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·~ t WILMETTE LIFE 29 ;~·. . ... Are You Interested in books of FiCtion, Biography, Travel, m Histnryf For lists write to ESTHER \ GOULD c/o your local paper. _ WARNINGS FROM MR. ANDERSON "DARK LAUGHTER" By SherwOod Aacleraon Doni It LiYeriaht \\"ouldn't it be delightful if by some dtspen sation of a humorous Providence we could arrange to have a debate between, let us say, A. S. M. .. Hutchinson and Sherwood Anderson? Hutchinson, whose human beings walk daintly through life, like certain kinds of water birds who pick their way along the edge of the ·sea, lifting their feet high. peering. timidly in to pick up an unsuspecting fish, and at the slightest hint of commotion ~preading their wings and flying away ---=iar away. up toward . Heaven. Ander!'.on's characters. dark swooping gulls coming out of a gre: sky, flying low over the- water. diving now and then swiftlY into a wave, then turning and fl):ing for a whole day perhap=--, straight out to sea. Perhaps you are faintly disgusted at the timid flapping little bird. perhaps you are terribly frightened at the swif.tness of the gull. [ 1.1 "Dark Laughter .. as in hts other hooks. ~1 r. Anderson gives us a sense oi impending doom. of forces, under a thin protective veneer. h·ing dormant. ready to rise and- destroy. A=-- the ground in France used to he filled \\·ith the hone~ of men so recenfh· dead, ~o thinh· co\·ered over that -not infrequent!~: an arm ,,·ould he thru st out" a:'> if in silent and terrible prote:'lt again~t thi s thing ,,-~1ich ·ivilization had done . 13ruce Dudley. working in a wheel factor~: in a little town in Indiana, U:'led to he a ~ uccc s=-- ful tH·wspa per man in Chicago. L"ntil he was tempted to leave his old life and his wife Bernice. and ,·enture into that country of one's self, which few men knO\\', behind all deceits and artifices, and ncar the edge oi thal black void from which from time to .t ime is UC' " the '·dark laughter." It is a powerful . tory, those to whom it would seem most unpleasant would concede it that. It has something to say and it says it crudely, sometimes with a flash of beautv. alwavs with sincerity and a sort o( primiti~' e st(ength. has be~n put together with such a nice balance that from a little distance the plan is startingly clear. Instead of falling apart as a lot of li tie novelettes, it stands together as an extraordinary strong and closely knit novel. The theme of "Possession .. is that of the earlier novel, am{>li.fied and carried on in the life of another character. It is that the sons and daughters of the Middle West, children of pioneers, now that there is · no more physical wilderness to conquer must · · · · ·l l l # l l # l l # l l l l l l l l l # l l l l · · · · find an intellectual or artistic wildSINCLAIR LEWIS $2.10 erness. 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'#111#1#1#1#1#1##11###1#111###11## but. i~ always leaning across an intervenmg ~pace, the sp~ce created by her genaus. That thmg which old "Gramp" To!liver, a superbly drawn character, satd when she was a child "would keep her lonely as long as she lived." . And in the end, like all great artists, she is free, free from all the bonds which have tried to bind her the people she has loved and thos~ who have loved her, even her mother who tried so fiercly to possess her. "But, on the high pinnacle she had built with her own hands she was alone . . . the woman whom Fergus had seen for a moment in a queer fl~sh of clarvoyance on the night of hts death. She was playing th1.1s when Lily came in quietly to stand listening in the shadows." THE BLACK MAGICIAN By R. T. M. SCOTT More thrilling-adventures of cret Service Smith." A story plenty of pep interspersed Oriental Black Magic. $2.00·. E. P. Dutton a Co. 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