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- -- -~- ·- - .. _. ____ _ October 19, 1928 which all but hanged Villon for the second time in 1462. I know the fel. low, his habits and _his h.a~nts." . This is true. W athout . mdulgmg m hypothetical rhapsodies on what Villon probably did not think or do, Mr. Lewis has taken the dry documentary material which is all there is, and made it walk. , He has divided his book into several parts, so that he treats of the background of old Paris, the life of the poet, then his works in detail,. e~~h in a separate part. The boo~ ts mteresting, written as Mr. Lew1s says again "Not for a rabble of pedants but for those dear souls who love high poetry and the unfortunate." Esther Gould's Book Corner ·JUST PARAGRAPHS ward and offers his protection and his Edith Wharton's "The Children" has good naine. . The family praise t h e been snapped up with more than their Lord and shortly after Caleb Evans 'usual rapidity by the movies. Within a starts for hi~ newly p~rchased. ranch. in month of its publication the rights in- Colorado With . the Wife of his chotce eluding those o£ "talking pictures" had unexpectedly h,s. . been bought. Is it possible that the , Then begins a long life of tragedy imminence of the talkies will put Mrs. for Naomi in which the only ray of Wharton on a par with Zane Grey in happiness comes from the child named Hollywood? Brook. · .In Brook, who incidentally When Arthur Ruhl, author of "The never gams our sympathy as does Central Americans," was asked .by an Naomi; is enacted the battle between interested peasant of that country if. her mother's ardent nature and her fosthere were any revolutions in the ter father's priggish principles. The United States and replied only one in father. wins for lon~ enough to brea~ a hundred years, the peasant thought it Naomt's heart, but m the end Naomt must be very· quiet there. "No," said or Brook's own nature carries the day. . . . M R hl h f 11 "W h r. u ope u y, e ave rnaThere 1s a wayermg m the. sy~pathy chinery." of t~e. book wh1ch weakens 1t ~hghtly, ENTERTAINING but tt ts, neverthless, good readmg. "Brook Evaas" By Susan Glu.spell }'rederlt.k A. Stokes Co. IOVNTAIN lO.YARI. · LVANUON Telephones: Gr.aleal .,.. Wilmette 3711 BOOKS of the Week The Friend of ·Jesus Ern~·t .Suggest Chlldren I for Those 'Indoor Days' . . f 'ndoor Books des1gn~d e~pectally 0 E 1 days are the Pntchard Books. Mother Goose Circus Parade," by Clarence F. Pritchard and w. c. White, illustrated by Stacy H. Wood, is a story book for very little children. The other three books by Clarence F. Pritchard with pictures by Stacy H. Wood, can be partly converted, thr~ugh the .medi~m of perforated pages, mto movmg ptct ures that will delight children without robbing them of the book itself. These books are called "Mother Goose Play Pictures," "Santa Claus Play Pictures" and "Mother Goose Moving Pictures." Published by Putnam i!l a large and brightly colored format, these bo<?ks solve the gift problem for every chtld. · , Book Simon a Schuster Suthttlllnd &t11 ..·.·... S1..50 A POET AND AN UNFORTUNATE "Francois Villon" By D. D. Wyndham Lewis Coward MeCann Army With Banners Ruth Comfort Mitchell ·Appleton ·.·........·.· S1..oo The Childermass W yndhllm L~wi· Covici-Fritdt ........... SJ.OO What Everybody Wanted Ehu Singmat~r . Houghton, Miftlin a Co. . . S1..oo The Vicar's Daughter E. H. Young Harcourt, Bract ~ Co. . ... S 1.. 50 Susan Glaspell aft:er a novel-less interval of thirteen years has written "Brook Evans," the story of a woman who loved too well. It is rather a conventional story but it is written with charm and facility. Naomi Kellogg and Joe Copeland love each other, but because his mother frowns on any attachment on the part of her son, they meet on summer nights down by the brook which runs through both of their farms. Joe Copeland is killed by a new haying machine and Naomi not without reason finds she is going to have Joe's child. There is the expected uproar under · the family roof and, alas. the conventional figure of the church member, lustful but unsuspected by any but the girl, comes for- James the Second Btlloc lippincott · . . . . . . · . . . . . S 4. o o Hit.r~ The Story of France from Julius Catsar to Napoltal'l 3· Pllul V lin Dyk~ Scribnu's ·............ S 3· 50 Giant Killer Elmtt DtWu John Day ··.··...··... $1..50 Soothes and Refreshes Have you ever !seen a stick-bug? A remarkable sight he is, just like an animated stick walking along. He even has eyes. It seems a true case of aa :mating and vivifying matter. It is something like this that has been performed on the character of Francois Villon, the revivified poet of the fifteet~entury. All that was left of ViiJon's life history was housed in documents dry and uninteresting as a stick, yet care and industry and devotion have given the stick legs and eyes and made it walk. D. B. Wyndham Lewis is not the least of -those who has performed this act of wizardy. He has done it charmingly, with zest and humour and with the priceless ingredient of the creative imagination. As he says, "I have traced Villon's foot~teps in the banlieue and along the Loire, in what remains of the great Innocents Charnel (it is now a neat little, tidy little Bloomsbury Square), along the Rue St. Denis, the way of the condemned. out through the ghostly Porte St. Denis in the vanished ramparts to · the gibbet of Montfaucon, the way he often went to see men hanged .. . In the Rue des Parcheminiers I have lingered many a night, watching for the four companions to issue from the sign of the Chariot all drunk, and involve themselves in that row with Master Francois Ferebourg LECTURES ON AVIATION Donald E. Keyhoe, author of "Flying With Lindbergh," the aviator who was Colonel Lindbergh's aide all during his goodwill tour of the United States, has been given leave by the Depart· mcnt of Commerce so that he can lecture at high schools and universities throughout the west on "\Vhat Is Next in Aviation ? " His lecture will be ill u.strated by films on the development of aviation. "IVORY DOOR" COMING "The Ivory Door" by A. A. Milne will appear in book form in October (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) In hi3 foreword to this play, Milne admits that he expects it to be labeled as "whimsicar' and he has no doubt it deserves the title. Nevertheless, he likes · this play above all others. and finds it most reminiscent of "The Truth About Blayds," a play that, even though by Mr. Milne, is hardly whimsical. BUILDS HERO'S HOUSE George Agnew Chamberlain spent his summer remodeling a house on Alloway's Creek. It is the hero's house described in 1fr. Chamberlain's new book. "The Taken Child," an epic of the Grand Circuit. This romance of the trotting track is written for any human being who has ever thrilled to a win under the wire, for it is written in the language of the owner, trainer, driver and humble ·Swipe. Roads to the North Chctlt~ ~Otorists' Another book by the author of 8. Brookl Drawings by Julia McCune Flory. Ha"ourt, Brace Co·...· SJ.oo a Eyes Eyes strained by hours · at tiM wheel and irritated by exposure to sun. wind and dust are instantly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling: clears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on moto~ trips to refresh and protect your eyes. 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