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Thlimn1e lo "CATCH UP"1 Ti.Vacafioning ,wifh Books., 1724 Orringlon Ave. Ge. 0227 FOR:YOUR SICK FRIEND. s..end a ce»y MORE ýFun in Bed by Frank SctsIIy $2-00 Chandler's Fountain Square, Evanston Wilmette 724 nîng Lnronîcle ana the -Y~orkshire Post giving some of ber impressions of America. To take any of them from their context is scarcely fair; what she bas to say is always pene- trating, often amusing and con- stantlyfriendly to this country: "The7 American mind is much :more flexible and open thani the average English mimd. A new idea there is not someth ,ing to hee a brick at; j-in Ameérica a thinig isý never co.mic just because it, is new. Now in, Eng- land! M'ell.,look at Punch's pictures of the early. motor 'car, and you'l ,see .what Imean. In England. a thing is: neyer comic just because it Às old, in AAmerica it tends to. be, jtst that "The faces v'ou see> in American streets .are înuch bappier than bhere. *.What wve call a biscuit is a 'crack- .er' ini the States', w'hile 'biscuit', there means the' most.delicious fluffy littieý scone, bot from tbe oven. For long 1 gazed wistfully at-nxy fellow travel- ,ers in the dining-car eating 'them, unable to discover the name to' ask for' them . . . 1 fournd travel in Amierica exceedingly comfortable and well arranged. -It i >s rather amusiug2>to notice that there are definite cosinetic zones i the- United States. If we were to color a map of the States mith different shades of pink to represent, the am.ount of rouge worn ini differ- ent districts, Boston would appear almnost white, the east and west c.oas*ts rosyv, the 'Middle W~est and H. L. Mlencke'n Di-fense- o! il 'omen lias just been published ini Paris ini a French translation h'- jean Jardin. with a preface' by Paul M\Ioratd. A Germani translation' bv Frauz Blej appeared in '.funi ch 5 long ago as 1923, -and a Hung ar .iia výersion by .Andor Juhlasz was brougbt out ini Budapest ini 1928. An Euglish edition %,%ar, pubhished iii t.onGon i i.i 1923. Th"s book seems to be oie of the perennials, First printed by, rare opportunity presents itself to e Sagas. and thie Epic of kBeowult; etc., carry this same intormal charrni into. s sintended not only for professional the making of the book. There are a story-tellers, but also for tnothers, initialed chapter heads, tail-pieces. who have to tell stories Nwhethier they marginal and tbumb-nail sketches, *know how to or flot, 11 and many full page and haif -page The stories are selected chieflv illustrations, S. .A. Jacobs-one of frorn historic traditional, sources our> best typographers-is lîiniself Pwhich forni the basis. of imaginative setting the type, and super vi.sing, the cliterature-~ forchildren-but the best mnake-upof the book. sof miodern writing -for children 's Entering.that strange and forbid- represènted., itgoes through Nur- den country of.Tibet, ýthe world re-ý serv Rhymes. Grimmf's and Auder- nowned Swedish. explorer, Sven sen's Fairy Stories and the. fairv Hedin, andi his scientist-companions, *stories and folk. tales of înanyý cou"-, were oppose d at every, turn by the tries; the bero stories of Greece and militant- disciples- of Buddha, set, LScandinavia-with adaptations, from, upon, by, Mongolian bands of rob- the Ml and Odsse. bers. and had to. resort to disgu ises t The book includes Aesopsý Fables, ini order to enter Lhasa, the Bud- adaptations from Pil grim's Progres-s, dhist I-IoIy City. These perilous yen- 1etc. A bihliography is at the end of tures and exciting experiences formn -each sectiont.,giving maîw. suggestions. ihe rich nucleus of Hediu's thrilliug new 'book.. CARLYLE IN OLD ÂGE, b.y David~ Dr. Sven Hedin's superb narra- Alec Wilson ,aud D. Wilson Mac- tives oftrave u detr.Ars Arthur. Illustrated. 11wGoi Desert and Jehzol, Cif y of This is the sixth and final volume Em/erors, have cast an utnforget- Of Davidý Alec' Wilson's monumiental table speli on critics and the Ameni- Life of Carlyle, a biography that ranks cati public, and 'ail will turn with with Lockhart's "Scott" and Boswell 's eager anticipation to this uew narra-, "Johnson." On the author's death last tive, reveal ing in' the. autlior's A pril, his nephei', David ýý,îlsoiu Mac- 'breathtaking experiences, hi' it s vivid Arthur, undertook, at his written re- 'descriptions of strange. peoples and, quest. to complete the work. Usiug the places, and bis virile, pulsing style., vast compilation of material which bhis uncle hiad prepared and the great My. NORMrA ND Y, b3 Mla ry Cable librarv he had collecte&~ lie lias Dennis, illustrated 1wv Louise Cable mrodeiled the book as far as )ossibl c Chard. Thé author and illustrator upon the previous volumes. This book, are both daughters of the'late George shows Carlyle in bis latter Nears. ex- \. Cable, famous American author erting a tremendous influence -apoi' of such books as Ol? Crcole Payjs. the tbought of bis tinie, attaining the. etc.' For a nun3ber of years the au- height of bis popularity, piunged 1 11- bor bas spent ber summers in the to sorrow and despair at the dea th .dli urudng fNriny of bis wife, and gradually aclhie%,iiug,; and so entranced wvas shie with the a measure of sereuity while awaiti1,î11 life of the people that froni time to hais own' release. This is essenia1l v tiie she ~rt tdw nltl a the haseof he "aga f Celse," ers. Happily euough,,these papers full of years and wisdom 'and hiotor. form a poetic record _Oferdig- revered on every band. i f.: .i.. ---. - - - ROBIN ON THE MOUNTAIN, bv Charlie May Simon, illustrated- byl Howard Simon. A fresh lively story of Robin, thé little Ozark mountaiti boy, of blis two. iut.sta auig a people- simpele, -re- ligious and keenly aware of natural be autY The little village of -St. Lucie-too smali for any map-is the place she describes. Poetry, tragedv., humor. drollery, and reverence are found in You too .YES TE OisO? eater from its beginnings, througlî sclassic age of greatness, its rela- ve decline, and the impact of West- 'n drama upon it. 0f special inter- t is the account of Shakespeare%' ,eendous influence- on the, native ama -of. India.