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Young and old, beginner, average, swlmmer, and competitor w1ll find, the,,book practiqcal..'There aré over 100 photographs and drawings illus- trating varlous strokes and dives. larly interestea in that phase of Chinese lueé, for the philosophers haveà supplied, enough writing for readers -thé würld over. And now Pearli Buck, who- has done mor .e than* any one ý pers.on to tear the veil from themysterloDus lufe of- the C hinese people,, g oes a step -farther, and discloses. that very. instrument -,teý people which best expresses their national thought. Emily,]Dickinson.said "Nature is. a haunted * house, but art is a house i that tries to be haunted."ý And-this wa's the Chinese view, sa, the novel, was not codnsidered literature until modern times, except as it was written by certain scholars whoà came to China from, India, bearing, as, their gifts a new religion, Budd- hism.- Among other religious sects, the novel was written primarily to absorb the attention of their minds. Sa it was in the verriacular. Char- acter, above ail else, was demand- ed, and the greatest of Chinese noveis (called 'Shui Hu Chuan"), portrays one hundred and eight character so5 distinctly that the Chinese say "when any one of the hundred and eight begins to speak, we do not need ta' be told his name. By the words that corne. fromn his mouth we know who he is." ?4ina Turner A neuw river biography, "The Hutdson," lias been brought out by Farrar & Rinehart. Carl Car- ~m'e' r te, afftftm, 1riteg withe m same facillty and charm he dis- played in 'Stars Fell on Ala- bama" and "Listen for a Lone- some Drum." The book is recom- mended for its exhaustive his- torical documentation, andi its fine illustrations. in the middle of it, when death is flot expected." The Little -Foxes By Lillian Hellman. Rancjor House, N. Y. Random H o u s e has announeed several printings of an attractive buif, black and gold edition of The Little Foxes by Lillian Heilman'. the' three act .sm-ash, hit now star- rigTailulah -Bankhead, on the New York stage.. First produced at the National theatre in NewYork City in February, -it is stili drawing crowds. Lillian Hellman finds' a titie for her play in the " Song of> Solomon"t that reads: FrOm Solomon 'ýTake us the foxes. the littie foxes, that spail the vines; fo r aur vines have tender grapes. She lays the scene i n the deep South in 1900 and selects characters, trom two classes of society -fr om aristocratie plantation owners. and- from the new-rich industrialists and bankers. , Se selects onr-we againj and this time chooses flrst, some characters grasping, s.elfmentered and ruthless; second, some characters with a heart and a littie consideration for- others. The protagonists are these two groups-the "gimnmies' versus. the meek in spirit. Virtue does not triumph, and it easy ta see the long New York run must be responsible- alrnost more to TalIulah Bankhead than to just the play. has always been more important than the novelists, so this one. novel bas been rewritten hundreds of times. "There has been no Chinese Defoe, Fielding or Smollett, Austin or Bronte, Dickens or Thackeray, Bal- gac or Flaubert.". Who then wrote all the Chinese novels? Hundreds of different .people and they varied their writing ta accompany, like mnusic, their chosen themes. id - you - a - book," - not unlilcei *own. ;o the people of China have ged their own literature. Theiri s are often ncomplete, nor hasi story always an end. "Somne- les it stops i the way lufe does, Boats Should No+ Be Floafing Bungalows H.. A. Calahan says; i his riew book Sa You're Gain g ta Buy a Boat; "Essentially you buy a boat ta enjay the sea; yet there is a well-pronouneed' tendency today to build boats ini such a way tliat your lual 15 at work. Armies of .1 by Joseph Gollomb, was pub- by Macmillan July 5.1 are tnterately sacriiicea in trhe mad scramble. It is appalling, disgusting ta see Regina literally kick her dyling hus- band out of the way so she can have wealth and a fling in the city ai Chi- cago. It is even, more disgusting ta have ta admit Lillian Hellman knows her women and knaws themn well. Regina is only toa representa- tive af a type-that 'get-what-you- wànt-or-bust- American woman. nie. TogethE form a -C4 hcolonial, ýsory. two books record of