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BOOKS For the Bride--for the. Graduate. For Féther, on 'HlDay, lune 17 1,724 ýOrwntoný Av*. Gri. 0227 ;SUI.TABLE. BOOKS for the GRADUATEý Let us suggest the book Most appropriate for your gift to t h e graduate. Chandier 's Fountain Square Evanston 23rd, his new novel, Ti 7lumpn, is- re- leased for publication. The back- ground of this novel is South Amer- ica where Mr. Niven was bcirn. In it he tells the story of a' lady wbose ,nusician-husband was a failure and who sets herself the task of, proving to, the world tbat she can do wbat ber ,.husband could flot accomplïsh. She wins. But her "triumph" is flot ber own, for her son,,Davrid, captures the imagination of the community she sought to rebuke with the. 'Soný- ata Salvador," "finished by him from voluminous -fragments left by bis, father." . .. Mr. Niven was, born in Valparaiso, Chule, of Scotch parents. He.was educated in Glasgow wbere' bhis grandfather mas, a well known librarian and bibliophile. He started. bis career, as a journalist in Scot-ý land, but during the war was diverted to the Ministry of Information. Since, he,.bas spent most of bis-time in Western Canada and the United States. John Cournos, writing about him recently, said: "'Many years ago 1' used to sec a great déal of Fred- erick Niven in London, and I remem- ber the bours spent witb bim with deligbt. I have heard:friends we bad in common liken b is personality to, that of Robert Louis Stevenson. I cannot say as to the accuracy of this. But I do know that bie radiated a friendliness and benignity which were infectious. Earnest in character, there was a lot of fun bottled up in bim, a kind of impishness, wbicb he pour- ed. out freely. If you sufered from Sigwifiçamt Books 'XVbat is the niost significant book since the World War?" This ques- tion was recently asked a number o representative men -by the, Chicago Daily, News.. Out of. the. million or more books publisbed during .this period, The, BditctioQn of Henry Adai n was singled* out by Dr. Hiorace :J., Bridges of the Chicago Ethical Society. Pr*iitive Religions Like Frazer's Golden: Bouigh, John Strong Nevberry's study of Paganism, Tit:e Raiinbow Bridge, dealswitb primi- tive religions and folk customs. B egin- ning with-the earliest stirrings of the religious impulse, t he book traces. its devclopment in differeîit lands and tells how it was a ffected by economic factors and hy social, organization, f rom the Stone Age down to the Age of Pendces. C"raLatighlin Closely identified witb Chicago during recent years, Clara 'E. Laugh- 'in was.'nevertheless, boi in the old Chelsea section of New York City, at 444 West 22d street - a bouse said to have been a part 'of the old Clement C. Moore homestead in 1which "The Night Before Christmas" was written. Miss Laughlin bias just written ber autoI)iograpby in Trave- Hougbton Miff lin company's list. .Ail wbo know ber realize that Clara Laugblin bas niany strings to ber oprnen ts in science. as weii as a pbysicist wbo bas made noteworthy contributions in bis field, and 'be here lives up to bis reputation both for mastery, of bis subject and for skill in prese.nting it. He bas written this- book to show to the educated reader. wbo blas no. spe cial knoWledge of, physiés or .im.athematics' the design of the physi'- cal worldand especially thée signifi- c aîce of man's endeavor to under-. stand that design. The style is informaI and popular., and. tbe autbor's fresbý viewpoint and bis vivacity and vividness of, illustra- tion make the chapters both stimulat- ing and enitertai'ninig. He discse Medieval .and .Modern Dogmas in Natural Philosophy; Theý Dawn and Developemnent of the 'Modern Era; The Natureof. Matter; Developmeènt of Atomic Tbeory; Modemn Atomic Theories; Certain General. Prin.ciple's in Physics; The- Fate of the Ui- verse; Dimensions; The Theory of, Re lativity; Space a iid Tinie; Vital Processés; Science and Tbeology, and he carnies the reader, bappily throtigh expla.niations and illustra- tions that will, iunmeasurablv widen the horizon of bis thougbt. Dr* Swanin is Enrglish by birth. le was a 'Lecturer and Demonstrator in' Pbysics at tbe University of Sbeffild 1907-1913; chief of the physical div- ision, Department of' Terrestrial Mag- netism, Carnegie Institution, Wash- ington, D. C., 1913-1918; Professor N. U. Profes'Soe Writes the rnost - fruitful' period of ber life S.ane ilvý >L>borat n, 2-u927. Si of Dutch Guiana Negroes 'hwen~ she %vas 'fifty. In the decade 1927 be 'bas been director of the following, she wrote tweîve books, Bartol Research 'Foundation of- the Melville J. Herskovits, professor of started in the tçavel business witb Fralklin.Isiue hldlha antbropology at Nortbwestern .uni- many- offices bere and abroad, became_________ versity, is co-author with bis wife, welI nl salcue n one Frances Herskovits, of a new.book, a successful.travel.magaziîle. At the VISITING U. S. Rebiel Destin y, just 'published by age of sixty,-she says that sbe is fan' Thomas '~aîOf. Germany, win-ý Whittlesev House. McGraw-Hill comn- mr agrbout lifé and work than nier of 'the NobelPrz*frlieat1 pany. Aie was at: sixteen. îin 1929, author oi, Budd<'nbrooks and \7ividlNv and colonfully Prof. and Mystery Novel' The MIa!hic Moun)iitai;i, is making. Mrs. Herskovits tell of the. Duteli spécial timeliness is' lent' to George' his first visit to the United States, Guiana negroes, descendants of slaves Dyer's new mystery novel, A Storm this nionth. He will be here about* teir wbo rebelîrd agaiinst their I)ùtch Is Rising, which Houghton Mifihin days. 'On ue 6 'a'testimonial dinner * triking * creator The BM - lection, is înlciuaea i the oddities of bistory. In,. bis new book, 'Heroic Live.r, be tells bow broken by the treacbery of bis King, St. Francis of Assisi scandalized bis sougbt to e'nd bis own life; bow Joan bisbop by singing on bis deatb bed; of Arc faltered at last in the cemetery. bow Florence Nigbtingale could joke of Rouen, crushed by the long ordeal about' the vermin in tbe 'bospital at of ber trial. Heroic Lives is a series Scutari - "if tbey only bad a united of six biographical studies in the' vein purpose, theycould carry off the beds of the autbor's earlier Historical on0 tbeir backs ;" how Ralegh, beart-. Nights Entertaimunent