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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Nov 1936, p. 44

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Tolet soa.p of the flnest quaflty, delicately acented, gives rlch cr.amy lather, DifÇrent monogram styleS to choose from. SBoId Only at. I.ffeIU ir V UW *UmU0ai TOMMY. AIRTHS' CHRISTMAS SIIOP lSShernman Av, Evanston life to the strugles, doubts,,fç-ars, misgivings, and experinients of men and women passingtbrougb a period of raid and momentous transition in inanners and morals. Tbe noyelz is a. successor to Vera Eritt'ain'sfamois Testamftent of Youtht, of wbich*93,710. copies were sold in ýtbe Englisb-speaking World. Tbe three marriages are those of the Reverend Tbomas Rutberston-pompous,1conser-VaiiVe,"bully ng-and,,bis wife,-Janiet,- whose strong political and feminist interests outrage bim;of Stephen Alleyndene of Demie Hall, -a typical Staffordsbire masterpotter, Married for bis money by 1a calculating littde governess; and inally of the Rutherstons' son,. Dénis, and the Alicyndenes' daiugliter, Ruth, wbose political caree r ultinately fulfilis the frustrated ideals The book reaches its emotional heights in Ruth's unorthodox war-time love affair witb Eugene Meury, a young Amerirpn officer. This passionate, tragic c .Sode not only illustrates the swift moraîs changes of the War and postWar periods, but symbolizes the relationsbip between England and Anierica during those critical years. Tbough the .,thqouet arrafefween Denis and Amôruëltio ôarrvai 'of FRENCHS BOOKS Memoirs Novais Juv*eîI* Po.fry Plays In Foio. Seautful Historical Cos'fume Plates. Master. Places of French P.hsvings. pers., Three Henry Hoit Books Are Favorites atFPair Ltthe CARDS sored by Farrar & Rhinehart, the Literary guild, Warner Bros., and publisbers in f oreign countries.; The sélection' was unanimouis by three judges-Carl Van Doren, William, Soskin, and Joscph Wood Krutch.* This send-off, -and tbe fact.that the aüthor is a seasoned writer are sufficient rèason for at least an intelligentcuriosity about -the novel. Mr. McInityre was born in Philadeiphia and.at the tender.age of 20*was writing short stories for the Sunday papers. Then followed journalismi experience, and a period of nove! and playwriting. Three of bis- dramas'appeared on Broadway, thé late Jeanne IEagles starring in one, Ben Pinchot,,N. Y. ,4 Young Mair's .Pancy.. Soskini refers to the book as. "a new, Vera, Brittain, author of. "Testament o! Youth,"'has corne forth bard, deflated American mood done with a »ew ntovel of transition, witb superb realism.". Van Doren says that it is "tiot a novel but a history "Honolirable E&tate," pulished this of actual 1prsofisY whlle Krutcli praises fall-by Maeill4h. It, côv~ers the its "lively and revealing dialogue-inperiod 1890-1930, and is intended as rdisputably living talk." a. companion volume to her autoNo fuit appreciat ion of the story can biography. be felt until one first accepts tbe strata of society whicb is depicted-the underworld. Realism is what the author strives for; realismi is what the ctities enlogize, and realism is wbat one must be prepared to meet, if he reads the Three volui attrac ,is the I the Steps of St. Paul With Illustrative Maps By H. V. Morton dignity achieved tbrough suffering and experienc .e. Tbe novel, - graphic rtcord of an epocli, it is first of ail a stolry, and an absorbing ont. ing 5tatus ot WWiJeI, 4aUnc tatn i spriua FIy Rod and ReoI The HapPy Pishermtan by Stephen Gwynn was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on November 18. The book which is illustrated with sixteen watercolor drawings and numerous line cuts construction, andi Footntotes ta the Biallet, wbich Gilbert1 Seldes bas described as 'beautifuhly presented with magnificent photographs." Otber volumes most f nequentiy punchased were A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems in tht new bindings, the new 1936 edition of Champhn's Cyclopedia for Young Folks, tht poetry of Robert Frost, particularly A Further Range, and hielen Waddell's latest book, The Oesert accurate pictures of' ship rigging and keep out froni under the-long anm of the He lias. committed no major law. crimes, but had come near being an accessory in a hank peculation, sa near that lie was accused of the tbeft. The plot revolves about his efforts to keep ini hiding until bis nmre is cleaned, and tht efforts of a large circle of friends and acquaintances to protect or aid him. Tht subject niatten sotinds uninviting enougli, but actually Mn. McIntyre in- slick underworld figure, striving ta ary 1, 1937. Sinclair Lewis, Thornton the Braille institute permnission to issue Wilder and Louis Bromfield, will serve Frost's Selected Poems in a special ediaS judges. tion for the blind.

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