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THE AMWERICAN COLONIES AND 0F THE REfLJBLIC B£. FORE 1840.. Compiled and edited b-v Alice G. B. Lockwood, Chair- man, Special Publications Commit- tee, The Garden Club of America. This comprehenisive survey of old gardens, ,still' extant orý vanished, is sponsored by. the Garden Club of America, and contains the product of years of research and investigation,, To those ,iinterested in gardens for their own sake, it will - 1ofspcial' interest, and its apP'eal is. immediate to every reader who is interested- in. American history and traditoni, so mucli of which is grouped around the great estates in whicli the majority of these old gardens flourished. Theý volumes >are .lavishlv illustrated --with reproductions of old drawings, rnaps and plans, and with photograplis. of old gardens stili flourishing as well a*s some gardens that have vanished. The first, volume, readv this. faîl., containis introductory malter and ýwill cuver. in aAdition to a studv of -fences and enclosures, the foll6wing States':1 Mas'sachuzsetts, Rhode' Island, Coi- 1 necticut, iMaine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New jersey, Pennsvlvaniia. Ohio, Michigan, ai. Illinois.. The book- is profuselV il- lustrated from phiotographs,. por- traits, drawings, and plans. TIl Belmont.. .,fifteen minutes from* tLusy Loop .. . overlookingÉreeze swcpt Belmont Harbor, the Lincolni Parkgolf courses, te nnis c .ourts, latllang beach and brdIe path.. En-, joy the Iuxury and confort of afine country club in tis beautiful bote1. ..ar cooled Jin;ng roorn of famed cmismnàe, perfect faclities for prîvate affais ... roof garden, cIxlJren's play- grouid a-d otier distinct advanitages ..elegantly fur'nisled &uàes and k4tchenetteapartments, s nl nd double roois at rates extremfely. ýwtlunreasoi... We 'will Le pleasecl to showv yôu about. May éwc today? 3!56 Sheridan Ridî At BelmontHarbo,. 'Phone B;tiersweet 2 100- B. Ji. Wl1son, Mat. _____________ ~ ' planren" lias been cfloseiî hy. the Ei- ~ ____ ____ islh P. E., N. Club as "the best repreý- j etative British work of the last two E S vt e'.4r s jLIVES OF TOIDAY AND YES.TER- E Y ES A F T E R DAY. Edited hv Rowèina Keith Keves. Apeo. O UTD OOR SPO RTS RIATA AND PPRS v Charl e s A.* A nd a Third Seriesý BONERSI The funnest of them al; Tihe best dollar's wortb of, laughs you've ever found. preciation of these publications, indi- cated by the continuance for a third year, is warranted by the general ex- cellence .of the books so far issued, and, taken as a group, their fair price. Thýe new series, miostly tô,,be printed in this Country, includes: "Auto- biography of Benjamin' Fran.klin," printed by Nash;i "Alice in. Wonder-. land," designed, by, Warde and' printed by, Ruge , with. the ori ginal1 Tenniiel il- lustration.s;,"South ,Wind," designed by Adler and printed by, Pynson Printers; "Fa.ust" (Alice Rapihael's translation), printed by, the Aldug. Printers;- "Droil Stories"' (Le Cler 'cq's translationi),,de-, signed. by Dwiggins and .printed by Southwobrth;, "Last of the -Mohicans," designed by Will Ransom ýand . printed by 'Hart; "Jo'rrock's Jaunts: and Jol- lities," printed by Updike; "Cloister and the Hearth," design.ed b.y Ballou. and printed by Plimpton;, "The Chimes," prùnted by Georg W. Jones; "T'om Jones," printed by Hildreth; "Kwaidan," printed in Japan;' and "Analeets o-f Confucius" (Lionel Giles's translation), printed in Shanghiai. The illustrators to be represented in the new series are:- Carlotta Petrina,' Rene Clark, Dwiggins, Edward A. Wil- son, Gordon Ross, Lynd Ward, Rack- ham, Alexander King, and Yoshimura. 