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an" pre- as one Dy FRANK AKRIGM T I 1724,011GOaN AvUE onlatto. moel Ble. M1URIDER CAýSE A ,Philo Vence Sfor y S. S. VAN DINE CIIANDLEIR'S Futain Squar, Evansfon ens that security but in mv opin;on completely undermines it.. Mr. Coz- zens-has outdone Mr. Lewis ini style, in -charaèterization, in perception, and ini presentation. In "The Iast Adam" Gopher Prai-7 rie becomies New Wintoni, Cotîn.,, but rather than, seeing. it through the eyes of the author, as was the- case with "Main Street,"O the small town cornes alive tbrough, its inhabitants, and these 'in turn achieve a de .fi nite outline tthrougb the reactions and comments o the town physician, Dr. Bull. The. initial introduction to thepeo- pIe of New Winton is made tbrough May ' Tupping, th 1e New.Winton. tele- phone operator, who knowsthem ail, their comings and goings, their trou- bles, joys, gossip, and opinilons,. As she works at bier switchboard she cati look out on the U. S. bighway which ruils through the town; 'vears at lier position have taugbt ber the mission of most of the big trucks that thunder past, and tbat of the ordi- nary automobiles sI_ç can dcetermine accurately enough by their Uicense numnbers.'1 The plot attains a definîte formn when a serious çpidernic of typhoid fever strike;s New Winton which, i- Now Dr. Brown bas returned and is* writing a- book that, will contain material he gathbered during his pok- ings into strangeplaces-and& a storyý greatly different from 'that of Tenny- son's "'Galahade," in 'Idylls of the, King.i' For, among other things, Dr. Brown jiresenits bis proof for 'the contention. that the boly grail w~as. a p agan Irish talisman ýadopted by the Welsh- and passed along with .^the story of King Arthur into the -twelfth century French v'erse, "ýPerceval," oldest izraiîl story. The grail legend w~as. not a. Christian story originated 1w Clris- tianis, but .a. pagani story originated by paganis., SteadiIpy it grew tqward Christian ity, until, in "Galahad." the castle bas become a cbutrch and the grail f dentified with the tchalice oi the- mass. Mr. Brown; during bis visit to Europe, found niany relics professed to be tbe original holy grail. None of them, he says, contributed to '.le origin of the old legend, whose truth is only in its symbolic expression of man's constant quest for tbe bealtt- fi and the divine. tîe's, is very apt t o escape notice by those with whom it would, best be appretiated, notWithstanding that the. author. himself is hýardly a stranger .to our nortb. shore. In a community a 1s public spirited as ours, this novel written by one of local'interest, is, deserving of greater plaudits than' I fear. it bias received to date., "Thé. Martian". shows itself as an appellation for a mani w ho has made a life study of the heavens and its 'stellar phenomenon, inbiabiting au. out-of-the-way corner of the worlId in 'an undiscernâble portion of I.taly for bis, purpose. A sort of -weird, un-ý human,, super-man, We- are never -privileged to 'meet, bis, influence nevertheless runs tbrough. tbe, story fof bis two sons, tbe older an Amei- cati on tour from tbe vast tracts of Wisconsin-, the yornger son, the 'fru~it of his union with bhis foreign mistress, with whom we lind him living as tbe story opens. ýThe plot tbat utnfolds deals with the meeting of the brothers. their combined admiration and the mute incomipetence of men who desire to love one another. There is a girl. loved by both of the men, and the ul.tirate ivorking out of the turmoil brou.gbt about by the death of the date tioctor froi a neîgliboring town. He rushies froin one patient to the 1next like. a huge unwieldv machine, Ibut bie cannot prevent a large num- ber of deathis, and the twscoe tboroughly aroused, begin an inveis- tigation and find that due to bis neg- ligence the water supply became tainted. There foIlows a tomn eet- ing for the purpose of ousting Dr. dl istocrat an([ se~coTn Ju n s fatal 1 I .Ulricafl, ior long lnavïng madie Il"ts duttel, fiee %vith a slave hefore blcôd- bomet abroad. bolunds, hielp stoke a racing Misi- sippi river stéamboat with hianis. fighIt .ppropriate to a wvelcomc l]UNIn thirst and Incianis andlI buffalol the mnad pursuit of B3est Sellers ; along the trail to Santa Fe awl re- WvouId. make suggestion that y ou turi. to St. Louis with a stifficient read "-Vine \Vith a Stranger." Like profit to start a patent -butt on fac- lier hiusband, Mrs. Peattie has select- tory. Christopher Ward lias .vritten ed for her locale, a tiny hamnlet, a lusty sequel1 to 'Tie, Strange ..d(- i Olivetta by name, nestling in the. ventures of Jonathian Dre,,ý-" hlls of southierti Italy. Once more we encounter a strange and uinusual JUVÉNI LE BEST S ELLER j un ion bet ween two men, this time an uüp -like mthboxes. T Y K.. be publisbed this montb. 0001< Da.Iutton,., By Ed- AWARDED CUl» rchibald IHenderson, author of ýrnard Shaw: ?layboy and Pro- t" has been awarded the May- ver society cup for the best work Iishèd by a North Carolinian dur-, the. year. s