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A few first editions will e. on, sale. ilPike, -Who tells -the story, jr is c'xIplained how 'Dan Bates . editor of the the United States. Ilof Dan is presented as Weeékly Gazette of Orient in the M.%id-, die" West.,got to,»be elected President Fmmtutainsq ue, Evase jj - .Youang -àfbne Awrkàn -twah --. .. fif vlums...... »ULds.pe WI»Plgur.s" $1.75 -- A utegraphed Copies ~ ~ r ~ ~ at' a ,si iple. yeti anny individual, hot ton shrewd ,not to be jdeaiistic, and,ý above al cIse, a person Who always kept bis eyes on the ball. In bis. own words:- 'If you want.to know wbat our folks are tbinking andfeeling don't put your ear to the. groünd., Get up in tbe sky and iisten. Our feet. may be on tbe ground., but our dreams are tmp yoncler." In the course of events, a love affair of Dan's sends him 1abroad., .where, througb a fortunate accident,. nvolving the King ýof ýEngland, incognito, be performs a reai service to bis country. Ridipg upozý the, subsequent , wave 1of widespreâd popular sentiment, ban. tbrough the miraculous channeis of Amercan politics. is nominated for President whiie be is away, and in sucb a miner that he can't refuse the bonor. And without raising a band-in f actt by just being plain Dan-be, is elected President. Good satiric spoofing for a Presidential year. just published by Harcourt, Brace Conipany . New. York and- Chicago reviéwers bhave given the book a %varm reception and bave classified it as1 vaiuable Arniericaàna,,-material of' genmiine. historiai value. Mr.Les and Ueniry Justin Smithm et plaborated also in the writing- of Chicatio, a I-Iistory of Its Repi>tatiopi. For> the Century of Progress Mr. Snithi prepared Chfr'ago's Great Cesîtur.y,ýand is the author likewise of Chicagov. (a Portrait, Innocents Aloft, wbicb îs a travel book, Youngg Philiips, Reporter, Poor Devil, Deadfi.aes and its sequel. Josslyn, and Seenor Zero, a story of the o Thse late HenrY Jstrn Smith Glencoe, former mnauging .èditorof. discovery of Ainerica. 1A, Chicago pubtil hi une lshr1las tssû thse Chicago Daily News, Vith Lh<y'd Smith. Mr. hy book another C55 Lewis aiso of tise Netis, Osc r Wilde visited America in. 1882. Dicov'rs e "OcarWild anthr 1laborators combed newspaper. co {The '> ~nMa~ UblSlW Anric," ÏBace& ~>>~>»~'accounts ofthtie year and conspressed flerour, f romi themi the facts of Wilde's tour, and The April issue of Specia Libraries. the officiai organ of the Special Libraries association, bas the following remiarks to make about Portrat of a J4brary by Margery Closey QuigleY and. William lider Marcus, just pub-' lisbed by Appleton-Centurv: -A- book, i ha ghi,,IA herenî,,red readini foIr' A Uib(srians Bible ail details necessary to paint the 1880's, background against which the aesthete glittered. Robert Van Gelder of the Nüew York Tinies'says,".-. it is not for the story'of Wilde hijuself that this book i. to be read, but for the stirring fv<tl of the period :. . The stylé is always Iiveîy. er etion is entirelv readable.-. e I*FIELDê COMPANY pi"y and inc" ' m n"tyn"r u ligrit. ia' %àu re a s ,w e ii a s v alua be tAm e r ca na , a na agzn Tit thoughtprovoking in ay a new Africa, of newspaper meni and wo >men'* m lnde rfers ok tasm a and direct in- sprihl of farm .wives, of business meni. ' hmie Plaa ,stimulating mety asbao o a * book, s are social comedies, mystery stc Iimes, style. Excel'ient illustrations. A mile- adlrig t ldtmébresur earyasa of phases Portritofln tragic tales, humorous îe,- Stonte in library literature.Y pe-a Library bas gone into its 'eodlreqen and homely pictures of everydày Oscar Herschel Brickell compares pIe. printing.-ccnlag Sullivanto America Discoters ilde W__________I thicb The Pive-Mlinute Girl. f rom 'm esque (Mark> bistory. "The text,", be takesi its title is on leof êhavolumen1 says, "runs to 462 pages counting the emi- Priss Hudson Book index, ail of it good. 1 couid bave read of' professor Willoughby, W. Westel Vood sucb political science at Jobns Hopkins uni- more with pleasure." mrczs OcrWid Dsoer nga versity frorn 1897 to 1933 andformer the machine age, $amtheurg Carl ff»r Carlon the ne Walt Whitman, et and.others.,