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16 1 t4 4) *4 9B & Harty Kemp is a poét, But we see him rather as an attractive foolish, proud and vain young vagabord who can tell an interesting yarn. . His soul of a poet he keeps to hinmself. So in jits genuineness "More Miles" is nfr‘tlhing; it seems to recdrd an era which has passed away. The genui of the tale extends o',the author, ‘too, he is able to tell the truth about himself as few can. He doesn‘t rationalize in writing as he confesses he often did in life. He tells us how things said fron} jealâ€" ousy, haps, he pretended to himâ€" self lx others at the time] were} from viction. . Many of his reâ€" marks (sound like ourselves &t our’ worst mhoments of self ar A B E L L A RTI O N ael Sabatini ""The Modern Dumas‘ outdoes his master, whale of a good ry. Amon e best, if not the (\best, of lll‘ &I’itl that Sabatini| has ever n."â€"Chicago Post. g "A perfect Sabatini.?â€" & | Boston '!‘rnu{ript. By Ada & Julian Street A surging novel of Chicago i days of the World‘s Fair. Doubleday, Page & Co. H.rg‘ Kemp, author of Amping on Lifg" has written what, m be termed|a sequel gince it is a further story his life. It is ‘a story of the y after he went‘to New York and l;%nt of mileage eo?m tled down." _ His tramps wetre now from the rooms of "The Dim{nutive Club," gelect club of Radicals, over a famous saloon which faced W = ton Arth, to the apartments |of his Bohemian and Radical frien¢1a and back to: his room somewhere in Boâ€" hemia. (Those were the real days of "The Village" when you got " it straight ‘undiluted by tourists and sweet fitfl’ home girls from| Kanâ€" sas. Thesé people lived as Bohemiâ€" ans bedause they were Boheimians, and mm because it was the thing to| By Herbert and Edward * | Quick Here |is the story of a great splashing splendid epoch in the buildingLof America. Destir1ed to become ia classic. Hy lllnstnted_. $3.00 Henry Holt & Co. s are reasons for in tiga after all, Louise J iln writes;; "At the moment we are hayâ€" ing nothing here but the coal strike weeks} counting tips and blibu H am paying $30 a ton for coal or rather coal â€"dust and havi’c ‘ the mtefi’dmculty in getting it.": That, when re is no possibility of our miniethen is the kind of foreign news like. 29 hfl‘i;:mfidd seems to take it as an t that devoted crities are pinning to him the banner of being "like Galsworthy." < He says rather plsln:;ely. "Especially as I‘ve never read whole Forsyte Saga and only one other book of Galsworthy‘s." 410 No. Michigan Ave. ZOY Plymouth Court (|â€" (Cmcaco â€" Write of our AUTU CATALOGâ€"just off pregs. xi PAGE TWELVE :'.'.‘itM MISSISSIPPI | STEAMEBOATIN®‘ First Editions . and Rare Books ,, WALDEN BOOK SHOPS BOHEMIA AT LAST! JUST PARAGRAPHS TID E $ By Harry Kemp Boni & Liveright "MORE MILES" Houghton: Miffiin Co. B2.00 the mt All ‘except short detour at g:bkfle an unfinished stretch south of Mo which is under conâ€" tract. j a No. 3â€"M to . $79.9 If the fall had been mormal as to rain and temperature, the better part of these 300 miles of roads would have been completed and then work on the $100,000,000 ?nd issue roads could have beo? begun. . A survey of present state highway conditions, made by the highway department of the Chicago Motor club, shows that it is now poasibi& reach almost every important place in the state over perâ€" manently paved «roads. There are still short ished gaps on. many ‘roads, spots held opem for railroad grade separations, because of unsetâ€" tled rights of way, fills that must be allowed to settle and other obstacles, but these are ghort stretches and are kept in ible condition for trayâ€" _el by the In the survey made by the Ch o Motor