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That Arthur B. Chrisman, author of "Shen of the Sea," the winner of the Newberry prize, gleaned his stories from a Chinese grocer who was his next door neighbor in Los Angeles? That Carl Van Doren, whose novel has been published recently is at work on a book on American fanaticism? That "Collected poems" by James Stephens which has been de- layed on account of the illness of the author has been released by the publishers? There will be one hundred and eight biographies and autobiographies pub- lished during this fall season. But never mind, it isn't as bad as it might be. for in 1925 five hundred and sixty- one were published. Of these, twenty- four appeared on the lists of best sell- ers. seeming to show that biographies have an increasingly large place in the heart of the public. NEXT WEEK Children's Books DOROTHY CANFIELD'S New Novel HER SON'S WIFE "A Masterpiece" --Wm. Lyon Phelps HARCOURT BRACE & CO. $2.00 DARWIN Gamaliel Bradford The life story of the gentle, tolerant, and lovable man who "made hell a laughing stock and heaven a dream," who Zs shifted the attitude of x" science and overturned the: whole world of thought. $3.50. | Houghton, Mifflin Co. | Just Paragraphs For some reason unknown to us biographies of outlaws of society have been rather numerous of late. The "Rise and Fall of Jessie James," 'the life of the bandit who terrorized peo- ple of Minnesota more than a genera- tion ago was published last spring, followed by "The Saga of Billy the Kid." This youth had killed Mexicans and twenty-one Americans up to the time that he had reached that number of years of age. Recently Jack Black published his autobiography, "You Can't Win," which reads like fiction in which he writes intimately of his thirty years as a crook, fifteen of which were spent in prison. Then two authors have written the lives of famous criminals-- William Bolitho in "Murder for Profit" shows the causes and motives of prominent murderers of all nations and "The Book of Rogues" by Joseph L. French takes up the lives of notorious scoundrels in history. "HeAvEN TreEEs"--Stark Young. I was enticed into reading Stark Young's "Heaven Trees" by the title and I was compelled to finish it by my curiosity about the McGhee family, its connections and its friends. Not that I had its ramifications perfectly in my mind--that was a minor matter compared to the things they thought and did. The book itself is made up of episodes concerning the family all slenderly put together on the cousin Ellen thread. We have aunt Martha who has married uncle George; the son-in-law of grandfather McGhee ("noblest man in northern Missis- sippi"), Georgia, "one of those wom- en who was educated when she was born"; cousin Ellen of Pittsford, Ver- mont; Miss Mary Cherry who had vis- ited one long-suffering family after another for forty years; and the family, servants and pensioners. It is all very picturesque and pleas- ant, a book to enjoy. --ANNE WHITMACK THOT nn It is reported that Lord Raingo, main character of Arnold Bennet's latest novel, is not Lord Beaverbrook. Louis Bromfield's b EARLY AUTUMN John Farrar says: "An import- ant book and an entertaining one . . . 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Angel, when the story opens, is a child, delighting in the beautiful pa- geantry of the world she sees opening out around her, knowing nothing of that world in any aspect but the lonely mystic one which is her own, pitting, unconsciously, her pantheism against the narrow religious fanaticism of her father. Then there enters Buck, young, strong and vital, and sweeps her out of her solitary dream world into one in which she is even less able to cope with things as they are. It is a good book, so sympathetically written, that even the religious fanatic father remains a very human being, with that dignity which attaches to the elemental struggle for life of human souls in a hostile world. LLU "Tug RoMANTIC ComeptAls"--Elien Glasgow. Last year in reading Ellen Glasgow's "Barren Ground," so authentic and moving was that story of a woman's struggle with the exhausted soil of the south for a meagre living, that, I was convinced that the author had lived this very struggle, that this was the story nearest her heart. It was quite a shock, therefoge, to:learn that the nearest Miss Glasgow even comes to the country is to drive through it, that she is a woman noted for her achieve- ments in society, rather than with the plow. Her next novel, then "The Ro- mantic Comedians," is in that other manner, urbane, sophisticated, subtle, vet strangely enough it lacks the very quality of entirely convincing au- thenticity, which was the most out- standing feature of the first. This probably shows that Ellen Glas- gow is a very good novelist, a skilled artist. In any case we are not likely to make the mistake of believing that she is Annabel, the attractive, unstable, selfish child of twenty-three, who, restless and dissatisfied, decides to stake everything on money and marry old Judge Honeywell, only to find that she has made a bad bargain. "The Romantic Comedians" is a clever book, interesting from first to last, the psychological study of a man almost old, craving the romance he missed in his youth. --EsraEr GouLp Where There Are Children Dare There Be Divorce? Custody Children By Everett Young Not the ordinary "brilliant society novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring su- premely what happens to Clodi Dil- lon. ely Henry Holt & Co. $2.50 Ef | - ! : - §