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THE CEDAR RAPIDS SUNDAY GAZETTE AND REPUBLICAN. AMCNe the cccr Edited by Betsy Erskine Feuchtwanger Novel Is Beautifully Told Story, But Skimmers Are Warned To Shun It Life Drama Of Two Sisters Portrayed In Bennett Novel $175,000 Given In Guggenheim Memorial Awards Objectivrst Poetry Given The Once Over Ponderous Work Subject Of Interesting Prize Winning Snapshot; Various Other Authors Reviewed. Reviewer Says Book Is Bound To Be Ranked With The Classics Of Our Literature. Tale," by "The Old Wives' Arnold Bennett. reminiscences and concise, dramatic character sketches and his own spiritual inspirations, sometimes fantastic and mystic, all make this long, but never dull, narrative.

(Many a doctor can find parallel cases and situations in his own career.) Late in life, he became blind and had to leave his beloved San Michele, but his buoyancy of spirit surmounts each lost battle until at last he faces Death, itself, as a happy adventure. JESSIE C. WALTERS. (Mrs. J.

P. Walters.) Toledo, Iowa. ABOUT A HOTEL. "Imperial Palace," by Arnold Bennett. (Doubleday Dor an.) Seven hundred and sixty-nine pages about a hotel: The Ultra-Luxurious Hotel seen through the eyes of the Perfect Director, of the more than perfect Head Housekeeper, and through those managers of other departments persons less important, but perfect nevertheless.

We are told incidentally of the two love affairs of the Director the one "short and snappy," the other "slow but sure." The author spares not the slightest detail of the thoughts and actions of his characters, yet he succeeds in holding the reader's interest through many descriptions of the most sordid, everyday affairs. MARGARET DEACON SEVERA, (Mrs. Lumir Sever a) Forest Drive, Cedar Rapids. AN AMERICAN FAMILY. "My Story," by Mary Roberts Rlne-hart.

(Farrar and Rinehart.) To find a volume of autobiography so utterly lacking in egotism or self-consciousness is a marked event I Not only is this book a revelation of the strength of character, determination of purpose and a seemingly inexhaustible capacity for hard work of America's foremost authoress, but it furnishes a delightful and pleasingly authentic view of the problems, adjustments and adventures of an average American family of the Twentieth Century. MARY MARTHA DE BEST, SpringvUle, Iowa. FEW DAYS ago Mildred Field brought me a copy of the February number of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, edited by Harriet Monroe. For this issue, Miss Monroe had placed the editorship in the hands of Louis Zokofsky, instructor in English at the University of Wisconsin and one of the leaders of the Objeiiivist movement in America. As Miss Field handed me the magazine I thought I heard her use the word, "haywire." I'm not sure.

Then she said quickly: "Let me know what you make out of if and was gone. I opened the little magazine and read this poem from a group by Carl Rakosi: BEFORE YOU. Orphean Lost. The Oakboughs of the cottagers descend, my lover, with the bestial evening. The shadows of their swelled trunks crush the frugal herb.

The heights lag and perish in a blue vacuum. And my lover, skirt the cottages, the eternal hearths and gloom, to animate the ideal with internal passion. The name of Charles Reznfkoff is well known among the objectivists. Here is a group of verse by him: I All day the pavement has been black THE JOHN Simon Guggenheim Memorial awards for this year have been announced. Fellowships amounting to $175,000 have been awarded to seventy-seven scholars, novelists, poets, sculptors, painters and other creative workers, who will carry on research and creative work on three continents.

Thirteen Fellows from the United States will go to various parts of Latin America; ten Fellows from Latin America will come to the United States. Awards for creative writing in poetry, prose and drama have been granted to the following: Maurice Hindus, novelist, author of "Humanity Uprooted." (For many months this book has been among the most popular in the Cedar Rapids Public Library.) Hart Crane, poet, author of White Buildings" and "The Bridge." John Crowe Ransom, who wrote "Poems About God" and "God Without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy." Genevieve Taggard, poet, author of "The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson," and "For Eager Lovers." Katherine Anne Porter, writer, author of "Flowering Judas." Katherine Clugston, dramatist, whose play "These Days" was produced in New York in 1928. Em jo Basshe. dramatist, author of "The Centuries." Walter Stanley Campbell, who writes under the pseudonym, "Stanley Vestal." author of "Dobs Walls" and "Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the Old West." Mr. Campbell will complete a biography of the great Indian leader.

