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[page 1] WINGS December now taking their rightful place on the tables of an increasing number of people who appreciate delicacies. This one tells the story of Dahlia, sister of Jenny Rendall, elusive and fastidious heroine of Jenny Wren. Dahlia, gay, free, undaunted creature, finds herself bewildered by the rôle she is obliged to play as the wife of a serious young curate in the village of Upper Radstowe. Her encounters with her enemy, the Vicar's wife; her difficulties in adjusting herself to her duties in the parish and to her earnest young husband; her touching attempts to capture some of the gaiety and intensity she has missed; her relationship with her sister Jenny- these are some of the threads in the spider-web Miss Young has woven, with a deft and unobtrusive skill, a delicate malice, a sly humor, a sudden poetry, which are apt to catch her readers unawares. H. C. MORNING SHOWS THE DAY. By Helen Hull. $2.50 The seven main characters of Morning Shows the Day are all members of the same class in the high school of a small mid-western town in the days just preceding the advent of the automobile. Suggesting, in their adolescent beginnings, the shape which their lives will take, the story proceeds to round out and fill in, adding color and weight and confirming the first vague outlines. There is Allen Collins, son of the town drunkard, whose grim ambition to get on will not allow him to make a wrong answer in class; there is Shirley Thomas, who later marries him, although the dark, scornful eagerness of Robert Swift, sensitive, weak, demanding the warm protection of approval, is an appeal to her imagination; there is Eugenia Murray, daughter of the town Midas, who loves luxury and surfaces and as the wife of Tom Ellsworth, sower of wild oats and son of the owner of Ellsworth's Emporium, is forced to look beneath them; there is Ruby Cutter, born to the rôle of gold-digger. All of them are average, unremarkable Americans and become in Miss Hull's hands, the more actual for their very lack of distinction. Miss Hill's novel is not sensational or exciting; it is true, alive, convincing. H. C. AN EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By H. G. Wells. $4.00 CHARACTERISTICALLY, Mr. wells calls his autobiography an experiment, but it is as successful as might have been expected of him-a lively account of his career from the beginning and of the development of his swarming ideas. THE PROUD AND THE MEEK. By Jules Romains. $2.50 LIKE the two earlier novels, the third volume in the great panoramic chronicle 24 [end page 1] [page 2] 1934 WINGS Men of Good Will contains two books. The chief character of the first is the aristocratic Madame de Champcenais, involved in an affair with her husband's partner, while the second book centers around the lowly and down trodden Bastide family. THE STORY OF MY LIFE. By Marie, Queen of Rumania. $4.00 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY of one of Europe's most dramatic queens, full of incidental observations about the lives and habits of other royal families. THE SECRET WAR. By F. C. Hanighen. $2.75 MR. HANIGHEN, co-author of Merchants of Death, has written a graphic and courageous book exposing the far-flung ramifications of the oil industry in much the same manner as the earlier volume dealt with the traffic in arms. THE FOGHORN. By Gertrude Atherton. $1.75 Two skilful novelettes and two short stories by a writer whose vitality and eager, challenging spirit are still undimmed. THE MAN ON THE WHITE HORSE. By Warwick Deeping. $2.50 AN HISTORICAL romance of fourth-century Britain in the days of strife between Romans and Christians, this novel is the love story of Geraint, Lord of the White Tower, and Guinevra, the young and beautiful orphan whom he tried to protect. THE GOLDEN SPIKE. By Floyd Dell. $2.50 AN AMERICAN novel on a very American theme, The Golden Spike tells a good deal about pre-war America in the story of Harvey Claymore, growing up in a small midwestern town, attending a small college, teaching history in another college, and meeting the problems of adjusting himself to life. AMARANTH. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. $2.00 A LONG poem by the author of Tristram, in which Mr. Robinson deals with a group of men and women who have chosen the wrong occupations and who, through the quiet wisdom of Amaranth, arrive at a better understanding of themselves. CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX By Don Marquis. $2.50 THE gods whom Don Marquis brings to Manhattan to perform occasional miracles are not the gods of Greece, but the divine figures of Judea. They move about among men on lighthearted vacations, and Mr. Marquis tells their stories gaily, but he is at bottom as serious and reverent as any medieval writer of saints' lives. THE MASTER OF HESTVIKEN. By Sigrid Undset. $3.50 The Axe, The Snake Pit, In the Wilderness, The Son Avenger-the great tetralogy of life in Norway during the Middle Ages, now available for the first time in one volume. THE MAN WITH THE BULL TONGUE PLOW. By Jesse Stuart. $3.00 A FULL, rich, and satisfying book poems by a Kentucky farmer who writes with spontaneous verve about all the circumstances of his daily life. It is like an ampler Spoon River without [bitterness.] NEW MYSTERIES THE CASINO MUDRER CASE. By S. S. Van Dine. $2.00 THREE poisonings and Philo Vance in his most appropriate setting-Park Avenue and the playgrounds of the gilded rich- make up a mystery story which maintains the high standard set by this author's previous books. HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS: By Michael Arlen. $2.00 MR. ARLEN successfully tries his hand at a murder mystery in this tale of a lovely duchess suspected of a series of murders in the year 1938. MURDER IN THREE ACTS. By Agatha Christie. $2.00 THREE murders and Hercule Poirot in a mystery by a writer who deserves her popularity. 25 [end page 2]
