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il WuU8UateU wit 'of -chafts and p CHANI feustoluSq..i $2.50 IDLER'Se, are I. F.miIy mc. Evanston For Apsil OaiLy N.o»grsu. Stati.uoe Tour nume rue d Jn lu .1, whlte or Ivory v e11u m. 1724 Orrigton Avenue Bva.mstou Orritou Motel 131d. OUR VERIY S8UT PEOPLE. B ClifYord Raymond. Bobbs-Merrill Retdew.d by Ver McDlertnid Mrs. Blake, in ber bookc, "The Jade Green Cati," has done a splendid peeof wlng. The plot, which is qteintricate, is. well handled and' the characters ring truc -to type. The. author, herseif a newspaper woman, -i. on *the staff of the Chi- cago Daily News, and is, the daughter of F o mn leanor Atkinsnnoted writer. In her book sh ehas made Chicago the setting, while her characte-rs in-, çlude the city editor .and:reporters on a leading newspaper, a Northwestern university prof esser and bis wife., The death of Dr. Amos Cartwright in his office on. West' Madison street arouses the suspicions of John Kym- mnerly, reporter on the Chicago Lead- er. Although the police finally decide upon -death due- te natural' causes Kym suspects. murder.ý The youth- fui reporter traces the cause of Dr. Cartwrigbt's death through two book en~ds in the f orm of jadte green , cats, one of whicb bad been ignored by the police who thought it no part of the evidence. You will be surprised be- yond ail account. when you read what the jade green cats are-Ôr r-ither their purpose. The story cornes to the reader through the eyes of Kym, and of Dawn Carson, "sob-sister" on a leading évening paper. It travels swiftly, and holds your interest every minute. Mr. Raymond's., "Our Very Best People" is another Chicago novel *with a member of the "four hundred" required or.rather forced to do busi- ness with a gang leader 1 There is scarcely any plot te the story, wbich is composed rather of a number of pictures or satirical events. Mrs. Alexander Cobb, nee Çeorgiana Howeling, White driving ber Rolis Royce .readster down. Michigan av- enue, refuses to obey the orders of a traffic cop and is, taken to the sta- tion'in the police W agon. The judge begs the pardon of Mrs. Cobb and reprimands the cop. An important Germnan count cornes to Chicago to Mr. Raymond's style is clear and colorful. His satire is quite deight- fut. The -author, who bas also writ- ten "The Men on the Dead Man's Chest," is an, editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune. ARNOLD ýBENNETT With the cdeath of Arnold Bennett, we lose a personality. as.,Weil as a novelist. Brusque,1 outspoken, witty,, tremendously keen on living, lhe was the symbol and perhaps'the peak of middle élass dominance in, literature. To Americans, he seemed more Arn- encan than English. His. rasping voice, bi.s bearty manners, bis lack of réticence; bis aggressive ëpersonality, bis shrewd kindliness, belonged to bis Midlands origin* but were. not what they,expeýcted,'of the genus English author. But, they uinderstoodd his gusto for comfort ini living. His few really important novels-"The Old Wives Talé," 'tlayfhàtger,» and 'per- haps "Imperial Palace"-got 'their quality f rom bhis faculty of reporting life witb such keeness and sucli evident enjoyment, but their distinc-, tion came f rom something deeper. The man bad a singularly kind heart under bis brus queness. 14e did not make the mistake of so many modern realists who have been content to show lif~e cooly as it seems to be, since bis gusto was for humai nature as much as for.the wines and, for hotel suites. It cannot lie said that he created many great characters, but ail of his characters have sensiblity and, like their creator, are emotion- aliy alive. In. spite, of the opulent scenes into which be loved to bring: them, tbey are nearly always com- monplac 'e peole, raised above the interest level by some talent, some intense desire, and a faculty for ex- perience. Like the novels of Sinclair Lýewis, bhis'best books will be invalu- able for the writers of our social history. They record wbat is always so significant in the lives of the ev- eryday people who make a civiliza- tiofl, if not a, culture-tbeir wants. ex- hood; in his home, at scnuuiana uini the bitter struggles of an adolescence spent among.the alien Japanese. The first haif, truc pictures of old Korea and of b is family circle, will probably cbarm and interest more than. the. second vWhtbits ,sturm .and drang. Koreans bave the reputation.ofbeing a gentlemanly, easy-going race, and Mr. Kang's story coofirms this. His deligbtful famnily pictures biear .tbie stamp of trutb.. H i s si deliglits "make a -lover of the East smile in tender recollection, and explain scenes- only baîlf1 understood before, such as the chronologfical groupings of 'the f amily even in -playý . Tbere is tbe father, the oldest brother of tbe, family, and, therefore naturally and witbout besi- tation slaving to feed and clothe and shelter not only bis own. offspring an bis mhother, but b is two younger brothers and tbeir brood-all1 under one partriarclial "grass 'roof." Mr. Kang bas a true poet's love of the country, and bis 'pages breathe, the bappiness of field and flower and, garnered crop, of boyisb games in tbe open, and tbe smell of wood fires. It is a tremendous achievement that lie shouid bave written this lengthy book in lucid IEnglish; and so excellently that a few unconscious jerks and jars of very modern American slang only add naivete to tbe candor of bis tale. The second haîf of tbe book begins witb the Japanese absorption of Korea into bier EmEgre-and is pain- f ul' reading. Tbose who travelled in Korea in those years know that Mr. Kang's accusations of inhumanity have foundation. Oiie quenies bow- the Japanese witb tbeir centuries of chivalry arrived at sucb a state of mmnd in those years. Mr. Kang is, bowever, on sure ground wben bie gives.us',Korea and Koreans. His, book is a. real -con- tribution te literature and to our understanding of bis countrymen.and women.-Froin tbe Saturday Review of Literature. SUITE 12,12-1213 TOWER ILDG. 6 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAO, ILLNOIS CC&4s QiemAT &LQ " DARK HERITAGE., By Shirland, Ouin. Boston: Little, Brown & The'well written story of a young Welshusan who cornes to America intendinug to tay for ashort poriod btùt rmains pemganntdy. > Il