| Show f -- Ufbe Sunday hionting New France - Provides Virile Hero By Eva E Hollis Literary Editor Restless Are the Sails ' R- vor fp itil: -t r- - A 011IP ::-3'''"It-f-- It' s 11''' ' x): t OW"' ti--or- y - - - tle of-bat- - - Bible Designed For Ready Use Not with the idea of popular- izing the Bible but to present It as "living literature" in such 'form that it might be easOy carried "The Pocket Bible" cas been prepared by Pocket Books Inc New York City It does tot pretend'i to be a complete Bible nor even to include all the best-lovpassagea but the editor Wallace Brockway in his selections has sought to embrace all that "the dead and living great have selected as topchstones of faith beauty— ed nd It follows the language of the Xing James version with furthermodernization in respect to and apelling paragraphing punctuation and there has been reamngement of the books according to state of composition and similarity of form The passages from the Old Testaznent are arranged under these Books Historical captions: Books Prophetical Poetry Drama Fiction and Philosophy and throughout both Testaments verse is set in verse form drama as drama and letters as letters Thus the word of the prophets of Amos Isiah Jeremiah Ezekiel the rhapsodies of the Unknown prophet appear in the form of blank verse the Psalms and the beautiful Song of Songs are pure poetry The story of Job true philosophical drama is set in dramatic form As its editor states the book is not intended for reference purposes or pulpit use 44k 4 of Aus- tralia "The Timeless Land" a MacMillan issue has been selected by the club as Its October book for distribution The Judges have chosen as a tPletVe dual selection: "Inside Latin Americar by John Gunther a Harper book and "Young Man of Caracas" gives Washburn) which is T R Ybarra's story of his early days IA Oa Venezuelan capital r1 Aim t '41 - 4 -- ---- ' ii L : -- mr ' !i : ' c the-past-- dec :0 I - ' : - 1 1 ' - - ' I - ' N '1- e '"-- : 113 ' ' r ' ''''- -- — - - - 14 ' o 4 it- - at : ' - 4" A ''' s 04 Ito t ' ' 7-- 1 1 4 -- -'- 44ti si WOVat - Gay Humor and Zestfulness Mark New Ethridge Recital! came In of ice skating de luxe picnics and breakfasts at which Kentuckians excel With engaging frankness she recites the difficulties of her first vote in Kentucky the trials of being a hostess and the mishaps when she'd planned to knock the eyes out of new neighbors of Derby Week when guests arrive by dozens of horseback riding—and the time when 'Waitan- I'll Sing One Song middle-of-the-d- ay By Willie Snow Elistidge Publisher The MacMillan Corn' pany New York City Willie Snow Ethridge has moved from her beloved home state of Georgia but her zest' for living is still unbounded and her talent for recording homely everyday experiences and impres-slow In gay witty style "Pis armimrjs the publisher's word d-See Etkridge's writing and none could be more applicable The "roommate's" good fortune In the newspaper world took the Ethridges from the world- of which she wrote in "As I Live and Breathe" to the far different environment of Louisville Ky where they are domiciled ta a too-bi- g country house 11 miles outside the city It is of making over the new home nearer hettrt's desire dreams of what she will do eventually with its neglected grounds her impressions of Ken' tucky hospitality the new inter- ests of Kentucky life that her diaristic sketches tell She writes of beagling a favorite Kentucky sport (she thought beagles were wild sill mats they hunted) and of dis-- s trading the hunt with her rabbit lined coat of the popular "dreg" hunt of moonlight cruises on'the Ohio of Judging a mule race where two out of the nine entkies for Mn the'Thirteen-Year-Old- 's horse was stuck in quicksands Tbirteen-Year-Ol- d and "lubber and The "roommate's" idol—the wonderful "Boy" coming so late as to be almost unexpected— bob up continuously and of course roommate and his idiosynerecter And you'll joy in that accommodating local telephone operator benefactor to the countryside Mrs Ethridge's ability to see the funny side even of embarrassing situations makes one enjoy everything with her' - Posthumous Woolf Harcourt Brace have set for early October appearance the last novel by Virginia Woolf completed just before her death in March "Between the 'Acts" Is the story of a family in a country house on one