~'~MlR Cam h 79 F~.Iv.d *1ws9c M lorers gaven spia MARS$HALL FIELD COMPANY EVANSTON STORE to sSe what 1lay between the covers of ber latest novel, Paster! PasýterI!., : It ià only bonest to say the ýoutcome. was -disappointin.Eteri Paster!-is flot a poor noue. t can be called a good one, but can, scarcely be said to rank wltb the autbor's best. Claudia Winsloe, the. central figure, is a mnodemn motber. She supports an unemployed liusband-and three children in ver oemfortable, almos- extravagant circuitances, by means oflier own suc- cessful 1busines..The bome, snd ber office,: Overy envirouMen t hnto .which Claudia Winsloe steps the dominates by ber drlving and magnetic person- ality. Two qualiies the woman prides, ber- self upon-a dispassionate prpectiv of the tl, and an unlimited capacit O! 01KO utbor i Her tl be to rei story- Frftiflffh limnax sud 1ISc e of thè S G. B. Stem,. the author .01.,"The Matria#rch," lied pulished a s t oolla by, Macmillan «'Mon Ogram," an autobaogral>hy u n ,uusual mn mer. It las bue,. called a "Pastiche," 1' à uhicla ffPeeling glim>ses of -Poe- zonai hisîory ollernale 'wilh disqudi- tions o, almoiternryhing uder the ont World Holtby's new novel, ug, which she completed >re her death last Septemn- :ated to her mother, who is alderman in Yorkshire. bas as its background the world of today. *Miss triumphed ini presenting a andm enr;us~. in alA8 «ttvrqu youth, and wliat miglit be called the 'continuity" between his letters is sup- plied by his father, wbo lias alsoin- cltude>dnumerous etterýsof bis own to his son. Vis count Knebworth at thie .aie of 29 'à klilled in an airplane crash w hich occurred May, 1933. Through. bis vivid: letters, he reveals himmseif as a child, youtb, and man 'ot extraordinary at- tainments. AlWays inhigh spirits,,even when he thought.lie wasin the "dol- drums," bhis letters gleam with ,the story of scbool activities, sporting achieve- ments, and later.on the doubts and trials of a. young mam struggling to find bis place in thé modern worl4 of. business and politics. Me had the power of putting bis tboughts into vwords-and bis often- expressed ambition that he-migit smre day huave tiume, to wnte a book is here fulflled-for this is really Antony's book. No one wlio likes to read about youtli and higli spirits can fail to en- joy it. Antopsy was flot intended for publica- tion, but the Earl of Lytton's f riends insisted that bis son's life and letters ghould be available to a wider circle than tbat of bis family and intimates. The book was selected by the English Book societv as its Christmas choice, Irnking Englisb office for-ce (the novel san English one), scrape off the Euro- ean veneer, sud tliere stands the Amner- an worlcung girl, or any working girl ,or that miatter, s0 general arc the types rhicli Miss Delafield bas drawn.-J. F. c. youth xtaunivi z r£AnLLA t from the recent crop of nov- ut hard times among the lower iddle. classes ini England. It 4ished Mardi 24. S'anfayane Es says George current Corn L~ands of Nebraskaý Sophus Keitli Wintber bas laid the scene of bis first novel in the corn lands of Nebraska where he hinuself lived during bis boybood. -Toke Ail t6 Nebraska'ia the story of a'Danigli immigrant family who bing al their- hones and ftheir material possesionsg ChI.ngeSoe * Ivas$ ,l4.t.lSi by fflrea.À%.