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Rosalie. Roach Fassett.. ANIUES AND ýMODERN Wafl and Floor Co.ings 920 N. iclilgan Av.., Chicgo Phions Superlor 5695 W.psy the highcst price or OLD GOLD Silver aned PIafin m S. D. Co.*ofTeNOO< 1618 Orrington Ave. ifabn Buildlng, Lobby EvaasIoln mnois qui uneef Ouf Toumorrowl Fi'st edition of "ACTION AT AQUII 4y H.rv.y Allen Author of "Anfhony Advsrss' er; Iqames (.Ç ouing Out of thse Toi>1 by Norman Clin;The Soutid of.Rowr- locks by Wilbur, Daniel Steele; 'Land Without Moses by Charles Curtis Munz; Winged Pharaoh by joan Grant: Uncle ýTom's Children by Richard Wright: Said Be fore $unset by Fred- ecrick Mortimer Clapp; Labor On. the March by, Edward Levinison, Alexis Carrel b as contributed a. fore- word to the biogtapby of Claude IBer- nard.,- He, writes: "Ios it1 not strange that nearly at the sainetinie, .and in the samne region of France, tbree gzreat scientiste weree born? Ampere in Polemieux, Bernard in Saint Julien, Pasteur in Dole. While Pasteur, im- mediately after bis. death, became a lègendary figure,. Bernard, was , for- gzotten at once by the public... Today, however, after more than a century,, a ife'arises frôtm the shore of the Pacifie Ocean and tells us the trarvelous story of the apprentice ini a smaîl drug store of a French city, wbo, after having failed as a play- wrgt became one of the greatest sicentistÈ of the world." Mueiu aNovel Homer Croy was invited to speak in9 assembly to the Horace Mann 111gb Scbooi students'on February 25., He1 chose as hie subject. "How To Write1 -about a mule.',-te says hée ouglit to know Y somneething about mules, forlhe raises themn on his farm near Maryville, Mis-* souri. "I've got four on my farrn a this moment," hie saidý "I grew up with them. The first runaway I was ever A" in was wben our 'pair of driving mules .1 got nipped in the heel by a nêighbor's dog. It banged me up worse than my last automobile accident."j In-Mr. Croy's novel. Sixteen Hands, Pulehot Photo NegLey Parson, whose book, "Tie Way of the Transgressor" reached 1 the ransks of the, besi sellers a year or so ugo, has uriffr'n a s ul "Transgressor in the Tro pics." The plMisher -is IHarcourt, Brûcé' & Company. Novel Combines Love, Polit ics, Cool Satire At the southeast tip of Spain the city of. Cartagena lies against the base of great treeless bis, facing its superb harbor, its two great forts and the could flot ind a pure red one they. used the fiag of Turkey, witb its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates iying in port joined th2 revoit. From Madrid the central Re- publican Government, run by higli- minded incompetents, badgered by con- spiracies, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena fell, before it could get its socialist experiments WIth pfl.iow, &U oW wood and .Stone, the stOrY of the three Field çisters wbho sacrifice their lives-S -ne.h t le chil dren, Brosia e to o ber hsad Gilliani to her job. In no case was the sacrifice called for or ýwortb the candli and the book is an excoriation of wome wîthmartr complexes. Josephine Lawrence bas a' reniark- able selective facuity for tbe homely detail, those small: cluttery accessorles of lifeonly ligbtiy impinjging on -the, frigeofthe consciouis mind wbicb,. wben brougbt into tbe bounds of fiction, make. words and, sentences as vital as, the drawing of. your own breatb. She also knows women - and their conversation,, inside out , and is àt no pains to conceal their stupidity, selfish- ness'and 'garruiousness., Bow Dows f0 Wood and Stone is not a pretty book-, it pounds away monotonousiy on'the al. ready obviou, i4iene of matyrdmn, and is filled with tbe frustrations, limita- tions and the unbappiness of tbree lives runiig down hli to the debacle of loneliness, whicb is tbe sanie tbing as saying to defeat., Seneth's. four children ail struggle f ree from their mother's suffocating maternaiismn; Brosia's husband divorces her; Gjliian's firm retires ber-and the curtain is rung down. Josephine Law- rence bas a penetrating insight into the Iwhat. she iackis is the art to permit i er characters to dominate the theme I f the book, instead of the theme stamp- 111 ngOut the characters like auto parts in a' Ford rnotor plant. Brosia, Gillian and Senetb' Field are the martyrs of, ail martyrs, perfect for parable or. fable but, too pure in type for ý convincing fiction. Publismer Makes Claim n end .zvoe.1 mis and their w-ays,. based on -th -C s own experlences, is bis thirdý