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I October 17, 1925 WINNETKA TALK touts Juok [orner Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, m His- tory? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD c/o your local paper. WARNINGS FROM MR. ANDERSON "DARK LAUGHTER" By Sherwood Anderson Boni & Liveright Wouldn't it be delightful if by some dispensation of a humorous Provi- dence we could arrange to have a de- bate between, let us say, A. S. M. Hutchinson and Sherwood Anderson? Hutchinson, whose human beings walk daintly through life, like certain kinds of water birds who pick their way along the edge of the sea, lifting their feet high, peering timidly in to pick up an unsuspecting fish, and at the slightest hint of commotion spreading their wings and flying away --far away, up toward Heaven. An- derson's characters, dark swooping gulls coming out of a grey sky, flying low over the water, diving now and then swiftly into a wave, then turn- ing and flying for a whole day per- haps, straight out to sea. Perhaps you are faintly disgusted at the timid flapping little bird, per- haps you are terribly frightened at the swiftness of the gull. In "Dark Laughter" as in his other books, Mr. Anderson gives us a sense of impending doom, of forces, under a thin protective veneer, lying dor- mant, ready to rise and destroy. As the ground in France used to be filled with the bones of men so re- cenfly dead, so thinly covered over that not infrequently an arm would be thrust out as if in silent and ter- rible protest against this thing which civilization had done. Bruce Dudley, working in a wheel factory in a little town in Indiana, used to be a successful newspaper man in Chicago. Until he was tempt- ed to leave his old life and his wife Bernice, and venture into that coun- try of one's self, which few men know, behind all deceits and artifices, and near the edge of that black void from which from time to time issues the "dark laughter." It is a powerful story, those to whom it would seem most unpleasant would concede it that. It has something to say and it says it crudely, sometimes with a flash of beauty, always with sinceri- ty and a sort of primitive strength. AN EXCELLENT NOVEL "POSSESSION" By Louis Bromfield Frederick A. Stokes Co. Louis Bromfield is certainly--as they say of football heroes--a novel- ist "to be watched." In this, his second book, "Possession," he has made a long stride forward from "The Green Bay Tree," which was itself a very finished product. Mr. Bromfield has taken this time a much larger canvas, one which might be compared to those of the old painters of the 15th and 16th centuries whose vision was astound- ingly broad and yet who carried out every detail with such perfection that today we study their work with a magnifying glass. ~ The detail of Mr. Bromfield's work is carried out with this sort of per- fection, each character, as he comes under our vision seems to be the hero or heroine of a story--yet the whole has been put together with such a nice balance that from a little dis- tance the plan is startingly clear, Instead of falling apart as a lot of little novelettes, it stands together as an extraordinary strong and closely knit novel. The theme of "Possession" is that of the earlier novel, amplified and carried on in the life of another char- acter. It is that the sons and daugh- ters of the Middle West, children of pioneers, now that there is no more physical wilderness to conquer must find an intellectual or artistic wild- erness. Ellen Tolliver, a passionate, wilfull child, sees in music her escape both from her self and from the commer- cial, hustling, dreary "Town" in which she was born. Her struggle is an in- tensely dramatic one--against her family, against the Town, against all the forces of the world which like a quick sand would like to suck her un- der. Unscrupulous to a certain de- gree, enough so that she can marry the pitiful Clarence just to escape to New York, yet she is not sufficiently unscrupulous to neglect entirely to pay her debt. She pays it in the only coinage that she can, even though being what she is, it is not the coinage her creditors want. It is a foreign currency. 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