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on BOSand,'AUT HORM RUTURN:.FROM'EUROPE Mrs. Lorenzo C. Strecter'anid son, James, who havé been abroad for the past seven weeks, arrived home last Friday. They toured theeasternand western Mediterranean, 'visiting Spain, France, Italy, F.gypt, Palestine and Syria.- Mt. and Mrs. Walter Horner and sons, jack and Walt, have recently coml)fleted, an Alaskan tour. They were away for three weeks, stopping at National Park, Canada. -o0 Mrs. Walter V. Denton of Law- renceburg, mnd., lias been visiting bier daughter and fanlily, the Walter C. Farrars, 1210 Greenwood avenue, for the past rnontb. 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Developinent ni lelaure intereste by full thletic pro pmas w eli aq Drmatirs, Choir, Studio, Music, Shop, etc. Junior Sehkool-Ilradeo 8 tê 8 Progressive ilethois pur cataloy addraa The Siefers 'Of St. Mory Box 8419 Kemoshu, Wigeonin» IlCOMMENT Nazis in ýFiction' BLOOD AND TEARS. By Balder Oldenl. This Germa i tiovel is one of a niumber, doubtless, which -have, been rushied into translation, flot because they are works- of art, but because thev put into fictional and easily readable form,, bot off the griddle, somietbing more or less illunîinating about the ghastly ridIdlc of present-, day Gernîany., "Blood and Tears" follows actual events froin sbortly before 1-itler's appointinent as Chancellor, through the Reichstag fire. and down to the Leader's theatrical May I)ay speech at Tempelhof. Hitler, Von Schîci- cher, VTon Papen, and various others appear "in person". and under their own naines.. A ivholly cviiical, inock- ing, club-footed little dcvii of a man, who serves as the "brainis" behind the leader's speeches but believes neither ini Hitler iîor ini anybody else, is knoivn as Dr. Scbncirwind iii the book and is evidently intended as a caricature of Goebbels. Against a nightmare, dog-kiII-dog background, is set the unhappy love story of Hans Rumelin, former Reich- swehr officer and worshipper of Hit- ler, and Gerda von Reiscbacb, daughi- ter of a fire-eating old German Na- tionalist. Both 'young folks are passionate devotees of the Nazi movement as the story begins and botb are bitterly disillusioned before its close. Neither as history iior as fiction can the novel be, regarded mucli more seriously than the fictionized treatments of actual events wbich occasionally appear -in our own more sensational newspapers, but it un- doubtedly is easier reading than mniles -of more or less censored and con- tradictory newspaper despatches and ini the chaotic and nightmare atnîo- Wolman Farmer A Contradiction THE DARTER LADY.ý A Woinan THE >HUNDRED DAYS. 13y PIiipý Farmer Sees It Through. By Evelyni Guedalla. Ha rris. Mr.. Guedalla's latest excursion ini î Some nine years, ago Evelyn Har- the paths of history, of %hich, the ,ris's busband died, leaving ber withi a l)ukc of WVe lington is tiot surpris- Chesapeake Bay farin to manage and ingly the heéro,*is invigoratingly con- five children to bring up. "The Bar- troversial. Napoleon i imiself heguil- ter Lady" is the story of those vears. ed the tedium of St. Helenta %vithi Trleiv were vears of struggle, of care- elahorate plurnbings of the reasons j fuI planning, of -unrernitting work for for his failure at Waterloo, and tliere a worthwhile end. And one feels tlhal grew ont of these extended nmental ini spite of tribulations (of wbich Mrs. 1 searcliings into the past a scries of Harris bias certaily liad her share) excuses wvhich. bas been undulv iii- they were happy years. fluenitial ini later years. Historians Educated to be a musician. înarried and<l chroniclers, even the tflost patri- to a fariner, she found herseif left asi otic of the FEnglishi, have teilded to the manager of a proposition certainlv l)tt the Nlaine anywhere save wvherc as diffcult and requiring as mutch ex'- it riglitlI belongs. Ney for I)reina- penditure of capital and hiring of turc tise of the cavalry, Grouchy tfor labor as inany manufacturing plants., hi stîpi(lity ilu uîderestîîîîatîaîg tliv Amnong oth 'er things, there were thirty Prusisas, varions coniiations of thousand pear trees (sorne three huit - NIarshals for their geieral 1lîtadc- <rcd acres of Ilears) to finance anîd quacies, have allotie mort- thail briiîg into bearing. 'Éle average thecir shîare iii carrying the hurden of reader, .vho bas had no0 experience gi Iit. in fruit growing, will be startled ti îîeîuprrsplî tclpi (iscover what it takes to puît a dish 'lliuFad ieor'ppea i aiti(l dc- of Bartletts on the breakfast table-1 smae, apa flawlcss, n e and how sinail a proportion of the 1 vastatiiîgly brilliatît, while the Allies price filters down to the grower. l)ecotCof accitrs l-trolihe ot Perhaps the nîost interesting parts of lîk facdns Mrs. Harris's book are those dealing AU hl iis Mr. Guedalla id(ertakes- witb lier experiences in mîarketing t<i cotîtradict. Hc shows that Napol- bier fruit. No oune knowvs as wellas coti's scheine itself, was atot altogeth- the fariner the cbicanery of the coni- er happy, that the conquest of Bel- mission mnen anîd the utter stupidity of gium bhad begun to be an idet, fixe of-d our -systein of distribution of perish- the Enîperor even at Etha, anîd that. able crops. And. no one is less able to whicn politically he wvas forced intc> do anything about it. action, when the uncertaintv of ini- Troubles there ar e in i pent. 