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Promaten Square vso CAKPS LUT ~on DispIay Ai. Gre. 0227 gypuies, publication this montlh of ber new novel, Ronmy, will place ber in tbe front rank of modern writers wbo find in gypsy li.fe -and culture an adequate theme for romantiç fictioôî. Her first and'immelënsely successful novel, Red, Wagons, published in 1930, suggested that tbe gypsy theme migbt be.later developed. At the time, Lady Eleanor stated that she wasa menm- ber of tbe Gypsy Lore Society and since :girlhoôd bad. been collecting books on gypsies. It wgs no surprise tbat b er second booko, Plarneitco, should be a gypsy stôry. Its imméediate and 'immense success in> America testifies to the glamorous signifimane wbicb Amer- icans attacb 'to gypsy life. Succeeding books and 'stories dealt witb gypsy life only incide-ntally, un- tii the conception of Rmnumvy. Witb thîs new noveèl 'Lady Elêlilôr ftturne to the exciting hobby of ber girlbood. But between Flamtenco. and Rornany as they concern gypsies, there is a definite difference. The gypsies of- FIainenco -(the title is the name of a gypsy dance) are Spanish gypsies. The gypsies of Ronistny are gypsies of middle Europe. In fact Lady Eleanor at first- considered calling ber new novel Tzigane, a word by wbicb avnie.. ae nownn in thzat reizon. The in the Immigrant Service at tnat. sta- tion. We were then clearing an'average of five ýtbousand immigrants a day. That is just' twenty-seven years, ago . Today, Corsi is the Directer of 'the Home Relief of the ýCity of New York, caring' for hundreds ofe thousands of families. . Ellis Island might, have its heart tbrobs;- the rigidity of the immi- gration laws might bave caused many individual: injustices and hardships, still America is the land of opportunity. The author's: own life,,typifies that." In Mr. Corsi's book he tells both bis. own story. and tbe dramnatic stories. of ôther immigrants. of manyý types, f rom, the Countess of Cathcart Whose detention cause. a newspaper uproar both in Eigland'and ini America, to the sèlf-styleci "Prince" Milce Roman- off wbo fooled fashionable cîrcles ini our big cities for a year, and Enrico "waif» whom Elsie janis adopted and treated royally only to discover that- bis parents in Verona, Italy, were won- dering wby be didn't come home. Mr. Corsi's book is entitled hIthse Shadow of Liberty; the Chronicle of Plis Island, and was first published this week by Macmillan. ýnds Womon Revieuwd by Vera McDermid A far cry f rom Thse Brige of Sn Lisis Rey is Heaven': My Destintion. In bis new novel Thornton Willder de- parts from extreme, nicety to. gro- tesque representation; he fails from the sublime to the 'ridiculous, and instead, of atiaristocrat he 'becQmes a bourgeois., But say, what you will aainst the book, it is, nevrertbeless, a g reat story I And by. "great" 1 do flotý nec essariy iean noble or marvel- ous,- but rather. what the English would terrni "corking ." I would prob- ably' make myseif clearer if. I should say that, -Heaven>s M)y Destinationt is a corking good story. .Mr. Wilder's ýhero, George Brush' is, on the ýsurface a, typical American traveling salesman. He is a college man, a likeable chap, and. a good salesman who "deals. ini textbooks." But Gemorge ha. a "kidk" sonwh.we, a complex or whatever you'd call it. He is a kind of religious fanatic who writes bible quotations on botel blotters. He bas dreams of founding a perfect American home, yet. be doesn't believe in saving for a rainy day because "te save money is *a sign that you're afraid." George takes a vow of voluntary proverty, lilce Gandhi, and he aiso passes one day ins silence, ini deference . to his master, Gandhi. This last act gets him into ail kinds of trouble. gypsy word for mati-rom, and wom- self, and reports that she has one'littie an-romni. Curiously enough the daughter. Mrs.- Dunning draws sucb secret language of, gypsies ini America an exact picture of the governess, is a corruption of the modern Ru- -Hessie, one of the three .young wonien manian tongue. - in ber noirel, that it niay be înteresting 1Tbough most 'Americans - enjoy to know that she herself was a private stories about gypsies. fewv ever see governess before ber marriage.. She members of this wandering tribe, says that, she is now at- work on a and it is not generally Icnown that novel with an Irish setting, County there are tbougbt to be more than Cork. Mrs. Dunning was born in Ark- 100,000 of them hin the United States, low, Ireland, and ber father was How- nearly aIl of wh6mn speak the Romany ard Colnman Rowe, an Irish writer. just the biggest "sap'" that ever was. "Oh, you're crazy," say al- George's acquaintances, and so the reader Wvll think. Throughout the book I was puzzled about Mr. Wilder's purpose; abnut wbat. George Brusb represents, 16 Brush a type; is be a character study;ý a psycbopathic case; or is he mnerely a, symbol? It is flot titi nearly the. end of the book tbat Mr. Wildler gives the least littie hint asto wbat his her rE s dam- ripunuisneca in.,t .-~. I lhinieif.Tibo ruuat Ruuu o weden, when he fiflds that the object of his of Asiatic archaeology, affection smokes or drinks or be-' Sven Hedin's 'last book lieves in evolution. It really is a country was Thse Con- great story, and I tbink that the wbich be iltustrated, character of George Brush wii liv. on-tike Babbitt or Don Quixote.