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angree . Wth his viewpoint or not, it is always liveiy and aiways dlscerning. Easily, smoothly told, this groupofo stories «proves. the skU lof a man who,. ever. since he wrote "T he Green 13ay Tree," and "Possession,'.' has been one, of America's mont. popuIar au- thort., The mostJnterestin«t of the tale. is a novel called "B1itter Lotus," tln which three characters who appeared in "The Rains Came" work out their various destinies against a different background. It is a tragic thing,,for it is, full o! the futilitis contained ln threedifferent lives,,just as the )rig-, mnal novel was tragic. Pie author calls it a ttechnical experiment. '¶Bet ter Than Lite" Is a comlc sketch, the isfnr1 of aNew YorV'rk bon rding bouse are mvstery stories, and "The Girl Who Knew EverVbody" is about a girl who really didn't know .anyone. Louis Bromfield ýis a versatile writer. Hie takes his art seriousiy, and has been 'constant to it, pro- ducing steadily ever since he wrote those t w o beautiful stories, "The Green Bay Tree" and "Possession." Hii. canvas has widened since that ,nv. so that hie vn inzer writes jat. In 'JouLt*ey Proud» buj Thoma- 1 sine McGehee, t he Macmillan covapatiy presenta a ,novel ofthUe South, a picture of Virgïnli a h cril eri*o4 of the midwl eighteen lnêndreds. Jotuey Proud is a moving story of a family. The characters are: George, a boy thrust before his Urne into the role o! man and soldier;- Thomas, bis father. with bis. uride in bis tobacco -By *lIIchard Aldi1ttof -4 7%e V i k n Press, New York. *Runnlng through ail the novels of Richard AlihWton are two rather cleatiy discernible literary character- istics, the flrst,' an honest and-power- fui iconoclasrn the second, a deft and poetic gift of expre-ssion. The former of these virtues is Derbaps best seeri in "lDeath of A.Hero," that candid and shocking poiemic against war which appeared in 1929-vperhaps ter years tono soon.. The latter reachec its highest point in one of the mosi beautiful yet realistlc love stories of this. géneration,' "Ail Men Are Ene- inies'.." The ,comhbination,.of these qulilties in Mr. Aidington'swork is, at its best, a very. genuine and mov- ing literary exnerience. at its worsi (and this condition top is to be found in Mr. Aidington's novels) it is littie better than a dismal sort of gali-and- wormwood soufflé. RejectedQiwst, the latest of these produets,'is not a reaify bad- book, larelybecuÈeof the author's reL- fusai to take anythine too seriously. The story of an illegitimate child, brought. up in an atmosphere of squalor and poverty, who is suddenly- found by bis rich grandtather and elevated to a fabulous level of luxury. is saved from both. complete banality and utter ineredibility by Mr. AI- dingtons abiity to mrake any thing, and anvbody, including bis hero, look Nake »met.per»nhappy nix Saturday, m.aybe uemoom euoIk, musybe mlo.y ... do le wiih a box obf Mm uu.yder"e Condy. Remember te.wstful fols ... tbat'. what Sweeteg Day in fer. "Swees«t Day $poola 2 " * ... s' INU* AU 4b **** TIIWI. . BaaW a u uwIl Wfdw%.WW7own încàpacitv io aecide whai ne groWn older. and having lived abroad "The western powers have made wants out o! lite. In 378 pages, Ml'. a long time, knows the peoffie Of an error from the beginning in be- Aldington manages to take unmis- many nations, and is concerned wlth lieving that Hitler's anti-Commun- takable digs at the proletariat, the their racial as well as their uersonai ism would ihevitably lead him into a bourgeois ie, the aristocracy,, the Corn- traits. Mie i. brilliant at dialo«ue, campaign against Russia or thiat munists, the Fascists, the intellect- penetrating in character reading. Russia would be first in uine.. In a uals, and the unenlightened' a s well sensitive to many new shades Of very shrewd analysis o! the faults as a good many individuals who fail rneaning, and he writes with extra- of Wilheim's policy, Hitler laid it to fail into any parti cula r ,category. ordinary beaut4r. His style bas be- down a's an axiom that Gerrnany Severai respected institutions such aç come settled with the years, so that mustneyer again have; Great Britain Love, Money, Science and Art tare- ation conunittet and' then the la comTidete m~n 181 amer Jords papers in e- MOUNTAIN by Tii....Man or the e rec- man la aféer ý