may die down and may swell. But this side of the book is secondary, for all its importance, and it would be an error for the reader to view the book in its light alone. As a story the book is highly successful, and among the most outstanding novels of the year; and as literature it is a rich piece, with power in it, and life, and a message. Edna Ferber may not be able to visit Texas without the law pursuing her; but the book that brought this about finds its way into the state as it finds it everywhere else, and the borders will remain open to it even after the uproar around it, and around its aging author, has died away.

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When I set about writing this piece, I did not imagine it would run on with me to such length; so I must put off to another occasion the discussion of two other books: "The Lovers" by Kathleen Winsor, author of "Forever Amber," and "Love Is a Pie" by Maude Hutchins, the most feminine of America's women writers — and I shall be happy to tell my readers about her, someday, as I knew her.

But I will say a little about a third book, "The Girls from Esquire." This is a book about woman; I take it up here because I remember that "The Woman's Voice" is read by men as it is read by women! The book is a large collection of articles, stories, drawings, comments, and studies drawn from the famous magazine "Esquire," all of them marked by wit, freshness, and gaiety, written by a number of this country's men of letters after they had looked at woman with a searching, appreciative look — the look of the expert. And though the chapters of the book differ in subject and in author, a thread binds them one to another; for who among us does not see the magic thread that gathers together such chapters as these: "The Double Bed," "The Divorced Woman," "The Secrets of Love," "The Wretched Husband," "That Terrible Beast Within Us," "The Seven Moments of Love," and so on? Much has been written on these subjects before; but the chapters of the book in my hands are chapters of literature, the fruit of men of letters, and its value is of a high literary order.

The book has been printed in a deluxe edition, and its pages, which run to more than three hundred, contain thirty full-page comic drawings. It is divided into six main sections: Woman Is a Necessary Evil; Everything for Love's Sake; Woman Says What She Pleases; Famous Women; Sugar and Spice; and Science and Sex.

And perhaps the best that can be said of the book is what appeared in an advertisement for it: the most exciting of books, by the most famous of writers, on the most delightful of subjects!

T. S.

Chen Yu

The beautiful hand has a magic like the eyes'..!

Chen Yu

New colors — beautiful, splendid — that lend beauty to the polish on your fingertips and give your hands attraction and charm

Chen Yu: holds fast — dries quickly — lasts long

CHEN YU

A creation of

Richard Hudnut

Do not deprive your lips, too, of the colors of

Chen Yu