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& I Esther Gould‘s f Book Corner will like this, though I fear in a lessâ€" case the narrowness of their éstape and their sufferings are all that can be desired. But in the endâ€"though that would be giving it away and you So Major Wren having placed hisl two characters in this position has a chance to have them beaten, lickedf about, starved, deserted, and all Mtr cut in little pieces, from which there would have been no return. In -nyh Otis Vangrugh joins the French Foreign Legion and deliberately has himself sent to the Penal Battalion‘ in search of John Geste, the husband of Isobel whom he loves, John Geste, j in his turn, has gotten into this decidâ€" edly uncomfortable battalion through . his â€" insistence on â€" travellinig from home and safety back to the desert in | search of the two buddies who had rescued him. and whom in ill health| he himself he had been forced toJ "abandon." 1 Mr. Beer evidently thought it rathâ€" er a coup to have, instead of the usual country boy dreaming of an escape to the city, a city boy dreaming of escape to the dbuntry. Though Lamâ€" on Coe is only a city boy temporâ€" arily, only until he can get back to his native and beloved farm from which his irate papa has thrown him because of a compromising affair with a widow. So New York is dust and ashes in Laman‘s mouth and he sprinkles "ain‘ts" and "@"s generously about waiting for papa to die off and leave him the farm which is the "Heaven‘" that New York is the road to. In the city, "Lamon‘s experiences are not uplifting." He picks up a misâ€" tress whom papa would néver have approval of and lives with a literary cousin who is unreal as belonging to Lamon‘s family tree. But he is neeâ€" it seemed, more to hope for than he‘ has given. In fact,this book is one | of those which leaves you Wundering' why after all it was written. Its} style, its content, its purpoge, noney of them seem adequate to excuse the‘ writing of a book. It is simply one of those before which the author has / said, "It is time to have a book," and ; rolling up his sleeves has fallen to. | essary to bring in the literary backâ€"| ground that Mr. Beer knows and might as well use. Well, to make a longâ€"too longâ€"book short, on one! grand night the mistress burns to . death, a former lover of her‘s, cuts} his throat and the cousin dies, and next day Lamon marries a girl from ; home and goes back to be taken in | by papa. Oddly enough the home-; sickness of the boy is touching, it is ; the only touching part of the book.} Is that because homesickness a more | or less universa) experience strikes a response even when poorly done? [ Thomas Beer is decidedly disapâ€" pointing in "The Road to Heaven." After his suave and brilliant performâ€"| ance in "The Mauve Decade" we had”i If you like your hot weather straightâ€"straighter that is than Chiâ€" cago has been able to furnish lately â€"you may be interested in going once more into the African desert with Major â€" Percival Christopher Wren in the third and avowedly last of what are now called "the Geste books." If this is the last we can only say that Major Wren was a bit incontinent in killing off two of his three heroes in the first one, otherâ€" wise they might have gone on forâ€" ever like "the Rovers." But things being as they are and John Geste beâ€" ing the only one alive and he happily married it looks as if Major Wren might have to keep to his decision. "Beau Ideal" is full of those gesâ€" tures of high and rather excessive sactifice which the populace, being quite unwilling to do itself, so loves to have its fictional heroes do for it. Louis Bromfield is slated for a noâ€" vel to come out on September 13, "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg." We hope for Mr. Bromfield‘s sake as well as our own that it will come up to the advance publicity that it will undoubtedly call forth. Other authors on Stokes‘ list for the next month are Louis Jordon Miln and Hugh Loftâ€" ing. It may not be recent news but it is nevertheless authentic that Samuel Pepys once wrote a very entertaining book. And, in the midst of what Fanâ€" ny Butcher bewails as a particularly arid season, it is a pleasure to go to Mr. Pepys once more and learn that he and his wife took dinner with his cousin Tom where everything was very excellent "except the venison pie being manifestly beef, which wasn‘t handsome." Which may perâ€" haps go to show that it isn‘t the what to say but the how to say it that in the moderns is so often lacking. By Percival Christopher Wren Frederick A. Stokes SUFFERINGS DELUXE "THE ROAD TO HEAVEN" NOT THAT TO US JUST PARAGRAPHS By Thomas Beer Alfred A. Knopf "BEAU IDEAL" , if you ; Result of World‘s Fair _ Field Museum, then Field Columâ€" bian Museum, was born largely as a , result of the World‘s fair, the nucleus , of its exhibits being material from "thv exposition, and Mr. Simms came j to its staff at the very beginning, as ‘assistant curator of industrial arts. , Later he became assistant curator of | ethnology. He was sent by the muâ€" | seum on many expeditions, notably | several to the Philippine Islands and among the American Indians of the | west. While on the R. F. Cummings | expedition to the Philippines in 1909, { Mr. Simms recovered the body of Dr. | William Jones, leader of the party, | who was murdered by native headâ€" / hunters on the upper Cagayan River, ) Island of Luzon. Mr. Simms also | rescued Dr. Jones‘ collections and recâ€" Mr. Simms, the new director, has been a member of the scientific staff of the museum since it was founded by the late Marshall Field in 1893. He was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia. After completing his education, he became a newspaper man, and from 1884 to 1890 worked in various positions from reporter to assistant managing editor on Washâ€" ington, D. C. papers, and as Washingâ€" ton correspondent for papers in other cities. He always had a strong interâ€" est, however, in the natural sciences, and in 1890 gave up journalism to pursue his career in this field. In 1891 he became connected with the organization preparing for the Chiâ€" cago World‘s Columbian Exposition of 1893, as assistant secretary and charge d‘affaires in its department of foreign affairs, and continued ®n that positkn until the end of the exposiâ€" tion. At the same meeting of the board, a resolution was adopted honoring the memory of Mr. Davies, and expressing the trustees‘ grief at his death. STEPHEN C. SIMMS DIRECTOR OF MUSEOM Stephen C. Simms has been elected director of Field Museum of Natural history by the institution‘s board of trustees, to succeed the late David C. Davies, who died July 14, it was anâ€" nounced by Stanley Field, president of the museum. HEADS FIEL D INSTITUTE Succeeds Late David C. Davies Has Been Member of Sciâ€" 5, 10 and 15 year plans, straight or with preâ€"payment privileges Our loans are purchased by entific Staff Many Years; Some History Telephone nw.w-&‘:‘:m OL’R references are clients for whom we have erected buildings. For those who will give us an opportunity to figure on any contemplated building, we will be pleased to make up sketches and financial setupsâ€"without cost. We have erected buildings of all kinds and types and are therefore in a position to show you the actually comâ€" pleted buildings, making it unnecessary for you to vis~ ualize from blue prints only. ROSENTHAL, MAYER & LEWIS, No cost for expert advice on "How to Improve Vacant Property" Builders of Hotels, Kitchenettes, Apartments, Industrial Buildings Insurance, Building Management Real Estate Investment, Renting Incorporated Becoming a father after old age has been reached gives a man the opporâ€" tunity to feel himself a father, a grandfather and a child again, all in one. thinks the writer. "He feels a triple happiness that only a few young fathers know," he centinues. "Young fathers frequentâ€" ly are busy or vain." "No loving mother with a house to keep, and no beloved father with a career to carve out," he says, "has had or would have time to sit by a baby‘s cradle and watch the developâ€" ment of Man as I have watched the development of Pete." "Pete" is Mr. Steffens‘ son. Youth and a better understanding of | mankind is possible through study of [ a boy infant by a father who has‘ reached three score years, says the writer. I Becoming a father after 60 constiâ€" tutes a liberal education and an opporâ€" tunity for appreciation of an offspring such as is impossible for the younger husband of today, in the opinion of Lincoln Steffens, writing in The American Magazine. schoal extension department of Field Museum, founded by the late Noyman Wait Harris. He originated and orâ€" ganized the system whereby the muâ€" seum is now circulating each year in Chicago‘s schools more than 1,000 traveling museum cases containing botanical, geological, zoological, anâ€" thropological and ecenomic exhibits. At various times Mr. Simms has had leave of absence to act as an official of expositions, among them the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 the Panamaâ€" Pacific International Exposition of 1915, and the Philadelphia Sesquicenâ€" tennial Exposition of 1926, at the last of which he was viceâ€"president and sceretary of the international jury of awards. Early this year he was apâ€" pointed acting director of Field Muâ€" seum, when Mr. Davies‘ illness beâ€" came serious. notable collections of Filipine artiâ€" facts in the world. ords, and on a subsequent expedition Cleveland P. Grant, one of the muâ€" seum‘s staff lecturers, has been apâ€" pointed acting curator of the N. W. Harris public school extension departâ€" ment, formerly in charge of Director Simms. BECOMES FATHER AT 60 AND LIKES JOB for Lincoln Steffens Tells How It| Feels to Have a Growing _ | Child Late in Life | In 1912 Mr. Simms was appointed THE HIGHLAND PARK PRRSS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS museum (Factory Branch) ~\2420â€"22 South Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO. Telephone Michigan 2400 James G. Barber Service Station, 1508 Eimwood Avenue, Evanston There was never a car so radiant with toj. â€"so colorful in appearance and performance as this coupe by Pierceâ€"Arrow. Its reduced priceâ€"a sheer saving of $500 â€"was never contemplated in the building. 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