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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Oct 1933, p. 36

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of a eience Our Cod-tiie Uest 1la by CURRENT BOOKS the SOCIAL STATIONERYI 174Orringion Av.. Gm.* 0227 Oarington HofoielâBId., &&nston T Th. , There wili be two biographies of ing. Edward VII this year, one' by .F. Benson, and one by Maurois. âe first sbould be ricb in anecdote, esecond in social background. Poor Splenldid Wings" by Winwar tbe Atlantic prize biograpby. Tbe settis -and tbeir circle of -Pre,-, tphaelite friends are tbe theme., Cecul Rbodes" by Millen is an adl- rablelife of an emprie builder. _ &. book* to belp us adjust ourselves .the new economics isr "Overstreet's re Move in. New Directions." 4t flores the possibilities and leaves with, new conceptions of values. ýgar's "The Peole's Choice" is a Dvocative book on, the presidents Dwing tbem, as representative of phases through whicb the nation- government bas passed,. ergusson's "Rio Grande" is a. bril- t description of the pageant of tory ini, the Rio Grande valley m early days to tbe present. Beaver, Kings and Cabins", by stance Skinner is a romantic. nar- ive of the French and. Englisb, traders. wro timely books on other coon- sare Calvin 'B. Hoover's "Ger- y Enters the Third R ichW' and leton Beais' "The Crime of Cuba."* li of tbem give us understanding.1 d'The Slcider -Singinj, Tree, pea b'ook of, poem- by Adelaide Love of Kenpilworth tewiIl be issued Fri- day of this week by its publishers, Dodd, Mead and company. It is a collection of Poerns that have atpeared in varioiis magazines md, n.etspa pers. One of the poems entitled "Judith". .wàs awarded a prize f rom Eniory university in Georgia. "For a Materi- alist" ajppeared in the Literary Digest; -City Twilight" and "The Cbristening" appeared in the Neze York Times: Mrs. tessor of .psychoIogy, Northwes-ternl University, is to give them a chance to feel superior. In their computation, "Strategy of Handling People," the: eminent co- authors show how çelebrated. men,ý the wtorid's greatest men, have apl plied tbis bit of strategy. Thé authors tell of an occasion. in which Wood- row Wilson won bis audience with a story, using the- story's point to ad- vance bis own humility or emnbarrass-ý ment of the moment. "His hearers warmed up, relaxed pleasantly . .. Wilson's strategy went far deeper than just getting, a laughi. Actually he .was employing 'one of, the most powerful. methods of winning people's -good will and support, of disarming hosility. He was raising the other feJlow's ego at the expense of bis own. How often we bear the successful man cracking jokes, about himself or.criticizinrg.himnself when lie hrst tnakes icontact with a group of People. Hie cbarms and deligbts them by -making~ them feel superior to him -for the moment, at Ieast." The "small" person, "is too anxious to assert bis.own importance, to turii the Iaugh on sorne one else, or to P rove tbat be himnse.If is extreniely clever and important. "One of the sure ways, to shine,: is to be willing to ]et others ont- shine you," a rule as applicable to contacts in.which the heart is in- volved as in other adventures. LOOKS, IT KEEPS EYES "The Romantic Young Lad " Inun, n h Ciao DiyNwsWlswhose "The Shape of Things Lady hyas well as Voices, one of tbe leading to Corne" has just been published by Sierra vvill op en the third season of poetry magazines in the country and. Macmnillan. the Art Institute Members' series at published b>' Harold Vinai in. New Having sumimarized the past in his Thé eGod lay thate on cth".York City. farnous "Outline of History," and re- Thésecnd laywiI b "Mcbeh" The ook is in four parts, the first cently having neatly ctriticised some bv William: Shakespeare early in De- cossig of poems of philosophic con- of, the foibles in our present gener- cember., the dates to be, announce 'd tent 'that "voice a steadfast belief in ation-in "The Bulpington. of BIup," lIater..The plays for the rest of thl'e man's high destin>', ii the geneérosity Mir. WveIls now turnshis agile- mmid. season ill be "The Royal Family" of life, and the certaintjý of a here- to conisideration of comning events. It b-3, Kaufmnan and Ferber, 'John Ga- after. The second contains Iyrics that is a short prejudgmenit of the next* briel Borkman" by Henrik '"Ibsen, reflect the various phases of the ex- century and a half-and because it is "Great Catherine" by George Ber- perience of woman and her emotional Mr. Wells' guess, sure to receive a nard Shaw, - "Anathema" by Leonid response. The third part is devoted_ to widesprea<ýhaig Andreyev and "The Parn1er's Wife" . ,.àf,,re.1-i-!-Aaring1 ' -EYES Ret*d th.e ,Waut-Ade. cuuung, Lias just neen publi IFarrar and Rinehart. It is ricb narrative of our time, veals the untold storises, bel aiuthor's best .sellers. -western writ epoems bave lications. .)C 1 llm- LlquX*uslyea vl YVI y usan is a graduate of Ertz, will be publisbed this week by she was a mem- D. AppIeton-Century company. This, wpa. Altbough a is a story of pioneering tbat partakes. of Mrs. Love's of the paAnoramic grandeur. and the. in eastern pub- human drama ofa. gri2at journey to. the West.

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