Sitting Bull. Anita Brenner, author of "Idols Behind Altars," will go to Latin America to make a study of pre-S pa nish-American art. Carleton Beals, writer and journalist, who is preparing a biography of Porfirio Diaz, former president of Mexico, will continue his work in Mexico. Mr. Beals is author of "Mexico: An Interpretation," JJRS.

C. R. SMITH of Onslow wins the snapshot prize, today, with her review of that lengthy, historical novel "Success," by Lion Feuchtwanger. This novel of Bavaria, the country of the author's birth, has been compared in its vastness with Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." Mrs. Smith warns all hurried readers "the rapid readers who from a novel of such huge- proportions.

I'm reminded of a friend who was reading a book and when I asked whether or not he liked it, he said: "Oh yes. it a mighty good book but you have to skip a lot." The skimmers and skippers often miss much that is fine in literature. In a note accompanying Mrs. J. P.

Walters' Snapshot of "The Story of San Michele," she says that she has tried to give a composite review of this book for she has discussed it with both men and women readers, besides reading it twice, herself. "I like best the author's descriptions of the people on the island," says Mrs. Walters, "and his own philosophy of life and death." She also mentions Dr. Munthe's bird sanctuary on the island and tells us that the profits from this book are to be given to a society for the protection of animals. Reviews Bennett Novel.

Arnold Bennett's last novel, "Imperial Palace." written a few months before his death is the sub By Edward Swem. ARNOLD BENNETT gave many fine novels to English literature. Only recently he wrote a voluminous study of the life of a great hotel. But the book that will take its place among the classics of our literature is "The Old Wives' Tate." Perhaps many younger readers have never attempted to plow over its immensities. It is a voyage that is well worth while.

In "The Old Wives' Tale" we have the life stories of two sisters from girlhood until death. The slow action of the story takes place in two different settings, an English manufacturing market town, and the Paris of the third Empire and Republic. But the atmosphere of bourgeois, Victorian England pervades the story, explains the actions of the characters and is shown dying as they die. The Conservative Sister. Constance, the more conservative sister, spends all her life in the market town of Bursley.

She, with her shopkeeper husband, carries on the draper's establishment of her father. These two breed a son who gives promise of becoming an artist but who turns into a harmless dilettante. The climax of the history of this family comes when the husband throws his whole being into an attempt to save the life of his murderer cousin. Bennett shows his great gift for realism in depicting the life and narrow outlook of people who are happy because they have not the slightest idea that the life they lead is narrow, and moreover, would not be greatly concerned if they did know it. Here is a treatment of provincialism not like that in "Madame Bovary" or "Main Street." It is a portrayal of provincialism from within, not from the viewpoint of the outsider.

There is irony in Bennett's realism but it is tempered with real sympathy and understanding. The Rebellious Sister. Sophia the rebellious sister, mar- With rain, but in our warm bright- i ARNOLD BENNETT. Enoch Arnold Bennett, English author, who died recently at the age of sixty-three, was without doubt one of Great Britain's foremost novelists. He was born of middle-class parents in Hanley, one of the "Five Towns" of Staffordshire which served as background for the novels that first brought him literary recognition.

To ma those novels remain his greatest contribution to literature. Before he gamed a reputation as a novelist he was clerk in a London law office, editor of a woman's magazine, and he even reviewed books after hours. Mr. Bennett died in a great, sumptuous modern hotel such as he described in his last novel, "Imperial Palace." B. E.

not worthy of serious attention. She preserves the outlook of the provincial who says, "These people do things badly" when they are only doing them differently. Inihe end both sisters possess a great deal of material wealth. They reunite, both of them old and lonely and neither understanding the other. In their old age they are contrasted with the youth and careless Satire For Visitors To New York BOOK GOSSIP PDA VAN BUR EN, who reviews "A Midland Saga" is the wife of G.

