The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

Adams and it is the October
choice of the Book of the Month
Club 1t is issued by Little, Brown
q Co., and sells for So. 1t is a
one volume edition of American
history.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
TTAD an interesting visitor this
u Il week in the person of Dan
Steele who is the author of Snow
Trenches" just published by A. G.
McClurg g. Co. It is a story of
the World war on the Eastern front.
Steele went to the Arctic circle
with the North Russian American
eXpeditionary forces. What he ex-
perienced and saw there forms the
background of Snow Trenches"
Now he is chairman of two i'm
portant committees of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce. He has the
urge to write and his first book
looks like a success. I have a copy
and will tell you about it next week.
The winner this week in the book
review contest is Barbara Blatt of
2502 West Michigan street, who wrote
a COCO review of THE Cat Who
Went to Heaven" by Elizabeth
Coatsworth and published by Mac
milan Company.
AS soon as she gets in touch with
this department, Miss Blatt will
have the choice of one of several
new books Write your reviews at
once and send them to the Liter
airy Editor of The Times. A new
book will be given each week DIR
ing the contest. Keep your review
around hundred and fifty words
if possible.
Miss Blatt's review is as follows:
The Cat Who Went to Heaven" by
Elizabeth Coatsworth, won the Newberry
prize offered annually by the American
dren's book of the year but like the far
tastes Of WateT de la Mare or James
ciaed By adults San the W Children appf for
whom it was ostensibly written.
Good Fortune is a beautiful white cat
s has had the honor of beins com
mssioned to paint picture of the death
from the little snail to the fierce tiger,
that had helped Buddah was painted in
he thr9ng that approached the figure
But the cat who alone refused the
teachings of Buddah had no place among
might be the nature of other cats was
very good even ,pious little creature.
painted on the silk and the picture was
finished-and without any cat in it, her
distress was so pitiable that the artist
pet and took his best brush, touched it
with ink-and drew cat
dignity and ordered that the picture be
burned; the next day: But miracle
temple to tear it down, they saw that the
silk on which the cat had been was with
out a touch of ink and the Buddah who
had been painted with folded arms had
beneath it. its head bowed in alteration.
Miss coatswoTth's rhythmical simple
prose fashions the legend into, beauti-
aitrst 9g 4P That is 9nansS Py tH Tnos
wood-Suts q Gods Man. and :'Madman's
different in mood but as skillfully done
He has copied the japanese medium of
any imitation Of its style. the same deli
cate EacS effect Of japanese asi print
among them for a preference-until. one
comes to the picture of Good Fortune.
And then the matter is settled for the
picture of the cat is exquisite.
The one false note in an unusually
ment. and Illustration is the iamboyantlv
red and black binding of the book, but
that is detail of which most people are
not blur the loneliness created by the
author and the artist
y
One Of the most significant and
most hopeful movements in modern
American letters has been directed
towards making the enjoyment of
poetry an essential part of educa-
ton through the medium of the
narrative poem, and the announce
ment, therefore, that Brewer, War
rem and Putnam published today
"Jane Matthew" by Eda Lou Wal
ton, one of the most distinguished
of modern American narrative
poems, is of particular interest.
Eda Lou Walton is already we'll
known both for her critical work
and her sensitive Interpretation in
her book. 'Dawn-Boy," of the songs
of the Blackfeet and of the Navajo
Indians, whose language she speaks.
EIRST of a series of story hours
Il for children, to be a new fea-
ture of the program of activities
at the John Heron Art Institute,
will be given Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 p. m. by Miss Mary Margaret
Miller.
The new feature is to be q BIZ
monthly event for young folks from
TO II years of age, and will COIN
eide with the series of bi-monthly
gallery talks to be given by Wilbur
d. Peat institute director. Mr.. Peat's
series does not begin until later in
the month.
The story hour will be devoted to
storytelling, short discussions about
art and illustrated talks which will
interest youthful audience.
The first story will be THE Gift
of the Moon Princess" an old Jap
anese myth, which will be Illus
trated with special lantern slides.
It combines a romantic tale with
the story of how lacquer first was
made. The art discussion will be
further heightened by the collec-
ton Of Japanese art pieces which
Che museum owns.