Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 May 1936, p. 38

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NgW THIS WIEEK! A s ump*uous Iahrbin "LU 10ST FOR LI FE by lRVING STONE That fst-s. tè try of the ma, o0f Vinfcenlt Van Gogh with 150 reproductions Of" Van GoghS Most famous pictures. i..andàa mprate hand Pri nt -of his etchingj. AthriII;ig hrgain ea*5 1724 ORRIN GTON GRE. 0221 owiHt ol suld MARSHALL' FIELD & COMPANY 'The Beatifsui New Heritage Press E1dit. 0.-of 1910 brôke .her engagement to a young divinity student because be could flot profess.a belief in the 'virgin birth. Simlar situations woul appear ridic- ulous iw.1936, a day and age when re- ligious tolerance bas every kind of lati- tude, but they are not ridiculous -in The Rolling Vears, a; Scotch Presbyteriaii novel of Pennsylvaniatis by Agnes Turn-v bull. Tracing the bistory of a family-a mother, ter, three daughters, and- one so-hough several' genierations, the author recreates the religious fanaticism_ of a period -fast slipping away, one which older men and women today"will vividly remembei but very young people will look upon as a portion of the dark- ages. Well Written, entertaining -and wýhole- some,' rhe Rolling Veéars o pe ns with farin life in Pennsylvania ii 1852, then quickly j umps .to, 1870.- The district school, the Preshyterian Sabbath, camp meetings, sugaring-off', the vilage store, and square dancing are waven into the fabric of character and plot with good detail and a quantity of buman interest. The story then passes on to 1882, 1904, and finally 1910. In later years, the- two maiden sisters and the widowed younger sister move to town, and here the last generation grows up, entirely away f rom rural influences. Stili, bowever, the tendency towards religious' fervor and staunch Presby- -terianisni persists ini the family strain. -The- sincerity, the , conviction, and subtle char> of Thse Rollig Vears can be explained by a single statement taken froni th e cover-"Mrs. Turnbull grew up in a little Pennsylvania town thirty *mile east of P'ttsburgb. She is there- fore thoroughly faniiliar with the part of the country of wbicb she writes.. - Many of her short stories and travel, articles have appeared in the magazines, and tbree volumes of. ber stories have been pubised."-J .F., Thse above drawting of Robert Ben chley. by Gluyas Willia.tn$ s takesn from the jacket of Mr. Bcntch- ley's. nez,. book, ""My Teî: Yearsin a Quaotdaryantd.How They Grew," zuhich Harper and Bro thers Pub-. Iished May 1. Wïde Rang.io Scenery. in Edith Wharton Tales Edith Whiartoni bas long been noted for the skillful artistry and dramatUc intensity of ber short stories. Two of ber short novels, The 0Wd Maid and Ethen Prome,, have been recently- dramatized with outstanding success. With the publication of a niew volume, Tise World Over- (Appleton-Century>, Mrs. Wharton again reveals ber mastery over the shorter fiction form in a group of stories that are a clelight to read in their subtie portrayal of char-acter, in their expressive delineation of salient happenings. - The scenes of these- tales range f ronm -New York to Romie. Axong them are discovered sharp* portrayals, of 'the social world, excursions into the supernatural, the liveliest of satire, as well as- drain of strength. Two elderly ladies, with gro-wn daughters,- revisit Rome where a draina of love and jealousy ha(t beer played between tbem and one, manin their youth. Then there is the little.oIc, lady- who spends her if e as a.po or, rela, tion but in the end finds hier day .o- complete and merciless triumph. A New York man married an exiled Russiat i and fouin<I himself the central figure in 1. f i ous American colOred wOman, recently traveled around the world, working as cook ini one city or another when ber funds needed replenisbing, and tbe jour- nal of ber experiences is to be published on May 12 under the titie of My Great, Wide, Beautif i World. From the Riviera she writes: "I amn on a nice job with an English Couple., and in a few minutes of Garoupe Beach. My rooni window looks out on a Iovely Pin grove next to the Villa the Orange trees are about 30 years old and the plurn trees and persemMons are- lovely Ioaded with -blossoms. The.Villa Were built by French Pheasants some 65 or 70 years ago -and so solid and homelike we have electricity to heat also small, grates . . 11 went to the Dog Show. 1 can't say.which was the most interes ting the Ladies that. own the dogs'or the. dogs. They mrarch round and round with the dogs. A dog will be a dog. An English or American juge his eye is for -the dog. but- -nt a, Frenchman Thats why 1 like the French each lady had a chaffer or maid but she would flot take a chance on theni the dog may fot corne up to the mark but if she have. a graceful step and smile and say Oui- Monsieur smling, he'Ill forget alabout that poor dog. This is the' most gelouries of ahl niy lufe just the sanie plesure as when I amn traveling. 1 once heard a lecture at Car-gine Hall in N. Y. C., in 1913 which 1 do> not agree and have ofen feit sorry for the speaker as it was on Paradis Lost. its not lost its right here on earth >and 1 have ýseen so niucb of it."- German Projects a Ful Length Engels' Portrait A life of Friedrich Engels by Gustav Mayer, which is announced as the first and only biography iii- English of, KarI Marx's life-long f riend.and collabora 1tor. Will be published by Alfred A.. Knopf on May 11. The publisher points out that Engels was almost as important as. Marx iiself in the writing of a bookc carryinz basic - rinciples of die BOOK SECTION FIRST FLOOR IVANSTONi STORE' liam D>. 1933 she n of Boston.

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