F. Van Buren of Jones county. LION FEUCHTW ANGER, Mr. Feuchtwanger, a noted author, wrote reviewed In the prize winning Snapshot today by Mrs. C.

R. Smith of Onslow, la. state representative from the forty-i seventh district. At present, Mrs. I Van Buren is in Des Moines with ject of Margaret Deacon Severa's Snapshot.

Was Mrs. Severs disappointed in this novel or did I read my own disappointment into her review? Of course, the realism that Mr. Bennett brought to the English novel is there but it seems so far removed from "Clayhanger" and "Denry the Audacious." The last sentence of Mrs. Severa's review surely describes the "art" of Arnold Bennett his ability to hold the reader's interest through descriptions of the most sordid, everyday affairs. In case you are re-reading some of Bennett's earlier novels I'm sure our readers would be interested In seeing Snapshots of them in this column.

Mary Martha de Best's high praise of Mary Roberts Rinehart's autobiography convinces the reader of the inspiration she must have received from it. It's going to be awfully hard on American wives if many husbands read that book and begin to realize what one American woman was able to do. David Klink's Snapshot of "The Runner" brings up that old question: "Who won the War of 1812?" The answer, you know, depends on the text-book you studied and whether you got your schooling in Canada or the United States. her husband. Edwin Ford Piper, whose "Pilgrimage" appears in the Poets' Corner, is instructor in the English de ly-lit Room, praise God.

I kept saying to myself, And saying not a word, Amen, you answered. II From my window I could not see the moon, And yet it was shining: The yard among the houses Snow upon it An oblong in the darkness. Ill Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies A girder, itself among the rubbish. rv Rooted among roofs, their smoke among the clouds, Factory chimneys our cedars of Lebanon. What are you doing in our street among the automobiles.

Horse? How are your cousins, the centaur and the unicorn? VI Of our visitors I do not know which I dislike most: The silent beetles or these noisy flies. This is the briefest bit of verse in ries a fool in the guise of a commercial traveler. He deserts her I in Paris and after a severe" ill I ness she finds herself in the home Heart-Rending Talc Bound To Make You Think "Hunger And Love," by Lionel Britton. $4.00. (Harper and Brothers).

By Betty B. Lange. i beauty of a girl who is just going I into marriage, showing as Bennett says, "that the change from the young girl to the stout aging woman is made up of an infinite number of I infinitesimal changes, each unper-i ceived by her." One can see that the theory of 1 organic evolution influenced the partment of the University of Iowa. Mr. Piper's volumes of poetry include, "Barbed Wire and Other Poems." "Barbed Wire and Way- farers," and "Paint Rock Road." That little book.

"Boners By Those Who Made Them." won't cure i your financial depression but it will help you to forget about it. Here are a few of our favorite Boners "Achilles was dipped in the River Stinks until he was intolerable." of two courtesans. These ladies drift onward but Sophia sets herself up as the keeper of a respectable rooming-house and in the end i owner and manager of a fine pension. The Franco-Prussian war and the Commune pass without attracting her serious attention except to learn how she can profit by them. She is a beautiful woman but she realistic philosophy of Bennett.

He was a strengthener and a proponent of the modern school of realism that views life as made ud of im- "Havine only one wife is called Monotonv." perceptible shifts in the juxtaposi- tion of tiny factors. In this book we see life as lonelv and tragic, not the heroic tragedy of Hamlet, but ihe everyday tragedy of sameness. I loneliness and incomprehensibility. I shuns the love of the French capital, not because of morals, but I because she thinks such things are 1 NEW BOOKS IN BRIEF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. Mrs.

Rinehart's autobiographical work "My Story," fa the subject of a Snapshot review by Mary Martha de Best of Spring -ville, la. By B. E. "This Is New York," a play by Robert Sherwood. $2.00.

