THE MICHIGAN DAILY WORLD OF BOOKS ..... .... . ... AMilitaryExpert Takes A Look At Guns In Europe's Arsenals " ROPE IN ARMS, by Liddell Hart. Random House, New York. 1937. $2.50. held, and skepticism regarding the ability of either side to create a break-through by mass assault. Since General Franco is committed to a policy of attack by the very nature of his cause, this may be interpreted as a cheering note in regard to the Government's prospects, qualified, of course, by the amount of Italian aid the rebels receive in the immediate future. As far as the ideology of the conflict goes, Captain Hart fires an aside volley at fascism, declaring that in modern warfare superior tech-: nical equipment plays so important a role that "a nation as such may be at the mercy of any gang of physical and moral degenerates which becomes possessed" of a su- perior military weapon. He offers, as a counter-possibility, the rather shakily plausible chance of aggres- sively inclined governments being so- bered in their calculations by the un- certainty of the outcome of any mod- ern war because of this advance in technical appliances. In his analyses of the various in- dividual armed forces of the conti- nent, the author places his chief stress on the power of the air arm and the mechanization of ground forces. He places the numerical first- line air strength of Russia at 4,000 planes, far more thani the other lead- ing powers, whom he credits with only about 1,500 such planes apiece. The U.S.S.R. also possesses the larg- est army, of course, but Captain Hart as usual tends to deprecate the worth of great masses. The ppwerful So- viet tank corps, however, as well as the personnel of the Red Army, draws, his admiration. As for the German army, he credits it with good organ- ization and commends its mechanized divisions, but doubts that it will be able to solve "the problems created by a strong and thoroughly modern defense," an obvious reference to the French Maginot Line. He does not regard so highly the army of Hitler's ally, Mussolini, pointing to the pauc- ity of tanks and the rigorously delib- erate tactical methods. The French army receives high praise, both for its mechanical efficiency and the pro- gressive outlook of its leaders, but the typical slowness of the British general staff in adopting large-scale motorization is strongly deprecated. He also urges recognition by his gov- ernment of the need for intelligence rather than traditional disciplined obedience in the modern trained sol- dier. In his closing chapter, Captain Hart examines a question of rather more than academic interest: "Would another war end civilization?" He gives the impression, on the whole, that it probably wouldn't, which, after so impressive a review of the means and methods of up-to-date warfare, is indeed reassuring. Another Hopwood Novel "The Stubborn Way," a novel by Baxter T. Hathaway which won an $800 major fiction award in the 1936 Hopwood contest, has been published by Macmillan Co. and will be reviewed in next Sunday's Daily. Originally titled "The Little World," the novel concerns itself with the struggle of a young man working in a paper mill to adjust himself and discover his standard of values. It is not a "proletarian" novel, however. Hathaway's novel is 'the fourth Hopwood winner to be published since the contests were inaugurated. Mil- dred Walker's "Fireweed," Hubert Skidmore's "I Shall Lift Up Mine Eyes," and Ruth Lininger Dobson's "Straw in the Wind" were the others. simple device of omitting from the Ireland's FaSrite on scussedcollection numerous bitterly ironic political verses in which he had at- Here By Howard Mumford Jones :tdifferent from the gentle one which characterizes his better-known works. "In these poems he not only The story of Tom Moore-Ireland's Bessie Dike, Tom's wife, is in Moore's Fodks. ad th spde nt only called a spade a spade, but severalE favorite poet-son and the work in- own writings, and Professor Jones other things as well," Professor Jones volved in a biography of the poet told of discussing her on the assump- observed. which he has finished formed the ssmn-ob erved. subject of a talk by Prof. Howard tion that she was about 16 years oldj In The Harp That Once, he at- Mumford Jones, now of the English when she wed Mcore's father, only tempted to combine the virtues of the department of Harvard University to discover some time later through writing, Professor Jones said, frank- and formerly professor of English a birth certificate in a parish church ly the admiring and the opposite, here, last night in the League. at Plymouth, where Bessie was born which he described as the H. L. "In his own time Tom Moore was aboard ship, that at the time of her Mencken school of biography. one of the best known men alive," marriage she was actually a maidenly Professor Jones said, "and a bio- 31. He immediately rewrote a whole , nrir Tr- t gar Rice Burroughs. Published by the author. $2.00. BARBARY BREW, by Zeida Stewart Charters. Stackpole Sons, New York. $2.50. THE DECREE, by Gertrude Crown- field. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadel- phia. $2.00. DOWN THE PROUD STREAM, by Carl Fallas. Longmans, Green and Co. $2.50. LILY OF THE FIELD, by Blanche Smith Ferguson. The Penn Publish- ing Co. Philadelphia. $2.50. THE BLACK ENVELOPE; MR. PINKERTON AGAIN, by David Frome. Farrar & Rinehart, New York. $2.00. LOOK AWAY,.DIXIELAND, by Leon F. Harris and Frank Lee Beals, Robert Speller Publishing Corp. $2.50. POINT NOIR, by Celie Huggins. Houghton, Mifflin Co., New York. $2.50. grapher is appalled by the tremendous amount of material available. There are manuscripts ir the Clements Li- brary here, in the British Museum in London, at the Huntingdon Library in California, in the Irish National Li- brary in Dublin and even as far away as New Zealand. I didn't go to New, Zealand," he added. He did, however, go through every British periodical published during Moore's career as a poet, in search of uncollected poetry as well as of contemporary criticism. The chief secondary source for a biographer of the author of "The Harp That Once Through Tara's; Halls," (the first four words of which form the title for Professor Jones' book) "Believe Me If &ii' Those En- dearing Charms," and countless other lyrics still on the lips of the singing world after a century's passing, is "an ugly eight-volume collection" of Moore's memoirs edited by the Whig political leader, Lord John Russell, a friend of the poet, the speaker said. Lord John's work is the only source for the greater part of Moors's own writing, since the original was burnedI after the poet'shdeath. All the information available about .- - y . - w - - 1 chapter of the book, rebuilding the relations of the mother and son in the light of the new information. One of Tom's favorite boasts, in- scribed in the preface to he collected works of 1841, was that none of his well-known satire ever hurt anyone's feelings. In going through the current publications of Moore's day, Professor Jones discovered that Tom had fooled the public for generations by the KECENT IICTION ARKANSAS TALES, by Bruce Brown. The Cassoway Press, New Vernon, N. J. $2.00. JOHN, by Irene Baird. J. B. Lippin- cott Co., Philadelphia. $2.00. DEAD MAN'S TRAIL, by Hoffman- Birney. The Penn Puolishing Co., Philadelphia. $2.00. 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