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$3-wO A few fia-st editions of tiis important, book Im&y.stili be purchased ~~on B RAR Y' Are you tired of 110yls,gTe Slect à new bock from Our OnIy 3c, Daily A Woman's 8.0t Yeas by W. Beran Wolfe, M.D. The American Diplomatic Gae. Pearson & Drowne 07oy btai*CyVVSihLC Rentai Librazry Stretr Floor' . OLDT9SI NSTON wilI present to tfleir fmends and the general public, their newest venture -_a publication in magazine, form. Some. twenty -members *ill: have ivork th the:book which will contain. fiction, poetry and articles.. Somne of the ýcon- tributors, are established authors and others are to see, their writing pUb- liished for the first time. AjSuu moCntributobra Ampng the contributors will be Mrs. E:ugene, H. Garnett (Louise Ayres Garnett), poet, novelist 'and composer; Miss ,Leseie CaméronWho i s known, for her plays -and ,who hae* recèently.been presenting. plays on the radio; Mrs. John D. Hill, Mrs. S. ,P. Kaye (Sally Kaye), Mrs. - Samuel eSac- kett (Shelton Sackett), and Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins, ail of wbom are Evans-, tonians. Mrs. Perkins is well known for the series of twenty-six Twin stories which she has wrtten and lilusýtrated. There will be other contributors, inclluding .Mrs: Max Murdock (Elen Murdock), of Winnetka; Rowena Bastin Bennett of .Highland Park, who has published several volumes of poetry and is poetry editor of "Junior Horne"; Mrs. Roy 0. Walker and Mrs, E. G. irowbridge of WNin- netka. Mrs. Trowbridge's hiistorical sketch concerning the young ladits seminary which was onle of the foun- Lierg3ann orel tw near rroles3sor 'James Weber Linn' of the Un1iversity of. Chicago discuss and critize their inanuscripts. Following the meeting there is always a luncheon at which some.speaker of interest to writers is presented. At the April 2-meeting Mrs. Charlotte Chorpenning, 'director of the Goodman Children's thecater and author of iinerous plays for childreii, wilI be the speaker. Among, By the distinguished literary critic, Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, the Kenilworth author's book is. pro- ~nounced "the ideal book for children and a fine -book for anyone." Wrtingii in the New York Herald- Tribune. MayLamberton Becker says: "It will be..seien that this is .fnot meant for a nature. stucly; it' is meanit toehakce children laugh, and it has already pro- duc.ec, this effect oni a great many chîI- dreni in ..the magazine> 'Child Life.' The pictures are f unny, too; the yopung bero* looks like- a Gluyas Williams .cbild." The New York Times says: "These, absurd tales have aà quality' of extra.- vagant humor which appeals to chil- dren, and in spite of their. extrava- gances, they run 'fundamentally truc to a sinall boy's psychology.. Aduits. will recognize Bertram'es spepch a s characteristically boyish as.Penrod's. Evanston; Mrs. Anita \Viletts Burn- ham arist, au4:*eir of *lround the World oit. a Penny, Wtnnetka; Mrs. James Cady Ewell, artist, Ravinia; Mrs, Frederick Grant, author of Peter Cartwright, Evanston; Mrs. W. B. Hale, Winnetka; Mrs. Sumner Koch, Chicago; Mirs. Charles' Van Deursen of Wilmette; Mrs. George N. Lamb, Wilmette; Mrs. Stallwood MacCbesney, Chicago; Mrs. Joseplh B., Mason, Evanston; Mrs. Richard Pretz, Deerfield; Miss Betty Gillies of Winnetka; Miss Eleanor Perkins. Evanston; Mrs. Lloyd Paxon. and Mrs. Samuel -Harknhess, Winnetka;' Mrs. Francis P. Horan (Kenneth Horan, literary critic of the "Chicago Journal of Commerce" and author of two recent books, Evanston; Mrs. Paul H. Heieke, Mrs. W. J. Mathews, Mrs. Leslie M. Parker, Mrs. William. J. Pickard, Mrs. Z. L. Potte'r, author of children's poetry; Mrs. L. A. Wig- ley, all of Evanston;ý Miss Janet Mar- awke-ientioiry wrr vLwi:onary, com- piled by Dr. E. L. Thorndike of Teach- ers College, Columbia university. The Appleton-Century edition is thanib-in- dexed and will. be on. sale everywhere in the- bookstores., Scott-Foresman and Company are handling the edition for the educational field. Dr:. Thorndike is internationally. known as an authority on the psychology of the child's vocabul-- ary. Time Magazine writes the f ollows: ."Confront, a 12-year-Old scboolchild witb. this defintion, of. a candie: 'A cylinder of. combustible, substance in- closing a wick to furnish -ligbt.', No one' knows better than Prof essor, Edward Lee Thorndike that the schoolcbild will close bis dictionary in puzzlement, for- get he ever wanted to know about can- dles. No child w ill be puizzled by Dr. Tho6rndike's Idefinition of a candle:,'A s tick of tallow or wax with a wick in. it, burned to give light. Long ago, be- fore there was gas or electric lighit people burned candies to see y" Ha$ ~COPomIon Word$ Millions and millions of youngsters between around 9 years of age and 15 will welcome The Thoretdike-Centuirvý Jiinior Dictionary. Prom some 10,000, 000 words wbich he read over a period of 17 years, Prof essor Thorndike bas selected almost 25,000 of the most, comn- mon words. Some of these he bias bûiît, a round pictures, of whicli there are about 1,600. These pictures are used when the full meaning of a word cati' best be further made comprehensibie ini this nianner. In general, word nxean- ings -are made clear: (1), by simple definitions uising words commoner than the word defined; (2) by use of the word in sentences to clarify and drive home the definition.; (3)' by use, ofý illustrative sentences alone when the', word cannot be defined in ternis simpler than itseif. As will be seen at a glance, the typographyý of, the dictionary is big and readable ,and: %ill. fot 'strain the .child's eyes. About the Authorý The author, E. L. Thorndike, Pli. D. began bis long association with Teach- ers College, Columbia universitv, ini 1899. At the present time lie; is Pro- 0-rrington Rot Eeao Urne, pubhsneci iast year, was an Out- growth of Mr. James' work on his monumental if e of Andrew Jackson, the flrst volume of which was published under the title of Andrew Jacksot- The Border Caýptain. Fountain Square Ave. Evasston