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34 WILMETTE LIFE May 20, 1927 I [NEWEST eno~tgh BooKs AND BOOK REVIEWS Reviews of New Books "Revolt in the Desert"-T. E. Lawrence. Who is T. E. Lawrence? Why, he is the man who brought romance ba ck into life-romance and adventure and the possibility of the impossible. Since the beginning of the ·age of specialization and standardization adventure has been in the hands of expertsbandits, bootleggers and the like who have made of it a . profitable · but extremely drab business. And we poor laymen as specialized in the business of being orde.rty as they in the opposite one, have gone about dully with long faces believing that we had lost forever the privilege of being spectacular. "Revolt in the Desert" is a remark able book aside from the brilliance of the deeds it portrays. It is remarkahl e for its poetry, for its delicacy, for the penetration of its psycho 1o g y. In many passages like this, Lawrence is poet as well as warrior, chronicle.r of deeds as well as their doer : "In the morning Auda had us afoot before four, 'going uphill, till at last we climb·· ed a ridge to a plain, with an illimit able view down hill to the east, where one gentle level after another slowlY modulated into a distance only· to h.c called distance because it was a _oher blue, and more hazy. The rising sun flooded this falling plain with a perfect level of light, throwing up long sha dow s almost imperceptible ridges, and the whole life and play of a complicat· ed ground-system-but a trans i en t one; for, as we looked at it, the shadows drew in towards the dawn, qtii,·ered a last moment behind the i r mother-bank s, and went out as though at a common signal." That man i~ a writrr as well as a doer. I A Novel Question Book Samuel Hopkins Adams has taken time off from the new novel he is writing to complete a most interesting question hook for Boni and Linright. On Mr. Adams' visit to their offices during the last year, it became almost a rite for Mr. Liveright and other persons of that office to play a game which Mr. Adams introduced; and which -consisted of Mr. Adams as the interrogator describing- some famous pers on in history or contempMary life. the description of this person being so hidden in a maze of paradoxes that it required ingenuity to discov(·r " ·ho Mr. Adams was pretending to he. So that in the course of his various ,·is its ~r r. Adams appeared in the g-uise of at least a thousand people. This game, it seemed to his publishers, was far superior to the ordinary question and answer games in that it constituted each player his own detective and therefore this game has taken the form of ·a book called "Who and What-a I B ook of Clues for Clever People." NEW BOOKS Fiction Bennett-Woman \\'ho Stok EVC'rything (short stori<>s). Bindloss-U·lwst of H·~ mlock Canyon. 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For plot it has the old one of the sc- The beadle has ne,·er shown the sligh tduction, a young innocent girl and a est kindliness or affection for Andrina " ·orldly selfish man. Certainly .such a vet he watche~ over her with a fi e rr r plot tells nothing of a book, anything )ealousy. \Vhen there comes to the from the mo st tawdry sentimentalism district a young Englishman tran~ ling to the deepest .realism could be built for his health, the old man's jealnn s~· upon it. But Pauline Smith, author of and dist.r ust knows no hounds. Rut "The Little Karoo" has chosen to he is helples s. write a strong, rest;ained, silent book. · Inevita!)ly Andrina falls _in ~ove. " ·ith upon that plot . Silent in the sense the Engltshman " ·ho on Jus stde ts atthat it is charged with things un sa id. tracted hy her beauty and simplicity. filled with a tensity which is in the air They become lovers, and then before and not in words spoken. long the Englislllitan, tiring of her, at In the country of the Little Karoo a summons from a girl who had hein the South African veldt live s a fore refused to marry him, goes awa~·. community of simple people, their lives This s~ems quite ju;;t to Andri.na:, if bordered hv the hills across which there ts a woman out there 111 tnr · world whom he lo\·~=- and who loH :' · : · - · - · - · - - - - - · - · - · - · · : · him it is right that he should go t·· "We can't keep out of little hells her. Nothing in the whole book i~ ·" · that other people are making." i touching as And.rina's words when ~hr finds that he is going, "Ii Mijnherr \\'ill = but let me I will now pack for him ." B. y R. E. Pinkerton All the forgiveness and sorrow of ;, breaking heart arc hehind those word ~. R o m a n c e! Adventure! ~~ -EsTHER Gorr.n. Rugged characterizations ! e All those appealing qualities for a novel which the By Marie Conway Oemler author displayed so well in A remarkabl.e story based on John "The Test of Donald NorWesley's temptation and renunciaton." Net $2.00. tion of the woman he loved. · Doni & Liveright $2.00 ' I I I I I I I f SPRING TIDES 'I ' I I I I 1 1 I THE HOLY LOVER !~:::~~~:.~::~:::::~.~. 'I . ·--------------------------------'