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A Primer of the War D.bti DORSEY RICHARDSON CEAND»LEB'S Fountain Square, Evansfon BOOKSH0Pj ýLIORARY U Cards Steioneéri MAKE. HER HAPPY WITH A GOOD 500OK on MOTHER'S DAY MAYI14 MOTHER'S DAY CARUS and also Spocial Greetings for "à Special Someone" on that day. 1724 ORftINGTON AVENUE Orrington Motel BIdg., Evanston is an inldication ot the trend of the tirnes' toward a greater appreciation of the simple ways of life; or perhaps it is the full romantic fiavor of such a subject which attracts the write-r, regar4less of - any contéinporary. significance. But whatever 'the reason or motive one.cannot but 14e grateful when* it inspires such a book as this one. It is asto.r.yv of 'farm life'in which a1 joy ini the earth and, a humble ac- Ceptance of the work it, entails takes the place of the sordid drudgeryanid thre conquest of Mexico, by the Spaniards and written after, a visit to the scenes it describes, -was de- clared, the best. volume of verse pub- 1ished' durinig the year by an Amer- ican author. "Conquistador," the cornmittee of awards stated, "extrernely modern in its technique, is on the whole the best poemi that has been ýsubmitted sexual complexities whîch somle Ano ai aBanquet novelists and laywrights have pre- Announcement of the, Pulitzer sented as typical. Hard woik, but net prizes for excellence in American drugeyand quiet deep-running, arts and letters this year was made at love between people who are normal a banquet arranged by the friends of human beings -net pathological P rinceton librarv and aIl the Pulitzer cases,, gives this book a broader sigri-, novelists, biograerhsoanad ficace.poets of the past were inivited to be AS THE, J7ART'H TURNS con- present and do honor te this year's cernis one year :in the life' of thé winners. Shaw family, a year* in which they Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Ya le experienlce birth, death, marriage, acted as toastmaster and among the suicess, andi the countless worries a.nd notables present were: Dr. Nicholas joys that are an inherent part of the Murray Butler, Geii. John J. Per- life of any family. But for the Shaw shing, Willa Cather, Hamlin Gar- family, whose farmn is ini the' back- land, Ernest Poole, M'rs. Pearl S. woods of Maine, these worries and Buck and Margaret Ayer Darnes. )oys-are-for the most part bounid up The entire proceedings were broad- Iwith the changing seasons. It is with cast over a nation-wide liookup, with acourage humn of deep-seated trust Howard Vincent O'Brien of Winnet-I in the "good earth" that they ftalfill ka, literary editor of The Chicago its neverceasing. demands and their Daily News acting as master of cere- rew.%ard is the contentmnent of know- monies on the air. ing that each season' as it comes car- T. S. Stribling's novel of southern ries both a consumimation and à life, "The Store," was the 1932 prize promise. These are ait inarticulate winner for the best novel of the er p eople but one feels.tIrouv~h *i,.__. - - ea. .This quotation is Anatole1 France's philosophy of life, and shows his ini- Sdebtedness to literature, to the clas- sic philosophers of hedonism, and his tolerance of men and events. It does flot show the mockery. and irony, the skepticismn with Which he also viewed men. France was the 'spiri- tual son of Montaigne, and Voltaire- men who enjoyed ideas for, thought's sake,' and readers %who,,enjoy their ideas will also enjoy his. Jacques Ana.tole Thibault . (1844- 1924) crowned, by the, Academie and winner of, the Nobel pr.ize, was the sonl of a bookseller on the:left bank of the Seine. His infancy and youth. wals . spent among books aànd. sch*olars, and he early followed his fancy in.obscure and abstruse fields. AIl his life he delighted in Greek and Latin authors and made their.th-ought his own. 'IThe Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard." was hi% earliest popular novel-a de- lightful.study of an old book-collec- tor, gentle and, sentimntal, Nine . years later he publiied 'Thais," a novel written to please himself. His own peculiar talent for philosophy and paganism here' finds first expression. It is the conflict be- tween asceticism and indulgec i fourth Century Alexandria. The phil- os.opher N icias is the alter ego of France. W. J. Locke said thaï the high tide of his genius was reached in " At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque." Here is great character, Abbe Jerome Coig- nard first appears. He, too, is Ana- tole France ini disguise. The Abbe is *warus ont another, andj their ap- preciation 'of, sorrow and trouble. Jen Shaw, around whomthe story iwoven, is an unforgettable figure. Unlike lier two haîf-sisters,,whio re- gard. the farm -as something froin which to-wring.the money necessary to 'their life in the city, slie finds in the earth hiem whole if e. From dawn until dark she works1 tirelessly, talc- i ng a. great yeamning pride in the spotlessnes3 of her house., in the 7IL < "" '>AWARI>ED PRIZE fO ~URThe Hawthornden prize for 193; has 'been awarded to Charles Morgan EN Eauthor of "The Fountain." Mr M organ's next novecl will be publishec ~ by Matimillan. early in 1934. the educational- value and. power-- of the stage," wvent to Maxwell Ander- son's "Both Your Houses." Award of $2,000 for the best book of the year upon the history of the. United States was made to "The Sig- nificance of Sections in American History," by Frederick J.. Turner, who died last year. Allen Nevins' of Columbia univer- sitY won the awarcl of $1,000 for the best American biography with his book, "Grover Cleveland.", ll one big volt»ý by Blanche, C '.a""i v'o KWsdiciple "Be mindful neyer to Put faith into absurdities. but to bring everything to the test of your reason save in the matter of Iour holy religion" is worth repea ting. "The -Red Lily" was written, under' the -influence -of Bourget, and is the Most conventional of ail his. nove Is It analyzes' jealousy,. in, à cool, .intel- lectual fashion not altogether con- vincing.. "Penguin~ Island" is an ironical satire on French history, a bit di ffi- cuIt, Most entertaining, although the ----i m -111 l, is wnimagýNc - :as, Jerogne Coignard, Jacques Tourn- [ES broche, M. Bergeret and others. ve brought France lacked enthusiasm, mocked at iorial Prize- religion and morals. The . tender- 19 to 1922 in mrinded will not care for him, but he tintrodution will be a lasting pleasure to those ams. who like intellectual fireworks. *1 j i