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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Aug 1933, p. 28

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Corda LIBRARY Staion"r the BooksIrs u the Books Tom lRent 1724 OW'intoe Ave. Or*., 0227 Orringion Mooel sidg.. Evanaton "Traveling .WitIi the Birds" A "ok on the migration of birds. Beauifully illustrted in colorn. $1 (haudier,'s Founiain Square Evansfon have.1. live qu are pe( selves. ble adventures or wIlo sane lives. Always . they sucb as we know our- American raç~ have known and ied.er work since,"he!Window" was first. published.here. Since then. sbhe bas ýwritten five.otherý noveis. "The Sixth Journey" and "Benefits Received", preceded ber last One, "ProtectingMargt." iMargot Filîdes, bas had b er life spoiled by two people. Her husband Ieft ber after a year of marriage when be ran away with a beautiful neighbor. Her cousin, Clara Filldes,, who is also ber sister-in-law, theni prom~ptly took ber in charge and for twenty-four years bas."protected" her. Clara is a masterful wonian wbo dontineers. everyone less, selfish than berseif. "Her conviction that 'she was a clever woman was so togtt f ew. people dis puted, it.". Wben the. story. opens, Clara's younger brother Nichûlas has jmat returned from India, where for twelve years h e has served in the Engiish army. He had been put iilto the regu- lar army by Clara against bis own protests because she did not know wbat else to do with him and she bad neyer dreamed be niight manage a career for bimself. He returns af- ter an honorable discbarge determ- ined to find work to bis liking.' Margot, wbom Nidh and co rernem- I Caroline's daugilter and lias given Ciara's daughter a trip to India and is generally used and despised by al of them. Clara feels certain, that -Nich.olas, bas retir.ned because be bas coin-, mitted a crime whicbh bas forced him out of tbe army' .and she turns. bim from ber> home. Margot, who bas neyer dared cut berseif loose from the famiiy for ber own sake, is able to do it for Nicholas, to wbom she.bas iew oi me DooUUYK ust fVieaseci1or soon to be released: "Again the Tbree Just Men," by Edgar Wallace, (Doubleday, Doran) presents new, adventures of some of Wallace's greatest cbaracters. 6eWife for Sale," by Kathleen- Nor- ri,(Doubleday, Doran) w h o s e "Walls of Gold"- is near the top of the best sellers. The new book was seriaiized in Collier's>. &'The >First Wife," by Pearl S. BÙck, (John Day) is a book of short stories, all laid in China. The book will'undoubtedly selwei. "Death Whispers," by joseph B. Carr, (Viking) is" the first detective story that Viking baîs found wvortby Of- a place beside the Barnaby Ross stories. "1Iilltops. Clear," by Emnilie Loring, (Penn) .lias for its b eroine a. young lady. wbo distrusts wealtby and pre- sentable -idlers, including. Rodney Gerald for an adequate period. * 'No 'ie Like thé Present," by Stormn Jameson, (Knopf) is the autobiograpby of a weIl known Eng-, iish novelist. "Protecting Margot" by Alice Grant Rosman,ý (Mintoni, Balcb) %will find many readers. The author's 'Benefits Receiv'ed" was a best seller last year. "Anthony Adverse," by Hervey Al- len, (Farrar and Rinebart) was post- poned from May 22 to be the july Book-of-the-Montb sélection. It wil Literary iandmarks in Chicago, as well as sites connected I.itb the life of Abraham Linicoln, are material for two of the. interesting chapters jin "A Century of Progress Autborized Guide to Chicago,"' by John Drury, just pubiished for theWorld's Fair by the Consolidated Book Publisb- ers, Inc., of Chicago. This volume is the only guide book t to the city officially approved hy thej management of the, World's Fair. _It they have oniy seldom captured' the feel of real newspaper work in their courses. -Around tbe Copy Desk," written by two Evanstonians and based on the work of a third, the: late. George C. Bastian, whose, "Ec- iting the Day's NeWs, has been the standard text of almo0st. every ,jour- 4nalism school and, departmenti in the country, endeavorg -to. remedy this failing.thatorsae "This volume,"th uorsae in' a foreword, "like 'Editing 'the Dayis Newýs,' is a frahk attempt to bring professional. editing* practices into the classroom. Genealogically speaking, it is an offspring of "«Grad- ed Exercises, in News Editing" 'a widely used manual whic .h was'.be- gun by the late 'George C. Bastian. and brought n oprint by H. F. Har- ringtoni,director of the Medili School ,of Journalismn of Northwestern uni- vestand. John C. 'Carroll, copy- reader of the.Chicago Tribune. That book applied* the methods used s.uc- cesfuly by Mr. Bastian in bhis classes, and it bas been witb sincere appreciation of bis work that the, present volume bas been compiled.", Different FProuOtiiers To gain' it-s*very specific purpose the authors bave given the book, a format and content that distin- guishes it f rom ail other journalism- text books. Bound in heavy paper, the pages are-perforated and punch- ed so that tbey niay be removed to the student's notebook. An effort bas, been made to main- tain the appearance of actuai ne%vs- paper copy. the text. 'being printed side of the paper. Telegrapb -copy, headiines and even pictures. are Pre- sented approxirnateiy as tbey would be encountered in a néwspaper office.. The examples of copy in. the book ýare representative of material edited by copyreaders of both rural and ur- ban communities. Tbey are arranged in a progressig sequence of clifficul- ty and compiexity, and cover 38 steps in the training of an. editor. Eacb of the 38 lessons is supplemented with informai explan.atory notes and ques- DOtlbid. cussionq S rial fourq reader m the Bible - chantmer wlil find a new fie through this boc0 en- c-promn book- ELLE-R býe*pubiished b Covici in aàbout w. Antein- days. Tbe book will bave fifty pe lication, is and ink illustrations done by th est seller. author, and hier two daugbters, Car. 1continue Lou and Ann. It will describe th ie fail sea- trip around the world that the Burt, bamr farnily.tOo)k several years ago. berg i

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