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SERVICE in .. . the Books You Dçay th. Books Yogi Rent Social S*atlon.ry Gre,"ngCj ards Dinewand lIgy Cords 1724 Orrlnotn A.. G. 0227 OningfoN Hom[el Bdg.. Evanstou ..A CLEARANCE 0F -FINE BOOKS .. W. :have u.lected a group ofnon- fiction fgrom ,our r.gularstoèk and b.v. nduod con slderably for this sale. Chauler'9 Foun*aln Square. Evansion Tbe scenes of the story are laid. against a varied- background, rangingi from the :proud conventionality and entrenicbed,,ecclesiasticism *, of :old Spain, through tbe, drippýng' jungle, ýof Soutb America, on to the liberty- Ioving but grossly comimercialized at- mosphere of Xe* York., SJose de Rincon, a young Spanish M" student, bas been ,exiled, from bis' home in Castile as a resuft of his, >liberal ideas on *religion and politics., He, eventually finds. himself in far-off. Simiti, on tbe edge of the « South American jungle. in Colombia. Here be encou nters 'Carmeèn, tbe waif of unknown antecedents., wbo is being cared for by ber native foster-father, Rosendo. Recognizing exceptional m~en tal and- spiritual powers in the child, Jose de- cides tô spend bis' energès in déel-~ oping tbem and iniplanting bis own liberal thougbt in Carnmen's facile rnid, then to send ber out to carry ber message to a suffering .world. hHis effort-s to accomplish this, and hs struggles to remain truc to bis' bighest ligbt, together witb Carmen's reactions to tbe worldliness, lust, and greed wbich she finds in our capital- - zed societv, constitute the cliief David Burnhom, formerly of Kenilworlh, ho,, recently had, pub- lis/ted his second nove!, "Wedditig Sang," which is a Iively modern story of a groupt of Amterican., e- siding i*n Veuice, Italy. The cur- rent opinion, hozuever, sceers to be that t/te bookt is fot as good as the auithom's first novel, "This Our Lxile." untortunately it is not nearly so une. It is one of those storiés that bas fine possibilities, but which bas flot been worked out carefully by the author, fer the style is loose and in- coberent; its purpose vague. In sev-, eral chapters Mr. Burnbam. reverts to .the *stream-of-cçonsciousness" method wbich does flot add anything at ail ýto the .story but rather leaves the idea that tbe author is trying to: be ."smnart." The, setting of Wedding Sông is Venice. with, its Grand. Canal, its cafés of the 'Piazza, and. the gay beaches of the Lido. Kit and, bis sister, Naricissa, are Amnerica.ns,,vwbo reside * in one of tbe Venetian palaces. Narcissa is mar ried to a Montefiore prince, "Monty,". whose dissipations and amorous inclinations are- a source of repugnance to b is wýife.. Other cbaracters in tbe storyý includ'e Nan- cy,, Kit's. wife, between wbom no love is lost; Beatrice, Monty's, cb arm- ing sister, . fresh fom a conivent- school; Blunt, Beatrice's Englisb fiancé, wbo is strangely 'aloof and taciturn; tbe Duchessa, Monty's- mother, and Roger McCready, a young American college boy just ont of Princeton. There are otbers, of course, but these are aIl immediately involved in the theme of 'Wedding Sané. It eventually turns out that Kit and Beatrice are in love with each other;, Blunt and Narcissa are in love, and Roger and Nancy run 'off together. The characters of tbis-boek--are living, breathing people; the plot is fine, romantic, 'and Most, skillfully bandled, and tbe literary menit is be- yond question. Tbe book is a well of haunting beauty, to wbicb one. turns again and again, rigbtly rank- ing witb the best and most fascinat- ing and readable of American novels. NO MATTER WHERE. By Arthur dian et 'he z'uerican Southwest in "Mesa Land." The object. of th e book is to introduce the laymnan very generally to 'the 'Soutbwest. It is more tban a guide book and less than. a text book, including both directions for tbe tourist and more, schola!!y archaeology. There are good descrip- tions of the modern pueblos and peoples -and of t'be ancient ruins, and wno at the opening of. the story lias just married again. This time he is wed to a beautiful actress-Barbara Gray by name. Tbey come to 'Europe on their, boneymoon. Wbile ini Paris,, Barbara and' Kit meet, are attracted to each. oth.er, and spend. the nigbt together, eacb unknown to the other. Kit finally getbis revenge on his father and everybody is happy. The story is told by Kit and Narcissa, wbich is rather a confusýintî wav. u QEEsDkBI - i ~ mva*so. d gladly received by' the treasurer, vrdSEA LEVEL' W. Richardson, Daresbury lodge, "Sea Level," the new novel .by Warrington, England. Anne Parrish, published on january S2, is tbe first book on Harper and escape, but who, like people lost in: Brothers' 1934 list. In ber new novel, the woods, go in a circle that.only, M,ý ?iss Parrisb set out to write about brings them back ,to: theïr starting men and women who, mn away to point. j IFWEYES