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54 ·WILMETTE LIFE Decenmer 13, 1929 fUVNfAIN SQVAR[. · LVANSTON Wilmette J700 BOOKS in special three-quarter morocco bindings .·· for gifts A numbertd edition of the Amatory Poems of William Shakespeare. Published by the Bennett Library ·····..···...·· Sr 5 Oxford Book of English Verse Oxford Press ···...·.·..... $ 1 3 THE ROAD. By Andre Chamsoa. Scribners. This novel is Andre Chamson's introduction to this country, but rather than the effusive embrace o~ either cheek which the typical Amedcan has come to expect from the typical Frenchman, here ~s a disconcertingly solemn bow. This young French writer knows his peasants and takes them seriously. He sees in their actual everday liv. es a grim sense of reality and value which is all stronger for a lack of conscious philosophizing, so he portrays them with an uncompromising realism. While his attitude is one of understanding and appreciation,· his technique is as relentless as the peasant fate itself. He tells the life-story of a young peasant couple given the opportunity to move to town and participate in commercialism on its lowest scale. The prospect of saving money beyond their immediate needs becomes a monomania with Anna which prevents any fulfilment of her life. Upon her death, Combes, who has never oriented him- Palgrave' s Golden Treasury of English Verse Macmillan ..··...·.·.·.·. $1 o THE NEW WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA Special . Low Pre-Publication Price le GalliellJle' s Book of American Verse and the companion book of English Verse Boni AWonderful Christmas Gift to· be used and enjoyed by entire family. Local Represent·tive 2.. 50 a Liverigbt, tach .... $ I MRS. MABEL W. SIMMONS 825 Lake Ave., Wilmette Pboae Wilmette 965-R John Keats A beautifully bound small volume, published by self spiritually in the new environment, much as the children. One verse 1s finds irrepressible joy in reverting to particularly amusing: type and trudging the full length of What an awful bother, the road he has helped to build,. back to Bother, bother, is my nose! his land. The book is a slow-moving In summertime it freckles, account of dull people, but the whole In wintertime it blows:peas~nt population of France is justified I'm really very, very in the character of Combes, who finds . Very tired of my nose. contentment in simply functioning as a Another one is characteristic of this part of Nature. The unvoiced philoso- group: phy which he lives gives a surprising I sat down in a puddle, strength to this unassuming book. And shall I tell you why? I did so that I should know IN THE WIND'S WHISTLE. EleaHow far the drops could Ay! nor Jewett. Ralph Fletcher SevOthers have written similar verse, and mour. ·.. among these is Dorothy Graham Aldis, but that type of poetry is always popuMrs. Godfrey Lundberg, 435 Birch lar because of its brevity and whimsical street, Winnetka, has just had published humor. The illustrations, which are a book of poems fo·r children, "In the quite as clever as the poems, are bv Wind's Whistle." Mrs. Lundberg, Eleanor Duke. whose pen name is Eleanor Jewett is art critic on the Chicago Tribune. 'rhe book of poetry is from her children CHURCHES OF FRANCE. By Dorothy Noyes Arms. Billy, Eleanor, Lucy, and Joan "to ~ti Fifty etchings and drawings by John those children everywhere who do not have sticky lips after breakfast, but," Taylor Arms have been used to illusshe continues, "this is not an after- trate "Churches of France"-the book breakfast' book (that was just put in which Dorothy Noyes Arms has written for a good idea) : it is a half-past six- as a result of her journeys through . quarter-to-seven book, in the evening. France with her husband. The pictures We f?und all these songs jumping and alone constitute an unusual and beautibumpmg around in the wind's whistle ful record, but Mrs. Arms adds to their as the wind ran in and out of our yard interest by telling of the legends and and around our house, and we think the history that are bound up with each that if you listen to the wind at vour church and cathedral, and of many house and in your yard you will -fi~1·J amusing little incidents of French life as she and Mr. Arms saw it in town some songs, too." · and country. The poems are extremelv clever and For the price of a book one may describe just everything that children travel with them to many picturesque ever think or talk about. They show a from Amiens in the keen sense of humor and a sharp phil- and ancient plC\ces, 1"'z in the south and from north to Ror osophy, Notre Dame in Paris to Mont. St. Older folks will enjoy the poetry as Michel and other villages in Brittany. a Sons, Ltd. ; . 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