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10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925 ---_-_" er ould; ook [arner "MY BROTHER'S FACE" By Dhan Gopal Mukerji E. P. Dutton & Co. India, L.and of mystery and poetry and Gandhism and color! You have sent an eloquent voice into the West to tell your story! Dhan Gopal Mukerji, a Brahmin priest, came to America at the age of twenty-one. His coming was impelled by a restlessness which was not in his brothers. After a series of re- markable experiences which he has told in an earlier book, "Caste and Outcast," Mr. Mukerji became very much a part of our civilization. But after twelve years, the period at the end of which it is said that every Hindu will revisit the place of his birth, he was filled with a deep long- ing for India. And so with eyes that could see : with the vision of both the East and . the West he returned. As the boat : neared the wharf "Suddenly, all these warm colors--warm and vivid like the -- : day--took supple and fully defined , farm. The ebbing and flowing cur- rents of iridescence burning the strand, shaped themselves into Indian ; women walking slowly back and forth vdrawing about them the long flowing rertds of their saris. It was not a city "but a fairies' paradise, that had come 'out to the sea-front to take the even- (ing air." And from the first page to the last | there is before us the India of burn- ling noons and swift merciful twilights fin which even the peacocks pause to (wait in silence for the end of the day. . And against a background of poe- ttry, Mr. Mukerji tells us the things which we of the West most want to tknow. How the different classes in {India feel toward Ghandi, toward the 'Emglish. When he asks a peasant fs opinion of Gandhi he receives the gswer, "The dust of illusion still darkens men's eyes, but a day will came when all the people of the world "will see that the Mahatma is their . Lover. He speaks like a holy one for 1i# is holy, and when he smiles he has brought us God." When he asks a Holy Man of Ben- fares how the East and the West can 'come together he hears, "When I sit fa nd meditate, gradually as I pass on- bvard, I raise my hand to the Ultimate 'Tyuth. Then I behold other hands «coming from other parts of the world "to rest upon the same shining One- mess They my brothers, are touching #1® same Truth as I. How can there ve a conflict between them and me?" { Then we meet, too, some of the ewly rich commercial class of India, ome of the jazzing youth, but last of IT we see on the railway platform "My Brother's Face," and hear his voice, the voice of India, saying, "Fin- ish they guest. Remember: the warn- Vid of the Holy One. Criticise no im re! Farewell . . . But come back again and bring to us in our turn the face of blessing and benediction from Pr West." ~% "A PASSAGE TO INDIA" By E. M. Forster Harcourt Brace and Company. IRE {vhen we pick up "A Passage to Tridia," we are looking at the other side of the plate from the one shown us in "My Brother's Face." It is most interesting to compare India as it appears to an Indian and to an Englishman. In the former case we pity ourselves that we do not live there, in the latter we pity the In- dians that they do. The Englishman sees in the native house the flies clinging in masses to the ceiling; the Hindu sees: "Under the light of the An authoritative book about the animals of the circus menagerie LIONS'N' TIGERS i'N' EVERYTHING By Courtney Ryley Cooper A new book about the gilded jungle --the city of circus cages where the captive wild beasts spend their days. Here are tales of apes and monkeys, of lions and tigers and leopards and elephants--of animals that remembered, and men who for- got. $2.00 at all booksellers. ' LITTLE BROWN & CO. Boston Publishers setting sun the peasant's newly thatched house had a glow of gold. Even the walls of brown throbbed with the singing grandeur of the sun- set that was now deepening into purple in the Western sky." The theme of this second book is not the meeting of the East and the West in the abstract but in the ac- tual. And a sorry outcome it has, this meeting. Adela Quested travels to India with her friend, Mrs. Moore, to visit Mrs. Moore's son who may become Adela's husband. They find in Chandrapore a petty little group of English people who are there to "rule the Indians not to be polite to them." In fact the favorite phrase "at the Club" for association with the natives is "mak- ing yourself cheap." But despite discouragement Adela starts out with a sort of school teach- er-like zeal to "see India." And Mrs. Moore without seeing it understands it better than all the others. But Adela has a brain storm and a fright and plunges everyone including us and the hospitable little Hindu doc- tor, Aziz, into unending difficulties. 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