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He wanted a $500' signature and we got itfor him. A FAMOUS English author 1.was at a United Hotel. Hc 'fele the manager had gonce: out of .his. way to, make, him com- fortible, and often expresse& a desi to showhis appreciation'. Qne day the manager asked if he would mnind autographing one of his books, for a friend. Though he seldom signed his books, the author gladly sent the managcr's friend a $500 autograph. It isGour business to make evesy grs shpp ý as our author friend 1 We thirik extra service counts even more than our larger roois... an~d popular priced dining places. ONT ........ Il ...The A comedy of respectability might be the subtitie of Suisan Glaspell's fifth novel, which deals' in the lucid and frank style-peculiar to the author with the fairly common case of an underestimated wife. .Her .beroine, Mrs. Lincoln. Hoit. is an intelligent person, as is her. husbgnd, who to complicate afairs is also a poet, of consequence and a successful busi- ness man.. From' force of habit and preoccupation. however, be refuses. to consider bis. wife' as anything more. than a properly loving. and quite subordinate helpmeet. In addi- tion, she is, called "'Blossomn" by al bher friends, in spite of the factthat, as sbe says,,she does flot feel 'at al that wav. Life for ber is cons el smooth but somebowmfot ail it might be. until the. abrupt appearance of ber husband's supposedly disreputâble father upsets this deadlytranquillity and sbatters its respectable, well pro-, tected core. After ber déefense of old Ambrose Hoît, wbo proves to be a ýwise and charming ,vagabond. her' busband leaves her, returning only after tragedv bas restored bis sense of-proportion and enabled bim to dis- cover:the truc stature of bis wife. This fot over promising for too original tale is told witb great SUIl byý Miss Glaspeli. Her command of dialog and the finer shades of bumo r illustrates and colors admir-. ably the comedv of "Blossom" aind ;stead, has seIl1om been more in evi- 1dence tban in this book in which no person or event is at ail extraordi- nary,-certainly flot the mucb ma- ligned father-in-law,-while the.,cf-, fect is nevertbeleàs deeply signifi- c &nt. In a. day. when so0 many litera.ry uccesses aàre founded upon sbrewd, exploitation of the exotic or pictur-' esque in background and tbe abnor- mal'or exceptional.-in cbaraëteriza-1 tion, it is p1e.asanit to find M iss Glas- pelI using ber ample craft to illuMm nate and inake more comprehensible the lives whicb nine-tentbs. of the readers of books, in. spite> of their cinema fed dreams, will continue to l1ead for tbe rest of their days. A dventure THE BOY SCOUTS' BOOK OF. TRUE ADVENTURE. By Four.' teen Honorary Scouts. NJew York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. You might legitimately, assume. after reading this book, that the "fourteen honorary scouts" who con-- tributed to it had been chosen'for their literary achievements rather. than for doing a good deed a day. Tbey have told their tales of advenî-' ture in a stirring, unvarnished style that turns the compilation fromn just- another-book into an honest contri- bution to the l)ov literature of the year. od tufto- sa y besi 1 vvizt.VniJd U .vaci11an, Merlarn Cooper, LincolnEillsworh.-* si ent'ists, 'explorers, men 'of action. They have put down their stories in "odirect, straightforward a manner as to make yôu want more-a manner that niakes more colorful and corn- pellin than 'could' the most Mase- fieldian sti-le the Y'arns thev -have to tell. FICTION Ju!ading the' Invisible. By James Our Rentai Plan is Easy. 1724 Orrington Avenue OrrlagUE IMotel Bdo. Frank Lloyd Wrigbt>s lectures to Princeton undergraduates in archi tecture have been publisbed in book forrn. Embodying, as they do. the spea ker's faitb and philosopby, 'tbey make. extremely wortbwhile reading for ail of us, wbetber we kno.w niuch or littie about. thé subject, of ardui-' tecture. To most. Europeans Frank Lloyd Wrigbt is America's leading architect and designer. For mnany years his. ideals have been executed, itn e and concrete 'in Germany, japan andi other parts of the world.> By sorne he, is called a genitis. "odemn Architecture" gives9 the wby of Mr. Wright's - beliefs. In its contents: "Macbinery, Material and Men; Style in Industry; The Passing of. the Cornice, The Cardboard House;4 The. Tyranny, of the Sky- scrapè r and the City,"' be explains bis revoit against tbeold and the tra- ditional formas of building and.shovsý bis reasons- for bis lifelong struggle- for int.egrity in architecture and for what he cails "organic simplicity" and beauty. "Repose is the reward of true sim- plicity,", he says, "and organic sim-, plicity1 is.sure,.of repose. Repos-e -is$ the'bighest 'quality iùi the art of: architecture, next to integrity, and. a reward for integrity.' By integrity. is meant a fundamental honiesty in, design, a~ refraining: from ail imita'- tion of the work of- other builders. of 1other times." The skyscraper "was a 'greater achievemnent than the papal dome," lie believes, 'beçaiise here was utility become. beauty by sheer triumiph of --However, according to.Wright, ver- tiÇality. such as our mroder. office buildings empphasize, is only tempo>- rary. The citiz'en:. of the, future .'-vill prefer hoqrizontality'. "Hé. will grad- ually abandon, the .city,', The -metrop- olis as we know it 'n'w will 'die'., and we are. already witnessing "the ac- celeration that precedçs dissolution." . The rnost intercsting part of the book is the section in which the writer, or lecturer, tells of his o\vn 'earlv designs for houses, shows how CHANDLERPS. Fountlh Suawe Evanston