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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Feb 1935, p. 42

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A diiinguished book '0 -verse- by thoms Hornsby Ferril ýmAgSiAýLL FIELD & COPANY The Eva nston Store. Bookc Section, iFîrst LF0or *4Ur Modern,' po'mplote RenteliLUbraryl Fiction, non- 4Rc«qn. travel. blogréeÎyi inysterv.western trles Your cholce et 3c a dy ...' in1ium charge of 10c. and istiied now Jbecause of the îrneresr aroused by these two meent novels.' It is character wbicb interests Miss Bentiey znost in a novel. She bas said that the ,difference between any erson. in youth ' and thée saine person in later life appeals ,stroùgly: to ber. The change .W Imogen >Arnltage f roùi an exqui site and warm-bearted girl 'to a proud, ob- stinate and disillusionedwoa. is the core of this story. Tbe setting is the town of Hudley in Yorksbire, tht scene of -A ,Modern Tragedy, and the theme is- concerne&. with the relations, between the Armitage and' Thort.on famnilles. . Miss -Bentley gives us many finely drawn characters - LuÙke Armintage, quiet and .fine-fibered, who, is 'studying to be a. doctor; Iinogene, wbose first love goes. to the wil -and f oolisb Johany Talland ; Mrs. Armitagee. aristocratic Presiding as chairmnan for the mecet- ing will be 'Mrs. Holland Flagler, çbairman of School Education and- Kindergarten Extension iof"tht Illi- nois Congress of Parents and Teacb-ý ers.> 'For t. Had. a'Motber Who Read to Me' will be tht .sublect for the talk t6, be>gi*ven'by Mrs. Cornellus Ji. Peeples, vice president of the Austin 111gb scbool Parent. Teacher ýassoci- ation, and à past president of the Key school Parent ýTeacher association, Mrs. Paul G; Burt, state chairman of thé Children's Reading, Binois Con- gr ess. of Parents and Teachers, will. talk on'"Building the Homne Library." "'Tht P. T. A. and the' Library",will be discussed by Mrs. Arthur E. Sharp, ýchairmnan, of Children's Reading,, S., W. Council, P; T. A. for ber cildren's weifare; ami the EViEN SJCJ îS TIME. By Doren 'rhof-nons Brai1ey, /fth bis -wîde walflfte. blue cyès, bis seeming kindness and bis The Lees on both sides corne from violent tempers, ami Harriet, bis sis- 1 fariner stock. But that is tht last ter, wbo longs to be beautiful ami poised. thing Mrs. Lee' cares to remember, Tht many readers of I»heritance and She bas , vast social ambitions and A Modern Tragednj wil welcome tbis bas built up for herseif many' 1k- story by 'Miss Bentley of the way in tions about ber origins,' statua, and which character is molded by life. prospects. When her husband dits,, ______________witbout baving risen above medi- SIPIDER WOMAN: A Story of Navj ocrity, she finds that the life of Weavers and Chanters. By Dr. Gladys wbich she complained was in reality A. Relchard . cmnarativehr 1nnirious. Wer ,hil- wood Anderson, Ifergesheimer, and Jamles Branch Cabeil will be dis- cussed. On Tuesday Professor Boynton wlI. talk about Theoore Dreiser's Twelve Mèn,. An American Tragedy, and Daww;1 also of Sherwood Anderson's Dork. La#ghter and A- Sto!ry TeIIer's Story. Dreisee and Anderson, whose own heritage and, personal experien ce revealed anything but tbe momnentuin of an established way of life, reflet this, expérience in, thé turmoil, con- fuüsion'and'doubt by which their char- acters are s.urrounded. Influenced in différent degtrees by the doctrines> of the, deteeminists, they endow, theéir characters with appetites which are often, stronger t han, their' capacity for performance. Both on thé whole seem to prof ess a philosophy from which they instinctively shrink. joseph Hergesheimer, Who wil be the« subject of Professor Boynton's. lecture on Wednesday, was tht child of Presbyterianisni, of prosperity, and of, social, distinction. Ht deals suc- cesively with characters of tht saine type in his early work. Later, en- countering the "persuasive discon- tenit" and the "confusion of forms," which belong to. a later day, he allows bis, contemporary characters to suc- cuinb. Professor Boynton wili talk on Hergesheimer's The Three Black Pennys, Balisand, and Tampico. In Thursday's lecture.on Cabeli, the classicist and genealogist, tht speak- Tho 5ky Promun E. Phillips Oppenb4.tn .Fearl Buck Reniai Librart-.ýStree't Ploor Evanston jo weaving and the way an Eastern white iroman learned this complicated' art" .,Bu t it is far more than that.' Through tht warp and woof of this story runs a true and colorful design of Indian life,. character, and customns. Vividly and understandingly it pic- rings tht lite story ot h stor 'down to tht eve e battit of Blenheim. This is primarily Benny's, story- the story of bis adolescence, of bis first love, and of tht. girl he marries and their 1f e together; tht story of the carter he .chôoses,, and, the» pbilosophy, born of bardexperience, wbich he works out for bimstîf. But' it is also the story of Rebecca,' bis willful and tale*nted sîster, of bis mother,' who, having found berniche, een starring. place, as ne unds no coruzort ini the kaleidoscopic present. His work os- 'ilates between Poictesme and Litcb- field,' Va., and later retains f rom tht. past little of chivalry and only gaI- lantry, which' is1 chivalry with, its tongut in its cheek. Cabeli's books to be discussed will, be .Figsres of 1arth, The Crearn of the Jest, and Beyond Lif e. Tht lectures are given in tht morn- ings' at 10 o'clock and are sponsored en rnur nas n aa this, material., f rom

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