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56 W I L M E T T E LIFE ·May 13, 1937 EVANSTON A C A D E M Y OF FINE ARTS 6 3 6 C H U R C H STREET E V A N S T O N . ILLINOIS 1 111 B O O K S R E V I E W S RellgioUS Writer A U T H O R S A Follower of Baha'i Faith Writes Account of Spiritual Struggle Portals to Freedom by H o w a r d Colby Ives. B . P . Dutton, N. Y. H o w a r d C o l b y Ives, a former resident of W i n n e t k a , is the author of Portals to Freedom, a new book of spiritual g u i d ance just published by E . P . D u t t o n & Co. M r . Ives, w h o is n o w in his late s i x ties, was born in B r o o k l y n , N . Y . , of deeply religious parents. A f t e r various experiences in the business w o r l d and two years spent in the open in W y o m i n g to regain his health, he married at the age of 22. F o u r children were born but only one s u r v i v e s -- h i s daughter, M u r i e l , also an author. W h e n about 35 years old, after several years of intensive study, M r . Ives entered the U n i t a r i a n ministry. H e r e he remained for a period of ten years. H i s successful efforts i n this field he terminated when he decided to enter the Baha'i F a i t h and spend a l l of his time and efforts furthering the cause of u n i versal peace and brotherhood as taught by ' A b d u ' l - B a h a , the teacher and exemplar of the B a h a ' i F a i t h , who was at that time in A m e r i c a . It is chiefly his personal contacts w i t h this great teacher w h i c h are related in his book. C r i t i c s have called i t "unique." In order to gain a l i v i n g , after leaving the ministry, M r . Ives entered the business world, where he remained until three years ago. Since that time he has devoted tits time to w r i t i n g , producing in addition to his new book, a poem entitled The Song Celestial, and a series of twelve lessons. The Oceans of His ('Iterances, for the seeker after truth, as well as many short stories and essays. 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T h e lives o f three w o m e n -- a l l sisters--compose the plot, if plot there is. T h e f o r m is more biographical than anything else, and as the fates of three women rise and f a l l i n the life cycle of birth, death, and love, so does the i n terest swell and recede, only to revive again and again. Louise, Grace and Helen are the daughters of a druggist in the m i n i n g town of S i l v e r B o w , M o n t a n a . A b o u t 1907-08 they are beginning to g r o w up. Louise, the oldest, is the beauty of the family but has character as w e l l . Grace, "plain Jane" of the family, makes a substantial match and sails a serene--if dull course. H e l e n , the youngest, is spontaneous, vivacious, and pretty. Delightful as her company may be, she is l a c k i n g i n depth, and in the last and final analysis can only be called "shallow." T h e marriages into w h i c h these g i r l s are swept, the parts of the country' ( N e w Y o r k to San F r a n c i s c o ) where they go to make their homes, the local c o l o r of the day and age in w h i c h they live make up a swiftly m o v i n g story o f v a r i e t y ami surprise. W h a t are the forces that shape our lives? A r e they external, o r are they interna! qualities of character? Mr. B r i n i g tosses this thought to the surface of his narrative over and over. But he never conclusively answers it. C a n it ever he answered ? T h i s is the author's seventh novel. In 1929 he published his first--Singermann. Since then he has w r i t t e n Wide Open Town, This Man Is My Brother, The Flutter of an Eyelid, Out of Life, The Sun Sets in the West, and now The Sisters- E. P. Dutton & Co., has recently published "Portals to Freedom," a nczv book by Howard Colby Ives, former Winnetkan. 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CHILDREN'S EYES Should be kept Clean\Clea/L Help notvre prolicl them. Murine remove* irritating particles. Cleanse* -- Soothes-- Refresh** the Eyes. Recommended for 40 Years for Children and Adults. FRENCH L A U N D R Y 806 Dempster St. UNIversity 2776 " W h i l e other countries have contributed more to the art of painting, sculpture, music, o r monumental a r c h i tecture, the E n g l i s h have cultivated everything connected w i t h daily l i f e : they have made it an art to live in the right way. Sport is the music of the E n g l i s h m a n : he has cultivated his clothes, his furniture. . . . A l s o in a r c h i tecture the E n g l i s h m a n understands best M r . Ives calls his book "the frank, all that is most intimately connected w i t h his d a i l y life, that is to say his full and complete self-revelation o f a soul in its desperate struggle to escape house." from the thralldom of the material w o r l d In London, the Unique City. Steen and the determined effort to enter the Rasmussen, noted D a n i s h town planner, portals to freedom. . . . Step by step the who loves L o n d o n and k n o w s it inti- author has endeavored to lead the reader mately, shows how naturally it has over the g r o u n d w h i c h he himself had g r o w n in accordance w i t h its needs, and so recently, v i v i d l y and agonizedly deplores the new tendency to follow the fought over." Continental cities in the building of huge blocks of flats w h i c h w i l l only i n crease the slum and traffic problems. H i s fascinating account of London's Relates Coincidence history, its architecture, a n d its life is From Autobiography illustrated w i t h 200 photographs. T h e T o few w a r correspondents has come book was published M a y 4. a coincidence as remarkable as the following, related by L i n t o n W e l l s i n his "Our Perennial Bible" autobiographical narrative, Blood on the Moon, announced by H o u g h t o n Answers Many Questions Mifflin for publication M a y 18. Y e a r s of teaching in a church school W h e n in a prison camp in Irkutsk, have convinced H e l e n N i c o l a y that W e l l s was suffering from such a viothere is no book w i t h w h i c h people lent toothache that he permitted "a think themselves as familiar as the bearded, unwashed Czech soldier" to reBible, yet about which they really lieve his pain w i t h a pair of pliers. knuw less. E v e n though t w o teeth came out instead In Our Perennial Bible f A p p l c t o n - of one, W e l l s showed his gratitude by C e n t u r y ) she has brought this grand laboring for some time to teach his c o m old literature into proper focus, gath- panion a few elementary sentences in ering up and presenting in simple l a n - E n g l i s h . Seven years later at a lunchKuagc the answers given by mndern eon i n L o n d o n a man w i t h a perfect scholarship to many of the puzzling O x f o r d accent stood up and, before the questions that confront us when we assembled group, asked M r . W e l l s if two teeth were not missing from the upper read the B i b l e . She shows how modern investigation right side of his mouth. W h e n M r . has added to our knowledge of Bible W e l l s admitted the fact, the speaker days, describes the o r i g i n of the v a r i - went on to describe the operation, and ous stories that form such an i m - claimed to be the heavy-handed "denportant part of the Bible, answers the tist." questions that spring into the mind of the twentieth century reader of S c r i p tures, pointing out that, despite the efforts of skeptics to spoil it, the Bible remains a golden treasury and a constant source of inspiration. " I turned to H a r o l d S c a r b o r o u g h , " relates W e l l s , "and asked ' F o r God's sake, w h o is that man ?' and heard Scarborough reply, ' S i r J o h n A l l i s o n , the greatest B r i t i s h spy the w a r developed.' " ' Fob F V F C Your 1-- 1 L J