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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Nov 1933, p. 38

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Evanstons own Lucy Ftch P.Mkns bas a »W 'IWIN" Book ORDER NOW PEMU@NAL CH*IBMAS CARtDB 1724 Orrlngton. Av*.i. 02.7 Orlinqtobn Moftl ld1., Evanston Children,'s-. Books ment in à s.bcw. group sp.cally pic.d atonIyc Chaunler's Founain Square, Evansfon J The setting of' Mrs. Miller's latest bookc for children is a Midwest toWn of the 1890s. From good. authority we have learned that the true naume of the town is Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Miller's birthplace. The book con- cçrns the adventures of Robert Haw- ley and al his friends in the small town where he lives. Robert's father was vice president of the Waubonsie National bank. The rest of his fam- ily i ncluded his cbarming mother and his small brother,. David. Like Tom. Sawyer and. Penrod, Robert bas ail sorts of adventures, wvhich include an ice cream sociable, the kidnaping of a princess, a picnic- at Fuller's Grove, aà circus, a bicycle ride along the river- road, -and a Fourth of July celebration. Robert and bis friends play Indians, pirates, and gypsies. There are boyisb pranks , and games whicb woutd greatly amuse an 8 or 10 year old, boy. 1 The book is lively and colorful and can be enjoyed by the whole family. London Publishers Issue Evanston Man's Book North shore readers Will, be inter- ested te' know that the faîl catalog of George Allen and Unwin, London 'publishers, announces the publication of "Modern Tendencies ini World Religions," by Charles Samuel Brad- en. Since its publication in this coun- try last spring the book bas been re- ceiving many commendations. In it. for the -first time. material has other representatives et the great. non-Christian gr oups toward their religious ideas and practices, toward their age-old customs. In each religion and in each section ofthe world wbicb he includes, Dr. Braden bas chosen thôse men who, repre sent most faithfully the various attitudes, of their ýpeoples to build a complete .pictUe of the world e- ligions. The author, Dr. l3raden, is assist- Olie eauréMutler (Mms Ilarrv E~.Mllr of Wintnetka ha;, just had published e'Eptgines and Brass Bands," a book for boys and girls, u'hich has already proved very popular ivith the yowigcr set. .4 review, of the book teill be fornzd in another column of this page. Nobel Prize Award for '32, '33 Announced Three Nobel prize awards were made on November 9, including the annual pnize for literature given te the Russian. author, Ivan Alexeyevicb 'Prof. IErwi<x Schroedinger >Of Austrlia, for their work in connection with tbe* atomic tbeory. The 1932 physics prize ýwas award- cto Prof. Werner Heisenberg cf Leipzig, Germany,. for . bis work -on a tbeory of the. mechanicis of quan;. tities, application of which led te the discovery of allotrophic formns cf ce,' was )ni of a1 of our national and personal experi- ence. "Not ail the books 1 have selected,", wrote Mr. Grattan, "are imaginative in nature. Many of them.are purely factual records, AIl of themn are di- rectly related to Amnerican li fe. The guiding princ ,iple behind my selections is briefly this: I'demand that *books be alive. No matter how important a* given book maybe 'to the special student, it bas becen'rtithlessly, elim-, inated if it does flot bave, something to Say to a reader of the present day. The books presented are, therefore, in the best sense 'living books.' Read- ing should be an, adventure of the. mid. AIl thebooks 1 bave chosen, seemn to me to promise adventure te thoee who acquiire tbem.' *Mr. Grattan's list foilows: Chromic les of the PU;grim at hera (Everyman's Llbrary>, Dutton. 1A.Journey té the Laisd of Eden, anid Other Papers, by William Byrd, Van-. guard Press. SLettera fro" an* Amerdcas Farmer, by J. H. St. John de Crevecoeur (Every- man's- Libiary), Dutton. Common Bense, by Thomas. Paine, Truth Seeker Press. The Auto6Wography of pegjamis# Fra".lits. Best Tales of Edqar.Allai Poe, Mod- etn. Library;,and Tales., by Edgar Aliau Poe, Scribner. The Conduot of Life, by Ralpb Waldo E'merson; and Essa yas by Ralph Waldo. Emerson. A. Week on the Concord a«d Merrfmac Riers, by Henry David Thoreau, Scrib-, ner; and Walden, by Thoreau (Home Library), Burt. Snow Round, by John Greeneaf Wliit- tier. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Haw thorne; and The Blithedale R~o- mance, by Hlawthorne. Mo.by Dkk, by Herman Melville; and IVhite Jacket, by Melville. Levves ofl-Grass, by Walt Whitman. The Rise of Silas La'pham, by WiI-' liam Dean Howells. HfUtkieberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The Arnbasad-or, by Henry James,, Harper. The. Beet Storles of Saraih Orne Jeuvett, nHoughton, Mifflin; or. 054 ýCreole Daya, by G.- W. Cable, Scribner. The Hlouse of Mîrth, býy'Edith Whar- ton, Srner;, or Ethan Frome, 1wy Wh~arton, Scribner. In the Midst of Lu! e, by Ambrose Bierce. Maggie, by Steplien Craine; or The Jack London. For information rarding roiwcod pricosàwad 6uddget plan writo or aephn. NELLIR MEBY The Ilemesfead > pare this luKorimai photograpnzc a comtor chronicle cf American life. present. future but an :1 s RW

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