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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Sep 1931, p. 38

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-j Th1eBeluot ... fifteen iamsutes fromn th.,eîusy ooP . .. overlookngbIreeze awept Betlmot Harbor,thLincol ]Park 80lf courses.: tennpas, courts, Latbing Le8sL and bridie path. En- '>oy tbe Iuxury and conifort of a fine air icooled dinting'room of faned couisine, perfect facilities. for pritvate afaîrs ... roofsardJen, Clildren's play- ground ar J otiser distnt advantases *...elegantly furnislied suites and Litclienette. apartmentt, CinSle and *JOuble rooans at rates extremely wktinreason...We wAl he pleased te show you about. May we today? 3156 Slserid-Ua r BJ.tecmont Har6or Phoné Bî'tterîwcet 2 100 BB.W;lsoft. mgr. EYES AFTER OUTDOOR SPORTS. Society. When the Lindlerghs, charting a new air route froni New York to Nomne, reached Moose Factorv at Hudson Bay, thev were again in a Iand of 'history.* là the day's-fliglit from Moose Factorvy to ChurchilL, they passed over a shorelineý couitin- ing. outpJosts 6f white civilization older than the, llrst setulement. on Manhattan. Yet on leaving Churchill they were soon crossîng a wilderness. s0 little1 touchedl by' the svstematic baud of civilized man that. some of at is as vet iunmappýed. The "Documents Relaing to the Early History of Hudson. Bay," so well published by the .Chanîpillain So- ciety of Toronto, includes. a preface which identi.fies the, authors. and documents, an inrdito oering the long struggl*e of the French and' Eniglîsh for the possessio n of York Fac tôry. translations and te.xIts of tbree French narratives of Frencbi- British struggles there and elsewhere on the Bay and John Oldrnixon's, ac- cotint of the beginniungs of the fur trade in thiat regioni, taken frcinï bis "History of the British E3mpire i Amierica,"' 1708. 11u writing tli i,)art of his 'history, Oldrnixon had access to original' documents of thie,Hutd- souC 's ay, Coipany. 1 \Vhile this collection brings no fis"to the notice of historianis, it Anakes a large arnouint of notable nia- terial imore easîlv available thani be- fore. TLhe Chanîplaini Societv,, the tralnslators and1 cartographers. and appearance ofthie Volume15 ttiieIý. nioreI>ver. as the Hudson Bay arca is :ouginto general interest with theg conipfletioti of a rail1road from Xinnî- pcg to Churchill. anîd the prospect I Finch's Fortune Mazo de la Roche. ejnirilp I chroricle of a magic rug wbich waft- ed two children to Africa serves as an excujse for incidentai description of town and desertand coffers oppor- tunity for gay and interesting illus- trations. Its pictures are, indeed, the stricing feature of the volume, to ..mich lend it both originality and dis- tinction.. Reproduced dirýectlV f rom the artist's drawings in stone, thév produce' the effects of tcrayons with théir :clear colors and. soft surfaces. Son e of theni are sp)ir.ited sketches, with many hues and varied detail, others s harplyv -deëfïned .desigils achieved. witIi few hines, and ini two or, at most three. tories. The gro- tesque figures, we. find less successf ut than the more conventiénel ones, but thev will douhtless appeal, to the cbildish eye. Altogether the 1)00k i5 Orne *which 9hpuld, please. the very young. reader. and the' child too ý-tn, to rea(1. that, ini spite of. marine' diffiliculties and a short season, Huidson Strait aid Bay miay becomie part ot an imi- portant trade route for wheat trans- port. Hudson found the Bay white searching for a trade route over thie toi), of the world; in a dcgree bis dreami is being fulfilled at last. The British niasses are to get cheap bread out of Hudson Bav where once "The Governior and Compan -\ of Adveni- tuÜrers of Enigland trading. oHud-" son 's Ba"-the rotnan.tic Prinice Ru- pert as their first go\-ernor-souighit, furs for lordls and ladies at the cani-1 nôn1's niouth. 7A4E. »y Ruth Sùcko\v. 1nopt. An lhonest and able writer, Rtt Suckow lias given us anothervonx of very readable stories. l'le author is at lier best lu ssbortstùries, and a nunîber ini tbis volume show an ad- vaîîce over bier ,l)revious iwork,. Miss Suckow is a realist wbose realîsnxi is of thie,,iterarNv variety-perbhaps too ilîuchi so-but sue calixcrate living characters anl niake tlieni1 niove ini striking and original scenes. Nneof the stories ini this volume could be called masterly or exceptionally pro- LIUI di t.UIApUan. In bis latest novel Mr. Gibbs writes entertainingly of a yoting novelist who deserts his particular group of the London intelligentsia. to find bis soul among- the windinig lattes of Surrey, Estahlished therein a tiny cottage he devotes himself to long, solitarY walks and to intensive work onlbis new nove!, shuninig as, nuch as piossible the knowl- edge of bis country neighbors. But the presenc e ix -their midst oi a "'Writing. f ellow"' cannot, fail to interest the in- habitants of Ha.Irlev Gre en and before' lg the novelist bias met and fallen* ini love wvitb. and, aiter an interval. married the beauti ful Pearl Jerninig- bain,. dau glter of, an aristocratic and inxl)overishedl country famnilv. In the nîeantinie is nove! bias appeared and bIecorne ,a hest seller, ,makiig possible the establisfrnent of a lux urious, homec for his wif e ini London. At this point. Mr. Gibbs, with irony and slirêW\d humnor, takes a crack at the snobbisliness of lis fellow - writers. Brandon, darliing of the critics for as long as bis riovels sold ontyv a iew huxii- dred copies, beconies ati outcast f romn bis kiii( as sooni as lie ranks aruong thle best sellers. Brand(oni. the vounig nv ist, f aced \vitbi two dire niecessîties ; the Olie of providing for the bia)piness ol ani extravagant ife itli whom lie is very rnuich i mlove; the otber the xeed toi be ab)out the real luiesof is lufe, ini this case the \%riting of novels. Several solutions iiiust lîavé presepted don's irst novel 'ý'Iic ay otf~Scp but hie avoids thîe eceýssItv ôA secing anlv of tlîem tlxrougb. As a recurr.eut ciorus Mr. Gibbs lias- chosen the themne ofthe downfall of the, old order in England, and whenever two or more oi thîe men folk get to- g9etber ,tlîey laun.ch into ratlier wordy discussion of the new~ manners and mnorals. B ut one expects 'Mr. Gbstu pitaad a case through the medium o.f bi's characters, and ini spite of this, as wcll as because of bis felicitv of phrase and very real abilitv f0 tell a storv welI For September Only Iegalarly $2.0 1724 Orrington Avenue Evainston orrlngton Mfotel Mirg. Inulic-.IV..IIL lui LIC b- .ti . l C l L nS O I ueiiy iiintere ig typo- niarriage to Professor josephi Warren graphically without beiug in the least Beach of the UJniversity of Minnesota, f reakish or bizarre. It lias a title-page Dagnhar Doneghy lias lived ini Minne- which leaves mucli to be desired: I apolis. Her girlhood, however, was should bave preferred to see the same spent in Missouri. It wàs there, f ron typographie style adhered to there as her father, that she inherited the ttnder- elgewhere., The binding irs in marbled standing and knowledge of Civil War paper boards and cloth back, witb paper days aloug the Kansas-Missouri border label., Each of- the five hunrdcpe which make lirnovel so authentic. iW signed by the author. om eye strain.

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