club, which follows, these short unfinished spots have not been considered. Illinois Paved Roads ; No. 1â€"Chicago to Metropolis, 393.9 miles. Paved gntire distance with the following exgeptions: ‘ bridge ‘runâ€" around at Milford, short detour out of ~ Lawrenceyville, â€" short unpand! stretch into Harrrisburg, detour south of er Mills, detour from Vienna to Métropolis, but road beâ€" tween these points is paved except for four etches which are under contract. & Illinois has egased work on its 1926 state highway ‘construction work or practically mi"l‘here still are some 300 miles of ng to complete, and owing to the den ‘appearance of winter, it is ikely that more work can be done. | To _ _ It is the story of Katharine Faraâ€" l day of ~Atlanta, Georgia, born as ~Miss Newman says "under the sign _of Virgo and in the earlier Beardsley period." Kathgrine Faraday grows up undet the cgreful tutelage of her family and so:&ty to ‘believe that a girl who is not married had better be. dead. She tries to act on this perâ€" sistent premise but finds in the end that she is an incurable virgin. f The chief pleasure or profit in readâ€" ing the book is in the attempt to figâ€" ure out sentenges like this: "Kathâ€" arine Faraday‘s mother. had lived most of her life before gardening succeeded charity as the social ladder with the smoothest rungs and before | the converutiongat' lunches became sol horticultural that she thought itl would probably have been unintelâ€" ligible to Peterg Henderson himself." And that is a mild one in every sense of the term! i . COMPLETED PAVING ON ILLINOIS ROADS WINTER SUSPENDS : WORK About Three Hundred Miles of Sixtyâ€"Millions Bond Issue System to. Be Built ; Roads Finished * Charles n has been for most |of us at a dim figure, a figure f by his.own great docâ€" | trine.. And tho I don‘t think it has ever to me consciously to picture him, I* was surprised by Gamaliel B ord‘s characterization of him in the first paragraph of his book, "Darwin," as "One of the simâ€" plest, purest, noblest, most candid, most lovable, most Christian souls |that ever lived." Somehow that deâ€" scription didn‘tâ€"fit with the warlike part Charles Darwin had to play, tbe‘ reverberations of whose conflict are still â€"echoing &: many parts of the world : even e%chuive of Texas and } Tennessee. ‘ is written, the manner in which things dise usually in medical books are bandied about as loudly and in about the same spirit as that in which baseb@ll is discussed. It is amazing in the second place for the involved satirigal cleverness of the style. ; . Frances N an has written an amazing book, ‘The Hardâ€"Boiléd Virâ€" gin." It is a zing first because of the “hard~boi1'¢$' manner in which it But Mr. Bradford goes on to conâ€" vince us of j those qualities. Darâ€" win was gentleé and lovable in all the contacts that made with people, more than generous in his troatmeg‘ of fellow scien ists, and humble to the point of what would ordinarily be af. fectation concerning himself. M#r. Bradford has made an interesting book, throwing light as it does on a great charactet, but it is mainly and very frankly agsimilative, it is not a great creative biography.> "THE HARDâ€"BOILED VIRGIN" HARDâ€"BOILED IS RIGHT ng h4p hn ] Dot oo By Gamaliel Bradford l{ouz ton Miffiin Co. A GENTLE MAN C coept Shore distence "DARWIN" Beloit to Cairo, No,. Harrisburg to Golcondo, 37.1 miles.