The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25

ThOrne Smith
If you want to laugh, then gel
hold of copy of Thorne Smiths
"Turnabout." just published by
Doubleday, Doran 81 Co. 1t con-
Germs an ordinary married couple
who are fed up with marriage. BY
the aid of black magic, they SWAP
bodies. Then the fun starts
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.
HAVE before me a copy of my
Il Il Caravan" a book of poems
about youngsto~~ - search of ad-
venture 1t has just been published
by Laidlaw Brothers and sells for 81
These poems have been collected
and edited by Eulalie Osgood Gro
yer and they impress me that may
be thousands of children all over
the world aided in selecting them.
1t seems to me that any child
between the ages of five and ter
would have selected these poems
because all of them reflect youth.
1t has been charmingly illustrat-
ed by Florence Sampson with cut
paper silhouettes. The fact is the
book is just darling, if I may use
such gingerbread expression.
Some of the authors represented
are William Brightly Rands, Robert
Louis Stevenson, Katherine Morse
Rabindranath Tagore, Hilda Conk-
ling, Frances Clarke and many
others.
Have the thought that MY Cara
van" should be in every home that
has children.
Richard B. Duvall, 2725 North
Meridian street, is the winner OF
this weeks book review contest. He
will receive a --'--' If a prominent
seller in fiction for his effort.
Write your review of any book
keeping it as near as possible
around hundred or a hundred and
fifty words and send it to the Liter
airy Editor of The Times.
Mr.. Duvall reviews Meanwhile, =
by H. c. Wells, as follows:
Meanwhile" is a true example of Well.
sian philosophy: it gives us a clear poin
OF view about the world, and a man,
place in it, 1t is filled with shrewd, long
visioned observations about men ans
things, that startle us with their sim.
plicity and truth. In this book we fine
that there is decidedly more serenity thar
we have been accustomed to associate will
Mr.. Wells. His love for the fantastic
and the unreal seems to have been for
gotten in this story.
The author. in Meanwhile has WORKED
wonders with his setting He makes reader
live and see the beautiful gardens of Cast
Terragena, the lovely Italian villa o.
Mrs. Rylands. He shows us the geogra
phical beauty OF italy and at the same
time bit Of her distressed political con
dtion. through the movings of the Fas
cisti The story Is. of course. exceedingly
modern in its trend of thought; this Il
shown by the conversations OF the diff
ferent guests.
Wells succeeds in bringing the storm O.
modern life. and the troubled streams o.
modern ideas. into this secluded villa. Tit
CAV house party is varied enough to b'
constantly amusing. yet no more enter
tanning than the workings Of Mrs. Ry
lands mind.
She is shown as woman readiustipi
herself to the after-the-war world. anS
also winning for herself serene an'
hopeful everyday philosophy. We have
been shown the stresses and strains OF
marriage. in which the characters Of thu
man and woman differ tremendously. hu
In which there is an understanding and {
great desire on the part OF both to com
prehend each other completely.
TIPS on the book market from the
public library: The season has gone
completely Eugene both in the
world of fashion and of letters. The
reference room has been trottinf
out all available materials on this
charming plumed coquette of the
nineteenth century and the new
biography of the Empress by Rober
Sencourt gives graphic account
of her gay social career.
The Washington Merry-Go,
Round" recently published anony
mously, has raised a hullaballot
among the political dignitaries o
our nation. It is merciless, but mos
amusing.
CEOFFREY DENNIS, a yount
VI Englishman who was awarded
the Hawthornden prize not Ions
ago, is having his earlier books re-
issued. The book for which he wor
the prize is called THE End of thu
World" and is curious phantasma'
goria about comets, space. infinity
star streams and solar apogees end
ing with the disrupting question
as there a universe?"
Mary Lee" was his first move
and though it was highly praised
by the critics, it had no great sale
Harvest In Poland" his next novel
was story about spiritualism anC
Declaration of Love" His thirC
published work was series of low
letters between a very moderI
young man and q more than mod.
ern young woman.
They are all pretty much caviar
for the general.
In spite of the public demand
that Ogden Nash call his next bool
of mangled meter, The Colder
Trashery of Ogden Nashery." it hal
been announced that the title viii
be. for not good reason, Free
Wheeling" 1t will be in the library
next month.
DRUCE CATION, NEA Service
ID writer on books, lists the fol-
lowing murder mysteries as gooc
reading:
Death of an Editor" by Vernon
Loder Morrow, so. Somebody sho