Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Apr 1929, p. 42

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Peggy Truman is one of the breeziest, most lovable of heroines and the story The following are some of the new up of progress i~ various fields-medi- is as refreshing as the clea~, crisp air books published by the Century Co. : cine, psychology, music, the movies, as of the woods in which the scenes are THE BUFFER. By Alice Hegan Rice. well as literature. There is an amus- laid. THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA. ing discussion of the N uvvle and the By Elizabeth Jordan. Novel. The Nuvyle delighted. Mr. Those interested in poetry or the THE HOHENZOLLERNS. By Herb- Ford's grand-aunt Eliza, who made the . evolution of modern poetry will find ert Eulenberg. famous saying: "Sooner than be idle the following books of verse interTHE · BRAND OF THE SEA. By I'd take a book to read." The Nuvvle esting: Knud Andersen. is produced. mainly by people "intent THE CRY OF TIME. By Hazel Hall. I DISCOVER GREECE. By' Harry on proving they are gentlemen or on New York. E. P. Dutton and Co. A. 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Mr. \Villiamson shows Poetry will take the field as the glimpses of a Paradise · that might be author of two be3t selling travel books,_ subject of intercollegiate rivalry when "The Royal Road to Romance" and if only men would follow nature. His representatives of · Williams, . Amhero, Maddi·son, has made his own in- the Glorious Adventure," r~cently re- herst, \Nesleyan, Vassar, and Mount turned from ten months spent in Centerpretation of the me ssage of the Holyoke meet in Middletown on May Truth, which he helieves to have been tral and South America, adventuring 11, to offer original composition3 in along the trails of Cortez, Balboa, and manifested in Christ; sin is artificial; verse. if we \\'Ould he natural all would be Pizarro. He is now on one of his The contest is sponsored by Mount well. There is no place in England extremely popular lecture tours. He Holyoke, and a prize of $100 ha3 been visited all the Latin-American counfor Maddison, who believes that the Church has lost all the truth in its tries, climbed the great volcanoes, donated for the best poem. Each competing college will have s ~· mhoh through sheer stupidity, that Popocatepetl and Orizaba in Mexico. the Virgin birth of Christ must be at- In Peru he climbed the Andes. At one contestant, chosen from the underThe compositions, tained by every soul, and most import- Buenos Aires he bought a monkey graduate body. ant of all, that one must follow nature and a hand -organ and earned his way either single or collected poems, must always. For its beauty and its piercing 2,000 mile·3 overland to Rio de Janeiro. be read, not less than nine or more ideas this is a book to be read by all Before leaving he tried to return the than fifteen minutes being alloted to monkey to the jungle but the little the reading. means. fellow followed him back to the city CCTHE FRENCH FRANC, 1914-1928. THE ENGLISH NOVEL. By Ford and Halliburton was forced to take the monkey with him. On the voyage By Eleanor Lansing Dulles. MacmilMaddox Ford. Lippincott. tH?rth the monkey died of cold and it, This t'3 the first volume of the "One wtth the hand-organ, was buried at sea. lan. The erratic career of the French Hour Series," which is to be a summing He will tell about many other adyenfranc is recounted in a new and ~ur.es he had in his new book now being authoritative study by Miss Dulles, wnttcn. who describes the difficulties that were involved in supporting the franc durPETER GOOD FOR NOTHING. ing the war, the reparation struggle, the Ruhr ip its bearing on the franc, By Darragh Aldrich. Macmillan. . To Pet~r Harrington's logging camp the political conflicts within France, the wild speculative attacks of 1914, 111 the Mtnnesota woods comes Pierre Bonarien, a French-Canadian woods- the panic of 1926, and the final act of stabilization in 1928, and she anman who is a natural leader and a alyzes all this factual material in the most likable fellow. Why does he call light of recent developments tn monehimself "Peter Good for Nothing" and tary theory. why is Cleve, the nephew of the l~mber king, so determined to run him out of camp? 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