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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Apr 1935, p. 48

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Mate, Easter Happy Wilh Gobod Books »,f Lovely Cards: 1724 Orrlngton Ave. Gre. 0227 Mois: to6 $ -CREATOI "If is worMly of careful by American citizens.. information is sound. It ton in an attractive wa, an engaging style," s' Hon. Robert L. Owen, cbairman Banking and1 Cu Committee, U n i t e d .Senote: ce-author F.eeî serve Act. FRICE,$2, Chandle, RS il study .The$ s wrut- y wtk io says former urrency States ýrai Re- $ Fotintain Sqùare$ Evanston of "Ras' "Lincinooo, Tennessee Val- ley patriarchi, whio created a unique problein for the governiment whien lie balked at înoving froni its glow. He claimecl that it had been started by his foreb cars over 150 years ago. and had been keptburing, high or low, èver sinice. He had been bornl in its light, he said, an-! wanted to die in it-. The, TPVA ,officiaIs, .înoved by 1bis sentiment, allowed thelhear.t. and its lire to be 'lifted by derrick and mhoved intact to theî new home in the new towvn. of Norris. Lindamood and bis. <relatives, inoilified, moved in. *This is only one of the strange prob- lems of social rcadjustmfent which the TVA. bas lîad to face. The quaint backwoods folk of the Tennessee Val- ley are variously bewildered, sadd.ened and enraged' vhen the T'VA -uproots themn froin their ancestral farms' and homes. The fact .that the object is fo make rooim for dams and lakces thaï Will'imean for theni cheap andý abun- dant electric powerleaves themn un- moved; as, they can sce nmo .teed for more t1an one eleetric btulb In -a homle anyway. This conflict btenold:habits and thie netechnology is the subject of a, new boo0k published by Harper & Brothers, April 17, Education for anl Age of Pwr Th'e TA 'Poses a ýProbIc'm, by josepli K. Hart. Profes- sor Hart, fornmerly professor of Edu- cation at Vanderbilt university, Nashiville, Teniu., hias been in close toucli with the TVA froni the start. In its social. problemnslie sees in miniature the general tipheavalinl Anierican civilization in the presemit technological age. He. poses the ques- tion as to wvhethier wu are to continue trying to pour iiew vn into olcI bottles or will develop an en'tirely neiv' education and culttmrc to fit the niew conditions of inaterialabnac inadç possible for ail. 'flngs are happening in i e 'lci nesscc Valley, lie wvritcs., "that the casual toimrist fails to sec.I Things arc happening to Amnerica., there, that will flot beconie obvious. for dlecades.' I "WhTbat sort of life sliahl fili thlis uiew% *Earty, next falilý the second book, of poeins- by Adelaide Love of Kenilvorth iuil be published under the tit le of "The Crvstal Finie.' 'Mrs. Love tis book.,"The SIeni- der Siinging Tre," wicli was PInb- lWsled a year anîd 'a lilf 'ago, has gone ito .reverat prininis. Arrny Stories One of the most sticcessiul current radio programs is that being pre- sented each Saturday evening at 8:15 over the Yankee Network (WAAB, WNBH, WLLH, -WEAF, WLBZ). At this tume each week, Lieutenant Colonel William A. Ganoe gives a fascinating -fifteeni-inute talk. on * "Tales of Soldiers Rarely Heard." For those who are enjoying this 'series, as well as for those who 'en- joyed the Colonel's previous series, "Soldiers Unmasked," Appletori-Cen- tury recommend the. broadcaster's fascinating volume, "The History of the United States: Arimy-." Second BRook of ýPoerns MNrs'. Franh, G. Loganf of Chic a go lias recent.ly publislhed another book of poemns called '4Heighits and Depthis" ivhich blas achieved fine comment by Love) WIJi ut publiised earlyy next iaJI by Dodd, Meadl and company. On, of the few who have read the manùý script is Henry Goddard Leach, edito! of "The Forum and C nitury!" ané president of the Americani Poetr. society. ,Mr. Leacli -ritetlw 1(àf 0, Iowing:. "lui* her second b6ok w. ù< The Crystal P Iuttcý Adelaidt I sh ows swifter- progress tlian a n oîther contemporary poet. \Vh e i poct of the heart shows the colis ciI power of perfecting herselfin i1 th skill, of the grea.t artists theru i promise of surprising possibility. I' loyers of poetry. shotild folloiv thi ascending, career of thi.s Chica2 poet.' Mrs. Love's first,-book oi, pQCUI-. The Sle;zder Singing Tr-e, whicil Wa.- published about a year and a hal' ago, has now gone into several, print- ings, and bas had very, good- not ice,, from the critics. Perey Hutchifison of the "New York- Times" in his re- 'view of 'the book< wrote the following; *i"Among other things it seems to us that Adelaide Love carrnes on what night be termed the Emily Dickinson tradition. That is, s *he expresses. her- self fragmentarily while seeing. with inclusive vision, and plucks at heart- strings, but always with the, most, gentie touch, perceiving and tra.ns- fering beauty." This winter Mrs. Love gave a num-i ber of., readings from Thzce dr SgigTree at various clubs and circle meetings, including the Cordon club and. the Brownson circle. Dog Story Hound, -f Heaven, aý poignan t little dog--story by Sarah Addington, will1 be.pub.lished in September. This stoyfistprinted in the Forum of August-,. '1929, was reprinted in1 the O'Brien. collection 1 for that' year. It wasý the first time, that Flush,' the Irnmortal, appeared in fiction, long before Virginia Woolf, and Rudolph Besier sanie him unn Manv rPnhIeists I tQwn or ii its immrediate environ- ~ a b mnent. EverYthing tawdry is to be 1Ia % ýon tile ofthte triogy on June 6, 1934, Dr. Sa Mann's fifty-ninth birthday. Yourng Jo- ,ee sePh carrnes on the noble Bible story of ig. Joseph from the beginning of bis quar- as rel with 'bis brothers until he is sold'by them i4to slavery in Rgypt., $ $ $ $ $ $ Read the Want Ads

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