summer day and of a pageant enac-te-d on the grounds - It 1 Writers of Rocky Mountain West - a Coming In new book by Phyllis McGinley the New York and SatEvePost poet whom Ogden still claims mid-Novemb- er though she has now been long a resident of the east will have as title "Husbands Are Difficult or the Book of Oliver Ames" It's a Duel! Sloan and Pearce publics tion Appearing regularly in the magazines Miss McGinley's favorite poems have been her intimate revelations as to the doings and misdoing of the indispensable Oliver Now she gives us a full book about him Miss McGinley's preceding voiume wu "A Pocketful of Wry" By Edwin Cork iublishers Buell Sloan and rearee Inc New York city Reviewer George Snell : This is first of a series of books about American life to be published under the title 'American Folkways" edited by Erskine Caldwell According to Plot to IRLIZ The Dobbs-Merri- ll 1 company Imlianapolls In the romantic Braganza dy nasty of Brazil Bertita Harding has found matePial to her order for the colorful type of combined history and biography of which she is past mistreas While I s the romances of royalty that capture Mrs Ilarding's interest--a- s shown in her "Phantom Crovin" the story of the Maxie millan and Carlota of Mexico in "Imperial Twilight" telling of Hungary's Karl and Zita "Gold en Fleece" of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth of Austria—she does not neglect the background oc national eyents and politicalIn trigue The story of the Itraganzal in brazil offers as romantic a hism tory probabry as the Americas might furnish It covers but three generations beginning properly back in Portugal in 1808 when Don Joao the Regent and the royal family fled Lisbon before the Napoleonic terror the mad Queen Maria's wild cries of "Ay Jesus! The murderer is corning —he'll slit open our gullets!"uttering the hidden panic of the party With the demented Maria his wife the wild Spanish Carlota Joaquina and a bevy of princelets and infanta' Dom Joao sought his rich "Fifth Empire" in America—to be received with open arms by the Brazilians But his farewell promiset to Lusitania: "I leave the Kingdom now- - but one day I shalt bring you back the Empire" went un realized When King Joao VI having given Brazil an aristocracy culture education rich :development serving it well for 13 oars returned to Portugal fla ed left behind a constitutional government and the Dom Pedr0 as Regent of a country shortly to proclaim its independence becoming that paradox an Imperial demperacy and the Regent Emperor Dom Pedro This "storybook prince" the tall darkly handsome reckless Elnperor was Immensely popular the Brazilians had loved the old king but this brilliant son fascinated them And Dom Pedro vas democratic he loved mankind :well—his undoing cosine in that he loved womenkind too well'Detalls of his long passionate liaison with the vivid beauty Domitila madkMarqueza deSantos fill many pages IIe heaped favors and titles on the royal favorite and her family ' taxpayers and moralists grumbled: he bought her a mansion next door to the palace humiliated his good Empress by forcing her to accept his mistress as a It was said even that the two of them were re sponsible for the Empress' death but this perhaps is legend Dorn Pedro I appears in none tob good a light yet it may be said that he was zi loving father anxious for the welfare and happineas of Ms children even those illegitimate ' and perhaps some extenuation In the fact that the Empress the' Austrian Leopoldina was erudite but dull In practice of the virtues neglected her appearance—and Pedro loved beauty and gayety which were Domitila's assets It was the young Amelia of teuchtemberc hia second Empress who made him into a faithful husband she knew how to manage him In even worse case his son Dorn' Pedro IL found himself when hisi marriage was demanded It had cost his father a vast lady-in-waiti- ng -- Nine Against New York Hy Albert Leffingwell t i - his life" The puritan Pedro was a benign ruler yet Ms reign was rent by internal and foreign strife The wave of republicanism sweeping the land brought in the end his abdication and thia third Braganza ended his days in Portugal In his later years the last Dom Pedro was a great traveler and there are some entertaining pictures of the graybeard dashing across the United States