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The ýThinking Reed by REDECCA wEST Young, Mr. Desraeli by ELsWYrTH THANE Aithor à Tudor Wench 4iiaudIcr9s Fouamiu Squre Evauston MARS HALL FIELD & COMPANY EVANSTON STORE -Re'ference Booka' Ai "Round the World, on a P'enny," just publisbéd by Covici-Friede, Mrs. Burn- hamý admits it is a.difficut to write'a' bck'kand bave nôoiomissions,.as it is to Pack, for a trip, to Europe and remember a tooth brush. .So it bappensi that the things Mrs. Burnham forgot, in ber first edition, ihe gatbered togiether in somne twenty or thirty pages: and prïnted, al in, one spot, at the end: of the. second, edition . Page numbers refer one back to the e xact point in the narrative:where the oversight cc- curred. For example, te, safety pins and cheWing gum on. a specific page (ac7- couterments. of - every wll-go6tteni-out traveler>, Mrs. Burnham adds a, street car conductor's change-maker-excellent reticule for ýholding flot onl1y silver coins butý drawing pencIls and other tidbits wbile en route. Bütbefore she enters upon' a string of omissions, the author feels impelled to confide in lier reader the joys and sor- rows of authorship, as she bas experi- enced them since "Round the World on a Penny" first came out. Illustrations in tbe book get printed upside down; reviewers are unkind-sometimes; pub- lishers bave such strange notions about. covers, paper stock, the quantity of e. ,as .rc Convention means notbing tQ Anita Wilîets Burnham, but enjoying life te the ful means everything. A keen selise cf humor, se keen no emergency proves toc much for ber, sustains her on the crest of the wave. Apt and foolish ways of expressing ideas is an-ý ether cf ber literary charms. Ail illus- tration is the folowing-"After sampling a string of cafeswe found a delightful Photo. by weber Wfiliam H. Huwted of Glencoe, an undergradutie at Yale tsnversty, uthe authar of "Bo tt" ( The Story 6f a School-- master) pubIished this ,nonth by Coward- McC'ann lew. Pra*ln Roosevelt an'd WilIami Lyon Phel/'s have written int- troductions ta the biography. Landau Presents the Contemporary Mystics Although Rom Landau, author of God 1: My Adventure is just tbirty- seven years old, lie has been prepar- inr his hnrJr fnr fifteen veairs. Bnrn wrote a vo tional art. me,:on molern interna-. At about the same time Landau went te North Africa in an attempt to lead a primitive life away from mod- ern civilization. Wben he returned he settled ini England and began seri- ously to study spiritual and religious movemneis utside the officiai I)y Coward-UcCann Ime. Professer Phelps writs-"I 'lcon-. gratulate the young author 'Of. this biography. It is the 'story of a life that ail who knew the man will read with a glow of memory and recogni- tion;'and, for those wbo, neyer> saw hîm, ýthis biography 'should be1 read- 'for the strengthening of hearts.'"9 Mr. Husted bas aise received favor- able. > riicis m from the New York Timeés Book Reviewl and the literary magazi nes of 'Yale university and, Lawrenceville academy. May I add, for, my own- part, that 1 picked up the book intending to Spend but a few minutes glancing hastily through it. I did flot put it dlown for the first time until I had read over haif of its mnore than 300 p)ages. "Bott," the histoixy of Ma'ther A. Abbott, teacher at Groton, professor at Yale, and headmaster of Lawrence- ville acadeniy in New jersey, is a stirring account of a vigorous* and inspiring leader. At Groton, as Latin master, he taught. such men as Frank- lin Delano Roosevelt, and four other Roosevelt s-Theodore, Jr., Archibald, Kermit and Quentin. Williamn Husted graduated from Lawrenceville in the spring of 1934, soon after the déatb of Abbott. At could tell adequately the story of uts life, for only a boy could give a true, estimate of this man whose popularity with boys was se tremendous and soý sound." The I.aWrence revicw by Floyd C. Harwood summarizes tbe materialin the book as follows-"The biogrephy proper, or Book I, consists of four parts: Part I Background, Child- hood, Youth; Part Il Groton; Part IfI Yale; Part IV Lawrencevilîe. Il00K SECTION First Floor».Evo.sf.mStoe A Is. Third Pieu. CI.k*ge Sgre. j' I à theCoi-mmunists. LCharles s Sens publisbed the bock on,