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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Nov 1938, p. 56

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CARDS LOT 7 NEW aid DIFFE*ENfT PIERSONAL- .CHRISTrmAsCARDS AU ,SIyle Leaders Amusung Modern 1724 Orringlfo% -AVenue Orrzogfon Mtel Pldg. Gre.0227 Founain, Square BOOKS These books, particular favorites of the. Nortli Shore reviewers thus week, are volumes you'll want to have in your permanenit library, or givé as Christmas gifts. self rèfers to Conrad's book in the course o! his own., The great differ- ence lies inu the type o! ship describ- ed in each. ýA sailboat rides out. the storm in the 'older masterpiece, and a beautiful modern.Euglish freighter gets. caught in, a hurri- cane iu Mr. Hughes' book. Both are gripping and thrilig tales of dan- ger on the ocean. ýMurder mysteries are the literary soporific of the tired American -bus- inessman 'today. Their_ popularity 15 immense, ýbut il mystery writers could coucoct seà taleslike In Raz-. .4rd the murder story might soon, drop 'from first to second place lun book sales.1 Soý vibrating is, the excitement in this hurricane adven- ture, s0 narrow the margin betweeu life aud .death in the Caribbeati, that no' 'brker eauld :posibly t1hn, the stock market, no manufacturer o! the labor situation, with bis nose iu this book An 011 Burner After taking on cargo at ports along the Atlantic seaboard, a sin- gle-screw turbine oil b u r n i -n g steamer of a littie over 9,000 tons started for China by way 'of the 'Panama canal. In. the Caribbean, after passiflg Cuba, she encountered "'Listen! the Winrd,"l' Anne Morrow Lindbergh's new. book, is an account of the 1933 )Uight across the South Atlantic with. mient, style, and spirit to "NorthL to the Orient," it has ant mtire ly diff erent backcground. It deal s principa liy with tropical Africa and the journey across the. o;eafl to B razil. Photo by Cordes vortex? How long did last? lTow did they didn't they? escape, or thie writer 5 imagin5atio. mabu uz truth strauger, than fiction, it com- bines the' drama, of a notorlous French, murder case, with scenes Irùm li1e in. New. England and New York, between 1850 and 1875. Henriette Deluzy - De sportes, a womnan of rare gifts, fortitude and magnetism, lived, as governess in the ill-fated housèhold of the Duc and Duchesse- de ýPraslilu, and becan 1ie unwittingly, the pivot about- which a famous crime r evolved. In 1847: she facéd a hostile poie le adn e case before the Chancellor of France in the. murder- trial' that 'was, the senation of twoô continents and help- ed a French. King fromi his, throne. Ber Great-Aunt Actually-, this is the life of Rachel Field's owXI great-aunt; for, a! ter winniug her freedom, Heniriette took re'fuge in Axnerica, an~d marriedL tlie Rev. Henry M. Field, preacher;, ed- itor and writer. The first part of the novel tells of Henriette's years of eonflict and suspense in the Pras- lin family circle, caught in a .veb of scandal that gradually closed in, jabout. her; of ber courageou3 hatid- ling of crisis after crisis; her bafflitg relatîonship to the Duc; the horr,.r of the murder, andl the months Af nightmare that followed. * Then- -nnipsthe chiarming nict'Llre £2. into the winct andi uer engines u niug. When the steeriug apparatus h jammed, she swuug broadside into $2.50 the waves. Hatches exploded lk the corks iu pop bottles; the funriel $2.50 was lifted clear; her engines groan- ed at a 35 degree angle, and it was >Ctor fiually necessary to put out the fires $2.75 to stop a steamn leak. flid They Escape? strengtn, wn'cn ijung aaziuLcon- figurations of water into the air- they are ail here. Richard Hughes, the Welsh novel- ist, also wrote A Wid in Jamat'- ca, and the public bas waited nine years since then for his second novel. Chinese Recipes This is a Chinese wish!ul caused enuîess cozxîî1i>uon, Iaier Ltn Grarnercy Park where she caused endless delight. Life of the TIme Through her' eyes we see the H e o! that time. We meet Rachel, the French tragedienne, on ber last- theatrical venture; we hear of thé laying of the Atlantic cable by Cyrus W. Fiêld; of Civil War years; of friendships with Bryant, Peter Coop- er, Fanny Kemble and other impor'-- monogram. 59c box or for* $1. .Lord's Starionerv Section '-Iside Dais Street Door by PadSYSwsk'i. and Mary Lawfon, $3.75 concerning JFrance. ..Ieatured mu tne 'materiai is the collection preseritd to the Library by the F'rench Mina- istry of Foreign Affairs. The ex- hibit will be open to the public, without charge Saturday, Nove-' ber 5, from 9 a.m. to 530. p.m.. at 86 East Randolph street, Chicago., ~uotne Listeît! The Wind An~ne Morrow Lindbeigh Aloi., Richard. E. Ryrd Th. Horse ond IBuggy Dot A rthur E. Hertzler. l I

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