alliei boxi mnson'A..LAai man-AA sion, like the village, was bufit by an. industrialist whose activities took the shape of -Stone buildings. Here the Engles live, in the. mansion that is desertedi, except, for their. few rooms. And from its windowe, thoy See the rolling fields,,of corn wvhich KIOP ulmxîAat ha veinspired :"Corn." In 1934 Paul Engle, a teacherat the University of Iowa, made him- self famous with his "Americani Sunday-Un, Le Sono." One of the. younger 1,oets, FAT'IE'S AYwho- had contributed to the Yl G7ve.Bok Series ofý Younger Poets, he was Send Hfim.aàCard, called* the Whitman of his genera- 1724 OraIgt Av*. Gre. 0227 tion. Since that time he has spent three years, at Oxford as a Rhodes Read thse Want djd scholar, has ýtraveled the continent, _________________________and from his travels has sent forth a book callèd Break' the Heart's Anger. Hie spends his summers i tha±t. desrtd .iatle oelokn Stonie City, and, still in his twenties, produces strlking and beautiful ver- se, reflecting the li1e about hlm. The progress of this young ~poet- has been entirely logical. First he looked about hlm at America, and found that he could reproduce its Pý strength ini some measure in his ri ringing verses. American Song liter- C1 ally abounds in enthusiasins. In i Break the Heart's Anaer he saw d " .I Wanted to Be anActress»" is Kathari*ne CorneUl's lii e stery as told to, Ruth Woodbury Sedg- wick and published by Rattdom flouse. Here is a record of a great career in the theatre. -Miss CorneU>'s autoblcoraphy i.n the true sense of th'e' ord, with a record of what she lias thon ght as well as what she lias done, stili remains to be written. a very great extent, the most im- portant of recent volumes. Prima- rily it is for book loyers, but any- one reading this monthly digest of he new books, will be bound to develop a taste for more. Skillfii1hr By Elizabeth Rawes. Randomn House, New York. Elizabeth Hawes' recent book on wornen's attire, Fashion Is Spiitach, went over with such a bang that pub- lishers. are now airing her views (ini Men Cai TkeIt) o what- men should ,wear. Carrne Nation was nove r more zealous to take mon out, of saloons than Miss -Hawes to, re- move themn from. their wool, and starched linen -straightjackets and put. them into comfortable, colorful,, cotton« slacks.. A. collar and a- tie, as, far as, Elizabeth Hawes i s con- cerned, is nothing but a red rag to a buil ýThe ".slacks movemnent,," believe it or not, is alreadly under: way and merchants even now are doing a big business in these casual garments for leisure hours. Stili, Miss Hawes sighs and groans and fears it wil be another ten years before a de- partment store president or a white e.plç wilbe-socially accept- able i slacks for business. Ribs College Boys And why? Because of their wives. Miss Hawes grinds Harvard law students, women of the leisure class, collar 'and ties ittto the dirt*with the same vicious heel. She despises them ail. It's women, she's convinced, keeping m~en in styles dating from the dodo. They don't want the old order changed; 'they don't .want revo- lutionnand emancination for the tired. 200 FOR $ moene was uiniuld ea. . xnem me naxrimoniAALWUULai rae, n Corn is the third step in PaulI Book Digest is published by the se ihem nosaeyt an h Eingle's progress. Ho 18 done with Whitehouse Publishing comipany, gravy to which they. have become enthusiasms, and done with svold- and the condensations are made by accustomed. Merchants, too, Miss lng, and now permits himself to see Edith Cox White of Winnetka. It is Hawes explains, dread to see the the beauty of his land. His p oems, the only magazine of its kind inibottom faUl out of the men's wear in. consequence, are more conven- Anerica, and has a large foreignas trade, and consequently ý encourage tional, more contemplative. There well as Arnerican circulation. wives in the "stand pat" campaign,. are nature poems such as "For An **"eaLtteMn Appe rowr, ard On : ooThe Curtain Rises And can the 'men take it? They lear Night", that do not imitaté This miagazine is the voice of the cardn!Fromadb abhodusptey ar but are like Robert Frost. Mary Chicago~ Drama league, anid is now ded, aeclosptio groups of profE 1o! books las J cover, ,toi bort )n and about hine Shaw Lc de Forest. i .mLncon who 18 chief of the Migra- leaders tion of Birds section of the U. S. and ]RO-j DePartrnent of Agriculture. illustre- j tions areby ,Louis Agassiz Fuertes.