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WiLMETTE LIFE ~ . ~:=;:~~=====~'·---·-----------· --.. - ------.;Miss Gordon Thankful for Upholding Dry Law An expression of thanks for the endorsement ot the 18th amendment, given by Miss Anna Adams Gordon of Evanston, world president of the W. C. T. U., was included in the two pages of such expressions of thanks voiced by celebrities all over the United States and printed in the issue of the Christian Science Monitor of the day before Thanksgiving. Miss Gordon ·made the following statement: "I am devoutly thankful for the patriotic indorsement on Nov. 6 of the Eighteenth amendment to the Federal constitution-a triumph for the principle of prohibition, world-wide in its beneficent influence. "I am thankful I live in a republic where women are citizens who, in a political crisis, are willing to place principle above party that the homes of our Nation may be supremely blessed. . "I am thankful for the signing by 61 nations of the peace pact, which bids fair to become a path of world peace." Esther Go·utd's Book Corner .·, JUST PARAGRAPHS ~--- ";""'~-----~-----· fUVNJAlN lQVAR[. · LVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7100 WilmeU. 3711 Winaetka sze R~cen Park llZZ Undine ·A new coJiection of Olivt Scbre·· ner's writings, prepared for publication by her husband. Harper's .............. $2.50 Elizabeth and Essex Lytton Strachey Harcourt, Brace t!S Company $3.75 It is said that five dolfars is paid to anyone finding a typographical error in the Oxford Bible If this could be extended to all books it would be a gold mine. Comparable to the idea of the frog in "Cinderella's Garden" who says "all the people I meet are just c_razy to write. Now-this is the clever part-let them do it, only th~y won't be paid. We're going to pay the readers." It seems as if something like this should be done. An investment which ought ·to appeal to hard headed business men !s the new anthology of the world's poetry which has been compiled by Mark Van Doren. For Mr. Van Doren states that the collection "represents at least five thousand dollars worth of poetry" should the books containing the individual poems be printed separately. This ts putting poetry on a business basis. IN THE ARCTIC "THE CRUISE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT" By Mrs. John Borden MacMillan Co. Envy is the unholy passion stirred in one's heart' by this book of Mrs. ] ohn Borden's, "The Cruise of the Northern Light." Every time Mrs. ·Borden soeaks of the strange beauty of the Arctic which one must see to realize, one is envious. Even the dangers of hidden snags, the exhaustion of long hunts after seemingly non-existent hears, the chance of being caught in the Ice Pack. a "hideous night" of a hurricane deter one · not a bit from wishing one had been along. It wa-s such a delightfully "once upon a time" thing to do, to fit up a private yacht with every necessity an9 cOJwenicnce and sail from San Francisco on Aprif 21, 1927, on pleasure and adventure bent, incidentally to pick up some polar bears, wild flowers and things for the Field Museum. Mrs. Borden tells the story of their adventures interestingly, and with the conscientious accuracy and fidelity of a ship's log. While this .quality would not be a recommendation for most stories, perhaps, it adds to the reality of this one, it makes us feel that we were almost there. The book is · profusely illustrated with excellent pictures taken by the photographers of the party. "ORIGINS OF THE WAR" Who was primarily to blame for the ruin wrought by the World War? The revelations from the German secret archives have opened to historians invaluable material on the history of Europe from 1871 to 1914. These new documents, together with recently published records from Russia, Austria, and other countries, and the flood of memoirs of lea'ding statesmen, have made possible a fresh and more accurate survey of the underlying causes of the War. Sidney R. . Fav. Professor of Modern European History 111 Smith College, now analyzes all this new material in two volume~ entitled "The Origins of the World War." His conclusions have been eagerly awaited. Elect 1929 Purple Captain at Alumni Dinner Saturday Election of next year's football captain and the awarding of letters to varsity men and nu~nerals to freshmen, will feature the annual football jamboree to be held by the Northwestern university club of Chi~ago at the hotel Sherman, Saturday night, December 8. Several thousand Purple alumni wilt attend the banquet. ·M usic \vill be supplied by the North\Ye3tern band of 150 p·i eces. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer Illustrated after drawings by W. Russell Flint, and superbly bound in blue luther, decorated in gold, by The Medici Society ...... $25.00 READS TO PUPILS The Case of Sergeant Grischa The Book of the Month Arnold Zweig Viking Press ........... $2.50 A CHRISTMAS BOOK, by D. B. W3·ndham Lewis author of Fracois Vilton Recipes, verse, incident temptingly collected. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfield Robert Benchley Illustrated by Gluyas Williams Henry Holt ............ S2.oo $3.00 Mrs. Oscar Foster of Beloit, Wis., will read poetry to pupils of the Central school seventh and eighth grades next Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Foster wilt be in Wilmette as a VISIT ART INSTITUTE guest of Miss Grace .Gayton, librarian Third grade pupils of Miss Helen of the Wilmette Public schools. Smith at the Central school will make i- trip to the Art institute in Chicago TRANSLATE BURDEN BOOK today. The trip wilt be made in cars, "Dragon Lizards of Komodo," by and mothers of the children, as well W. Douglas Burden, is being transas Miss Smith and Miss Frances Don- lated into German for publication by nelly, art instructor, wilt accompany Brockhaus. This book, the account of them. an expedition to the lost world of the Dutch East Indies, was published by Putnam last year. GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS, by Francts Gribble Her relations with Chopin, de M u~set, apd others. . ,I Have you read these NEW BOOKS by two prominent 01' Man Adam an' His Chillun Roark Bradford Harper~ Brothtrs ........ $2.00 . '$5.00 CHICAGO AUTHORS A BRILLIANT NOVEL The Val Smiths of Chestnut avenue are spending this week in Detroit. Mrs. Smith is visiting friends and Mr. Smith is combining business and pleasure. A HISTORY OF WOOD ENGRAVING, by Douglas Percy Bliss $12.00 Another book by the author of FALL FLIGHT by "BEAU GES TE" Tristram Shandy Laurenct Sterne lllustr.tted by John Austen Dodd, Mead t:1 Company .. $7.50 ELEANOR GIZYCKA "A vividly alluring novel. 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