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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Nov 1932, p. 34

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CliANDLEIRUS Fountaîn Squ.r.e Eansfonl LIUUAET BSatleu.rj b, g, Wl ves ile yea.a unLIaIuA7 w go go is mother *..acve A AIea1Und t g00d. tAndi wrote hin a, long interesting letter indeed, it was an honorable career; f rom. every, place* she visited telling lived- through. with. conscientious hlm of the"things she was doing and effort,, warmed, by much kindliness, seeing. She selected those: things that domestic affection,. and brotberly would interest a: seveni-year-old boy, love, and successful along ý thé lines, and ýthere 'nas much to tell becanse which be believed acceptable to hisi the Washburne's interests led them i Creator. He was thoroughly of bis to intimate contact with the actual life times: a fair epitome of a. late Vici. of. the people 'of the coun tries 'they torian philosophy of ie, fitting neat- visited. The Junior Literary guld had ly into the comfortable years of the chosen Letters to Chawty. as iti; Octo- eighties and well into the beginning ber selection for nine- tell, and eleven- of the present century, a philosophy year-olds. which was aware of Darwin and The first letter Channy received. de- Huxley and the German. bigher, criti- scribes the leaving of. the boât îrom cism. and which imagined that it bad Fraciso o th wa toHawiireached a good, worlçing agreement Saen o japan where the Wash- . SUt science. As often happens. h 'burnes lived like real Japanege people suc recitals, the chapters dealitng in a apanse hteland hann childhood, youth, and the early in aJapnes hoelandChanystruggles to find one's place. in the learos how the Japanese people eat, scheme of things, are far more inter- sleand even Ita~k btJhs. , ýeti»nud imhlrter doTe titan rieweelcs were spent in Tndima. nd.--il Ha, Story jin rs ime this t the peers of 1Zngla;nd; àmîng iR-them culture and, conservatisrn are a tradi- tion, net .a 'eneer. -They are "born to the purple"» and wear it instinc-m tively, ihutcncousness. Yet the current of their emotions runs. as deep and swift .andstrong as that in. the bluntest Yorkshire' dairyman- and the eff ect. on them is the mnore sbattering because of the r-estrictions of this tradition. of irestraint;-Jtis this quality, this inner, tumuît beneath an outer reguiarity, which Miss Sack- ville-West bas so- admirably. caught and of which she writes With such ease anidbeauty of style. The story centers around Evelyn- Jarrold, who by maàrrying* Tommy J arrold, becanie a member of a. fam- ily comparatively new te wealth and position but deeply rooted in the soit of a Enlandwleiel, Iew and -ap preciated severity of principle and strength of purpose. Old Mr. Jarrold, upon whom a. baronetcy was later conferred, made bis fortune in coal and iron and had surrounded hiniscîf with the appurtenances of wealth. A toivn. house. a a large country, estate. the Crimea and- the 0w. Froni Russia th, id, Gerniany, Austria, and to France, and f rom wbere Ithey. sa ne nanas and thIII Vl ock tflCshled ent door, so that wheh she is dead igh. the three younger children wil l ot to have. seen their mother i any other for way but alive and beautiful. The terror at the sight of their dead- mother would be very great, the wo - mani thinka. It is winter and Han- not stick to it?"' Evelyn Jarrold confornied to this pattern in every respect. She was beautiful, possessed great cbarm and a quiet grace and, althougb she was more, than averagely intelligent, ber ideals were the ideals of Victorian England. Her son, however, belong- ed to the new generation and through bis revolt to the standard ida'I and21 revomu- -n. Con- evolved coni- 118 fle#eAv.Wil. 15 early in 1nomùe. in-thé

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