The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-13
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
DID you ever want to own book
because of the pictures? Must
confess that I wanted to own the
new edition of Gray's 'Elegy," JUST
nublished by E. P. Dutton 81 Co.
because John Vassos illustrated CnlS
classic. -
You recall that Vassos with great
success illustrated Oscar Wlloe IS
"Salome" and THE Ballad Of Read
ing Gaol."
In the "Elegy' you will find that
Vassos has not only caught the
realistic and imaginative strange
ness of Gray, but he has enlarged
the tragic beat Of this masterpiece
n
Arthur Schnitzler is dead, but his
publishers announce the publication
If his latest book, Flight Into
Darkness" which is the story OF a
man. not too straight, who is sui
ferinp with the fear Of being perSe-
cuted. One gets the feeling on read
ing this that as man thinks so ne
acts. -
This man thought murder and ne
murdered. Simon 81 Schuster are
the publishers.
Euoene ONeilTs new play
Mourning Becomes Electra, just
has been published by Horace
Iiveright. Inc, and sells for Sou.
thousands who will never see this
long-length play on the stage OF tIle
main theater of the Guild IN Ne"
York will read it.
IF YOU want to be in on the con-
versation when literary minded peo-
nile get together, then get hold OF
the two-yolumed Newton d. Baker
America at Wal" by FreoerlcH
Palmer. Published by Dodd, Mead
e. co. and sells for $3.50 1t is the
result of Palmer going through
twentv-one files that the former
secretary of war turned over TO the
author.
FRANCES I. WARNER, Forty
fourth and Pennsylvania streets,
is this weeks winner in the DOCK
review contest by writing her YER
dict of "Giants in the Earth by
o. E. Rolvaag.
Her review is as follows:
"Giants in the Earth, is a panioraaimiic &c
unfolding of scenes vivid and vital IL Is
a sfertlinply real presentation OF the per
sonsIitv Of the Scandinavian pioneer. me
novel opens with tne LYME ac{osS the plains
into the Dakota territory and closes WIN VI
the death of Per Hansa thelf le ace tbe s
gives the reader clear lnSlght lnto we the
Struggle the early pioneers hao WIN INC
elements Nature then was cruel. 49,. :.
This story is practically without plot, ~
is Simple narration of events. The events
beinP the obstacles that arose from time Tine
to time and how they were overcome o 16lre
group of Scandinayians learned to oyer oyer
come svery obstacle but death in their
fght for supremacy in Dakota. -. -
The authors style is simple, direct ano
concise He writes in the Norwegian ana
his works are translated into the other
'O' AS soon as Miss Warner gets in
touch with this department she may
have the choice of one OF several
new books.
Has William c. McAdoo written
A book recently? Yes. The title is
Crowded Years" Deals with Nc
Adoo's rise from a nobody to a
mighty man in a mighty position.
Published by Houghton Mitfiln Com
pany.
Carolyn Wells latest detective
story. 1.-The Umbrella Murder" has
Just been published by j. B. Lip
pincott Company.
Yesterday j. B. Lippincott Com
pany published Eugene: Empress
of the French" by Octave Aubry;
Charleston: Historic and Roman
tic" by Harriette K. Leiding, and
Ernest r. Groves contribution to
the Hour Library series, "An Hour
of Sociology
THREE new Lippincott books OF
i unusual interest are The Lady
of Beauty" agnes SoreD, by Jehan
DOrliac: THE Night Before Christ
mas" the old classic with illustra-
tions by Arthur Rackham, who has
done such noteworthy work on sew
eral of Dickens works, and 'ViSibil-
ity Good" by E. v. Lucas.
The Night Before Christmas is
an especially desirable Yule present
for the youngsters.
The Lady of Beauty" tells of Ag-
mes Sorels love for Charles VII of
France, which gave the monarch
the courage to drive the English out
of France, after the tragic death
of Joan of Arc. 1t is fascinating
biography of the first woman to be
called the favorite of king, an en-
thralling picture of the tumultuous
life in France in the fifteenth CEN
fury.
visibility Good" is a series of de-
lightful Preside excursions, a col
lection of essays written in Lucas
inimitable style. He ranges in his
choice of topics from Huck Finn to
dwarf houses, from his first love,
the gardeners daughter, to his first
hero, Samson.