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42 WILMETTE i.iFE M,ay 17, 1929 to tetl of his life, of his father, Charmides, who died young; of his queenly mother; of his first love ; his glimpse of Marathon and the godlike Miltiades; his studies in Athens and then in Argos; his friends, Aeschylus, Pericles, Myron, and Sophocles; his long years of labor at Delphi, Olympia, and the new Acropolis at Athens; and finally of his death in prison, char~ed with impiety and poison~d by his false friend, .M en on. The poem movt~s swiftly with the force of the story h tells-the stoTy of a man who r,:.ore than two thousand years ago created out of bronze and gold and ivory statues splendid in their calm dignity and power. Mr. Howard has succeeded in presenting a full and vivid biography in rich and fluent verse-a novel cleparture in poetry. Comment on Current Books . CHICAGO: ITS AMAZING CENTURY. By Henry Jus tin Smith and Lloyd Lewis. Harcourt Brace and Company. Mr. Smith is a resident of Glencoe and also managing editor of the Chicago Daily News. Mr. Lewis is a well known magazine writer. Their book concerns the story of one of the world's most remarkable cities-only a "mudhole in the prairie" barely a century ago. Here is not merely the account of Chicago's history and its growth in population. commerce, wealth, and public improvements, though these features are not neglected. The authors have cho!' en to emphasize the human aspects v i the city's career, the experiences of the masses of the people, the poor Polack as welt as the merchant prince. We see wave after wave of people, all kinds. all colors, pouring in, and Jearn the story of their fate of the whole d~velooment of this amazing, courageous, faulty but vital city. It will be of particular interest to Chicago readers. RHINESTONES. By M#rgaret \Virldemer. 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ANDREW JOHNSON, THE CHAMPION OF LINCOLN'S CAUSE. By An old sailing vessel with a strange figurehead was washed up on the Lloyd Paul Stryker. rocky Maine coast. The great mystery . Born of poor parents in a log house which enshrouded the ship took four in Rat:igh, N ..c. in 1808, apprenticed voung people a whole summer ·to unto a village ta1lor at the age of ten, ~avel. The adventures of the SeyAndr.ew Johnson learn~d to read..by mour family who came for a vacation conmng a book of orations by Bnttsh , 011 a farm on the Maine coast are full statesmen. .At ninetee . he married of excitement and thrills. Detectives, the da.ughter of a Scotch shoemak~r, hidden treasures. mysterious lights, and wtth her help he learned to wnte and strange noises all add to the mysand figure,. When he was twenty- tery of the ship. Miss Tucker lives seven, havmg already been elected to 011 the same sort of farm in Maine public office six tit,nes, he becam·e a which is the backgound of this story 111ember of the Legtslature of Tennes- and her ~faine characters are drawn see and sold his tailoring business. The from her friends on that coast. The romantic incidents of his youth. the hook is illustrated in black and white events of his political career. and his bv Ethel Taylor whose silhouettes are part in history are woven by Mr. well kno,-.·n. ' Stryker into an absorbing story. Johnson's character and his . performance speak for themselves in Mr. Stryker's THURM AN' LCCUS. By Harlan vivid and impressive account of his Eugene Read. Macmillan. career. The setting of this new novel of adventure by Mr. ·Lucus shifts from the THE GOLDEN· TREASURY OF slums of St . Louis to the State PeniSONGS AND LYRICS. Selected by tentiary and finally to the gold fields Francis T. Palgrave. of Nevada. Mr. Read says "In prep·· This new edition of the famous aration for the writing of 'Thurman "Golden Treasury" of verse includes Lucus' I spent a long time studying about two hundred additional poems. criminology, visiting jails and peniThe original "Golden Treasury" L , - tentiaries, and gold-mining and proscluded only the work of writers not pecting in Nevada. I took part in the now living, but the additions include Weepah Golrt Rush in 1926-and did some of the best short poems of living my share with pick and shovel. I ljved writers, such as Yeats' A. E. Masefield. in a tent .in a mining camp, ate miner's James Stephens, Ralph Hodgson, grub, knew everybody in the camp Padraic Colum, Rudyard Kipling, and from the gamblers to the Chief Justice Alfred Noyes. of the Nevada Supreme Court-It was here that I started the book. The PHEIDJAf. Bv John Galen Howard. story is laid in two sections with which I have been familiar all my life-the Macmilla ·1. Mississippi Valley and the pioneer . 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