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_jone who biaslong -i-ved in Chi-na, for imbued with the missionary spirit- Ieit ber ber noveis or for this volume the necessity to tell every one about' Jof fugitive pieces. Mrs. Buck writes it.* No, flot everyone, for *when one truthfully of a China that is littie 6fnds such a. treasure. one usually KnoUWn to many. who have dwelt in elth hr oycraioh- China's large; secure.treaty ports. festa hr r nycranoh The' Chinese peasants she knows, ers wlio are. capable of. s>eeing' its even as tbough she, were'one of themi, value! the pains and tribulations of the Chii- Such a book is 'adm by Violet nese women she understands,.for sh e baslitend o tei dalyconera-Trefusis. There. is so mucli in it that tion since childbood.. Tlie hopes of is delightful, se mucli that is witty, the -young Chineserevolutionist, even: 50 much that' is unerringly true to - tbe Chinese Commnunist,. are, bow-_ life, yet it is written with a liglit ever; niot ber mea t, for apparently she tuhta ee ery h hr lias devoted lierseif too mucli to tlieir atuclsitat eyer betray hegca- opponents. 'Yet,. even, of these. sheacrsitbeong sclogia writs~ ithunerin sypatiy. case-liistories. Laid, for the niost Fail Wit Polticapart, iii the countryside around Paris Butnotas hoglishewee o thirthe story and tlie manner of writing people, for they would not tellllher lias ail the, charm, the gayetv, and.i s tories, not in a foreign language.-the color of, the authors, of native They would. rather paint aIl picturesFrne with tbe- beauty of Tang artists. Ex- Penelope and Irene are the daugli- cept for a- few' Chinese critics such t ers of Mme. Demetriades, wlio, in as Hu Shih and Lin 'Yu-tang, e very- her prime, ivas noted for her brilliant tliing in Cliina is perfect, everytliing salons. Thiere is another datighter,1 e3t'Žept the~ few thitigs that the Wes t- Marguerité-nèglected b tlie rest ofd erners have brought to this country. the family because of lier clumsiness t Pearl Buck's real worth is that she and ber almost vulgar capacity for t is wholly realistic, more realistic per- contentinent. And thiere is TosliieV haps than she would like to be if she (Mis M dsi, h ey Soc could help it. But she writes more and mucli beloved governess. t truthfully of the China slie knows Life on the Riviera .p than of the political China, which ap- The story opens in 1892 when Mm\iie. parently is flot ber world, but whicli Demetriades takes a villa at Hyeres she often discusses in ber speeclies and Toshie, " a tail gaunt crow in e and drags into ber stories like some the middle of this glittering, tw itter- b exotic matter wbicb does not belong ing aviary," 'instails lier charges. t in ber simpler environments. hratroemungndevl ' In this. volume, Pearl Buck lias co1- Theeaftr on amuingn ed - - - ..* .. . tory scenic followsý anM~, ,+1 almost a novel. It is the story of the relationsbip between the girl-wife of an arranged marriage and ber bus- bandi. 1Floods>,Weil WrAt. The bet îtois in this volume are the'four dealing with the flooôds. Here Mrs. Buck is in lierowýn world.,whicl she populates with human beings wliomshe knows and loves. Father Andrea, the tale of a Catli- KNOV George E. Sc to ihe Nanhêng and' bas lived China. k nows the habits and characterjstics of eac h one; and that one lias en- iIoyed, as tbey do, the succession of à un-lit days cliaracteristie ot. the IRiviera. Here Irene, Penelope, and Marg uerite grow up in the patterns for which they are destined. 'Mar- guerite marries a very wealthyrman, witb . political ambitions- and .no : charm, wbile Irene and Penelope go' I to Paris with Mme. Demetri-des and 1 become the center of attraction at 0 ber salons. 1 01 n ne 01i nsignt, strung together ered t' on a thread of narrative sufficiently thqe di S CHINA strong to sustain them, but néver too of the :olsky, once adviser niucb in evidence. For it is the bits are nc governiment, is the of bumor, the passages of description, sugges, Inder Box of Asia," the inisigbt into the characters and jtempts or many years in into the country that make.the book would a real"fd. crises. [)rose v * -JViiencA L in IcoIIua.JloaionI with' Earl Harding- Revie'zied by Jeant Fox For individuals, ignorant for the most part of wbat the future prom- ises, to drift-with the econoinic tides, .myhave its fascinations, even its compensations in peace-of mind, but n .eyer the extravagant excitement of tlie great guessingýgame of "Tomor- roW?" Men- and, women who find them- selves liypno tizeèd by the prospects' of the yea.rs,,to come,' and Whio at the present time Wonder wliat. economnic. theories, if any, promùpt President. Roosevelt to inflaté the currency, go 9f etgold, aâssess a .processing tax against wheat, boom public' works and so forth,, and for those wlio question the__mjn=e, Ambrose W. Benkert and. Earl Har-dinïg have answers in "How ,to Restore Values.". Schools of Thought: ,As a matter of fact 'Benikert and. Harding discuss :two ways out of the depression, as advocated by two dis- tinct schools of thought- the defla- tionists~ and the inflationists. Roose- velt, favoring inflation, is -attempting most of the measures proposed by' this school, measures wbichi are ex- plained and weighed in this 32-page ,booklet. Sonie, as1 mighit be expected, are found wanting; others * already experienced with satisfactory -results by foreign nations. are urged upon tlie United States. President Roose- velt's prograni can far better be un- derstood and estimateci after a half 1mean stîi more to the reader who is. Yfarniiar with John Stracbey's "Un- stable Moriey," a 31-page extract prepared by himself froni bis book, "The Coming Struggle for Power." The boaklet .first, traces the h istory of money, from its origin-acommon commfodity useci as a medium of ex- ,thang-andý then analyzes ,the four kinds of money said by theorists to exist today, nainely, commodity mon- ey, fiat money, manageci money and ba>ik money. Stracbey dlaims aIl are it mune aryatau.-ILAOtfotnot t$ further that stahilization' at- , in times of technical progress, actually cause. comnmercial .CULBERTSONS oUfic.I BLUE BOOK on conltract brdge These are the 1933 book:; t1hat have been released Just recently. A few of these books were used ln our ,window dlsplay and cannot be put ln. stock. Hiere la a- chance to Improve your ganie. A .=uar$2 value Tocla,$15 Founiain Slarie ansfon