out that coup d'et.at is a modern science, and: marvels that so mauy revolutionists refuse to recognize this: and to roi by the failure of those. great chapters of, revolutionary. bistory ýthat have preceded, tbem. As wve follow the autbor!s relentless inger pointing out why. the "October Revolution*of 1917" in Russia did hot succeed, or wbere Pilsudsk i failed i the Warsaw campaign,. this "ýTechni- ter of consolidating the proper groups, paralyzmng public utilities and seizing the governuient. Against bis' will, the reader is convinced -intirnidated -by the author's bombardment of words; he must bý right, because he sounds right-yet, if coup d'etat is as simple as ail of that, those who have attempt-i ed it unsuccessfully must be witless-z and we know this is contrary to facts.( In these days when Adolph Hitler! The president of the association i3 Leona Alford Malek (Prudence Pen- ny) ' and thé first vice president is Marjorie.-Barrows of Evanston, edi-, tor of ".'Cbild; Life." I* One of the di- rectors on the.board is Hermna Clark, eauewriter on the Ch1icago Trib-, une., Honorary members are Jane Addamis, Cartie Jacobs Bond, and Mary Hastings Bradley.' Among the actives are Mrs. V.ý K. Spicer of. Kenilwoôrth,, author of "Songs of the Skokis,ý" "The Last Crusade," and' "A -Coo kshire Lad-," andci Louise Ayres Garnett of Evans- : ton,: poetess. The last Edith Rocke- feller McCormick also belonged. Mrm* Thalia Rochutz of Glencoe is an asso- ciate mexuber. GALLANT AND V1VID The lances held so gallantly aloft by Richard BolesIâvsky an~d lus Tel- low Poles whom you met in this writer's other book, "The Way of 'the Lancer," are "down" in this present volume. "Lances D6ivn,"' by Boleslavsky,-in collaboration witb Helen Woodward (Bobbs-Merrill), tells in crisp,, vivid,t incisive style the street strife of 1917 after the Russian troops had been re- called to Moscow. This book makes, ot[JUUS ooi r.nought. J. ieory and mnaster play vary fromà decade té dec- ade.. The game bas its- fashions and the, fashions their, prophets..'1 " Masters of the Cbessboard" is' a hisoryof the development of chess thoydurinig the. Iast, hund red, years, tbrough the medium of studies of twýenty-three, oÛtstanding. playe rs. Games typical of each.master have been critically analyzed to mnake clear the' individuality of each, and .the strength and weakness. of the variou s Philosophies. The seventy. annotated gamnes frôm as complete a pictuire of the. century's major trends. in chess as bas yet been drawn. ,--Chess,.today, is going through a period of stagnation. The philosophyv of Wilhelm Steinitz, the most dom- inant force in theory for the paît seventy years, has been carried to its éxtrme. Thie ucosed -game1' of to- day has become so conservative t.hat master play is almost entirely imita- tive. The masters themselves realize the necessity for new philosophies and styles of play. But Reti, a dis- ciple of Steinitz, sees the theories of that master as all-inclusive, and eval- tUates aIl games solely by those the- ories. cruel scflemes, wIIo las reaclied his present power by "sheer eloquence" a "Mani with a great future behind hinu," s0 inany opportunities bas he let slip. "Coup d'etat" is a book that lcnds itself well to arguinent-the author is -very positive that bis is the definition of success ful statecra f t; there are many A~s a. guide to the appreciation of V. * livi t:, coma ni naIIve ceUn poetry-new and old-a. better book wr itten by anyone* else. It has, -as than 'this -can scarcely lbe found. To tbey say in stowage, Reserve Bouy- here alie eitin o te bokinancy. Amnong its many anecdotes one berc earle ed witnofthe boesof 0nf my favorites is that of the .coast- .whic sbertai ib h Poets of sedy ing skipper lost in fog and uncertain' and discussed poetic rhythms and andt osto.Heto oudns values, sbe bas added ber "Memories and'bte lead brougbt up two prune- stones. "Ah, I know wbere we are: of Vachel Lindsay," critiques on we're on tbe course of the Ward Elinor Wylie, Archibald MacLeislu, Line." T. S.' Eliot and Lew Sarrett. Earlier shows step by àtep cut and prlnted. forms a similar ser etching. in the, fie I thereïn in 1877. eU Dy rire. and finished went York Times, and Alain Locke whà e poem treats of."Literature of the Negro for 1932."