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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Aug 1932, p. 28

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BOOK RENTERS Both i Bdiuc and usu-fictiân SOCIAL STATIONERS: Doxtd and poumd papes 1724 ORRINCTON AVENUE orrhsgtom flot.!eIBI,. EVANSTON FRMEE.«. 30 volumes of The MODERN LIBRARY, TO THE THREE PEOPLE 'making the. Most eccurate guets et the. ton best s.IIing titios In -th. Modern Li6r&vy at our store, dur- imn 4*a prese o nth. Èntry I>tuok and complote 1sf of titi., ore yours for the asklng. Founfan Square Evansfon rubisners announce tneir mosi important books for autumn publi- cations. Psychologically they take advantage of. the leisure that winter evenings bring, the 'colds and other ilînesses, and' theuniversal habit of giving'gifts. This year the. editors have culled for quality and ' limited thie.number, with the result ýthat the oIder and established authors. have the'field. No neW author, ujnlessý lie isextraordinary in promise, bas been added. Pearl S. Buck. who ..was the sensa- tion last year wlth. her Pulitzer prize novel, "The Good, Earth", continues her story wlth -Sons". It le à novel of new China as Uîbe former was of the old. Galsworthy brings back l)inny Char- wvall. a character of -Maid-in-Waiting-, in. "Flower-ing.- ilderness'. She and WVilfred Desent 7had been guests at Fleur Forsyte's wedding and after five years they ýmeet and fait ln love. One loves Galsworthy as much for hiswnit- ing, as -for bi>s story. The Nobel p rize winner, SIgrld Und- set, continues the "«The Wild Orchid," with "The Burning Busah", -a contempoc. ary story of an impulsive man and his frivolouq and shallow wlfe. "The Burh- ing Bush" le consldered stronger than "The Orchld,"ý but readers of the author will undoubtedly feel that "Krlstin Lavransdatter" 18 her masterpiece. Charles Morgan's-ý "Fountain". was published in June. highly esteemed by the crils. and nowv Promises to, be a popular success 'as, well. There have been fiVe editions tW date. A roniantie story of youth fui prodi- gles is -The Rueful Mating". by G. B. Sterns. The author's unusual feeling for people and life bas created a tre- miendous foiiowing for her books. An author that never disappoints is WilLa Cather. Her books have the large outlines. the.exquisite coioring of Boutet de Monvel murais. Her new book. "Ob)scurle Destinies," contains three long stories related to "The Lost LadY and "My Antoila". .: E. M. DeçlIteld deligbîts by ber wltý a n *d rony. "À. Good Man's Love." is. ber latest. ,A, fat novel of people; and places .1s "*Faraway". by J. B. Priestly. Jùl- tan Green's "Strange, River", will have wide critical rie u his interest in morbid themes alienates readers. An- other author of great ecritical e.-teem but liited appeal is, Thomas Woolfe., Hi-, new novel.of the passengers of a Pull- man c ar is -K-19". Ellen Glasgow will appjeal widely wlýth "The Sheltered, LI4fe".' She Is -the, Amier- Ican couniternart..or E. M. Dflsfleld The. Face of Englaud. By Eci- rnund Blunden. Longmans, Green. A poet's. transcription in prose of the English scene. John Wsiley.. By C. E.Vulimy Scribner's. An. entertaining' account: of ear- ly, Methodism and of its founider. -TMTETOLSTOY 0 F JAPAN'I "The- Tolstoy of japan and its St. Francis"-such. is* Dr. Kenneth Saun- ders' summary of the ehaliatet of the yroung. Japaneèse social reformer, Kagawa. 'IHere is an apostie," says Dr.. Saunders, "for these complex. andL dificuit times.", .Kagawa - of japan, Hu Shih of China, and Gandhi of India are the three .modern leaders, -sketched, in Dr. Saunders' new book, "The Heri- tage of ýAsia,," folloiving hisaccount, of the three chief cultures of Asi- Indiai'1 Chinese and japanese. Dr. Saunders lias studied alnd traveled mutch in the Far East and is, an authority on Asia and especiallv. on. Buddhisi,. POPULARITY CONTINUES -Larry:- Thouights ofý Youth," *ub- .lishied, in 1930 *.and third' among national best-sellers in non-fiction in 1931, is still selling at the rate of 1,000 copfies a mnonth. The publishers, the, John Day company, state that the sale of "ýLarry" for the six months of thiis year was mort than 7,500. tory. This volume that covers the %var showF the fashions, Ford jokes. the de- dline of Roosevelt, 'the rise of Wilsoii. The illustrations are from contemporairy sources. A new narrative history of what the American 'People have done' rather ýthan Wh~4y they have donie It, is James Trrut- low Adams! "March 'of Demiocracy:', The flrst volume is to> the Civil, war and cardes a se nse ofý active. participa- tion in the events. Famous paintIngs, old cartoons and maps lend' additional real.ity. Claude G. Bowers Iîs a brillilant bis- torian of Demàceratic affiliations. His last book. "Beveridge and the Progres- sive Rra." Is thée essence of political history of thýXe United Stateý frrni the. says: 1To the amateur airmant the char- acteristics and peculiarities of both clouds and storms are completely new discoveries, and each flight be-, cornes something of a voyage of dis-, covery. Even the most seasonedý airman, however hardened he'may be, is sometimes iterally staggered, by the grandeur of the sky about.hini. At times during certain twilight conditions- when above the clouds, there. is .impressed on one with force what a tinyspeckis man in the great seheme of' things. and howv insignifi- catit a part he is of the,,great cosniic process., - - feel that Dr. Curry's book is in- valuable not only for its. illustrations but because of thé scientifiz data which the proper, interpretation of these photographs disclose. To the airnian and yachtsman -alike. the clouds. by formation, shape atid move ment, stipply 'the dual functions of barometefr and wind gauge. It >is, thefefore,, imperative, for even the; enthuisiast to have a primarv knowl- edge of their characteristics. I cÈan ~think' of no better handbook than this of Dr. Curry's, supplemented as it is>by. its unique collection of aerial protographs." KENILWORTH WRITER A sketch of, Mrs. Chase Whitnev Love' (Adelaide Love) 4221 Cumnor road, Kenilworth, appears- in "Prom-, mnent Women of Illinois,"' published> by- the Illinois Woman's Press asso- ciation. 'Mrs. Love's new book of verse, "The Slender Singing Tree,", will soon be out. She was born iiin Warren, Mass., and received ber B. A. at Smnithi college. She is a meni- ber of the Bookfellows' association, the American Literary association, and Phi Beta Kappa.,I-lerwork fre- qu.ently appears in the' New York* Times, the. Chicago Trribune and the Christian Century. She ïï 'contribut- ing editor 1to Contemporary 'Vision and, Poetry, World. She, married Cha 'se Whitney Love and they have a five-year-old daughter, Gloria. PRIES TLY'S NEW NOVEL. "FarawNay" is the new novel bylJ B. Priesfly wvhich wag scheduled for lvan is Journallst wlth hie- m-hJ 'ests, and hie, fourth volume posed es", continues the parade of Cla 'vents that have made hie- idyli Understanding the Arts." e has been announced' a life of Books publlshed in the 1Butler by a Victorlan author have blossomed as works ras a sensation, because he ex- atre "'John Jacqiues Rousseý famlly skeletons In, his novels. sepham; "Theodore Rool nce Darrow's *"Farmington," an. P-ingie; "*Life t'f Emerson., EAmerican boybood, tg, being re- and,'*God and MY Pather," rthat whiie y Jo- I..by toricalini A4 "Our'1 figures$ai '4 i

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