| Paved to. Rudement, unâ€" der eo ion across corner of No, 383â€"â€"No. 1 near Robinson ‘to Effingham, 46.4 miles. Paved exâ€" cept three gaps at Crawford, Jasper c:nnw, ling, near Newton and east 0 es t 7 No. 82â€"â€"Cerro Gordo to Windsor, 35.8 miles. All paved except gap beâ€" tween e City and Lovington and another out of Sullivan, â€" to Quincy. No. 81<â€"Canton to .axncy, 110.4 miles.. Paved to Lewiston, paved to Summon. except gaps north and south of Duncans Mills and entering Sumâ€" mon} r at Astoria and two beâ€" twe’s; Astoria l:gd Rushville; paved No. 80â€" Paved hal struction : Y&. SH:1 > No. 29â€" All paved ty "ne, P No., 25 211.1 mile out of Ch and short No. 26 miles, : P; of Forres No. 27 miles, P No.: 24â€" Paved to tion (to i ty line, ; Harvard Pava’ to exceptl‘lnh constPucti under cof to Strea Nl:é 20 36 les, streteh v No, 22 line west and Jolie cept gshor west of C No. 224 No, )19 miles,! A Desplain turns #ou under miles, > A monauk ally und Yorkville tion. |!; north© paved, 11,2 ym N i Har Park | to 29), MG6 spot . at line ap)d land. | ‘f No. 16 to Staun! miles. ’; 4 eithet‘_qic No.‘ 17 No. U 113.6 mi gaps Wes line, hfl I entering river. No. 14 ie t ad remh No. 1 cennes, Puvm stretch Richmo Marion: two ‘bet one i*"No.) I Louis, i1 dale (in detoutrs burg;| . Vergen boro; to Spar short ‘st grading East fi NO.}; ton to. ilton, near P whiché‘r; balancé No 1 villé to ed en shall to Paved w Short s balance * No.-i to 3 d 1a spurs t four to Gale paved . lington. of Illit for p& No: | miles, . No . miles.. which from D No. â€" 180 mt paved lena an ley. [ Not st all .‘p;g Willow No. 18 going i tours i d couy for No. 4 No. ht #!, 21 of co entering La ville, <at â€"Clay county iine, at Clayâ€" county line, entéring Odin, een Carlyle and Breese and ( Lebanon and O‘Fallon. eeghawn«town to East St. 6.6 miles. Paved to Carbonâ€" rsection No. 2) except short ntering and leaving Harrisâ€" ved Carbondale nearly to except déetduar at Murphysâ€" der construction Vergennes Indiana line east of Hoopesâ€" ippi river west of Hamâ€" .2\ miles. Paved to No. 24 in, except last few miles, der construction; paved of . distance. *~Indiana line east of Danâ€" nville; 167.8 miles. Payâ€" istance. iana ‘lin¢ east of Marâ€" Eagt St. Louis, 160.8 miles. ith, short detour at Highland. ur to Baden partly paved, under construction. Indiana line, opposite Vinâ€" East St. Louis, 148.4 miles. ntine distance" except . short to | and small deâ€" E Virginia u_:i out of Ashâ€" hicago ~to. Fulton, 144.6 All paved. : ; f 4 pliet to Rock Island, 150,5 All| paved except in Geneseo, being paved. New No. 7 a to LaSalle on north side oinlriver is ~under contract g. Indiana line, near Sheldon, Burlington, 216.5 miles. Payâ€" Peoria to Yates City, with Farmington : and Elmwood; paved gaps from Yates City burg, all under construction ; m Galesburg to East Burâ€" n with No ion t« F. Peoria to pringfield ngamon. ved toâ€" P; ved to: Pana, > t â€" Kankakee to Fairfeld, .. All paved except detour mpaign ; detour at Tuscola unpaved gap east of Flora. â€" Prospect to Dixon, 38.8 les.| All paved except short at Gardner and Pontiac and ing‘ in Staunton. Aâ€"Lyons to Joliet, 27.9 miles. road but marked by state; mundet repair between Spri1 and Lemont. : â€"Chicago to East Dubuque, | All paved, but short unâ€" iches in Belvidere and Gaâ€" short detour at Cherry Valâ€" 11 payed except short gap e Mt. Olive. t Indiana line east of Grant Sparland (intersection No. miles. All paved except Livingston, LaSalle county between Lacon and Sparâ€" ‘- Lake Forest to Indiana of Dyer, via Elgin, Aurora, ved except short gap north and detour into Polo. â€"Polo to Savanna, 35.2 ved except short gap at of Galva. i Depue to Peoria, 53.3 miles â€"Peoria to Galta, 55.7 miles : way to Dunlap, under conâ€" o Princeville, paved to Galâ€" â€"Paris (intersection No. 1) on (intersection No. 4) 186.2 â€"Chicago to Harvard, 74.7 1 paved except gap west of s and another where No. 22 , 120 â€"miles. All paved exâ€" gap where