Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1928, p. 40

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September 'l. 1928 . Ttltpbona: Gnealeaf .,.. Willllette 3711 Ropn Park 112Z New Books The Central Americans Attbtu Ruhl Advtntora and lmprtssions bf. , twren Mexico aad Paaama. Scribntr's ····........ l].oo I I The Master of Revels Ricb11rd Howell· W11tltina Doobltday Doran ...... $1..00 The Living Buddha P11ul M or11nd .Henry Holt (!1 Company $2.50 makes one, when one comes to review it, approach it hum~ly~ Bambi, young Pnnce of the forest, One of the biggest items for some of us for the Fall publishing season is is only a little fawn when the story "Orlando, A Biography" ily Virginia opens. Standing on his small weak Woolf that most gifted . of women legs he is just surveying the worl.d and finding it wonderful and mysten~ writers. ous and very exciting. His mother · talks to him telling him of the happy Lion Feuchtwanger-whose recent wonderful things about which Bam6i novel "Power" it is rumored ha~ just 1 questions .her en~lessly, but ' ~ow and been purchased by Hoover for hts. five th.en pausmg, as tf on the brm~ of a inch. shelf. of. books-ha~ got th~, tdeB;; ~hff, b.efore some. nameless fraghtenHe as brmgmg .out thts Fall Pep, mg thmg. Bambt, too, pauses and poems of Amertca by one who has wonders. never been there. Having read the But life is so thrilling that he does books of other visiting authors from not wonder long, only goes on enjoyoverseas .he thought he might as welt ing the woods, and the meadow in the sunlight, making friends with the hare save the boat fare. and the squirrel and becoming terribly excited when one day they come upon A FOREST IDYLL some of his young cousins. The cousins frisk and play together only stop"BAMBI" ping once to ask each other, "Do you know what danger is?" The others are By Feliz Saltea. Simon & Scbuter. silent then his girl cousin laughs and bounding away says "It's something to 1 "Masterpiece," "work of art," what- 'run away from." ever the words the critics will supply Then one day it becomes more tan· to this "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" gible than that, great claps of thunby Felix Salten, they will not cover der, man-made thunder, tear through the whole. There is something in the the forest and many of Bambi's frienAs book which defies a label, a quality as fall. He loses track of his mother 'n elusive as the deer which is its hero, the escape, and never sees her again. a quality which one seldom finds in any Bambi grows in stature and wisdom ·book. Perhaps it is the quality of into maturity, learning the lesson of complete sincerity and simplicity, per- the old stag, his father, which was: haps it is wisdom, whatever it is it uyou must live alone, if you wanted Esther Gould's Boo~ Corner 1 I L~------------!'"""---------------:--------...,. 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