(Charles Scribner's Sons). By Edward Sheeny, Jr. yyOULDNT you like at this moment to be speeding eastward on the Twentieth Century limited looking forward to a week of Broadway and wouldn't you remark on your return, "New York is certainly the place to go for a whirl but I'd hate to live there You probably would and that desire and that same remark would stamp you unmistakably as a middle westerner. "This is the New York that everybody knows and that everybody wants to visit and where nobody cares to live and about which this play is written," says Mr. Sherwood, the author.

At the opening of the play Mr. Krull, the veteran senator from South Dakota a big man with square shoulders and a round haircut together with his wife, a power in the D. A. R. and the W.

C. T. U. and any other organization that will help in producing votes for her husband, are stopping over in New York for a banquet and speech (with fee) by the senator, which speech goes over the blue network to South Dakota for the benefit of the senator constituents, Their daughter intends to shake forever the dust of South Dakota from her shoes in favor of the sidewalks of New York and becomes engaged to Joseph Gresham, a rich young man-about-town. The two impediments to a happy marriage are the eider Krulls and a young lady.

Phyllis Adrian, whose apartment, clothes and pin money have been furnished by Gresham, jr. Between the objections of the Krulls and the insistence of Phyllis Adrian that she be given a huge sum of money to tide her over until she attaches herself to another philanthropist, Gresham, has his worries. After a series of incidents that bring the involved parties together in the apartment of Miss Adrian everything is finally ironed out. Joe and Emma Krull are to be married, live in South Dakota for a year in order to satisfy the senator's constituents and make his re-election a certainty, then go back to New York forever. Mr.

Sherwood, the master of satire in his "The Road to Rome" and "The Queen's Husband." has produced another play so full of sophisticated satire that you are not only amused but discover yourself chuckling over every situation and almost every line. And, by the way, the preface is just as amusing as the story itself. "A grasshopper goes through all the stages from infancy to adultery." "Michael Angelo painted the dome of the Sistlne Madonna." "An epistle is the wife of an apostle." From time Immemorial Youth has behaved badly if we are to believe the words of the older generation. Arthur Train, in his "Puritan's Progress." tells in detail of the behavior of the youth of the 1850 s. He quotes from the English periodical, "The Saturday Review," which declared: The English girl of today is a creature who dyes, paints and enamels studies the arts of vice, is immodest in dress, behavior and conversation, and whose whole object in life is to marry the man who.

of all she knows, has the largest fortune and the least brains." Dr. George Ward Stocking, professor of economics, University of Texas, will continue his study of developments in the Mexican oil industry, of the program of social THE WINNER "Success," by Lion Feuchtwanger. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. (Viking). As rich in detail as a slow-motion picture is this story of Martin Kruger.

unjustly jailed for murder, and the futile efforts of his mistress-wife to obtain a pardon for him. A Bavarian story, translated from the German, it touches upon every subject in heaven, earth and hell, whether related to the main theme or not. For such a ponderous book it is beautifully written land translated) with deft touches which delight the unhurried bookworm. Unfortunately, the rapid reader who skims will condemn it as an unmitigated bore. MRS.

C. R. SMITH, Onslow, Iowa. WAR AND TRAGEDY. "The Runner," by Ralph Connor.

Like a sugar-coated pill the horrors of war are presented in this entertaining novel. As the reader thinks about the story, the sugar-coating melts and reveals the sentiments of the author and war in all its tragedy appears. Connor presents the Canadian viewpoint of the War of 1812, but with a generous feeling toward the American cause. This generosity is sincere and not for a moment to be mistaken for the hypocritical desire for the approval of American readers. DAVID KLINK.

Marion, Iowa. DOCTOR WATCHES LIFE. "The Story of San Michele," by Axel Munthe. (E. P.

