Books: Mexico & Middletown

MEXICO: A STUDY OF TWO AMERICAS—Stuart Chase—Macmillan ($3).

Latest fad of the intelligentsia is Mexico. One by one they go, see and are conquered; come back to the U. S. to spread their tidings. Stuart Chase, onetime accountant turned journalist of economics, went to Mexico with his wife because a friend told him the Indians had no time-sense and that they ought to see the murals of Diego Rivera. Chase's report is as lyrical as most, more arrestingly factual than many.

The Chases liked Mexico, spent altogether about five months there. They kept away...

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