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THE LATEST, BOOKS lieiven'uNMy Detination, by Thormtil. Wilderi The Porty Pays of Musa %ah-,. b> Prauz Werfei Week-End, by Phl Stong (Auttier cf State 'Far> Tht FoikS, b% RuIh Seckow. our Aele/:~s Dièy 4erenied tom L L'sthin,2 c ter day! 411 F..,tLStomw , Wllutt 3m Modem Ir'ay G.....Sà.. cou - Everyumo. ibrery. 90' a Copy Woe'Id CIossics SOc Meloney, Florence 'Brewer Boeckel, Elmily Newel Blair, Judge Florence E. Allen, Dr. Agnes IHamilton, 'jane A d d a ni s, and Dorotby Canifield Fisher. On the saine day-January 22-the national committee on'the Cause anid Cureý of War will open its 1ý935 con- férence inu Washington, where dele -gatesfrom eleven nationa'l-w.meil's organizations will meet for a programn whose general titie is "The Price of Peace." It is under the auspi.ces.,of this committee with Carrie Chapmian Catt as chairman of the booýk'comý- mittee, that Why Wizprts MutCeose b .as been prepared. Mrs. Catt. an ïn- defatigable worker for the cause of peace. celebrates, ber sevent-sixthi birthday this week. ýCHAUCER: CANTERBURY' TALES. R.en4d4 nteodern Engai S JJbJ J. IU. Nicoison. W"itIlustrations by Rock- well Kenit and an Introduction b>' G. H. Gerould. Ne0w York: Covici-friede. The "renderer" of this new version of Cbaucer's pooni calîs it a "diluted drink," but at the samne time, and .witb due humility he explains. why he offers it to modern readers. With- out the necessary erudition to criticize the resuit, 1 cati say at least that he bas made Chaucer readable 'and he bas kept much of the flavor of according tô 'a forecast by the Pub- lishers' Weekly, include.the following: Roitwny,: by Lady Eleanor Smith (Bobbs-Merrill), promises to be one of this author's most popular romances- Joitrieymaît, .by Erskine Caldwell ( Viking), wilI be limited to 1,47$ cop- ies, according to the publiser's an-' nouncement. Thtis Il andrrer, by Lo)uis Golding (Farrar and Rinehart), is a, collection 4)f short stories with varied settings, by the. author of Magnolia Strece. Afp QI#41rtir Gi?'ei..by Paul Horgan <-Harp)er). is a new novel by the Har- Der prize îîovel aisthor. It.-has a muisical* background. The' kOadof .lgrs. by Robert Nathan (Knopf) 9 is, a Book - of- the - Month club selection. It. is by the author of the very-popular One More Sprùt!. TIW Little' l'ifo, b-v William. March (Snmith and Haas), is a collection of short stories by the noted atithor of Coîiipa'1K. 4 Interesting Travel Fou Books Are Described Fortravel books -have recently appeared among whicb some reaclers should find wbat they want. The able dramatic critic of The New York Times, Brooks Atkinsoni, has narrated 'bis adventures in strange ports and seas under the name of the-stemerfl' .The' original Temple Shakespeare, frst published ini 1894, bas become famous tlirougbout, the world, 'and its. sales' have been stupendous-no less thani five. million -volumes have: been called -for I It. was the Pion eer of the one-play, one-volume edition of the coniplete Shakespeare ni con- venient pocketable format. During recent. years, ho*ever,- there have 'been many revolutionary, develop-> ments in Shakespeýarean scholarship, lu ,view of wbich the text wbich was regarded- as, exempflary. a generation ago can no longer be 80 regaTded. The new edition will be -printed in early February. The primary aimn therefore of the New Temple Shakespeare is to.pre- sent a thorougblyreliable text. based upon- the soundest contemporary scbolarship. M. R. Ridley, to m-hom the work bas been entrusted, is Eng- lish Literature Tutor at Balliol Col- lege, Oxford; and bis Keats' Craf't- mansbip (recently published l'y the Clarendon Press) bas establishied him as, a critic of individuality and learn- ing. Theadvantages of the tex t of this new editibn are as follows: .,The editor's primary aim is, to igiv~e to' readers, wîth the least distraction: possible (and therefore with' a niodi- fed adberence to- F,1Eî à-'e t fa n punctuation), the nearest 'approxima- 'way of size vw hich was only redeemed by the full-page picturés by Mr. Kent. At that time it was apparent that the pictures, while forceful, interest- ing, 'and executed with great skill,, suiffered fromi the unusual fauît of being too big. It is therefore now possible to say definiteiy that tbey 'were much too large-t the reproduc- tions in the present volume are wbat 'they- should be. And.' for better measure. new ones have bèen added. (i-oughton Mifflti), with 133 illustra- tions, the travel journey of Stanley ljnwin and. Severn 'Storr,- which goes pretty nearly everywhere, east, west, north, and' south. And last, one,-of those books of life and hunting lin the Indian jungle wbich neyer lose their attraction for many readers however often tbey are written. -This one' is called *Hunter's Moon, 'by r-eonard Handley (Macmillan).-'Sat- ,vative, oased upon the earliest reli- ale publisbed version of cach play, whether that be the First Folio. or, the earliest "good" Quarto: ' atii a feature of the edition is the use of special brackets to indicate, in plays of wbîch there are both Quarto.an.d Folio- versions,' such pas sages as. occur in one or the other onlv sO that the reader may read whicheéver version lie wisbes-but not an urn- critical conflation of the two. 'W'itbout doubt this text shoiil<ld Appleton-Century report that they have just n ifroe the ipTess the lOOltb printing of D"widHarum, the famous cliassic of American humor by Edward N. WVestcott. Down through the years the book bas contimaed i populaity. hiy beOngonevery representative lh- brrysshelL Books *0 Own Books to Give Books te Rent Ordngt« Ave. rwm.