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WILMETTE LIFE May 24. 1929· Comment on Current BQoks ~ IWNrAIN lQVAR[. · ........ lYAN.trON T tltp'h ont lor Your Boob Wilmette J700 Books That . Received· Pulitzer Prize Awards The Organization and Administration of the Union ArmY, 1861-1865 By Fred Albert Shannon was adjudged the best book on th~ 'history of the U. S. Hebut H. Clark, 2 Vol., $25.00 NEAPOLITAN ICE. By Renee Haynes. Dial. Although .t he title would not lead one to suspect it, this novel deals with the English girl at school, with young wg_ men attending Oxford. As a group, the. young people Miss Haynes discusses are interesting but a trifle neurotic. Perhaps they take life more seriously than American .girls, though they appear hardly more intent on their stugies than the average American collegian: Among their few points ..>f uniqueness is their slang, a minor matter, but one that gives convincing color to a novel in which locale is not so significant as, with the possibilities . of Oxford, it might be expected to be. The real triumph of the novel is in the creation not of a group, but of an individual, Sylvia, who is one of the most refreshing English girls in recent fiction. Inclined to introspection Sylvia still escapes the neuroticism of her classmates, and achieves spontaneity and normality, in pleasing contrast with such persons as the heroine of "Dusty Answer." MEDIAEVAL CULTURE. An Jntroduction to Dante and His Times. By Kar_l Vossler. Translated into English by Professor \Nilliam C. Lawton. Harcourt, Brace and company. . Admittedly one of the great products of literary scholarships in our time, it is regarded in l>oth Germany and Italy as the classic work on Dante's Divine Comedy; it was . translated into Italian almost immediately after its appearance. It is far more than a study of Dante; it is a synthesis of the ideas, literature, and civilization of the Middle Ages, as these culminated in the poem. ·There are five parts: a survey of the religious ideas of the period; a sketch of mediaeval philosophy; a history of mediaeval philosophy; a history of mediaeval ideals in ethics and political thought; a summary of the previous literary cultures of the Western world; and finally a critical and aesthetic discu~ion of the Divine Comedy as a whole and in its various parts. The most extensive and authoritative bibliography of the subject has Lt en prepared specially for these volumes by J. E. Singran. Benedetto Croce says : "this work, excellent in nearly all its premises and rich in well considered judgments, should show the way to a better method of criticism of Dante." THE GREAT PER~lAKENCE. By Graham Sutton. ~lcBricle. A gifted young girl's quest of ideal beauty, urged on hy desire to express her deepmost longings in the art of vocal mu sic, is the theme of this se nsitive :1nd eloquently written novel . Terr.). l1e motherless daughter of a hard-drinking Irish baritone, has passed her early life with him in France. touring the provinces with a third-rate opera c:Jmpany. When she is sixteen, her mu sical education already well advanced, her voice richly promising, the company is disbanded, and her father takes the girl to Ireland. There, in the leads, they head a traveling dramatic troupe, playing the "smalls" in repertoire. \Vhile they are in Dublin, Terry falls profoundly in IO\·e with an un stable young poet and actor, but he care :- for another, and that disappointment. coupled with j!rowing hostility between her father and herself. causes her to strike out on her own. She joins the chorus of an English revue. and during the three years which follow, in which she becomes a succe sful concert singer, varied experiences of life and people bring her gradually nearer to that goal of permanent, spiritual contentment she has always sought to attain. At la.st, \\:istfulty and poignantly, the consciousness dawns within her that she has realized her ideal. Training of an American: the Earlier Life and Letters of Walter _ H. Page By Burton J. Hendrick was adjudged the best American biography, "teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the people." Houghton. Mimin 8 Co .... Ss.oo Street Scene By EImer L. Rice was the "original American play hest rtpresenting the educational value and power of the stage." Midwest Company Scarlet Sister Mary By Julia Peterkin was considered "the best American novel of the year." Bobbs-Merrill .......... s2 . 50 John Brown's Body By Stephen Vincent Benet was chosen the best volume of verse by an American. Doubleday, Doran ........ $J.OO Maypoles and Morals Frederic Arnold Kummer Sears ................. s 2. 50 Dark Star Lorna Moon Bobbs -Merrill .......... s 2 · 50 Randolph of Ro~noke Gerald W. Johnson T~e life and career of a Virginia anstocrat, orator extraordinary. master of malice, apostle of violence and selfless patriot. Minton, Balch ~ Company.$ 3·50 All the Brave Rifles Clark Venable Reilly ~ Lee ........... $2.00 Lord'.._Book1 Juat imide tbt Wtat Davi1 St. Door "LIMITED EDITIONS." The New York World announced the other day that "So great has been the demand for the limited edition of Louis Bromfield's 'Awake and Rehearse' which Frederick A. Stokes company will pubMEN CALL ME FOOL. By Dan lish AprillS, that the number of signed York: Doubleday, copies has been increased from 250 to Totheroh. New 500." This reminds one of some of Doran. 