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c mis l tagUmery ITSPARTY> TIME! Dinncer Cardo end. Tallies f or eVery occasion 1724 Orerington Ave. Gr*. 0227 Orringlon Hotel Btdg.. Evans on, MODERN LIBRARY, THE MALTESE FALCON by DASHIELL HAMNMETT author of The Thin Man The Glass Key MODERN LIgRARY 95e- Chanmd1er'S Fountain Square Evanston Sheila Kaye-Smith is weill along with a new novel to take up the later fortunes of tbe famous Alard family. She is planning ber first lecture tour in. tbe United States next year. Francis Brett Young, wiIl. have a*,new novel. bis faîl, dealing..with Eniglish life, in a section intimately con- nected with the autbor's youth. Rose M acaulay, is at work on a new novel, and J B. Priestley bas finisbed a book on life and conditions in- the English provincial towns to- day. Aldous Huxley bas settled down at bis home in the soutb Of France to finish bis new novel.. Amonig.the new writers Mr. Saxton brought to the Harper* list, are Ivor Brown, who wrote "I Commit to the Flames," a brillia nt and slashing: at- tack on modern foibles 'in art and literature. -Henry de Monffried, who wrote "Secrets of the Red' Sea," Charles Braibant, author of "Le Roi Dort," one of the mos distinguished of modern French novels, Jack Lin- say, whose "Rome for Sale" is a re- creation of the days of Cataline. Hei also announces for fail publicationi Curtis -Brown's "Reminiscenices" whi'ch promises to be one of the. richest records of personal adventuresi with -books and authors by an inter-q nationally known literary agent. Loui s Adamic's Book people. That the need for more in- formation on this subject may be met, 'writers, lecturers and publishers are busy supplying it. The Renais- sance Society of the University of Cbicago bas undertaken the publica- tion of a geries, of three, books, to be issued by the Ulniversity of Chicago Press,, "for 'the purpose of. clarifying, Modern Art.. The three books, pro- posed are a completeapproach to the problems involved, without being either encyclopedic. or superficial.",So runs a statemenit in the prospectus. It further says: "These three books-on modemn art areaddiressed to those who. are interested in the art of to- day-the specia.list, the' ildy- per- plexed, those anxious* to extend. their appreciation of 'past forms into the present,, the :amused, the curious." Compile'Art Lecture& The, books- will be made up, of lectures g 1ivenin The Art Institute of Chica- go, at The Arts Club and at The Renaissance Society.. Volume I will deal. with "Plastic Redirections. in Twentieth Century Paining,' by James Johnson Sweeney, formerly art critic of the New York Times and the author of many critical essays on art. Mr. Sweeney spent many, years in Paris, in close contact with, the leaders of the modern art Inove- ment. Some of the questions answer .-1 ed in the book will be: é"XVhat have painters been attempting to do in the last thirty years? What is Cubism? Surrealisme? What is the position of Cezanne in the modern develop- ment? 0f Matisse? 0f Picasso? 0Of Modern Art Explaied Volume Il, will be devoted to "The Mýeaning of tJnintelligibili.ty in M-\od- ern Art." It is a lecture given by Edward Francis Rothschild, " a schol- ar who seeks the seholar's solution to the paradox expressed in the title." MNr. Rothschild is a Professor in. the Department of Art in the University 'of Chicago. Some of the questions answered are: "Is the artist a meta- physician? Is there a relation between art and science? Art and politics?ý Art and' industry? Can thé uintelligible I have, meaning?" .tl,. L"dfl fl *SUILLf. 4C.*t*S * new books. Charles 'Morgan, author of The Pountain, is. rapidly completing bis. as yet untitled new novel, wbich Macmillan will publish during 1935; Vera Brittain (author of Testainent of Ycêuth) and Winifred Holtby (au- thor of Mandoal Mand(oa!) are eacb at work ona novel for publication in 1935, and John« Masefield, whose Bira of. Da-n ing bas been a recent best- seller, is writing another novel of the sawhich will probably be ready this, fail. R. C. Ashby,,author of that original mystery story,. He Arrivjed at Dusk,, will have ready for fal Publication a new detective novel entitled Out Weit the Taper. Coming To U. S. A. G. Macdonell-.whose witty story 'Eitgland,,Their En gland, bas just been awarded the James Tait Black Me-, rnorialprize-is coming to, America in, October. to gat her mat.erial for :a book about ris which will undoubted- Iv be quite as humorous as his book on the Englisb. (MNr., Macdonell's lively account of .Vapoleon. and Hlis. * Xarshals wvas published bY Macmillan, on. March 27.) H.* E.* Bates has won distinction by' his short stories (a volume .of'tales entitled The Wonan lf'i Had Imi- agination îs, just out- in England and winning high praise) and lie is now. at work on a, novel. Among the important books; by authors new to the Macmillan list. is a novel *by Doris Leslie entitled Full Flavouir, which %will make its ap- pearance in the earlyv autumn. It ýis a long mellow story of a woman 's life, set agains t a rich and ev.er2' changing background, and. runn ing roughly from 1850, up to 1914. Mm\I. Latham believes th.at MIrs. Leslie is; a. discoverv of considerable impor 1t- ance. Macmillan will also publish a most unusual short novel calle . Dewi on ýthe Grass,,by Miss Eiluned Levis., .the literary edit or of the London Timtes. Charles Morgan has writt'en an introduction to the storv in wbich he likens it to Kenneth Grahame's work. Fali Publication Other new novels for fail publica- tion are Four Gewerations.*b.y Naorni YE s ing of the P. E. N. class of the Chi- cago Woman's club-. Mrs. Love bas been invited to lecture before a grôup of studénts from Oglethorpe univer- sity, Georgia, who will, visit the World's Fair this summer. The l ec-, ture will be given on the fair grounds during the first weekinJulýy. I