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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Jul 1934, p. 34

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I TYPEWRITERSI IREPAIRED -RENTED Calie d For and Delivered Work Guaranteed TheCOtOPl 176Orriugton Ave. Gre. 2mE r. .~ I ALiftt1eHistor>' ofaGreat Ocit> CHICACO with 50' ILLUSTRATIONS Poper Cover $1 Nord Cover $1.50 CHANDBLER'S Fountain Square Evanstàn Wells' life from his humble birth as the son of a professional cricket player and a domestic servant, through bis school 'days, his young manhood, bis love affairs, etc., as well, as the story, of his. literary antd public career, fromn his first struggies as a writer for thé uewspaRpiers, while he Wvas supporting both bhis parents, to his sudden recogilition and steadily i mcreasing fanée as, anu1author, which res,,ulted' ii his. being liouized by so- ciety and weléomed ini literary circies Manv iuteresti ,ng ,and anhusing letters written, by aud to Mr. W~ells are included.. Wells often îillustrated his, letters with peu and ink *sketches, and a goodly number. of these wili be rep)roduced ,ini the* book. There will also be, about thirty haif toules, nu- cludiug à flune portrait of Wells by a French' artist, and. pictures of- his fauuly and friends. A.Throughout the story ther'e is lively; Weilsiaul comment on men and af- fairs, love and marriage, gveftinmeIt, reIigioli, etc. 1This book is expected to rank high, as one of the reaUly important repre-, sttiebiographies of our time. For Business Men On Juiy 27, there occurs the season's çutstanding event in the field, of detec- ti vé and adventure fiction-the publica- tion by Appleton-Century of 7Te Tired 1,11% andl f r..Fredcric W.le Rondof 399 As/ i sreet, If,"inncitkil, a'<' t/w autherii<md illustrabor oe/<'iz<I*<f ".-I 1Lut/e Hïitorv-o'f'a Great Cit . ttc'i.e bcing q iýc td T/îsa~iaI ivCt-y~n,.r~h )o<k ( iuy fratured 1) %,a/I t * ltrar -v dePartinents (p f t/heIop'storcs and bY t/ji,~J dow!<~u book stores. Mr1. Bonld an!i/cd<d made t/he rutire book hfinrslf. nien, vintners, workers, and sailors- M ntsG re but also a highly uniusual portrait of M n tsG re tiie kind of Germiau youth that seenis Whlether 3'ou have seen Claude to have disappeared since Hitler camie Monet~s beautiful murais ofwater to power. "~Tale Without End,, iîî huiles in the Orangerie in Paris, or be publislied by the house of Knopf have, like the present. wr iter hiad the, ou Aýugust sixth. good fortune to sec the water liles themselves, ini the willowi-bordered TO BE ST. PAUL'S DEAN pools of Monet's garden at 'Giverny- Dcapi Walter Robert Mlattlwws. who or even if you have only longed 10. either by the set or single. volume. IThe idea behind the project is that the-busi- ness mani is here offered a library of books that have ail been. especially selected to suit bis own particular tastes. America and England have, been combed for. these volumhes,. and mauuscripts. have been accepted, first because they were thebesit obtainable,' an(i second because of the variety tbey .offered, for variety was considered very important. Not only are there- detec- tive stories and thrillers (or straight ni London, wîll be represented on an eal uton list with a book called bsa %s ï onstrHction. Dr, Matthews hsbeen Dean of Exeter since 1931. Hle is known as a brilliant theologian. A series of lectures sponsored by hian this last year featuring nou-conformist mlinisters,>,started a storm of contro- vcrsv aniong the clergy and laity. Dr. Matthews has been "successively a stu- dent lecturer and Prof essôr of the Philosophy of Religion in King's Col- lege of the University of London. It "ulaude -Monet and i-is LGadeni.' NI1r. Gwynn tells briefly the storv of Nloiiet's life, and more fully the story of the close friendship be- tweeu . Monet and 'lmnca.of 'Monet's love for bhis garden as h gradually dveopdit,. through -f orty years,, into, exquisite beauty, and, of bis 411r. Gwynn's) owu visit to the garden and Monet's studio. The book is illustrated with niany' fine photograpbs of the garden and of Mouiets work. ti on a book cailed "Tale Without iTne new French novel entitled The econornics and sociology End." It is the story of Fraulein Hoiuse in the Hills by Simonne Ratel. two books recently pul R IN LLinke's experiences during a trip deals with an unbappy marriage, but reading in t he sumnier ec YqUR through France. Mrs. Knopf feels its real subject is a wife's complete social problems class: Th I O~ that not on! s i a remrkable pic-. self-discipline and self-sacrific for the lames. P., Warburg's ýI ' EPS ture of the France that tourists neyer sake of ber cbildren. Muddie" and; Mauritz, see- the France of> weavere, fisher- isabelle Durras is the intelligent «nd Seeds of Revi. 'nomic and Sbooks are lie Money 1

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