hobnobbing with McCullough Longfellowc inspecting the famous Mormon organ pulling the lever at Philadelphia's Centennial being astounded at Mr new invention Bell's that "talked" Portrayed in Mrs Ilardingss slightly frivolous refreshing style the Braganzas the obese I Joao whose practice was to eat two chickens a day thepicafesque first Pedro and the puritan the "native son" make an: engrossing book slow-movi- ng i i - - g v ng 1p II -- ''''' 4 Pub- 't -- - ?:' ' -- z -- - tt v--i- --- 11:: rel' - e t )''' :1 " I - York-boun- ' rz'4 tr - tt1: 60111-a- 1 -- 1 - t '' - 'I - - 1 - 41 4 k -- -- -- : — 1 t - 1 I ' J: 4'' -- 11 '1 ' :i 4' l''( - i o s 1'414-- A11091110ZA 1170-74:- - t 5 T 3 : ' t ' Linfilter Side of Soldie' g Noted by AuthorslAr:tist - '-- By IL L Phillip& Pliblishers Harper and Btrothers Newi' York City 1 i !I 4 - - Selections From Currently Published Miscellany 'Ezekiel Speaks Today By Ishmeral 'Publisher The Writer Inc!“ Beaton Reinterpretation of the words of the Prophet: Ezekiel-- - expounding symbolic meanings disclosed and unrecognized through today's events is the purpose of this writer He bases his analysis on the belief that Ezekiel's phrase "Thus saith the Lord' meant exactly that —that Jehovah !poke through his prophet Ishmerars conception Of Eze-kiers message is that it "embodies a definite spiritual history of the more enlightened races of men during the last few thousand years besides having to do intimately with a great period yet to come" It is meant not alone for the 'house of Israel" asI defined by Paul but for all today 'Jews or Christians who are "children of the - promise" the spiritual :Israel" Many of the changes that have taken place in these latter days confirm the prophet's message in the' writer's view they fit exactly the development of the DiVine Plan ' Pertinent Subject : How to Be an Engineer By Fred D McHugh Publish-er- a Robert M McBride and Company New York City In the light of the demand which the new national defense program IsMaking for engineers to aid in research and development necessitated by armament production this instructive work by Fred D Kclitisth one of theprofession who wasgformerly ex- ecutive editor of Scientific Amerlean should be seized upon with avidity by young men—or women—whose interest lies in the engineering field Mr McHugh presents a survey of the entire field of engineering in concise form and endeavors to answer all the young man's questions as to the background and preparation 'needful as to Where the best openings are to be found and the part engineering is playing in national de- I fense The book's informative text accompanied by numerous excellent photographic illustrations picturing feats of modern engineering to fascinate anyone Interested in this science which Is also creative art ls Ih)fliM1)lIIl Wisdom rhilosophy for tombrows Publisher Witlintan Publishing rem-PaWalla Yalta Wash Addressing himself to those Who are hostile or prejudiced Bv One of Tilget ns R "r 7 4 on the subject Of philosophy' and to those of the younger gen- -: eration who are indifferent re- girding it as "useless" (having been a teacher for many years he is familiar with the type) the author has presented some suggestions as to how to meet: : life's realities without making-i his philosophy obtrusive Writing lucidly and straight forwardly and with a sense of humor he makes his suggestions easy to take It is with every- day problems with man's many selves his relation to society freedom of theVill the meaning of nature and the many theories about it with war and the les- sons of history that the author who is S B 14i Penrose for 40 'years president of Witman college has concerned himtelt' And one of the concludingthap ters "Arthur Is n't Religious with its new conception of re- meatiest ligion is among i1 - E - 1 il : - I a tir ef i witch d" "syko-animilize- No vir destruction of this war are not happy' ones' there has come two highly amusing accounts of army life in America and in England Concerning the life of the draftee H Phillips hilarious of the New York Sun has related in "The Private 'Papers of Private Purkey" all the trials and tribulations of Uncle Sam's boys Private Purkey is a typical American boy serving a year in the armywhos thoughts and feelings are revealed in many letter! to his r'"Dear Ma" One of Oscar chief