Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Sep 1931, p. 38

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ADVENTrURES IN .4 SUBURBAN GARDEN. Bi- Louise. BWeeWXi.l- jder. 'Macmillan conpany-; IReviewed W Verêsi McDersnid No officer af anv garden clubi should. do without. this complete haindbook Written _by 'the honorar 1 pÉesident.of the- Gardený club of Tlii nois. and former vice-president, ai tht- national councril of State Garden. Club, Lake Bluff. The -auth or gives a tho-rough ac- count of the organization ai a garderi clube, af its constitutions and, work- ing methods. She-,gives suggestions for programs. for financing the ClUl" and telII5.ho,. -ta planw and stage a flower showv. She aiso lists. sugges- tions for exhibits for flower shows. She describes and give- prograni Suggestions, for junior garden' clubs. Her chapter an judging points -in a flower show is particulariv helpful. That eaae Mrs. Fisher w rites, clearlv aànd con- ciscly. Her book is extremheiv well ph st put together. and garden clubs wi ivekôme' it with open arms ' S A. garden book of a diff erent km'!ý 2,6povai is that of ML\rs. W\iider's. "Ad%-enture-s »rO vl in a Suburban,(Garden.» %frs. Wilder probabiv' needs' no introduction a.z Ra>, her articles appear reguiariv in, a!! the garden maàgazinies.andr her pe vious books have been read b1) thousands af garder i aker>-. « Iii UNI. 2238 ber iatest book. she wvrites a delight- fl storv of the individtial o;es r the triliiitm. the h~cm.the chm ________!bine, the asters. roe, rchid,. n ,hundreds ai others. Hwvr e theme is the roct, garden. and s and %vhat h.e should notitnl that parý ti'cular kind of garden.-. Wi1lder has a deiight fui persouial stye. an her garden taie-s are ail lier ex~- ences with her own gardensi. > New One by CORE.Y FORD! Coconut 011 as funny as Sait Voater Taffy, and that'a saying a lot! A.is.nopf carnpany. -lThe author's titie, "*Shadow%%s on the, Rock,'" the happiest one yet, ýclies ta have behind it a philosophy of if e and of art toa). Are %ve but shadow,%%s pro- jected upan a scenie, whether the scene e ~be on thé plain s or on the sicipeaif*a iortress? Or are the men and wvomen, Avhom wve observe and wvatch every day orý whom wc. read. about ini aid hooks, but .shadouws ta us afier al?: Can, we a ~penetraîe- the, inner conscioujsncess and tell the world what, is going on in the mind.; WeiI, Miss Cather wilI do the best she can and leaveîhtatr her readers ta détermine 'hether she ever gets he- hind the shadows. She does flot fal inta the:aid fallacy of thinking that she b The #yanuscript of "M.Iin nie ,M1a3'- sees things as they are. Nýob1rdy knowvs * ozès Story and Other Talesan what they really are. She renders them * Scelies," John M.,1asefield's fords- as they appear ta ber, weli knowing that they mray appear tao thers differ- .coingboo o ~'rse hs ben e- entîy. Nothing (juite exists outside the ceivd ~' tie Mas~sl1ancompnv. mmd hatperceives, iniers, raas Tises e pcis are siithei traditior i Miss CaLther's ..mind has a ramantic of "Tise E:e;,rlàstieiqg Jfercv" '*anîd 'l TleWdwi>! -the Bye- Street," In the time of, which shu writes, in - ad ae agelv watedb~her latest novel, Québec was flot much ,mare than a village at two thousand !ozes, oUs ereandj': nglnJ, inhabitarits living on the lope of the *as the poct laiireates first ,btaok fortress and clown.by the. river,. Of - pzçseince his appoipitrnent. M1iss Cather's purpose is to tell about the. lu e:of the people on the rock-, far POETRY AND PET.By- Ther,- irom. home, Mast of aIl she divells esa ; Emenori ~r~îcn b upon. the mentality ai the ýimmigrants brar ~socitia, Cicao. ho brought into -the *wildernesý with brar 'asociaionChicgo.them. the ideas af a well-orderedý uni- Among th.e gr.çat poets ai ail ages, verse which had become fixýed >In their the American LibrarN Assojciation)i in a minids hy the teachinigs af the Cathejlic pamphlet, -Poetry and Pots,- just pub-i church when they were children in lished, finds place for three Illinais writ- France. God and the angels were al- ers, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, wvys near them in the beauty nf the and Edgar Lee Masters. The works Iardscape. in the sun and the moon. of these poets appear in a list ai 137 and the stars, and in the niany miracles v-olumes af the -chosen pocets, selected God wrought for. their happiness.. So. by- Theresa ' Elmendori. there \vas littie or no sickiness for the *Supplementary iists include anthol- home they had lef t beyond the sea. azies ane af which is compiled bY \hat was tragi.c in their lies s1 ep Harriet Monroe, another Illinoisan, well in the. baýkgun.Eeyhr boos aoutpoetry, and an arrangement the'co1ony 15 ibvested with apex by periods for those \vho wish ta use glamour by beautiful déscriptions aio the pamphletas a stdbutline-. the rock through the changing seasons Other living Americanis representèd 'af the year. on the list irclude Conrad Aiken. Edna T here is na study aichrctrins St. VincentMil, Edwin Arlington detail. There is nothing comparable ta Rohinson. Ezra Pound. and Robert the great missionary priests in "*Dcathi Frost. The iist. alSo includes trans- Carnes for the Archbishop." The tonte lations of the works aof.classical poets is subdued t67 a potic .atmosphere wbichi YOLJR I . 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