'Foujita. The brochure bearing the announce- mient of the new series is in ;jtself a very charmi ng piece of printing. It is set in Caslon type, delitately -printed on gray paper, and. sewed. into 'marbled paper covers,, with .paper label. For itself a-nd ;for its contents, itf'is worth hav-ing. ECCE HOMO. -Play ini seven tableaux. By Max Dauville. Brux- elles: Edition du Murier. 1931. Hiere is a novelty in acting drama. By the relati-yely, slight action, by deliberate dlîsegard of, historical, color, and by th.le rnystico.-poetic utterances of one of the characters, it, recals Maeterlinck, but :lie intellectual rather than the emotion-> al atmnosphere is stressed. There is iii- :leed. an undertone of emnotional intenr- sity, inherent.in the setting.-Jeru salem at the time of the crucifixion-but. no Lhristians appear on the stage. We 1724 Orrington Evanston Orritton Hotel Avenue BI dg. the ironical philosophy ofAatl FortunatelW Eyvilnd shakes off this France's atrie, "The Prcrao burden of speecblessness by going of udastr ce'rcuao out. into the world, before his of Jdea" 'thoughts become walled nuv within GHOST STORIES hlm. He cornes home with the fruits of knowledge and experience, eager -Lady Cynthia Asquitb is editing a to spend his. strength of mind andI new collection, of, gbost stories by fa- body in the ýservice of others. "Hlis-. mous authors.. It will have the title faith and hi§ work"ý-bv these tw in "When Churchyards Yawn.7" str the Hap By . sa, Coure - POPULAR NOVEL Stella Beiison's "The Faraway Bride", (pblished in England as' "Tobit Trans-. s Robert and 1,fttireiC are Boston: Houghtoit Mifflin Co. The Barretts, husband, wife, and several young people, were working along the foot of the Patagonian cor- dillera with a pack outfit. trying, it would appear, to escape froin a slight- ly.dessicated New Einglandism, from too much, tidines.s and too nianiy Nikes onthe,'librarv ma.ntel-piece. to some- 'thing rougli and primitive. They foùind it in the pèrsôn of one Chace, a Yankee adventurer who had shipped oôn a whaler thirtvy Years, before. stopped.off in the Argentine. become sheep-herder ýand one thing and an- other, and stayed in the south pampa country ever. since. ýýOn. this hard- fisted old Yankee.,who had met Ini- dians, pumas,. guanacos, rheas or South American ostriches, and what nlot, talked ail sorts of pampa'dialects without losing his down-East, accent, .the Barretts pounced, like gold pros- pectorson a>good run of pay dirt., There is stili a frontier down there, not unlike what our own used to be Whether Chace's adventures and ver- sonalitv are. different, esentially,. from those of manv an old-fashioned cow-puncher, who miglit have been found in our own West a keneration or 'two ago, to the Barretts, at any rate. he was a duck-bill platvpous, and thev dug into their find with tire- less zeal and tremendous seriousness. This self-conscious enthusiasm. the scurrving off for paper and pendil the instant the old boy starts to unload, mars the narrative slightly. We are aiways a littie too aware o-f the bright-eved and tremend>uslv irnpressed I3oswells. Buit there are ail sorts of interesting glinipses, nev- ertheless, of men and animais, and a life that is ail the more intriguing. hècause of its resemblance, in other shapes and flavors, to a life that our own countrv lias' lost. Mr. Rockwell Kent Provides a frontispiec.e and .a foreword in which lie contrasts the, Yankees who havé- onlv too' oftený ýmisbeh aved in these south-temperate. parts, with this one, who 'made him- self onie of'the People of the. country, reyl dug in, and stayedthere.. Aý HAPPY BOY. Bv Bonten Bj-5rnson. Ne-w York: The Mac- millan Co. Eyvind, "Th'le Hap~pv y,"had to 1