.s t a u .l o i For HER On MoMter', Day, May,9 A deflgljtfuml book, or' some loveIy stofi.u.uy Corde. r.IIy artisie r4 On4na*cjoo Avenu. Gre. 0227 Among the Englisb *writers in the anthology are John, Drinkwater, Lord Alfred Douglas, andV. Sackville West. Queen Marie of Roumania is also repre-6 sented 1i n the inde'x of authors. The American .writers include Henry Van Dyke, Faitb Vilas, and Mrs. Love. The introduction is by Sir Thomias Barclay. SWalking Slowly, the poemn by *Mrs. Love wbich has probably met with the most popularity, bas been translated into German- and French, and bas been set to music by the French composer, Courtlandt -Palmer. The song bas been, published in Leipzig, Germany, and according to reports fromn the compos er is becoming popular there. .Recently the National Broadcasting cornpany has asked for permission to now at work on her ms, for adults and has The- rhree Queeiis and îiews Poemns by Ad.elaide Love: (Mire Chse W. Love), 422 Cumnor road, Kenilzcorth, are receiviwtng recog- tîon in Europe. Her composition, "Walking Slowly," lias been trans- Iated in to French and German, and Other >oerns by her appear in a re- cent Eînqlish anthology. A LIBRARIAN'S DAY BOOKj Ann whitnac race. The. latter story is a history of. the Boston family of Apley, and principal ly of George Apleyxwho Iived-from 1866- to 1933. After bis death, atý the. request of bis son,, John, an intimate friend is supposed to have reconstructed, George's life in the form. of a memoir,, largelyf rom his letters.and other cor-. respond.ence. After a. slow start in the opening chapters,'the author is off at a long, steady gait. Neyer understàting, neyver, overstating he recreates the stiff. re- pressed atm osphere: surrounding a Bos- tonianof wealth, family, and smug social position, during the. latter part of the nineteentb and. the' earîy part of the twentieth, century. A satire of the stulffled shirt as' the book rnay be, one 'loves tEeorge Apley' nevertheless, and therein lies the cf- fectiveness of the novel. George bas charm, intelligence, passion. If nurtUred in any other soil than the rock-bound New England coast, he would have been' a "capital" fellow. The very frustra- tion of these possibilities constitute the dramnatic tension of an otherwise humn- drum narrative. Consistentlv sticking to a stilted dic- 1IItv1inana*41 ---0 ve wider news columns and day split wide open and f ree his life. in larger type. He cOn- Now and then for a moment he' drops i the bel ief that newspaper the guard of propriety -and pretense, y will be jarred, and not only to quickly recover and reassume, enings, but new ideas and the Apley pose. ili be covered. It was a tre- I ae ol a n nte ource of satisfaction to me I ae ol a n nte hoed niy belief that the news- generatiori to finally smash the Puritan- i:irA is;lep, the family. With it go abuses