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* colt Co, SWISS FAMILY MANHATTAN. * By Christophier NIloriev. Newv York: HEADS WRITERS CLUB iieZ " laynes lrwin, is the nlewly elercted..présidenit ef. tlîkAutlior'sj lea gué. VALENTINtES I Pretty One* Clever Ones An&id Oh, Such Funny Onea I Place aN 11(1 'J'aIy Cmrds ftin 11.V;ilt*nt tue Party 1724 Orrington Avenue Evanston The autobiography of Clarence Darrow, foreniast criminal lawyer of his time, is fasciliating from so miany viewpoints that it may be honestly called of universal interest. One reader will find Jt absorbing as the detailed 'chronicle. of some of the rnost farnous criminal cases in' the. historyý of the nation. Ànother wiIl see it as the conipletely American story of a country .boy 1who roýse, through bis ownl efforts,,along t he rougi-est possible road, to interna- tional -fare. For another it wiIl be the tiltimate defenise of the underdog in modern society. Stili another will find it the bitterly candid philosophy of> a man withouùt:illusion s. It is al of these- and, more. Here. ,for' the first time, is .revealed the real Clar- ence Darro. As an autobiogr'pliv of events it over flowvs withi inturest. Here is, the * story of a youn.g lawy-er's car ly strug- gles, a colorful picture of ruiral courts ini tbe '80',,; the railroad strike rirots of-'~93 in Chicago anîd' the en- suing defense of Bugene Debs tîmat cbanged tbe wholc current of Dar- row's life; the Hiaywood-Pormeroy m.urder trial; the MýcNànlara dyna- rniting case; the [.oeb)-Lcopold trag- edy: thc Evoluition trial at Dayton. Tenn.. and.nanv other enisatiotial incidentsi told bv the man -wlo took the side against wvhicli pulblic opinion had-raiscdis n. - w But it is flot ic facts of ýýtiiese cases. tbrillitug as tlhey are, that mnlake lus story s0 absorbinlg. It is tlic rea- soli why Clarence Darrowv defended these nen and cauises that is of, para- mount interest. It is the ultiniate rev-. dlation of thc s oul of a loncelv, cour- ageous fighiter. LIFE 'WAS WORTH LIVING. By W. Grâai Robertson. Neùv York:' Harper & Brothers. To have been the friend, of Burne- jones .andi ofWhistler, 'of l-eniry James and Augustine Dalv, ofaili- liani Morris and Oscar Wilde, of El- enTery and Sarah Bern hardt was indeed to have nade the best-of bath) worlds. Y ork :l'lie Vîiniig Press. Ta miost Anecricans broughit up on the fare of the Sunidav featuires and pulp *magazines, the >Cauicasus. is a Forest of Ardennes, a Coast of Bo- heinia=a region m-here a ivthing nîay happeni. It so, chances tlîit thle, COUn- try betmween the. Black and_ C aspian seas is, reallv' a last. stronghold of a qucer kind of, tri ,bal feudalisin bat- t1lig agaiîîst the inroads. of -the Ma- chilin e age, onPtt-tolppilng ini rornautic curiOsitie.s the boldest iniventionis Of the feature writers The pr'ovince called ('aucastus is a vast -congloîn eratiin oet nîoutaînàii siopes and1( vallcvs. iinise forests. tielîs hiddeni and l)arrecd against readv acIcess hv stvéip, (leclivities-a hli- billy cotuntr.v surrenindcd hv strips of niaritimie flatla,îds. the: vlîele abott as large as thec Gernian Repuýblic, thougli flot nvlceasdncvpp nlated. The adinistativçceuîtr iflis.s an ultra-modern nietropolis, wlvih dcc- trie tramicars, railroad depots, a mvre- less station. telephone s and everv twentieth Ccîlturv YColive Iic,nii-- cluding the Iate st in acronlalltis. But at a distance of lcs, t.han thirtv ue frorn the metropolis, triblilife, undi(er a mide of pecttv tprinces, is stili fleuir- îshng.ltlia-,ieenleIitself and 'ils locallv "arving î>ectiliaritîes f1o ()r - ac tlv a hutndru<l vears- frein 182() te the end of thel&nîî(IIanoff,ý iniIi) agailist theiciivqtsion of Czarlist gov- ernnmcints, a.nd it stili presencits a toî thloglh not exactIl il ian ubr<îkeîî frott îigaiuiSt the levelliig. taurln tenldenicies of the t~sîukrgne POETRY :CONTESTS Thle Seconid* Aýtinual National Poe- trv SpieakingFestival sponist re(l hy cri uiniversity, wvil l )e hld(on01thle U'vaîîstoii campu)ts-,,Marchi 24 and 25 .