it leaves No. 19 ary. k . â€" Barrington to Dundeé, + Gravel road. : â€"â€"Wisconsin line north of to .. Streator, 106.1 milés. No, 18 west of Somonauk rt gap out of Genoa:; under i; paved to Belleville except etch entering .New Athens: contracts let, Belleville to Louis. | â€"Carmi (intersection No. 1) vin, 69.0 miles, <Under conâ€" from Carmi to Enfield, pavâ€" nder of distance. â€"Mt. Carmel to Belleville, es. | All paved|except short t of Edwardsâ€"Wayne county Nayneâ€"Jefferson county line, Mt. Vernon and at Okaw â€"Waukegan to Woodstock, All paved except short est| of McHenry which is struction. f â€"Chicago to Wisconsin line Antioch, 55.1 miles. All HE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS â€"Chicago to Princeton, 121 1 paved except between Soâ€" ind | Mendota, which is finâ€" r construction, â€" Spur to closed for bridge construcâ€" hicago to East St. Louis, tor, 106.1 milés. rest of Somonauk t of Genoa; under o. 18 to Earlville, to Ottawa, paved Pana, 125. » un@er cor Christian 125.2 miles r construcâ€" coun Grand dad may have been a sodl buster, but not on the golf links. That big hole in the family budget' is where the turkey went through. A Pennsylvania man in a fit of deâ€" spondency committed suicide in a taxi the other evening. That‘s what comes of watching the taximeter. Premier Baldwin says that the vicâ€" tory of the Greeks at Marathon saved Europe for the fair skinned races. Just think! If the Persians had won there.wouldn‘t have been any blondes forâ€"gentlemen; to prefer. C No. 45â€"Garfield to Dana, 9.5 miles. All paved. a" +4 * No. 46â€"â€"Arlington ‘Heights to No. 1 at 95th street and Western avenue, 45.3 .miles. Paved except for gap south of No. 4 to Justice; detour is from LaGrange on No 18 and No. 4A. No. 43A â€"From No. 24 north ofji Athens to Petersburg, 7.3 miles. All paved. # * f No. 44 â€" Joliet to Kankakee,. 36 miles, All paved. : No. 43 â€" Mason City to Havana, 27.2 miles. Under construction, Mason City to Easton; paved to Havana. No. 42â€"Indiana line at Indianapoâ€" lis avenue to Wisconsin line north of Zion, 66.6 miles. All paved; deâ€" tour in Highland Park and at Cookâ€" Lake county line. No. 42Aâ€"Waukegan to Niles, 29.5 miles. ..Ail paved. No. 41â€"Galesburg to No. 9 south of: Prairie City, 28.3 miles. Paved except detour at Abingdon and gap entering St. Augustine. No. 40â€"Stockton ‘to Sterling, 55.7 miles. ~Two sections paved, two unâ€" der contract, to Mt. Carroll, paved to Brookville, detour Brookville thru Milledgeville: to new pavement north of Sterling. ; No.: 39 â€" Bloomington to Chamâ€" paign, 58.0 miles. Under construcâ€" tion with detour to Downs, paved to LeRoy except short gap, paved to Champaign except one long stretch southeast of LeRoy and a short gap near Mansfield. No. 36â€"Carthage to Jacksonville Quincy except two short gaps; tour between Kinderkook and Bnfl unpaved gap east of Barry and tour at Florence. t No. 37â€"Mt. Vernon to Marion, 41.3 miles. ‘Paved except 1â€"mile gap. _ No. 38â€"Kampsville to Jerseyville, 41.4 miles. Two sections paved and two under . construction between Kampsville and Hardin; under conâ€" struction, with detour to Fieldon, paved to Jerseyville. fe Pope county, paved to Golconda and on branch to Elizabethtown except for two gaps. 1 No. 35â€"â€"Mounds to Mound City, 1 mile under contract for paving. } Why Not Give a Good Pair of Shoe Phone 456 D t nc Wb s oed 0C P Ct0 Stteuch hikke AHALLWEBILET SUTYyIGS FOr women and for r most serviceable shoes for boys and girls to be found anywhere this Christmas. t o t 2 B4 _ What more sensible gift for anyone than a gobd'a the most upâ€"toâ€"date style? 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