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Highland Park Press, 29 Mar 1928, p. 4

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4# with his literary friends. When, havâ€" ing adversely criticized the book of « ame of them he was accosted by that friend he replied "I didn‘t say your book was the worst book you had ever written, I said it was the worst book l PHONE H. P. 2448 16 Years Experience P is in the possession of the orâ€" Ahfiuâ€"::-fltâ€"_r‘ Engiand. not ouly a manuscript but a work of art, since it is beautifully written and iDustratâ€" ed with pen and ink drawings by the wuthor. The price will go into the thousands of pounds. An old Englishman, grandfather of anyone had ever written." DISCOVERED BY A FRIEND "CONQUISTADOR® In the second place "Conquistador" is delightful because of the revelaâ€" tion it makes of Mr. Guedalla himâ€" self. He talks of newspapers and visâ€" iting royalty, of lowa and Henry James as whimsically and informally as if we had dropped down beside him during one of the long stretches acress the Western plains. Mr. Guedalla is one of the kindest and most tactful of our commentators. that an almost nonâ€"stop trip across the continent has not enabled him to solve our race, crime and prohibition problems. In short, Mr. Guedalla img and as considerate as we had exâ€" pected him to be. . s "Conquistador" is a purely delightâ€" ful book. It is in the lighter vein as might be gathered from its subtitle "American Fantasia" and its dedicaâ€" tion "To my charming guardians, the Pullman Porters of America." It is delightful first of all for its style, that style which never fails Mr. Guedalla, which he uses as a good fencer his sword, swiftly, brilliantly, with dexterity and not often to In the third and still important place, "Conquistador" is interesting for its point of view on America. We who have a passion for seeing ourâ€" selves as others see us so that we buy in quantities the most insulting books that are written about us, have here an opportunity of seeing ourselves through the new, observing, interestâ€" ed eyes of a friend. "Migration," a first novel by David Grew, has that quality we call charm. ALL WORK CUARANTEED â€" ] 36â€" / mMMr .. . " * w Fust â€" turm Clenning > Brwes o e e s o m oi t > . Hons u. P. 21048 35 8. St. Johns Ave. %fi * a ress Want Ads Bring Results |[~=â€"â€"zâ€"â€" _ =â€"zf| _ 23 Souh Seeond Serect _\ _ Phone Hightand Park 56f my reputation are assured JOHN ZENGELER By David Grew Charles Scribner‘s Sons he goes so far as to suggest PIANO TUNING By Philip Guedalla Harper and Brothers "MIGRATION" We Operate Our Own Plant in Telephone Highland Park 2801 PROFEESS1ION AL Cleaner and Dyer 25 North Sheridan Road H. F. PAHNKE Te charm is not in the style, which phasis and little feeling for climaxâ€" but it is in the spirit and the point of view. It is possible that we have turned the corner with our first noâ€" velists from cycinism to idealism*? ‘There have been in the past two seaâ€" F1GS. 4NOC & qOBERREDMEN NEDEE, UHC one in which there is, rather, a slight stacking of the cards in our favof, with those of, say, Susan Ertz. But this stacking of the cards does not detract from the value of "Migraâ€" tion." In fact it is a pleasure in itâ€" self, a relief to feel them stacked and run off with the cireus, yet she will return, and not return to die in Staâ€" cey‘s arms of the injuries she has reâ€" ceived in a fall on her horse, but reâ€" turn to go with him back to the prai~ ries, to keep his house and rear his children and be his "vision" of advenâ€" ture and life. spend sowing their wheat and tendâ€" ing their sheep in the seclusion of their enchanted Hollow is like a childâ€" ries. _ Not a nearly always percept o there hood dream come true, a really deâ€" lightful idyll. the handling and a freshness in the point of view that keep it from this imminent danger. As in many such books the early part is the best. In youth there is no need of card tamâ€" pering to make things happy. The Plebian and Patriot By Robert W. Winston Here is the portrait of a<president who was misunderstood by the American people, misjudged by hisâ€" torians. _ A fascinating study. 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Sources of New Words to reign supreme in the former, while "moron," with its antonym "highâ€" brow," have found favor in thechigher the war which now spply to practicâ€" seeking appropriate terms for new institutions or such persons as lawâ€" breakers, (stoffâ€"law) or those, for the chief selections come from fairly ally any kind of a campaign. Added to the dictionary‘s burdens Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, selected "pitilacker" as its contest prize winner. times with terms the dictionary writâ€" ers must of necessity label "slang," A dispatch from Berlin says that the Kaiser‘s gate is to be made part of a national war memorial. Wonder if this is the gate they handed him when the armistice was signed*? ‘ NOTICE Voters, . re ;â€"â€"fiâ€"v that the eol> dxmreven ccans Thmck, on the 208 tay of Aprie L 5. id seats of learning. 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