T H E MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1938 THE WORLD OF BOOKS MARPilGE: The Late Bishop Fisher Discusses Its Problems ... PEATTIE ensuality. Bishop Fisher defends it. Biography Of A Grove But again he assumes a newly wedd- Of Trees Is H is ad pair motivated in all their ac-L tions by and spiritual values the long view. A PR AIR I E GROVE by Donald Cul- I think he is correct, however, in ross Peattie,. ixmon and Schuster, tis refusal to admit that sexual a- - Inc., New York (1933), $2.50 justment is as all-important in mar- By ErTHEL NORBERG riage success as many author in the An island of trees in the middle of Last two decades have made it. As a prairie is the unique subject of he says, informed persons who love Donald Cuiross Peattie's latest book, one another deeply will rarely find A Prairie Grove. This is not a history insurmountable obstacles to sex ad- APareGoe hsi o itr justment. or a novel, according to the author, but a simple story of a grove of trees Two points remain. Bishop Fisher in Illinois from its early beginnings seems to exaggerate the degree to down to the present. Every chapter which differences between men and in this story of the grove is touched women are constitutional. This, with a spirit of pantheism that only however, is relatively unimportant be- the naturalist, the nature lover that cause the cultural factors which en- Mr. Peattie is, can recreate in words. ter so largely here are so fundamen- The birds, the bees, the trees and tal as to make important change un- flowers are sketched in a reverent likely at least for another generation. manner. There is something reminis- Much more serious, it seems to me, cent of Wordsworth about the book. League Committee Members Listed (Continued from Page 5) mittee, which is headed by Janet Ful- lenwider, '39, are: Florence Broth- erton, '40, Bunty Bain, '39, Helen Roberta Brown, '41, Eile -n Boorsma, '39, Elizabeth Clark, '41, Janet Clark, '40, Rthl Davis. '41, Zelda Davis, '40. Mary Elizabeth Easterly, '39, Jane Everest, '?9, Margaret Ford, '40, Enora Ferriss, '40, Jeanne Grant, '40, Eliza- beth Gross, '40, Virginia Lee Hardy, '41, Ruth J. Hartmann, '39, Frances Hubbs, '40, Susan Kerr, '40, Harriet Levy, '40, Virginia List, '41. Other Members Named Joan Lynch, '39, Mary Margaret Meloche, '40, Jeanne Morgan, '40, Nina McLellan, '41, Helen New, '41, Richarda Newberg, '41, Bethe O'Roke, '40, Peggy Pulte, '39, Ellen F. Rhea, 41, Mary A." Rodger, '41, Mary Eliza- beth Rouse, '41, Jean Alice Ruther- ford, '40, Zenovia Skoratko, '40, Har- riet. Sharkey, '40, Ella Stowe, '40, Elizabeth Sutton, '40, Marjorie Tate, '39, Harriet Thom, '40, Ann D. Wills, '40, Madelaine L. Westendorf, '40 and Mary McClure, '39. . - tublicity Committee rhe following women are named to the publicity committee, which is headed by Harriet Pomeroy, '39, Ei- leen Boorsma, '40, Helen Brown, '41, Elizabeth Clark, '41, Ellen Cuthbert, '39, Gwen Dunlop, '40, Virginia Ann Durand, '40, Jane Elspass, '40, Dor- othy Keene, '41, Una Kelley, Ellen Krieghoff, '40. Carolyn Leahy, 41 and Doris Nashold, '41. Others are Carolyn Ross, '39, El ' inor Sevison, '41, Leona Siff, '40, Jean Smith, '40, Barbara Telling, '40, Margaret Walsh, '41 and Margaret Whittemore, '41. Candy Booth Committee The candy booth committee, under Madeline Krieghoff, '39, vice-presi- dent of the League are: Barbara Benedict, '40, Mary Leigh Burleson, '40, Jane Elspass, '40, Dorothy Glass, '40, Ellen Krieghoff, '40, Harriet Levy, '40, Mary Loughborough, '39, Marie McElroy, '39, Virginia Mulholland, '39, Richarda Newberg, '41, Marian Price, '40, Mary Alcott Rodger, '40, Suzanne Stevenson, '40, Alice Ward, '41 and Ann Wills, '41. The ballroom committee, headed by Betty Spangler, '39, vice-president of the League, is as follows: Jane Campbell, '39, Janet Homer, '41, Lu- cille Kauer, '40, Dorothy Shipman, '40, Mary Wheat, '39, Margaret Whitemore, '41 and. Barbara Zapp, '40. Headed by Grace Wilson, '39SM, vice-president of the League, the dancing class members are Edith Le- veene, '41 and Barbara Zapp, '40. i is his failure to devote any atten- tion to the role of children in "how to stay married." This is doubly mystifying because of his deep fam- ily feeling and emphasis on the home. Figures unquestionably confirm what most of those who have children feel, that youngsters are a great factor, perhaps the greatest factor, in last- ing 'marriage. FRA Aide Writes Louise V. Armstrong, Federal Relief Administrator in a small Michigan town, has written the story of her experiences in a book entitled We Too Are The People, to be published June 3. Its publishers compare it in tech- nique to Carl Carmer's Stars Fell on Alabama and Dr. Cronin's The Stars Loak Down. Lupe Buys Books Some years ago Lupe Velez, busy, furnishing her new Hollywood home, noticed an empty bookcase in one of the various living rooms. Promptly ringing a bookstore she informed the clerk she wanted to buy some books. "Rush them right over," ordered ILupe. "And send a lot-about five yards!" H. W. CLARK ENGLISH BOOTMAKER Custom-Made Boots to Your Measure Riding Boot, hand-sewn Welt, hand- lasted, from $6.75 up. All kinds of oxfords made to measure from $7.50 up. 534 Forest Ave. Ann Arbor, Mich. Ferocious beasts first roamed in this square mile of trees surrounded by prairie. Later came the Indians with their strange tribal ceremonies, their witchcraft. They were still en- camped in the grove when the first French explorers arrived bringing with them their Christian God. Fol- lowing these trail blazers were the farmers, the tillers of the soil. Among them was the Goodner family, a fam- ily of true pioneers embodied with the American spirit. They were the first who plowed up the plains and planted the golden wheat which be- came so important in the lives of all the settlers. Mr. Peattie tells us that there is a real prairie grove. In speaking of his book he says, "For of course there is a real Grove. and as I say, I walk in it. I did my courting in it, and married into it, and my children have it in their blood and call it home. So, in a way, I am a part of its biota, of which this book is a study. "Yet it is just as true' that there is no one particular spot that you - or. I - could call the locale of A Prairie Grove. So that the two groves - the island a drift in my thoughts and the real havcn of trees and fields caught in the net of highways, - are no more identical than the real Mars and the planet we mean when we think of Martians who may dwell on it. I hold to nothing literally, and will not be held, except to the burr oaks and the grass, the pigeons and the elk. For them I am remembering." Those who have read Mr. Peattie's recent work, Green Laurels, will cer- tainly look forward to reading this book, and those who have not, have something in store for them. WIND OVER WISCONSIN.. . August Derleth 2.50 THE DARK ROSE . . . Walsh.... .... 2.50 HEAVEN CAME SO NEAR. .. Hubert Skidmore 2.50 ACTION AT AQUILA. . . Hervey Allen . . 2.50 BOUNTY OF EARTH ... Donald Peattie 1.00 THE PRODIGAL PARENTS ... 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