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These shops are as follows: A New York-Brentano's. Denver-Kendrick Bellamy Co. Fiction DAM AND EVE. By John Erskine. The Bobbs, Merrill Company. You have probably enjoyed Erskine's previous books. In this one he carries on with his discussion of the eternal triangle in Greek dialogue form. It is amusing, at times touched with wisdom and tenderness. But it is, after all, rehashing of the same theme, and except for the delicious dissertations on the animals of Eden is disappointing. If you have an insatiable appetite for the triv ialities of sophistication from a witty pen, you will find them again in this book. J ALNA. By Mazo de la Roche. Little, Brown & Co. Reviewed in our issue of November 2. D USTY ANSWER. By Rosamond Lehmann. Henry Holt & Co. Reviewed in this issue. R EBELLION. By Mateel Howe Farnum. Dodd, Mead & Co. You may select this because it won a prize or because it is the first novel of "old Ed. Howe's" daughter. Neither is a fair reason. It deserves to be read on its own merits; and if you like enthusiasm, a sense of fictional values, and some ability at characterization, you will enjoy it. The possessive father and the correctly rebellious daughter play out in it a pretty obvious drama to its comforting close. No demands are made on the reader's emotions or intelligence, no particular talent is displayed, and the book must be characterized as competent and agreeable rather than important. 75% of the cruiser fleet of the Detroit Yacht Club are equipped with Kermath marine motors. Here surely is a sweeping owner endorsement of a most glowing nature. Wherever you find experienced yachtsmen, there you will find Kermaths in ever increasing numbers. It will pay you to get full information on this internationally known boat engine. Write for illustrated catalog. 3 to 150 H. 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Theodosia, hitherto sweetly receiving her beaus in her yellow gown, seated on the "chair of the blue brocade" or devotedly playing trills on her beloved fiddle, becomes obsessed by the horror of her knowledge. She goes to her grandfather, pitifully confident of comfort, but he turns on her in the fury of the male defending the prerogatives of sex and of the aristocrat who takes his pleasures where he finds them. "Never let me hear you mention it. Not while I live. The worst piece of impudence that ever I saw in life. Enough virtue in a Bell, a Montford, to carry along a little excess weight. Never let me hear a sign of this again. Get about your business." Rebuked, Theodosia seeks her black kin in Crabtree Lane, makes intimates of them as far as allowed, for they at first oppose sullen hostility to her timid and agonized advances. At this stage of the girl's Via Dolorosa her self-abasement is not clearly motivated, for there has been no indication hitherto of the morbid mystic who craves mortification. Theodosia's mentality is vigorous, ironic, and even humorous. Her observations are pungent and lucid, expressed in the rich idiom of the South, which, by the way, Miss Roberts uses with delightful fluidity and without affectation, notably in the several pages of Horace Bell's reminiscences-pure character and perfect Kentucky this. In Theodosia the flagellistic hysteria which could have taken her to the Lane seems unreal; but if the going is not quite convincing, the following catastrophe is real tragedy. Theodosia comes close to adultery, murder, and incest. Fleeing from the Lane, she raves in delirium, after Lethy stabs her husband. Theodosia recovers, only to become impoverished. 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She leaves her aunt's house to become a village schoolmistress, and, living among simple country folk, she meets Caleb, who raises fine cows. "He don't make much money, but he makes fine shorthorns." Caleb's love for Dosia and her love for him, suggested as it is, end the book with the detached beauty of a classic pastoral. "What will we do?" asks Caleb. "The moon tonight will be a petal from an old flower." Miss Roberts's style seems to inherit from Walt Whitman, James Joyce, and, "An honest and charming performance. 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We shall confine ourselves to books published within the last year or so, so that you will have no trouble in buying them through your own bookshop. A Puzzling Life (Continued from page 440) every great enterprise he undertook. This may not have been his fault, but it was certainly a great misfortune. His biographer evidently feels the tragedy of it. for he says: Woodrow Wilson's life was one of intensities and extremes; blazing successes, disastrous defeats; and the same excess of life which led to one led also to the other. It was the kind of life which, if it makes for high drama, is rarely happy. To be a prophet, a crusader, an innovator, is to suffer. The prophet may indeed triumph-after he is dead. Scholarly, cultivated, witty, a delightful table-talker and social companion, elected spontaneously and unanimously by a delighted Board of Trustees, Mr. Wilson assumed the Presidency of Princeton under happy auspices. With high ideals of education, with a definite plan for a re-creation of the University on new lines, inspiring a majority of the Board of Trustees and great numbers of the alumni and the undergraduates with his own enthusiasm, Mr. Wilson left that magnificent opportunity with the majority of the Trustees opposed to him, with the graduates and undergraduates divided into two hostile camps, and with his plan-commonly known as the "quad plan"-for the "social co-ordination" of the University thrown into the discard. A sigh of relief went up from Princetonians all over the country when Mr. Wilson left the University to become Governor of New Jersey. The last three pages of Mr. Baker's biography contain a pathetic statement from Mr. Wilson himself of this failure. As Governor of New Jersey Mr. Wilson went into office backed by the high hopes of all those who yearn for intellectual and moral efficiency in democracy. 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