Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jan 1940, p. 24

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Low s.... $3 5ý V" er Priweson Mg New Mat frs Iraucb's Slpmber Shop' 1150. Serman Avo. 1Unie 202 WM. G. MOORE DIsPOaSUr Of UNI VIS UIFOCALS LIENSES, NUMONT MOUNTING lute central Ame. WIIémtt. 1214 opposite oiaeu. TIenter Soeclels I. spint a yarn. Here are> seven. Some are good, others are better, some are incomi- prehensible. Among the, last is- the flrst story of the'book which, forail of me, migbt have been omitted, since I don't understand.any .of At.. However, that is flot unusual i modem r literature, so, unabashed, I proeeed, to the next, which* also, for me, se ems _sometbing of a flop. But from there on everything is perfect, itone good story.after another. My favorite is "The Kindness1 of Mrs..Radcliffe,",because there are many ladies in the world bent on doing good, Who crash into other people's lives, leaving a trail of woe. It's not sarcastic, but just sarcasti-c enough. "Aunt Tittie" isabonut a s~andptiful and baunting. "What Mad Pursuit- is a smart number that has to do with American wèek- endj life, tbougb no Englishman has, any business to make remarks about that, from bis own glass bouse. (Mr. Gogarty, from Ireland, said that the Englisb social scale might be judged from the length of the week-ends, those beginning Wednesday evening and ending Wednesday morning be- ing the smartest.)t Stahlbery Photo Mary Elleri Chase, on the fac- ultyj at Smith, colle ge, is one of the feu, women university prof es- sors tQ nmake a reazl znam efor herself in modern literature. The author of "A Goodly leie- tage," "Mary Peters," and. "Dawn in Lïyonesse," she has ne- cently written "A Goodly Fellow- ship," an ac count of her thirty years of teaching experiezce. The publisher as Macmill«nz com- pan y. aphical in characti in a Maine rural Love in the Suit - By Leo, Walmsley. louableday, Doran. T. E. Lawrence would' have been the frst to congratulate Leo Walm- sley on his book, "Love in the Sun," an English Book soclety choice which had a great British sale and is being. issued here this week by, Doubleday, Dora»t. Readers of Lawrence of Arabia's letters may remember his enhusiasm for Walmsley. Ho elu ea Rut The author and' his young wife, like -the. central' characters in hbis story, went to ýCornwall and made their home in a dereliet but they found on. the coast. They fashioned chairs and, a table frorn washed, up planks 'and lived. on what they could grow in the garden and on the fish tbey could catch .. not for "copy" but because they had to. By birth Walmnsley is a Yorkshire- man and cornes from Robin Hood's Bay. He was brought up among flshermen and nearly always writes ,about the sea. Readers will i'emenv ber bis "Bramnblewick" novels "Three Fevers," "Foreigners"- and "Sally Lunn." The novelist is the yÏoungest. son of J. V. Walmnsley,-well known York-. sbhire artist. He- ran laway to sea. at 14, but the provincial police frus- trated*himr in his search for adven- ture afloat. When be was older he developed a passion for natural his- tory, and for a tirne was curator of 1the Yorkshire Marine Biological station. *Alin ai these storie s are the bril- liant pieces you would expect, from a man Wbo remains forever young.' He's the type wholl stay the smart young man about town wben be bas a long grey beard. It's a varied collection, scintillating, cynical, deep- ly Clever, and underneath thème is tbe feeling that the author bas a great pity for huma» lbeings. ireuiote di Iabounds., ranch x publ jý yic t %urs actseveci U Iwo and dle West, teaching iný the.p l one haif years as a flight officer. In schools of Montana, University Ex- the East African campaign. Walmn- tension work, and lier life as a pro- sley began serious writing with a fessor at the University of Minniesota war adventure serial in "'Black- and Smith college. wood's Magazine," and followed thi s There are chapters on study in with several juvenile stories before. Germany before the wàr; on gradu- he s e t tled d ow n to writehis ate study; and on earîy experiences 'Brambîewick" novels. as a lecturer. (It will be remembered With Love in the Sun Walmsley that Miss Chase bas appeared be- for the first time fully grasps bis fore lecture audiences on the North material and emerges as a novelist Shore.) of prime imporaccodigt A Gnadlh Pî nilei --, -- 1t nc ,acodigt eexciteraentj and -was Garden vx nr nw bok, ets Are Fun. Iost it, then made The volume, wbich is designed for her first book, an -Young readersfrmsxteghyas t the age of sixty. of age, .ntrcklucsixot onihya a-t ir CoinmnHerd" trative Pair Of YOungsters,: Saily 'd in Novemnber by and Jerry, u loterptdg <çt, Pony and Parrot. and up Ave.

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