Dutton). Again a doctor looks at life! Dr. Munthe (Swedish not French) was a fashionable nerve specialist and psychologist of Paris. He worked with Pasteur and Charcot. His rich on a large one.

disease, starvation, crime, we have not yet reached the highest of which humanity is capable. His idea as to what that highest is, is impractical but entertaining. Bertrand Russell has written an excellent introduction to the volume in which he says it deserves a wide reading. I see no reason for "literature expressing ordinary feelings being ordinary," in fact the dictionary says if it is literature it should be marked by elevation, vigor, purity and grace of style. Mr.

Britton makes this on one count, vigor, otherwise his book should come under the head of an engrossing psychological autobiography. A few of the chapter headings are: The Rat Comes Out of His Hole, Nose Drip and Knowledge, The Space-Time Franchise, Love in a Lavatory, The Recipe for Greatness, Lamp-post Sniffing. And you will doubtless be interested to know that the hymn of hate housing these outbursts of intense and interesting rage is bound delicately in silver and lavender. QF COURSE all along I've been kind of bitter about dance tree sitting, and authors with a hate on the world writing 600-page outbursts. But then I reread "Job" the other day and have come to the conclusion that we all should be prepared for anything in the way of endurance contests.

And "Hunger and Love" comes under the head of one of the more worthwhile endurance contests. If you can read it, it will make you think: it will revolt, irritate, and amaze you. it will show you in ugly words how the other half lives; and now and then it will break your heart a little; but always it will make you think. It is the life of Arthur Phelps and should be called an autobiography rather than a novel. He was a poor boy in London who began his career in a greengrocer's shop and worked up to assistant in a bookstore.

Most of the time he lives in poverty which he describes minutely. Boy Crushed By Poverty. Here is no brave laughing soul like Henri Gaudier to whom poverty does not matter much since life holds books and art. Here is a boy nearly crushed by the horrors of dirt and disgusting smells; hating violently a system which allows a small percentage of people to live easily and the rest to slave and starve: loathing his employers; sick with the hate of war, of injustice, of the fact that love cannot be anything but dirty to one as horribly poor as he. It is a book filled with rage and when he hurls the terms "prime minister," "mayor." i "judge" at his reader, they are curses as bitter as gall.

Strong as the book is. it fails to bring the average reader to that sympathetic point where he might clench a righteous fist and knock his worst enemy cold by yelling "You old Prime Minister you!" As for the good old Anglo-Saxon monosyllables which make the book pungent, I haven't seen so many since James Joyce turned out "Ulysses." In Proletarian Language. "Hunger and Love" is written with proletarian disregard of grammar. The style is really a series of headlines but is not difficult to read. In one place he says "Literature expressing ordinary feeling ought to be ordinary" and far be it from this lad not to live up to his ideas.

UNIVERSITY: OLD-TIME By Joyce Hopkins. Dis in napa now trailing the sterilized. I began to feel a bit confused and turned to the "comment" of the editor and found a list of poetical works absolutely necessary to students of poetry a list including such names as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, e.

e. cumnflngs and Charles Reznikoff. Do you recall T. S. Eliot's "The Waste It was intelligible even though one got the impression that the world was nothing but an ash heap but it required no such mental gymnastics as the poems quoted above.

You can readily see that a heavy hand has been laid upon us would-be high brows in these years of 1930 and 1931. I was Just beginning to get a glimmer of light on the Humanist controversy. Now it's the oblectivist! Perhaps the editor's definition will enlighten you: "An Objective: (Optics) The lens bringing the rays from an objective to a focus. (Military Use) That which is aimed at. (Use extended to poetry) Desire for what is objectively perfect, inextricably the direction of historic and contemporary particulars." Is that definition clear to you? I can make nothing out of it and I believe that until these Objectivists find a definition that has some semblance of coherence they will have a difficult time convincing students of poetry that this movement is really worthy of serious consideration.

