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mysteriois-a ~NTAL 1B RAR y Books you r. bound to read wai thie n .nxt six monflhsI only 3'CDaiIy 0f1 ime end the River Road of Ages by Robert Nathan by Lloyd C. Douglas Primrose Pafh by Ogden Nash Rentai Library St ret Floor SALE OF~~ BOOKS>ý A Group Of GARDEN BOOKS $1.75 va.lue $1 Webbe of Hubbard Woodis onfers a sketch ini the manner of Gertrude Steinwbicbh she caîs "A !Portrait of GOTE. St." Mrs. 'Kennetb (.Rowena Bastin) Bennett of Ravinia, poetrY editor of the junior Home Magazine bas con- tributed. a dramatic poem, entitlecl ",Lost, Miracle." There are also. two. poems by Mrs. Edith Lovejoy Pierce of Highland Park, "TIhe Unborn," and .'Thou Shalt Go 'Sbod- In My rooo. eû P"m GroUPofFuPem A story by Miss Leslie G. Cameron is called "Hanids" and ",Some Wo- men,"? is the titie of a group of four poems, by Mrs. Eugene H. (Louise Ayers) Garnett. "Mr. Chips Dozes" by Mrs. Kenneth 1-brani, off ers a criticat analysis of the companion- 'shiji which mature zmen cao find in miodern fiction. All of these women live in Evanston. Mrs. Shelton Sackett, Eivanston, who writes under the name of Shel- ton Sac kett. has ini "Folio" a part, of ber collection of Americana written around a fictitious town called Sbelby, which might be any town in Kansas on the borderland between nortb and south. The sketch is called "The Conductors." uïalect uy wiis. Awigni L j-'ijcy vtci Perkins, and "Whisper," a poem by ,Mrs. Sally Kaye. on Art and Theàter Miss Josephine Blackstock of Oak Park bas a story in the magazine, called "New ýYear," wbich concerns, sopbisticated social life and decadentý art patronizers. This is a time of exibits of al. kinds of arts and crafts by various In, the April issue Mrs. isartiett.nas several interesting and ainu sing gamnes,. "A Menagerie," a balance trick, an eye test, etc. She is the compiler of "The Busy Book." Novel.is Laid in Spain The scene of the new novel by EIiza-ý betb Sprigge, author of The OId Mau Dies# is laid in Spain. It is called Castie in Andaluriao and it tells how an Englisb girl, living on an ancient Spanisb estate, wins the. friendsbip of the, peasants and relies on their,,loyalty.wben the revolui- tion cornes. Miss Sprigge writes ber publisher that sbe "bas always bated novelists, and es- pecially female ones, wbo go and sit down in foreign parts and write about things of wbicb tbey know notbing," but wlien she found berself in a pension in Andalusia, fwenty-fivé miles <rom anywbere, and surrounded by oranges, olives, and bougainvillaea, the country and the people got hold of her: she stayed four montbs, studying the people, about ber, and'the result is that the peasants in ber novel are drawn f romn life. a Garden ýcling, New Yi horticul tur-1 UVes.4ioes, inine Iie aVdICt1. jUiUie wdy. every. step of the planning, how he put in bis seeds, cultivated bis borders. and reaped bis reward. Here are full prac- tical instructions for. a simple garden of annuals and perennials. a smallrock Lyarden, and a greenhous e. bridge of Winnetka is the author of an hîstorical sketch in "Folio" which is especially interesting locally, called "From Fem-SemnTo Co-Ed." Eighty vears ago Williamtn ones, then 24 Affong the characters of the story are: Wu Tu, the Eturasian rnacam of a Bomn- bay "bouse of pleasure" and member of. an internationial underworld gang; Za- mani Ali, an Afghan adventurer; T1aron *Ling,- a practitioner of Oriental magic; Brigadier-General Frensham, a reputed crank,' who, vanishes without a trace; Henrietta, bhis char Ming datighter'4 and Blair Warrender, a police officer whose. task it is to find Frenshami. As War- render sets out on bis quest, the principal scene becomies the ruined keep. of Gag- lajong i n Rajputa, in whose sgubterran- ean caverns is locked a mystery of mnys- teries. Wby, how, and wbither did the Briga- dier-General vanish-this is the question which keeps. the reader in a constant state of suspense. Here is intrigue, Mur- der and couiterplotting as the action niounts to a tremendous climax. Princess der Linge SON OF HIEAVEN. By Princess Der, Ling. _1l1,utrated.. In Son of Iieaven, published by Ap- pleton-Centtiry, a Chinese writer, of in- disputable authority, accomplishes sorn-e- tbing that no Westerner could do. The autbor of this volume on an important period in the strange "Forbidden.City"ý is Princess Der Ling, daughter of one of China's forernost statesmen. the laie Lord Yu Keng, and for a time first lady- in-.waiting to the great Empress Dow- ager, Tzu Hsi. Because of ber father's position as Anm- bassador to western countries, the. Prin- cess bas had an international education; f urtber, ber knowledge of C 'hinese bis- tory and court lif.eis as intimfate.as it is extensive. In Soit of Hcave»1 she relates forý.the first.timne the story of the colorf-ul, dra- matic,ý and tragic career of that ill-fated Chinese Emperor,.Kwang Hsu. Born un- der evil omens, early 'a helpless tool in the hands of thé relentlessly ambitious Empress Dowager, and forced into early marriage witb a womnan he hated. the I4~P Ikett, Miss Elean IýOOI Taliaferro Milton, BMw.,~~L UBSO eMar Warrick. assisted Mrs. bhow to keeP it; imag: Sac- develop it; temperamt .lrs. tiol it; the truth anc Mrm analysis; the art and living as a fine art.' 11; neCaltfl and onl, and how to ,nd how to con- ity 'of psycbo- 'sopby of love; I I I l O M- uv tv la