Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Nov 1937, p. 26

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* Here is tesprtofAtre e n here the hand of a restrained yet articulate craftsman. , *ipi.f aqri corsigs is a collectiona to be read and remembered1 BOOKS fer an .8 f 1 Order NowI CHRISTMAS CARDS Leders in stylo treodo Cwnpi.t.prie rage. Ope'. Salisday e.aidnv ntil Chrisiomma 1724 Orringlon Ave. 0v.. 27 ir .e 1 vi esConte Fron Aiterta. Amiong the 133 illustrations a re au- ing scenles taken ini the 'forgottc'a studios of-bclieve it or not-ýthe 'gay nine- ties," "ý6shots" fromn early Chaplin, Fair- banks, Theda Bara, and Valentino pic- turcs, and fromi the slick offerings of the present era. There is a preface by Charlie Chaplin and a frontispiece iv color by Walt Disney. Mr. Seldes is now director of Televisioni for the Columbia Broadcasting System. On October 26, Tihe Gàrd eter WVho Saw God by Edward James, a novel that. blends àn almost primitivcly- intense spirituaI experienice With.a back- ground as modern as Suiralism.' Its. author, a young Englishman, is descend- cd fromn a family that has lived . r Scotland sinoe the ninth centur, and bis güd« et * w⧠ir r Edaid r J' A Bcrtrand Zadig, drttt*Iul L.ouis Broinfield twhose P,,eiti ns "The Rouis Came."'uas publii the latter part of Oct.ober by Hl Cr &B3rot hers. Fanny Biit, colis il "Jar ansd auoy Louis Br. field's best ,soze." , 1 ot SalvaÉ side bis m, and one rgr Mrs. ost lias Lok and 'b w r* 29. ~ ON STOCK and Hawk kits. OPE VENING .. . . NLASHUmEi ..AA. *D MOTORS Brown Junior, :OI.tn, and Synero-Ace. giru.'Jcu Im5PIY 10r Puriv e il h 'mi. Son of ULuandrest n'ediiis as factual biography but as fi- taon ait is a> tour de force of charac INportrayal. Cornelius was the Son of a wash woinafi and ani Englisb CoUit ,ry Lgentleman. As Ia yorung c hild hie had ~II i crctions, f uture lite»rary ,greatness, __ nd. the conviction rcrnained- with hjjjti until bis thirties when el Wflnally be- came famous for bis fairy storie.s. lie <lied shortly after., biroken. in spirit ýbe- cause lie failed to win succe' inmor 1 ip. important iterary frms, by the en)- oz-el barrassmnent, of unwanted puhlicity, 1)% ail anunfortunate marriage. and hvth'. death of hi"; closest friend. SCornelius was a naive. tiustang lu- eher divî,dual. ungainly and honilv, yet Pos- v>-sesse_ of great 'charni of persoialïty, amgnetsx ,»at, drew-peuple. to14m - rrsistibly. The blows life deals right and lef fell hard on Cornelius- soft 4,l;j pts, a d is persistent faith ini ail ocia ýe pe>l aid hirn open to repeated in- the .osIt on and disa pploiiitre ntis. T hirec luigyears nii an English boarding scbool, ur)[)- wbere bis personality clashied with that m r of the badmnaster. left permanent scar, rittc. o i ov Paat:iaIy Tragic is a suave, so)phisticatedj Walpolc goes about puttilig to>getller myse1y this hiograpby'il, the .1lost circuitous cele i auEngishmoo; is l -ofnetibods, a method by whlch only a aen is an f Eaaglis oo;its chlar- mlaster of lnove Writing could succeed. a rop # ~mg1sbenan jPart ' 3,telling the story hinîiseif. partly nis and one exotic RussinI noing. directly froni Cornelius. part];- -*'the Squirc" who refuses to taking exccrpts froin bis letters alnd that anvone 'frt.nm bis part of1 writings, the author wveaves back and intry couid commit nmurder; bot- forth, hack 'and 'forth, bit by bit creat-. Archie Blair and 'bis beautitul ilng thetranslucè,ît, changeable, and im- i wife,' Sophie, a former actressI perfect fabric of a gentrous andl mystic troublesonie past: jan GCvlrd.isiii

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