B. E. P. S. Cheer up.

There are other low-brow readers of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse." One of them mailed back his copy first class with this effusion My money la what i want you heard me my money You got it and I got poetry which metaphysically speaking is nothing but horsehair and metal discs in a Bach fugue my money, my god, my money! B. E. I control set up by the state, of the economic consequences of this pro-! gram, and of the future of the industry. Dr. Stocking wrote "The i Oil Industry and the Competitive System." sun, the stars, the milky way in language that you and I can understand in case you, too, are untrained in astronomy.

MEN DISLIKE WOMEN, by Michael Arlen. $2.50. (Doubleday Doran) After having been thoroughly disgusted with Michael Arlen's sophistication and his chit-chat which seemed to get nowhere at all, I am surprised to find this novel which is well worth reading. It is not a masterpiece of literature but it is very entertaining. The setting is the New York of today with its "right people" of Park avenue and, too a racketeer de luxe with a penthouse on Park avenue and a country house at Great Neck.

We Americans receive a few well-earned thrusts for our tendency to lionize visiting foreigners, our penchant for old world furniture in our drawing rooms and our treatment of hard-working, docile husbands. SEVEN DAUGHTERS, bv Lesley Storm. $2.50. (Farrar and Rinehart" Captain Dragon had no difficulty piloting a ship on stormy seas but to pilot a family of seven daughters was another matter. How well he succeeded with "the weaker sex" is told in this novel by Leslie Storm, a young Scotswoman.

A SPEECH FOR EVERY OCCASION, by A. C. Edgerton. (Noble and Noble) These speeches have one great quality in common brevity. More than 200 speeches make up a book of about 400 pages! God bless the man who introduced brevity into after-dinner speaking.

But will any orator be content to use onlv what is offered in this book or will he use these short speeches as stepping-stones to bigger and better things? Perhaps the author has defeated his Bf EBF Jfeki Vj3gKjiBr sw HrJ JssVfcsiT ttwm sffi MB BV kalHllllwQQiBillllllH issbssssVHM BSsilEsifl EE? Bfiy jmbbS Hamlin Garland, American novelist, will lead the discussion at a University Round Table in the senate chamber of Old Capitol, Iowa City, tomorrow afternoon at 4:10 under the auspices of the Senate Board of University Lectures. Mr. Garland is returning to his home in New York after spending the winter in Hollywood with his daughters. ROWENA RIDES THE RUMBLE, by Ethel Hueston. $2.00 (Bobbs-Merrill Ethel Hueston, born and reared, in a parsonage has created a bevy of popular heroines including.

Prudence of the Parsonage. Doris. Eve and Ginger Ella. This new volume adds Rowena Rostand to the group. The.

story is wholesome, entertaining and very light. THE WHITE GODS. The Romance of Cortez, by Richard Friedenthal. $3.50 (Harper's) When you' were in grammar school and first heard the name of Hernando Cortez it thrilled you with the glitter surrounding it: when you studied the story of civilization you were told that Cortez and his ruthless companions destroyed the great Aztec civilization, pillaged, raped and left little but disease in their wake. In "The White Gods" Richard Friedenthal has given us both sides of the story of Cortez and the splendor of the Aztec civilization.

It is a romantic, beautiful and terrible story of Mexico in the sixteenth century. GEORGE WASHINGTON. The Son of His Country, by Paul Van Dyke. $2.50 (Scribner's) Early America's part in moulding the character of the young Washington (1732-1775) is the basis of this new biography. The author was formerly professor of history at Princeton university.

THE SIGHTLESS HORSEMAN, by Marque Trayde. (Guild Publishers A maudlin story dedicated "to the boys and girls who carry flasks." A HAIR DIVIDES, by Claude Houghton. $2.00 (Doubleday Dor-an) A mystery story addict tells me that this story is something "different," something "original" for the fa. "There's no use guessing how the story ends for it can't be done," he says. It is the newest product by the author of "I Am Jonathan Scrivener," a story that is still being discussed when two mystery story readers get to--gether.

