Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Jun 1928, p. 24

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WILMETTE LIFE June 8, 1928 J"-I _ _ B_o_ok_N_o_t_es_~ll ._l____ E_s_th_e_r_G_o_u_l_d'_s_B_o_o_k_C_or_n_e_r____ , I . · Ttlrpbone UaiYenity R-.en Park 11%2 or Wilmette l71t fo-r Jtu FLYERS FINISH BOOK On lfay 2.3 the Bremen flyer s concluded their good-will tc,ur c,f the Cnited Stat ·s and for five days ~..·ill go into retirement and finish their b()(}k "'f ht Three ~[ usketecr-. ()I thr; Air." The first part of the lJ(,rJk will he the autr1hif~raphy of tht st thrc<: men, the ;,ccrJnd part v:ill bt flcWJ ttf) to the 5trJry rA their flight ogtther from Baldonntl Airdrome t J Greenly hland and their good-will tc1ur of America. "The Three :\f u'>ktt<:<:rs of the Air'~ "·ill b · fJub)i.,htri by (~ . P . Putnam's SrJn~ earl y in ] uly. In scribing a corJY r}i "lJtad I.rAtrs Are Faithful Lr>vtr s" irJr James Branch Cabell, France:, . ·twm~n wrrJtt, "Thi~ i-. ;,(Jm<:thinK cbt abrJut Eve . that ynu don't know." 1 T·he producti(Jn oi Eugene O'.Ktill's dr<!ma, ··I .azarus I ,au~h<:rl," !Jy the f'a :., adc·nf.1 C(JT11munitv Plavhr)use 111 California ha-; b<:tn ~·rJ succ~s·.;ful that afttr it -. run at tht Playhou se it will h<: transftrr ·d tr1 tht HcJIIy\\'CJOd ·Mu~ ic H(JX Th(·at<:r. Eu~ BOOKS Trader Horn: Volume 2. Allttd Aloyeiu1 H otn 11nd Ethtlnd11 L~i· Simon t1 Scbusctr ........ S3.50 JUST PARAGRAPHS "Dawn" the ~tory of Edith Caveii much r!i ~c us~ed 111 England of tate IS about to he publi~hcd in this C()Untry. It a., wtll as the IIHJvic made frnm it ha~ been highly praistd by many . Bernard Shaw tnrb hi ~ prais<: with the amwcr to the critici!->m that it ktcps alive v-:ar hatred!-> with tht words, "Tht law that Edith Cavell se t abrJ\·e a militarv C(Jdt and died f()r is an infinitely higher Ia\\' than the law rJf war and the umccit of patriotisnl. It rthukcs U!-> all impartially, and will <:dify m impartially. ·· Actually BCJston i'.~ waking out of ib anttdiluvian trance a.nd i5 formulating or at l<:a~t talking of formulating a ntw c<:n~orship law fcJr brJOk ~. Out <1f the .) ixty that have b<:cn banned in th<: pa~t two y<:ars the committee which ha ~ taktn the matt<:r in hand finds two oi them obnoxious. But we ask you, ii Bo5trJn stops ccn.;oring books, hcJ·\· ar<: the publi~h<:r5 going to get their favcJrit<: s started? "BUT GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES" knows how to create and which ts a pleasure: For instance Chapter Four opens "Well I always think that when a young girl of 16 is thoughtless about what is going to happen to her m a Carnaval Company, she is beginning to start toward the edge of a brink." Friend Durothy not only begins to 'Start but grJ<:S over it and the brink lands h<:r in ~ew York. Her experiences are of course ridiculous and told m that breathless halting style which IS Lortlci's own. "IN THE BEGINNING" By Norman Douglu The John Day Co. Xo, he hasn't done it. In picking up this beautifully bound book, "In the Beginning" the question in everyone mind was this, "Ha,; Korman Dougla s after ten years written a book as good as his now classic 'South \Vind'?" Or perhaps better? A silent period of ten years in this era of two a year or so raises extraordinary hope s and fancie-.; in the expectant reader. \Vhat ha kept this· writer silent. what iruitful meditation has he been indulging in, the result of which he is at last rea ;l~· to give to the world? In the case of :\orman Douglas we cannot say, :or "In the Beginning" does not give the impression of lon g meditation. It is :tn urbane tale, sharply visual, gay and witty. of the ea rlie st day.5 upon thi earth-the days when the god mingled freely with men, making .t hem the butt of their someJimes peculia r joke s and pleasures, when the race <1f Satyrs were just dying from the earth before good and evil and the Gardet of Eden were invented-but it has no the flavor of long meditation. "South Wind" had that. there was an immens e amount of wisdom packed m thos e pages, a·3 there was a clarity, a biting quality to the humour which this later hook has not. 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