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BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.
INDIANA is contributing its share
= Of the new poets to the world
just now. I have before me copy
Of the July issue Of Kaleidoscope,
q national magazine Of poetry.
The issue includes a poem by
Katherine Ventures WEIGH of TT.
Wayne and one by Lionel Wiggam
Of Indianapolis.
Behind the Plough" by Miss
WEIGH, has the honor of being the
FIRST poem in the July issue.
Wiggarn is member of the In
diana Poetry Society and Love
Story Magazine, Indiana Poetry
Magazine, Breezy Stories and vari-
GUS newspapers have published his
writings.
Exotic" is the title of Wiggam's
contribution to Kaleidoscope.
Both poems have real merit.
TIME greatest gains in popula-
J. ton in the United States have
been made by the two playground
states of Florida and California
The figures in striking COMPARE
son appear in the new edition of
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer
of the World compiled by Angelo
and Louis Heilprin and first pub
lished by j. B. Lippincott Company
in 1855. Los Angeles, 1t shows, has
risen from 576.673 in 1920, to 1888
DAB in 1880. Miami jumped from
Ro,371 in 1920 to 110,637 in 1880.
DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Is
- spending the summer on Mer-
fyall road, New Milford, Conn.
Ernest Weekley, whose new book,
SCruelty to Words" E. P. Dutton
Rill publish in August, writes that
he spends most of his leisure time
reading detective stories. I'm fact,
he says, II can read anything ex-
Cept Strindberg and Mr.. Bernard
Shaw. / used to spend my sum-
nners in the Alps, but stiff joint
now condemns me to spend them
in my garden encouraging my pears
TO ripen." Marion Nichol
Rawson, author of when Antiques
; Were Young" reports that she will
spend several weeks this summer
In Alstead, N. H., where she will
work on her new book, Highway
Life"
ENHEXICO is a violent country,
IVI more remote and strange
than any I have ever visited" says
Stuart Chase in his newest book,
"Mexico, A Study of Two Amer
Seas" which the Literary Guild has
selected for August and which the
Macmillan Company will publish
Aug. 4. violent are the contrasts,
the color, violent the landscape and
storms and violent pressure on the
membrane of the ear as one
ascends or drops 1000 feet an hour
"a normal travelling ratio. Only
the people and the suffering
burroS are gentle" he continues.
n
Lady With a Past" by Harriet
Henry (Morrow) went into a Sec
ond printing four days after publ
cation. ~. Charles j. Fingers
Adventure Under Sapphire Skies"
Morrow has also gone into sec
nnd printing. "Hansel the
Gander," by Katherine Kuebler,
will be transcribed into Braille.
Honore w. Morrow is now in OAR
len, Conn, putting the finishing
touches in her novel about Daniel
webster, which Morrow plans to
publish this fall. Francis
Griswold, author of THE Tides OF
Malvern" has sailed for Italy to
spend the summer in Lord Grim
thorpe's famous old villa up in the
hills above Naples. He plans to
finish his new novel, Sea Island
Lady"
on July Is, William Morrow &
60. will publish:
"Audacious Fool" by Taylor BY
mum.
Green Wine" by owen Archer
Murder in the Cellar" by Louise
Eppley and Rebecca Clayton.
"Snuggler's Luck" by Edouaro
6tackpole.
Rex Beach will spend the sum
mer in New York as usual, IN his
penthouse apartment at Central
Park West, except for a short trip
to Newfoundland in search OF ma
terial for his next novel; Before
writing his just-published novel
money Mad" he went to Wal
street for his materiab studying the
activities of a customers woman, II
order to cast his heroine in that
role. He says he got caught II
the crash-adding, who didn't?'
He feels that there is more daring
initiative, and individuality Of
thought in Wall Street than in the
gold rush scenes of the far NORTH
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