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16 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1924 800 [he 2 Reading Lamp MO, ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM Intimate Pictures of the Czar "MEMORIES OF THE RUSSIAN COURT" By Anna Viroubova Anna Viroubova, lady in waiting to the late empress of Russia, and later a member of the Royal family, interest- ingly writes of her relations with the Emperor and Empress, and her knowl- edge of the Siberian peasant preacher, Rasputin, whom she personally knew. There are a number of good illustra- tions in the book. Many of them are snap shots, taken by the author herself, They are intimate pictures of the Royal family taken on board their yacht, in the palace and during their exile in Siberia. The book is thrilling, especially those parts about the methods of Kerensky and his successors; and the many excit- ing events in Madame's own life follow- ing her numerous arrests, and her final escape to Siberia. The private life of the Emperor and his family, according to Mme. Virou- bova, "was one of cloudless happiness." "Never," she writes, "in all the 12 years of my association with them did I hear an impatient word or surprise an angry look between the Emperor and Empress. To him she was always "Sunny" or "Sweetheart." Mlle. Sophie Tutcheff, a protegee of the Grand Duchess Serge was the first person Mme. Viroubova says to create what afterwards became the internation- al Rasputin scandal. . "Those who expect from me," Mme. Viroubova says, "secret and sensational disclosures will, I fear, be disappointed, for Rasputin's every move for years was known to the Russian police. He had been called a Priest, more often still, a monk, but the truth is, he was not in holy orders at all; he belonged to a curious species of roving religious peas- ant, which in Russia were called Stran- niki, the nearest English translation of the word being "Pilgrim." Of the type of Russians to whom the Stranniki made a genuine appeal, the Emperor and Em- press belonged. The Emperor was a born mystic and the Empress, either from natural inclination, or from close association with him whom she so dear- ly loved, leaned also towards mysticism. Josephine Oakes Wheeler. A Splendid Detective Yarn "RIPPLING RUBY" By J. S. Fletcher The inventive talent of Mr. Fletcher is evidently inexhaustable for, in spite of the fact that he is writing his mys- tery stories at the rate of two or three a year, they maintain their high average of excellence. Moreover there is what we might "call. a Fletcher style and a Fletcher method of constructing a story that is so perculiarly his own that read- ers easily get the Fletcher habit, that is, they eagerly read every book he writes. The present book is concerned with the advéntures of James Cranage, a private secretary temporarily out of a job and financially broke. He carries a message for the sake of earning the fee which inadvertantly involves him in a series of adventures highly exciting and by no means devoid of danger. The man to whom he carried the message and the one who sent it are, in succession mur- dered. The nemesis which pursued them to their death is a mysterious Chinaman whom they had evidently robbed of something of great value. Cranage gets a new job with an eccentric noblewoman and in the twinkle of an eye, she becomes involved in the same tangle. The valuable stolen object is sold to her by an agent of the two men afterward mur- dered and the lady sent Cranage with the article to be deposited with her lawyer in London. The agent who sold the valu- able and the lawyer who received it for deposit constitute the victims of mur- ders three and four- Cranage meanwhile is scared stiff with the fear that he may be listed as a victim. There is a fifth murder, perhaps the worst, certainly the most dramatic. Why the book was called Rippling Ruby is something of a mys- tery in itself. It is the name of a race horse, a favorite for the Derby, and ap- pears now and then. However at the end of the book she is much in evidence-- finishes with a rush. Like all of Mr. Fletcher's books this one is interesting from cover to cover. James Walter Doughty. "THE STORY OF MAN AND WOMAN" By David P. Jackson, M. D. A book on intimate but important = $1,175.00 SALES-ROOM AND 1107 Chicago Avenue WILLYS-KNIGHT--OVERLAND F. O. B. Toledo $495.00 SERVICE-STATION Evanston =:+C.H. BRIGGS questions of our everyday life which will no doubt give the reader new ideas on the subject of sex, and the various phases of sex life. It is broad and un- derstanding in its viewpoint and religious in its treatment of things heretofore considered too personal. There is a frankness without crudeness and broad- ness with delicacy. Mary True. WOULD PRESERVE LINCOLN RELICS The largest privately owned collec- tion of Lincoln relics in the country, for which Henry Ford offered the owner, Captain Osborn H. Oldroyd, a sum said to be in excess of $50,000, will be purchased by the United States under the terms of a bill introduced in Congress recently by Congress- man Henry R. Rathbone of Illinois. Congressman Rathbone's bill pro- vides that the Oldroyd collection, now housed in the ancient house opposite Ford's theatre where President Lin- coln died, shall be bought by the gov- ernment for $50,000. The house which shelters the collection is now the property of the government, hav- ing been purchased some years ago for $30,000. In the Oldroyd collection, which numbers some 3,000 pieces, are a num- ber which link the career of the great Illinoisian to the modest house and law office at Springfield which he oc- cupied before he began his moment- ous trip to Washington. Illinoisians here regard the introduc- tion of the bill to purchase the Old- royt collection by Congressman Rathbone as particularly appropriate, as his father and mother were en- gaged to be married, and were in the box with President Lincoln at Ford's -- 4 theatre in the night the great leader ROOFING was shot by John Booth. The senior : Rathbone, then a major in the army, was stabbed and severely wounded by | Booth when he endeavored to seize over the the assassin. Congressman Rathbone's g mother, then Miss Harris, the daugh- ° ter of United States Senator Ira Har- Old Shingles ris of New York, was an intimate fricnd of Mrs. Lincoln. She spent the . entire night in an adjoining room ESTIMATES | watching over Mrs. Lincoln until the FREE death of the President the next morn- in. | NORTH SHOR LOST COUNT HERE ROOF CRAFTERS Last Friday afternoon New Trier's Incorporated i second teams defeated Parker High 3201 342 school of Chicago. 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