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...sumptuous Castillo de Chapultepec (Castle of Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess...
NACHA REGTJLES?Manuel Galvez ?Dutton ($3.00). This South American novel which won the Buenos Aires Prize for Letters in 1920 is not for light entertainment or easy reading. It is a thoughtful and sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign...