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WILMETTE LIFE August 23, 1934 ftm5 BOOKSHOPU LIBILARY, Il Carde Statlonery SERVICE IN THE BOOKS YOU SUY THE BOOKS YOU RENT 1724 Orringfon Av.. Gre. 0227 Orrington Hofel BIdg.. Evanston w e Recommend These lest Sellers F ICTIO.N "*So Red the Rose," by Stark Young ...... "Holy Deadioek," by A. P. Herbert . *"Good-B3'e, Mr. Chips," bN James Hilton .. "English Journey," by J. B. Priestly...... NON-FICTION *"You Must Relax" Edmund Jacobson Chandler' Fountain Square Evi Rest *s 'Eyes Af ter Sewing Whou tours spent over a sewlng ma- ehine or embroldery trame have nmade leur eye teed wenry and stralned, olinply apply a few drops oetitme.trled M EIJE. ,Wlthln a few minutes the tired, hea'vy feeling will have entIrely <Iappeared and Yonr eYes wili teed fresh and rested again. NUItINE bas many other uses that nmte it adylsable, te keep a bottie ilways handy. It quickly rellemree the IrrItation resuitlng from exposure toij lu, wlid and duet,' soothes away the berning feeling eaused by, long motor £rlpm, and h nunexeelied for reduelng the Pufbness and redness that follow crylng. 'Vot eu use MURIZZE freely as, It pool-. tivély centai»non belladenna or other harmfnal Ingredllente. 186) applications of MUJRlINE coft but Oe ni drug and departmeont 9tr~ Write the Marine Ce., 9 E. 4 OoSt., Chicago. for a vaJnable fret boèok on the preper care.of your eye s. COMMENT on BOOKS 'and AUTHORS Il GORDIANN1 br' BOO'K STORE 415 Pourth Street Wilintee331 "First tvith the Latesi"' *8.00 UNUSUAL ANTHOLOGY 'l'lie e(itors of l'hiSaiftu dii%k mewitti o 15 f Literature bave assembled i a vol- unie entitled- "Designed for Readinîg" Vslime cf the choicest work of Englislî SandI Americau writers, as it appeared iii the Revie, wdnring the past temi vears. ,ansfon Here are articles oc eteniperary writ- ---- inîg hy I.tton Stracbey, 1%firy M. Co- hinu, Virginia Woolf.l)o(Jk reviews b% sncb outstanding critics as Walter Lipp- mati, Maurice H indus, M1atthew Josephison;l)eems b>' most oif fte pronm- iiment poets ini England and( America; stories by Stephen Vincent. Bemét, Rob- -ert Nathan, and T. F. Powys; and arti- cles bv Stella Bensomi, Christopher Mor- 1ev, Humbîert Wolf e and 50 forth. Eaclî sectioni is preceded by explanatory com- ment h.. Dr. Canhv, Editor-in-Chief of th~e Rcvieuw. AWARD HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE The Hawthornden prize for 1934 was awarded in Ldndoii recently to James Hilton for bis nevel, Lost Hori- zoui, pullishied ini this country last year Ihv Morrowv. Joli Dix, John Deacon and Si Camîpbell of Kenilwortli, hoi tored tmp te Lake Genleva with andl Mrs. Tom Dix, returned week f roui a camping trip. Mt. NI rs. FDeacon drove tlîem home. Scott me- Mr. Iast; and i jean, 1-arriet and H-arold, chljdreui of 'Mrs. C. A. I<eith, 310-.\Warwick road,ý Keîilwortlî, left Siiday toi spen<l.d two, vceks at thieir s iiiiiiîn.er home, Keitlis Island. -o0 Burton Snithi Arthur Bonnet and(ý, Jack Stebbitrs of Keniilworth re- iturned Sunday f rom Camp Owakonze at Baril Lake. Canada. TYPE WRITERS REPAIRED.- RENTED CaIIed For and Delivered Work Guaranteed 'TeCoO:P 1726 Orngton Ave. G,... 2Mb EZEB. R ES TLYJ jMys ..teryNove Iii tliese days cf high pressure )afly. hioo, a writer cf mvsteries whe is bier- self 2t nwsteryv is something of a rarity.' Yet sncbi a persomi is Kay Cleaver Strabian, 'anthor cf a series of higIlly success fnl stories, wvhose new volumec ThIe Hiffioblini!udc. vas puilised ini Jîlv. Mrs. Strahain. wlho lives in a pleasalit lieuse withi a fine view, niear Portlandl, Oregon, bas care fnlly slîunned thie vbil liglit cf. publicitv. Shle lias been SIt' successfull iii thîs eiffeavor tlîat few of lier friends and practically none of lier towiispecJ)le ini Portland kîiowvlber as a writer. It is said that Mvienî lier iimmeîîsely p(plar Ikscrt Moon Myllsttery -as pub- lislie(l even the local bookseller in Port- la nd did not know tliat Mrs. Strahaîî was thîe anther. Thiougli lier home lias trianiv bock., it is almost impossible to find ()leecf lier own amnong tlbem. Shle practically iiever travels, beleîîgs te ne clubs, does mot lecture andI is reperted te hiave said ocioeeoccasioni thatshe did net recalbaving ever met a, fel-, low auther. It will be remembered that Mrs. 