Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Dec 1939, p. 40

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WM .61G. MOORE OPTOMETRUST. UNI VIS BIFOCAtS Oa*THOGON - SOFTLITE LINSES NUMONT moUNTINGe OppeaSte iumte. «TIser CIIOICE SELECTION BOOKS IFOR IVERY AG£ UNUSUAL CHIIRSTMAS CARDS WRAPPI NGS 1724 OrregfonM e. Orriocte.n HI uildi.. 716 CHURCII ST. Phone GRE. 4622 1731 Howard St.. Phone 5h.. k Satveen 13y tonald Kaulback., Harcourt, Brace 1Some men' may flot care for fic- tion; sorne may be "ted up" oni cur- rent affairs, biography, and history, but the chances are a beautifully illustrated- account of a 1,000-mile pack.trip, with Ronald Kàulback into the heart of.Tibetan Chinawill ap-: peal to the majority as a gift book. The purpose of the exploration was to discover the source of the river, Salween, and. to ,make collections of plants, insects and other spécimens for the British Museum of Natural History. The tact that Kaulback faiiledore a h the henrd , ofhth re erty so fiercely? What chance has Finland in~ the present struggle with rnighty Russia? What fac tors in the terrain of Finland will have an in- fluence on the.outcoine of the pres- ent cùntest? These and, dozens of other q uestions are being asked by American readers about. this Iittle- knoWn. Iiberty-loving. debt-payiin g,, young Baltie nation. *Many of the answers are: to be founid in a new novel of Finl.and. Suni and Storm,. by Unto Seppanen. the publication, of which coincided very closely with the beginning ýof the present struggle with Russia., $un' and Storm n ot only makes clear why dercsi owyfo.teintefest the.,rinns. resist >sosutlIy ,any en- 0--af - hn-wa-fom 1roachment of their. liberty, but it I .shows as well that the land itself, Entitled "Salween," the book rugged, of forest and lake, is a sturdy opiens at Calcutta, India, where su- i U . (Tommy , TompsOn. ;bulwark against invasion., plies were being purchased and athr0 ILs yEgzh Suit and Storm, required reading other preparations being made tfor Acen" publUshed by G. P. Put- for anyone who seeks to understarid the expedition. Traveling north heý a' Sons. Mr. 2'hompson's, a th atrieid h us-ins and his Engl-ish companiorn bired a lgt n foh Cr-tas th aci tor ehnd te Rush pFinis company of porters to carry severai , .ei, wa, ia stQrY in F Wsi a t dryot tons of baggage (food, barter and h saontnanaalnhec im envei n hihan ol tunde r equipnient) and entered southeast- haci writing, induced by war thm isa ag od.trglfr cmTîet scil nrit freedom against the proverbial ern ibet i .enemy of Finland, Russia. The country traversed is fascinat-iM hoftesn ste.eran ing, sometimes jungle, sometimes WhsfIer' s Father Is oMuwch of the scen i hteri glacial, sometimes remote villages 1 ovrwihRus ians and Fi n- r inihabited by very primitive tribes, lndwtefighin so bitteLakeouh Ln-,9, Camp is made anywhere-in the !Pcured in Russia andaon the ego roreofLtke LdGl wilderness, at nmonastaries, at old The little-known beginnings of'ot Finland. For readers seeking en- ir-ilitary pos ts and forts, and upon James MeNeill Whistler as an art1 lightenn-ent on Finnish events a nap) ~cacsion hospitality ,'wis accepted student are presented in the recently [of- southern Finland used as end- from goverriment officials. published biography Whistler's papers wilI prove helpful. The Full page photographs, some oft1 Father, by Albert Parry. Dr. Parry's aulhor, Unto Seppanen,- was born ipn fiest we have seen in modemn travel book ells the story of Maj4or George esigos}nik),kosnt- boks pcur tecountry, teWsigo Whistler, the painter's: ately and loves with a deep devotion members of the party, and many of fahr s seen through the pnism of the lake-studded forest land of the people seen en rout e. Belonging his years in Russia. which he writes. to age-old forms of civilization, these The Major, a renowned engineer men and wornen prove as strange of the 1830s and '40s, went with hisGoraNve and picturesque as characters in family to the Tsar's mysterious Beriad Chee' ai rgnl fairy tales. realm to build Russia's first railroad ly settld on he Oconee ive riinl Rotteni rope bridges.,or no bridges of importance, The boy Jimmie grew at all, roaring" riverýs, tropical heat up in St. Petersburg, and it was in Georgia in 1813, and Mr. Chene.vý' s and insects, snows, rain storms, the Imperial Academy of Arts tihat ifflm ompany is basd uon i every obstacle of man and nature he receive'd his flrst formai training Mbackgr omny) te inbaren pon-i contrived to haît the party. in drawing and painting. btry. unis ofyhod arreyouthouer The Englishmen svent over a year: Dr. Parry's book, traces among spent in the region about Lum-ber urutul WL'u lu &' i2llu ul - If SO, tme book for you is >Fun WitIh Motizer Goo-se~Parade, first ia scores 'matrimonial traps set for hlmn are Flowers, a practleal, entertaining, series of "Talking Books," is an-. rnany. Iand sniartly îllustrated volume subS-'nôunced for publication by Garden jElizabeth Corbett tells why he titled, "IIow to Arrange Yourself and City. The illustrations by Charlotte didn't marry, how he fell in love Your Flowers." The authors are Steiner are ini full color, and with an htcm ti.SesosDonîta Ferguson and Roy Sheldon each book is provided a ten inch 30001 what a competent business m an he who, like good cooks, have tried'and p honograph record which narrates was, and pictures the lite of a man tested the various appetizing recipes the story lti song and telisthe child ýot his sort ftrm 1885. to the present. Ihyofr e.e, etr ahpg.

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