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38 ,_ Wilmette J700 . WILMETTE LIFE January 31. 1930 J ~ COMMENT on BOOKS and AUTHORS . ,, fUVNfAIN SQVAR[. · LVAKUON BOOK SHOP The Story of San Michele Axel Munthe The Life Story of a Famous Doctor Dutton ~ Co . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.7 5 Doings of Gotham Edgar Allen Poe Special Edition With a Preface, Introduction and Comments Thomas Allive Mabbott Jacob Sp~nnurh . . . . . . . . . . S r o The Raven Marquis James A Life Story of Sam Houston Bobbs -Merrill Co. . .... .· ... $5 The Meaning of Culture John Cowper Powys Norton ~ Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . $3 Good-Bye to All That Robert Graves Jonathan Cape-Harrison Smith.$ 3 Creative Power Hughes Mearns Doubleday Doran ........ $ 3. 5o Science and the Unseen World Arthur Stanley Eddington Macmillan Co. . . . . . . . . . . $ r. 2 5 EDWARD P. The Life Story of H. R . lugical prophe,cy of the future of Eng- that expand. the famous Virgilian dt1x femina facti. H., the Prince of Wales. By Evelyn land wit :1 such a man in power. A n Graham. Ward-Lock and Co. mteresting side of the por'tion · dealing STAMPS· An Outline of Philateh·. B_,. with the Prince's travels is the com· (Rt:viewed by Alice Kirby) ment on the American attitude, "They Kent B. Stiles. Harpers. Chosen for entertainment, "Edward ·Princed' me so much that I had the Recent vears have seen the alrea:-lv P." is welt worth the time spent in !:Teatest difficultv in refraining- from "query ha-rassed" par.ent being pl:ed r~ading it. httt, since England and the h~rking !" said the Prince on his tour still further \Yith an entirely new set of in the United States. Part of the questiom. How are stamps made? United States are so closely allied poli- Prince's popularity here is due to the \.Vhat is ~ watermark? What is moire :ically, it would seem fitting that 1'·e {; 1 ct that there is a "permanent affec- paper? What is pelure paper? \Vhat <lvail ourseh·es of this opportunit~· of t:on that republics have for the pic- <'.re approval sheets? And a thomand 41 cletermini!1):! what type of man is des- turesque title s and personalities of (Jl.her ";,·hats" and Whys" ah·:. ut tined to rule the former. It is doubt- European monarchies." One other in- stamps, the general unexnectednes') of ful if many of us have a concrete iilea teresting comment of the author: "The \';hich only a child could propou;1d. <·f Edward P. Perhaps all we d o kn .l\\' rower of the printing press waxes as ~ ' his rising wave of curios ity concerpis that he sets a style in dress and has the power of. the wine press wanes, and i11g the greatest of all hobbies has a habit of falling off horses, stories I in America the intoxication of print created a demand for books that \\'ill vvhich m~y be facts or may merely has in many cases to act as a suhsti- !>tern the tide with knowledge. have been manufactured for their news tute for the more kindly intoxication An ard t nt stamp "fan" him se lf. ~{ r. y<.}ue. \) t certain beverages. American papers Stiles has had ample experience "ith Mr. Graham unlike mam· hiog- thus supply intimate details of the lives the complexity of question s to be anraphers, writes' what he kno\~S to be : of. any visitor or res~dent which co.n- swered. For the past fifteen years he fact, and omits, as in the case of a I tam any of those attnbutes of. the PIC- bas he en answering those que stion .:; in t~~~e rife among .Oxfo~cl. stucle1.1ts .. any- t';lresque or unusual, .that, smc.c tl~e the stamj) columns of !he Youth's C1 .nt~111ll! unauthentic. H1s style IS s1mple \ olst~ad Act, arc S? vrtally lackl~g tn I nanion and the Amencan Bo~. and informal anrl his descriptions vivid i the hfe of the nuddle-class mtddle__ and in man\' instances colorful. due to I\\' est." KALEIDOSCOPE. B\· Elt:an or F ;tr ftequent State occasions demand~ng I --jcon Kew York:· Frederick .\ gala .array. The" reader is t~ken from DIDO: QUEEN OF HEARTS. By Stokes Co. tl~c mfancy of Edward P. throug.h I GertruLlc Atherton. )Jew York: Tn the frame of a delicate metap 1·nr. Ins. ~chool ~ays. at Da:tm.outh. hiS I . · . . ·~ which give" her hook its name and pat· ' Horace Ln en~;ht. 