Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Feb 1935, p. 40

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ries of obm-o-Bos-,sRowes te ~irnlunversuty, wno is seeing to aies ofbartu..H oue, R oer H it that the poetry laurels stili remain on the Evanston campus. Guests wi l u he hse saen. ign' brîng books and subscriptions as g oumy av ee M.Wîga' to th librries.poems lu Thé Nation, Harper's At- Iantic.'eonthly,' Harriet Monroe's Mrs. I. A. Smüthers of Evanst on, Poetr Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, president of.the Associate Alumnae, and onege Verse, an international bas announced the first of these. teas college poetry magazine. In the Feb- for February 10, from 4 to 6 o'clock, utise ofheAlnc 1nty at Rogers House. Invitationsare bemng rMarWisse ofthe4Alai ic M th. Mr. Wîggam'ls "Hiatus" is printed, issued to ail alumnae nterbaoe and 'his, poem,, "As Fallin Frs" ifdte nortb sie, and their husbands; wihapieitejnaynm to the trustees,,and Northwestern Uni- bwhifch apeaersinte anuary nuni-a versity associates and their wve, ad bro olg es a eetda to befaclt oftb cllee f lbealthe best' poem in that issue by ar te amicutyoe teirleç f iei Stephen Vincent Benêt, and was awarded first prize. A week or- so Similar functions for aluinmae living after that the .same poem was re- in other parts of the Chicago area are printed in the LiteraLry Digest. also being planned. Somne t eI r Wga a o finieheibi February soutb side alurnmae will at- Ir. novel, hcas beefn igblyhi tend a book tea planned by Mrs. John frstcommeded by ceval ofbeis pries T. Bycraft, Jr., of 4516 Ellis avenue, sors at Northwestern. It is a stu4y anlde avenu rdFStane, 81ia3o of adolescent people, and a story of For aenest sicagdo.wetsbba undergraduate college lufe. Tbe novelt 1a Fornae s. Hdeayn . King, burban 's also a psycbological study and alumae Ms. arryN. ing,830higbly introspective. Mr. Wiggam is' Franklin avenue, River Forest, is ar- niajoring in English literature at ranging a tea. Nortbwestern. In charge'of the first book tea are Mrs. Smotbers, ýMrsý James Wescott Sponsoring Symposium of Chicago, program chairinan, and Mrs. R. Landess Laaero Evanston, on Chidron'. Reading î social chairman. Mrs. RbetEider is The Chicago Public libraru' invits b crhmn"f ,J 4L 1h-,LXV to a taV ie t111boy. VV UeIn e aoes, a fine book is likely toi result, and no reader is likely to be disappointedl by the lastest production- of the author Tf he Gorden and Séua Wal. Nigel'and- Brute- Redver s, studying at a monastery, startedl off one nigbt for. their guardian's. estate sixty miles -away. , ext day tbey feu'l with a band of rebell'OUs peasants, and before, long tbey were. marching witb the rebels toward Canterbury.. From, Canterbury tbe mob, burning and.c pillaging as tbey went, marched umon. London, and in Londonth great peasant leader- Wat Tyler met the fourteen-year-old, King Richard In the scufile which. followed, Tyler was killed and Nigel saved the king's life. Botb boys were, invited to'the palace and befriended by Richard, who sent tbemn upon an exciting mis- sion, which grew reetting when they discovered there was a plot against their lives. A great deal hap- pened before tbey managed to get safely back to tbe palace. Mr. Strong bhas told this gallopitig story with great gusto and charui. Without being slowed up by quaint language or duil descriptions, it yet brings to lufe a fascinating period in English bistory and introduces celc- brated bistorical figures. neituu taenar Marder Case and 1it lie reveals at last tbe facts of e inost famous murder in liistory. istorians will be shocked at bis revela- mns, it is reported, and it is interest- r, to learu that the authority he bases s 'story on i5 none other than Manny -ribo, who was the star reporter on e first tabloid in bistory, the Evening iber, and whose papers Mr. Irwin tes have recently becu oecavated at erculaneum Cliub Woman's bureau. The firs.t pro- gram was belId last Saturday and the -others will follow on the nintb, sixteentb, and twenty-tbfrd at 10:30 o'clock. The programs for the chil7- clren by Library Club cbildren and library story tel lers wilI be given at the same time in tbe Cbildren's thea-1 tre, Mandel Brothers. The topic for this Saturday's meet- ing is "Reading and the Creative .I ,t,w*ara I.0t51, the son Of an Itai- ian liberai who gave bislife to the cause of freedom in Italy, came to IAmnerica with bis mother at tbe age Of lO. He tells in a new book, In the Shadow of Liberty, what hardships tbey endured, in an East side tene-' mer,; how bis mother, unable to bear the Ionelineess, returned to Italy; bow he earned bis livin~g as lamp- lighter, messenger boy, etc.; how he J, - LYES ieve that i deserve a hearing, that; V. F. Calverton's 7-h. Pass0ing 0f ncboukuo deserves a bearing, that alth Godris1 the brryslconf mn dservs a earig."Freetbougbt j~kclub. WeftetaumaaS. Pke Si Yo wiiI md ~mong ihepr the book you bave always wmntd - look for it at Chaudlier's Foimtain Squm., Evmoztoi oi ine jinr

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