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Dece~ber 14, 1928 I_ WILMETTE · tiFE experts connected with the French FROM "TH~ CONNING TOWER· I National Museums. "Yes, Sir, That's My Beebe" Their brief general account of the "Sir :-In his latest book, 'Westsubject serves as an introduction to the boolt and will open new vistas to read- Run~ing Br.ook,' Robert Frost says : NEW FRANCE '.Let the night be too dark for ers hitherto unacquainted with the The tale of New France-Parkman treasures of Oriental Art. me to see into the future. Let recorded it but much new material has what will be be.' come to light since Parkman's tim<>. Which Will Beebe does he mean, George M. Wrong, formerly Professor Out-of-Print Volumes and why not let Will Beebe be?" of History in the University of Toronto Arthur Guiterman. . Now o.n Library Shelves tells the -whole story now in interesting He means the Will Beebe whose latThe Wilmette Public library has detail in "The Rise and Fall of New been able to add to its shelves a num- est scientific expedition was to . Haiti, France." He links the history of France ber of books that have been out of and whose latest book--concerning the itself with that of Canada. There are print, and impossible to obtain through expedition, too-is "Beneath Tropic rnteresting pictures of the Courts of the regular channels, it is announced. Seas." Louis XIV and Louis XV and the!r These are included in the following relations to the planting of Frenc:h list of new stories: GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS Anderson-Strain of White. culture in America. There is an imArnim-Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. AnNext week's guide-lecture tours at portant chapter on French feudalism in struther. Field Muse urn of Natural History will Canada; another on the struggle of Aumonier-The Querrils. begin with "Palms" and "Egypt" at Benson-An Autumn Sowing. English and French for Hudson Bav Borden-Romantic Woman. 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. respectively on and for th~ mastery of the prairie Brady-For the Freedom of the Seas. country; and still others dealing witi1 Craddock-Prophet of Great Smoky Monday (December 17). Other days at the same hours subjects ·will be: the building of the French fortress of Mountain. Cutting-Little Stories of Married Life. Tuesday, "The Life of Birds" and Louisburg, with Washington's efforts ·o Dix-Hugh Gwyeth. "Textiles"; Wednesday, "Canoes and Follett-House Without Windows. check the French on the Ohio, and with Fuller-one World at a Time. Other Boats" and "Cry3tals and Minthe last and successful effort which Gaborlau-Monsieur Lecoq. erals"; Thursday, two general tours of England made, guided by the genius of Gaborlau-Widow Lerouge. selected anthropological, botanical, geGates-Plow Woman. Pitt, resulting in the conquest of Ne'.\' Glasgow-Ancient Law. ological and zoological exhibits; and France. Hewlett-Halfway "House. Friday, "Children Around the World" .Johnston-Man Who Did the Right and "The Fir and Other Trees." Th~H Thing. Book Notes r.:===========::::::::;J at .to Give DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY at prices that are less than· you would ordinarily expect to pay "THE DAY OF THE DEAD" "It is Hallowe'en with fun by Durer," writes Marian Storm ·of "The Day of the Dead," a major holiday in Mexico. Miss Storm, author of "The Gallant Came Later," is an authority on Mexico. 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