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We'v aBook for E ver y Mood in Our RENTAL LIBRARY. OnIy 3c à Day Persondal His$ory The. Doctorls Son $y John 0'.Harad joshua Todd àý Futn Oursiér M.mory of Love &y Dassis Erouer Casf Down the Laurel by Arnold Giugrkh And f4» .are Lui a f.w rom'our c@mpr.hensive modiern collection. WIED@OLDT9S Rentai Libraeg-Street Floor IT K1E E poetess whose biography, IElinor Wylie -The Portrait of an Uiknowit Lady, is just published. Lewis was a college f rjend of Elinor Wylie's brother, Nancy Hoyt reports. ,While he was, writjng. Main, Street he. l1ived in Washington, Elinor,,Wylie's' homeé, alnd the two would. argue for. hours abouit writing. "4Red'. Lewis had - great, sense of burnor, e ven a slightly savage one,",Nancy* Hoyt says. He tried, to persuade Elinor Wylie to write, prose., I't was partly through bis influence that she ial did so. .Nancy Hoyt's life. of ber sister is rich in - intimate anecdotal material. Another incident reportéd' is the writ- Jng of Elinor Wylie's own Profile 'for, the New Yorker, signed with. her ini- tials under, the titie, Portrait in Bla.ck Pain t with a J'ery Sparing. use of :Whitezcü.h.' It was rated as one of the best and most brilliant of pen portraits ithe Profile series, and was attributed to several authors, including Edmund Wi4,en. - Only when a réader po- tested against the impudence of the au- thor did Elinor Wylie admit author- ship. Sities R.prinfed Benjamin Appel, author of Brain Guy, and of a new novel called Pour Roads to Deatk; will have two of his stories reprinted in anthologies this year--one in Edward J. O.'Brien's Best Short Stories of 1935 and the other ini Selected. Short Stories of roday. éditéd by Dorothy Scar-1 borough. Ris Pour Roads Jo Deqth will be publisbed in May. In Easter Edition Courage for Today-, by Dr. Preston1 Bradley, popular pastor of the People's chiircb of Chicago, bas been issued, ina special Easter édition witb an appropri- at e jacket. I PEWRTFfRS Repaired I Rented j by Mary A. y Margaret Culkîin Bainig, aufthor - of "T/e Pirst Woman,"' a story of wlornailin Polt fics, was pjmblislied -on Moarc 6 by Harper qnd Broth- ers. Author Is '1Firsl Citizen" of. Duluth Margaret Cuikin Banning, whose new novel, The Pirst Woman,. bas just been publisbed, has been selected as the.- eleventh member of tbe Duluth Hall of Fame. Mrs. Bannîng is the first, wnnian tn rrcevsthe distictinp Lncp ute to this year'.s "irst citizen" of Du- luth. Mrs. Banning was chosen as the outstanding citizen of tbe past year for, her leadership in the annual Commu- fity fund campaign last faîl, for her general participation in civic and wel- fare activities, for ber work a§ chair- man of the public library board, and for: ber various other activitiès for the wel- fare of the community. O'Id New York Contetnporary reports of two such periods are quoted by Miss Nourse. Duripg the Han dynasty, about 140. B. C., a historian wrote.as follows about the, lavish abundance which then, ex-. isted in the land.-: "The. empire was thnat peace. The public 'granaries. were stocked, tegvriettesr ies were f ull.. In the capital strings Of cash were' piled in: myriads unitil, the, very.- strings rotted until -their' taxes could no longer be told. The grain in the imperial sto rehouse grew moldy year by ýyear.- It, burst f rom- crammr 1ed g rana ries. The streets were thronged with horses belonging to the people. Village eiders ate meat and diank wine..! Though Americans' generally ýmigh flot envy the sons of Han during the days of prosperity as revealed above, there can be no character of the genu- ine character of a- depression reported in China about 1600. A. D. A bistorian of the period makes the following. re- port': "The people ate grass and when the grasses were gone they ate bark.ý Among the trees they consideired the bark of the Yu the best. Wben the bark was gone they ate rock f rom the motintains which was known as ý'green, leaves.' 0f this it was said that it smnelled like fish and had a rather deli- cate taste. One ate a littie and f et satisfied, but in a few days the. stomach peror of China, traveling by barge on the canais, required a fleet of. barges One hundred miles long to transport bis whole harem,*and retinue, according to Mrs. Nourse. Besi' Prinfed. Books of '34 Shown ai' Newberry, The annual exhibit of the fifty best printed books of the year (1934) and of outstanding examples of commer- Read.the W.ant Ads-Fufi 'Evanfon the pli 11arch )ran Angeli, whose work- in peace has recently won him a ize, lias a new book, Peace and Man, which was published on Ndew Play Out J. B. Priestley has a. new play, Duet in Moonlighs, which is being tried out in the provinces, and a second play, Cor#clius, is going iwto rehearsal at the Duchess theater in Lon don, with Ralph Richardson in the principal role. The play is being, produced by Basil Dean.