corn- plaints concerns the amount of' !walking he tas to do i Oscar doesn't believe all this lattiff about this being a machine a War: never in peace or in war !has he seen 'so much walking He just can't Make out Iwhether he's 'being trained for I the Olympic games a Swiss a mill carrier for i travelogue !Alaska or a chambermaid Ile i did but get come of it" Private Purkey is a little bored with : army jiff but finally learns thatt General Grant got to be a gentrill from4'obscurrity as bad as f hiss" to he gains hope Besides t:with Ms new habits of tidiness ! Oscar thinks he wiU be very lustful to some nice girl As Private Purkey is a typical a typical American so Englishman a dear honest old blunderbuu with a stolid 'stay- g power loyalty and uncon- humo r Bruce Bairns- fa ther's "Old Bill" created in Om first World war comes to life again in this new book This itypi cal cockney character has a numor definitely English The 'menet Of the 'gory are laid in lirantle and England Much to the distress of his wife Maggie Old Bill has found his way into the army again along with young Bill Here rim a very human story I with- OM) mustn't incident after another—however the humor of ' Me situations often wduld eppeal )more! to the English than to Americans Unlike the Phillips 'book"Old Bill and Son" are in- !volved with bombs stuku and iTomMies while all Private Pur- ikey really has to worry about are his sore feet It is easy to i 4ind humor in the situations in I which he is involved while there !is much pattios in Old Bill's !storyel i These books are entertaining ': reading but most important of all show that in the pres- Jett !tint crisis neither England nor lAmerica has lost a sense of !humot columnist Old Bill and Son By Brute Bairnsfather and Ian Dalrymple Publisher Davi& McKay Company Philadelphlsw Reviewer Helen Sandack While the majority of boOks: emanating out ofthe chaos and' 4 rtepletither t I Ily Rosa Lee Lloyd Skies are blue Amber shadeV Garden like a dress that's faded bubble Lazy broken : Left behind a summer token Canyon cottage locked and shuttered Back to city flusbed and flut: tered scour the skillet wind the clocks Children pinafores and : socks Manicure a haircut too Haven't time for skies of bitle cotton Can watch Clouds clusters Swineine brooms: and feather ' dusters day-drea- 1 - ms 1 - : - I - - September tempo! Rush and riddle fiddle Busy as an old-tiSteal a glance at lily pool Comb and brush and off to school - Penal Report Poet Quintet Offer Well Varied Wares i ! Crime" a volutie'i "There are no restrictions whatsoever as to author or subIves Washburn from eoming Inc in October Is the persona: ject" stated Chester Kerr in an Monthly story of Florence Monohan head:- zouncing Little Brown $10000 novel con of a California prison for women! test far 1942 which extends to t - : In her fourth book "Window-Shoppin- g" Isabel Fiske Conant's Individuality finds crisp expression in short-lin- e lyrics in well fashioned sonnets or the qua 'trains she calls "Pieces of Eight Mn Conanl's is a quiet art Sh does not seek to startle with ec centricities of form or utterance but her poems have originality Many of them have appeared in leading journals as Scribner's Saturday Review of Literature Poetry "The Archbishop Sails for Rome" is a narrative poem In which Dr Willis A Boughton tells of the prelate's setting out a complacent person satisfied with himself and hie position Inclined to look down his nose at fellow ptusengers as lesser men and of the catastrophe that im perils all their lives—a fearful experience that teaches the archbishop humility and a new set of values Cosetto Faust Newton a world traveler and widely known as lecturer and author pours out her Indignation atg the waste and hurt of the world-durinwar's "Dark Interval" in a collection so titled It la an uncommon mixture of high thought cloaked too often unworthily ! - S 'Ex-Warde- n - aw g 11 B aOH 1 1942 "The soie purpose of this Mr Kerr said "is as in inev-louryears to secure a novel that is both distinctive and Interesting and to make It one of the outstanding books of Its 'year" The 1940 winner was Nina reodorova's "The Family" s g - - 1 - - Idarguerita Steen 0200 eiP John $273 UNDOING ISLAND IN TICS CON' Selby THZ SKIES or ZUROPT I rroderie $25° Prokosek LADIES' DAT earns Chard Powers Smith 4111 - A THOUSAND 