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BIRDS o AM E RIC A. A beautifully bou nd booký in heav y buckram, stampeci in gold, containing 111 full page col 1o r plates. ONLY 3,95 A $17.50 Value Chaudlier's uAoA CM sm; /l tliton This monumental work of over eleven bunclred pages by two of. Great. Britain's leading sociaà,làivestigato.rs -mw1as .pub- lished by Charles Scribner's Sons last week. Sidney -Webb, wbo was created Lord'Passnioreby George V, was, one of 'the original founiders of'the Fabian Society and- was a minister *of. the first. labor cabinet formed by Ramsey.Mac- Donald. After a tliorôugh analysis of the political,, social and economic structure of present-day Russia the authors pro- dlaim the U. S. S. R. to be a new civil- ization,. which *can properly be called a new wvay.of living distinct f rom that, pursued by other civilized societies." Publisbed ini Great Britain several moritbs ago this work won flot onily the approval of the socialist and left organs of opinion, but also the uprejudiced praise of the London Times and 'Man- chester Guardian. Some idea of the miagnitude. of tiis work can be gathered f rom the fact that the table of contents lists over three hundred tities of subjects treated, that there are eleven appendices to the first book alone and that the index of naines lists more thani six litndred people. Bertra ýnd Zadig is the artist of this drating of, Ramnonia Jerdmasi, whose xovel, "A Timte for Love," hm just been />blished by Harper & Brothers. G. B. Stern Views Life as Sei1lés of Triaàngles G. B. Stern bas written perhaps ber .most deligbtful book neither in the form of a novel, nor in the usual form of autobiography. In -Moio qraiin one leartis more about tbe author of The Watriarch than any "proper" autobiography cotild Miss Stern lias not beguii at the bie- ginning of ber life and gone .straight on and on and on, conscientiouslv :ioting Helen Ashton is the daiugbter of onîe barrister and the wife of anotherand lias lived al lier life in London. She studied medicine at London Ilospital, but on her marriage gave up her practice. This autbor's gift for dtpicting char- acters in u nusual circumstances, and for holding bier rea ders intent'f rom the ifirst page to the last-which iiade Hornets Nest, and Dodtor Serocold justly popular-is1 aga in evident -in Dut Over the Rtdniis,. set, against .t'he ,romhantic lhackgrounidof a remùote valley in niorth-' ern Arabia, .*hère a, grouip of archae- ologistg, are, exploring the> site of a, Roman, frontier town. When young Robin Cary, arrives in Wady Haroun on b is first arcliaeological expeclition, lie -feels that somiethinýg strange will happen to aIl the members of the party-that none of the five wvilI lea ve the' place untouched., There are Sir, William Crane, who lis. financing 1the operation;- bis secretàry, 0Olwen, Hughes; bhis' first assistant, Evan Meredith; Evan's young wîfe Valentine-and Robin himseIfi Robin's foreboding is realized. for ini thsvalley, walled about by perpendic- ulrcliff s. is staged a drama centering around Valentine. It is ber wild and lovely beauty, ber way of demanding companionsbip of ail men a'nd yet main- taining ber loyalty to one mani. which acts as the spark to ignite rage .and hiate among these five. The story is tense througbout, anid has an element of strangeness which cornesý cEmUt.U(I thinL-s as tme Berlini iirsti giutni i ir- One m'ry's Epid: the .'33 earthquake in Cali- U401 fornia and ber modest response to the test: lier great-aunt, the Matriarch; p Noel Coward and the beieinnings of raflton Cavalcade: ber miental collection of.111- ments on the stage-moments of horror.ý Sirony. beauty and rest, the Direyfus case:; Ithe secret of Jane Austen - cock-fgiting: torch songs-ancient and modern: and tbe tbree watcbes sbe lias owned. tti etr, o.w ti ,,- , nettlednees New Van Dine Volume On Friday, Mardi 13, Scribner's will publish tbe S. S. Van Dine's Philo Van ce Murder. Cases, aà 1050 -page volume. There' is, included an. article by'the author telling of tbe inception of the Philo Vance stories and anecdotes about them. a comniete and amnlified state- IL First Fi.m-Evansst Store. A Ise Third FI..r, Chioege Se. 519 DAVIS ST., EVANSTONI Lurig the %wmter Nlrs. Love nas pre- sentedi prograrns before eigbteeîi clubs and other groiups. She is now NvorkiiIg uipon a childrenis book entitled Sing 0i Song of Si.t'peiice, a Pocket F idi of Rvine, and:is also writing reg larly% for CldLife imagalzine. FIELD& COMPANY. EVANSTON STORE