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Order ie i Itoia ow THE. LIFE0F OUR LORD be Charles Dichens 11.18ý PMubhILrd Fist Tira, on M«y zgh. 1784 Ornlngtoms Ave., Evauston .1:Gré., «27 THESLAE SHIP ofý Pros ler Méimeé , A Trýagedy in.Black end White Newly translated with m»n isitroducti on by ELIOT FAY liEus:retiens by ,RATË ROWLAND $2 IChaier's Fountain Square, Evanston est. And yet there, 15 80 miicnof wortfl Iandwisdom and sheer entertainmient in *A Backward'Glansce, that it is sure.to appeal to a general, audience. in tbese brilliant remainiscences the Iyears roll back upon scenes and people Jthat glow, witb so miucb ricbnegs and vi-, tality and are viewel witb so mucb WIs- dom that the reader speedily- loses him- self- in Mrs. Wbarton's active world. Her world, bas been tbe spacious. one of. a côsmopolitan, social life and of the literary circles of Amnerica and Eu rope during tbe past baîf -century. Depicts Author'. Career The book is crowdecl witb observations on the sdciety of New York, London, and Paris, witb intimate glimpses ofpromi- nent figures,. and it is alsô the story of the career of tbe artist, of bow The Age of Ininocenice. Ethan Prorne, Tite Hou.çe of, Mirth, and other m»asterpieces, were written. Interest in this portion of the volume will be natural enougb, for Mrs. Wbarton's work bas always been ber life. and through ber work, she bas won a place as one of tbe greatest contemporary writters. Brouebt up ini the graciouis, fashion- able "Old New York" s0 often des- cribed in ber novels-the picturesque Manhattan of Dutcb and Colonial orig- ins--sbe is able to draw f rom ber early memories delightful pictures of TraveIsJ Extensively Wbile very, young, sbe was -taken, abroad. Thse old-world colors of nine- teentb century Ronme, thse beauties of. Spain's Alhambra, Paris in thse days of thse Einpress Eugenie-these sigbts were ,inspressed on her mitd and stirred ber imagination. Subsequently, sbhe spent much time abroad, in England, on the Riviera and in Florence and Venice. Finally, after establishing an Anserican home in the seclusion of tbe Berkshires, she decided to settle per- NÇ .4 draming by Elsa.Hart ntof Sheila Kaye-Siiith, whose new novel, ".Superstition Corner,'was I'ublished by Harper and Brothers on W-dnieçday of this week. Receives Award Howard Vincent O'Brien of Win- tietita, a:ttiember of, the Ch icago Daily News staff, was recently given the award of the Chicago Foundation for Literature for outstanding ac- complishment in journalism. The award was male at the annual ban- quet of tbe Foundation held April 23 at the Blackstone hotel. The poetry award was given to Lew Sarett, and the prose one to Carl Sandburg for bis "Abraham Lincoln; the Prairie Years." The awards, which consist of $200 each, Dr. "Preston Bradley was, master of ceremonies at the banquet. Ansong those at thse speaker's table were Harriet Monroe, Vincent Star- .ett, Dr. Louis Mann, Dean Ralpb> Den nis of. Nortbwestern universitýy, Llewellyn jones, Lloyd -Lewis, Susan Wilbur, Tbornton Wilder,I Mrs. Carl Henrickson, president of tbe foundation, and Lewis E. Ber-1 nays, British consul-general in Chi- J%% e0%<*/%* (y Jv* 44Fy lJ% foirJU( A new translation of Prosper Mé- rimée's noted story, The Slave Ship, by Dr. Eliot G. Fay. lecturer in Ro- mance languages at Northwestern university, has just been publishied by the: Nortbwestern university hi- brary. With an introduction by the autiior and illustrations ini black 'and white by Kate Rowland, this translation i5, limited to a first edition of 300 num- bered copies, whicb may well1 become a collectors' item. Story la vUniversal Wben a story bas retained suffi- cient, vitality to be. read constantiy for, over a bundred years in itsig- inal language, and to be- translated repeatedly inito other languages, that story must bave a timeless and uni- versai appeal. Sucb is the story of "aag whicb is told in ýEnglish under the titie of "The Slave Sbip." The'oig inal, "Tamango" appeared inï 1829 in the Re7we de Paris. The transiator, Eliot Fav, bas.i "The Slave Sbip," produced so per-, fect a piece of work that the Englis,,h version seems as mucb bis own cre- ation as the French story does- that of Mérimée. Mr. Fay bas flot only captured tbe style of the originalbut, actually reproduced its atmospbere., at the saile time rendering ýthe aul- thor's text with absolute idelity. The titie "The Slave Ship' is a, le- gitima.te adaptation of "Une revolte sur' un negrier," under which title "Tanian- go' appearéd in Mosaïque (a col lection of Mférinée's stories) in 1833. The translation' follows ail -896 edition of. Mosaïque, Has Congo Spirit >he story itself contains the univer- sal human elements of life and love.* struggle and deatb, woven into the.sub- jugation of race by race. The spiritý of the Congo Which ap- pears. so realistic ailelenient i "The Emperor Joues" of Eugene O'Neill ef-, feètually ripples' the surface, of "The Slave 'Sbip." Captain Ledoux, coin- mander of the slaver, Holpe, is a lit- erary brother of Captain Bail, wbho ap- pears in the prelude to "John Brown's rit y, at the t Ewill cnan that have ai newspapers., which is not yet comlIet a ne* collection of poemn ppeared ini magazines an, 1 l ion mmse thse scene. 4iJ* me5 aina 8i5zatio i . legends. of old England, IESSÂYS ON AMEItICA anl Scottish origin. These Van W'Vwk Brooks bas jùist returned n be beard over WEAF to Westport, Conn., after two months' y evenings at 10:30. Mr. vacation ini Alexandria, Virginia. His troduces each dramatizar' new book, rhre E.&ays on. America.ý and sets the mood and wilI be- published by E. P. Dutton and coinpany May 2&.