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...IMPERIALISM AND WORLD POLITICS - Parker Thomas Moon-Macmillan...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...
...Midwest Childhood-Sherwood Anderson-Boni & Liveright ($3). BOYS, THEN AND Now-William Allen White-Macmillan...
DARK OF THE MOON-Sara Teas-dale-Macmillan ($1.50). The sea, it is said, is the great civilizer. Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) of St. Louis, Mo., has walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her own. Rest from restless beauty is her desire. Her best poems are fragile meshes of silence and loneliness, written on beaches, cliffs and sea-hills, at the days rare moments and the year's empty seasons. Then, she says, I shall gather myself into myself again...
PROHIBITION AT ITS WORST- Irving Fisher-Macmillan ($1.75). With the zeal of a trumpeting reformer and the statistical finality of an economics professor, Irving Fisher of Yale has produced a monograph to show that Prohibition at its worst is good. There is everything in the book from little sermons on the evils of alcohol to a concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium...