Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Nov 1938, p. 26

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T.UNI.é Hotte of Interesi < FiIId WIII Antiques trtut$ as a is813Cbetaut St. 11,0els & PapTs Wnnetka I AItR RMOVED PgRMANIENTLY *iu.bflbmDe Boug. 58e<troLogiat Ewoet<ieiy ««&*-I to. 5àa"d by Appottm atter the frst of the year, probuaY in quarterly, forni. Being a devotee of potyhuiseif, lie hopes to dis- cover something worth whlle ini the work of others and says lie wilU welcome original manuscripts' from North Shore wrlteërs. Salute New Peet Mr., Dierkes is the'young man, Who, ti1935, aroused considérable favorable -comment with the publi- cation of l its book of poetry, The Man from, .Vermont. Dedicated to Robert Frost, whom. Mr. Dlerkes is Irank to admit is on e of his literary gods , it carrnes a' foreword by Vin-, cent S t ar r et t Wit the conclud- ing statement-"It lu my hope that many rnay joi with me in salutung a n'ew poet.' Mr. Frost after read- itg tbese pom ad,. 1"You are alnwst totally free froni gang .thinking and fashionable at- titudes of mind. Yýou go your own way ini both observation and judg- ,ment. You- are no verse twiddler. You thik positively and deeply feel what you think. You have had thlngs botli bappen to you and occur to you. You have siglit and isight. '(ou are so vlvid even with remote ý 4u -. in I'Zaca Ventureje" his newo bookc, William Beebe describes two mont hs of wanderlng in the Gulf of Californnia, hunng whale shark, the world's biggest llsh, and su4vina , themaa$ ..mnuwte Jorms of marine life. Herbert.Mitchell Photo Animal SIories Convey Strangeness of Malaya' Salam the Mous. Deer Bu A.. Hillman and Walter W. Skeat. the public that it 15 fno small won-. der the great majorlty feel about vainly ini a-maze of titles and auth- Ors trying to flnd their way, to the few best volumes. Best sellers to-, day are gone and forgotten tomor- row-ýthe biggest--names in the book world this seas.on -are mere dots On the horizon next. W ill it be the saie. with Anne Morrow Lindbergh's' Listen! the Wind? We think rot. First, she writes of an epoch-making fliglit in- the. history of aviation, as sensa- tional as the voy age of the May- flower. Second, her pure, unadorned prose anyone can understand and every critic -seems to extol. Third, her courage and quick perceptive natures lend the book a nervous ex- citement and a quiet yet dramatic one great crescendo-the successful landing ini South Amnerica. Atrica to Brazil The story covers the fliglit she and her husband made across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to Bra- zil ini Deceniber, 1933. As Colonel Linidbergh explains ini the foreword, this is an age i experimentation already gone forever-gone except for the fact that Anne'i4ndbergh han, cantirued it h in lck nd white, lie. * as also had publisheci a few songs and individual poems. Has M. A. Degree jBorn int the East and for a nuni- Iber of years a resident of Dletroit, where lie received this B. A. degree at Wavne niversity. lie'later took ýry him ac iany more Mnd as1 Africa, trying' to fiu a suitaDie place for a take-off. It was not a matter of hours but ten days be- fore the proper base for the fliglit was found. In ail this time, they were experirnenting, trying to land, trying to take off, trying to' feel out adverse weather, conditions, proper daylight, helpful moonliglit, trying to avojd antagonistie winds, trying' to find favorableons of a mari-mn bis marriatge, B soni. i

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