Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Jun 1938, p. 44

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CAZDS Salu For Graduallon or Weddlmg A gift they will treasure for a ifetime U.Tii. irds of America" Sy John James Audubon 500 beauliful plates $1250 people, the paces and heeui s nii sbe bas found tiost stimulatiung, She left this country at tbe age .o f fourteen witb ber famhily, and received the, rernainder of ber formai educatiôn in Switzerland, Germany and France. After tbe marriage wbich gave her the name of Tietjens sbe returned to this country, but since tbeu she bas con- tinued to travel extensively, and lived ini Japaû, China, Tunis and the Soutb Seas. In 1913 she became a member of the staff of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,", founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago. Shé saw the great years of the'revival of poetry in tbat day; many of the, great poets were ber friends, and the- book contains portraits of a number of tbem. Her own first book of pocrns, Bedoids. passinig the: authoiv's villa ipt Tuisia, a photo graph from' "The World at My ,Çholder," the. nce Macmillan book by Euinice ~>11 'oan, trs is Upon ooperafion chairnian of the bolm - andi bis wife, Clara. Mrs. Stee- bolm is the -daughter of Mrs. 'E. . Snydacker o9f Wilmette, and the book is dedicated to hber father, the late De. E. Pbsniydàcker. Fine reviews bave atready been giv-. en the.biography byr the "New York Times ýBook 'Review" and the ",Satur- day Review of-Lterature"; and the book gives promise of: filing'a real, need for a thoroughý account of the if e of james. .To begin with, the bloody turmoils of Scotland, .wbere he spent bis child-. hood and early mahiood, left -lasting scars u pon hbis Stuart sensibihitie.s. This. early, environment, his inferiority corn- plex, bis aptitude as a scholar, ând, his, indifference and extravagance as King. of England are the subi ect of. an inter-. estipg mjodern psycholog ical analysis on the part of the authors.Thiey rafiSi- alize bis motives and .conduct, and make clear. the inexpicable and contradictor% aspects of bis nature. Six years were spent on thie prepara- tion of the book, including the summer. of 1933 when Mrs. Steeholm wvas ini England and Scotland carrying on.ad- ditional researvh. The fruit of all this labor is'a ively tale in the present tense, ;Itbue vb'tails infinite and elaboratelv cmn- On~ Route 22- Mael.AV.id end Piô mi e otf' Hlf Day.,Iinris 1 ees "am ýover Wilkinsons hife Ani ideal figure I .ranhv is T11 aes this, I amrc e of our st6 a bistoi certain would As an ig here- rs wbo an ar- ýesident. ris ana ian oi a K'Il * James married the Aune. bad seven chli to see only one son, t ing, survive hini. With came an end to the bri' jonson, Sir Walter ]i scholarship that proý James. version of the1 The collabrators in ýast promis- kinlg's death age of Blen h. and the the Kinig ft I of BEig- ~1

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