Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Jul 1935, p. 32

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LI ~ ;e two rec o: ,be la SeOnd Puhi.fig Masrch Coses new novel, rlhc Dar,& Glass, bas just gone inte a secondprint- ing, lthough it was published only on Monday, june,17. Tva. nCeRnti Mark Twan was: an American found by English writersto be ïn- comparably great, to be, -ini fact, tbe greatest prose writer in the last bal of the nineteenth and in the twentietb Because be 'vas of a hxigh and brave intellect, because lie had a bumor as. deep a nd as truc as tbe buman ýheart and because be. bad struggléd wjth life, he was.a great. man. So his works are great.-- SAs a centennial celebration to bis wish that bis works might be made readily ava~iable at Iew piwiee there i. to bc offered soon a- set_-of ten vol- umnes, his most famous works, at a remarkably low price-ten dollars for the entire group. Tbis Centennial Edition is one wbich will grace any library.' At Chandler's, on Fountain Square, orders for this set will bc filled as sou») as thce'books are ready.-Adv. TTIEWRflRS Rupareul I ______Rntd i 116e Ogwm.,t.u ago and sufered a set back during the summer's first beat wave. .He died at a nursing bome. at the, age of 68. The fune ral ivas held last Satur- day in Dublin. AE was botb a poet and an econo-. mist-a dreamer and a practical busi- ness , man. He badl assisted in, the fa- mous Abbey theater in Dublin. paint- -da-great deal and worked energeti - cally as a 'business man organizer, and edtor. He bad bit upon bis pen name, AE, accidently when *be had used the signature "Aeon" in -one of bis carliest works. When the- printer. .coid decifyher only the first two let-_ ters Russellt decided to. adopt. tbe pseudonvnî in literature. Wben be was, in.bis late twenties AE publisbhed bis first book of poems, 1894. His spiritual m'ysticism found an immedjate place anmong poetry loyers. His iarzt book, "H4ouse of the, Titans and Other Poems,'" appeared lu 1934. Although bis life was an extremeiy active one he was à strong advocate of idleness.. Popular Italian Autkor Pens Biography of Dane DANTED VIVO. By Giovanni Papini. Authorized translation from the Ital- Ian by Eleanor Hammond Broadus and cento. izere we nave 111V youJig poe making rhymes for Beatrice, the citi- zen who fulfilied the duties of public office, the ambassador wlio heid lis ground in thé presence of Pope Boni- face, the patriot who dreamed of u'i- versai empire, the exile wlio died as solitary as be had lived. Above al *we find again the poet-tbe poet freed from the dead weigbt of erudite cern- rnentary that bas alinost buried him a The Partnersh4' is the story of the relationshjp betwéen two com6leteiy different types of. wonen-Annice with hier, iack of any moral sense and her srn love of- life, *and Lydia who by ber very. fineness'seemis to: alienate life from her. Lydia's drame, does lot begin. until she meets Annice,; in. compiarison with. Annice's overriding passions, and their reverberations, Lydià's own love affair seemis tepid; whetber.she tries to. heip Annice -wbether, she turns against bier, wheiher she sacri- fices berown love or tries to save it- wbatever she does sems only to heip on Annice's story., It is as if Lydia were a minor character, in a play. Annice piays al ber big scenes with- out'Lydia, but as soon as sbe ineeds beip, as .soon as the plot needs moving on, as, soon as' life, seems, about to fail her then Lydia's cue souîids and she is ~rcaled o the stage. The scene of this. novel is laid in Yorkshire,, the setting of botbh ilserit-. ance and-A Modern Tragedy. Miss Bentley .igain shio's lier keen under- s ta r in g o f p e o p !e a n d h ie r p o w e r o f .> Mary Pickford to Have Firs1 Novel Out Soon Adding to bier establislied accom- plishments of acting oun the screeli, the stage. and the radio, Mary Pickç- ford lias re.cently authored a novel îvhicli wili be brouglit out under thie titie of The Demi- Widow. For some time Miss .Pickford lias been diligently pursuing the literary muse. It begail witli an article deai- iiig with bier idea of riglit tbinking, nuhlishied by Liberty some timne ago. Witb this as starter Miss Pickford, turned to a book entitled Whv' Not Tri, God? now a best-seller -in the non-fiction field. Her short story called The Little Liar was publisbed by Good Housekeeping. The' Demsi- xamnous. trcher-bhec case. now ian Colvm gSots on wlth the stirring'story, Qf Carsoôn's leadership of the 'Irish Unionist Party - bis struggles with Asquith and, John Redmond on- the Home Rule question; b is brilliant speeches before the House of Lords: the, raisng of the Ulster army of 100,000 znen;î the gun running and the "znutinïy." And when the reader cornes to the first of .those, notes from As- quith to, Carson marked Very Secret and Very Privale and Confidential he feeli that he is actually 'in the wings. watching a great. draina. Thenthere is the Marconi aifair, in which Carson gcted as co unsel for bis political opp onents-but Carson's work leading and intensifying. Uister's résistance to the separatist plans of. the Irish Natiofialîst formns the core of this. book. Lord Carson, lawyer,, orator. and fighter, would neyer surrender a prin- ciple for a victory. What might have happcned if the shot had flot been fired at Serajevo, bringing temporary unity among the Engiish and Irish to meet a foreign foe, leads to excit- ing surmises as this volume ends with the outbreak of the war. The author bas been assisted by Lord Carson who turned nuinerous. documenits over to him, and discussed with him the evénts of this peuriod- and Mr. Colvin acknowledges Lord Carson's patience in '."Ieaving to the blôgraplier the free<lom of bis own opinions, ev en when he disagreed with thecm. The Author's Fathor Clarence Day's ncw book--"mucb bis most ambitious work,.to date," will be.published on August. i1 under tlie titie of Life With Pather. It is a full-length book dealing entirely with the author's father-character who is already known to readers of The New Yorker and other maga- nov's t'iw novel is 1imostcomiet an-d will be ready in tiime for publica- Summer Publications tien in the Fail. Tliis new novel 1y the author of And Quiet Plous the New editions of Mabel Dodge Lu- Doit is as yet untitled, but it i- han's Lorenzo in Totîs, Walter Nie- said that is is a novel of the Cossacks mann's f3rahm sand . Frank Town- of the Don~ region but wbolly unre- send's larth.wiil be publisbed tbis sum- iated to the. previous. book. mer. A new one-volume edition of Sigrid Undset's' Kristin Lavrcnsdat fer. , wilI be pubiislied on August 1. . The new edition was dcsigned by W.' A. Dwiggins, entirely reset, and printed, frmnW plates, I d by

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