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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Dec 1937, p. 18

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moi ^Va. Pie.. UutVOMY 1677 N Rosai. Roach Fasseit lnfoeoms - Fumitur. ANTIQUES AND MIODERN W.U end FkuorCoveriqgs Slip cl.vms Lampsenaud Acocesori.s Mkien. Superlor $695 says ttuat "dealiflg with human interest subjects as .well as those of 'the imag- ination, it reflects the author's philoso- phie trend and love of Nature.' Crities of Sienlight and Jade* hav e called Miss Anthony's verse icharming" and "highly imaginative." The book has. just been added to the library of the American Pen Wonen. a collection comprised, of books by it.;I own members, the author having re-, cently become one of this group.. She is a graduate of Northwestern, university. Her first poetry- prize. sheý won while in, college for a play writen1 in meter., During the World's Fair she was editor of the Fair's borticul- tural magazine, wrote feature articles for newspapers and has contributecj. to anithologies-"Amiericani Women Poets." "Anthology of Poetry of the General féderation of -WoWen's £bs!"-and' magazines. She is active in Chicago and national literary clubs. For mnucb of her poetic aptitude Mliss Anthony gives credit to an early child-1 hood spent in Oriental countries, and this perhaps also accounts for a note. of resemiblance in ber work to the poeins of Tagore of India. Sainlîqht and Jade is bound ln jade green cativas with gold title. and is IR. C. Wood Photo 4 gain the Touw> Crier presents a selectioi; of kit favorite readitif. "Woollcott's.Second Rrader.", laryp er Mon . ils. predcessor. con toinS CoI) lI'le zwo»rks biî21 an/hors )Q )'ch' eSSaYs by ,4Alexander I'oolI-ý ctolt. aflord.s ite reader in oppor- trmfTlitr o m¶lt( ltit: nequinitri ioitJt favorite zwriers. and /0. f5*CCI for thefilrst hi' cneu, uI hors. "Science and klusiel' I. for the General Readcer Sir James jeans says: "If the ques- tion' is whether the mnusic of Bach is, ,wvïew,- made tiwo engthnytips to Spai (the last one terinated. dur- ing. the carly monthsof the Spanishl Civil war), spentAthrec ycars i ac- tively writting the book. and almiost ten years ini collecting the data oni which the biography is based. Francisco Goya wa s bon'1 itn Aragon lin 174o and died an exile iil 1828. He was peasant borui, of tht' rugged weatherbitten A r a g o ncs e stock that i5s o different front the' softer and casy-going NMadrileno of the South- lie studicd.inu S-aragossa and in, Rome, and retursied as a y 1oung mai to Madrid,' whierc lie later 4ue-, came popular and famnous as' a court 1painter. During the Xaàpoleoiiic inl- vasion of Stuain, Gova, although nti in the fighiting forces. wvas with thle armuies, fhad tt nmrous. exciting ad- ventures, aud inade the superb scries of drawings that shiow, the hiorrors of con flict muore vividl y thian thc Norkçs of ary othier artist s. Olue of tbcm.i savs Mr. Poore, was11 used lu -Madrid during the early air bonibardunent to make the people realize thie brutality of warfare. 'Goya ranks wîitb El Greco and Velasquez as a mtaster of Spanisli painting. The life of the nmaster w~as- one oi ~Uden Awarded AMciaI for Poefry Arard i King George lV I Kitng's G'Old -Medal for niade Decemiber 15 ýt» i Auden, 30-year-old Poctî c *3 nasii bok society. stic and *Ii ;Burnhat lecturer.i artists. ' Burii in4e. a lqw lqo qp k* qp qm l l qp i, 'w % 1 m -«Wv-qqwl

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