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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Jan 1937, p. 84

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DAVIS. PuINituRE CO. UOoKSNÇ CAV~S LIBARI «T his 15 My Af#aie" By Lola Knel (son of tthe great E~ngsh potter, Josiah Wedgwood), was, making prints suÜccessfully ,in 1802 on paper coatedwith silver chloride, and with Sir H- umphrey Davy, the famous chemist, he published an aàccount of this "method of Copying Paintings on Glass by the Agency of Light upon -Nitrate of Silver." But it was not until Si rJohn Herschel, the astrono-, mer, discovered hypo in 1819 that it became possible to prevent the picture being distroyed by exposure to light. lu the opening pages of his new book, Photograf>hy, C.e.L K. Mecs, director of research and develôpment în the Eastmaàn Kodak company, tells; the fascinating story of these earlyl experiments and of successive dis- coveries down to the panchromatic1 aphic )ries ai and in the Louise Redfield:Peaitie is ,prhaIt uniq»e among women. In ite of the fac:t that she i: a Tririter of standing herseif and nê'eds shine in no~ re*lected glryAhe z Wtcs-U >am's, her publishers, and sa.Ys, "Please do me. the honor of men- shows us the' -«- . ýry at work-in jtion 1 ing ene as ney husband's z4fe.Y Puf facet ur In g Woodl studios; hie The, husband is Donald Culross :tiosn of movin Peattie; and from a publishing point ording and syn- of view things are hummig in the Llmated cartoons. Peattie household. Mrs. Peattie's amateur pbotog- novel, 'American Acres," was pub- Pm;kncr2 n v. ilished in August by Putnamn's. Her I)een m Iany city books, .many country books, but thé suburbs,, wbere there are lso tlayy cbildren to the square inch, have been 'ieglected."'ý The, Scribner list was made up of the following tenl books for cb-ildren: Tihe Snithis ndRusty, byWAice Dal- gliesh. $1.75. Al about three lively children andi their adventures wit h a lovable. cocker spaniel. Illustrated .by Berta and Elmer Hader, this' b6ok is especialîy desigped for children from cighit ta tell. Sajo and theIleaveYr. Peo pie, by Grey OWL. $2.50. An autbentic,, exciting and amuusingý tale, of, the. Canadian woods and. of two Indian cbildren wboh adopted a pair of beaver kittens. Grey Owl is a real -Indiani and the illustrations are by himself. W0'ar Paint, by Paul Blrown. $2.00.' The story of an Indian pony ini the days of the Wild West-an adven- turous tale with spirited pictures, writ- tell and illustrated by the author of Cra.zy Quit and Piper's, Pony. Aln Aqiritdii Book: for Boys and Girls, by.Alfred Morgan. $2.00. How to set up an aquarium and how to keep it ini good order. The text. is easy and interes~tinz tn read. and it is supple- i»t.i private secretary to Isa- dora Duncan, the 'author's life is 1k a chain of eventful and coürageous short stories.. Chanidler LaTSTnuI TopI~tia. - creatures-aninî U mi n 111 aiure fl u J. The Book Digest of best seller% says Attorney Gerieral Tells made by an artist for' ber small son. of The Hwon Comedy by James Har- j. The Little Wolf, by. Wendell andi vey Robinson, wjth an introduction Iy Frr St ory of Justice 1Lucie Chapman. $2.00. The liue story Han-y Eln'er Barnes, which lias just The forthcoming book by the at- ofî a coyote f romi cub dayrs tilt. the "little heen published by Harper & Brothers: torney general of the Unitedi States,. wolf" bas a famnily of bis own. It is "It is Ja mes Harvey Robinson's thesis Homer Cummings, and his special hoth exciting' and autbentic, and is that mati bias now reacbed a stage in assistant, Carl McFarland, tells for illustrated with amazing action photo- iv hilization where lie night easily the first time the.complete story. of. grapbs by the authors, w~hose specialty PIMn s. greatest ska tection of UoIIancz's beft i n London and more than Iwere solti there. Il I lub copiés 1 1 1 1

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