200 SHALL TALL Hans Halm PATTERN or - CONQUEST Josepia C Marie PLANNING FOR AMERICA Cleo B 60101111ty and Associates VIC TIDIR OF 11250 ' $A 00 ' '9'275 FORTVNit Stefan Zweig AN : MANI) PATCHWORK Volume Early I i - - ti - 1 I iIjICOCN & ' i V A I ' i - Ilk: 62so ' ' ' Books of the Moment THE SUN Ill MT - - - prelusion eon-'je- st headed three of the country's:: leading penal InAtitutions for( women at Shakopee Minn Ges neva ill and Tehachapi CaLl' Lewit E LaWel Sing Sing is contributing the preface to her book - ' The-Atlanti- newsrecently i - i - May — I Atlantic Sets No "Women In I Among live Kaleidograph poets recently appearing Dr Scottish-bor- n is Hugh Findlay '' 1 a landscape ortist who bas ren several books on horticulture Ins collection- titled "The Stone of Destiny" includes a number of nature poems but for large part dealwith the Intangibles of life Though a New Yorker Dr Findlay in several verses pays tribute to Texat and to Iti pi° neer women The group of lyrics which ! Anna M Priestly has gatheredi up many from poetry and mews publications under the title "Upon a Rock" are written with simplicity But often one comes on expression of poignantly felt emotion and an occasional poem reflects her awareness of today's events and problems "Relinquish ment" gives an old truth new ex i Restrictions In Novel Contest -' : Press- -- I I me ' - b ) The Private Pipers of Private PurkeyJ 4 ' - 1 : ' t ' - 4 - t 1 t' :0- CA -- ' ) - ?-'4- - union g - 4 lishers Henry Holt and CornNew York City — Front that firsi chaptervoncerned with the '41marriase of a Pope and the narrator's awakening aboard the Dixie Clipd to find a per New several-day- s' drinking bout in Paris has harnessed him !with a lovely wife Albert Leffingwell's Story moves at top speed The COnfttliOn In Mike Pope's brain lon't altogether alcoholic fog he has no answer for other Strange happenings in Paris except his accomplishment of his mission In onnection with a string of earls and the beautiful liertha BLit whete had the lovely Madame Elona Perigord entered to be aided out of Paris before the Nazis took over? What about the omnipresent and 'unspeakable littlo gray man and why has Elona transferred her Interest to the arrogant English Caiverton? Mike tells his troubles to the tall McRae—one of his "constant readers" Mike being a perpopular columnist—which haps Ls well He's to meet McRae again In New York after Elons has vanished after he's seen that little gray man at a hotel table with a bullet In his temple And has himself been kidnaped and Impersonated McRae Then Mike learns how he hu been "tested" and about the mysterious Nine and the "big offensive" planned Mr Leffingwell has evolved ad whose pIot extraordinary events of tremendous significance to New York City and with threads reaching as far as Greenlan& might seem prophetic In view of happenings making headlines since Na book was written Its swift movement leaves one breathiess and his Mike Pope participating actively and In the counteroffensive playing Important part at the end Is a young fellow you'll want to meet again fortune "to purchase respectaility" for that second marriage ut it didn't Include the cost to iti son EurOpean princes declined to send their daughters to a strange emintry to 'perhaps meet Leopoldina's experience only the Neapolitan monarch's daughter Thereza Christina the ugliest princes in Europe was a candidate for the Brazilian But Dom Pedro II of whose coronation year thia 1941 la the 100th anniversary was a far different Man than his profligate father duty and chivalry had meaning for him If he never knew the ecstasy of love he learned to appreciate the goodness of his plain Thereza who endeared herself to the people even as Leopoidina had She be cams the "warning hearth-fir- e of 1:101 ( s Top Thriller Springville's Writer First October number of Ranch Romances out in late August contains a moving short story from the pen of Fronk C Robertson Springville's well known author of "westerns" While most of Mr Robertson's work Is In the longer form with "A Connoisseur of Calico' he shows himself muter of the short story technique "A Connoisseur of Calico" is the tale of a pretty storekeeper whose suitors were rivals for the railroad business as well as the lady i - : book is signally word-painti- N Y Makes Picturesque Dynasty of American