'It ternal. affairs demanded front hini camne a liail." "It carne a freeze." "It sorne show of strëngtb, be turned, came a. flood." "It came a droughit." not wbolly willingly, to. the northeril 1'lat is farming., campaign whicb was tbe best that However-"I decided in . Septemiber could be devised in so short and so 1926 tliat tbe farîn was the place for bnsy a tiie. me," says Mrs. Harris. "And 1 îîavent Anid it failcd,.tiot trouîgh the ini- giveîî it rip s-t." And tbat is farming. competence of any particular Mar- too. shial .or larshals, îîot >througl itn- spnere wnîcn pervades ir inere ïs a, _________ Icertain implicit truth. MYSTERY ANDi ROMANCE MORELIBETY FR AL ofMary Hastings Bradley is the anlthr MOR LBERY OR LL ofa new mnvsterv novel entitled('c- In Freedomt in the Modem7 Worhi, fessed. It is a blcnd of civilized învs- Prof essor John MacMurray of the tery atîd romnance. A bouse party at University of London, brings the high. the country place of the Kellers hriiîgs abstract science of philosophy down to together ulit(lr a single roof: Alla'î a level where every Tom, Dick, and Deck,' critic; the notoiriously quarrel- Harry of us cati put it to work in bis some Harridens; Monty Mitchell, lam.- daily life. Presupposing that the mod- yer; Pritnce and Pritîcess Raiîcinli, and ern world is in a dilenmra concerîîitîg [eila Seton, young, attractive, an ex- inorals, religion, politics, etc., the au- pert 0on paiuitîgs and the. heroine of thor makes an, interesting and cotîvinc- the story. Through T.eila's evesý the imîg appeal for the reéhabilitation of the reader secs the abrupt approach of eniotional personality. Witb connnend- tragedy wben Mrs. Nora Harriden is able* frankness be unveils tbe mnîifest f ound lying dead ini the shrubhery hi'- stupidities of conternporary living-tile low ber wiîîdow.. It is a clever and inherent selfishness of the individual. surprising mystery as it unfolds anîd the lack of faith whicb causes manti o has the great virtue of beiiîg hy a eternally doubt the future, and the înad- skilled novelist with deft character- ness of an economnic structure which izatiotus and building up of suspense. allows starvation in a world of pletîty. At the saine time, he makes it clear PSYCHOANA7LYSIS that nMan's intellectual equipmenît bas Dr. Ives Heîîdrick,. son of Burtonl been developed far ini advance of bis J. Heîîdrick.and well known psycbo- ernotional. He then points the way to- analyst ini Boston, bas writteii a vol- ward a workable nmethîod of obtailing -,urne entitled 7'he Facts and -Theorie's -f reedorn. . o Psychoanalvsis iin whicb be seeks .to present to Jaymen and students :a sur- NOW IN ONE VOLUME vey of the entire psycboanalyic field Sigrid Undset's great, novel o~f in its presenît status. Dr. Hendrick is nmedieval Norway,.The Mawter of Hesi- Assistant in Psychiatryof the Harvardl r'iken, will be publisbed in a one-volumie Médical Scbool Faculty, participating edition by Alfred A. Knopf in, October. in clinicat teaching. 1This. work, wbicb sonie critics have. claimed is greater even than ber Kris- U. S. LABO0R PROBLEMS tin Lavransdatter, was originally issucd Announcenient is miade by D. Apple- by Mr. Knopf over a period of tbrce toîî-Cetîtury, cornpany that Matthew years in four separate volumes en- Woll bas signed a contract witb theni titled The Axe, The Snake Pit, In, the for the publication of bis book Organ- Wilderiwess, and The Sont Ave>ugcr. The ized Labor in, Industry. 0f. interest is one-volume- edition Will contain 1,280 the prospect of a book on this subject pages or 480,000 words, and it will bc by the Vice-President of the A merican umiform in binding witb tbe one-volurne Federation of Labor anîd Presidetît of Kristin Lavzransdaiter the, National Civic Fedieration. hî,ckv chances, but because the Allies werc too strong and too well dircctcd. l)ecautse at this point WVellington. witht. to he sure, more advantages on his side, could and did out-gencral Napoleoit. The recluse of St. Helena could sl)etid ls turne lointing out the tactical hunuders of the Allies, but the fact rernains that1 Wellington more tha n caine up to scratch. NEW'STORIES BY COBB With another volume of Irwin Cobb*s short stories ready for publication in August- under the title Paith, Hope aoid Charitly, Will Rogers announces that for several weeks a certain Hollywood studio bas been. working on- a film written.by Mr. Cobb wbo clainus that it incorporates parts of at least tWeîîty of bis fanious stories. The new vol- urne contains fifteen'stories about crint - J mals and detection of crime, the South, and- stories of hunior, the tbree type s of stories for which Mr. Cobb is hest known. COMES TO 'AMERICA If arv est in the North, a novel' of Lancashire life i n the boon. and the slump, by J. L. Hodson, whicb was the July choice of the Englisb Book Soci- ety, will. be .puiblished by Alfred A. Knopf on Septeniber 17. This nov'el comes to Anierican readers witb words of praise f rom H. G. Wells, Richard Aldington, Phyllis Bentley, Storm Jameson, Winifred Holtby and Seail O'Casey. Mrs. R. W. McCandlish and three cbildren, Randolph, Frances and Charles, 1624 Spencer a venue, arrived homneSaturday f rom Gulfport, Miss., where they spent a month. visiting Mrs. McCandlish's mother. I 30, 1934 WILMETTE LIFE