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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Aug 1935, p. 32

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1$ f or hils new novel Iiispilratrin Valluey uses their 'community as a backç- ground, and, many of the characters of the storyý areDoukhobors., It will' be >published, on August 26 by Alfred A. Knopf. Volume7of Murder Sfor.s A Dashieli Hammhett omnibus, con - taining Ir. Hamrnett's first >.tbree murder mystery novels-Rcd Harv.'st, The Dai,, Clirse. and The Mal.tese Faf- con--wil be published in August. .,It will, be 'a volume of over 800 pages. TYPEWITERSRepaired ~ SoId Called for and Dellvered WôrkGuranteêd Phone Gr20w, Soi The Scon@o Orrusgtea Motel JEu5., Evanston Light Fiction for the Vacation Life with Father, by Clarence Day Solomon, 'My Son!I $~ 5 by John Erkine...2 Illyrian Spring, $5 by Ann Bridge .... ...$25 c v e' ~zç~ This is the jack~et for the children's story-"Buffiln"-zrittep by vMi-S. Frank Bcrrett of Keniluorth. It has been desigited by.Margaret Gauge of Chicago. Thse story wiII be enjoyed by kiddies front 6 to 8 years old. SEED OF THE LAND. By Isabel Stew- art Way. Isabel Stewart Way's first nove!, Secd of thse Land, instantly attracts attention by its fuli-roundeci charac- terizations and its fresh, earthy power, ýAgainst'a.,background of the farms and pflowed fields of a Middle West- ern comrnunity unfolds the story of Ruharnah, an adopted orphan, who, THE HOUSE OF DAWN.ý By C. E. Scog- gins. Trhe remioter passes of the Peruvian Anides is the scene of C. E. Scoggi ns'y thrilling adventure story. Thse Ho use of Dazvn. This is Indian country and no. safe place for st rangers, but the Ilue of fabulous treasurr-hîalden goid of the rnighty Incas-brings oôld Red McDougal to the great mountain, Iscacinga. With him corne bis broad-, This new novel by the author of A Watch in the NýqIît tells the story of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, that beautiful and spirited girl whose early ambition was to restore in her rude ~realm something of the. vanished. spiendor, of ancient ýcivilization, and who as' a resuit, of domestie affliction and political. confusion develoPed a devotion to the public interest in a much wider sphere. In! that episode of the struggle between Church and State that finds its most dramhatic expression ini the famous scene. of Canossa, she essavs. the, difficuit role of mediator between, Pope and King, anid. distinguishes herseif as'the most faithful of the Iay supporters of the great Pope, Gregory VII.' As the price of her deiotion, she sees be'r own realm nea.rly dissolve iii anarchy, but by heroic persistence she finally succ eeds in recoveri ng.ber lands and rall%.iing.,er vassals. In triumph she sets out to restore the exiled Pope to 'Rome only to learn on the wvay that he is dead. In lber 'grief shé realizes for the first time the patience and the persistence with wbich comn- mon men go on with their work in the midst' of vast uncertainty. This historical- romanîce 'of the eleventh century again proves the author's ability to make real and thrilling the events of an earlier day. Helen C. White is an assistant pro-' fessor of English at the University of Wisconsin. As a Guggenheim fellow she has worked abroad at -the British Museuim and the Bodleian Library ini England and has travelled i Italyv. She bas published two dis-. tinguished studies in the generai1 field of mystical literature, and ber novel A Watch in i the Night wvas given 'much the, greater preference" by the Pulitzer Prize jury, when it was pub- lished in, 1933. Miss Field's Noew Novel' Is Now "Best Seller". Rachel Field's romance of Maint., ICh3ase is the titie. This5 is a tense, dien. StoCc wil modern adventure story of a quest for, the Archbishol for buried treasure ini the exotic and Blackett.wil.1 p jungles of Froicl..rusel in'Englnd lrway, and the Uni- tempt to soive somne of the diffheulties 1publisb it in Swe- with which proclucers of Hamiet are Publish Dealh Cornes always faced. Until now, rnost producers 9P in Fiance. Hearst havé shirked the difficulties by leaving publish Moscow Car- out those parts of the. play in Wliich -they occur. $2

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