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MARCH 1, 1937.
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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
[pathetic. "But I wouldn't want to
go home without you, Fran?"
Bam Dodsworth, on the inaletenes But Fran was in caruest... "I can
I' of his wife, has sold the automobileneo you aren't entering Parls.
plant which he built up over a period you thought of mior you wouldn't ask Jonly thinking of your pleasure. 'If 40 years, and with a heavy heart to leave here just us we've got Lite out to "anjoy" telaura in Buropa, to know some really nice people,”* Dodsworth Ands some consolation in Dodsworth didn't think they were the fact that he will visil England so nice, and he told ferno, feitlos other England. But Fran gets in-slip all the thoughts that find hom volved in an unfortunate shipboard lowly storing in his mind. He want Hiriation with an Englishman. Anded to know about the antter of
they go to France lastead.
CHAPTER 8
France and its consolations, Dols worth, with all the eagerness of the American Tourist, permitted himself to grow excited over a visit to Napo
Madame l'enable's collecting commis
lon on all the dresses Fron bought.. That didn't seem to him like n wien action to come from a friend. And he wanted to know more about Trello and young Kurt Non Obersdorf. Patien larly, he suspected Lia wife's interest in Inclin.
They look like a couple of gigolos
Jenn's Tomb He got a tremenletts to me," he insisted.
thrill out of standing on the apot Fran's eyes blazed. "You can't in- where Marie Antoinette lost her head. Isuit my friends that way. You may
"Oh, Fran my darling, you're drifting away from me?" Bam zaið.
He visited museums and show-places ¡be the most impressive man in Zealth, conscientiously, and got tremendous but you're not in Zenith now, You're satisfaction out of them,
in Paris! And I'm sick and tired of apologling to my friends for the way you ..."
Dodsworth Interrupted her. "You'ra been apologizing'?"
Fran, however, grew quickly bored. Hhe began to cultivate certain aristo- crutle "Requaintances, and permitted Fatsworth to follow the paths of his guide book along, Not that she ig-Yes, I liave," said Fran furiously.
red him entirety. On the contrary, "You're hopeless. You refund f ho made it her special business to learn. You aren't the slightest no durato Dolnwortli in the French tion of what civilization really is, and mornities. On one point only, Dodas how civilized people behave." worth was adamant. He insisted on baving his breakfast, despite the deli- cato French custom of beginning the stay fasting
"I'ra got the same Josides I had at hour," he argued atoutly.
"Yes, Hem, Kald Fran sadly, "I'm afraid you häre."
Dodsworth was shocked and burt, · but he kept his Lend.
"I'm going to get out of this town." {he maid, "and back to something don lng. And I'm golog to take you along."
"I'm not going," nald From Brudy. Dodsworth was equally Army, "ith, sex, you are."
Fran, found herself more and more taken up with her new-found friend. "I think we perd n vacation from Madame de Penuble, Madame de each other," said Fran, and then rei Penable was a lady ni dubious age, vealed in a rush of words, wint als And egally dubious position in society.hal been planning all the while. Sho bnt she introduced Fran to those hnd rented a villa for the summer charmingly
gentlemen, with Madame de Penalido in Switzers Arcold Iselin and Kurt Van Oberndorf land, without telling her husband. 11
ne midle-aged aristocrat, urbane had not entered into her plans, Nur and worldly-wise; the other a mere did she tell him that self would be youngster, of excellent_last_Imporerbere, ished family.
Lontinental
Dodsworth was it. “Oh, Fran,
теля
In thrle ulten-reûned society. Dods. my darling, you're drifting away from worth found himself so completely out me. After twenty years!" No, I won't of place that he rather welcomed no one,"
Fran's obrious efforts to exclude him. Hlut Fran was a tigress.
He was not prepared, however, forgot to go!" she screamed
"Tan'ra
*You've
the bombshell Fran spraug on him simply got to go! I can't staði being when he suggested that it was time torn the way any longer!"
to leave Paria-he had soep all the Might
"Why don't you go home?" Fran suggested, with affected casualness.
Without you?" Dodsworth wan bewildered..
Then seeing his burt, ale nofteril her tone somewhat.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I hurt you. But If we're going to get along in the future I've got to be left alone this summer. You're not to let me have my ding now! Because you're simply
“Yes.” She began to rub cold- cream furiously on her face. "et rustilag of all age, Ham, aud: I'm not fourself a new Jeage on' life. Then ready for that yet!" cofag back and join "me."
