Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Dec 1934, p. 40

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Vera Recommendationsof * ULL FLAVOUR .$4.00. DORIS LESLIEMamia A spl14nd new niivel which is at uni orgot- table chronicle of one womna's entire lu e., Ob JýlTtLE ORVIE * BOOTH TARKINGTON -,Dousbl.eday *VE1<ETIAN MASQUE $2.0 -EAFAEL B. ABA TIINI Houphiton, * ONiJER BAIL$' 1TUE MAY- FLOWEB $2*3O HONORE MORROW Morroso 0 THE PORTY DAYS 0F MUSA >'1A.*Z WER~FEL V<lcf,: A FLOR1AI%. EIX SALTEN Bobba-Merri *GOOD.BY~E, MR. CHIPS *1.85 JAMES HILTON Little, Brouml 0 LUST, FOR LIFE $240, IRVING STONE Longmans, Greens * THE FOLKS1.0 R. BUCKOW Farrar àRlswkaf t *This monumenal novel is Rutýh Suckow's most ambitions and signficnt work. 1@ PITCAIRSIS ISLAND 02.50 CHARLES NORDHOFF AND JAMES NORMAN HALL ROBER? DENCHLEY Harper *y LND iWÂRDEDITION OP IKANNENSTEIN Boxed 03-0 Sith and. Maas *CHRAUCEB'S CANTERBURY TALESos. MODERN ENGLISH VMUION Dy J- U. NICOLSON. Illus. bai Rocweil Kent 0 SKIN DEEP $2» X. C. PHILLIFS John Vay The book fo every woman Who ever used a lip- *tlçk. FOR YOUNG READERS a YLYMRUACK M A GoodlyHeritage. Miss Chase carrnes ber story over a period of alrnost fifty years, duriug whicb, time are sbown, tbe varlous.cbangÉes tbat bave corne to the Maine coast. Mary Peters is tbe daugbter of a sea captain. Sbe is born on a rnerchant sbip off Singapore >and is brought up and educated on ber fatber'svessel, the, Elizabeth. When she is 15 sbe and ber trother- le ave the; sbip to niake their borne in: Petersport, Maine.,Mary neyer -secs* ber fatber, again, as tbe Elizabeth meets with disaster in .a Storrn. She buries. in her beart tbe sor- row of ber youthful, love for Mr. Gardiner, a nernber of tbe cre W, Wbo went down with the, Elizabeth., Mary's9 life in Petersport witb ber rnotber, ber, brotber., John, anzl a dozen or rnore close f riends is a busy and an eventful one. She attends scitool and later be- come§ a teaher in one -oôf the couîntry scbools. Miss Chase rnakes her characters truly alive tbrougb their actions. and words, but strange to say, the cbaracter of Mary Peters does not ,stand out s50 vividly for mue as do sorne of the others -Mrs. Peters, for exanaple, witb ber sound, commron-sens e , pbilosopby and modern viewpoint of tbings; like tbe 'cripple boy, Jim Pendieton, witb bis roetieý inelanihol nd2t winninz way with ratier aloot, uike a syrnbol_ rel ing the wistfutl, almost tragic 1724 uary 7. It is entitlied "Background for Venus"~ andi its scene is the art world of London. It is a scene with whicb Mr. Laver is intimately ac- quainted since he is known in.,Lon- don Inot only ýas 'a. novelist and poet but'also as.an art critic of distinction.. lie bas writte-n several books- on art and. design, including a: biography of Whistler, and, at present holds. an officiai position in the Victoria and Albert Museum iu London. .Historicacl Noivel Another Caesar, a« new bistorical novel by Alfred.,Neumann' wbich AI-. fred A. Knopf, who plans. to publish it on Jauuary -21,' regards as* one. of the most important books on bis 1935ý list,. bas .iustbeen publisbed in, Lon- don by Hjutchinson, in the German language by AIIert de Lange in' Am- sterdam, in Dutch by the sainiebouse, in Frencb by Stock of Paris, ini Italian by MrndadorIi in Milan, anid in Czeeeh by Sphinx-Verlag in Prag'ue. Ar- rangements are being made for tbe. Spanisb, Scandinvian and Polish edi- tions. Miss 'Pinchot in Films Rosamond Pincbot's screen career will be launcbed with Thte Brave Lirve O»,' an original script by Flor- ence Ryerson and Colin Clements ýsent- z~i story of Hollywood. tbat cornes througb tbe yeams, to the littie Maine coast village of Peters- port. She is. quiet and outwardly un- erotional; she i8 brave and practical, and keeps ber tbougbts and feelittgs ,to berseif. The author, who is professor of Eu1'g- lisb at Srnith. college, bas written a niiv.l that holds vour. interest. and sical Arts and Crafts, where cbildren are taught the actual making of the various musical instruments such as the flute, clarinet, violin, etc. In is first book, Fun it th _F/ut ee, be has put into print bis own class instruc- tions. There is first a brief history of thqc flu te, beginning, witb 'the time when the cave. men first d*scovered tbat a strange, little wbistling soutndcame frocm blowing on an old, dry legbone of. some wild animal. Later, tbe, Eeyptiansbecame vYery skillful at ftemaking. Tbe'.Greeks were: fond of the music of the, flutes, ,and they called' upon flutée players to play. at weddings, dances, at tbe tbeater, in processions, and in ,tbe temples. Tbe flute was po.pular witb -tbe Romans, tbe Persians, and of course witb tbe .japanese, Chînese and Hîndus. Clear andi brl-ef descriptions are given to tbe boy or girl wbo is inter- ested in making bis own flute, and tbere are also numerous working dirawing-s whicb greatly àid tbe stu. dent. Finally, wben you bave com- pleted making your flute Mr. Dusb- kmn tells you bow to play it, and gives you any number of musical selections to practice on. In bis foreword to Funi With Pliites *Walter Damroscb, giv es the book higb Praise. He says that it is one of the cleveloped an important new approach Wb. icb will bave an axcellent influence on the musical future of our country. "The little flute that the author bas designied." writes Mr. Damrosch., is described tberein so charmingly tbat every cbild will want to learu bo* to play it." Mr. Dushkin bas diplomas from tbe Ecole Normale, Paris; tbe Con- servatoire Amreicaine, Fontainbleau, and the Institute of Ameriçan Art in .NewVYrk.T-He hasutaugbt in the Grm. 0227 206N. igan Ave. N q

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