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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Apr 1928, p. 40

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~ .. ·-: u~·. ........ 1'111 a.._.. Park IIZZ·S Telepla- ,_ ~-- ··~------------- 11 .A. E. F. ll·jor GeMNI Hanttr U,.tt Aa accoaat of oar apeclitioaary force ia France: its leader, iu pnpaarioas, iu battln and iu rrtara. Dodd, Mead ·8 Co. . ...·· SJ.oo European Skyways LoiWII Thoma The aathor of With Lawrence in Arabia tells of joameys 2 5,ooo ailn across Earope by air. Hoapton, Millin 8 Co..·· S5.oo Those who ·4Uftti what's tii a name -.ill be · tetested to know that we have receotly anthologi of d~tn·e stories by. Mr. Wright and Mr. ·wr()ng. Now there is a n~w One by Vincent Starrett "Fourteen Great Detective Stories," although oddly 'nouch five ~ his selections .w ere included by lit'. Wrong. Owen Johnson makes one of his characters - hold forth on the subject of the fascination of the detective story, thus, "Admit at once that the whole art of a dttective story consists in the statement of the problem. Any one can· do it. I can do it. The solution doesn't count. It is usually banal, it should be prohibited. What interests us is, can we guess it?" If we thought we "could do it" we would certainly try I The book~ which have been pickell as possible best-sellers for London this spring are a new installment of "The Letters of Queen Victoria," which will fit in admirably with t}te battle between that gentleman and Gladstone, "Memoirs of Townshend of Kut," a diary kept by General Townshend covering forty-five years, and "The Truth About Arabia," . in which Harry St. J. Philby will try to counteract the version of Lawrence and Gertrude Bell on affairs Arabian. THE LOW DOWN ON WAR P. S. by the aathor of Wine, Woam an.Wu J. H. Stan 8 Co·· lac. ···· $2.50 ·sERGEANT EADIE" B'I~Nuoa D......._~; D.,.... The Key of Life FIMria S.. Yoant The stott of two cbsbiaa lovn, and o( the nsaltant Let only those start . "Sergeant Eadie" who are interested in the de- , Alfrrcl A. Knopf ···· ~ ··· $2.5.0 sac'*'. Ladies in Hadel The Story of Heft's Smart Set. AmoM IC.ummn · J. H. San 8 Co. · .···· S2.5o F,_.. .. Welcome Home Aliu Dutt Jlill« A linly comtciJ ol advtntarr ia wbicb a yoang· ·un opeaecl a door witb a latcllby 1M bac:hi't 1lltd ia foar loag yean. DoclcL Mud 8 Co······· 12.oo A Girl Adoring · Vi«U Jlfri,U Datton ·····....·.···· $:1.50 ~eavy ··Clear . , u~ · ~t~hot ev~ witb DDIIIU) daritj the t.ntcb betwltll the MW · te.eation ancl dlt old. Alfnd A. Kaopf ········ $2.50 nu. ,.,..w,u. *" of claap. nleca Sun Hawk Laden - ' qUickly and safely · a father aacl ... T~ ..,...., w. Tile ,_., ucl aajaty of a ·arcba acroa the . . , of dala aoYtl. A,ttleroa ··· ' ·········· 12.00 pat ....._ c,., When eyes become blood shot &om wind, dust, over-use, crying or lack of sleep, apply a few drops af harmless Murine. Soon they will be clear again and will feel refreshed and vigorous. tails of a soldier's life in the War. Details, let us repeat, for Leonard Nason's is a detailed style. Not · the minute hair-raising s~~ch for- detail of a Sinclair l-ewis but a nice calm Andre Siegfried. America comes of age. jogging along from point to point as Mr. Siegfried attacks the ethnic, it ureally happened." Personally we were interested in it because he gives economic, and,· political situations a feeling of authenticity and authen- with Gallic directness, a:nd adtic details of the War are interesting vances some. interesting opinions to us. There is the spirit of raillery, on their management and outcome. comradeship and cons.tant "8fousing" He .is a professor in the School of about the hardships of .the army which· Social Sciences, Paris. men who were in it will probably V. L Parrington. Main currents especially enjoy. in American thought. Mr. Nason is one of those