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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Jul 1931, p. 36

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This book, effectively puts 'Mr Drnkwater among the Pepysianis, and flot by any means as a mere dberin the "engaging. indelicacies" of the Diary, but as a -true, an om- nivorous Pepyài.an, who accepts that amazing record of ten years with joy and thanksgliving, and 3-et leaves no cranny unexplored that can yield in- formation côncerning the, other si.xty years. 0f no man can we knowv more than of Pepys during that period from 1659 to 1669 wh'len he so glibly immortalized himiself 1 in is ,private Clear and, explicit' and copious -as that record is, it leaves us convinced, against our Içnowledge. of the facts,j that it -chronicles an entire lie,. and that in it we have- seen the wlvho1e of the amiable mian who adored mnu-1 sic, fought petty battles i ,th- bis %vife. and wondered whiv«a prettv, wonîani had stich power over hmii. \VC forget that this man, whoîn we are Ilkely to. regard as a lovable trifler, had a dis-1 tinguishi career of more than thirty, years alter heÏ gave up his daily j)rac-. tice of recording his actions credit- able and discrieclta bic. Mr. rinkaterdeserve.- no sih prase for fthe skull Nith which lie lias liandled bis diiicult suo)ject. h w%%Ould - have Ueeni easy to draw upont the DMary for ait sorts oi episodes a i d opinions, to have served up aîiew the ieuiow who is already so iamniliar aud so attractive. And prooably no one woul have quarrelied withî such a rcpetîtion of wcIl kilown delighits. But Mt. Drinkwater lias caretuJly avoild any sucli rechauff oye. Il- stead, wittxout iieglecting the Diary. tic bas zused ail the extensive an( hithierto tindigested researchies of Dr.ý T"Iannier and .àr. %heatie3,, and lias thus shown -tlîat,, thaniks to the dili- gence of these gentleinen 'anid others, we cati now knoiv very .nierly as. niuch about Ithe later Pepvs as we. 1t.orinerly knew about tlhe Pepys oi the irst texv yýears of the Restoration. Me for the fiction that's full of police ~mîn f ioc n uhr Houdin thirzic1in frinpilar îe d bY Vera MrDerrnid Hmrndpost er 011n ronPilr nAugust 27, 1929 the seventy..first to potf . . . anniversary of the IFreeport Lincolni- What in iy life arc the Sussex dozzns Douglas dehate was celebrated, anc! Pea pied iruithe characters quaint in there was unveiled a statue of Lin -" their speech.". coIn whicl ivwas presented to the peo- What do I care fo r cathedral ton~pe of -Stephenson .county b. i- What priée gloryj or yalleons rcach'.la hoa alig."rePortS Lincoln" ýcontains addresses delivered Deah t, achb.çh*p,,'. Sffiien . orat the unveiling of the statue, a list of somne. - exhbits displaved, alaccount of th( Gucite ed in pC -o-tu1 i yarfloor surv-ivors who lîeard the debate,' etc.' Puct-edwohpperknires. Question: 'f ljëie bok, is' dedicated by '.%r. Raw%%- "HowCore?"leigli tolbis only son "%%ho gave his Nobody. know-s tli page. 374. life tlîat the freedom Lincoln visiote:l Ail the. Ritz ecildren 1 giadiv. rest.in might, stili ýendure." It is a seventv- Liketcisc those stori's of 11fr on the first a nniversarv edition, wîtitl tis jarin;inscription iin gold letters on the out- WaI-sacs nd oisn ai swor-cacç ideofthe front cover: "The fate oi for mine;la, Nation wvas decided at Frceport." Nro!hin.1 but (plots Iïc(11, ,,,thwl _Dr. Johin Wesley Hill, chalîcellor j alarin. 'Simple,,Confessionl," Ihy Baird Leon- I ard (Cosnîiopolitain), is a, volunie. of gay and charmîng lighit versec 1w the amusing w'ýoian n-ho wrltes Mrs. Pep's Diarv," for Lif e. humnor maga- zine, and who I's its (lramatic. editô)r. 1No words about it could speak as allur- ingly and loudly as sarffples of its charms. Mvstery fans, wiIl get a great chuckle out of her f rank declarations of War against anthing but. hooks withl plots which she can 4"viewvivith alarm." Joseph Hergeshieinier lias contributed an introduction titled .'\Voinen" to "Simiple- Confession." SOR SISTER.* Bv Mildred Gilmnan, New York: Jontathan Cape &j Harrison Smith. You are not to confuse "Sol) Sister" with anotlier book publislîed sorte years back, with a'similarunaine. "Sob ýSister," lby Mildred Glnîan, could scarcely have been thoughit of uip- wards. of six moônths' ago to judge froni the startlingly recent allusions which stare up at you from the printed page with the inmediateness of your morning, newspaper. 1It iîs this illusion of imnmediateness thiat makes the book such good, racy reading; and if writing for a tabloid newspaper got Miss Gilman's style 0f Lincoln M enorial uniiversit%,.,Iivo gave the address at t'lie nveiling ïj the statue of 'Lincoln, cails Lincoln J 'tlîe greatest niere niaiî who lias -walked beneal t the sta4s- ïtor x 'thousaîîd ears." He as-ks:" ati the secret of Lincolni's. eîlarging, place in world liistoryý? 1 tizik,it-iýs tlîis à He becaniie an itîiterp)reter oui spiritual Iaw. He caught. the divinev thouglit ini relation tohuany.Li [coin flot only discerned the divine righit of liberty in mnan but lienmade that thoughit real. by applv ig it to tll.(: 1)olitical -and social lufe of Ille nation.- 0f particular interest to tlce reader are the letters froni survivor S, -wI1id as children,. were ivitniesses at t1ue grezit debate hield in Freeport, August 1858. One, 1). F. Spencer oi Ruskiîî, ela " descrbes Lincoln as beiîg a won4ecriul speaker. "fie lad a feinil- iîiiie voice and shoutèd bis words out shrilly, and could be hetard a block away.. Douglas, was* afine speaker [)ut not so distincet-as Lincoln. 1 was mnü-. n ing a 'locomilotive lon Hllannibal and St., ,Jo at the tie lie was 'shot,; ami_ Mien 1 got into Maconi City the next n orning- and lie ard the neéws it sèeed that oue of niy relatives Nvas killed., He liadiniade such a.itipressioii on' mv mmid iut my early youthI and the, days gonie by were golden, goldeV days that sonie of the oldtinmers caît renienber. " Such letters as this. oune are valuable contributions, to. the his- il 1 ami ..)> New or Used Copies of the Currefit Literature Our Rentai Plan is Easy. 1724 Orrington: Avenue, illi Lu i)oic masup to a stirring is the insistent power of the flews- climax, utilizing a series of' Long, paper, which, having gained complete Islandi murders of such recent date ascendancy over jane, prods her on and vividness that. tbey give an air to its own maddened Pace, neyer giv- of verisimilitude to ail the heroine's ,ing ber a chance to catch up with 'adventures. Ail in ail, Miss Gilman ber own if e. lias written a book which is decidely Along vitb tbe plays "FrntPae. god reading, which speaks a living, ::Chicago,"ad."iv trFnl,"aiom ,,and'deals irîth a phaeoou "Sob ýSistef" is an arraignment of the Izrtat neyer fails to fascinete.

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