1929. the tales told of limited editions of To the romance that has ever lurked yesteryear from East Aurora. in the heart of the clown and the soul of the jester Mr. Totheroh has added MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. By the glamor and adventure which held Margarete Kurlbaum Siebert. Trans- sway in the court of mediaeval France lated by Mary Agnes Hamilton. under Francis the First. The son of Harcourt, Brace and company. the Trisquet, the famous and hideous In this book a German writer, using fo<?l, and a beautiful gypsy, young the methods and freedom of modern Tnsquet f~res forth to seek his forbiography, has made of this world tune with 'his sword. A typical fortune heroine a living figure. Both legend of adventure and fore-doomed love for and historical facts suround her and the the daughter of a nobleman. Upon three strange men whose love led to the death of his father young Trisquet her de3truction: gallant, subtle Rizzio, is commanded intQ. motley by the king. whose blood still stains the floor ot But he is still manly and because he Holyrood Palace; vain Henry Darnley; slew the blue boar with his wooden tempestuous and magnificent Both- sword in the great hunt, he has an adwell. Mary dominated this world of vantage oyer the king. The tale is cold mists and violent men by her in- sad, but it has an infectious vivacity tellect and courage as well as by her and a fleet humor that lifts it above charm. It is the story of a beautiful sentimentality. For all its flamboywoman, gay and romantic of heart, at an.ce, the i.rony implied in the title g_ives bay against desperate odds that needed f~tr warmng of a serious sympathetic hard logic for their solution. Mar- vtew of the interesting relationship begarete Siebert describes this amazing tween the jester and those he was personality again st the background of hired to amuse. Scotland torn with religious dissension and with the treacheries and hatreds of AMERICAN ESTIMATES. By arrogant clans; a woman fighting Henry Seidel Canby. Harcourt, Brace mediaeveli5m single-handed. And far and company. off in England her cousin Elizabeth A book on books and the human waited and moulded the inevitable nature behind them by the editor of tragedy. the Sat!:lrday Review of Literature. The A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE central theme is the American mind BORDER. By Hamlin Garland. Mac- for the author has long been a stu~ dent of the peculiar temperament and millan. extraordinary history of his own cc~n Those who have enjoyed Mr. Garland's chronicle of a Middle Border try as exemplified in literature. He family will like his latest book, for believes the American achievement in which Mr. Garland's daughter, Con- literary art in our own day as well as stance Hamlin Garland, has furni 5hed earlier, has been not so much underas misunderstood. The a series of charming drawings, which estimated are wholly in the spirit of the story. volume also discusses literature abroad ?ft~n in comi?arison with our own. LYRICAL POETRY I~ THE NINE- ts mtended a s both a critique and a TEENTH CENTURY. By H. ]. C. guide for the recent vigorous years i:1 Grierson. Harcourt, Brace and com- American literary thinking. The variou s chapters analyze the American pany. These six lectures are certain to fulfil spirit in literature from different the expectations of all those familiar points of view and in various moods. with Profe5sor Grierson's earlier crit - Some are closeh' knit studies of jnical writings. In the first, the historv di,·iduals - Thor-ra u. Whitman,· Cabell, of lyrical poetry is lightly sketched and Twain. H a rei~·. \\Tells-other s critical the nature of the true lyric is exam- discus sions of the American scholar ined. The second is on Blake, Col~ the slavery · of literature to science: ridgc, and \Vordsworth, and so on the Quaker and Puritan in the Amerithrough Scott and Bryon to Shelley can mind, hut atl progress toward a "the greatest of English lyrical poets,': definite estimate of American tendenand to Keat5 as well as John Clare. cies and the nature of literary art. Then the author considers the virtuosity of Tennyson and Browning and A POT OF PAINT. The Arti sts of the 1890's. By ] ohn Rothenstein. next the revolt typ.i fied in Arnold and carried <;Hi by the Rossettis, Morris, Mr. Rothenstcin sets the stage for and Swmhurne. The final lecture a stirring conflict between the creacl~als with the "Xineties," and closC's tive impulse and the crushing industrial wtth . a r~ference to the indications machinization of the day. There are contamed tt~ the work of certain poet5 numerous sketches upon such figures of that penod of the direction which as Whistler, Greaves. Steer, Sickert, earlier twentieth century poetry was Conder, Beardslev. Ricketts and Shanto take. The author is professor of non, Rothenstein,- and Max. The men Rhetoric and English Literature in of whom he writes comprised a "small. Edinburgh uni\'e rsity . . some\\'hat isolated. and reactionarv fraternity." Thev were rebels without DICTIONARY TO THE PLAYS knowing \VhV, Or against what they AND NOVELS OF GEORGE BER- rebelled. Whistler's method, like th.e NARD SHAW. By C. Lewis Broad true militant, was to attack. Conder's Macmillan. · was to t~ke refuge in a realm of reHere is a reference book for ad- mote poetic dalliance. These men were n-lirers of G. B. S., presenting in brief stung hv the hittPr consciousness of a!l his novels, plays, and ·5cattered oersonal or professional deficiency and pteces. Here one may compare Cashel imoerfect adiustment to their surByron . on the stage with Cashel Bvron roundinl!s, into a~c::uming the noses for between the covers of a novel; ·one which they are chiefly remembered. may learn of the unpublished novel "Immaturity," one may by means of a handy table identify any one of' the numerous offsprings of Shaw's brain. Here, too, one may learn of the chief' productions of the plays, when and where they were given, and who were the actors. Finally there is an exhaustive bibliography of Shavian literature, wherein the interested may discover to what sources they may apply for further material relating to this greatest a£ · modern English dramatists. · 1 b1 th w ~ B SJ:: sa Tl C(J th se w pt in1 of Gc er in th] Al lS pe me th b co in1 w~ Ge pe th: fo1 fe· Dr ~ M, be' pel an es to £J Ch ap tw ed di It J, cv sta yar yar Inn thr th n l sal ler tic tot w H ha \\T of Sa~ at at for lie is eo