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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 May 1933, p. 42

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for the Graduatel LCards of congratulation] in attractve and clever designs. 1724 ORRINGtON AVENUE ,EVANSTON ,MODERN TENDENCIES UN'WORLD, RELIGIONS. -Charles Samuel Draden 42-50ý INDUSTRYand'SOC.IETY: Arth ur J. Todd $3 .75 CIIANDLER'S Fountain Square Evanston hind, rides out to view the wonld. Like Potts, Mr. Colum has -vlsited his own "estates in Corsica" His experiences range f rom the Paris Opera-men in uniformi, ladies elegant-to an observation' of mfar- niagesý in the' CityHall, Manhattan. He watcbes a P unch a:nd judy show with London. children; listens, to a, Persian tell tbe.legend of the "names -of God which. are twenty-seven" Istands in a courtyard at, Angkor Vat; meditates on'.cakes-gaufres for sale in the Luxembourg gardens, and Shroye Tuesdayr pancakes. .1t is flnot always easy to mak-e Up a ,storv," says tbe. Mercbant'sSon in one ýof tbe essays, for, it must. be "in- structive enougb to please the Que en and jocose enougb to make the King laugb." This book would entirely satisfythe Mercbant's Son, as it will, those who have en>oyed Mr. Coluim's travel tales, poetry, drama, and leg- ends. Mr. Colum was born in Longford, Ireland. Hé was at one ftne editor of the Irisb Review, Dublin, and a founder of tbe Irish National Theater. He came to the United States in 1914, and is well known tbroughout the country for bis lectures and. poetry readings,. as well as for bis books. He now divdes bis time between France, Ireland, and the United States. MASTER BUILDERS 0F OPERA. By George C. Jell. Scribner's. Beginnng__witb Cbiristopb Willi- bald Gluck-who is regarded as the founder of mode rn opera, Mr-. Jel presents concise and interesting bio- graphical sketches of ail tbe great * nasters of operatic creation, down to the present day.. Its strictly chron- ological form inakes tbis book virtually a bistory of tbe. develop- ment of opera, for as, one life suc- ceeds aniother the reader, perceives also the bandinig on and growtb of musical ideas and conceptions, in a1 streani of influence which now and again produces a great overflowing o-f genius, as in the work of Wagner1 and Verdi. CIPuI-s upOII Wnîvn e nopes tw guide, the world back to prosperity." The Evening Standard cails it an amazing document. *An authorized edition of President Roosevelt's, book is also being brought out ini Holland. An airmail letter from the' ln- stituto Cultural, Argetino-NIorte Americano of. Buenos, Aires. states that the. President's book is .proving extre*mely ,popular iiiArgentina.' .President Roosevelt bas given per- mission for tbe reproduction' of bis new'book, LOOKiNG FORWAIRD , in Braille fo r the use ýof the blind, and has waived royalty.. LONG LOST FATHER. By G. B. Stern. Knopf. Miss Stern here offers a pleasant moral -tale. tbat will eventually. make a more pleasant moral movie. The pleasure to« be denived will be found in. the. generally competent wit with wbtcli she otie the str f Carl Bellairs, manager of tbe swank Tipstaff Restaurant, and bow be be- comnes reinvolved in love affairs be tboùgbit long dead, ail because bis im- pertinent young daugbter reappeared f rom a dead past to bring confusion to bis carefully stage-managed life. Before the tiovel bas run its course, it becornes painfully apparent to the fascinatîng Carl Rellairs 'that lie can- not escape tbe common lot of al. fatbers since, tbe wonId began: the inherent sense of responsibility for tbe safety .and happiness of bis off- spring. And Iberein lies the moral. Clive Brook should make an excellent Carl Bellairs. FOLK TALES "Svei the Wise and Svea Tbel Kind," b% Alima Overbeck (H-arpers), and "Evenings in, a Greek Bazaar," by Agîxes C. Vaugban (Knopf), stnike a modern note thiat is unusual in the folk tale. To Miss Vaugban th-is presents no difficulties. The setting may be 'modern,; tbe tales are old. Not so old as the more familiar I4~ineincipuon ni s meU IA~I1vaL i rV4Ub "as an acknowledgment of bis ex- cellent menit as an author, and es- pecially of the bigh idealism, artistic perfection, as welI as the unusual combination of qualities of the heart and, genlus to which bis work bears witfless.ý He was born in Paris Marcb 16, 1839, an on113 child and. the star of bis nîother's life.. He studied to be a professor. was. cut off, from tbat career by. a serious disturbance of the eyes, fumbled in bis adjustment. to: living, .adopting at last notarial work. It was in this- interludethat he wrote bis first.poems and won for himself a widlening circle ofý friends. In 1866l le pitblished the sonnets "Les Epreuves" definiitely 'givinig up F cience and law to be a poet. 4"Les Solitudes" and "Les Vrais Tend- resses", followed.> In these and the succeedifig volumnes, he wrote of the conflict between reason and emotion, tenderlv and reflectively, but growing more and more p-hilosophic as be aged. Towards the end of his life, a vic- tim of iii healtb, be turned entirely to pbilosophy. and wrote prose in place of poetry. In -1907 he. died. The following poem translated by Arthur 0'Shýaughnessy- is character- istic of bhis work,: THE SH4ADO\W XVe walk: our shadow fiaîls lin the rear, Minuics our notions, reads wbere'er wve tread, Looks witbottseeing, listens %vithôut an ear, Crawls wbile we walk with proud up)- lifted bead. Like to bis shaldow, niait him'self down lhere, A littie living darkiness, a frail shred 0f. formi, sees, speaks, -but with no knowledge clear, Saying to Fatle, "By :thee my feet are'led,." Mtat sbadoms but a lowver angel who, Fallen from bhigb, is but- a sbadow too;) So, mxan hinmself an image is of 'God. And, may be, in some place by us untrod ' Near deepest' depthis of niotbiingiess - 1or ilI,- M lR anda r.uu FIE type, pri si Sbound .ni a uiae mici res v OOKi 1".a VYDy, U>jameIs Frd-Rhodies (Mac- Lorado T-aft'-s massi-ve oîe-volume re 's Sonnets," edited f rom mlla;n) published in 1917- this is not "Historyv of American Sculpture" t editions and set by Arthur a condensation. of any of his longer (Macmnillan) bas been revised for the Rushuxore in Weiss Antiqua works, but special use of theux witb ne.w ecition, and an added chapter ed on Archer paper and, new material. t is i one volume of 450 by Adeline Adams brings it uùp to rench marbie paper boards. pages. 1930.

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