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WILMETTE 3700 BOOKS, Fiv. N.w"'Tities, in-$! 'Books Loyal Lover MargPret Widdemer Farrar &Rineharf.....$ Fire of Youth 1 ,Margaret Pediler Doubleddy-Doran....$ Margaref Yorke Kathleen Norris. Doubleday-Doran........$1 In the Dai~s March Ruby M. Ayres Doubleday-ýDoran........$1 IThe Whte Rider Leslie Charteris (rime Club Selection). s' contains 29 Tutt stories, the cream of seven volumes, including two storics that have neyer appeàred in book f orni. Mr. Train has written a pref- ace in wbich be tells of the geniesis, of the famous lawyer, and reveals that in t he:decade of tbe existence of the firm o6f"Tutt .and. Tutt .the -canÛny old gentleman has only once be sbown to be in error. The vast aud- ience that' bas. read of Ephraim Tut in scattered "volumeg and inma- zines now bas an opportunitv to en- ,otbe best of bis. clever. solutions (if bafing' leg1l mvsteies in one' place. The stories bave been completely. re-- vised'for this edition. "-H-rTT.y"- AWARDED MEDAL The John Newbery ni edal %vas awarded to Rachel Field for "Hitty, H-er First H4unired Years," at the re- cent conference:of the American Li- brary assocaian'held in Los Angeles. This is the anhual award made by the section for library work with childreli of the American Library association' for the miost distinguisbed childreri's book of the past year writte nby au American author. Other books wbicli reached t he final ballot this vear are: "A Daughter of the Seine," by J.ea net te Eaton; "Pran of Aihania," Iby :Marian Hurd McNeel,,; "Tangle-1 I coated Horse," by Ella Young; "ýVaino," b)v Julia D. MAains; "Litlé Blackniose,"ý by Hildegard Swift. Three New, Reprints in $1 Bookcs The Children Edith Wharton .. s' beBafflle of.'th. Horizons Sylvià, Thompson ......$i1 jeremy atCraie Hugh Walpole....$ leaciîng ,caracters are Lorn Griffith, a Philadeiphia banker, wbo at fifty retires to do, for once, something- that be really enjoys, and Delice, hiF daugbter, wife of an .Italian prince. Griffith and bis. wife bave grown apart with tbe vea rs, and he, finds solace in tbe companionsbip of the wife of -a, friend-a companionsbip, however, that nheyer oversteps the bounds, of propriety. His daughter, aware th at bier Italian'busband lookis upon ma rriage tbrougb Continental eyes, indulges in an affair witb ý q young American .arcbitect and wt tbe forthrigbtness of tbe- younger generation carnies it too far. The lives, of ., father and daughter arc sorbiing in themselves and brilliantly bandled by the author.- To be pub - lished. this fall. JOHIN MERRILL'S: PLEASANT LIFEi. By Alice Beal' Parsons. Dutton. The pleasant. lfè would seem to hè the snîug life-that of an engineer in a b)ig factory plant on the Hudson, a iïan living ini a fine homne w-itb a pretty wife and a soft job, a man un- adventurous and wary ini 'business, backward and besitant in love, inter- ested primaàrily in, bis ow-i nmatenial welfare. His br*Illiant and somnewbat bawdy patron presents an inItefestiIgý contrast, wbicb John Merrill nianageýs hiniself to see at the end of the book, But the juxtaposition'6f. these two is ha.rdly enough to niake a storv, and 'obviouslv flot enough to change the "pleasant life." ý THE GOLDEN HILL.S. By. Clara Vilegb)id. Vanguard Press. The golden hbills of the title arc flic terraced vi neyards of the- Moselle, where devout, anc[ industrious peas- ants tend the vines > on the ancestral Plots where their. forbears have labored for centuries. A pfleasant countrv and a good people; wbonever, knew theni in the old days .will feel a riostalgic longing as bie secs theni here depicted blwa lovnz lianeâI Pit NEWI ness of an accomplisneci scientist, .and the literary perfection 'ýof a great writer, S. S. Van Dine brings to us the fifth of bis series c~f nurder mys- tery novels, "The Scarab Murder Case." Whether Van Dine continues, as narrator, in the role of.,the boon coni. panion of Philo Vance, bis fiction de- tective, after the -release of bis sixth book. "TheAutumn Murder Case." now in preparation, or returns to bis former and less lucrative, pursuit of indicting treatises on art and litera- ture, he will .undbubtedly go clown in history as one, of the. greatest crçators of mystery fiction' of ail time. Taken. individually or collectiv .ely, Van, Dine's books meet every require- ment of well execu.ted narration:, bis characters are so real as' to almos.t breathe and speak aloud. In the instance ýof "The Scarab 'Murder Case," be weaves bis. webs of nvurder, circunistance and detectior about *a 'group ,Qf .archaeologists, building an atmosphere of Egyptialr research that reaches the' natural and is convincing solely because it is na- tural., In short, Van Dine dares to speak' in terms of such researcb and archaeological..discovery because he .knows" t1hat field. As someone ba'>- state, "The $carab Murder Case" could be alinost adapted as a text o 1 Egyptology. But, perhaps sinigularly, the bookcarrdes no gaudy air of the writer having attempted to show off his knowled,àe of sucbi matters ; the Mm- terial is used solelv as a necessarv, rlevelopment of bis theme. Thus it is !ïfted far above the common zone of fiction-mystery or otberwise. The plot .of "The Scaralb Murder Case" May be briefly sketched. Benjamin H. Kvle, philanthropist and art patron, is found murdered in' a- famous private Museum in GraIm- ércy Park, New. York, City. He ba 's been ýstruck over the head witb a statue of Sekbmet,-tbe Egyptian god- less.of vengeance, and is, lyi .ng. in a >ool of blood, bis arms ou .tstretc.ted toward a life-sized statue of Anubifs, the god of tbe dead. Tbe principal lew to tbe nmurder is a sniall lapis- lazuli. scarab of Intef V, a pharaoah f the seventeenth dynasty. Th- rime proves to be one of the Most mazing and diabolical in modern 'olice history. Lord's - Fist Floor Just Inside the. W et Davis Street Door Europe, Asia, and ten translator of Pu.sbk Khayyam, bas recentl, novel "Mayerling" counts the tragedy Prince Imperial bf' M'arieVetsera. has written on a writing family. Both his~ father, inis, wbo is the William Frederick Dix and his uhcle.' in and Omar Edwin Ash Dix, have written and ly issued a new. published novéls. Young Dix lives in (Grasset), re- East Orange, N. J., though at the of- Rudolph, present time he is honeymooning in Austria,, and Europe wbere bis addtress is "Ford. car, Nuim-ber 8633à2B, Europe.o» 'I