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THE paty.ar MAY have brought ITS share- of hard LUCK and woe; but. ~E'S young 1931, EAGER to stert things ANEW and give us a LIFT on the: ROAD to HappineSs.ý WELCOME,1H1yar WITH your hopes of GREATER ,hepp*lness RICHER prosp.rity, HIGHER succ.ss. To, MANY of us you are the 1-LUJWfNtýUpon ditl TIMES- but 1 930 with ITS cares i18 dd; in ifts: IIPLACE reigjns .193 lu PROPHETIC of futur. WELL being. C.sI.J.WU.tt. Av..... Mr s. Fairbank, talented sister of IMargaret Ayer Barnes, author of I"Years of Grace", bas written another goed novel. It is of the variety whiclb is. bard te lay down, once picked up. Soethin ite study of the char- acter of -tbree sides of thé triangle, Daniel, 'Irma, and Corrne, is deeptI Jiuteresting. 0f course, it -is ratber .melodramatic The very. green coigressman froni fais oin goes to 'Washington and fal nothé tion's défi ofpoican and vamps. As may bc expected, a seniator'swife vamps tbe country boy> and nearly gets bim into *such, a pot of bot wÀatert that he can't get 'out. However, he manage s to recover in a perfectty logical way and one is left to.imagine that he'lives bhappily ever after. Mrs.. Fairbank bas drawn heavily, on various pôliticians for lier char- acter. studies,- not tbat it" is a detriment, for- tbe chara 1cter -study flu novet is tbe best part about it. Daniel, thougb a greenhorn. is one of the most admirable characters in fic- tion in recent years. Too bad tlw-re arenl't many politiciains like bim, but if there were tbey probabtywouldn't be il, -.congress >for, it only. happenls inu books that people faliii water anxl corne out witb their ciothes pressed. AN INSIDE STORY IN o woman ini japan can wear a patten of cherrv 'blosso nis' in thie autumn; she must flot bang a picture of one in bier home at the wrong sca- son. The smallest gesture, the tying of a string, bas its riglit and wvrong mode." says Miriam Beard in "Real- ism in Romantic japan"' ($5.OO). "If oe is te sec the beauty in japan one must study,. to appreciate the r-itual' and symbol wbîcb rule every action1." She. gives, a fascisiating. study o4f, three differîiig types among berJ- anese acquintances-tbnee* wbo bave acbieved self-mastery and resignation -a Buddbist abbot, aickshaw coolie, and a kcnight ef southern Japati.,.She tells of intnicate social relationsbips, of customs in the home, of the arts, campus and cafe, politics, religion, - drama CHANDIERS Euanafon'a BSok Store now bas a RENTAI. LIBRARY W fho fed. thern oi honev-%coinb sweet, 2. When the mInLe were ai raid of the rab- bits so nimlile They hid in a hole j» a log Nat ver-s muçhi binger than »other's AndJ the 'rabbits raü by oPu the jog-. 3. Soon .Çusan and Nick fr»teko- hole zcouid peel', jrî h n T/je» Phone. to their friend Mister Spink., Alisier YPink uws most ,of teii âway or asleep, Or deufened from trying to tkink. 4, Btsomietlines he answered the grape- Advie Phone, Adthen he twould cornle to thse Party. He' ivas three tini's as big as a stce corI.-f one. An ladnas alupays loo lungv~ and Thé,y fed him»01, hone v and zw>ieat- rod".,, and Pears.' u<1 asked hi,» t/w iwws of titi Buit -liéansueret i zi. jokes about h olloe-tree bears, Anud he. tricd to:,e.rplain his nuw thinks, On Christmîas tici rau ail the z'a il b h his home, CHiIi c î:uce zcolld flot. show on011the Sç>jot,. ) But t/w bumblebees stayed in their bed:. in. the conb), For c'old makes thriii slecp -and slow. P>op Spink had a houme where the i .ce liki'd Io comne. Oh his corit tasse! beard! and peaked hat! iil pants like George Wasitln fP coût like Mlet/a salem ii A4nd a Japanese sash for crat! 8. M ister Sp ink and the izice ate their Christimas ,together Bi, his hearth Ïn thée cave b'. the creek. lb 7'as ban ked up iwith sod ta keep ou<t the bad wegther. *They feasted a day and a zveek. ,Icsawg y James, and will1 beapprro- C pitlbouand and attractive1y box.& l stilI a fine collection of fiction. She bas developed the short stery to a high degree, wasting no words yet creating that sense of Ieisarely story- telling se essential to.the gôood short story. 0f ail the stories, "After Hôlbein" is etcbed in the finest Unes, telling of the days of early. New York society, yet witb a>toucli of pathos that may be seen bebind ail these steries. > "Tue Refugees" is a. war story o f an American professer taken bya deter- mined English -spinster te be a refu- gee.- It bas. more tban. ene bit of comedy arising eut of the situation. "A BÏtie of Perrier" is a desert story which. is, rather haunting, and "<Mn. Jones" ispositively spooky. '"Atropby"' is neithen new in situation. or. any- thing else, The saâme tbinxg bas been written by someone else more than once. Maybe- it basn't been said in so, many 'wordi or in quite the same. Manner, but wbo cares about that? Tbe qualjty of the stories is "Po- esque,» if one may coin a terni. Editb Wharton bas made a finished job of ber work, she bas made semething, ef ih wbich will satisfy every readen. No matter if one or two of the, stories "6miss fire" so fan, as ,you are con-ý cerned, there wvilt be tbe rest of tbem to enjoy. PROVING NOTHING lui "Preving Nothing," .recently pub- lished by Harper & Brothers,. Albert Payson Terb une necaîts the avalanche of dollar bis and checks for one dollar whvich pouned in upon him frem everywbere when lie offered te seit fiftv sbares of a mining stock, wbicb he declared werthless, at two cents a sbare.t- Questioned about tbe incident- bhe wrete bis publishers: "Actng on. legat advice, 1 sent 'these sù'bscrip- tiens. back.te their siliy ownens as fast. as tb.ey came in., And, ever since, I've been baunted by a. morbid -fear lest some. of tbe dollar b11s may bave miscarried in the mail, iniplying that 1 was as dishonest as the stock itself." BRIEF REMMtKS "shall not write any more books, declared Dr. Henry van Dyke at the ntuiet celebratien of his seventy- es a aesire ,to meuld her OWfl ?eter Quincy of Massachusetts hero of the story, and the im- his personality on the staid se- of the eld-world France is rsgl described. "Wind from' et" bas just been published. Il