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,gof Books: Il. Berke- ,miia:, Bancroft Library. rate and scholarIy bibliog- and Canffpies. for- STOR.ES *HOMES Frch ,Cutains and Outdoor Furnlhar., Lawa tmbrelaos, etc. PHONE SUPerior 9700,1 Wide choice of new 1931 patterns. Eveuy style distinctive, ever instal- lotion guoranteed. Individuoi de- slgnlng service fréeeof charge. Quai- Ity and eçonomy auured. Consuit US. Phone for illurated ilterature. * <Since 1840) 430 North, Wells Street* CHICAGO Eyes that. u...s . nl. A Cata1og lev, Califer An elabora raphy.. nam's Sons. When Commander Byrd, adding imagination to his belief in the value .of Boy Scout trainirig, announced that he would take a Scout with hinm to .Antarctica, he set nearly a -mil-lion hearts to thumping. Here wàs a collosal opportunity ; who would se- cure it? Here was the equivalenit of setting forth Wi th Columbus, ini the year. of supposedly prosaic grace 1928, cost-free, in: company with 'a- boatload of scientist-adventurers-if' t'ou were the boy in a. million... The requiremfents -for. such a peri- bous and exacting: enterprise. were rigorous. After. the first flusW Of the announcement, just to read theelevenl qualifications mnust have given the ex- p)ectant Scouts a chili. The weeding out Went on until. seventeen candi- dates iýith impressive records re- mained. The'seventeen were-boiled down to six,. The six, invited toNew York.. underwent a wveek. of, vivisec- tion by interview and public dining and mutuali iisp ,tion. By. every te .st Paul Siple, of jïýrie Pennjsylvani .a, wonî. He went. He nieasured up to the hionor of it, flot to menition the hardships, and he returned to become theauthor of an ekxtreniely. iîterest-o ing book. In this book we get a fresh, point of, view. Siple,hlaving hiad no experi-, etice with ither Pole. records thing's which escape older men, and if - his. perspect ive is smialler, it is more hum an. We sympathize with pups and pen- guins. We hiear a littlte-and, wouild iýke to hear so much uore-of the ini- tiinate life ini Little America. We.en- jov the entire sequence of sensations fromn farewell to New York to wel- cone home. The chapter on erecting Little -América, an 'd dog-driving, on the %%-inter night and the feelings of those left heind on' the day of Byr sget flight. are vivid and' without mie wordý inserted for mere effect. Every S,'couit troop should -have this >ook to see What 'onie.of ,theni haà done; and every schoo should chain a, copy to, the desk ini the Englisb ~dpartnlient to show-as in the admir- ale chapters on 'Seals" anid "Pen- guins.- I Redi Sréad F j» sinis books delight, An4ild s«weet socïcty; l4hilst hi,who secs îno profit in their use,- Wlll live a f ool and die as great goose. - At mycall Great, Shakespéùe cand his - fellows .Stand ready, likeiny.bellozws, Par service menial; Thus kiàgly do I sit and at mine case, ihlst hey , whcn su.m-nnced, do their best ta please. Who Pines more For earthiy rank and peif, Than good books on h is sheif. Is like a sycaoiore; A tree so Plaçjued by density of shade. That :wcIl-intending Iight shrinks b«ck -dismdYyed.' With a book, A inan is richer far Thon kings an d Princes 'are, Thoi&gh lie no cities took;, For in good books, a vein of th-oghtis found, !Vhich, wincd, eulhaistless g oId yields * froei the ground. --Fronm the Saturdav Review of Liter-atuire. THE SHADOW 0F THE, $WORD.. M y Hawthorne* Daniel. Iliuùstrated by Emnile Xerpiiieux. Macmillan. W\hich of uis has flot at least: once ichildhood been thrilled by a story Of Mont Saint Michel And there seemns always roomn for another to be added to the list, so naturaliy fuîl of picturesque romance is the geograph- ical and architectural setting of the. place, and- the whole span of its his.- tory. Here is an excellent example of the type. A fisher boy, by detect- i ,ng treacherv and bra vely foliowing it lip, helps to save. the island for France, and-is raised to titles, honors, and finalyý a happy wedding with the fair -lady whom, in one episode he has rescued fromf misfortune. He passes touhal the exciting ' adventures and escapes that any boy or. girl couid wish to read of, with a resound-- ing.%medieval .battle as a climax. A sense of the reai life of the timne is heid in mmnd throughout. 50 that there is true historical value in the 1- id. Remember her on Mother's Day May 10 1724 Orrington Avenue Evanston Orrfngton IMotel:BlIdg. ___________THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. By Gamaliel Bradford. B ost o n HIGHWAY INTO SP'AIN. By Mar- Houghton Mifflin Co. cel Auroussèau. New York: Alfred Brief 'studies of public characters: H. King. . Roosevelt, Wilson, Edison, Ford, This is an informai travel book. re- Lenin, Mussolini, and Coolidge. Mr. counting the experiences of.the au- ,Bradford's- well-known volumes in thor and «n American frienil on, a psycholôgical biography have dealt in tramp through Fran ce'and into Spain,. the past with "men and- women long Readable and picturesqu.e. since comfortably- dead and buried." Stokces Company. "The American people think of -Von as their 'flghting generai' and I want them to have that idea more andi more brought home to them," wrote Secretary, of. War Baker, to Pershing in 1918.. The General ini his two in - teresting volumes: has certainly fol- lowed :the Secretary's, sugg estions. His, fights with the Germans. how- ever, s eem to be overshadowed by bis fights witb: the French, the British. and even with the American General Staff. After almost' every war, it is the u nsuccessful who rush into print first, to get their ýside of the story before the public. The ýfinal victors, more. secure in their reputatiofis, can afford to take their time. 'The leaders in, the World War ran' true to forni. Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Fal kenhayn and many lesser lights among the. de- feated nations, lost no time in. ex- plaining how it happened. On, the Allied. *side, the first memoirs fron' important, leaders came from French, Hlamilton' 'and others who had not met with success. Now, more than-a decade after the fighting, the success- fui commanders-in-chîef' are finaliy presenting their accounits, flot. so much to consolidite1 their. positions as to meet a widespread popular de- mand. General Pershing's - "Experiences"ý start with bis'.appoitmtent as coni- mander of. the American Expédition- ar.y Force in, May, 1917, and close with thé .celebration of the Armistice. The arrangement is strictiY chro-0 logical. It consists of quotationsý f rom his wartime diary, followed by amplified discussion written more than ten years later. The adv-antage of such ani arrangement- is its revela- tion of the unfolding. of -manifold problems day by, day, The natural consequence, :howeve r, is the diffi- culty in following, any single topic very fa-r at a stretch.ý .The diary sélections iidicate the conxplexity of the 11f e oacman der-in-chief who had to adjust rela- tionis" with everything f rom the Frenich'-Army to the Salvation Army. There was constant discussion of details of- training programs, airplane'