The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-19
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A PORTRAIT DONE AT HOME" bv the wono.,,
go WHO nad Arnold BENEFITS love during the last
elgnC years OF his life, and who knew him especially
intimately, reveals some things about his cheroc+ay
mature psychology and unexpectedly simnIe habits
OF mind, which perhaps have not been shown in his
own Journals" ARNOLD BENNETT: A PoR.
TRAIT DONE AT HOME Hxendall r. WiIlouobh,,.
3d. by Dorothy Cheston Bennett
Inc author is not expert writer but her sim
cerlty and the not unpleasant candor of her recol
lectionS make her account interectino ~ -5
of Arnold Bennett
The second half of the book consists of 17o Let
tiers from A. B. to D. C. B." and confirm Mrs
Cheston BENEFITS portrait" while giving a clear
picture OF the man in his daily life those last eight
years. e
NR!MLY reminiscent of some 20 years ago il
~ this title THE LOST GENERATION nv Max;na
DAVIS 'Macmlian; $500. The author refers how
ever not TO those OF the years. mercifully dead
or perhaps happily unborn, but to our young peope
OF today, who were born as the smoking fires of a
war-torn world subsidized, were nurtured on disiIlu-
Slonment and were turned from the somewhat
doubtful security of their classrooms upon world
IN the throes of depression, the property prey to
perilcious un-American influences
=, Wnat is TO be done with these youths; what is
tner reaction to this amazing dilemma? This book
Is the answer to these questions. The author a
newspaper woman, in a secondhand Ford, covered
every section OF the country, in a 10000-mie trek
one talked 10 them on their own ground-in filling
stations, poolrooms, CCC camps, on street corners
at dances.
everywhere she found them the same-airnless
hopeless, apathetic-heart-b While the old
Qualities are still there though deeply obscured.
tney are drifting to hopeeSSneSS from which there
is no return. We must awake soon to our respon-
sibity, she warns, some sef-appointed piper
may take it from us and lead our youth God knows
where"
THE Crome children stood on the bank of the
L Thames watching the excursion boat as it
passed them, and shouting happily There foes the
C2ueen!" When we last see the Queen 90 vearz
have passed. The children have grown up: of the
six Crome brothers only two are left; and an epoch
in England has passed
In THERE GOES THE QUEEN Morrow, $50
Godfrey Ellis has written book filled at once with
wit, irony and pathos 1t is the story of the eccen
trio and charming Crome brothers, and of the
younger generation who grow up to admire their
charm and suffer from their weaknesses Particu-
larry it is the story of young Brock and Hortense
whose devotion to each other began when they were
children and survived misunderstanding and separa-
ton.
THE neighbors dsapproved of Negley Parsons
grandfather. He wouldn't settle down and live
quietly. His friends included dirty Mexicans who
smoked black cigars in bed His fortunes were too
cratic to be respectable Young Negleys schooling
was snached in the calmer intervals between fish
ing in the Chesapeake Bay and shooting in Virginia.
knowing these things not surprised at the
robust tale OF adventure which Mr.. Farson gives us
in THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSOR Harcourt.
SD. Russia during the revolution, Europe during
the war, Turkey, India-injury, poverty, marriage
and casual love affairs-he takes them all In his
stride. good and bad. And so does the reader.