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WILMETTE LIFE . , June 29, 1928 describing the spectacular. Since it does convince you it becomes a history of aviation, a record of the human effort and sacrifice that has been spent upon it, so that an aeroplane glimpsed from your sitting room window is not just a moving speck and a noise, but an achievem~nt of the human ~ind and will and· a promise of great thmgs for the future . This is a splendid book fascinating reading ·for anyQne. . LI _ _ _ E_st_h_er_G_o_u_ld_'s-:-B-oo_k_ . c_o_rn_e_r_ _ ___. NEW BOOKS T rlepbonr and m3il ordrn fillrd : Trlrpbonrs: University 102-4 Wilmrttt 3700 Rogrrs Puk 1 1 2 2 Short Circuits St~piHn ut&Coclt. Dodd, Mt3d .g Co. . ..... S2.oo My Jeanne D'Arc Jl icbMI M on.bGn Tbr Cmtury Co. . . . . . . .. $3.00 Two books which should give an intere.;ting opportunity for study and comparison are "Norway's Best Stories" and "Sweden's Best Stories." Anyone who has been as vague about these two· very different countries as we have, . will t-e glad to read simultaneouslv some of the literature of each. It is said by reviewers that the Norwegian stories have the crisp vigorous qualitie s of the saga, while those of Sweden are colored by the bright poetic qualitie s of the lyric. Really, literature is becoming too arduous . The future publishers of the Bremen flyer s' account of their trip come forth with the statement. "On Mav 23rd the Bremen fl yers concluded their goodwill tour of the United State s and for five days will go into retire ment and finish their book "The Three Musk~teers of the Air." They didn't dare say "write" instead of "finish" though that's what they meant. Constantinople (Aziyade) Pinre Loti The first volume of a nrw aniform edition. Frtderick A. Stokes . ..... $2.50 The Wolf Woman Artbcu Sttingtt Bobbs-Merrill f!S Co . . ..... $1.00 Sweden's Best Stories An introduction to modern Swrdish fiction. Scandinavian Classics Edition.W. W. Norton ... . ...... $1.50 Aesthetics of the Novel V Gn M tttt Amta University of Cbiugo Press. $1.50 Caught! Homtr Croy-~uthor of West of tbr Watrr Tower. Harptr f!S Brothers .. .. ... $1.50 The Catastrophe Krrensky' s own story of tbr Russian Revolution. Altxe~ndtt F. Ktrtnaky Applrton .............. $3.00 ture. That is the first thi~g th~t forcibly strikes one on readmg hts new book "Skyward." Let anyone who doubt.; the opportunity, the struggle, the hazards and. the rewards of aviation find here hts proof. Commander Byrd writes with such sinDESPISED AMERICA cerity and such conviction tha~ th~se who have thought we were JOggmg along pretty well, we had better let "THE OTHER SIDE" aviation alone, will realize that that is what lots of people said about railBy Str:utben Burt roads one hundred short ~ears ago. Cbarlea Scribner's Son· "Hurtling through the air at fiftee_ n miles an hour" sounds like a joke to What alchemy is neces.sary to turn us now, but there will come a time one of the most finished, suave ana when our demurrings at Cl hundred and delightful of novelists into a slightly fifteen wiJI sound ·~as funny. tiresome and almost peevish essayist? No, as Commander Byrd says, there Whatever it is I fear it has been pracis something in human progress which ticed on Struthers Burt to make him is bigger than the individual or his the author of thi.s book of essays or desires or safety, and when that spirit sketches, "The Other Side." It ;s of progress in ~he concrete instance unworthy of the man who wrote that lays hold of a man he is as putty in its most charming book of last spring hands. So when his eighty-seven year "The Delectable Mountains." The title old grandmother said to Byrd before refers to the other side of the question, GOOD READING his fljght to the Pole, "Well what will the side which seldom has the nerve you do with the North ~ole whe!l you or lung-power to raise its voice against get it ?" although he couldn't explain the Mencken ballyhoo. That is well usKYWARD" it in words, yet he knew there was and good. We are anxiou.; to hear something he could do with it. By Coma.acler Richard E. Byrd someone speak up on that side. But Byrd's life has been a life of un- somehow, unfortunately, we are not G. P~ Putaam'· Sona selfish devotion to the cau.se of avia- particular ly interested in the way that Life for Commander Richard E. tion. If his book did not convince vou Mr Burt speaks. He is just a little Byrd has been truly the great adven- of that it would just be one more book too reiterative, a little tedious .. The major premise of the book is a good one. It is that America is getting a decidedly " raw deal" just now in the form of criticism both at home and abroad. America·ns traveling in Europe think it their duty to run down a~ vigorously as possible their own country in order to seem grown up and sophisticated . At home they do it because it is the form of noise, like jazz, most popular at the moment. As Mr. Burt makes clear, this sort of thing can be carried too far. As he says, "All you need to condemn a thing is to call it American.' ' "\Ve have become a derogatory adjectiYe." And the bad re sult of all this i;,, not that our feelings are hurt, but that it destroys any possibility of real international understanding . it lays the foundation of hatreds and thereiore the foundation o f wars. \Y e agree with all this, we hope more people will write to the same question, and we hope, without malice, that next time Mr. Burt wilt write ~ little more ~nterestingly. 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Dancing_ .·· Entertainments . . . Deck Games . . · Bridge Parties, with a Social Hostess to look after the enjoyment of Gues~. Not a dull moment. Soili,.,s fr, Clak.,o '"'7 TIIU. t1114 SilL. ]wtN JOlla ,. Awtust 2111a. t·d. R. R. Tkim hl~NCJ~ Clu·t·. D1lrtnt, ClnM1N eu Bw§elo llrill be ,._,. f« lr·mil wJIM tUUilitmdl ~APDIJ' ' - IIJu.uated Pamplalet aaJ' RallWQ "Tkbto·caorTourtat ~ w wdce W. H. BLACK, Traftic M....Chlcuo.Duluth A Cecq~aa Ba,.Traaait Co. lit St., ...... RUa. . . . North American ~ South America In oomfort are comparable fine ocean and luxury to .. BAD GIRL" Vina Delmar's novel, "Bad Girl." which attracted so much attention be fore and after it was "banned in Boston," has reached (so it s publishers, · Harcourt, Brace and company an nounce) its seve_ nth large printing, not including the 40,000 to the Literary Guild. During the last two weeks it has been reported to be the be.st selling novel in tl!.e country, suppla~ting, at least for the present, "The Bridge of San Lui s Rey." The author of this fortunate first -novel is spending the summer with her small and much photographed family in a small town on the Ne w Jersey coast, where she is planning a second book. THE GRAPHIC BIBLE Lewis Browne's new book, "The Graphic Bible," which the Macmillan company announced for publication m April., wilt rwt be ready until late Augu.;t. The book is a survey of the Old and New Testaments presented geo~raphically as well as historically, and mcludes one huq~red "animated maps" drawn by the author. A limited autographed edition of two hundred and fifty cppies will be printed, as well as a regular trade edition. The delay has been causeq in part by the author's illness following the strain of a transcontinental lecture tour. LORD'S-BOOKSHOP Fint Flocw--JUit I tbt W nt D.vil SttHt Doot nau w.......