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38 WI L M. E T T E · L IF E September 13, 1929 ·~ l.._________c_o_m_m_e_n_t~o..:...n_B_o_o_k_s_a_n_d_A_u_t_h_o_rs_..;....._..______.. ffNN!AJN 5QVARL · LVANSI'O~' ... · \\fllmette J700 Books Whiteoaks of Jalna M azo De La Roche Liulr Brown ~Co ........ $!.50 .A Crown for Carlotta Daniel Hendenon Srokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 The Gold Coast And The Slum A vivid re'alisric picturt of rhr Babel wirhin the shadow of the skyscraptr. Harvey W . Zorbaugh Univer~ity of Chicago .... $ >· oo Thieves' Nights · ·H.arry Stephen Keeler v' Duuon ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.oo The Sun Cure Alfred Noyes Cosmopolitan .......... $2.00 The Life Of An Ordinary Woman Anne Ellis Houghron Mifflin Co . . . . . . $).50 \\'ho would sav that an English country vicarage i-s the best place in the world to sec life at fir:,t hand? Agnes Log~n. author of "The Necessary ~fan," published 'by the Bohbs ~~ crril company maintains that such is the case, her own life having been spen~ mainly in three vicarage·s. Her book cYoh-c<l from some of hn experiences and t:arly memories there . She was horn in · r\orfolk, England, and liYes now in Staffordshire. ;\gncs L(~an \\·as educated at the "jolliest. <kan·st school imaginable,"tht:: much-discussed Casterton, which must have completely changed since · the horrid times when Charlotte Bronte attt'IHkcl it. Though ~~is~ Logan had started to \\'rite when she was seven. she had a11 ambition to l~c a doctor, as had been ~o many ·pcupk in lH.:r iamil~ · im generations. She has an intt·resting iamily- Jame s \ \ ' orkman. the author < 1i exquisite slwrt storiL·s. is her nnrk: her grandiathcr. Josiah :\dams . introduced electroplating to tht· L' nittd Statl':-.: ~I acaclam ni fl)ad building iamL· "as nne ui hl'r famih·. .\ t :-ol' \'L' I\h~· n :\gnl's Loga1-1 ddin it ely t urncd t<~ \\'rit in g. It \\'as a long. hard grind ior her 111nthcr was an in \'alid and .-\gncs ,,·as curate to her iathn. the \·icar. This expcricnce was im·alnahk tu her iur to thc \·icaragl' JH.'O Jl k come for en·n· · ca nse. "Li i e. death. jn~·-· misery, :-.ir kncss, health sin 'and sainthood." ~ays ~1 is s Ll,gan. "meet at. the Yicarage ." It was fin· \·cars hdnn.· shl· pnhlishcd her first shnrt story . Thereait<:r her work at) PL'arcd regularl.r in Thc ~ ational Re riew. Punch, The Hadio Times. British Cirls' :\nnnal. etc. Four hooks and t hrel' pia \'S wen: published hdorc "The ~ t'Cc:-.san- ~I ;u1." This is her ht· st wt~r k. she . hdi l'\'l'S, and an exrel kn t om· t hrnugh w hie h tn in t rodUCl' hn tu :\merican H'aders . She loathes tJl)ise and :-.moke. \\"hich is pnhaps why she prders thl' ~.·oull tr~· to thl' tn\\'n, the hills tu plains lll'r per:-11nalitY. quiet and utterlr I Ladies and ~nts Vera Caspary Century Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 Atmosphere of Love Andre Maurois Translared by Dr. Joseph Collins D. AppiNon and Co . . . . . $2.50 The Romantics Mary Roberts Rinehart Farrar and Rinehart . . . . . . $2.00 Fi\'e and Ten Fan nit Hurst Harpers ... . . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 -;incere. is reflected in her wntmg because it is almost alwavs based on the result of experience.