Continent Subject for Colorful Harding Touch Amazon Throne By Beano Harding Publkher C3 of book that gets inside the ter! ritory and the people covering its ground with competent thor to seems bear Yet it hardly oughnesi out the claitnt of the editor for Mr Corle's desert country em-- ( It is !anything but a story of braces lower Nevada western' customs of "desert people" Only Utah northern Arizona and a chapter or two is devoted to eastern California The Mojave book Most the of "folkways" desert with its fantastic yucca is description of terrain and groves Joshua trees and desert made As an initial example tory For all that it's the sort cactus provides a perfect land seep for some excellent genre The color the desolation the hard inimicality lif"ot 11 11414S' of these Waste spaces are r t 4 St evoked with sure power tri4o i liwtii 440)III'f But more interesting are the ' ' c47 tales and legends of desert rats it 4 (44 t 4 '74 ''411'1 ' li :I hopeful prospectors for gold and ' Iri ' 41 Loo silver ghost towns abandoned iN? 1 op: L ia ': '1'1 1 141' mining camps and the exploits : 1 r of such figures as Death Valley I A :'' vt ' 071' 1‘4'' 4t'' tt :' Scotty "Old Harmony" and tY1 rs14 participants in the Gallup riots t Apaches Flutes and Hopis their : - -a' ifsks customs and their : tribal '''4'' : gious lore antedate the white 4man's invasion and provide a ' are0(:::: ' t1)(113 I backdrop of ancient and infe L ) to" pressive legendry jp 4Ar Most of us know the Mojave tttrpL ' 1r ' only as it flashes by from the Tip75 ''I'i I as we see window of a train :Oro L It along IL S 91 and this super I 1"1'7 I 1 ficial acquaintanceship is by no t41 'means uninteresting But Mr -L '''''' I t Corte goes deeper than that ' I 1 '? He brings to life figures et the I 1) t C:k past such grotesques as the OyP- ''!01—:‘':e ) 0 C'''''" ster Man of Bicycle take the :AP- ''': :44 ‘of Iggiri Women Who Married Stars and 1 f) N Man Who Was Buried - ?'14r :1144t 4 the 44Apc Standing Up He makes cred I ste 04011ft ! 14-t fs I '' r r ible the lives of borax team :14 e sters filling station operators 71144vo— : 0°7 f'i:kisit- -1 ''' 7 t: the year around in tem living 64144 7"4" as4 4 'a 4t4'V 44104"' ' d'kr4t' well over 100 degrees ' aetp Vc peratures 4 k444 the sightseers at Death :te'llj ' r! '6IPAL4A rtkill: '4i frtv and Furnace Creek Inn 'Talley r1101 !1 i r L wro'A454 e' ff'i How Erskine Caldwell if able -4 'Iv" 4714' 7' Z09447rfi 7$ to edit this series while broadttl1:4 100:' " tr 4 4 casting from Moscow is a feat Lh we cannot explain but the Okte:4 WA'g Vetwolt 1C14644gg forthcoming books announced In the "American Folkways" One of Alan Dunn's drawings for "Private Papers of Private series if they repeat the success of Mr Corle's should be eagerly read in all the papers that Purkey"—Purkey cogitates: awaited by Americans who wish to soil serve on foreign but I have I will never be asked to know more about America a feeling I have be promised to the Serbs or 'somebody" Cork's t Edwin successful- the editor they will tell "the colorful story of American tile —for thelist time through ts own galvanic medium the cUsT toms of the people" A projec0 'of this nature can siucceed only if a judicious and fortunate choice of writer and subject is: besert Country The Other Worlds --0-- a kmMAlitk 60"re'V - 0-- s 1-4- 1P' high-mettl- k -- 4 4 44 '& 16' - ' li '! 401- ' - er th j! 1111r4 - - VOIlfrOlit Omnibus of best modern ptoriee about the fantastic Edited and k - 000 44 4 4 it ' a with introduction by Phil ' 4 I' t Stang Publisher Wilfred Fund 4'!1-):A)111 — - : ---)s ir- mm se Inc New York City i 4 t vm : 445o 41s Phil Stotig author of "State -' 11 "- ' I 't AL ''''''" and "Horses and Amen Fair" "1 t'''t 4' is a recognizNI authority cans N "' a on weird and fantastic stories— A 411v ''''— but that came as a hobby in this -unique field of fiction This is the first anthology and contains 23 "best" stories of free Ircatina i tion aonearing in ade The substance of these stolit ! ries Is varlottsly labeled as weird ! strange fantastic amazing star I a i unknown and astounding not stories of Mars They are t1 but a few ghost or money-me- n e' stories are included All are by I presentday writers—Poe fierce 1-- 4 1 de Maupassant areexcluded The 4 i 4 stories are funny Ingenious and 11 3 i 11111111 i on the haunting