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

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Work 6~mvamt.~ Ph~ iioeÉ7ÔV Ovdugtem Kebi UIIg., Nvmautea 30 FesiRpru SI am Mr" v. ll jan aEUZZ FAau UEE38A the-book you have alwsys wanted - look for i t a a i For west side and West suburban alunmnae lira. Harry N. King, &30 Frankli avenue, River Forest, la ar- ranging a tea. In charge of the first book tes are lirs. Smothers, 'Mrs. James Wescott of Chicago, program chairman, and lirs. R. Landess Lasater of Evanston, social chairman. lirs. Robert Eider is chairtnan of the library couimlittee. Chaudier's TouatimSquare, vanlgton on the Evanston campus. Guests wilI bring -bookcs and subscriptions ýas gifts to the libraris Mns. 1. A. Smothers of. Evanston, president of the Associate. Alunma, bhas announced the first of these teas for Pebruary 1Io, fron 4 té 6 o'clock, at Rogers Hoiuse. Invitations are being isuet11alaumnae on te rh, shore and the nortb side, and-their busbands; to the trustees amd Northwestern Uni- versiy associtefs and their wives, and at h facty o. the college of liberal ats aýànd terwaves. Siniilar functions for alunmae living in other parts of the Chicago ares are also beiug planned. Som tiniei February south side alunae willa- tend a book tea planned byMr. oh T. Bycraft, Jr., of 4516 JEllis avenue, sand -Mrs. .Howard X 8twaga 81 Clyde 'avenue, Chicago. You May have:seen-.Mr. Wiggm's poenas in- The'Nation,, Harper's, At- lantic Monthly, 1arriet, Monroei Poetry-Maga.ine,lharper'sBsar and College, Verse, an international college poetry mgazline. ln the 1Yeb- usyissue of. the Atlantic Monthly 'M.Wiggam's 4"Hiatus", is printed, and bis poen, -"As. Falling ]Frost," wbich appeared ini the Jsnujary num- ber of.College Verse was selected as, the best P'oem. in that' issue by Stephen 'Vicent Benêt, a.nd -wasà awarded first Pr-ize. A. week or so t after that the samte poem was re-, prmnted in the Literary Digest'. Mr. Wiggam bas wfiihlis - firit novel, which bas been highly P commended by several of bis profes-m sors at Northwestern. It is a. study si of adolescent people, and a story of 0 undergraduate college life. The novel a is also a - psychological study and P bigbly introspective. Mr. Wiggam is majoring in English literature atS Northwestern. s s Spo'nsoring Symposium l br on- Children's Readinci ,F a t ruly is band reader 15 iuoeiy t10 edCilaPPOinted by the-Aastest production- of the author of Thse Gî an ud Sea HWall. Nigel and Bruce Redvers, studying at a monastery, started of( one night for their guardian's estate sixty - miles awaY. Next day they fel in. with a band of :rebellious Peasants, and before long they were marching with. the rebels toward Canterbury. From. Canterbury the, mob, burnin and pillaging as they went, marcbed upon London, and. in, London the great peasant leader Wat I'yler met the, fourteen'year-old King -Richard In the scuffle. which follo.wed, Tyler wvas killed'and Nigel saved -the.kings life. Both boys were invited to the palace and befriended by Richard, Mrho sent them upon an exciting mis- siOn, whicf grew~ moe excttng when hey discovered there was a plot Lgainst their lives. A great deal hap- pçned before they managed to get. afely back te the palace. Mr. Strong has told this galloping story with great gusto and charm. Without being slowed up, by quaint lnguage or diall descriptions, it yet brings to, life a fascinating period in English history and introduces cele- rated historical figures. ne ulmus uoesj' M#lrder Case and iit lie reveals at last the facts of ie mnost famjous murder in history, istorians will be sbocked at his revela- Dns, it la reported, and it is interest- 9 to learn that the authority he bases s, story on is none ptber than Manny ribo, who was the star reporter on e first tabloid inz bzstory, the Evening ber, and whosep apers Mir. Irwin tes have recently bee mecavated at, erculaneunL. Club Woman's bureau. The fi rst pro- gram was held last Saturclay and the ,others will follow en tbe 'ninth, sixt-eenth, and twenty-tbird at 10:30 o'clock. The programs for the chli- dren by Lihrary Club children and library story tellers will be given at the same time in the Children's thea- tre, Mandel Brothers. The topic for this Saturday's mieet- kg is k adno %ef* ' - - EdtLaard Corsi, the son of an Ital- ian .lbearal who gave his lufe to the cause of freedom in Italy, came to Ainerica wlth bis mother at the age of 10. He tells in a new book, In the' S/wjdow of Liberty, what hardships they endured in *an East side tenle- ment; bow bis mother, unable to bear the lonelineess, returnied to Italy; bow be earued bis living as lamp- lighter, messenger boy. etc.: how he' "Irç1se t a.schouÎcuo. I that I deserve a heàring, that V .Cal verton's Thse apitkuo deserves a bearingi that .tie Godd: i i41, ý1s the February deeresa bhm g" rehu Bo lb end up r. 0227 selection. 1, you win fmd, 'Illir IP,

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