- Her favorite writers include Barrie, Shaw, Chesterto n and \Villa Cather for "even when "TOMORROW'S VOYAGE" By thev ueal with life fantast'ically the~ : Leonard Hess. Ive s \Vashhurn. ·1re at bottom sincerely true." "Tomorro \·.;'s Voyage" by Lcon=Ird . He ss starts out as if it would be one of MR; DETZE_ R-WAR VETERAN those books of drcams come true. \\'e Karl \\'. Detze.r, whose new mystery warm to the picture of the small b oy, novel. "The Broken 3," will soon be Samuel Jones. who lives over Hulll puhli~hcd, was a cat>tain it~ the 33rd mel's butcher shop, and dreams of the infantry during the war. After the moment when the "Ventura." tramp \\·ar. he became a captain in the Ameri- steamer. will come into dock. Then. ·an divison of criminal investigation. playing hookey from ;chool, he will go ,·hich cooperated with the Scotland dO\\·n and stand hre'lthle ss h· scenting Yard and the French and Belgian the spices and other thing' \\:hich speak ·Jolice in the greatest international tu him of the East and lar off ports .: rime drive in history. His n ~ w lll .veL ,,·here he longs to be . . Lough fiction of course. is so realistic, He is only twelve and hi s po o r mTrnne cann.o t help but feel it has its. \\'orkcd mother, though she used to lasis i11 fact. ha,·e drl'alll s her sc li. cannot tli hi :-, gtli ng e:l\\·ay tP sea. nut Sam take s mattcrs into his own han (ls and applies ior BEST SELLERS place as cabin hoy on the "\'entura." Fiction lf only the captain had taken him then! :\11 Quiet on the \\'estern Front, by It is \\'C \\·ho arc breathless no\\' - this Erich ~!aria Remarque ( Littk, \\C kllll\\' \\·ill decide the is sue . F ithn J ~ ruwn) . he goes to the land oi ach·cnture <'r the Rl)pcr's ]{lH\', hy \\'anrick Dceping long arm of reality rl'achl's out and ( Knopf). claims hi111 for its 0 \\'11. J t is the latter. ~~ r. Hes s is n o t a ( ~alaxy. by Susan Ertz (Appleton). I .aughing Queen, hy E. Barrington spinner ui yarns. hut a n ::ry pL·netrat ing and sincere rtc oq ntcr of liie. :\ Dodd, ~tcacl). 'I'hcy Stoopcd to Folly, by Ellen \\'him decides the captain agaimt it and this time it is through a blur o f ;Ja sgow (Dnublcday, Doran) . lim the Conqueror, by Peter B. tears that Samuel sct::"' tht: ship depart. The IIL'Xt year s are a long hare! grind :..:.ync (Cosmopolitan). for Samuel. Ad.\' c rsit\' follo\\·s harrl Non-Fiction upon ad\'l·rsity, as it ~-;o easily might Ilcnry \'lfl, by Francis llackl'tt in :-.uch surroundings. and Samuel is . Lin-right). firmh· caught in the arms of realit\'. .\rt of Thinking. l)\· Abbe Dimnct I 11 th-e end he has his chanrc to go ll- · : SinHlll and Schuster).as su oitcn happens it comes tou latL:. ~I ansiom of Philosophy. by \\.ill He i:- tirt:d. he has spent in the gr(lccry Durant (Simon and Schuster). husim·ss the high hours that \\'t're ~I en . and Machine':;, by Stewart meant iur the port · of ach·enture . Chase ( ~lacmillan). BL"Iien· It or 1\ot, by Robert Hiplcy BUY VALUABLE LIBRARY i Simon and Schuster) . One of the most valuable libraries Prciacr ·to ~forals, by \\'alter Lipp assembkd in Peru has heen bought 111:"1 ( ~1 acmillan ). in tact hv Du kt un i \·ersity and will he presern~d there for all time, making ··· and early bookers the institution one of the most important depnsitories oi l atin- :\mcrican take the best Cabins! histon· on this continent. The libran-. rulkcted ll\· Francesco PL·rcz dt \ . c·l asco. latc bibliophile of Lima, rtpre Short enough for -.ents the research of mor .: than twentv busy people-only n-ars and the expenditure oi t hml73 days. Yet all sancls uf dollars. It includes 3,000 volthe right places, tnnes. o ld newspapers, government with · time to ex· locuments. original manuscripts, and plore, shop, do the pamphlets which, according to historians, cann()t !Je duplicll.tecl. .\1 ost of the smart things. Eve.. hooks arc in the Spanish language, nings ashore in 1 Jut I ,a tin and French arc includ ed. 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