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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Apr 1937, p. 78

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* Tb. @h$b Vy-« w 1724 Orlmt.m Aveue Gi.. 0227 Ev.iw$.n 400WINDOW SI4AS op- Advertisers I follows it- to the pyramida at thc moutfl. Alone the way lie gathers together :for us the fabulously rich incidents of its, life; bere are the giraffe and the ostrich, there the humlan pgmi es and giants. At this point Colonel Marchand aiý- Moôst founded a Frenchi empire, then vast swamps seem to swallow up the r iver, but the Blue Nule cornes to the rescue f rom Abyssinia. At Khartoum the dervishes killed Chinese Gordon. What an incredible life of luxury was lived ini the ancient temples of Karnakc! Persion? invaders rcached -this' certain .cataract in searcb of gold. This oracle was sought out by Alexander, and Mameluke slaves ruled Egypt from tbis citadel in Cairo. This inadhouse is the cotton market of Ale,çandria, and here at last is the Suez canal, dreamed of. River,",Eimill idwIcg, the author of 'ýBiark" and , NAapoIeoit", has fndhùsj1reatest çtub ject' and lias dezpelopéd a eew biograPfli iai tech- nique to portray the romialic career of the ; igk .givrker on, .g«rlk. Th~e volume ivas pubIished reeently .by the Vikiiey Press. trââ 'lu. r who ISuns Go Down" Toid pring is ,ye i a by Grandmother of 90 st hair- novels, Flannery Lewis' story of the spirit- Moreau. ed girl who in 1862, at the age of six- :hc dual teen, ran away f rom her New England home.. .hw jitb an adventurous voung tive Spealcing and Human Relations witb the Aduit 1Education mnovement, claiming bonestly enough thathi's in- struction covers material presented ini no school in the, countrY and fouod ii nôo other book written since the dawn of It is hardly surpiising then that How, to Win.rieds ad 'Influienée Pe Pie,- which first app .eared last October, had by the first of the year made the best seller ranks where itcon Sistently re-. appears 'week after ýweek.. The material is' condensed, caàreful.ly* orai ed mat, and at the san ime fiiled. with human interest. A few apt words, one or two incidents and ve are initiated into the personality secrets*of such people as Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Charlie, Schwab, in Farley and President Roosevelt. ~Conu enci1ng witii several diàa'ters )the fundamental techniques ini hand- ling people Mr. Carnegie diseusses six ways to make people like you, twelve. ways to win people to your way of thinking, fine -ways to change people without giving offense or arousing re- seninent, letters that produced initractu- lous resuits, and concludes with seven rules for niaking your bomne life happier. This man bas personally instructed - .>lqý .V I 1 - àinU O %JU v-t'i"', andle nia em ployee, the em pio vee ow iEda by le RihrdGe l ii at one-time runaway is Mr. to 'ask for a raise, the' public-speaker itin icasardPoelseu Lewis' grandmother; she is now over how to win and! sway bis audience. ati itatathe Mueu ninety years old and! she stili lives ini Husbands are inistructed iin wife-rnatn- e ntt hevd om14 o &in Virginia City, though the town is al- agement, wives in dornestic diplonmacy. etolve ry.o Po1842fe o 4 most abandoned and the bouses are and! both in the upbringing of childreiî. btoy ofwa Shas ianda sinking into the tunnelled earth be- Hunian relations, iii ail their complexit>-, biogrhd ar Allna neath teni. are reduced to simplest ternis and classi-: h Macmillan publistied, Mrs. Flannery saw plenty of ex- fied under a few rules that anyone cati citement in the oaudy era of the city's remember. rival mttohec Sand others. meent i ghton l con- I takes I ,ns of ne wi ork i Fer , as "a iMidih

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