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Auuenca and Enjgland. ris novel in -.' Er.~ verse is based on history and represents Mr. Clark. writes as he niight talk an qccurate and eloquent picture of early in reply to a friend's question-"Wa' California life. . it all about ini China ?" The resuit is a concrete, vivid' picture of China set [yp~D '~w~~ Repai.d against the background of the' past. T M f m Rénted Tbe author's method is interesting. Sold He takes some actual and typical,,con.- Calld fo ~d temporary incident, eind traces its roots, D.lvered back into history, thus bringing a time Work. Guara.nteed perspective into the picture. Pho He describes The China of *the Chin- Cr. t-moe ese:- the family-clan, the village, the ico oi0 p ,guild, the government; fundamnental ideas of justice, of society, etc. He tells, orbetnHo Bld,, E uo f, The China of tbe Foreigner s, of Economic China and the new position China: is coming to occupy in inter-' national.trade and finance. Under Cul- tural China, he, tells of the "literary renaissance," of developments in educa-. tion, ini religion, in philanthropy. Under Political China he discussies the present "five power governinent" and the BootSEmoP LIUEÂB Kuomintang, Chiniese "Communism," CAEDS statio nery- the student governinent, etc. Uiider Iternational China, Mr'. Clark SERVICE IN deals with the present position of The Books Yom Sa foreigners ini China, Chinese diplotriacy, etc. The Books Yomu en Mr. Clark7s very real picture of China 1724 c>ringtoa Ave. Gr. 0227 makes clear what China's ernergence - Evaaston into world affairs means and why cer- l-Iurs: 9 f0 6 tain problems have developed in ber re- lations with other nations. Grover Clark from 1920 to 1927 w ast 9fl!J* »~,,~ a meniber of the faculty of the National 4 University, Peking, China; for eight years editor of the Peking Leader, for ~L '.aLr.five years Peking correspondent of the ~D~LP 4<4K.Christiait Seieîzce Monitor, for five years editor of The Week in' China, for two 600 Pieces of years a niember of the executive dcom- Fiction and me Relief Commission. Since' 1930 hie- 'bas been a consultant ini New York on Non-Fiction Far Eastern affairs, a lecturer at Colurn- Now you cau, have thos. books bia University,' the leader of Round Tables on the Far E~ast at the Univer- you v. always wanted fo own. Most- ly al are one-of-a-kind, so early se- sîty of Virginia's Institute of Public lecton s adise. iotheaIeady Affairs. He is now a Visiting Lecturer lredced n rs1acvsd oat Wellesley College.' thore is an acdi 2 %Cp. uay fpadIsut.U/0 CapeCod inCivil War DOy tionl dsc on .oi 2 n4 A new work of fiction 'by joseph lications, neavyweights. z z,ume n longer is a' season for inerely light reading. Illy iak Spring, by An» Bridges, whose Pekitg, Picic won the Atlantic $10,000 novel prize in 1932,, will be published in August by Little, Brown. Her new novel is 'set in colorful Dal- matia. ,Storrn Signale, by joseph C. Lincoln', will be published next month- by D. Appleton-Century., The period, in this author's latest book is that of Civil war days, -andthe ,scene, is Joe Lincoln's own Cape. Cod.. inJohn Elrski ne bas.written a new novel ithe e vein. of bhis former ,best sellers; SolomOn, My Son! wilI be pub-, lished early next montb. LIt is *spicy, witty and wise-a-ýnd casts a new Iight on the famous king. Harry A. Franck, a. noted travel fig.- ure, tells 'a thrilling story 'in T4railîing Coi tez Throu.qh Mexico, wbicb will be .Publishedin October by Sto~kes.~ More than 500,000 copies of Frànck's books bave been sold. Deep Dark River. by Robert Rylee,. will be pttblished this week by Farrar. and Rinehart. The book' bas been praised by critics. ' t is a powerful and prof ound portrait of a negro. In Aug-ust, Harcourt, I3race and coin- pany will publish North Io the Orienit. hy Anne, Morrow Lindbergb.' Maps Trace Main Stream of European Hislory J. F, Horrabin, author of Ait Atlas of Current Affairs, bias 'pre- pared a new book called An Atlas of Euro pean Jlistory which Alfred, A. Knopf will publish on August 12. The new book 'traces the main streamn of European history from the 2nd to the 20th century, by means of seventy-four simpýle .ap and a page of text facing each. In physical plan it' is thus very much like Ait Atlas Of, ('urrent Affair.s. which was published bv Mr. Knopf TheO Wie-iiq 110<1 Sie. John M- Loughlin, Bu¶ider of an Empire. BY Richard G. Montgomery. Here is a biography of a great adven- turer who turned bis vision and bis talents as a leader and a diplomat to the fur trade ini the Northwest ini the first half of the nineteenth century. John McLougblin's Irish. father hadI corne f rom a Une of welI-to-do farmers wbo livéd. at Rivière.du Loup on, the batiks of the great St. Lawrence;* it was from bhis mother's side.of the-f arn- ily that John came, naturally,,by bis deep' irterest-e-vcn -as a 'bôï--in ýthe fur trade, for bis uncle, Alexander Fraser, was a pioneer in the field. How hie entered the service as y oung manin the employof the Northi ,We5t company-the 'rival of the Hud- son's Bay company-married an Indian half-breeéd of remnarkable charact er,. worked for the union of the two warring companies, and .finally became chie f factor of the Hudsons Bay Company in the vast Columbia River region, and fouinder, of the trading post at Van - couver, where he ruled like a king, ië, a story that reads like fiction. Dr. John- called the White-Headed Eagle by the Indians, who loved him because 'of bis kindness and deep sense of justice- became a wilderness nionarch and held a unique place i the Oregon Contro- versy in wbich the control of the Coluin- bia River and the territorial claims 'of the Hudson's Bay cornpany figured. His biography is not only fascinating read - ing ; it is a distinct contribution to the history both of our own Northwcit and of the Canadian Northwest. The author has always been deeply interested ini Oregon history. He cornes1 by this interestr-r1ghtfully. H-is' great- grand father, Dr. W. H. Willson, caie out to Oregon in 1837 with the first reinforcement to the Jason Lee mis- sion. Dr. Willson and Chloe A.' Clark weré mnarried at Nisqually in 1840- the first white couple married in the presenit confines of, the state of, Wash - ington, Mr. Montgomery himnself lives in Portland. In Vkctorian Traditilon Harper & _Brothers have ~i wUAUiti I open aroun zýepieDLeau, ine TTUIll> %dviu MUOI .--.-' ...- .,iul **u Ilui l£i is play will be presented in, seventy-five 'The Saga of thte Constock Lode by inother, 'gave a dinner last night for cities i thirty-three States. 'Meanwbile, Dr. George D. Lyman bas been awarded Rita S. Halle Kleeman i clebra- a large number of those who have not the gold niedal' by the 1934' Literary tion of the completion of her' biog- had thie opportunity to see the play or 'club cornnittee of the Commonwealth raphy of 'Mrs. Roosevelt, which who have wished to become more fami- Club of California. The medal was Appleton -Century will publish thi s liar with it have turned to the published presented to Dr. Lyman by President FaîL The titît of Mr.s.1 Kleeman 's dramatization of, The Old Maid, which Edcgar E. Robinson at the club's annual book, is. Gracious ýLady: The Lif e of is. issued by 'Appleton-Century dinner on June 6. Sara Delan o. Roosevelt.'