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"The Bird Book" "Peter Pan" "Moiher Goose" "Muggins Mouse.' Ail b.autifully, bound and ilus- frae.d by our foremnost aOrtisis. SPECIAL SELLING Chandier' s Fouintain Square Evansfon In1 v% naL £ i sîî1.L cau. The country, itself, writes Mr. Hill, is, much like any other country so far as climateý, topography, plants, and trees are concerned. But there are thes .e characteristic features: "By;the mere fact of receiving'ai-, most flfty millions of Europeans ia single, Century,, Amnericanis have be- corne priDfoundly different from anyý group' of Europeans." The ,amaz-_ ing epic of the "frontier"ý is anothér distinctive feature. The author de- vote considerable space to the set- tiemen t of Aierica-the whvs and wherefores-beginning with the Pil- grims and. the Puritans -and continu- ing with the explorations of, Daniel Boone, 'Sam Hous ton , Kit Carson, and others. "One thing is sure," the. author states, "the successive fron- tiers have made an experience %Nhicli the Americans share with no other ~great modern nation.".1111 Another developrnent peculiar toi America is "Puritaniisîn." which re- sulted in the so-called -blue laws," moral censorship, the Anti-Saloon league, and a lack of music and art. One of the strangest almost freak'- ish contrasts of any country's growtb is the present Materialism in contrast to the Puritanism wh ich reigned so supreîiae for many ,ears, Not that .buerica wvas eve r 50 "spiritual,"' butý Rose Il. 4lschier (M4ri. Alfred S. fr nde) of 795 Lincoln ave- enjc I~ wetkJias ,)-eccritl-vh.. Piffilshed by *lIorroîv'. "Tzwo fi) S. wlnclî is a book on clîild training. Thef c~.rdis by Carle- toit Il'.Il'aslIurne. sup/erintend<'nt of the Il'iiiiietka sehools.. 711,s. .AI- schuler lias zwritteui thecbook in collabo ration witlî tle Pp'-Pri- mary vfacutiftYof the. lUin,îcka Pub- lic schools. .Six" woin i La IJooJ.J nca-wULlUf4CUVV 15( Sis not. a book to ponder over; it bas, no axe to grind, nor anhy .problem"* to sôlve. It is, rather, 'a simple story d 04 with such -charm and- wit that toi is. truly sorryý when it cornes tô an en.Ti nigini omlt naturalness and utter lack of affecta- tion, is characteristic of the' vhole book.* And its- suddenness is justified. bye the fleeting enchantment wihi th heme of'the,*story. Philip Silver, a struggling young English bank-clerk,, learus that on, thedeath.of his uncle -he is to ini- herit an estate in Ireland. Feeling himself té be woefully, unversed ini the ways of an Irish country genitie- -man, he writes'to a distant Irish rela- tive asking t6 be a, paying gue stfor six months and hoping tu learn fron him the etiquette of hunt, balls, coin- ty' 'fairg'anid rac~e eets. Khoving nothing about the Rev. Palliser and h is family Piiilip is at first surprised anid disappointed to find that they are impoverished gentlefolk and total], unequipped to teach him wbat lie bas corne to learn. They, on the other hand, are delighted withi this oppor- tunitv of increasing their mneager in1- *corne and are naively unconcerned 1w i-their inability to give him his money .s iworthi. Besides the Rev. and Mirs. Palliser the in h;*itt ;V;I.,,. doEmerson, * 'isa whole .* .. l uu-J treatinent of hirn is amusnlmat- tion of ,gentlemen and ladies out in plain coninon sense, and is. aliove ail. of-fact. 'lle son, Dec, Uwhliois intei- search of religions'.", Isn't it strange practical. etdinteRpliasdeoth that today, with; al America's spirit- Mrs. Alschuler, ife, of the ntd rsh ol IticteReuglcnsdeaft 6r ual background, this country's mate- architect, and the inother of five 1 àîî~ otl t hlp u hi rialism, and mad craze for wealth children, lias' been for fifteen vas comml.ý otleoaue tsoon (lht t-r , should be the subject of liorror to, director of the Lucy Flower, Chicago thern together. The life of these mnany European nations? Normal college arnd the Winnetka strikingly different individuals is You will .be surprised to find how Nursery schools. She has accumilaicd' played, with the.. ack of great . cli- su 'bstantial and how much reat meat data in observation of. hundreds of maxes conmmQn to so many lives. there is ini "What Is American?" children from ail maniiers of fanîilics. against a background of the ricli ÉVANSTON Lann, esta NJ the young( m -iîstory.» It wîiI be ýs month by Albert-and s: in tne