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wi hE Interested in books Biography, Travel, For lists write to GOULD care your | Are You | of Fiction, or History? ESTHER local paper. The Wheat Lands of North Dakota "PRAIRIE FIRES" By Lorna Doone Beers. E. P. Dutton & Co. "Prairie Fires" is a book with a pur- pose. The purpose is to present the case of the farmers of North Dakota in their struggle to get fair treatment from the organized Torces of capital. Being a first novel--and therefore lay- ing itself open to all sorts of adjectives such as "promising"--one might add that the difficult object is quite well accomplished. The struggle between the two forces is epitomized in Christine, the daugh- ter of a family which has had desper- ate struggles for existence but has emerged scarred yet triumphant, and the man she marries, Lovstad, a typ- ical parasite banker who takes a mort- gace on an entire farm for a grocery bill and forecloses at the earliest pos- sible opportunity. Yet the situation is complicated hv human factors also. Christine is an impulsive uncontrolled girl whose ap- petite for life has never begun to be satisfied on the praires. She finds that the man she might love cares more for freedom to pursue a problematical career than he does for her, so she is more or less thrown at Lovstad. Her revolt from him and final return is not particularly conditioned by the question of cooperative grain elevators. Her conclusions are not political, merely human, that there is not much happiness around anywhere in this world. The most stable character in the book in relation to the political ques- tions is Hans, Christine's father, who having lived through the bitter strug- gle with the land and against "capital" is both wise and tolerant enough to be able to help in this struggle for the farmers' right. We are left in doubt as to the immwediate outcome, but with the conviction that something will some day come of these smoulder- ing "prairie fires." There is some good character draw- ing in the book though it is not pow- erful. There are often humorous and happy descriptions. The boarding house where Lovstad lives, and which, according to its proprietress, Mrs. Mopsputz, is "just a private home" is very well drawn, also his co-boarders, the teachers, one of whom is "proudly and desperately engaged to one of her former professors." The book is not only entertaining but gives a clear presentation of its problem. To Kingdom Come "THE STORY OF WILBUR, THE HAT" By Hendrik Van Loon Boni & Liveright "'The Story of Wilbur the Hat' was written and drawn for the fun of it by Hendrik Willem Van Loon and published as usual by Horace B. Live- right." Wilbur like another well known and contemporary hat--was green. But, coming from Boston, he felt himself decidedly "demeaned" to be forced to associate with fellows from "Paris, France, and Rome, Italy." He finally became so aroused over it and shouted so loudly that Zeus picked him up on the radio. The latter was so disgust- ed with the whole affair that he or- dered his nephew to blow Wilbur to Kingdom Come. And this was the be- ginning of Wilbur's strange adventure. With -a cricket as a guide Wilbur goes on a journey which would have done credit to "Alice" herself. Here in the part of the world which does not exist, are the people sailing in ships in the clouds in search of dreams. Here are all the world's discarded gods, and here is Leonardo experiment- ing with his first aeroplane; here is the man who moved planets with an idea, and the one who brought fire to the earth. When Wilbur asks to see the greatest of all their builders, he is taken to Stradivarius. "I never heard of him," says Wilbur. "What does he do?" "He makes fiddles." "And I asked you to show me the greatest of your builders." "I did" said the cricket. There is much non:zcnse that Mr Van Loon has put in just "for fun, and a great deal of allegorical mater- ial that he has put in.to teach senie- thing of the history of the race, and undc lying it and which will reach the adult reader only, there is a vein of satire which was put in because he could not resist doing it. But the pictures which are numerous and mag- nificently colored, are surely all for fun and for every age. They are the very pictures which you would have made had you been illustrating it your- self. "But as for the moral of this story the picture on the next page will tell you, and the picture is of a signpost pointing in four directions--but all of its hands are blank. Employ Traffic Count to Learn Land Values A vehicle and pedestrian traffic ount will be made throughout the business district of Miami, Florida, un- der the supervision of the appraisal department of the Miami Real Estate board. The count will be made to get accurate information concerning the location value of property in the down town sections of the city. Certain locations are to be selected where counters will be stationed for two-hour intervals at different periods rach day. . Counts in different loca- tions will be made at the same or cor- responding intervals so that fair com- barisons may be obtained. The re- ort will take account of the influence of various factors such as the trend on warm days toward the shady side of the street, the blocking of side- walks by building operations and the 'nfluence of special sales and window displays. The nature of the traffic, whether it is inclined towards shopping, whether fast moving or a direct bound traffic, is included in the report. Mrs. Amelia D. Capron Passes Away at Evanston Mrs. Amelia D. Capron, widow of Albert Banfield Capron, passed away last Sunday morning, after a long ill- ness, at 1414 Hinman avenue, Evans- ton, where for the past four years she a short time previous to their de- parture. Ralph Countryman, of Man- fan, N. D., will join the group in Akron. The first three boys are mem- has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Florence S. Capron. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Capron leaves two sons, Horace M. Capron of Evanston and Albert S. Capron of Winchester, Mass., a foster son, Preston B. Kavanagh of Washington, D. C., and a sister, Mrs. J. M. Miller of Chicago. For many vears the Capron home was at 314 Ridge avenue, Winnetka. A Good Man By GEORGE F. HUMMEL Author of "AFTER ALL" and "SUBSOIL" "A daringly realistic comedy of the upholding of the mono- gamic ideal in contemporary American, urban life. The hero is a sort of male counterpart of Miss Cather's 'Lost Lady,' and he justifies his existence as thor- oughly....A veristic and enter- taining book." Burton Rascoe '........ $2.00 Boni & Liveright N.Y Stolen Idols The strange adventures of Geoffrey Ballaston, follow- ing his theft of a famous Chinese idol jewels he hoped to restore the fallen of his house. | By E. Phillips Oppenheim $2.00 at all Booksellers Little, Brown & Co., Boston Publishers with whose fortunes YOU'LL ENJOY IT!-- "Thunlerstorms,'" by G. "The Constant Nymph," "The Great Gatsby," "Soundings," B. Stern. "Brigham Young," Winnetka 1101 "On the Edge of the Jungle" by William Beebe is delightful summer reading. We have it along with the other Best Sellers: "The Smiths," by Janet Fairbank. "Barren Ground," by Ellen Glasgow. by Margaret Kennedy. by F. Scott Fitzgerald. by Hamilton Gibbs. "Anatole France, Himself," by Jean Jacques Brousson. by M. R. Werner. 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