Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Apr 1933, p. 36

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'RAVEL DfOOJIS2 I I. You ç'an fravel in g@ed com- pan.ny6wh.r. fom Pasf. Tlmnbto@-.nd rigI* in your 4w i6r*q vêLa.. 4p -te $5, $1 Fou,*alin Square any change. And window-snoppers are highty'coveted by the prideful shop-keeper;, their attention is as flattering as that of a 'god hsener"'. So, onerainy* and other.Wise ýuseless S$undayr,. the.spirit of the "new deal"' asserted itself i the Chestnut Court. book m iorium. Destruction prevailed for an ýhour or so.- Everything came out of the window and much was tbrown away.. Even the. littie Dickensý pririts of. which I arn so fond, were taken down. (They were later hung in another part ýof tbe, shop; no new deal> could force me. to consignfi THEM 't07 t he oblivion of a cuphard!) Finalily, con- fronted with what suddenly* seemed like an appalling amount of space, we began te reconstruct. We proved, incidentally, that a person doing the word-a society novel, far re- moved f rom the modern myster), story, itdocs yet contain a fhystery, whose solution, at the extremne end of the. book possesses distinct values. The plot through which the.ichar-. acters move iW complex, but well con- structed and adequately handled. Its central feature is the love affair of' an oider man---with peculair diffi- cuities of his own---and a eharming young girl, genuine on bhis side but with a high ulterior motive: on bers. With, courage Miss CbarIesworth breaks through this false situation and étbers as well, assu ring to the. girl her life with the boy of bher own age who loves ber, and straigbtening out whatever, cani be.adjusted in the tangled situations that have de- recelved for her birthday. T ' héevCflts that follow deal- with tbe' writers borne-life and ber univers itylife, and then thé "reign of :horror." The ac- counts of the revolution that -we bavre from refugees in Ameraca lead us ýte, believe that even the "most horrible tales- told about the, Bolsheviks. are not *exaggerated. Gleb Botkin, son of the physician to thé late Cz ar,: writes a - foreword tQ the book in wbicb lie says tbat this is the best bookabout the Russian rev- olution that has 'et, been, written. There is also inserted! in the book a sworn affidavit frôm Alya, Racbman- ova tesifying to the autbe.tticity of the expériences whicb she narrates, and also an affidavit f rom the Ger- mnln nubihIhr of*6the bok etmran he embarks upon ie came in ti the once1 were cavere Evansfon liUL bIne floor- inl 31 iheavy ter- due. en a brand- Ssheif took De d that had .On and ith the aid A bookp bce given 'l The a ture of Iuniversil mer gives a fascinating pic- issian bourgeois life and of life in those carefree but ;s serious days of 1916- was a member of the pro- lligentsia and a student of olutionarv 1eanings. Her the tront and teuic 1k Uot UVIo '-anten foreign be shown at once. -them have b That is the actual play-by-play ac- motion pictur count of our window revolution, but It is signil that i. only the beginning. The exhibit month befort of books will change every Monday first five Chz mlorning. Next week, for instance, House Witb( will be devotedte travel books, (with. nese Parrot' 111411 bý who was til îand ugly, but languages, and foutroff mysterious and'jnteresting; she mnar- been ruade the basis for ried a Chinese doctor (whom she left res. seon after tbe wedding) and later ficant that Iess than a joined the f.amous Soviet organiza- -e bis death Mr. Bîggers iion, tbe. Tcheka. Then there was irlie Chan stories, 'The Professor Weidle, tbe French teacher, iout a Key," "The Cbi- and the students, Vadim and Arkadi "The Black Camel," who were in love wïth *Alya. Tbe- mat Curtain." "Charlie ,;lt a ,,. ,%i ,j. rh*ý*hýA .1 4 ' Po a Chicago business Ich Ix, r, Jenny, tuns tas tes.

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