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Evaaatoa, Its Laad aad Its People . VW. CnJaCb Rfflint Privately p r i n t e d by Fort Dearborn Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- tion ..................... $2.00 Seraeaat Eadie z..o..NNaotl People who know ··steamer" frOID his contributions to the Tribune's Line ·o' Type will appreciate this new book of his aboat th~ war. · O.Heday. Dona ······· Sz.oo Robert Louis Stevenson -by --stiU another view of himaad a charmingly-written one G. It C,_,on O..W. llacl 8 Co········ lz.oo Coaqaiatador An American Fantasia by Philip Guedalla, in which he turns his deft, inquisitive mind to contemporary America. Ha~pt~ 8 Brotbtn ··..····· l].oo Recollections. Grave and Gay Gecw,t H«ton !lr. Horton was United States consul in Athens, Saloniki, Smyrna, and Budapest, from 1893 to 1924. In this entertaining book he draws on a IJ'eat store of experiences pmered during a remarkably full and rich Hfe. Bobbs. Merrill ·····.···· l4.oo A Passionate Rebel p , . 1VJftllf This story answers the question "How long C'.an a wilful woman resist love when she fears it will break her spirit?" Doabltclay, Dona 8 Co··· lz.oo Mn. Craddock This great novel (first written thirty years ago) has been rewritten for this new edition, and supplied with a preface by Mr. Maugham. DeabJedv, Dona 8 Co. ·· 12.50 "'· ........ ,.._,_, JacltSOO .._. had one of the most · careers of any president. He had a raged illiter- IlL--------------...----------~--ate boyhood. a headstrong youth, 1HE 1110USMtD AND A VIGOROUS NOVEL and a more than stormy adult SECOJU) career. His birthday of the fil·A PRESIDENT IS BOitJI" teenth of March recalls his tepa-DISRAELJ· pestaoQs life. As a child be suffered from the Revolutionary war, losing mother and brothers, as a youth he went to the frontier of ··A President is Born" has been Tennessee as public prosecutor. He became a national military hero hailed as the best of Fanny Hurst's At first Ancke :Maurols In his handwhen he defended New Orleans novels. "Latest" in many critics' minds ling of the pict~resque character of against the British in 1814. When is a synonym for "best." Therefore "Disraeli" gives promise of being too he entered national politics his po- one walb warily. But at least one ftimsy, too superficiaL His characlitical campaigns were fully as can say it is a return to the best type terization of the boy · Disraeti gains bloody as his military battles. His of Fanny Hurst's novels. . It stands from you little symJathy and little election to the presidency was a with ..Lummox" the further post to understanding. You view him as peosensational victory, and was the help support the sagging intervening ple of his day did-as a fop, a poseur,. expanse of "Appassionata" and "Ma~ an impostor. You feel very tittle flesh triumph of new ideas over the old. The library has the following nequin" between. We are glad that and blood beneath this mechanical exterior. Miss Hurst has made this return. books on his life : But as the book goes on the author Bassett-Life of Andrew Jackson. In her projection of her storY into Bowers-Party Battles of the Jack- the future even while it transpires in takes new bold of his subject, Disraeli ·son Period. the past, Miss Hurst has done some- the real man-the cynic, the incurable Johnson-Andrew Jackson. thing quite daring. To be exact, her romantic, the man of affectionate Ogg-Rise of Andrew Jackson. main character, David, is born in 1~ nature and iron ambition, the mao of MacDonald-Jacksonian Democraand we only follow his career to the lightning tactics who could wait pacy. point where he is going off to college, tiently as the sphynx, the litterateur but we are given to understand, prin- and the brilliant man of action-begins cipally through the medium of foot- to emerge. notes, supposed to be quoted from the The book is distinctly the story of NATURE BOOKS diary of his elder sister, Dele, that Mr. Disraeli, whose life as it was his William Beebe-Log of the Sun. Edge of the Jungle. Jungle Peace. David becomes President of the United boast to say was more colorful than Any of these are good, the last should States. This is an original manner of any of the thousand and one nights,. giving validity to one's story and with the picture of his times glimpsed be read first. though personally the tone of dignified only as a background for him, as por]. Henri Fabre-Tbe Mason-Bees. smugness in which the footnotes were trait painters used to put a pastoral As thriUing, as satisfying as "The composed seemed entirely ·out of char- scene or a distant city behind the head Sheik." acter both with Bek and private diaries and shoulders of their subjects. in general. yet you could not but T·ftl There is the story of the early huCarl E. Akely-In Brightest Africa. recognize the device as being an origi- miliating years of . Distaeli, when his · Colonel Paterson-Man-eaters of nal one, filled with possibilities. schoolmates bated him as a ] ew, and Tsavo. Miss Hurst's charaderizaton is ex- when the timidity which was going to Carveth WeUs-Six Years in the cellent, particularly of the boy Dave, have a large part in his life took Malay Jungle. Any or all of these his si~ter Bek and brother Henrv. root. Then there is the amusing account · These characters and their homeiy of his false entrances into the world, ··release the mind from the petty." background of the Middle Western and finally as he becomes master of fanning community stand out with ex- himself there is the story of his dramatraordinary vigor and life. Miss Hurst tic rise to the ..top of the greasy pole." continues in her love for detail, salty, By the end of the book we have a full homely, tasty detail, words which have picture of Mr. Disraeli, Mr. M~urois a flavor on the tongue. The book is has justified his method as being not ~olid : when you finish it you know you too slight to accomplish _ his purpose, have been de"ling with realities not the full length portrait of a man. following a mir:age. JUST PARAGRAPHS Isn't it nice the way these authors BIOGRAPHY POPULAR do amuse each other? Lowell Thomas The entire field of biography is reports that trips between lecture enpopular in the Wilmette Public li- gagements have been made bearable brary. Representative books are: by Ian Hay's ·'The Poor Gentlemen," Ludwig-Genius and Character. while Count Van Luckner says that Aksakov-Chronicles of a ·Russian Pullman cars become pleasant during Family. the perusal of Mr. Thomas' "European Anderson-Story of My Life Skyways." Now if there were only Arliss-Up from Bloomsbury: someone to remark that he didn't Beer-Stephen Crane. notice the quality of the dining car food for reading Lackner's "The Sea eyes Devil." <;omm~~der Richard E. Byr~ has THE VOICE OF THE wryt_t~n _Skyward," the story of his · SEVEN SPARROWS av1at1on bfe, to be published on March It is said to be more than the 30th. B~ H. Keel. story of one man's experience, thrillWhen eyes become blood shot "Daughter of a well-known pubing as it may have been, it is the from wind. dust, over-use, crying lisher missing." A timely and story of man's swift mastery of the up-to-date m y s t e r y in which ·o r lack of sleep, apply a few drops air in these few important years. newspaper reporters and a weird ByrcJ began his adventures at an ~f harml~ Murine. Soon they Chinaman become involved early age, going around the world · will be clear again and will feel E. P. D1dtaa A C... N.Y., SZM alone when he was twelve years old .. Clear up bloodshot quickly and safely St·p·· refreshed and vigoroUL Dut A Romance of Hawaii, in which a Dian titerall:r laYes an ialand frca beialr blown away b.7 the mighty trade winds of ·e Pacific. Ana~~.. . . TIID,.Ai Many pmons . . 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