scarifying side 1 4 ti 4 t ) 4 a few being "horror" yarns ' The primary motif of a good' '' I fantastic story is that It should not be even remotely possible ' ' t ki Mr Stong says It should be ' : ' Ilit 4 '''o ' '''''' the ' thoroughly incredible Yet t' be-dshould incredible premise s 'eloped in punctiliously logical "' " 'ok 0 detail while maintaining all of 'S 40 4 ' the dramatic principles of good C '' ': ' : l' ':4q''':' fiction he explains And that Ls '' -- - - e - Mr Stones standard for his se' ' L Iiik4 lections ' ' '' ' ""41' - ' ''-''-A He writes convincing fore ' :' ' -' - ' 4 word about this type of fiction i 4z"0 ''' 1f 1 —a foreword that can easily con7 ' 4 ' '1' 4 I '4 i: vert readers who usually scoff i t and sneer at this type of fiction i He offers examples of occuri t 14k41ak ' I ' p't 14 Algool rences within his own experi''' ' $ 00 '2"-: 4 ''' t i"'"'i' ' 4' ' x ' 4 ence y4f t ' r"4''''0 '''' eIse that have struck him as 0M' s tAi' ' 4 44 ""er- - — i ' lik 4P'!: e V4A!'(4 ' evidence of premoni "impressive 4 t '0 144' even in theie he does ' But tion" ' ' :' settez— i t tri: f2zlis:21'4g' not assent to intervention from "The other world" He sees some little case for the thing called Willie Snow Ethridge and the small "Boy" who is a bright "psychic" Most of the stories are well figure in her newest book "I'll Sing One Song" which written and will If one is not records Kentucky experiences careful prove too credible causing a spine4ingling chilling reaction The book is it recommendedfor children r persons mnia—M suffering from -- By Evelyn Eaton Publisher' 'lamer and Brothers New York City About a year ago a novel of French colonial times in America 'Quietly My Captain Waits" introduced to UJI Evelyn Eaton a story-tellwho dealt so interestingly with her material that we have awaited eagerly her sec ond book Unfortunately "nestles' Are the Sal is" is no little disappointing after that first excellent romance Miss Eaton has gone back again to early colonial history of France's Ile Royale now Cape Breton Island the New Englanders' besiegement of Louisbourg And its surrender forming the storys major episode But as a matter of fact this dramatic passage of- France's styuggle on this continentean Miss Eaton's account lacks ttile exciting absorbing aspect ' one might expect Aside from this the historic interest of the story runs a bit thin nor does the fictional romance compensate It may be because the hero of this present book is no such vivid as the - provocative personality heroine the alluring Madame de Freneuse who was an actual figure in Port Royal who gave to- "Quietly Ply Captain Waits" its fascination Indeed this Paul de Morpain—though he wins the interest ot an Indian girl of the mistress of Louisbouries governor and of his love1daughter and even of Madame de Pompadour herself—does not appear of truly heroic stature Paul de Morpain son of a Louisbourg fisherman is a prisoner of war in a New England village at the opening As serving man accompan)ing his master to the Assembly in Boston he ilearns through Parson overloud MoOdy's impassioned prayer for guidanCe of the contemplated expedition against toulsboiurg Urged by desire for freedom as well as by love of his native place 'Paul and another unhappy oasie boy seize opportunity to escape and set out alone in a lugger on the 500-mile voyage to eatry warnipg to Louisbourg Wrecked In a terrific gale oil Cape Sable reefs they are rescued by the Indian "San" and set out with her through the winter forest for Louisbourg They meet a band of savages led by the mysterious Abbe le Loutre who compels Paul to a marriage ceremony with San but also sets him on his way Unfortunately all his pain have been for naught the governor Mons du Chambon flouts his warning does nothing to prepare against Invasion And when the New Englanders arrive to the attack his conduct of the defense is stupidly Incompetent The interwoven romantic complications seem to outweigh the drama and events following the capitulation of Lousbourg Paul's escape and subsequent career the fate of his Indian wife the eventual working out of his destiny make a struetun in which the author's fingers are too clear Selection aub Eleanor Dark's novel Ativ 0 3 1911 Stong Hobby EdwinCorle's Excellent Volume oil! 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