\ddr.ess ail conuuîîîiicatiois 'te ý-C()m- inîttee. Pe)etry, Spcl)a<iiuî,Festiv~al,"' ScI-tool ()f Speech of Nertliwe-stcrmn Th'le )octrY contost of thue N11>î skà \\rriters,' Guild is opt ;LIl, w1lutlir4 RY. Edited by Edward J. O'Bmieni. New York: Dadd. Mead & Co. THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STO- RIES 0F 1931. The sanie., Mr. O'Bmien.' now one of Anieri- rais literary ,insgtitutions.' rests bis reputation upon bis. unerring punec- tuality, bis un.doubtable, assiduous- niess,. bis statistical'ge nius., and bis controversial judgnients. EveryV year snethe World wý,ar hie lias lîIa4 v olume ,Of the "best" short stories of 'the vear. prepared, whetler- the publishers would take, tleni or inot (,nost of the time thev have). In the American l ook: arc sorne good ones. and also sôîne, bad 'ones.. Three, of them corne f romi the Sat- urday* Evening Post: one of XVilliani ýHazlctt Upsoni's salesmiani stories. about eartbworm tractors. -in whichi Salesrnan Bô'tts gets rid of yet. an-. other 'tractor in Italy; a vision ary and unusual sea -story, hy ('puy Gil- patrick; and a nemw one hy F. Scott Fitzgerald about an Aniçrican situa- tion in Paris. one of ',se\,rai, stories about. expatriates chosen bw NMr.. O'Bfrien.. Mr. O'Bricnis tabulation o ~îls short stories seins sinmnier, aithougli flic separation of t1*îîglislh froni Amier- ican seenis quite arbit'rary seietinies. Anyhiow. ih seenîisthmat. niodern I Eng- lishi stories ar.e taking ou fhelic Aen- can ige, andi becoining readable. Mr. O'Briein s tavorite Englisli imaga- zincs are the L.ondon Mercur-Y (six stories'), This Quarter (tlirec sturies). the Adeiphi, andi the New Stattestimani. Two s-tories corne. froni the (los- niolp,-litani: ant excellent one bv Louis. Bromfielid, prol)ably thîe lest storv i. the book, and a sketch Of soeôÇ new- lywcds. by Dorothy Parker. Kenilworth Man W'rites Prologue and Epilogue By P.-H. Iiiý a l arge and very inhiposinig volt une recently issuied and entitled *'Ci- cago and Its Makers" is fouind a prologue and an epilogue. written by The book is %written in an casily read journalistic style and at the front of it is a iaudatamy intradumtion which says. that the stir.ies are 'al truc. The' author of the introduction i.s the tabloid ..Mirror's custodian Of the truth,: Walter ' Winéhell. me~ lilaIl (is. oi tlemagazines tiîatý were formerly called literarv. The typjical magazinie essav 110w is a sort of exteî1ded editorial. 1h 'tol)ic î" current. ht is ail about todlay and to- nîarrow. about liere and nov. Miss .Repph)ler's toliies a're various aspects, oddities. problenîs of Aimîri can life. Sle is mot al n entusiastý for them ail. It is. unfashionable at pres - priatet ilt very clorfui and appro- af %%ritinzL, and deserves .s,)ecial praise. cnit ta be such for any of themn. Thle first essay in the volume, "Town aiid- Subumb," argues that neither the big city not its suburbs are as à.atisfac- tory places for ciMiized living as'tlie. aidl smaii city used to be.' stores.,