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WILMETTE LIFE January 28, 1927 DID YOU KNOWTha't "Spell Land" by Sheila Kaye Smith, published recently was written ~n rgro? That Shaw and Arnold Bennett are among the authors whose letters were advertised for sale at u)hich they were very much incensed? That "The Memoirs of God," whic!1 was written by Papini several years before "The Life of Christ" is now being issued in this country? That another sympostum has been published of the religious be-· /iefs of outstanding men which i." called "Twelve Modern Disciples?" Wnllmm~ttft~ lnlbir~ry NEW BOOKS Fiction Douglas-South \Vind. Gibbs-Street of Ach·enturc. Kaye-Smith-Joanna Godden ~f arried. Miss Tiverton goes out. Parrish-TomorrO\v ~forning. Proust-Guermantes \\"a.'"Ta rkington-Piut8cra t. General Literature Kenul'd_r-Fret'-lanct \ \" riter\ 1I andhook. Tracy-Psychology oi Adolescence. Antholog~\· of American ~ong. Olds-P8tHllar Drawing Room· and Concert Songs. }.fantk -Bc~t Pia,· ~ oi FJ25-192(). Franck-\.agahon.d .f c ·urnc~· · Around the \Vorld. ~1 augham-Andalusia. Howard-(~lamour oi British Columhi a. Tre\;~l?·an-l~ngland ~ ndcr t l~e Stuart~. \an I \'JH'-( a use~ ot the \\ ar of Indepe;Hience. 1 I~(Jhcrtson-Histor~· r1i 1.:-ttin :\mcriran Xations. FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3 700 Rogers Park 1 12 2 "THE St·x IX ~PLEXDOT.'R"-Thomas Burke. Thomas Burke, writer of short Rut stories, has turned to novels. in '·'The Sun in Splendour" he ha" arhie,·ed a novel which is rather like a collection of short stories. Contrary to th<' usual modern novel he makr~ u~ carry along with us a number of characters quite largely separate from each other, one of whom we take a certain distance, drop. and run hack for one of the 0 th ers. It is like the progress of a single man pushing- six or seven wheelbarrows up the road. taking onr a short \Yay, stopping and running hack to bring- up another. Thi~ used to he a common mcthocl of non 1 \\'riting, this broad diffuse method, and would have recci\'C'cl less comment than from us for "·hom the no,·cl run" a simde ~traight course'. Rut the older noyl'l writers, whik they carried alon~ mam· characters often won· them yen· strO;lg-ly 1oget htr. . This ~f r. nurk.r ha:-; failed ~ufti ·cicnth· to do. Connie Giltspur is. f1rst seen standing· in the pouring rain outside thL portal=- of "The Sun in Splendour" puh. 1 :o.;tening to the strains of 1\f ozart and Bcethm·en which are drifting dowr: irom the little unstairs room. \Yatch in~ her is th<: ho·r-rihlc old \\·oman with " :hom· "he li\'(: " and \\-hCtsc crueltv \ f r. B ur k e r c Iat r s w i t h a t r u <: D i c k.('tbian fla,·om. Tt is nm· of the unlini~lwd threads of the hook tha : nt·itiH'r Conni': nnr "Anntil·" i:; ftni-.h · l'd ()ff to our :;atisfaction. But upstairs in the p11h i:; Chri:-t ophcr ~collard. playn oi thl' crnncl ,-inlin in the nuartctte \\'hich h i' iathcr gather..; together twice a \reck - and ,,·hirh is the nire~t part (lf tlw hook-Cllri:-;tnpher in \\·ho~e ~oul th( -,trttgg·lc of Art versus ~famn1on i:-. t<· l>t \\·aged. A number oi pe()ple~kak ;tt lc11 .~th on the mer it:; (lithe con te~tants n·t ' thn· rotl\·inn· u...; a..; littk a-, the~· ~lo l'hr~~. Then rnmt·-; alon~ n111cthing \\'hich speaks mnrc loud}·, . than words and whirh has won r,,.t::to ).fammon many who IJa\·c thC' spark - an almost unsought comnh:rri;tl 'Ill 'cess. The lHHtk has at1111>spherv. \lr . B11rkt pr{)Hd ht ktH'\\. thv "t'lTtt 0 1 . that in "Lim<:hCiuse :\i~hh," ]Jut lacks cohesion. A LIST FOR BOOKLOVERS The Copeland Reader -an anthology of English poetry and prose by ·-----------------.1 Jack Black I Charles Townsend Copeland Scribner's $10.00 Wine, Women and War J. H. Sears · Anonymous ~ Co., Inc. 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