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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Oct 1929, p. 42

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42 WILMETTE LIFE . October 11. 1929 ~~~~~c~ ·o~~~m~e~n~t~o~n~B~o~o~k~s~a~nd~A~u~th~o~r~s~~~~~~ BETTY OF THE CONSULATE. Stephens. Walter de Ia 1Iare, Sara Alfred Xon·s and Joseph bridge, Doubleday. Doran and Com- Auslander. 4 ... ~ ~~~· Jlcllly. The value of such a book lies in the ftNNIAIN 5QVAR[. · LVAMITON In this charming hook ~Irs. Trow- fact that not only docs the traveler · hr'idge, ' who resides at 1111 Oak str eet. earn· with him the memory of eternal "THE METHODIST FAUN." By · \\' innetka. relates the adventures of lines. bv eternal poets concerning .\Vest- Anne Parrish. Harper and Brothers. Wilmette J700 Bl'tt \' and hrr small brother, Billy, in min s tc~ Ahhcv. London Bridg-e, BlarAnne Parrish has gone more and Chi,)a. The story is written as the nev ·astle. Melrose Abbey, ami the more in her \\Titing to the easy method author remembers it when she was a Banks o· Doon, the Castle of Chillon, of drawing "types." To be sure the little girl in China- the daughter of an and Capri. but the reader has a glimpse. "Perennial Bachelor" was a type but American consul appointed by Presi- of the type of poetry of each cou~ttr.y. he wa s al so an individual and the dent Crant. just as Betty's father was. England's poetry is sedate and d1gm- characters around him \\'l're individuab. Hett\' and Bilh· are very thrilled by tied· Scotland's lrrical but wistful; Irt:- too. But in her next t\\·o h()nks. par the China oi I R60, and think th e cus- land.'s gay and full oi song; France's ticularly "All Kneeling-" her characters toms and people YCry strange. particu- philosophical. etc. The reader dcri\'e · \n~ re 110 more incJi,·idualized than the larh· the mascot. Buddha, the funny an interesting comparison of the verse puppets in the old puppet sho\~· s where peni>lc with their poker faces and long of each countrY and of each author in tbe \'illain is his sed hy the auciicncc the Dobe Walls qm·uc:-.. thl' straw sandals, the strange the au.thor's m\·n in?i,·idual re.action to i:lstant his \\·icked leering face appears. Stanley . Vest a/ hnti :O: t's and the hundreds of boats with a particular scene. · fhe hook 1s_a valu' ·t Fat111 " her ~· . · .. rrt 'fetlloct 1 A romance of the Sanra Fe Trail .I I ·I . seck I :\ n\\, Ill le ·' !'I ti1eir r1tloriul flag:' and pennants, and ~l IJ Ie ~tiH c to any tra\·c cr \\ lO Is IH~ \\' hook of the engaging titl e, Clifh gay i eaq days and holidays. . Houghron Mifflin ........ Sz . :;o fNd Hunter is the dreamy misunder I The stM\· opl' ns \\·hen Hetty, \\'ho IS lllg kurt pean culture. -;:ood youth \\'ho finds his only sober ·, "- \'ears old . and her st11all bn)thcr. 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