Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Sep 1931, p. 42

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INTO THISI Evey Hot Modoi.d fo Your Head Amny Style Pries J'erjy Mod erato New hats made to order froua any kind of materlal. Coi.ned end Rapiimed Ail Hod sixem PETER- VAN BREE M,2 S. STATE STEEt US Cetuvy UI.St.Weboiter fini Lew Siretts 31r.,aet new book off poen, long Itwalted> by Evansi~on and the NXorth Shore, more. thon fui- 111k .everyone'n ainticipation! To .,ti here at Chanidier's, 1t k one of the Iimportant books of the year, CHANDLER'S Fountain Square Evanston Step ýup witb the' New Fal B.0ooks: To Bi;y or To Rent 1724 Orrington Orriîlpton Hotel Open The Bible andWi Christian Science L Reading Room. Avenue It is almost increuauae thatis l story sbould have been produced byl a child of twelve but the publishers j assure us that it is so and that, more- over, she wrote it without help of any kind. The story, though simple, is exceedingly well Ïold, the style isj excellent. and, above al, h ouhu - authôr's- knoWledge of borsemanship) and'sport is revealed on every page. Shenmust have. been "entered" to fox hunting at a ,Very early.age, and we. imagine she Would be quite capable now of 'whipp ing Ii" to: a pack of hounds. The story-iconcerti, a 'colt born on the desolate moorlands of Counity Mayo, Ireland, and subject to ail of the hardships which the almost Wild moorland ponies . endure. One fol-1 lows the gray colt, Tally Ho, tbrough the various stages of his carer-his sale at a country fair, his breaking and training by a farmer, and his. re- sale atý a substantial profit to Major ~John Smnitlbfield, an ex-soldier and a good sportsman. Were it not for the somnewhat spe-t cial appeal wbichi this little booki mnakes, it mighit weiI be given a placeJ on the, bookshielf*, beside 'Blaclck Beauty,", which is' now somlewhati out-of -date. Lionel Edwards' illus-1 trations add considerable charm to1 the book. and a letter from LÉoïdt Lonsdale, England's most proinient sportsmian, to the youtbful author. forms a preface.1 ROBIN AND ANGUS. By Mabel1;i Robinsonî. Illustrated by Eloiset Burns Wilkin. Maciilan. l This grown-up wishes to record hérself as having hiad a thorougbly pleasant timne' reading Miss Robin-t son's well-told story of Robin, the artist's daughter, and her mis- cliievous,,young puppy, during onie ofC the f Jamily's accustomed stays. in1 Florence. The1 background of. theu book, of course, doubles the reader'sf enjoyment if be cati follow in pleas-V ant retrospect about the old Florei- I tine streets and squares. But aparts from background the story is well Mary Baker Eddy and ail ojhssx-ý,uthorized enmay be md, borrowed or purcbased at the ci'ld grow up amnong the crea- tures of the world of magic? T h e story tellsin a most epchanting mafner, of bis ga m.es., h i. s "school," his pets. lus magic play- mates, his delight in the. fairy kit-w chen. In ,Mr.'Bed- fords' .,amusing frontispiece ýyou 1Ematbeth s'e e Stephen Coatswuwth among the cooks tasting the pea- cock soup,:and hearing for. the, first time a-bout the world of mortals. 0f course, Stephen went oui into the real world, and fouiîd, bis royal father. In several excating chapters, you read eagerly to find which world will dlaim- Stephien for the rest of his life. Yo.u me et bis fleet horse, Sta<r- ling, and you learn many strange things 'about mortals and fainies which you neyer bad beard before. Along the wav, there are ,niaty. poemns, short verses for charms, 'lon- ger poemns for songs-the kind of Poems for which this author'has..been particularly famious, and w-%hic i ,in this book seemn to us the best o .f ail she hias written. To find such an interpret er as Francis Bedford for this tale, corn- Lini ng niagic yery. new and very old, %vas most fortunate. StilI wvorking in the tradition of the best schiool of traditional Eniglisli illustrating, hie ias 'given .a bappy charm, a gay hunior, a richiness of imaginiativede -- :ail that will 'hold any reader en- thralled with eaclb picture, whether an initial letter or a big fuît-page incident.. Folloiving her very successf nI book of 1930, ý"Tlie Cat W ýho Went to H-e aven,', Miss Coaàtswortih has, as usualgiven us something quite dif- ferent. fromi anythiaîg else she has, written. The famnous cat brought ber a very wvide audience, ani(] w~e are, sure they wvill equally enjoy thisew book. sie CAESAR. By Richard Patrick Russ. Èthe cast of characters is flot con- =. fined to these beasts of Tibet and the b igh Himialayas. Caesar meets mon- Ekeys, elephants, a porcupine, and a crocodile. A black bear murders tbe àhero's sister on page, one, wbereupon bas môther brings the ibear's,,two ,lioi cubs home in ber mouth to supple- icai laboratory ana rthe ape Uu shores round about, the happy hunt- ing grounds for specimens for ex- periments, are the center of this stôry and the girl wluo reads "Jane's. Island" on a rainy afternoon is very likely Ito fee 1 as if she were .spend- ing the day outdoors ini an. interest- ing a nd delightful«part of the world wluere something really worth.while is going on. And.although books for girls usually are classified definitely according to the reader's age, this time it ivjili not m'atterwhether she is fourteen or ten because there are two, girls in the story, Ellen,, seven- teen and a1 college freshman en- gaged in, ber first summer job, and. Jane, twelve. The story begins as Ellen's and probably was . written with'older girls ini mind, but.when Jane, appears, 50 simple, so.sincere and direct andpas- sionately interested in ýeverything. she steps into the place'that wvas not meant to be bers. One would rather have gone witb Jane to spread the dead fish under the bedroomi window of bier father's rival th.an to have foi- lowed meekly. with Elleni to undoý the plot. Jane , is. an energetic child w'ho keeps ber, mid workinig. aIl the time, as girls do. exactly as 'much as do boys, though. Onîe rarely. gets a glimpse of, such activities in fiction written for gi 'rls., She enters wlhole- hecartedly into the interests of ber eIders, anud Jane's island is biers be- cause it is lier secret place,. for get- ting the planaria tlat her father needs in his work .and which she is proud of being able to find in larger quantities than 'caiî the -officiail col- lectng crew of the laboratory. Ellen McNeiI is nuet modern, she is a pale, composite picture of nice girls in the stories of a generationago.. Enough -people walk the pages of the book to give,. one ýan ideaý of lif at Woods Hole and teQ let a girl see wbatfun, it must be to wo'rk, intenîtly ail summer'to prove a theory. THE WOLF'S HEADJ AND THE QUEEN. Retold by John Martin f rom "Cluild Cbristopluer,"' by Wil- liani Morris. Illustrations by Ne'- ment the' farnily larder. With sucb a start in if e, it is flot surprising that the youtbful Caesar, orpbaned by a fôrest fire, and bent on dining on a pig f rôm a native village, should be, forced to kill a mhan, and pass on, from adventure to adventure. TME PUBLIC IS, CORDIALLY INViTEDf TO ATrr END THE! CHURCH SERVICES ANDe VISIT THE READING ROM I ........... . ... iglou" illim a

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