'f' F.l F · 1 ·. r . tJ·ammg ::!." nncbh1pman, h1s lttc at Ox- I f 1 1· · 1 1 d <\ · ~{ t\ ttrn, ·' 1 s~ . eanor arjcon 1as ~ct .1c r Drc,. 11s war scrvtcc, trave ~ a )rOJ · , . . gam 1' rs. . t 1 1erton turn s a·.vay ~roup of ~ales ab out one Antlwny. hnth ~nd hf.e ~t home. The whole ts treated 1;·01.11 the. pre se n.t scen.e to a past t'l~- <iS a littl~ hcH" puzzling at life' s nrl d 111 a~ mt~mate way ~e<:ausc of the flU~!mned ~~.~ clas sical. ltterature. Tin s 1 n!ixture of re~11ih· and r'anc\· and a~ an th~r s c1ose a~soctatwn w1th the 1 t1m.e La .tn pnetry. ts the alt~r u~on im )ractinl Youn~· man bent ·u 011 e~ca lC 1 Pnnce. If. ~t t1n~es .. the reader feels whtch sl.ie lays t.nhute. l.1cr h1 ston :al to~yard bea-ut\·. · The storic: arc c~accounts :1. htt preJudiced, he also feels t.Ovel he1ng cspcc1alh· de. tgned tn celc· 't 1 . . ·1 ·t 1 II 1 t tl · . .11 1t · eas1'l v paretona II · · 'II en1um · ·o f \ 1'1r~1. .1 1 · "1e I qms1I' e · ' "·~'~f en an< a<< ·t > e O\\· mgto t 1 1e I>:-ate t I1e l>IIlli l M' ec Fn · 11s l'rincc's- . . plendid character · and Jh!r- e:-;pancls the .i~nei<l's epis~cle of D:do 1 °~·e me ss 0 T wo.rc s. t. j" ~q et' n so nalit\'. \\'e are also fa,·nrahh- im- and :i·:nl'as, the first romantic love 1 J:'tli~ t' a t~mt mg trony anc a ent c- r J:ressc(i \\·ith the Royal family ei1tente story of Grceco-Roman antiquity. The sop 11.s tea wn. ~1. nd their llemocr:1tic ways. :-nbtitle, "Queen of : f earts." is aot Tl~ls Anthony, bny ancl .man. hart a After · cnll\'incing chapters on the fdicitou .. ~n it~ rather merry sugges- kctleldoscr.pe and thrn.ugh tt rh~ lo(lked f'rincc' s ;"thilitY as a statesman and as rivcness. FPr ~frs. Atherton's Dido is r.t the \\")rld about hun. \\ htle th\re ;l bu. iness man, the last chapter i.:; a tiS royal and regal as \ irgil's, with a a_re casual gestures !'toward ~ - Fairy nature attuned to a tragic destiny Codmotl~er and a \\ t~ard, _M1ss Far: rather than to light adventures. She JCOn ne\ er leaves us 111 an~ doubt a. does, indeed. command the hearts of b the ~rue source of encl.1antment. many men- her Tyrian husband, the The ~ancy of An~hony has httle n ~e d I goddess-horn hero of Troy, the black Gf \\'tz.ard . A Wizard c~n change a king of Libya, her prime minister in l:ouse mto .a cat or a cat t.nto a hot~~e. Carthage- hut there is no smiling play hut there ts ~ finer magtc than ~ 11at in their ;)assions or her own. r.ere, full of wtsdom and tcndernes~ a-; 'I'I 1 b · 1 k f tl r · \\·ell as the marvellous and heauttful. 1 1e nove cgtns )ac · o 1e £Lne1c, A nc1 th'1s magtc · nses, · tl 1111 · as tl1e s t earn 1 · · · tl l'f f D'd tl :1 nd nna~llles 1eh 1 e o 1 o- h ·en f rom a wttc · 1 ' s b rot 1 f f ra!Y1le · . 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Published by I Lord'·-Book· Jwt Inside the · W11t Davit Strett Door lJRINL EYES f.OR y'OUR THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY · BosToN, U.S. A. 408 Pages - 18 Illustrations Cloth Edition: $3.00 Jlav be purehaled at aftd Jeadtftg deparlmeftt ·tore· an book·tOf'e· FIELDS. By Elizabeth Inglis Jones. Minton, Balch . Miss Jones writes of her natin' \Vales, of the sturdy peasantry that have for immemorial generations lived on the harsh, d.amp slopes of Cardiganshire. The conflict which is the back· hone of the novel results from the marriage of a prosperous Welsh rustic and :: girl from an urban. civilized part of Fngland. The English girl no sooner sees her husband's homestead and nis fricnrls than she tries to make them over according to her own notions· of I rr<?priety. and ~harm. Naturally there , JS nnmedtate d1fficulty; the man grow:. brutal, drinks to excess, and finaJ·) seeks comfor~ with a spi~ited young g·trl of the ne1ghhorhood whom he han I jilted to marry his English wife. Th1~ Welsh girl, Gaynor, is represented as · Ci~l that is .good and noble, and is obviously M 1ss Jones' ideal of womanhood. The novel as a whole is not so gloomy ~n~l austere as its title sugge:;ts. .1\.ath~r, ·l IS a pa-an for the simple lite, the s1mple pc<_>ple of Wales, as agaLlst the 1~1ore cul.t1vated way of life of the l·.ng.hsh provtnces or the city. The real t;:1ent of the .novel .lies in its descript.orys of Card.1ganshtre, and in its portraits of the lower middle class and p<:asantry of central Wales. ~ STARVED ·