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Duchess of Windsor to the Far East-
ern struggle. His comments on the
latter are particularly interesting and
timely: Some of them sound as though
they migi.c heve been expressed only
yesterday. The fairness that is mani-
fest toward Japan is a little startling,
not because the author can be accused

of unfairness on other counts, but

simply because most of our informa-
tion from other sources seems to be
based on a hate-Japan thesis. He
says: “China is no Japanese territory,
but Japan’s excuse for making war
on China is that she must protect her
nationals against attacks instigated by
Russia, and also to prevent China
from becoming communized by the
Soviet Republic.”

That is a sample of the provocative
nature of Mr. Carter’s book.—C. G. T.

a
IT WOULD BE difficult to find a more
complete study of a sport than that
which Forrest C. Allen presents in
s new book, “Better Basketball,”
ublished by Whittlesey House. This
volume, selling at $4, goes into minute
detail on the various types of play
and it carries well over 200 excellent
photographs and diagrams to illus-
trate each point the author makes. It
is obvious that Mr. Allen, who is bas-
ketball coach at the University of
Kansas, knows the game inside and
out.. His book will be of interest to
newspaper sportswriters both in a
general sense and as a book of refer-
ence on the fine points of the game.

a

ALTHOUGH MOST newspapermen
have by this time learned the rudi-
ments of expressing facts and opinions
in readable English, and in some cases
have adapted their technique to radio
or the lecture platform, a new book,
entitled “Write and Speak Better,”
written by two Boston University
professors, should not be ignored.

Messrs. Hoffman and Davis, who
compiled the volume, have done as
complete a job of covering the essen-
tials as we have seen.

The book is long, but its complete-
ness and directness make it an easy
book to use. In succession, it deals
with the patterns and organization of
thoughts, the best methods of putting
them in sales letters, reports, and
such, and the finer points of putting
those thoughts into understandable
language.

Two chapters in particular will be
of interest to the newspaperman. The
first deals with the methods of writing
advertising copy, the psychological
factors to be considered, the effects on
the public of certain types of copy
presentation, and similar details which
are common knowledge to the copy-
writer, but of special value to the oc-
casional ad composer. The second of

 

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The bibliography .
“Foreign News Sources.
eign Press,” has been pu
the Burgess Publishing Comy.
is a scholarly compilation of the _
essary books for newspaper writers 0:
foreign affairs, for it covers almost |
every possible source of information.

The books and periodicals listed,
classified into (a) the press and in-
ternational news communication, and
(b) the foreign press, deal in some
detail with communication and news-
gathering agencies, censorship, propa-
ganda, the press in diplomatic affairs,
and press relations in war time. The
foreign press section lists books and
articles which discuss the press in
every important nation.—J. A.

In the Periodicals

Judge, entering its 57th year of publication,
celebrates this month with a “Jubilee Number.”
It contains reprints from old issues, beginning
with 1881, and includes contributions from
Mark Twain, Ellis Parker Butler, Benjamin de
Casseres, Franklin P. Adams, Sigmund Spaeth
and many others.

“The Eagle Strike is Settled” is an edi-
torial in the Jan. 5th New Republic. Saying
the result was ‘‘distinctly a compromise,” the
writer nevertheless boasts: ‘“‘Despite its in-
ferior resources of money and political influ-
ence the Guild was able to effect crippling
cuts in both .the advertising linage and the
cireulation of the Brooklyn Eagle.”

Doris Fleeson, co-author with her husband,
John O’Donnell of ‘‘Capitol Stuff,’’? the Wash-
ington column of the New York Daily News,
is a contributor to Jan. 8th Saturday Evening
Post. Her article, ‘‘Missy—To Do This.
F.D.R.” is about Marguerite Le Hand, pri-
vate secretary to the President.

The annual Honor Roll of Nation magazine
appears in the. Jan. 1st issue. Among the
nominees are Herbert L. Matthews of the New
York Times and James M. Minifie of the Her-
ald Tribune. Both men are correspondents in
Spain. Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch is also cited.

“Public Housing To-day” is also in Nation.
Marquis Childs, Washington correspondent for
the St, Louis Post-Dispatch wrote it.

John Holmes, poetry editor of the Boston
Transcript, is represented in the January At-
lantic Monthly with a poem, ‘“‘Boy Reading.’

 

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