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42 WILMETTE LIFE December · 17, 1926 , FOUNT -.IN SQUARE EVANSTON University 1024 Wilmette 600 Rogers Park II 2 2 :l~ ~~ MY LIFE AND TIMES Jerome K. Jerome Harper Brothers ··..·.... $4.00 THE COLLECTING OF ANTIQUES Esther Singleton Macmillan ...·..·.··... $7.50 DID YOU KNO\VThat Margaret Dtland wrote lzcr latest book sevc1~ times and during the process it gre·w from a short stot·y itJtO a full size 11ove/? That "The Two Sisters" 'l.i.!OS written by Rmtst Batrs at the age of 19! That a. ne·<~' maga:;inc is bci11g published quartrrly by a group of nryro artists to bt> uud for the encouragement of art anw11g mem brrs of that race! Tllat th e French Na.timwl pri:u far Portr:y for 1926 has been tl'lParded to Jacques N oir, a ta:r colIre tor whose latest volume is call,·d "llc11rts Profomfrs ?" Rtewiie'Wz cf IB3 (0) (Q) 1k ~ "Darwin"- Gamaliel Bradford. Charles Darwin has been for most of us ' at best a dim figure. a figure overshadowed by hi s own g.reat doctrine. And vet though I don't think it has ever . occurred to me consciously to picture him, I was surprised by Gamaliel Bradford's characterization of him in the first paragraph of his book. "Darwin." as 110nc of the ~im plest; purest, noblest, most candid, most lovable, most Christian souls that ever lived." Somehow that <lt' scription ' didn't fit ,,·ith the \\·arlike part Charles Darwin had to play, the rrverheration:-. of ·whose conflirt art· stilt echoing in many parts oi t l1t· world even excltt:--in oi Texa . ; and Tennessee. But \fr . Bradfnrd gor:-; on tn rotl viHcr us of ju ~ t thost' qualitie:-. Oar win wa s gentle and Jovahlc in all t IH· contacts that he made \\·ith people, more than generous in his tr~:atment of fellow scientists, and humhlr to the point oi \\·!tat . would ordinarily bt· af fectation concerning him s r 1f. ).f r. Bradf ord ha s made an int eresting book. tht)\\·ing light a~ it doe:- 011 a great character. but it is Jllainh· and V<'r)· irankly a-.~imilative, it i:-; .not a gn·at rn·atin:- biography. 1 Christmas Suggestions for Children's Books For Little Folk ll'i./1/tii 'Jtlu ·-J·oolt. By A. A. Mihw . Auth01: f)f " \\'lwn '\'t· wer·· \'t' rY Young·.·· Stot·it-s and })Ot'lllS about ChristophH Hohin and hi~ fa voritt~ big bear, wht·n th~->y g-o adv.-ntut·in~c Illu~ . by Sh··pard. Putton, ~2 . \ 'tnlll>cr y,,l/1' Jov Sf,·H ·f . 11y \\'altt·r 11·· Ia · ~lan· and ottu·r!-1. \VhimsiC'a) stori1 · ~ and g-a~· litth· pot·m!' by W <' ll-known wl'ito·r~ makt· this Joy hook t'\'t ·ll mon · t'llti··ing- than it~ prt>~lf-<'·-·ssors . lllu~ . .\Jipl..ton, $2.ii0. /)odO I' Ht.Tifflr'.~ ('tl·'ttl'tllt. ing·. Til· · 1lot·tor's Hy Hugh Loftauwsing adv P nturt-~ with an animal theatrical troup~.: opl'ra. J)lust ra t··d. ]> Po plr . Hy Sarah .\ddington . .-\ J.{a~ · J.{roup of s t orit·!-1 th·s<'rihing tlk fuu tlw :\lothf·r · :t·OS· · 11 "o pI·~ lm,··· in Pudding La n ··. ll Ju :-; , Llttk 1:., a nd a <' a n a r ~· Stokt·l', $2.;,o. }'II tl tl i it [I [,II III THE PULSE OF PROGRESS Ellaworth Huntington Charles Scribner's Sons ·.... S 5. o o EVERYBODY'S PEPYS Diary of Samuel Pepys. 1660-1669. Abridged from complete text and edited by 0. F. Monhead llluatrated by Ernest H. Shepard Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. . ... $3.50 An Episcopal clergyman, Frederick \V. Clampett, has w.ritten a l>ook entitled · "Luther Burbank, Our Beloved Infidel," which is a very sympathetic and understanding biog.raphy by one who knew him intimately. He deals at length with facts pertaining to Burhank's lecture at a Congregational r h 11 r c h calle<l "A C h a II e n g e to Thought," shorth· before his death which brought replies from ;til over th e country--about 1,000 in all. $2 . An }l () () .1 l p 11 11 /, 1 I k jtJI ' /(() ,liS u1trl Uirl.-1. 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