Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Jul 1937, p. 44

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It is described by Maurice Farrar in a f actupal 1b ook-entitled Five lY'ears inV Minnsota(published in, 1880). 1tven more valuabie to the ,Lovelaces thian suchi written *accounts were those that came by Word of xnoutb f rom sorte of :the, few survivors of the colony~: such as Mrs. L.ucy Wollaston Broun, wbose father was a banker 'and lead- ing citizen. of Fairmont. Mrs. Love- lace says that eccept for this smnall gt'Ôup of coloniests idl living, all that remnains of the English colony in Fair- mont is an "Albion Avenue," a few decaying mansions, and a lîttie Episco- pal church which stili hias the feeling 2fan English cburch. James Gray, of the St. Paul Dis- patchi, describes Gcnitlemen Pt romn Eng- land as a "tale of action, conflict, gaiety and humr-a lively and en- gaging romance," and the New York Herald Tribune calls it "unusually Repl.acOs rarrisn A recent survey made by the art shops of Arnerîca shows that Vincent Van Gogh lias replacéd Maxfield Par- risb, who held sway for more than twenty years as the most popular re- production artist in Amnerican bomes. The latest Van Gogh book to appearon *any publisher's list is Dear Theo:' The -Auitobiog(raphy_ of Vin cent Vant Gogqh, just published by Houghton Miffliri coin- pany. It is edited by Irving Stone, -author ,of Lust for Li(fe. *Last month, Macnillan Pub l*shed "Ncighbor to, the Skv" by Gladys Hasty C~arroll.. Mrs.:Carroil is the arithoress of "As thé,I£arth Turets," and "A Fezu'Follish Ones."' The protagoni sis in lier iicu' book are a yozniWg wom-n, w/w.ia-ln gsto make. the imoderm wuorld lier qwn, and a mnan toau'horn ail palis look picasant,. but uwho has aki inborin love of bis mown .1aine farm and of tiie land. "Rebots' Rendezvous" Is Based on Folk Lore Lee Forest wrote Rebels' .Rendez-vo us, his stirring inew novel of. the Moiintain Forest was not serving a sentence for burglary or a sit-down strike-he sim- p ly 1lives in jail. The jail is in Tyrone, New Mexico, which refused to become a ghost town when it died. -A copper company, building. Tyrone during the boom days of the.W orld W ar,: lined pinon-dotted ridges and snug canyons with tile-roofed. bungalows and about a plaza. it erected beautiful office and batik buildings as welI as a large Four years ago there, passed from. the world onle of the great personalities of. modern times, Viscouint Grey of Failodon, fisherman, naturalist, states- man, who played a leading part in thé events leading up to, the greatest war ine histor y. Before bis death Lord Grey *wrote the story of hisdiplomatic' career under the titie Tzuè ts.-Five Y cars. Restrained., however, by the author's modesty and concentration on the matter in hand,' thecse. volumes failed fully to reveal the richness. and charm of bis personali-, ty, and the many-sided interest of bis life. After bis death the family tmade the happy choi-ce of Trevelyan, fanolus historian and Grey's -friend and. neigh- bor, ,as officiai biographer. Written f romf intimate 'kinowledge of Lord Grey and the history of, bis time by a master of English., style blessed with true biographic imagination, draw- ing freely from Grey's own f rank and always charming letters, the book may be a peî-anenÏ cIâssic i theield of Englishi biography -and a portrait study of great interest to American readers, Somne çtracts from Trevelyan's con- cluding paragraphis wiII give a taste of the book and the man. "I have heard more clever taikers, of more subtie mind, but neyer a more delightful streamn of easy, miasterly, humnorous comnineiit on the world and its odd ways, seen %vith kindliness but weIl f rom above. repose, a strengthi of personality un- equalled in any other man whom I1 have nmet. The two sides of his nature and of his achievemient, the countrynian- naturalist and the statesman, blended to make up Edward Grey." J'Tmre Piece" Is Lad in European Sefling Naomi Jacob's Time Piece (just pub- lished by Macmillan), had to be re- 11S Cntral Ave. Wlet 2 v u H ub IN U Y I 1 t UU, s àY s v i r en in thîe introd uction Selwyn and Blout of London will to his Best Short Stories, 1937 (Hough-. publish R. L. Duffus's novel Night ton Mifflin company), . "is one of.. the Between The Rivers in the carly at- four or five latîdmarks in the hîstory tumn. The book will be published in ofý the ,Anîcrican short story since this country on juneé 29 by. Macmillan. Stephen- Crane." Wilmette 4Oý

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