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SOCIAL STATIONERS D.x.d ma p.mnd pa 1724 ItRINGTON A1VMUVE Oltou notiWel BUIdg. II FAIRY TA LES h, 1 IT gram wil celebrate the twentietb an- iiiversary of Miss Munroe's maga- zine. It will be held in1 1Harris hall at 8 o'clock, and the proceeds wiii go to Miss Munroe o be used ini the general fund of lier Magazine or for poetry prizes. Miss Munroemwili give a à short re- sumne of..her twenty years ofý work on "Poetry" as a feature. of the pro- gram,. and qÀili' also teli of amfusing incidents 'that have. happenied, in her office, on East Erie. street , and of, famous writers who .bave visited her on their way through the city. .terwriters wilI give shorre- ings. of their works, andý under the stimuious -of Lieweilyn 'Jones' spaýrk- ing wit wiii give the*audience a show of inteilectual firevorks.. it :is an- nonced. Baker, Brownell (f ithe cotitempo-, rary thought depatment and, Lew Sarett, poet, a member of the faculty of the school of speech, biave bth expressed their interest andtheir nii- tents of gjving their support. Among those who %viiI attend and ý;ike part in the prograni.are Eunice Tietjçns, poetess; Marioni Strobel, novelist and poetess; Cioyd Head. winner of several recent poetry prîzes of note, and Bertha Tten Eyck Jamnes, poetess, whose -work frequentl-v, ap- inears- in R. H-l . 's coliinmn. and ]-ider Oison, a voig Chicago poet. TO DRAMATIZE BOOK The dramnatization hy Owen Davis play is being produced ny the -heater Guiid under the direction of Phiiip 'Moeiier, with Alla Nazimova as O-ian and Earie Larrimore ini the pa-rt of Wanig-Luiig. Tt opened at the CQhestnnt Street, Opera bouse ini Philadeiphia, on Sqeptember 19 and at the Guiid Theater in New York on October- 3. The b ook wil be illus- trated by one or more reproductions of the settings mnade for the play hy Lee Simionson. FIRST NOVEL COMING- ,the pig- neyer are gone.' Y ou sav to nie "Look !- whien a gray bill sips from The cracks where the -rain is ieft, and the breeze Ruffles, the wings -tiiat are living *Chips from The niarble piiiars. the niarble.arch *and the frieze. Scatter, the hast'of the crunihs f ro ,i yout-pocket! Out of the Cloyen mnist, out, of the .mornin g where The campanile lifts. iike a rOcket Let. vacant-eyed, pigeons, crying,' sink to the squ are. PRINCESS PRO. TEM, S y Arthur Train No inatter how. peacef itlie rest of the world na-v be there is aiwvaysý trouble -and- romnance. . 1brewitg ini th lkans. In Arthur Trains new novel the pictures(jue littie kingdom of Illyria is the stçrni center o-f'ex-1 citement. Vfie oid King. Stephan,i knows only too well thiat bis two' jossible maie successors are worth-i iess. But in Amnerica there iives1 voung Helen Stephens, horn S$teph-j anovitch, datighter of that brave1 Youing prince Dushan who inarried anl Ainerican girl and (lied soon. af--ý ter bis dauighter was born. 13 The old king suininons bis grand-, daughiter to lier fatliers hoinîeand, i ivith the intention of proclainuing lier queen. En route the Amnerican -prini- r cjess meets and falis in- love- with i Illyria thev are plunged into the thîck of court intrigue. Everv page is ex- citing, right up to the unexpected but satisfactory conclusion. SHORT STORIES Margaret Enmerson Bailev, author of "The Wild. Streak," a volume, of short stonies just pnblisbed by G. P. Putnamn's Sons, is a graduate. of Bryn Mawr, was a feilow ini Engiish at the University of Chicago and> took courses in the short story under Robert *Lovett and Robert Herrick. ,vriiLLen a noJvei Unii --.IJyonaIIU - sirei" which bas just been published.' But, very obviousiy, he bas not been idie, during those years; one. need oniy read a few pages ini bis new book to see that he bas kept abreast of the trends. in writing.- Far f rom starting, where he ieft. off, lie.jumnps .right into the center of the impor- tant qEuestion's of today. The story,*of "Beyonid i esire" weaves itself around, Red Oliver, the. son of a docor in Langdon, (ja., *ho cornes from: a good family and is uni- versally respected until: he becoines'a dr.unkard. *Red's imother lacks the> backound f >a good familv, but ýi a respectable', if rather vague, woman who eventuaily turns'to evangeiism as. a ýsolace for a disappointitig mar- niage. Red Oliver hiinseif is an inipres- sionabie boy.. Living, in a soùth-rn, mîii town he. eariy becomfes alive to the conflictinig elem1nents of Amenican life today, to the, many, probleins, to the inany opportunities. to the miany roads ieading to no one knows what, Working as a common. laborer ini the Miii, yet belonging to a southern famiiy of good standing, mnakes his ýposition a peculiar one, but it affords him a broader, understanding of so- cial probiemns and of the new ideas4. and creeds sp)riinging up aînong youîîg Amiericans. "Miii Giirls,"' which is the namne given to tihe' sec- .nd division. of the book, cotitainsi v-aiuable mnateriai. It uncovers the root of the haiting, haif-bakcd.coin- ntnismn of today; h shows. without a hint of propaganda, the lives of thesc iniiiworkers; and through it A R<ed Oliver acts as a -sensitizced pflate, tîpoii whiclî these varioiu- eluient'> react. Tihis simiie is iess true of the tiîir<I division, "Ethel," which i., a rtfniirk.- able 1)sychoioQgical study of a wonîa. This is aliost a separate. story, but her. relation té) Red Oliver-l.ic()rl)(- rates Ethel into the rest of the bco')k. RLed feels- that by possessing lier, lw woid lind somne purpose to -hi- , some solution for the chaos in bhis iind, some decision in regard tc> Communism. But instead, havinig il lau pru, rna Inc., and to eiiîïu stiares at;I:pUU -" al text run through. a share, each publisher buying 6if-] iail the books of teen shares to be entitied to a booth appear under a centralized programn. d througb pictures completely equipped and with operat- This plan wouhd give -books an ex- ubiished in the hast ing expenses covered. Rach pub- celient represeptation before the sseems. to be the lisher, too, would have u se of the 50,000,000 people who are expected lecture room, where authors. could to attend the fair. *the 1 histor that1 vear Most sting. J j i