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WlLtdETTE November ~. 1~ I Telephones: CnealeJ 7IM Wn..tt.eJ'JII Ro._.. Park IIZZ Wiaaetb SZI Esther Gould's Book Corner The World on One Leg Ell~ry Wllltet A rteord of stnn adnnturous yean of a boy's life--writtm when be was twenty-two. He was thrown on his own wbrn be was founrrn-in Chicago. where tbr book begins, ~nd be travrltd swiftly through amu:ing advtaturn. Captured by Pancho ~ilia'~ ban~i.ts in Mexico-log· gang an Bntasb Columbia-this young advmturer learned about lif! all onr tht world. 45,000 malts of travel-wOJking his way, and earning it on crarcbrst Putnam ..···......··.. Ss.oo The Cruise of the Northern Light M n. John Borden Macmillan ..··..·...... S·. 5o The Book of Rabelais Jake F11l1tafl Now Rabrlais' lift bas bttn written as he himself might have written it-"in tht forthright style of a talt told in the althousr." Written with daring and impudtncr and gusto. And illustuttd by Guy Arnoux. Doubleday, Doran ....... $4.00 Dreiser Looks at Russia Theodort Drei~er "-an illuminating prtstntation of the prtstnt Russian scent." Horace Livrright .....·.. SJ.oo The World I Saw Anne Shannon M ontoe -in which tbt author of "Singing in the Rain" tells htr own story. Doubleday, Doran ....... $:2.50 temperament one drew, a varying number of years ago. to be one of those of he Happening religion is very close to the people JUST PARAGRAPHS the first class, I can only say to those Theodore Dreiser in his new book loves and who love him. others who belong with me, "Here on Russia voices the opinion that the is a new Virginia Woolf." It is enough United States even in our own day BLACK AND WHITE to make the seasons turn backward. may be sovietized. The bir:ds ·sing and the skies take on ."The Comiaa of The Lord" . The story "The Father" by Kathathe color of spring. for, as Winnie By Sarah Gertnde :MIIUD rane Holland Brown which won the the Pooh would say, "she is a springHoraee Llverlght $25,000 prize offered by the Woman's ish sort of person." She looks at life Home Companion_ and the John Day with a crystal clarity not unlike th~ Among the books of the season bright transparent su~light of spring. Company and was just published covers nearly the whole fifty years of there are certain ones that cannot be In "Orlando," the biography of a From ones overcrowded person who began as an Elizabethan Miss Brown's life-time. The material denied. gathered from stories told in her child- shelves these certain one's speak with nobleman and is living now a's a hood by . her own father, the actual a strong voice and one listens to them. twentieth century lady, Mrs. Woolf writing was started in an effort to Among these is any book by Sarah attempted and has carried through a entertain him when his health was Gertrude Millin, and "The Coming of work of tremendous scope, it is no failing. · the Lord" does not disappoint one. exaggeration to say she has set a new It is a book of South Africa of standard for the artistic creation of which, naturally, 1.since it is her ha- the present day. . THE NEW RELIGION tive land, Mrs. Millin writes with a sympathy and a knowledge not often "The New ·.Temple" found. In this book she has taken in- Fifth and Sixth Graders dividuals of the white race as her . p By .Johan Bojer characters, and relegated the blacks resent Plays at Sears The Century Co. "God's Stepchildren" a'3 she called Two plays were presented by fifth J ohan Bojer is one of the small them in her earlier work, to the back- and sixth grade pupils at the Joseph group of Scandinavian writers who ground ~~ere they loom symbolically, Sears school in Kenilworth this week. pave attained a high place in Amer- as that sm1ster thing which looms ever On Monday during the last school ica. It becomes increasingly appar- in. the backiround of mans life, a sort period the sixth graders gave a play · based on readings from Homer's ent why he has reached this place; he of mysterious force personified. The individuah of her story are a :'Ilia~," ~hich they have been studyhas a force, a simplicity, which carry Jewish doctor, and a woman, attrac- mg m Mlss Gertrude Herrick's ]iterathe most complete conviction. In uThe New Temple" he tells the tive, vital, whose husband being only ture class. The seventh and eighth story of a group of people who be- half a ma,p leads her to look for spir- grades were guests. On Tuesday one come astonishingly real to us. He itual companionship elsewhere. Their s~ctior:t of the ~fth grade under the does it so quietly laying on his strokes relationship is only spiritual, would dlrectlOn of Miss Emma Billington with such an even brush that one does be innocent if the world could know presented a play on book characters the fact.;, but the world judges not prepared during Book Week. Pupils npt realize until one get'3 a short by facts, but by appearances. So m the other fifth grade section were d~st~nce away from it how startlingly guests. d1stmct are the high-lights and the they are looked upon askance, and that very possibility of guilt makes shadows. GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS Ske.letons" and "Peoples of MadaIt is the story of a brother and a them guilty. That begins a long train sister w~o have been brought up by of events which can cnly end in trag- gascar," at 11 and 3 o'clock respectively a tyranmcaJ old aunt, who when she edy. Mrs. Millin writes more compe- Monday, _November 26, are the subjects dies, because the boy has displeased tently, is more deft ir.. character ana- of the first of next week's guide-lecture tours at Field Museum of Natural Hisher by some socialistic activities at lysi'.s than ever befor~. tory. On other days at the same hours the university, leaves her great estate subject.s will be: Tuesday "Pottery and YOU DO OR YOU DON'T to the girl. The effect of this rebuff Bronze" and "Metallic Ores and Minand reversc;tl of position on them both, "ORLANDO" erals"; Wednesday, "The Wild Turkey and the trial of the boy to find a life By VIrginia Woolf and Its Relatives" and "Harvests"· and an outlet in religion is the thread Hart.ourt Brace & Co. and Friday, "Conifers and Deciduou; of the '3tory. In the end he finds his Trees" and "Ancient South Americans." Ther~ are those for whom Virginia Woolf 1s a great and unfolding exper- There will be no tours Thursday on account of the Thanksgiving holiday ience. There are those for whom she Have you read these is a blank. There are those for whom but the museum will be open to th~ she. is an irritating and confusing ex- public as usual from 9 to 4 :30 o'dock. penence as a shopping trip for someby two prominent Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Rew were hosts thing they cannot find. I am· not one at a family supper party Sunday eveni~g at their home, 217 Dempster ~iiiiitiifffiiiiJiiixitt+t street, to take the place of .the usual Thanksgiving day reunion. 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