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'a........3J'A0 Y-PaEE POSTý BOOK RBVIEW Ub&s to Give Books #0 Rouf PaMroti c nd Valenfin. Party Cards . 6vr..0227 These are the concluding .bookcs of The People of Jut4k, the monu- mental saga of a Norwegian peasant, family which The New York Times son, and ho bas caiied "one of the great novels of in i9tr its genre"' andwhich bids fair to sur- vive as. .o ne, of- the 'few first-rate fic- Anne Stuart was born of b er royal L tional epics of our time.- Four e'arlier fatber's. secret marriage to a Maid volumnes-The 74roug of thse Wave, eo Hooradse. entered the, world BlndAlnTh tBgWednq and an unwelcomed Princess. The: story 0din in I'aityland - have already beei goes on to ber youth spent at a Court publi.shecl» noforius for ifs debauchery, and ber The hem of hes finl boks marriage with a Danish prince-the Thheealr bfwteen0finanlakrismost tender and. ùnique of:alI royal. the ivar.y.etteen Oài an La romanc es; their hardships, Ioys,, and already foreshadowed in the previous srowsrn ietroso e volume,, and brougÈht f0 ifs catas- fatr's dreig nthe humlions of tropbic solution in Thée Storim.,0dm Wila's rfime.andthncumsaliati co is bere felt. f0 be the real h em, -not Wflih t mber ather, perseau insi on-ly of the tbree fi nal volumes, but inrigues by d peresinig uncl s,n of the wbole series, since bis cha rac-. inarigaes ysini nîy f0 sandow ter is the epifoxue of ail that was good fbut f0 accesonGltolus Raeign, in the nid Tuvikinzsn frnm whnm he u oa"otGoiu eg. ixe was as reluctant to make use of bis. super- iorify, permiffing bis opponent s té ýscore one petfy triumph affer an- other. This dualism in 0din is the modern element in thxe story, and f0 if is due the süstained dramatic ten- sion. Tbrough bis nxastely charac- terizafion Duun makes us feel the in- evitability of the final disaster, where- ins 0dm bv an acf of sunreme renuiiL Mrs. H-opkinson bas included ex-. tensive extrac*s Iront eootemporai'y journals and letters, believing that, their words have more interest, more power, and give a friser delineation of character than any paraphrase. Queen Anne's biographers have been few, and*nearly aIl of themn have been s0 prejudiced by their polit ical opinions that they have given a colorless picture of ber personalif y. The author affempts in this. book fe z uesday tin riday mornings in- clusive, and if we were only at home at that tinie during the day we, cer- tainly would "listen in," because tbey sound simply fascînating. The, lec- tures began.on January 1, and will continue until March 15S. Thé sub- jects for next- week'are as. follows: Ferary 5-Sin.clcdr e.s; Pro- fessor. Boynton will discuss Main Street, Babbitl, Arrowsmuitk, and Dods- February 6-T/se Challenge, Brooks, and Macyr.* The speaker will lecture. on T/se Spirit of Americais Literature by John Macy; Ame rca's Coming of Age by Van Wyck Brooks, and Youth and Life by- Randolph Boumne. February 7-The Debate oit Nature and Culture. The issue was drawn between "the party of nature,". or re- volt. led by H. ,L. M~esnçken, and."the party of culture," or tradition,' led by Stuart Sherman. The works to be discuss 'ed will be A Book of Prc faces by H; L. Mencken and Americans and T/se Genius of America by 'Stu- art P. Sherman. February 8 - National Introspection -Three Symposiums. As evidence of this introspective tendency, groups of writers with a common thesis joined in presenting the American picture, as fhey saw if; a picture of confusion and aeâ~hetic starvation as ST. PATTL'4 $SCJOOIL. By Arthur Stan- wood Pler. Scribners.. Mm. Pier tells the story of the sehool from ifs founding by Dr. Henry Coit in 185, near Concord, IN. H., up to thbe present time, in sucix a way as to keep constantly befome. the' reader' the whole 111e of the scbool. in work -and sport, of both] àaa nrugn ner atAnerV, i0 Lonnecti- older group, of experienced social, cut through ber mother. Her eldesf Protestsants. Professor Boynton will son, wbo is in the Britishx diplomatie falk about Ciz4lisatiom in thse United service, spent five years in Wasbing- States, edited by Harold Stearns; ton as secretary to Sir Esme How-, Recent Gains in American Civlizatiosi,. ard, and married an American.à-Miss edited by Ki -rby Page, and CriticisM In Alice Eno.. Through her husband thse United States, editor ano nymous. Mms. Hopkinson bas also many con- nect ions in Philadelphia. She lives ONE'S, COMPANY. A journey to China. in Eglad ad tis ookwasa r- .By Peter Fleming. Scrlbîiers. int sEnlecnd ofdthbok E* a e-.Peter Fleming. .first learned of the cen seecton f te nglish Book instant success of Brazilian Adven- guild. ture, wben he eenrori fron the*lw n ideas. and practices from Asia or Europe, or whetber-it implied inde- Pendent developipent that led f0 the same arbitrary result. and at present dramatic eritic for the. London Spectatôr, special. corre- &Pondent.'for- The London Tinies, ex- .plorer 'and insatiable globe-trotter. Le# s Va TU Phileptie PUBLISHI