Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Apr 1936, p. 40

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Phone' lime CO-.'OP OrrIoetu flteaird.. EvanmtoU, For loster FASCINATING BOOMS Coote$ion, for egos I te 100. in %vide price range.. GIFT STATIONEItY N.west Spring styses f rom E CARDS that are different L1724 Orrington, Evansotn Gie'0227' Wirngton Hotel Buiding COMPANY it, Walter Gtiver, one Qi tewurîu os foremost photographers of dogs, bas, presented a gallery of 400 canine por- traits. Al bave been carefully chosen. to de.- pic clearly tbe bundred mnost popular breeds of. dogs. And it is to béý notecl tblat. these beautîful photograplis display: the vario us breeds in, sucb a fashioný as to reveal the chie f characteristics of each. To supplement tbe pictures, Staniley, West bas written àa clear, brief descrip- tion of al tbe different breeds. Also in- cluded is an. interesting series of photo-ý gr-,apbs.which illustrate just bow a dog sbould be trained.. And to round out the volume, Mr. West bas appended a section oni show points and a brief and useful glossary. To ail interested in dogs.. this book will bave an immediate appeal. Tt will serve not oilly as a valtabke referen.ce book for dog loyers, but also as, a band- sonie addition to the libraries of cou- noisseurs of bandsome editions. In the Suga&rcan. An arrogant and ruithIess woman is the central figure of Elma Godcbaux's novel. Stubhborn Roots, set against the background of a Louisiana sugarcane plantation at the end of tbe last century. Mrs. Gadehaux shows this woman in bier, on the place; the men she captivates by lier flamboyant beauty, and lber cbildren, with their strange heritage. The author was born in the bayou country on a plantation. and grew up 0on a sugarcane. place just above New, Orleans on the river. by Jobti Beeý- )er & Brothers ien when its BOOK SECTION FIRST FLOI VNANSTON STORE, mWan ICompany, N. y. As a college student Blanche Colton Williamns decided that she wouîd like some day to write about George liot. Now aquarter of a century later, at the beight o her career, *Dr. Williamns gives us this book, rich in its understanding, - '~*v'keen in. its searching analysis, written S*~witb vigor and vitality of style. o MR ~ The book is the resuit of years o . .. .. .. .. ..«;study, many journeys to, England, and .. ~:«" ~the. collection of mucb hithertounpub-. .~.. ~ ished miaterial. As George Eliot herseif tackled ber problms (of character, Dr. ~~*** ..Williamis studies the strang transfor- Smation of that:serious.young, essayisc Eliot, the most fanious woman novelist Fi aneisca Bolleim iof the.n*neteenth',century. Blanfche ColtoetJ4 illiarns, prot es- In the mnidst of Vi ctorian, England >sor of JEnglish at Htuitcer college, is, witb ail1 its prejudccs and its.amnazingly the ait-thor of "'George A Ri-:<4J3 . nteresting literarY figures, the strands ography" published lastnoith tb>' of George Ehiot's life are woven to- Macilln Crnpny.gether, the. intense preoccupation with work, the restlis longing for new scenes whicb impelled .to continuai. travels, the Prize Vlinner ProdUCe0S ever widening cir cle of friends and ad- mirers gatbering about the two Georges, Short Story CoIIi<ctfl an~d always the deepiniflg comtpanionship Nancy Hale, journalist, editor, nov-. witb George Henry Lewes and the mu-, elist and winner of the O. Henry short- ' tuali nterest of each in the other's Writ-. story prize, bas completed a collection'ing. of short stories, Thte EarIiest Jireapps. Blanche Colton Williams is a native, which wiil be published by Charles of Mississippi, bolds degrees f rom the Scribner's Sons on April 9. Fighting ail Mississippi State College for Women lier life wbat she considers the evii ofi and Columbia university., She was for an illustrious family numbering . iIn1y some year-s instructor in short story geniuses, Miss Hale bas miade ber -own \\,riting in Columbia's extension .depart- reputation to stand witb those of her ment and sumrmer session, and is now, ancestors. The- fourteen stories ini Thc professor of English at Hunter college. Pariest .Dreanis are amnong lier besf 11cr home is in New York. works and have -received warn praîse A wonîan of unusual versatiiity, Miss Hale (Mrs. Charles Wertenbaker) biasi been in turn a portrait painter, a iag-1 azine editor, journaiist, iio.velist, and, sbort-story writer. Bothý Vanity Fair] and Vogue biad ber. services as associate editor and she served on t:. regular news staff of the New York Times. Her two noveis, Tite 1ou ng I)ic Good, published in 1932, anýd Neeer Akty More, published in 19à4, both received strong praise fromi the crîtics. She bas contribuetd to Scribner's Magazine,, Harpers, Thie New Yrker, Red Book! Locale iPorto. Rico Charles Scribner's Sons publisbied on April 7 Murder at 28:10 by Newton Gayle. A detective story witb its locale at Porto Rico, it drews its title f rom the reading of the barometer atthe heigbt, of *~ tropical hurricane. Poets ColIaborate for Baudeaire Transation Flowers of Evil,tbe translation of, the poems of Charles Baudelaire f romn thé French, by George Dillon and Edna St, Vincent Millay, will h e published by Harper & Brothers on April 2. In Miss Millay's.preface to the book she tells bow the collaboration carne about. Mr. Dillon, wvho bad been work- ing on t he translation for severai years. sent her several poems and asked ber if she would be willing to write an introý- duction. She becarne so absorbed in the hundred and one toys, gaines, puzzles,- and tricks of magic. Ail the articles needed can be obtained in tbe home, ,and tbe simplicity of tbe various de- vices makes it a volume tbat will be especially. welcomed by ,youngsters.

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