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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Jan 1928, p. 22

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? is the ly one who could teiiJoU that. There are certain gold 9t!lds on the borderline ~~....-..._,.--i!.,_ ..,_..._.,~P.....-:Jof the o ·muntries .whidl · ia:to bis inter~st.'to liav ·,Ria '"n.-·; S 1i bujB7 . .u..... u~··· ing 4ifty ot more newipapers BUte William · ¥c1>ougall, in has put the war machinery in motion. his new book "Character and the ConThere is delightful irony here, the duct of Life" has tried to give "an way the public mind is kindled and aid to men and women in acquiring fanned to lively flame. " 'I see what a little more ra1>idly the wisdom that Bute wants. But how's he to get it, comes only through experience and pdor thing?' 'By making lots of other through reflection upon human .life." people want it too.' 'What other peoHe says in his chapter on girls df the ple?' 'Public opinion. The people 7 present day, "The beauty of woman you know.' 'Make them want it enough · is a tremendously powerful influence, and like all great forces, it may serve to turn out and fight for it? How \)ase or noble purposes. The mischief' can he make them?' '0, by telling is that this great influence is given them they do already." There is really only one obstacle to to the young females of the species at an age when they cannot understand Bute's plans and that is the newsits power and the gravity of th.e re- paper man with a conscience, Burnage. But Burnage also has a wife sponsibility that goes with it." and she is bored with the status quo A party of white men travelling in and thinks a war might wake things Siam had a shock recently when after So by playing on Burnage's vani up. having asked and received permission ty she makes him betray himself and to photograph a group of shaven fall in with the war plans. The last headed monks, one of the monks barrier is down and the war is on. stepped forward and bowing politely Mr. C. E. Montague, who has been s~id, .. Now would you mind standing still while we take a snapshot of writing cleverly for years, has "hit you?" Then producing a camera he the ball" with this latest book, "Right !OOk ,the picture and went ~way, say- Off the Map," largely because of the subject. He says so many t~g, You are very picturesque" while book's hts yellow robed companions· chuckled. things about war that lots of us would love to have been able to say and he says them so much more bitTHE NOBLE GAME OF WAR ingly. His wit is sharp and caustic but reserved. It is not quotable be"RI<;fiT OFF THE MAP" ~ause it does not rise to swift climaxes but runs along an even humor87 .C. E. Moatape ous tenor.· Doalaleda~ Pqe A Co. The war begin!', A picked group of' men is · sent up by a secret pass to War was threatened between the surorise the enemy by flank attack. small countries of Porto and Ria. Willan. the only real soldier of the __ LOOKING BACKWARD "MUCH LOVED BOOKS" By .fame· O'DoaaeU Beaaett Boai A L,i·eri1ht Claire Ambltr Boot6 T«l&infton Doubleday, Doraa · ······· S 2. 5o A ,.,resi~nt is Bor~ ' . Penit R.unt H a~per ' ' 1 . ·· .············ $2.50 Call I~ .a Day Dattoa Diac P.triclt ·.··· ." ······.·· S2.oo The Wayward Man &t. John EtoiM Macmillaa ·.····.·..····· 12.50 Paris with the Lid Lifted IJnKeRtvnoiU George Sally 8 Co. · ··.·· S2.oo " My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions Anthology of Jollificati· Soap Coll«te4 bg FrMi &IMrJ · m4 lUUitnted brl lohn Hcltl, Jr. Macaulay ............... S2.50 J a ·n uaTy Special A p 0 The Dalebouse Murder: · PrM(ia Et11tton Bobbs, Merrill tf Co. · · · · · S 2. oo r t · 1 r t The Ugly Duchess IAon FtuehtuJcngtr Viking Press ····.······ S2. so s t r a 1 · Very sensibly James O'Donnell Ben nett h_as gathered together these short artiCles which appeared over a periorl of two years and more in the Chicago Tribune under the title "Best Seller ~ of the Ages." They were popular articles in the Tribune and now that they are gathered in book form under the title "Much Loved Books" the,· should be popular here. Not that these are exhaustive art i c 1 e s-his publishers· hasten to absolve Mr. Bennett from any "dry as d~st pedantry" -naturally, having been written for the daily paper so that he who runs for the train may read, they are short. snappy, to the point. Yet that is not all. They are also provocative. They lead you on to the books of which they are written, thev are small doorways into· exceeding}~· large rooms. · It would not be difficult to gues!' what would be the first · "best seller of the a~es" of which Mr. Bennett would write-it is . of course the Bible. He recounts a conversation with Rabbi Hirsch through which the Bible ceased to he for him a mysterious· re1igiou:-: document and became '~an ingratiating hook, the eaJrer. poi~nant, excitedand often terribly exciting-record of man's falJibilities and aspirations of his slow grQPing towlrd the tight."· Then there is "Treasure Island." and the poetrv of Burns. "Faust " thr "Arahian Niehts," "Tom Jones'; and the rest, making a very wonderful procession before which ,·ou feel pro- : foundly humble that iou know and can appreciate so little. But vou make a resolve to go on and thus Mr. Bennett doc·s accomplish something of his purpose to recall to us thest great books, and prove that they arr not good because thev are old but olct because they are good. Herbert Hurd. son of Mr. and Mr!'. N. L. Hurd, 518 Sunset road, Winnetka . served as usher· at the wedding of Ralph Whithilt at Marinette, Wis. Mr. H'!rd. has returned to the Univesity of ~lln~ms to resume )iis studies as a jUOJOr. l:'be Squealer . Bt~g« W.Ziue ... · J Doa ltday, Dona ·..·... S2.oo > · J I . r' ·· c · t ' ( lJ. B· .Bowcr Littlt, Browa .8 Co. · ····· S2.oo ( s -oMrs. Eugene Arms. 221 Woodbin<' avenue, was hostess at a luncheon aml J>ridge Jriven at the Lake Shore Ath- ' 1etic club on Wednesday, Januarv 3. ; ... ..t &till Some Fine V olumta iA tht s.z, ol Jluch-Retl~etl ~b. Six Gainsboroughs Repdar Pri~ $1 CHANDLER'S; .t~ . ' B ·O 0 'K S The I'JJOit complt,. bool atcxk on the North &bote ~-----

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