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BOOKENDS

ANGEL CHILD By Grace Perkins Rae D. Henkle New York 1928 $ 2.00

FOR those who enjoy the precocious if somewhat naive prattle of wide awake found ladies with a "career" on the stage awaiting them "Angel Child" by Grace Perkins is just the thing it is so to speak the diary of a girl of thirteen who travels the circuit with her mother and plays juvenile parts mean while keeping an open eye upon the rest of the company life in general and a place in the moving pictures in particular.

Through the eyes of Lola carpenter we can follow the various affairs trials and tribulations of a small group of stage people which spiced generously with humor is very entertaining.

Among the more interesting review listed for the December number of the Crimson Bookshelf is a review of Dr. Harvey Cushing's "Conservation Medici," by Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene in the University Lucius Beebe '27 will review Edward Arlington Robinson's recently published "Sonnets" Dr. Beebe's own work on Robinson, "Aspects of the Verse of Edward Arlington Robinson," will also be reviewed in the forthcoming number of the Bookshelf.

Approximately 20 other works of various nature will receive notice in the December issue of the Crimson's literary supplement.

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