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01i r ATO W 1232 vith the avenue. Alice Redman of Reading, 'Pa., re- turned home Monday after visiting, Jane Lundahl of 224 Raleigh road, Kenilworth. "EVANSTO Its Land Its 0Peope 'A his$ory Of your town Mte should b. voyifttsng fty Viola Creucfs. Reeli.g: $125 Regularly $2 CIIANDLIEJM S, Fountfain Square Evanston teflded, but in his hands< it becomes an oddity, an alien ini a duller world. The sea. the fog, the tropical force, are always whispering and suggesting. The thread of this story concerns a: mu;sing arçbitect who hears, in Liverý- pool of a colonniaded temple to Apol- l1o, on a Greek island, that is to be dynamited inordeir.to make room for a wireless station, by the. agents of a great industrialist, ,one Lord Snarge. Therefore be dreamily,.leaves>bis wife in the -lurcb at, the railway station and goes to the Caribbean to find Lord Snarge, but apparently does not find bim. on account -of, revolutions. The vague ness 1of- tbe dreamer finds itse way into the story. Space. and time are jumped between chapters. Iti is themmd and not the outward event that is important. The story. is excit- ing in places, but it moves in' the. shadow of curious tbougbt. The. ar- chitect is not out of bis. wits. but, be -is absent. the unexpected things1 be says and dots are due to bis dis-q tance. The thought which moves ïii q is. bow to save -at least ont beautifuli tbing surviving irn this liard, bitter,t mechariical. bard - boiled m o d e r ni world, before be goes out into somie- wbere, or nowhere. He comes finally to the Greek is-1 land and is dynami.ted along with thex temple. Mr. Tomnlinson does flot often write fiction, and witb bim it dots not greatly matter wbat thread bis mind follows, whether fiction, or tra- vel, or a themne. He is a companion wortb going witb wlierever he goes and as long as be chooses to go. Encourages Authors Favoring Fatherland, "John, Brown'lls Body," the book that, won the -Pulitzer.pri ze for its author, Stephen Vincent Benet,"in 1928, bas been awarded the 1.933 Roosevelt med- al, a -three-inch solid gold pl aque. Mr. Benet now sbares this distinction with' sucb Americans 'as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert A. Millikan and Charles W. Eliot. The Roosevelt Memorial association stàted that Mr. Benet hadbeen given r-imvaU4vis lji AJVEvy vveatnerý "Mr. Wodehouse's latest, deals with thé furtbér, adventures of the' manu- Script of the Hon. Galahad Tbreep- wood's reminiscences-those recollec- tions of riotous young men in Lon-. don in the nineties, tbe mere tbreat of whose publication made cold chilis run"up and down tbe' spine of many a gray-baired* and respectable mem- ber of tbe !Britisb nobility and gentry. In fact, the story is only a continua- tion of, "Fisb Preferred" .wbich, ap- peared tbree or four years ago; a nd it is proof of Mr. Wodebouse's gen- jus that wbile the first thirty- or forty pages are hardly more than"aý synop- sis of the pr 1evious volume, eVen 111 that synopsis tbere is a, laugb ini al- most every Une. "'To describe a book. like this is in-v possible; you probably Woni't remfem-i er . wbàt it. is about f rom chapter to1 chapter, and that wilt not rnatter i i the least. It need only be said that 1in the opinion of this reviewer, a veêter-1 an Wodehouse, addict, it is the funî-' ietbook that eventhe Old .Masteri ever wrote. His eye is not dim, noU bis natural force abated; but like that. otber Old Master, Christy Mathew- son. he bas learned the art of econ- omy. of effort." Questions Church'st Exemption Prom Taxî Is the freedom of churches f romn taxation an unjust burden upon a2 tax-ridden nation? This is one of the1 questions raised by Doctor Lymanf P., Powell, in bis book "The Betterm Part," published August 16. Hle says: "New sources of taxation, are, sought. Tbe churches are emerg-E ing into viewas possibilities. ýTbeyl rçpresent. seven. billion dollars andà mfore of taxable property whicb bas. been exempt from taxation becauseI the churches dlaim to bie of, unique ý usefulness. However useful churches are they are in bonor .bound to the iesorur aiersUu smonumental i uivo of the "Letters" is the most imposing and the rnost promising. There bas, been. no undertaklng comparable to the ten projected volumes of tbis cor- irespondence, over half of wbich is freshly d r a w n fromu manuscript sources. Hi. Corre.Poefts Altbougb there are tokcens tbat some of this letter-writing, to bitte- stockings or favor-seekers, became d burden, Scott dec lares i onre,'place that flot a few of bis "most, valuable îiterary connections . and private friendships" .were formed .throughi correspondence. Among the names that figure largely in the Grierson edition are *Lady Abercorn, patron- ess and confidante on. many occa- sions; "John Morritt, to -whoni lie writes .more constantly and more' op- enly than to any one' except it be Lady. Louisa, Stuart"; Joanna Baillie, tbe dramatist, and, Anna Seward, al- thougb bis admiration« for the latter lady was somewbat tempered by lier incessancy~ We should add to the list antiquarian discussions with Surtees and missives on legal matters to Char-les Frskine, the Sheri.ff-âuti i tute., The letters.to most of these and to many lesser folk are marked by a constant helpfulness, loyalty,, and gei- erosity both in will and deed. As: for hospitality, Scott frequently ùrges his correspondents to visýit hlm; thirtyr-two people were once crowded into the cottage at AsIetiel. Military Aspirations This man of letters. was priniarîly a man of action. The correspondence proves over and again how he was fascinated by the "pomp and circum- stance of war" and how be, would have loved a military, career, par 1tly for its aristocratic' connectiosTe evidence accumulates to' show thiat bis app oach to the Muse (the novels. are ,flot et. in question), decidedly mingled the useful with the sweet. Literature bas become bis "chief bus,- iness.' Art for art's.sake-was tiot hli forte. bis devotion ature ý more interesting than the auth n ovels; one appreciates b e t through tbe variety cf subjects( lered, bis really remarkabie achii ment. iiitransforming the dialeci the west country into a genuine rary formi; 9, of Mrs. Biggers and represent the AMERICAN PREACHERS F O v-. best cf Mr. Biggers' short stories. DAY, by Edgar DeWitt Jones. A e- not already publisbed in book. form. gallery cf 'living portraits presenting f In connection with the volume, Big- biographical and interpretive material c- gers' story, "The Agony Column" is aboutthirty-w edn rahr i being reissued in new format. the United States.' v 1EY'ES