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Ni ROMANCE OF CHINESE ART by sixSIS a.uthorltles.es BOOK 0F CULTURE by ]Ethel Peyser... $1.819 VL ES rSECA by Carl Sandburg 1724 ORRINGTON AVE., AMERICAN SONt»GG .8,P. GRE. 0227 Ordaun m otaiuldn EVANSTON Thé Story oPro>hecy ,y HERYT JAMES PORMAI A book that merit the adj6ctave"atoniBing,' certain te intut every one who is curlous about the future or women are~ cut off carly and tragically from love,ip c way in.*hich each faces> ber frL4UMV.oiI is4cu iarly charar i tié of the times. Pair Comtpanyî bis a colorful appeal. Through hier use of îiaginarY letters and diariée Mrs. Leslie gives a id pictorial sense of each successive period. The. four womfen, characterized areSabrna, wboù fails in love at seventeen, is left a widow, at .nîlneteen, and grows into a wise, výigorous, and richly experienced',woman;- Clare, the daugbter of Sabrina's twin brother,. Prior, who. grows up. into a1 rather smug self-centered 'girl -and finally marries Stephe n Marriott; Charlotte, an intelligent girl who chafes at the-domnestic rôle allotted to women, elopes .wh David Mendoza and, after tragedy cornes to lier, beçomes dieçply immersed in the suffrage ho enters enthus{movent; spflc pojnalu.. ..- will agree. Quick pick-up reading, it ÜL i4the book field -the Xpprtâ magazit* U ptIlicE ",dilgest" Stories of Three Decadesç by Thomas Matin1 is one of the few short story offerings ofrement montbs. Mr. Mann bas gathered 'together in this single volume' bis entire, sbort-story output, from earliest. to bite st,. and terms the woprk, "almüost a whole lIife-span of artist andmati-ati autobiography, as it were, in'the guise of'a fable." The. initial group -contains: the five stories wbich preceded bhis1 first long The.Macmilan' ComiaISY is publishing this rnonlh a trew novel by Dorisç Leslie, thte author of ""Full Plwoor." "Fair Company," thte new b.o.ok, covers thte past hundred and thirty years of Eetgh'sh Iffe. Tunbridge Photo bis late twenties, novel, f ollowed, by a *group written in a period involving .mucb absorption and reflection in, Ironic vein upon artand the life of an artist. fmicnated b>' dhe past, delvways of the ors juote i human mmmd, mnd ail those who reli an e n tirel1y original sort of book. $3 _____________ing,fEstimtnaes astically flot only into tbe suffrage cause, but into ail the exciting pre-war fads and folies, and when the war cuts, short ber idyll, is unable to adjust berself. To appreciate fully tbe novels of In the lives of these four women is of complexion Marcel Proust, one nmust understand reflected the changing life under tbe Regency, the mid-Vic- the Paris of tbe days since 1870. To torian periôd, the arty period of the understand tbat Paris it may not be ab'8O's and '9 0's, thé' strenuous, hopeful Describes the Paris of the Las 50 Years The tales then progress into stages of greater nnaturity, in many cases relating to, or ariuiuig directly from uu.terial contained in bis novels, Royal Highness, Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Moimtain. Four years of fighting paralyzed bis creativé faculties, Mr. Mann says, and it was flot until after the World War that be resumed his writing, this timne with an "exhaustive revision of ail niy Moral and spiritual fundamentals." political implications5 are, naturally, to be found in the stories of this last aleîe sRcadL in Art, will' publish with exetopai Henry 1-bIt this month bis long-mawaited is the sort of book that only a Frencheuiet) mani can write. Venertiapi Pîfritrs. Playei Witty and scintillating in style it In addition to the 140 illustrations ôy ineicn those littie détails that- cani so catches much presents lie anecdotes varied' wo ant toy mrn jloys and youflg i unnoticed, but which create pass easily argument of way the in freshi is pbrove their crawli roke' their basket that essence of times gone by. genuine the Recounting Ridolfi's shooting, their hui Milng, their tennis and conclusion. Bertaut is captivated by backhand. or their h Ilc8yti' Proust, Like young his ca ens story of how Titiani banisheci details which distinguîsh littie those ail by subscrlblng t. pupil, Tintoretto. f rom bis classes out oy, magazine and of jealousy, Professor Mather suggests the social atmiosphere of one period Intrvew an fe-that this niay well be a niis-under- froni that of the period which succeeds -nwith ess is not feit at ail, as one survevs thé collection ini entirety. An innate talent is the gif t the writer fron the anv tie to sharpen the touts of hii' craft. ýWhat does bo)ther the reader is ss tainied melancholy or dépression. characterizing the niajority of the stories. One single drab or païiful tale cati act as a stimulating cocktail, but dose after outset, and he requirés very. littie. if -ant.d Li would n OK put it!ISKtl[ee on the shl f righit vitnsbeside Clarence Day's Lufe lif'ith Fathe~r.