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WILMETTE L.IFE June 15, 1928 Esther Gould,s Book Corner ' JUST PARAGRAPHS Edgar Lee Masters has written a long dramatic poem which will be published this month. It deals with American history. from 1831 to the present time and is epic in style. The central figure is ] ack Kelso. a poet, wanderer and friend of J1incoln. Already we are getting news of the publishing li sts for next fall to whet our appetites. The Viking Press leads off with the announcement of a third novel by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, ·an hi storical romance by F ord Madox Ford, a book of po etry by Sylvia Townsend Warn er, and plays by Lion Feuchtwanger and Gerhart Hauptmann. for the strong to protect the weak, and thereby taking from the strong their power and privilege of ruling themselves. Th er e could not have be ~ n a more normal healthy and hap.py family than the India family until Rex India w~s born into it. With one son and an adopted daug hter_ with culture and wealth, th_ey felt certain that they kn ew th e se cret of living. But then Rex was born. A weakling, not quite mentally or normally re sponsible, he changes everything. Most of all he change s his mother whose fierce maternal in stinct is so aroused to protect him that she sacrifices ev~rything to hi s welfare. " If it won 't hurt him, let him have it. If it will keep it out of hi s way." 1L is on thi s dictum that they live. One of the fir st things to go is wine from the table. This becomes a symbol of the deprivations . The result is of course that the strong son is brought up to fear wine, and when he is thrown out into the world he likes it far too well, and the ·weak son , all the time that he is being deprived of it and told of its horrors, is stealing it from his fath er's <;ellar. This is oi1ly symbolic of the ruin that this policy brings. It is a cruel book, not at all pleasant reading, but it is well done and certainly makes its point with clarity. Pro/. Mabbott Edits 7 Newly Discovered John Milton ·Letters Seven letters written by John Milton to Herman Mylius, edited by Prof. Thomas Ollive Mabbott of Northwestern university, will be published for the first time this summer by the Columbia University press.. ' These letters are edited from the originals in the archives o~ .the State of Oldenburg. The transcnpts were made from photographs of the Latin originals the photographs sent Prof: Mabbott' by the archivist of the State of Oldenburg, H. Goent, who located the letters. With one exception the letters have never before been collected, five have never appeared before in book form, and four have never been printed. Herman Mylius, to whom the letters were written, was agent of the Count of Oldenburg in London. He was engaged in obtaining for his master a safeguard from the English Parliament, and in the course of having this properly worded and translated into Latin, he had some correspondence with the Secretary of Foreign Tongues, Mr. Milton. He took home with him to Oldenburg all the letters Milton had sent him and placed them in the archives there. They were discovered by Prof. Mabbott in his search for the originals of certain letters of state which he believed might be there and which he sought to consult for textual notes for the Columbia University edition of Milton. This discovery was made last year. The letters are dated 1651 and 1652, and, written as they were when Milton was nearly blind, are not in his autograph except in one brief correction. The importance of the discovery lies in the fact that te};Cts of only about 40 of Milton's letters have survived, and that there are in Oldenburg more original letters of the poet than were hitherto known to exist. Prof. Mabbott, one of the younger professors on the staff of Northwestern university, left the local school's English staff with the close of this year and will become a member of the faculty of Brown university with its autumn reopening. He is an outstanding authority on Poe and has edited several significant discoveries of that writer's previously unpublished works, has edited a book on Edward Pinkney, a southern lyric poet, and a beautiful edition of short stories by Walt Whitman, previously unpublished. fUVNTAIN 5QVAR[. · t:VANSTON Telephone University 1024 Rorera Park 1122 or Wilmette 3700 for BOOKS We Are Incredible Matgety Latimer Again the struggle between two generations: the one trying to save the other-the other wary of being dominated. A welldone novel by an author who promises great things. J., H. Sears ~ Co., Inc ...·. $:1.00 · "MEAT" By Wilbur Daniel. 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The chief danger in this method for the reader, is that he will be bored. Without the illumination of the author's point of view, giving him more than he could see if he were there himself, he is likely to think at about page twenty-six, "Well, what of the Bonney family?') But if he pushes on these characters become more than acquaintances; they are old friends in 41 whose life stories it is easy to . be Tottel's Miscellany" $7.50 interested. and We tak~ the Bonneys from the time uThe Paradise of Dainty the children are young and struggling and unformed, through the stormy Devices" $ 7. 50 days of adole·s cence until they are all bg Hytlet E. Rollin· settled in their places in the world. It is all so extraordinarily life-like, ~o "The New Universe" $4.00 exactly the way if these people lived &lur Brownell somewhere they did live. 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