'Strahan's mystery Footp/rinits wcîî thie Scetland Yard prize. Slie is aIso thle autlîer cf Death Tra/'s andl October Hoiuse'. POWYS RETURNS HOME John Cowvper Pewys, author cf tWolf Soient, Mfeaning of .Cuture and Philo- sohhy of Solitude, bas sailed for Eng- land" where he intends te live per- maneîîtly in Sussex. Hugh Walpole is expected te cerne te this country te aid in the filming of D avid Copperfield at the M. G. M4. studios. INTRODUCE NEW, WRITER A first novel,' Brassbozind, by Mary Bickel, will be published this montb by Coward-McCan. Her publishers are cenducting. an intensive campaigu te introduce this, uew youig writer to the reading public. NEW WODEHOUSE NOVEL Another neovel about tlhe.well known character, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodeheuse, wiîll be published this fail by little, Brown and company. Its title will be Brinkiey Manzor. The story was seni- alized under the title, Rîqht Ho', Jeeves! i ,-~.iv, b lIsa I-artinaz of 'L1shJourve'v, wvas published I Harper and Brothbers oni Au- yu;lst J0. Late July and Early August Publications ALEXANDER: The Tale of a Mon- key, by Marion, and i'dith Brown. This junior Uiterary Guild selec- tion is, a gay and entertaining tale of a baby monkey feund in the jungle by a Filipino lad. The little mon- key's peculiar charms gained him many special privileges. He gets into exciting miscbief and lives. an alto- getherthrilling life. BEAUTY FOR SALE I)v Ethel Hueston. Here is the oldest and most de- lightful cf story themes demie iii a new and captivating way-the Cmn- derella story. Mrs. Hueston bas modernized it, given it many an en- gaging twist and made an altogether entertaining story. Beginning in an Iowa parsonage, a setting made fa- mous by Mrs. Hteston's parsonage stories, the action moves te N\1ew York and back te Iowa again. THE MUTINY 0F MADAME YES by Dale Collins, Madame Yes had what men desire and Captain Pettigrew had what Madame Yes craved-a sbip bound for the Orient. Out cf this possibility grows a satiric farce cf the sea, as rich inadventure and comedy as the Most exacting reader might demaîîd. Lifte of Edison Notwithstanding the. fact that Edison was grated more patents than any other man who ever lived (more. thani 1,300 are registered to bis credit), and is responsihl. for stnch discoveries as the phcnograph, the motion picture nma- chine, the storage battery, electric nmo- tors, the mimeograph, wireless, tele- phmone receiver, and a host of others, 1 liiinet.N-seveiî out of a total of two hun- (lred anîd thirty'-five tîtles suggestcd for a iiew life of Edison coiiccive(l of bum only as, the inventor of the electric light. The tities were suhnîitted by public librarians froni every section (of the United States ini a contest con(IuCte<l bv Thle 'Bobbs-Merrill cempanv, for the best titie for a definitive liicgrapliy of the great inventor to he published by them ni September. Writtemî by Wil- liani A. Simonds, associated with the E.dison Inistitute, the niew life of Edison presents much ne%% and hitherto unavail- able material about EIdison. It throws new light on bis achiev'ements and bis character. lu the contest five hiundred librarians were solicited for help. One hundred and seventeen submitted titles. Sugges- tions covered every possible conception of Edison.. Twenty-three tities used the word "-izard"; a great number presented Edison as a miracle worker; twenty-fonr went to mythology for their source, with snch words as * Aladdin, Prometheus, Merlin, Thor, Mazda .The, titi-e finallv selected. though flot one of these submitted in the contest, was Edison: Il is lif c. lus IUýopk, Ifis Gen jus. VOYAGE TO WEST INDIES STARS TO S'rEER BY. By Heleti Follett. * llistrated hy Armstrong Sperry. Wbien Barbara and her niother ,gu, voyaging, the sailors, engineers, cap- tains. take notice. Mlagic Portiieles. Mrs. Follett's first book, was the coin- plete, storY of a stirring voyage f roui New York te the WVest Iiidies. a('ross the Pacific and home. Th'lis new book l)egîus inai bti, and its storv bappens mostly in the South Seas. You meet Soutb Sea natives througbi two pairs of eyes and two abilities for frieîîdship, quite different froni those of the other writers wlîo have presente(l these magical, color fnl spots. Fiji was tlîeir "thirteentlî island." The bumnor and beauty of their travel descriptions will niake every girl want to collect islands and schîooners as Bar- bara lias doue. Perhaps the higlu spot of the sterv cernes ini Sanmoa. But girls may be evemi more deliglited with the cliapter where a native prince, offers te iiarry Bar- bara, andl she regretfully. decides niot te become a Tongan princess. AIl sea- loviîîg girls wilI, specially enjoy the last chapter, Stars to Steer By, written by Barbara and lier mother in collabora- tionî. H ere these two Yankee sailors are back unuler a Yankee, sea captai again. At last, after passenger steaniers, cargo boats, schooniers,inioter launches, dugout canees, lifebuats, thev'are bound for home in America on 'a bus-and their eule wish is to go to seaaan Au tinusual travel book. agin CANCEL ZURICH PLAY 'lle Lake Zurich Summer theater alinotunces that performances of "Daugerous Corner," scheduled for Friday and Saturday niglits of this week, will have to be cancelled on account cf illness on the part of William Shepherd wlio was cast in. the leading role. August 23, 1934ý WILMETTE '.L.IFE 1