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ament of xoutn," and now it is Vera Brittain's beloved task to tell the complete story of Winifred Holtby's life, of her editorsbip of the.English mragazine, ",Time and Tide," of ber work for the natives of South Africa, arnd of her ,novels, chief among wbicb are ",Manoa, Manoa" and "ýSouth Riding." The unbappy love affair with ,Bill" brought Winifred only dis- content., and althougb on ber death bed he asked her to marry him. be consistently hindered ber work; bbroughout ber lifetime. Like a. shad- 0Wý be flits in, and out ,of the story of the Yorkshire days.ý the, London ac- tivit ies, and finally the sufering -in varlous nursing homes. Miss Bribtain feels that Winifred, Holtby was* a genius. who. bad she lived,. would have fulfilled the prom- ise given by ber fine novels, and would have made berself one of the great of Englisb literature. Her deatb was a national as well as a personalloss. and in this heart-.rend- ing account of her battle against a blood pressure so bigb that it literai- ]y pounded ber bo death at the age of tbirty-seven, ber friend testifies to the beautiful quaiby of ber art, and of ber personaliby. More than that, a rare, perfectly unselfish and abso- luteiy devoted friendship acbuated this book, wbîch is proof again that love is stronger than death.t * * * By Catherine Hayes Brown. (Raîndonm flouse> Grannie takes ber per in hand and tellsslier precious grandchild a series of bedtime stories that reveal the life and works of America' s most beloved stage lady, Helen Hayes. They sound a toucbh ike A. A. Milme in bis more melting moments, but tbey can't, bide the genjus of the woman. who climbed from a stock cornpany to that ciassic of the stage, "Victoria Regina.". Grannie tells Toots ail about it, and it's interest- Vera Brittain's new book, "Testament. of F riendship: The Story, of >Winifred Holtb y," is an unusual biography. As in her au- tobiography, "Testa ment o f Youth," a personal story is re- lated «gin4t a bae4egroutd of world events. It is an account of an ideal frienzdsliip between two women. ldentity of Heroine Puzzle fo Readers This seemns to be the la test ques-. tion puzzling the literary world. Lady Ffulkes appears, of course, as the heroine of Doris Leslie's new novél, Another Cynthia, and accord- ing to that book lier adventures are reconstruicted from hitherto un- published memoirs discovered in the secret closet of aw old bouse in B5erke1èyýFS4ü-are, London. This iii-. formnation has sent the literary in- vestigators scurrying to the records. .to see wbat they can discover about the lady and about. Owen Samp-. son. U'npanyJ R~upert Hughes' Attorney for the People traces Thomas E. Dewey's rise from modest beginnings, the processes he has evolved. for han-* dling. those -cases that have made headlines throughout 'the: country, and. gives- the lurid, stories behind the cases. Careful preparations and astute legal strategy .resulted-in the conviction of entrenched racketeers wbom no other man badsuccessfully tackled. $16,ffoOJOOa Vear From the food People ate, from the clothes they wore, and the busi- nesses they ran, these racketeers ex- torted and divided some $16,000,000 a year. Suddenly these great or- ganizations,, the rackets, beganý to. crumble,land the public watched in amazement as Dewey sent tô prison virtually every criminal he attack- ed. Attorney for the .Peo ple presents the first complete. description of the wbole array of rackets, a portrait gallery of an-izing crimirials and their political protectors, as wvefl as the heroes involved. What the future may hold for Thomas Dewey, no one can tell, but, his achievements have earned himn' a;E right to this permanent and com- prehensive record. A modemn ver- sion of St. George and the dragon, ib is packed wibh facts stranger than fiction. The Author As the biographer of George Wash- ington and the author of suceessfuI novels, Rupert Hughes combines a zest. for research and reverence for fact with a storyteller's interest in character and its vîvid presentation. A thorough study of many records and the interviewing of a large num-' ber of individuals add to the test]- monial aubbenticity of the picture. ~n~iw~wop '~4wnq staioneryý ., !gty airic - in" AIdous Huxisys "AfTEJR MANY A S UMMER, Ds THE SWANII