Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Nov 1936, p. 48

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B>' exclusive upholistere at reasonable priée&. Our estmator will eall with completé une of Fabrie wlthout obligation. PHONE UNIVERSITY 7210 PFURN 1T U RE CO 721-723 Mai. St.. Evâàsfëo DAVIS for modern pictures. a, Picoten= Dosibe to make t for more on1 thre wal, by trecut enlarging etrer mat or mouldlng. We do thii. wth skili, at 10w prie.. Consuit with our experts about any framing problem. WIDE FRAMES Bat. ART GALLERY 1729 Sahrman, Evtm§tOfl ~ fi7à Un. d book, Bobra of Bali, just issued vy Aanuu* McNallW & Company. The storY îs both writen nd llustrated by thbe co-a.thors. An announcement on, this, page, a few weeks ago described the cut-out book, Littie Priends in-History, also by Mariel Wilhoite, .which Rand.McNally published this faii' Bobra of Bali tells tihe happenings during a singýle day in the lives 6f Bobra, a, typical Balinese* boy, -and iris littie sister, Sayu. Ail facts and pictures are autbentic, the, two. authors having spent' consider âble time in Bali gatheriflg their material. ,Tire anima is, tire flowvers and plants, the sports, the dress, the food and ail activities of two chiidren on tfins littie known, Agiatic island are ýbeautifuily illustrated witb in.e drawings and coloredplates. Thre, co#txt is in clear, large print,I and is expressed in concrete, direct Ianguage, easiiy understandable to children. The age group to whicir the stor$y will appeai is 6 to 12 years, according to the publisirers, who aiso. say that the story is one of the yery first children's books about Bali. The purpose of Little P>iends in Hisand Bobra of Bali is educational ini Ipart, but thre books are written ini sucir I Itory Chicago -Daiiy New, bserved. fis thirtieth birthday last rnônth with the publication of bis. recent farm novel, N'ight Outtlasts the WhiPoorwciil. Mr. North, a newspaper reporter before he became a novelist and critic, returns on4iay, to the scène of ýPloti"qhii, t.g is bis earlier success, for the *setting of b newY boolk. Both stpries are laid ini Wisconsinl, in the. southern tobacco raising and dairy section, of prosperity and staàbiiityr -tevery lake regioni where many Chicagoans wiIi remembher spending their summier 1vacations. The timfe of. -the new, nove is. 1917 to 1919-the. WorlId Wair years ýwhen sending men off to fight, baiting the Germans in this country, combating the flu, epid.emic, and, eating. butter, sugar and four s .ubstitutes becamne matters of course. !,if e in Braistord Ju*ction, the whose zillage. Sterling North studies the disintegraWisconsin southern sitrrouniditng farmns Sterling North, tion, -the bitterness>..anid'the hardships literary editor of the Chicago Daily that corne into the lives- of Early Anin, u» ýTIou4ng News, deictdin a y<uflg wife whose husband goes off day,» is the theme of his new novel, to war and leaves ber with a two-year "Night Ostlasts te Whippoorwill." oId. son; William Kaiser, a German butcher; Kaiser's lovely daughter, and her lover, Christopher Ellingswortb, the son of the town banker-a whole long procession of men and women, who fight battles at home instead of at John T. Wbitaker, foreign cor- the front. respondent of thre New York Herald- The honesty of the setting, the magnitells a newspaper» story at iTrib,itne,. and the tude of the theme of the story, "And Fear Came" Is by Foreign Correspondent BOOK fr0, WEEK November 15 to 21 CHILDREMI'S BOOK PARADE Nursery Rhyme bead. The back-grouiid i---------s exhaustive biograpisical story on. kitnesky-blue as gleaming as the very Norman Thomas, the Socialist leader. ecdinte a inhtenshn ie story must be the rnost complete Th ightsunhmnydaydescibe i. succinct ever written. "Af ter a and Cy. week of digging whicir drove Mr. Thomas nearly rnad-generous, paVm. Raisfon Featured ound h4, flesliy, DIooQy. andi dleverly Most too clearly defined of Paul Revere ironic the are the characters Gazette, and bis. partner, Maxwell Duncan. Mr. North knows the jargon of the veteran newspaper man f rom "a" to ? z" and just to read tire conversation between these two friends, andet o brought in the biograpiry, of which observe tbem joshing one anotirer is proud. Stanley worth more than the price of the enJulian Dana,, whose new bookc The ire was inorcinately and'heaved tire novel.-J. F. pages the Walkerflipped was Francisco anu Who BRujit -San Fox, editor of the Brailsford junction b'iNew Book by Dana century ot Hitler of the Napoleonic period, wili be published by Chrarles Scribnérs sons in November. Con stantine de. Grunwaid's work, whicir is already famous ini France, bas been translated by Charles Francis Atkinson and wilbe pubiished under the titie of Napoleon's Neers.inIndia bar-on OLVi, uermIanIy s- -,-v...... that :who went to India in tire. early '8's. Charles 'Scribner's sons report by and built a great industry, and of-bis Portrait of an J.ra: As Drawn Fairfax by Gibson Da»à C'harles children and grarndchidren who saw the business decline 'and the fortunes Downey bas gone into a second large and character of thre famly change printing, less tiran two weeks after with the times. It is a colorful and publication. Tire volume contains dramatic panorama of Engiish if e more 'than two .hundred pictures by -the. famous illustrator. through a haîf a century. 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