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\\"IL\IETTE LIFE. FRIDAY. :\'0\-E )IBER 7 1924 woman. the woman l<wed. Both .-\dricnne and "Toppv" become more real peopie when thev are at la st seen not through the illusioned eyes of their adorers but through the critical spectacles of everyTurning a certain corner in one of the colleges of Oxford, one comes rather da\·. l'his is 'an international novel. Orstartlingly upon the full length figure of dinarih· one shies at the term for most a man lying prostrate as if in too great international nonls are so busy being eagern~ss he had fallen. It is Shelley. · supposedly in the position in wh ich he international that they forget to be numan. Kot this one. The conflict IS was found after his drowning. One based on the deepest. mos t fundamental pauses and stands for a long moment differences in French and Engiish before it, wondering. regretting. and thought, on question~ of love. marri~ge. turns away knowing somehow a great and family life. And on these qu~suons deal more about the poet Shelley. So it is with this life of Shelley of American thought ranges on the s1de :Jf Andre Maurois. You are arrestal by the English. Alix, the little French gtrl its lovliness, you read it slowly, linger- in England, sometimes seems in danger ingly, and when you have finished you of being powdered between the two know a great deal more about the poet, grinding forces. If she had been made Shelley. M . :\faurois gives a clear vision of so fter stone she would have been. Beof the poet, how in his too great eager- cause she is not she becomes mentally nes to reach something he has tripped more poli shed, more shapely than he could have been without the grinding. and fallen . It was the sordidness of E\·ery character is well drawn, and life over which he tripped, it was an with every character you have sympaideal state of understanding for which th\·. There is no swashbuckling ,-illian: he was reaching. Perhaps you will say that "Arid" is the villain is, like most ,-illains, within the hero. Alix's love ly mother is not a particularly balanced biogra phy, nor was Shellry·s a particularly balanced painted fir st indirectly as if we were liie. It is perhaps true that :\1. :\[auroi;; looking at someone in a mirror-suddenhas started with the picture of his ly we turn and she is there. They :tre "Ariel .. in mind and ha s picked out the all there, Alix and Giles and Andre and the re~t , not in a mirror at all, but there e\·en t~ which arc con-.istent with tha: picture. 11 e has written a romance, a .n the little house perched on a cliff bedeliE?hfiul ;,tury. yet it i hased quite ide an emerald sea. firmlv on facts . The incidt:nh in Shellev',; lii e ,.·hich han: bt-en dragged out or dark clc,_ ets and ,-iewed with !"h uddl'r' arl' <r(·ated simply. de/icatt>ly. sympathetically. Shelley·s lea\·ing Harriet and her subsequent suicide in thl' ~ crpcntine. the conventiOnThis is ~xposition week in the ·Howal uncon\·cntionalitv of his life with ard st reet section, at the Chicago Mary arc shown to be as truly the out- north limit s. the Btbincs, ).fen's a scome oi circumstances and hcvond the 'ociation haYing made elaborate plans control oi one person' s will, as· the fall- to acquaint residents along the north ing of the leaves in autumn. All oi his shore with the ad,·antages of shopping eager ill ad,·iscd liic. irom the time that in that section. Attractive displays are in evidence he was expelled from Oxford ior being too pleased with hi-; own literary at all the Howard street stores and special prices are the rule for the week. eloquence. through the childlike romance According to \\'. A. Patterson, chairwith Harriet, and the marriage promptert by gallantry, through the stormy years man of· the exposition, it is a great of conflict with society to the bewilclered week for shoppers, a s practically every store in the section is offering many exile, is set down. · To have taken a personality al111ost bargains for the occasion. . So many new stores ha,·e opened univellial in its appeal and to have shown it in the light of deep sympathy and un- up in that section recently and the derstanding, has made thi one of the merchandise which can be purchased most worth while and delightful biogra- there now heing of such a diversified nature it was thought wise to hold an phies of many months. exp~ltlon we(!k au11ng- Wlrtcll special "THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL" attractions would be the rule. The present week is but t be first By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. of a series of events which are exHoughton Mifflin Co. pected to make the Howard street secAnne Douglas Sedgwick has done a tion a notable trading center. thrilling thing. She has written a book which will be outstanding not on ly among ·By H arCJtfJ 0 ' H i ggina the books of to-day and tomorrow but all the days when people care for realJULIE CANE ity. "The best novel we have read You hear someone say, "It is a slice this year (or in almost any of life," and you mentally picture a huge year)."-John V. A. Weaver. meat loaf which is life, and a huge carHarper &: Broa., Publiahera ver which is the artist, handing out slices · ·· "~RIEl ~~~d)oolt~rner) THE LIFE OF SHG.LEY"I · By Andre ~[aurots. · D. Appleton and Company. SYMPHONY HAS CROWDED HOUSE Second of Series Enthusiastically Received consic;tecl of a "Sia,·onic. Fol~.song Yari ations." by Leo Delthes. _ Tw,o AraiJLsques" by Debussy. and, Lt szt s .. 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