Dogsworth's dismay was renuinely
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SCIENCE takes The Field
·UBLISHERS of books on science, nowadays, are us prolific as they are optimistic. And I think their optimism
is Justined, although a lot of the books which they are belling "sclence" are TIOL.
The man-in-the-street is anxious to find out what this science, which is beginning to dominate his life and control his death, really is.
An excellent thermometer of the new public taste is the demand for Professor Hogben's Mathematics for the Mon frecently reviewed in these columns), which is more than holding its own among the best sellers.
Everyday Science is not such an ambl- tlous undertaking, out it, too, is n valuable contribution, dealing with the impact of selence
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Mr. Haslett has an enviable gift of simple exposition. He is not afraid of translating the Second Law of Ther. nodynamics or Dalton's atomic thenry into terms of domestle, refrigerators,
That is one of the merits of his book. He shows how "pure" and "applled ". selence are not nearly an remote as they arem-that what is "neademic today is something which the house- wife or the worker will take for granted to-morrow.
His canvas is wide and delayed, dealing with the kitclien, the future of coal, labour-saving and mechanisation, building problems, the methods which. selence has provided not only for the crime-detector bus for the crimin). farming, food, waste and speed,
And lie underlines the Tact that the scientist has made four-hour day not only possible but inevitable.
Nature is being nouted." Mir. Hasiet keeps on repenting in various connections. To which Dr. Macpher Ban Lawrle retorts Nature Hits Back.
Here is another worth-while book.
It ly true that Dr. Lawrie is a medical psychologist at Queen Mary's Hospital in East London and looks at the la of the world from the psychological standpoint. But he takes a sane view of an insane world, Bfting the mic out of medicine and giving us e sa- mon sense in, ita place.
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Fiction was down and facts-well dressed, neatly shod facts—were up.
Winifred Holtby left us a memorable last novel, South Riding. Georges Duhamel gave us a great book in Salavin. Several writers went unexpectedly -and entertainingly-satirical.
And two authors, Ralph Bates and Ramon Sender, beat the rebel gun with remarkably prophetic stories of Spain.
But, on the whole, my backward glance at fiction reveals a wide, ranging plain of competence.
You, the facts had it. Travel books, biographies, autobiographies, political, sociological and scientific works headed the popularity lists all the while.
The steady sales of such books as John Gunthor's Inside Europe witnessed to the pathological interest in an agitated world. Readers went sleuthing after roality and detective fiction marked time.
Nineteen thirty-six saw a phenomenal output of political studies with much rumbling on the left. Altogether a Good Solid Season. Perhaps 1937 will send us that comic genius.
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as a science, is that our whole attitude to disease must change.
The illness and invalidism of the hospital or the sickbed, ho contends, is less serious than “the greatest tragedy of all discaso, namely, the dismal and painfully dramatle happenings which owe their origin to the miner mental symptoms of unregistered ill-health,"
In short, the strain of modern civili- sation and modern relationships.
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He turns us all into patients, and, because he talks such sound common- sense, wo should, sa voluntary patients, read his book.
Selenco Fights Death, by another doctor, is a study of modern advances
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On the other hand, a volume which la not only highly significant but also very useful is Meu, nŕedicine and Food in the U.S.S.R. The authors know their subject, not only as actual ob servers In Russin, but by the standard of what health services ought to be.
Mr. Le Gros Clark has done ploneer work in this country as the secretary of the Commilteo Against Malnutrition --and the book does not exaggerate the success nor minimise the shortcomings of the Soviet experiments.
Russia is still a child in these mat- lers. "But, in studying the contours and temperament of a child, one always remembers that it Is Immature. The interesting thing about a growing child or a growing civilisation is, in fact, its growth,”
Yet it is an extremely precociou child with which they are dealing-a child which has tried to crowd into twenty years what British health-ser- vices have taken a hundred years to nasimilate,
As a carefully presented survey of Bovlet health in terms of nutrlifon, communal kitchens, child and mater nity welfare, and so on, this survey should command attention and respect.
And a footnote to it may be found in Sir Arthur Newsholme's new book. He was joint author of Red Medicine and, as former Chiet Medical Olcer of the British public health service and a highly-respected nuthority who has travelled the world studying public health, his obscrvations are important.
This volume, which is historically and objectively an excellent argument -for-socialised medicine, otight to be.. read by overy one concerned with the health of the people.
And for those concerned about nutrition-and I hope they are many— I recommend Dr. Fearon's Nutritional Factors in Discare. It is essentially a medical monograph, but it la eminently readable and valuable for the lay student as well.
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