who does not feel it necessary to make the War A thoroly able and enlivening inmerely a background for a love story . terpretation of American political, or something else : he . feels that it is social and economic development the story itself. So the early part of as seen in the progression of Amerthe ~ook is,.taken up with a long ac- ican letters from 1620 to 1860· .r.pu 1· geant Eadie's first days tlie y · when he endears 4Jimself C. E. Merriam. American party to us by the truly senseless proceedsystem. ing of · posing as a de·s erter because Altho designed as a textbook it he has heard that deserters are sent will be of interest to anyone who at once overseas. · desires an introduction to the study He is sent, with an incident of the of the American party system. An trip being the sinking of his ship by admirable analysis, clear and faira submarine. This is told with great minded. · viv~dness. Arrived at the front where he has so longed to be Eadie finds that C. A. Beard. American government he has had enough of it in . three and politics. minutes to last not only himself but Covers the actual practice as well three or four generations after him. as the theory of government and ~ut even fl!a · t so bad as be- points out recent political tenhmd tb!r: t: his recall comes dencies. · to go ~ · to · t he says "I'm -American Library association. going back to the front and ~mned 1Jlad of it·. Boy, I .n~~ a rest." And we leave ham thai. going back. If there is a lesson meant to be con- Aanounce Field MUieUID yeyed by such ~b as this, then, it Guide Toun Nest Week as-that War did not consist in the "Wild Cats and Dogs" and "Palms" glamour of Paris, but in grinding bore- will ·be the - subjects of the first of dom, cold food, no beds and being next week's guide-lecture tours at shot at by Germans. It is a salutory Field Museum of Natural History. lesson. They will be given Monday, April 22, at 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. respectively. EDDIE FOY UCKSTAGE Subjects other days at the same hours are: Tuesday, "Deer of . All Lands" "CLOWNING THROUGH LIFE" and "Chinese Art"; Wednesday, "InB'l Eddie Fo'l .... .A.hia Harlow dians of the Pueblos" and "Iron, Coal E. P. DattOD A Co. and Petroleum"; Thursday, ·two general tours; and Friday, "Bird Mi~die Foy was a genial spirit and grants" and "Glassware and Pottery." t~ts account of his "Clowning Through These tours of niuseum exhibits under ~!e" refl~cts that ~.pir_it admirably. the !fUidance of staff lecturers are free. ts '!asn t a!l astomshmgly remark- Partaes assemble inside the north enable hfe but tt ~as a life which par- trance. took of much of the history of . the . , country. Born in New York in '1856 Movies of China to be he knew the days of the public wells · of Barnum's }4.useum and the old As~ Shown at Field Museum tor House on Br~dway. Two free moving pictures for chit. The ~eath. of h1s father from injur- ~ren, "China" and "Nature's Cathedtes recea'!ed m the Civil War sent the ral," will be given at Field Museum of Foy, f~mtly out .to Chicago where they Natural History, Chicago, this Saturwere ·n. the m1dst of the tragedy of day morning, under the provisions of the_ ~htcago fire. Mr. Foy gives ·a the James Nelson and Anna Louise th.r.dlmg accou~t of it as he does a Raymond Fund. The pictures wilt still more thnlling one of the fire run from 10 a. m. until noon continuyTears later at the Iroquois Theatre ously, and will be shown in the James he~e he was the hero of the occasion. Simpson theater of the museum. All commg ~:>Ut onto the stage surrounded children of Chicago and suburbs are by burnmg scenery to plead with and invited. try to con!rol the fear-maddened audi-· - - - - - - - - - - - - - - An Illinois factory made the world's largest watt-hour ele~tric meter. .

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