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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Jul 1936, p. 200

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ily JoHN IIEDFIELD) Great. Works of :Music Iry>PHILIP GOýEpp Stories of Great Operws, $1.47 Cliadler's Fountain Square' £v~S$Oft MARS$HALL PIELDS EVAN STOW TR I TI4RUU NEW coimeiicing tu al grows 1 tPc 81lho,X dim, ll:lx But tbougb nîemorv will forever keep lright and keeni th(. Alfred A; Knopf and brougbt the manutback with. ber. on ber return froîlu script picture of thaï period. .- The. nô ,ondon .last week. -announced tbat the Give Us This Dayt by Louis Zara. aim aln simiultaneously author 4o lessced Is tiré.Vatz. poems would appear. the United, States- and England ,arly GiteUs Titis Day is the.history (ir..l in October in a, volume entitied Vlore 1900 to 1l932) of'a famnily of.baker-. Pocais. Granldfather,* father, and soni are bori tt.' the Enig-. Housmati's deatb rccalt the trade. Respected, substantial. middlu lishi-speakitig world that this Cambridge class Americans, they' have the art'o ,university> 'teacher of Latin and Greek fine baking bred in the bone. Finallv. was, the author of perbaps the, most bein the. third generation, Charles Ale,\lovüd-and celebrated Iyrics of the past ander Brabanit, the soni, is sweplt firs.t haîf century.* His first'volume_ 1 Shropinto expansion ail(! màss production i i 5h ire Lad, was published in, 196. and bis hakerjy husines,ý. and then into -fitnai-' Housmnan said ; f it afterwards that, the c ial min. Theiiinexorable rise anid fail strain of creation was s50 intensethat lie cycle whirls bhim ti e Elina Godchaiu.r, w-ho U-rote».S tb- of the, econotnic coudid not bring, bimself to ,endure-,it affluence and smashes himi witb balnkl'arn Roots," onc of thé popiuiar againi. Ini 1922. bowever.; be pubiisbed ruptcv. Fie and bis wife do not livu: nav-els of recent inoths, was bora: through the winter of '1932. another volume of verse entitled Last iPoeis. This was supposed to be 'bis i in tebyoUictr nasuaci byocattronasgrac \* h evitvCe( r why bother tu rcad arcivell to poti writing, yet afterý,is selagains~t rte( 'about ail that agoiny 110w? Becausér t j'Place. 'flr 'çtorv wards hie did hint that there woutd iý background. of a Louisüna sugar Lous Zara bias wvritten truthfully and in still more poerns froni bis pen. iincanid cighti's the Va stirring mnannter about .30 vears qcf Plantation A correspondent' in a current issue l'f American life. He bias put'betweeti tbu rc- 1 fics. M1aciilan is thie bihr the Saturday Review off Uterature covers of bis book the story of 'ail imports that ini 1932 sbe wrote to Houisportant trade. and the men and ow mnan and asked point-biank whether Li wbose 'fates are hound iip in it. reH'e Pociiis would realiy he the iast. ea p o the'~ necessarilv 'plied hy îostcard: -Not 1 have iiever read aii\tintg liku ti-. ea oaG l G op last. but thie last volume which* \iII saga-part hlisti ry. part ronatict. baker's Gale, novelist and former Pulitv lfetiue. iii er prize %vMte-r.'spo)ke on -Modern part adventure. .I'ainited Into the bacappur in Amnerican Literature> %V. Knopf, who securen' the book 101r Contemporary Thought oaG l '~Zonla ' - ,Tendencies' flower 9'NEW FLOWIR lof '.ro e b~tradi*l«tinal story ofthte Jlove King Solonon ýor the Queert 'A>f Sheha. He tells the colorful story. ot how Maqjeda, ruler oif Axumn and Sheba. came to visit jerusalemn to learn more of Sohiinon's mighit and of bis Jebovab, bow Solonmon feil deeply in love with 'ber, and how she bad to choose between yielding to him 'and maintaining the i&jiII~itv that qualified ber to rule . luepla\ 114 ss .I.nu Dcii ivas awar(led the Pulitzer prize for dranmat ~as ilie sixthi speaker to address w'u ini the university's classes t» contemporary thoughit this sumnnier. O.-thers who wilI talk later inclucle John Haynes Ho1mes, minister of the Community Church of Ncw York, on' August 5; anïd Baker Brownell, professor cf contemporarys mAugust 12. noorhese thoughit at iae, . Nothing about the otl f writing js tbe ieast bit sensatiotual or out of the ordnarv. but uvtb the solidïty andsbrewvdness of the ()Id grandmother. Lucie Brabant, the novel unoves chapter by chapter and section by. section froiii years of peace and security to tlies i ' stress and inisfortune. So real and truce bas tbe author nmade the first part of flisbook. that the iast dramnatic and~~ frantic events carry the s'anie conviction' and 1' f* I. IIarfact to get given job is. done . the .»' that. mat ter the of a 'e vernrnent machine' becôtnes ton ig, ton top-heavy, too 'diluted with' ain power, too saturated with funconare% whose chief end in life is sinlecure, ton everything that spells poor job."p

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