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Staaiq V-atal-Jaai,";taaaa ODLof .the figures · ·~ · tP~. r the Aaaerican heart .ill .~~ ~ C.-.. as .the subject of a biopaphy for the spn11g. It seems that llr; Veftal knows that Western c:o1iiat17 intimately, that he lived in ·i t u a bby, wu friebdly with the Indians aod ~ nen permitted to view maay Iadian rites that adults would never have ,een. So the outlook seems good for a $)'Uipathetic and interesting story of this romantic figure. ' < AMERICA ABROAD ..,.E GYPSY" B~W.B.Tnt. Fr·· rick .A. Stob. Co. America is by way of becoming famous in France, what with Ernest Hemingway and now a new star in our firmament, W. B. Trites. "The Gypsy," Mr. Trites' first book, was published in France and received extravagant praise. Then it was brought over here and, given a most artistic format, has been launched in America. It is interesting to speculate upon the reasons why a book of this type .ght be popular t"n France. It is ml tbe story of an artist, Arthur Mallock, a man who, at fifty, considers himself a failure. He has never, because of indolea_ ce or lack of inspiration, been able to fulfill the promise his early work gave. Then one day in Spain his eye is caught. by the figure of a young gypsy. Graceful and lithe "she walked as if to barbaric music." Arthur fell in love. His wife, Julia, with all the trust in the world helps that~ nothing ncr ~ nothing. . .For instance duriq .the first --~ Tbe Wilmette ,Public library has dred pages of the story . there ·i· the · received the following new books: birth of the child Meryom; h« .P.-OwBastian-Editing tbe day's news. ing into girlhood,. reading a few l)oob Hyde-Newspaper editing. with the hunch-back cobbler, Auiel, Longstretb-Silent force. and finally th" e establishment of· a 6· Bailey- For · the story teUer. brary in the little village. This, statect Cather-Educating by story-telling. ~Idly, sounds like even more action Weber-German self-taught. than it seemed in the book. Tile Lafitte-French self-taught. charm of th~ story is in its slow temDalla Vecchia-ltalian self-taught. po, its simple actions; it rests our Garcia-Spanish self-taught. minds as a tune played on muted Foster-Complete Hoyle. strings. It is in the recounting of Johnsen-Agriculture and the tariff. these simple things that the author Major-Entertainment speaker. gives the very atptosphere of the Untenneyer-Collected parodies. place, the personalities of the. people. Farquhar-Beaux' stratagem. Their conversations,. for example, so Riesenberg-Under saiL rudimentary and often futile, give the Trawel exact limit of their minds. These Gostling-Lure of Normandy. queerly phrased yet simple commonMcBride-Norwegian towns and places are the very things these peapeople. pie would say; the author makes it so Hedin-My life as an explorer. authentic it is less Uke reading than Carpenter-Cairo to Kisumu. like listening. Rasmussen-Greenland by the Polar In the character of Meryom Mr. sea. Gaer has tried to create something Bi.,.....~ more complicated, to show that she l#udwig-Genius and character. had a beauty beyond that seen by orAksakov-Chronicles of a Russian dinary eyes. In a measure he has family. succeeded, yet his greatest success lies Showerman-Eternal Rome. in the recounting of the life of this Salzman-English middle ages. simple village, in the commonplace ======::=!:=======~I realities of life which through their fundamental character take on a uni· "THE LEGEND CALLED versal, an epic quality·. MERYOM" ~IIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHIIiiiiUUIIIItlmlllB· J---L ""'--= ~ M:;.. Co. IRON &. SMOKE THE. baY · · · ~T .} ~~~·~iP.'!\C ~;A;&iC4111(rlJ~~··If The ~ F,.h St.rt.. ~ ~ 1926-27 iiW , RidMN .... .. · '· . wnu;. 7 DoclcL Mead 8 Co····· ". '.$2.50 1=: in "The Legend Called Meryom" Joseph Gaer has written a book which it is difficult to classify. A hitherto unknown author, there is no help to be had from his past work or knowledge of his life. He has written a tale of a remote little Jewish village t"n Russt"a and the mert"t of ht"s story t"s !':fce-=~~~r a~~:::..::th.;:t.-; · -.... Here Ia the new book of tlctlon by England's gifted author, Sheila ~ wafting E.thePput · .,...three :_eaCo.ra, 11M. B· SWia , "'--~s..lda ~-= -= The Verclict of . ~ Sea , . ,~ ~ = AIM BalUtMn . Dattoa ············· ·· · S:a.~o !====- gypsy as his modeL She even has her come and live at their house. Arthur paints remarkable pictures. He becomes quite a sensation in New York, the inspiration all being due to the gypsy and the strange hold she has over him.. The gypsy is crafty and, egged on by her mother, suggests that Arthur might marry her. She mentions poison in the same breath and Arthur seems by his silence to give tacit consent. So one evening Julia is poisoned. The rest of the book is given up to Arthur's remorse and his own death. ~ow this seems the sort of thing whtch would appeal more readily to a French than an American audience. The French who make wide concessions to the passion they call love will more readily understand and forgive Arthur's remarkable compliance with the plot to kill the wife whom he deeply though not passionately loves. But that brings up the weakness of the book; it is in characterization and ~otivation. None of the characters lave; they are paper dolls pasted on a ba~k'P"ound of real beauty. 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