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Wolfe, "The Iron City"- by Lodveil Thompýnson, -Christ. in Concrete" by Pietro di Donato, and "1The Chry- Santheimums" by John, Steinbeck. Fi ty " Best American Short. Stortes is the July- selection, of the iâter- üry guild. California H îi'id e g a r d e H-awthorne's new book, Romantic Cities of Caeiforni 'a, is the iatest addition to Appleton- Century's Century City series. .I11l'us- tratedby. the artist, E. H. Suydam, and written- by Hildegarde Haw- thorne, long a resident and-admirer of California, it bas been praised througbout the country. Charles E. Goodspeed, dealer in rare books, angler and coilector of fisbing literature, is the author of Angling in Americâ, a volume pub- lished in à liirited' edition by Hougbton Mifflin company, pubiish- ers also of Mr. Goodspeed's "Yan- kee Bookseiier." new lands are as interesting today as they were when the life of the pioneer was a career. There are few places left.for the discoverer, since 'the airpiane has encompassed 80 miuch of 'the earth., and we must return to, the past in order to cap- ture once More the adventure of un- discovered w'orlds., Stuart Cloete in his novel ",Turn- ing Whýeels," brought the mnterior of Africa close to us. It was about one great famnily.wbo trekked across its plains,' and' estabiished1 homes for themnselves in ils borders. Here he tells another story of eariy life, andý of the Boers wboý settled the land, and paid noattention to Eng- lish rule, a g roup of stalwart, liveiy people beli.eving that wherever they settled, if they brought civilization with theni, that place was theirs..* An old -m'an, whose wife .and chil- dren have died in the struggle and wbo is left alone on his farmn, is the hero, although his young nephew. Kaspar, cornes along to carry on the traditions of the family. But oid Frederick lives on his farm, sure rounded by his animais and his Kaf- fir servants, believing that he is lord of ail he surveys. So when the Eng- iisb red coats arrive to oust hirn, be figbts and dies, defending bis house, and his fields. Kaspar then, realizirxg that be cannot continue to iigbt the whole Britishi nation, jour- xieys inlarid with his teams of wcen, with plenty of supplies. for farming, and for home-making, and finds hirn- self a wife, and setties down to bis lufe as a British subject. But only after be bas joined in the great and terrible fight that was wâged at tre- mendous ioss of life between trained soidiers and the fanmer folk armned only witb their own weapons. The fact that these people, the Boers, have turnéd a wiiderness into a gar- den, serves for nothing in face of "Fîve Cities- the, Story of Their Youth and *Old Age," de- scribesSeattie, Omaha, Shenaii- doah, Biringhamn, and Louis- ville, through thre. eues of the author, George R. Leighton. He ~has been comipfred -to Lincovln Ste fens in his reportorial style. Leigbton views with alartu the wreckage of these cities, whicb bave grown old though stiil in their youth. None but Louisville even approaches the hundred year mark. AUl are the produet of Arnerican "individual- Leigbton's revelations were so un- compiimentary to Birmingham that the Chaniber of Comnmerce inserted full page. advertisements in local papers denour-clng the author and ail bis, works. In- Louisv.ille at a holiday balil uge murais .were pre- pared depikting scenes from the city's bistory and sbowing tbe bap- iess author doused in a Louisville fountain and pursued by dead and gone Louisville celebrities. Amerigce s Seen by A Minisfer's Wfe Thit v-onehomes - sh bas iived in Tennes- ]By Fritz. Max Caben. Bobbs-Merrlll Company. For neariy a year a srnail news- paper in Connecticut bas been scoop- ing the metropolitan dailies and the great press associations with its. news from Germnany., The paper. i$ the Greenwich "Timae.", Its forecast, of the turn of events at the, timne of the.ÉMun ich crisis, its inside accounts of what was going on in 'Germhany, and- such melodramatic stories as the beating-up of Goebbels have been reprinted ail over the United States. Ai! Inside Story The e d i t o r. of . the Greenwich "Tuiie" is Wytbe Williams, who has had a distinguisbed ý career as a for-, eign correspondent. for the "'Newv York. Tirnes." the London ".Daily Mail" and other papers frorn 1910 to 1928. Mr.> Williams. now intro- duces. Fritz Max Caben, the source of much of his news'from Germany and the "No. 1 German refugee in this euqtry." Twenty,,years- ago Mr. Cahen banded Mr. Williams the initial draft of the Versa illes treaty for publication in the. London "Daily. Mail" at a time wben the ternis were being kept secret even from the parliaments of the allied nations. Now witb Mr. Williams' heip as adapter and sponsor, Mr. Cahen has written the inside story of Germany,, Men Against Hitler, wvhich Bobbs-ý Merrili pubiisbecl in Juiy. *Men Agaînst Hitler is the first connected account of the organized opposition to Nazismn that bas exist- ed ever since Hitler came to power. Through bis own. experiences as an organizer o! tbe anti-Hitier move- ment, Fritz Max Cahen tells the story of the mnen against Hitler, the men wbo bave fostereci ciscontent witb the Nazis within Germany, who bhave smug gled news of the outside, Worid into Genmany and news of wbat was going on witbin Germany- to the outside worid, who have or- geanized spy systenis that bave attied with Hitler's Gestapo, and wbo have attempted to unite the political refugees into a single Hit- ler. Opposition. Il an, ac- n inside ire fight- ne as is ilili 50 Dave.to write abDout." Apçl: so -brave.