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faio f pocess. This book is a scholarlv production in ivhich the Or- inda is set against thec background of ber .period. "It contaitis ail the impor?- antepisodes in 'the 'L.etters from Or- inda to Pilarchus'; a collection of let- ters new éXtremely rare." M Your. GFOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Permanently bound in Albrchtcoveru $1.75,per volume, plus postage, by BRABANDT & VALTERS ,Library Sindrs 3827-29 Ravenswood Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE BUCKINGHAM 4)620, Ie di National Geographic Se dMagazine Back numbers suppliied j Eye$ She lifted ber exquisite hand iin thc fqueercat littie shudder of dclight anc -disniay. "But this," she said, -is lior- Srid, cultivatcd stu.ff.'~ Presently she looked up again. was wrong, 1, apologize. This is one, of the, thrèc epigraphs ,which Mr. M'orley has'prfcfixeëd to'his book, the 'nost striking, the Most charming, anid the Most cuniniing. For you arc not simple enough to-thinl< that it lias been placed there mç'ely for 'the enjOyment, of, the read er. . It is there as a liminàry admonishmcint to- reviewers. And whàt reviewers Net Iad ones Who wilI flot counit, but ,reviewers 'Who know how to tlink and. write, reviewers, Who are U'iiiver- .Sity- graduates, e xperts Who have eandhow to,"weigh.a Mani's soul,'I as Maurois sayS, and -can givre you the exact weight, in a feu, well-writ- ten paragraphsà. Qnly carefully weighi- cd 'and scrutiniized ini thei untis paragraphs will lie foutid to l>e "plati- tudes strokeci until' tley purr li'e epigrarus." 'Thatis the kind oyf stuf against which Mr. Mforley is trying to protect himself. But 1 doubt if even the most ex- peéricnced cliché writers cati fail into tlîeir horrid cultivated manner While handling "John 'Mistletoe." Soule liooks conuvert a iman at the first con- tact. Here are ,johin Mistletoe's mienoirs written-whichi is a piece of im prudoce-be fore John Mistletoe is quite forty and when lie hias tweniity more books te write. But these niemioirs al. the tiniie undergo . a subtle process whicli trai smiutes their parts iiito essays. Slowiy, leistirely, and delighitfuilly Vou are taken through John Mistle- toe's first forty years, at Hlaverford whcere Johin was a 1)(y and studenit. at Oxford and Paris where, he was a Rhodes schiolar with*thie -whlole of lii e hefore hini and- the conviction that "6there Was an aîîsWer te ev ery q ues- tiont," inth te Publishitîg or- boblish ing house of l)ouhleday, Page wilin theý perspective cOf Àtue ast, aippe(ars- as the most paradisiacai office, in Gruhl streets of varions haloes downi town, iii XVest Fortv-fifth of course, nifflion of S hurt: edinododg: ing Whomi arc eyes shy-dodged is briqht crifMbs- handful, .quickl:prl edinivho Is.flittercrumi;bs, flittercrim;bs arc float- fallii.' g: ail whtere:. .4 :criiiiiflitterinitsh, i.s are floatsis iPng- flai mu, shy, - .'Ij, (hi lficçkrhandfuid In) .dodgin.'qarc* sh-briqltiLteyes is cru nibs (ai) if, cy es. Jy E. E. Cliln;liigs' Th is is not a Chinese puzzle or a new American language but: merely; a b)it of porcjry in the newer mode., Poetry, as well as art, music, g ovcrn.