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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 May 1937, p. 50

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C.or. riahnaifAve & Davis St. For Lunch7-Tiea -Dinner. OtvaUd by Phdq tA. Danismi= UPHOLSTERINC - STIMATES- WIt lie ut OblIguti.. DAVIS FURNITURE. LIBIEARY Btatlom.ry T/he Years, the latest niovel by Vir- ginia Woolf, regarded by many as preeminent woman of letters in Eng-: -and, brillianitly. captures the feeling for the passing. of time in,,the lives of alarge fgmily of, brothers and sisters, the Pargiters. Commnencing lier novel ini the> year 1880.. she closes the story with the present day. Advancing age, is niot pleasant to face,. and.. in. the sanie ay -The Years is nlot a. pleasant book to read. But for onie who delights. in exposïtions- of the bitter, inexorable phases of miortality, who cares for the hyper-tension of* the interior anialysis of the, hunian mind,' for niagnificently perfect descriptions of obj ects, thouùgh*ts and rnoods 'as they whirl in*.the conscious or subconscîous,. T/e' Yeai-s will fulfili aIl jexpectations. Put to gether in a neat chronological pattern, and carefully' introduced chap- ter by chapter and unit by unit withl del icate vignettes of the season, the novel follows. the fortunes of -the ~Par- giter family from the years of vital youth to withering old age, hour by -hour and year by year. Finally ý,%'e see Eleanor Pargiter. the s piister sister; with whomn the autiior- ess is apparently the mnost concernied, iii lier sevenlties. At this tinie of life corne from hler lips the word-"Thiere inust be another life, hiere and now... This is too short, too broken. We kiiow nothing, even about ourselves." W.. Somnerset Maeigha' iîiez' -novel, "Thzeatre," whlich appcared Mi -March lias been p raised -for its' ironic qualit ,a a- allc;y aof vivid- cliaracters taken front t/ice world of t/he stage. T'lie aut/tor of thte sto-ry i s a niaster of flic skil of novel 7vrtt- inq, and bis booke is said to have stiicftitrall 'v a fi r in foundation. Do uieda. IoraniIs ftle pliiier. Publishl New Story by rier. D. Appleton-Century the Win'd has brouglit in avalanche of Civil War novels. Most are ruediocre at best, -but ýtmong those 'whicli give promise of popfflarity is Boy in Blute by, Royce Brier" winner of the- Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for*hisinewspaper,.reporting. Nie i .q. also the author of Crusade. and Reacli for thé. Moon. Boy3 iii Bine is- described as "a n1an's book.". It covers the experienices of Robert Thane,, an ignorant, Indiana farin bôy, who joined the'Union forces duIringý the Civil War without. know ing, w.ýhat the, war wvas all about and without ever qu.ite findilig out. Through war and love and self. edu- cation. Robert develops. fromi a crude peasant to a :niar of -knowledge. Dis- illusionied in the girl lie wished to marry, hewas not hothered about the riglit or wrong of the war. Ne wanted to die and to forg-et JInstead of death -antd free- domi frorn the strife that ragcd %within him, lie found, at first, only the filth, the bloody squalor, the butchery of war. There are three wornen in Robert's life, and it is through contact with theni that hie progresses fromn a green' yokel without moraIs or ideals ta a man fully aware of the bigher and hetter things in life. Boi- il, BPute is the biography of a inan -seeking death but learning ta livé througl~i his exPerience on the battie- †--- --- *~&7~*LA*1I~LL~ I -LIW~t*~ ÇUj IILIJchidren and aduits -for the feeling and. DEAUTIFUL CARD$ the human mind of an auithoress who isgtwt vih hyprrywl ismore intéllectuali-ore spirit and isgi ihwih hyprrywl - Motamusing bo huhtta f-' n bod life. Now Mr. Seton hias written another - - HE AY" houlitthanflesh nd loo. -book - which will take it_ý place beside I "REMIMBURTH A " It is-only honest to sav that the last these two. I by Kenn.fh Horan $2 I page of this painful tale of the elusive- In The Riogrpï of ait- Arctic Pori 1724 Orringfon Avenue. Gre. 0227 i tess of th a s p reef,and aure(Appleton-Century') Mr. Seto- i as Orrington Hotel SIdg.stnsedfsaistiansi h po peli oadfatold with al his vivid, dramnatic power - sese f - atifacion n te pospet iof and lits seemingly endless knowledge of ____________ - - returning to the immediacies and reali ties of life as they appear in our o 1wn wild life, the tender and tragic- story eyes rater tan troug thee es of0 Katug, the little Arctic fox, on, lonely, ~ jrq , -eysraherthn hrug te ye ,vindofent Orlak Ts1and i te;cvwne l, me v tii ,tnh&it., Uanit. j i ne 1na turalisrw in Mr. Brier's story is its niost effective quality, for it projects the reader into the eventual agony of the war. Mr. Brier manages to make Rob- ert Tbane's. stnry an honest and con- vincing revelation of what a soldier's, experience. must have bene. Mr. Brier hias doue a remarkable job of sheer mili- tarv narrative. Nor lias he been timid of- a fulIblooded adventure and a shini- niering romance. The- resuit is a thor- UVs Ueautimiuiiiiiirs. but ne admits sun go out. Mr. Crane confesses that mother, a high-born Iady-in-waitilng to there are at Iea't Iegendary records there are occasionally suinters now- the Ducbess Elisabetta of Urbino, brings >ne summer, in 1916, in which there adays when Vermonters think history' home to modern readers the splender relliy po summer atail. Ten inches may repeat itself, but it neyer has. and the turmoil of bthe period. .ny soyle lBr Conipany. Gone With its train anl

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