Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Dec 1931, p. 44

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*Gift Statiopery Unusual ,Ecbristmnias Cards su .dGift Wrappuugs 1724 Orrington Avenqe FITTDCS $ 15.00 to $200-00 W £ <Iy865 CHICAGO 'l'le a utobiograpliy of a ineniber of bis tusual dash and bis power for one of America's xnost illustrious and descriptive writing gives a fascinat- distinguished famnilies wotild niattral- jnig account of bis expedition to that ly e a inesstig oe. reeri miesfrom the coast'-of Chlile., The Stiinson (whose cousin is .now Secre- m tary of State) was borni in Massa- author sailed frop Tahiti on the chusettý before the Civil war, ami ,ma choner "R*mnona." and. on the winlie wvas 6 years old blis parents< way to Easter visitéd Pitcairn and: when Manga Reva islands. 1'lîe ."Ranina" snoved to Dubuque, Iowa. fr.. Stii _____ son, ini bis book, gives a vividpictureruit xg esaï urcn of the Dubtique &f 1864.,At the age * but without "chato oias of 1; Mr. tinson vassen to~ ~ reachied its desination in. due. time. school in Lauisanne. Svitzerland, and Rgeen uc diagv twoycas lterentredUarard ~ ~the island, its name whvlen lie iaânded wbecre lie occupied the saine apart 4tteo ate ud3 72 ment in the dorrditoôrv, 'No.9, Hol I Hundreds of strange statues. gro- worhvasbisgrndf.thr ad adtesqtiely carved, fil1 the islanid.ý No. ini the class of 1804, and wvas in the-'- n nw ver rhwte o saine entrv :%vith bis father. -who %va thiere. They. were carved froin a ôf he las of184. H grduaedi ounitain and hauled by, forçe to all froin Harvard i 1876 "w*-itiotut ex part of the island, whichi is teut nuile 's cessive distinction,. anid mwas 'i .mlon. They, ail bear the likeness of tlhree- .io ntis' tour abroad.- a single man-,prob)ablve a H-otut Ntatua, a king wbo rule'd %ver-,,these After bis graduation frongîthelîHar-iln epe belrsftdy- yard I.îvschool M..Stinmslo,îprac- hiants pelThdesednt s of Eil- fticéd law, wrote novels, di(l conisiderý glishi exploreèrs. who tâtune to the j able traveling at home and ahroad. il n anly years1 agi). Easter i> returned tofris beloved HJarvard to jth@ulght, by sonie. to- li the sole re- accetit a professorship). and thien didl i naining peak of a %vast land 1hc sonie more traveling. iiow reniains uinder wate-r: otherzs T'he second part of tlie book is 1kobert J. Cascy. brothler of MIS;. thïnkil that it is the onlv sur\-iviig, ahotit "the United States Âroîi ott- Vla. alJ. K'arn<'vi, 905 Gr'si- Inembecrs of a great archipelago. side:' The Stinisons were caughit in *-N 'jhtt~~ w js r. Casey describes, present day. ('.eriîuanv at the Outl>reak of the! Ilife on Easter Island antd'retelis, old World wvar; anîd thecir escape is gi%-eu IU' rwl <oIatr legends. His book inakes fascinat- ini great detail. ln 1914 President W~iIl 'n"(Iob -Ier!l).I.(s ing reading and is at the sanie tme, §oli appoîntud -\r. Stinisoni thie first !il, e uho f~%n acs eduicationa.-Vera \Mcleri(. Anl>bassador to Argentina-a i)ost heý-fS;.-L, 1*Ž,,iý *Cou)Itilinedl to liold. iuntil tuie inaugura- O».'<5ftîrwit>fo hicqoIai Flws e likes FIGJITING ,THE RED TRADE tio(n of President Harding on 1 Marc!i MNC.B .RtKikelokr 4. 9 e1 Uil hthe diploniatic circles,,i' ia .nthoîu-od-h-Me E a.By-IR.Kîkrce. and ctustonis and inanners in the p/a< l,, ni s,!d1scOvecrs hiddcn od ed A-rgenitine state secrets, the tech- îCit's l ufie s (of litll'l i-, M r, Knickerb)ocker's second lseries nique of diploinacy., spies. intrigue- - >~<~' 1 f articIps on Russia orig*ialk- pub- ail are vividlIv rev-ealed1 bv: the author. A><. 1o/i.. lishcd iu the New York Eveîîing Post, l'le enltire .iool, contributes intimiateadheegtrdnhokfrwr- bits of record to the hiistory of recent i nformationî ereep hîti> t1ýe itor%- an(, an iiiustttou of a .iournalistiec c» tines. The. author .relates with pride %.I ne itt leq)itouuî . as lnfortunate as, it is tiider-, that lie lias lived ini everv state of 1ontingent, imu< iraqu et phîsph- tandable. 'lie. Post's correspondent the nio bu on! is sv &nnîets 11 eop~ a4 ï~ ~ w-ou the *Pulitzer prize N%4th bis' first The last hialf of the volume is yen I)atatlt humo&. niake it aii accep)tàîlc series, which, in its fresh and concret;e niucb better ivritten than. the' first cnpa ioî ir an\y idie ?houir! l'he pictures of -actual accomplisliments in part-4roni a gramimatical standpoint. idrawiings 1 Lj-ie ' -Selz ,are aitusiufg t~îdsria ization -of'Russia, really. There are imany careless mistakes i in teîeve1n orryM. e-had-,somietii ne~vadueu osy gramnar that have no business being îîier's hîot.îts broacl revcalinglvy1 Few. foreigners liad taken the trouble- there, andi Mr. Stinison knows, better. eog. ~ -- to v'stit thiese renote power plants, Buit the Ibook is fuil of interesting,- , steel iniUls. and so on, or actuallx descriptions of the variouis states, o talked. on the spot, witli the Amnen- of iboth îaugniter atid commiseration. Aînoxg,ý It is toucb. and go wit1i the part-,I fouind Ieo.-ý a de luxe one, past Oxford, the Shake- 1r a speare cout,itry1' ,London, Paris, Fo'n-ic. Be!C tainebleau, tbeý Chateaux region-",. the! and distia Riviera, the high points oi Ital%, ànd mals by H- ültimuatelv the Rhine. bits of tourist ots bIJVU tco. a Conklir, 415y t. LUUV. l .414iaracter 14'. C 4ajJsy- ,ers mia.ybe .chologicàI imechanisni aW -their oxwRi; ver Hlerford when they love, their love is ideai; id Hunibert when they hate, their hatred i_% veno- er, i s a jolly mous-though that hatred, under the on of a ni- magic -influence of a seect droppéd Jiic yoitifù eariier'in the,,tàlé by Mr. M-itcbiell, - ma. ur to lov-e and i:nagiiaiiity.

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