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...STORY OF MY LIFE???Sir Harry H. Johnston?Bobbe Merrill...
...long for a first-hand account of the life and work of Pierre Curie and his distinguished collaborator and widow, Marie Sklodowska Curie. Fortunately this greatest and most modest of living women has at last been prevailed upon to set down, not only a narrative of her husband's life???, but extensive autobiographical notes, without which the story would be a truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip and the raising by American...
...been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life???an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy as well. True, the centaur was tamed at last?broken to the plow. But Jeffrey wrote better poetry...
...Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life???written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course?occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but on the whole a first novel that does not need the usual "displays great promise" critical lifeline?a first novel that should interest a wide and diverse public...
...GARDEN OF MEMORY?the late Kate Douglas Wiggin?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life???childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens?girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity?travel?adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm...