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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Apr 1935, p. 44

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Orvntm tot U m ,Uvasg OFF TO:MEXICO Leone Moats and Alice Leone Moats Is just the book if you are thinking or have thought of traveling in' Mexico. Mrs. Beiinfohrsays O0§ to Mexico is the most attrac- tive of the Spring books. CIJANDLER'S INC. Fountain Square. roll Chiton's new novel, Fûitouthe Furies, brings them to ligbt again. Tbere were tbree of themn, Alekto (Never-ceasing), Megaira (Grudger> and Tisipbone (Avenger of Blood>. Their !îeads writhed with snakes and once they bad fastened themselves upon an offencler tbey untiringly pursued and persecuted him. They were particularly toucby about un- punislied kinsbip crimes. In Eugene O'Neill's play, tilectra. a few years ago, the coIunterpart of Orestes of the: Greek mythb provok ed the Furies by kcillinig bis motber to avenge ber inurder of bis fatber. Tbe Greek1 dramatist,. Euripides, regarded tbe5 Furies merely as tbe remr bu al- prg acgr C o P J ur e wva lo a . elng W it h e n v l , 7 h e C i r i . l n t h i s , t h e r e i s t o d i s c o v e r t h e n a t u r e o a t r pre kle t ôtdaY . H is viv id , realistic to ld a realistic a n d cO mff P ellin g sto r y vast store f l s e nt fc in for m a to n t st r a es for ts locale the indus- Of a'man's relentess ambition as i t be O fld s cintknfwodge mBtio that trial tow n of Denchester, to which i p n e n t e i e f r l t vs s tobres a b mi b be ad a vtl c o r n e t b e b n g e r m a rc h rs > in a n f re n d s a n d e n e m ie s a n do f u l ti va e y e e e t i r m t c n v l s a c l agly and v ioet ioodr hibcme teisfrmedft.by which ,he, seemied. likelY. Yet an, Englisil scien- apparaceinonewayoranoher hmsef, ascrushed., The plot is tist, C. P. Snow, with ail internia- brng acrsi i te ivs f heol cmple iiutsramifications,. but it: tiontal reputation in the field of crys- lowing:. Adam Leyland. an idealisticmyb eue nbl uln otlorpy bas turned the trick i gentleman. torit between bis inbomn this:' As a youth, Sir. Murdocb, had 7he Search. Mr. Snoit's inovel, just àristôcratic tastes and bis'paradoxi- rebuilt an agedý cairn upon a bill thatý published,- is, said by' criics to. be cal %voîk as a radical writer; Janet, overlooked bis father's estate. To> something quite new in the field of his :loyal datighter, in constant, fear bim, this a h iible sign of his fcin ni uesineadsin for bis safety; Sir Harold, Roscroft, defermination to' wrest back those tific researcb, Parcurl'taphs >benevolent despot,.of a large steel lands wbich tbe drunlken, hated -laird of science wbicb is know scytl and iron factory; and bis son, Neville,'bas lest. Later, when the laird, is lograpby, or the science of forms, j i love w.ith Janet and .flot so over- dead, Sir Murdoch sets out to accom- properties and structure -of crystals. bearing as his father.. In the course plisb bis purpose, and to effect this, are made. tbe background for the ac- of events, the, two fatbers are as well as tasueb e rptuton tion Of the story. An intersigfa brougbt to wage atacit warfare, not of bis name .and wealth ini the person ture of The Searcit. is the atithientic pic- twithout' effect upon tbe youtbful ro- of bis illegitimate son, he resorts to ture given of scientists.at work, a be- t îance of their children. And as tbe blackniail, and aIl manner of shady hind the scenes'picture of laborator- violence in the streets. of Dench ester deahings, and finalyv to murder. 'AI- les and tecbnicians. The: author is a moulnts steadily to dangerous propor- tliough it is this grimi personal story member of the Roylal acade my ait.d fionis, the destinies of these four peo- of Sir' Murdoch that dominates the writer of many learned treàtises. ple are worked ont in, a tremendous plot, there are intere.sting sipplemen- The Search is widelv acclairned Mii Eng, climax. tary themes and hrces and tbe land as sometbing en.tirely tnew in, tragic and iron 1c overtones are con- fiction. Pursues Fures siderably relieved by1 the romance The Greeks not mily bad a word that develops between the sont and for ih but a personification. Remorse tebysyuhu osn An Indian girl lias becomne antail- was personified by avenging god- UO1IeiDorafing Itousewives 1 Tradition names an attic aerie as the proper worksbop for artists and liteÈary craftsnien. But tradition overlooks literary work duri ng the height of a mid-westeril beat wave. So when Ruth Cardwell and Con-' since Cassady undertook a collabo- ration on a modemn novel of Chicago lîfe thev selected the basement as a womksbop, fort ifying. tbems elves tbere witb copious draughts of lemonade as insulation against a temperature of 105 in the Chicago 'subumb, wbere they botbh ive. The. result was Eve>î i;n Laiigkitee, published ini April.. Mothers, housewives and friends 'of long standing; Mrs. Cardwèll. and Mrs. Cassady feit that in their common experience t bey could catch some- " "u À V'Ier dis, rmortal. Sacag- awea, Indian princess, guide foir theý Lewis and Clark expedition, bas beeti narned by Nev York uiniver.,,ity ftor a place in the:1Hall of Fam'e, onie of the ten wonien s0 named. 'rîîo)tlgî Ethel Huestoî, author of along Ihue of popular novels, had. io idea that sucb an honor was to corne to "Poca- bontas of the Pacific," she long ago reacbed the co nclusion Sacagawea was one of the great women of America, She determined to use the glamoturous. story of the Indian girl, in a novel, published recently under the titie of ýStar» of the We.çt. a romance of ýtbe Lewvis and Clark -ex- pedition. Cockney Genjus CaesDickens was an averaize -----------------------------------------.. ~ ~ unte ndofte ar epditjon was wrecked on the sbores4 1,ing "T e Last Rose of Summer" as in of a greater Roumùania. The volume of -Japan and thec survivors remained tenvel.* An interesting fact about is illustrated witb more than 40 photo- tliere, according to Pour Hundred Mil- tbe tableau is tbat if was enacted by graphs reprodnced fi rofogravure, lion, a short bistory of the Ôlînese jreal descendants of tbe McGeebee's most of tbem taken frorn Queen. by Mary A. Nourse: Miss Nourse is ftle. and other characters wbo appear in Marie's own privaecleto n itrofAieTaaeHbr b SoRdteRs.never before ptiblisbed. wrote Oit for the Larnps of Vhina. baék' 'd 'i f ý grom ýo':

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