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'.so WILMETTE LIFE November 30, 1928 tion and so came to him with every im~inable project, knowing that if he wished he could put it through to the president in far less time than would be taken by the ordinary channels. All this gave · him a life of such astonishing significan·ce, importance, and infinite variety as to make it a 's ort of statesman's dream. It was House who suggested the "debate" between leading papers in America and Germany on the aims of the \Var which might if it had been carried through have led to great things. But this was one case where the Colonel's project was not adopted. It was House that the country had to thank for the · fact that when the Peace Conference did come its statesmen went to it well informed on matters of earl.ier foreign diplomacy. Toward the end of House's relations with the President there was lessengested, planned, advised, toned up or toned down with a shrewdness which does seem to have been almost infallible as it was untiring. 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O'Brien's "Best Short Stories 0f 1928," just out, includes excellent contributions of Fanny Hurst , Dorothy Canfield, Katharine Brush, Irvin S. Cobb, and a story of Louis Bromfield's, "The Cat that Lived at the Ritz" thought by some to be the best thing that Mr. Bromfield ever wrote, though the short story is certainly not the field in which he is hest known. STATESMAN PAR EXCELLENCE "The Intimate Papers of Col House" Arranged by Charl~s Seymour Houghton ]flftlln Co. a TOO LEAN "Lean Twilight" A Brood of Ducklings Frank Swinnetton Doubleday, Doran . ...... $2.50 Hy Edward Slwntou C' hnrlt>S l"c>rlbllf'r'!ol Sons Persian Pictures Genrude Bell of Arabia Horace Liveright ......... S3.oo The Downfall of Temleham Mat ius Barbeau Illustrated in color Macmillan. . ............ s4.oo "Lean Twilight" by Edward Shenton is, alas, lean in more ways than one. A.ttractively gotten up by its publisher, neat in its proportions it rather allures one, but the content; fail to carry on. It lacks vitality. It is the !'tory of a girl disillusioned or perhaps, rather, disappointed in her first idealistic love, who becomes i~1 her effort to conquer the COME CHRISTMAS By Eleanor Farjeon Author of "Italian Peepshow" A gay little book of new Christmas poems full of the Christmas spirit. The Flutes of Shanghai Louise Jordan Miln Stokes ................ $2.00 In these last two Yolumes of the "Intimate Papers oi Colonel House" is tqld the fascinating and remarkable story of what went on in our country in the realm of high diplomacy during those all important years of our participation in the War and the making of peace. Once more one is amazed at the extent to which Colonel House took part in those eyents. Nothing was done in Washington in which. either from ~ew York or from his summer home in l\fassachusetts. this super-ambassador had not had a hand. He suging of his influence. often it was to the country's loss. But there \1\'as never any definite break between these two who as House so truly said, had "minds which ran parallel." Freed as House was by his lack of official position from the details of actual administration, he was able to keep his mind clear for the long view. Statesmen abroad as well as officials at home recognized his unique posi By th~ IT GOT IT "The Father" n~· Kutharlne Holland Brown Jojln Day Co. A book old and young will enjoy. Copiously Field. illustrated by Rachael Author of the Famous Ntwel And by a Famous Eoanstonian $1.75 Frederick A. Stokes Co. THE GREAT HUNGER I I The Joyous Pretender Louise Ayre& Garnett Macmillan ............ . $2.00 Elizabeth and Essex Lytton Stracbey Minton B-.lch .. . ......... $ 3·75 lr--;~ I NEW BOOKS by two prominent THE NEW TEMPLE By JOHAN BOJER A powerful, soul-stirring story by a great figure in world literature. 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In other words it will app eal to anyone who likes a story for the ~tory' s s·ake and who incidentally will he interested in the background uf Illinoi s in the pre-Civil war days and of Lincoln in the days when h~ was a small tq_wn lawyer not yet con,·inrcd that abolition must come. "A LONDON REVERIE" Fiity-six of Joseph Pennell's beautiful drawings picture the London of twenty years ago in a volume called ".\ London Heverie." ]. C. Squire l1as \\'ritten brid notes on the drawing.:-. and an introductory essay in whtch he tells of the London of his younger days and of Pennell's ·treatment of London scenes. "A London Reverie" was published November 7th. be a poor sport tt he does not draw as many chuckles out of William Allen White's book as anybody else-and that is allowing him a lot." This is the Buffalo News' comment on Mr. White's frank character studies of our politicians in "M as k s 111 . a Pageant." 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