OLD FIRST, by Lawrence Perry. $2.50 (Farrar and Rinehart) Of 1871 when the "Old First Church" was the center of community life in American towns; of the days when Jane Austen's young ladies were still the examples of conduct; and of later days when religion began to give way to ethics. But more than this, it is a story of a romantic young lady of those early days during Grant's administration. FATHER, by Elizabeth. $2 50 (Doubleday Doran) The latest novel by the author of "The Enchanted April" and "Elizabeth and Her German Garden." The publication date is April 17.

THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES, by Sir James Jeans, M.A.. D.Sc., F.R.S. A great scientist Carl Van Vechten has entirely recovered from his recent illness and is planning to sail for Europe soon. THE POETS' CORNER PILGRIMAGE By Edwin Ford Piper. 1930 1330 purpose and added to the miseries of the after-dinner audience.

NO ONE MAN. bv Rupert Huehes. $2.50. Harpers Penelope New-bold, an oh-so-modern young lady of wealth and spirit, want to find the right young man. I regret to admit that the story of this disgraceful search was quite amusing.

Mrs. Bertrand Russell would approve of Penelope. raf rtf MS. fmt.f.m,mt rta $100. "Now or Never" Your engagement and wedding rings are precious lifetime possessions choose them with care! Yon want them to be of finest gualrrg and correct design; unegualed In loveliness! Trauh rings are famous as the choice of discriminating brides.

Come in and them soon. We have mang other things tjoull need now, too pDWARD SHEEHY, JR. who re-views the play "This is New York" on today's Book Page had the title role in Robert Sherwood's play "The Queen's Husband" when it was produced by the Community players last year. The Ramayan of Tulsidas" is the book which Gandhi regards as "the greatest in all devotional literature." J. M.

Mac Fie, a student of the Hindu temperament, has just completed a story of this book and a summary of the deeds of Rama, entitled "The Ramayan of Tulsidas: Or The Bible of North India." The Jewish Book club has selected for its April book Mrs. Anita Lib-man Le be son's "Jewish Pioneers in America." Mrs. Lebeson was born in Russia, came to America at an early age and received her education at the University of Illinois. Roark Bradford, whose book. "Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun," inspired the play, "The Green Pastures," saw it last week for the first time.

He was the guest of Marc Connelly, the author. The way is just a place where people went: A miry lane mottled with shadowy pools, A cart track shouldering under bluffs, and bent By rock and hazel coppice; or where mules Dappled with freezing slush climb sullenly The windy ridge and wintry sunsets meet A desolate forest where strong thieves might lie Under the rush and rattle of the sleet Always the unknown vista, the surprise However that hardly excuses the misuse of words arid grammar in such sentences as: "Yes, but see here, bish! suppose I go balmy 'cause my physiology don't function?" While the book is the story of his life and contains episodes dealing with his acquiring and losing jobs and his abortive love-affairs, its best moments are when he is trying to acquire a mind. Needless to say the obstacles are tremendous; poverty such as his is a destroyer of mind and soul. But he struggles on: "Arthur Phelps wants to be conscious; why not; you have the form of a man? Do a bit of Dante was he great? Homer how can you learn the stuff? your brain isn't complicated enough yet. Learn! Get new idea formations inside you: be human!" "Not Yet His theory that we are not yet human is a good one.

As long as we have murder on a small scale, wars To the muffled drone of the motor The highway rocks over hill and hollow: Under the eyes of inanities The hot dust drifts. Smothering moss and fern Chir and chatter and drone. With sub-human gesture Under whirling dust A hiker appeals Chir drone drone. The wind reeks of gas and rubber: Eyes peer Through scratchy dust Over dead birds. Drone drone.

Out of restlessness into unrest Where do we go from here? (From The Midland, March-April, 1931.) Tr READ THE NEW BOOKS from our CIRCULATING LIBRARY 3c Per Day Sanford'S Of Venice, Famagusta, and the graces The orient opens unto western eyes, BOYSON'S Fashion Shoppe Est. 1904 Close Saturdays at Six, The lingua franca, the dark foreign faces. New vistas for the soul terror and lust, Beauty of holiness and leprous dust. writes of the vault of heaven, the.