ý ment, aid: poiitics, hbas gon.e, ultra- imodern.,Ncxt week. we wilI' print* one mopre compiicated. aud finally back te Europe in thélî chastcned, if happy', mood of the tman who once was, poor, there. Few men, tee, -without .aný, ap- parent cffect, cati trace and retrace what gees on in thé human 'mmd, kâow -what it is to be "somnewhere near what oee wants te tlîink," glad of "timne te tblnk, but flot se niuch time that you. knoW you, arce. think- It is supcrflucus.te point eut witht envy that Mr. Morlcy must havean infallibie memnory, but it is net super-. fluons te record, aise, with great ap- proval, that he keeps noeboeks. Ail through his book you sec him anxicus te keep) as near as possible te his old self whîch ig one cf the ap- proved ways te be. ene's self. His ceinmand of the English language, ini ail its range and in its very nook.s and crannies, strikes the reade.r at onice. He makes ne secret of the rnethods by wbich he" has acquired it, for this lever of Montaigne makes ne secrets cf anything. He tells you about style littie things which other writcrs carefully keepte themselvcs.. His appreciation cf a double adverb in one place, has touched a soft Spot in my hcart. He is old-fashioned; after ail, flot afraid of adjectiveg, like% se miain modemn cowards, and he is averse tô ail tricks. But quite often, bis words will mirror reality in a way Lhich rni frnnot forget. 1Rez-ic-,ed by Vera MlcDerniid Senator Borah said recentlyiv at Soviet propagandists couid iîot put Russia before the éyes of the Amier- ican public more than Amloericans, them5ç Ives. are doing. It is true tha Aneriansare probaly more lu1- teresied in'Russia than in ais' o'ther co'u ntry, and they are reading cerv. b)it of material available. The Sovfrt goveriiinenit>does not .need to hire pro-pganidists,- for it finds that the Anierican public is doing -ail the propagandi ng that- is necssay.Publishers are printing the, works of' Russiaa authors, ïe- viewcrs are commenting and prais- ing themn (bothi the autlis andtheir Nvorks), and American correspon- dents, tourist$, andý autiiors are paiiitiigail kinids of wvord pictures of kussia generally. Apropos, wve have for revicw todav another Ïiussýial. novel by Panitelei- mon ,>Ronianof, .the author 'of -CherrY. Blossoins." "Tliree, Pairs of SjIll Stockiligs" ,gives me e cfthe best pictures of life iii Moscoýv todav than any reports and stories ive have yet seen frôom Russia. 'Ille, e.ciucated ciass or the -inteélligetîtsià are jowv, along with the'artistocrac3,,,,outicasts in Russia., Altlîoug11 the), are not,. detested as niuch'.b«v the soviet asî the aristocracy, tlîcy -aree,- nevete-. iess, treCated with nîo stuail conteinpt. Kisiiakott, the lierc)o f Rotuanot's nov-el, wit-I l s xiic, lives in a Jodg- ing whichi contains tell families or twenty-seveii people, two-thirds of whom' ar » of the educatecj clas.s and. oine-tliird of tuie proletariat. Ile is an ex-eigineer and 1enipfloyeat. the Central mnuseumn. IEs ile goés .on1 alholiday, atnd wlile slue is awav iLe lias ati atatr -with the wiîe ci bis best irietid.. Theplo i meelyanexcuse for the detailed descriptton: cf dt. polit- ical and social conditions cf Russia today. H-owever, one neyer krows, wliere the author's political sympa- thies are. The hutuor and satire are delightfui.. The reader is p)articui- larly grateful for the fermer becatise lie would otherwisc be depressed by the story. Kislakoif is a pathIetic Special Cards 1724 Orrilngton Avenue EVANSTON m Orrlmorton Rotai BIdIE. I rderson. New York: Robert M. The jazz age is over, F. Scott Fitz- McBride & Comnpany. gerald believes. He oughit te kîîov, The chronicle of an Amierican fam- for he originatcd the phrase. He ily who spent a year ini Paris and its thinks the jazz age datesý frein the environs, expioring in leisurely fash- suppression of the Mai' day riôts in ion the lesser known as wcll1 as the 1919 te the stockcrash. in 1929.,.Fitz- more, familiat sections. Though an 'gcrald's bok; '>Taies-cf, the Jazz informai narrative, the book cent'ainis Age," was publiied lui Septemiber, much specific, detail 'and- description., 1922, bv Charles Scribner's Sens,