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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924 21 --_-- "ARIEL, THE LIFE OF SHELLEY" By Andre Maurois. D. Appleton and Company. Turning a certain corner in one of the colleges of Oxford, one comes rather startlingly upon the full length figure of a man, lying prostrate as if in too great eagerness he had fallen. It is Shelley, supposedly in the position in which he was found after his drowning. One pauses and stands for a long moment before it, wondering, regretting, and turns away knowing somehow a great deal more about the poet Shelley. So it is with this life of Shelley of Andre Maurois. You are arrested by its lovliness, you read it slowly, linger- ingly, and when you have finished you know a great deal more about the poet, Shelley. M. Maurois gives a clear vision of the poet, how in his too great eager- ness to reach something he has tripped and fallen. It was the sordidness of life over which he tripped, it was an ideal state of understanding for which he was reaching. Perhaps you will say that "Ariel" is not a particularly balanced biography, nor was Shelley's a particularly balanced life. It is perhaps true that M. Maurois has started with the picture of his "Ariel" in mind and has picked out the events which are consistent with that picture. He has written a romance, a delightful story, yet it is based quite firmly on facts. The incidents in Shelley's life which have been dragged out of dark closets and viewed with shudders are treated simply, delicately, sympathetically. Shel- ley's leaving Harriet and her subsequent suicide in the Serpentine, the convention- al unconventionality of his life with Mary are shown to be as truly the out- tome of circumstances and beyond the rontrol of one person's will, as the fall- ng of the leaves in autumn. All of his eager ill advised life, from the time that he was expelled from Oxford for be- ing too pleased with his own literary eloquence, through the childlike romance with Harriet, and the marriage prompted by gallantry, through the stormy years of conflict with society to the bewildered exile, is set down. To have taken a personality almost universal in its appeal and to have shown it in the light of deep sympathy and un- derstanding, has made this one of the most worth while and delightful biogra- phies of many months. "THE - LITTLE. FRENCH GIRL" By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. Houghton Mifflin Co. ; Anne Douglas Sedgwick has done a thrilling thing. She has written a book which will be outstanding not only among the books of to-day and tomorrow but all the days when people care for real- ity. You hear someone say, "It is a slice of life," and you mentally picture a huge meat loaf which is life, and a huge car- ver which is the artist, handing out slices to a ravenous populace. And yet the simile is not bad. Notice a well made meat loaf and you will find that its in- gredients have kept their separate enti- ties while still contributing very defi- nitely to the compact whole. "The Lit- tle French Girl" is much like the slice of life which we each more or less tim- idly nibble. Only it is better. It is a compact firm unity in which no flavor is lacking, no spice too strong. It is well made, well seasoned, well done. In several ways, it reminds one of "Adrienne Tonner," Miss Sedgwick's well remembered book of two years ago. The English family life, the ingenious mother, the two brothers loving one woman, the woman loved. Both Adri- enne and "Toppy" become more real peo- ple when they are at last seen not through the illusioned eyes of their adorers but through the critical spectacles of every- day. This is an international novel. Or- dinarily one shies at the term for most international novels are so busy being international that they forget to be nu- man. Not this one. The conflict is based on the deepest, most fundamental differences in French and Engiish thought, on questions of love, marriage, and family life. And on these questions American thought ranges on the side of the English. Alix, the little French girl in England, sometimes seems in danger of being powdered between the two grinding forces. If she had been made of softer stone she would have been. Be- cause she is not she becomes mentally more polished, more shapely than she could have been without the grinding. Every character is well drawn, and with every character you have sympa- thy. There is no swashbuckling villian: the villain is, like most villains, within the hero. Alix's lovely mother is painted first indirectly as if we were looking at someone in a mirror--sudden- ly we turn and she is there. They are all there, Alix and Giles and Andre and the rest, not in a mirror at all, but there in the little house perched on a cliff be- side an emerald sea. Alice Carter Butler is Taken by Death Sunday Alice Carter Butler passed away at St. Luke's hospital Sunday morning, November 2. Mrs. Butler had been seriously ill since her return from Eu- rope early in August. The funeral was private. There will be a memorial service at the Unitarian church, 1407 Chicago avenue, Evanston, on Sunday, No- vember 16, at 3:30 o'clock. Mrs. Butler formerly Glencoe. resided in FRENCH TEST AUTO FUELS Experience thus far demonstrates that the arrangements made for the use of national alcohol stocks as mo- tor fuel in France have not proved satisfactory, but apparently the French intend to carry on the experiment for some time longer. Nine office buildings in New York City have, in the aggregate more tele- phones than the whole of Peru, Ecu- ador, Colombia and Paraguay com- bined. . SYMPHONY HAS CROWDED HOUS Second of Series Enthusia - tically Received By X.Y. Z. Last Monday evening, November 3, came the second concert in the series to be given this season by the Sym- phony Players of Chicago. As usual the New Trier assembly hall, where the program was presented, was filled to the walls with the music lovers of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Hub- bard Woods and Glencoe. As our neighbor in the seat to the right re- marked, "Nothing succeeds like suc- cess," referring 'to the amazing pop- ularity of these musical occasions. The players, after having given their afternoon children's concert, had taken their dinner in the school cafeteria. They were consequently (having had a good rest and a first-class meal) in fine trim for the evening per- formance. The first number was Haydn's "Clock" Symphony, written in 1794. It is a simple, charming composition, rather a novelty in Chicago and its environs, not having been heard here during the past thirty years. 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