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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Oct 1932, p. 40

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Mary B.imfolw iflys: * "It'a the vao.at. clierf 14 pionenftrgy o i ever * Iear about." CHANDLE1I'S Fountamn Square Evansfon *world to write about, Mr. Heming- people who hav e read everything; while! way has chosen noue other than bull- others want to know new things first.i fghtiîîg., Altbough it lias undergone William Faulkner's books are sensa- drastic changes bullfighting in Spain tions to those who make books a busi.- is flot by any mneans a lost art,'ai- ness as well as a pleasure. Practically though Americans are %vont to think everyone applies the adjectives horrible so.: The author admits the' crueit'- 1 nd terrible to the siories lie writes, the lasciviousness., the savageness of utail arc drawn1 to read him. His bullfighting, but is neverthelessi fas- bu cinate by te courge an t 1eiu- wnovel "Light -in August" is îîot dam ,of death on the part of theimat-oe asvlting eamhs cuary," buit.n ador, to sa), nothing of' bis skill anîd:oea i qems hudra t grae.A book that, held readers spellbound was "Power" by Lion Feuchtwanger. Mr. Hemingway knows, exactly temnad oinhv how 1ou feel aboutmuenfindtsmandhave howyo, eelabutbulfiht,, ndli 1awaited each new book hoping to be tells you 50 in the first feu, chapters. heda1le eehedta is ie He believes that .men (Americans Hisldasth est book "osephus" rmisies t particuia rly) would. be much more Hslts ok"oçhs rmsst horrfie ovr teirfirt bllfghtrepeat in a measure the first success. than wlomen would be. Ini fact, lie Catherine. Brody's "Nobody Starýves' bas one old lady actually thrillcd and lis the first novel of the depression. It delighted over theý first one she at- tells the story of an automobile me- tended, But I must admit muy skepti- chanic. and bis -wife in Detroit. PO'PU-1 cism. lar authors and critics are praising It.1 In he peinglins f bs bok"Diana Stair" by Floyd, Dell is ratedt the uthr sas: At te frstas bis best.. It is a study of the, Ameni- bullfght eve wen to e ipc~can woman as teacher and leader be- to be horrified and penlîaps sickened fore the Civil War. It is expect.edti by what 1I had been told wud be a success. Victoria Sackville-West happen to the liorses." But lie iaould1 hias been adding success to success withc and the reason ,.*why, lie explaiu.s first "The Edwardians," then "AIl Pas- later, is; that the 11death of the horse sion Spent" and now "Famiiy History"r tends to be comic wlîile that of tl-e -a chronicle of. a'seif-made industriald buill is tragic." ' li order to kicj- d aro and bis souis and grandsons., builfiglit one inîust detacli hinmself: A novel in t tie Priestley 'vein is comipletely'fropi the human in order Swinnerton's "The Georgian House."t to tinki,, about and concentrate Oli A beautiful, romantic story is Dubose the skill of the matador, bowN lie Heyward's "Peter Ashley." The backý- stands, how lie acts, how lie uses theigrouind is Charleston before the Civilm cape and the mnuleta. %var. Threè amusing, witty, and clever Mr. Hei-nig-way's chatty,' informIni authors are, Isa Glenn, Nathilde Eiker, tl style is entertainiùg. His. explana- and Rose Macaulay. Their three books tions of the br.eeding of bulîs, the de- are "East of Eden," "Brief Seduction n tailedl technics of bullfigliting, and of Eva" and 'ý'The Shadow Flies." .Al it the various niethods used by tlîe will be entertainig and quotable. "The! s -matadors are fascinating and are 1.11 Mutiny. of the Bounty" by Norhddff il terestingly tol.d. There are episodes and Hall is written in the great t*radiî-' Jof comiedy -as wvell as. tragedy. There to fSeesn evleadCo.n- is satire and hum-ýior-. Thle author rad., It is a grand, adventure story. tells. thle lives -and. carcers. of the. Virginia Woolf bas written some of various iiatados-Juan Belmnoîte, the, best criticism of the day.. Her w Joselito. and Manluel Garcia,, Maera, "Second Comlmon Reader" brings to- w and. others, ail of whom. vere geniuses gether rnany of her recent studies that tr ini their profession, have been printed in the magazines. /A You are taken riglit to the bull joseph Wood Krutch summed up a de- w ring. Sometimes you are in the cade in "The Modern Temper." His IV audience watchiing the figlit and book "Experience and Art" bias prom-P( .soinetinies yoU are the matador ise of being quoted as much as the for- of SARY NUM] elson, a local LL SPEA1C IN CHICAGO ^BOUT CAI v Pearson, Washington corres- Knopf has just publh tand co-author of "Washington cafld "Town Cats," whi -Go-Round" wiIl speak at Or- eight drawings of cats by hall on Tuesday, October 25. noted artist. The bookm Ys that he will give the "lIow- lives of cats ini town, in 1 on Washington politics. and in the alley. J of pearis, rubies andi otiier gems, ac-. cording to the estimable collectors of them, bave been gatbered f rom newspapers and magazine articles- -one wonders if it could be possible;, at any rate, they are. enligltening, andshow what our gre 'at and fîear- great really think about The Big Things of Lif e. Take the Dépression for instance- Bruce, Barton takes the blame for it -I apologize to my Public for allow' ing this business depression to con- tinue so long"; Arthur Brisbane say> "The, depression >is now ove?'; but J. P. Morgan bas the, final word- "I don.'t know anything about any depression.".' Nor is the great- subject of niar- nrage left unsolved. Peggy. Hopkins ,Joyce opines "People are top,(le - pressed for love"; but Texas G'uinan thi.nks that, "Marriage, is ail very well but it seemns like carrying. love toôý far." To Rudy Valîce "There is- danger in alllments of 'love and marriage"; but Adjutant-General W. W. Stirling, after an exchaustiv-e study of the subject among Texas.lZanger., cornes out with a statement in fayor ýof the good old. custom - "Prcfer, married'hmen in our service. Find, they doln't nîind being killed."' Perhaps you think tlîat-Those. Whi(. 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