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1 PROGRESS TLE CO ~ 1 ‘Telephone Kildare 3499 _~\>~ "I will give $25,000 to anyone who _ â€"will kill him" screamed one of the ~ _ delegates to the Baltimore convenâ€" . > ‘tiom, levelling his arm toward Bryan. /â€" But although there was always someâ€" une wanting him assissinated and alâ€" ways someone defeating him, yet Bryan always bobbed up again to fight another day. The ridiculous eleâ€" ments in the life of the Great Comâ€" moner, give spice to J. C. Long‘s book of his life. ‘ "Trevy the River" is a strange book. Its author, Leslie Reid, is a eqmpetent one, "Saltacres" and "The He can speak in much the same terms as Miss Parker herself, yet his tone is one of more maturity, a trifle more studied. They both make good reading, the kind it is very hard to put down. Yet every inch of rail stays home nerves. "From coast to coast the railroads Dorothy Parker gives high praise to Samuel Hoffenstein whose "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing" are somewhat more solid fare than her own. Mr. Hoffenstein essays into more than questions of mood, his subjects are social as well as persona!.‘ His also sharp wit is turned on roadâ€" side signs, noise, Fords, radios, inl fact there is little obnoxious in this great America of ours that doesn‘t come in for its share of drubbing. Then he can turn from pyrposeful satire to that sublime silliness which| we maintain is the best antidote for1 day‘." â€" Quite a different mood is the one on "Bricâ€"aâ€"brac," beginning, *Little things that no one needs" and endâ€" ing, "These are made by lonely folk." THE BOY AND THE RIVER Slen, HL _ Phone Tien $00 Here is one of the kind at which she is brightest, "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning," â€" "It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. ‘Aha my little dear,‘ I say ‘Your clan will pay me back one It is not easy to make short verses and make them neither dawdling or too clipped. One is ineffective, the other forced. Miss Parker is neithâ€" er. Her verses step along in a sprightly way, like an old lady going to market, but the old lady never gets rattled in the midst of traffic. Dorothy Parker is, as usual, deâ€" lightful. Wit, a clean edged sharp wit, cutting here and sparing there but doing all with perfect neatness, sarcasm, satire, and here and there an unsuspected tenderness, are here in her second volume, "Sunset Gun," as they were in her first. By Dorothy Parker, and "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing" By Samuel Hoffenstein Boni & Liveright That was a new one, when S. S. Van Dine, much advertised mystery or detective story writer, made a disâ€" tinetion between the two. Instead of comfortably classing them together it seems that those who know analyze them, and if the appeal is to the emoâ€" tions the story is a mystery, if to the pure intellect it is a detective. That explains why so many high browsâ€" have of late been broadcasting the fact that they enjoyed detectiveâ€"or was it mystery stories? ‘ a Zion Building Industry PLAIN CONCRETE BLOCKS Esther Gould‘s Book Corner Breeder and Trainer of Police Dogo FLOOR and WALL TILR ANTBLS 1»d GAS LOGS 1 block west of Waukegan rd. Telephone Northbrook 221â€"Râ€"2 Wavaland Ave. SKOKIE KENNEL: FRED KOLLET By Leslie Reid E. P. Dutton & Co. JUST PARAGRAPHS GOOD VERSE "SUNSET GUN® (No# Inc.) Theâ€" book is not morbid as a mere outline of the plot might seem, but it is sad. It is simply and quietly written, in the first person, if it lacks anything, and it does to some extent, it is force, immediacy, feeling. After his mother‘s death, a breakâ€" ing of the only bond which held him, Trevy goes away and tries to find a place for himself somewhere else in the world.. But he cannot, and one day in his wanderings he finds himâ€" self at the source of his beloved river. He wanders down its course, finding the greatest happiness he has ever known, and realizes at last that being almost one with his river he, too, must find his end in the sea. \ Rector of Malisect® were both of them "Trevy the River" is a book likely to be less understood than those because imte‘doldnlhcvil.hzt-i more or less normal group of Engâ€" ter who is far from normal. c his father with the river which had finally taken his life. So Trevy grows up in his turn identifying himâ€" self with the river, finding peace and joy there when he is little underâ€" stood by any human companions. _ °°7 N"NO IS Tar from normal. «reat solar dynamo, humanity would Trevy, born on a night of storm in fade from the earth, like flowers cut a little mill beside the river of that| from their stems. The value of heat name is christened thus by bi#| and light is nnauestionad mother. She had Chicago FOR _ V ALOR FOR FUELâ€"USE OIL Braun Bros. Ou Co. of Highland Park Emergency Service Call H. P. 3291 Deerfield Road Highland Park 3290 â€" Telephones â€" Winnetka 3020 S!!mdlhh“?eonyndlfi-&mhducumd- west. Acres of selected blooms, A gorgeous field of colors. An opportunity that comes but once a year, Select from our specimen gardens the prize blooms you want for yourself. Get your copy of the "Master List," an instructive, valuable book on By Covington Clarke A great story of aviaâ€" tion and war, for boys of eight to eighty. 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