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gow's book is a novel by the most celebrated author in America, Booth Tarkington. "Gentle Julia" it is called. Julia is the most beautiful and the most popular girl in the town in which she lives, a state of affairs which might be idyllic if the town were not filled with relatives, solicitous aunts and uncles tremendously interested in the progress of her manifold love-affairs, diabolical cousins of the Penrod-SchofieldHedrick-Madison variety, one of them a girl who presents further evidence in proof of Mr. Kipling's famous line about the female of the species, not to mention a father, nervous and uneasy after the manner of all parents with eminently marriageable daughters. It is genuinely Tarkingtonian, and that is enough for any one to say about it.

porium" in Simsbury, Illinois, who goes to Hollywood to have a career and has onebut not of the sort he had expected. It is a roaring satire, but it is too accurate a picture of human nature to submit to glib classifications. We have not finished reading it ourself, because some one took it away from us, but the man at the desk next to ours has, and we worked ourself up to a fine pitch of envy as we heard him chuckle his way through to the very end except when he stopped to laugh out loud.

who knows whither?" "The Hidden Road" is not only a charming love story, it is a thoughtful interpretation of present-day post - war life, and like each of the others in this group, shows that our novelists have not merely been writing. They have been thinking as well.

Be there is the first

ESIDES these,

novel of an author who has been engaged for several years in other kinds of literary work. "In the Favour of the King" by Hawthorne Daniel is a colorful story of Spanish conquest, beginning and ending in Spain, but mostly concerned with the little band of brave men who left the Old World in the early days of the Sixteenth Century, when Charles V was King of Spain, to come to Mexico and later left Mexico to find the Seven Cities of Cibola and the Land of Quivera. It is remarkable, and perhaps very significant, that in an age given over to realism a novelist just setting out on his career should turn to the historical romance, a form of literature which enjoyed immense popularity in the good old days that have gone by.