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-,m j w=w MORRISON Chandler's Founfàin Square - vanstfon GONCAWAY? Ltui help plan your W.e ffer y,. a complet. bo<,k aDîng and renal amveaumlithe.time. 1724 ODEINOTN AVENUEt Ouritmgton Ktl flIuI. EVANSTON gence they hiad 'achwçved the miracle of a permanent prosperity whicb no crisis could ever destro$r." And one of tbe strange reactions of tbe pres- ent economic crisis is that it (the crisis) sbould bave followed thelie- ginnings of a planned economic life. Before the World war, Mr.,Bonn ex- plains, American economic society had -been anarchic, unplanined, but by 1929 it sbowed .definite signs of or- derliness and design. *The autbor opens bhis first cbapter, "The Bcoomj, with this- questionable sentence: "The World war was the nal and .determining cause of ,tbe stupendous' .boom. in the United States." It 15 questionable îîot for its accurateness but for its general. tone. 1 marked, a note of satire the nmoment 1 read it, and one discovers later that tbis same satirical note is interspersed .tbougbout the book. One finds sucli examples as th~e fol- lowing: 4"The American, in bis practical. life, has long since adopted a hostile atti- tude toward the pat." . .. "T3he. Amerý ican in bts attitude towards persons and thlngs, la completely devoid of re- spect. In the case of objects and insti- tutions of old standing, the length of time they have exlsted is to hlm only another reason for gettlng rld 0f themn as qulckly as possible, not a' Justifica- tion for preservlng. them."l (Af ter ail, Arnerica a I n tbe niaklng; and bas as yet very few "objects and lnstitutions of old standing." Progress la born of the future and flot of the past.).* "In the great cities. the akyscraper la galning ground as a placé of résidence. They (the skyscrapers) mlgbt bc the citadels of a new race of nobles towèr- Ing threateningly above a multitude. of low serfs' cabîns on communal l ines.q" (I wonder. if most Amerleans find their live;s slipplng away iln a "gray monot- ony." .,Certainly a good many of us would bristle at ýthe thought of our, modest' homnes being compared to Iowr serfs' cabins" towered over threatening- ly by citadels (akyscrapers) ,of a new rae -f, nobles. There are very few Amnerieans 'wbo do.flot boast of the beauty and. grandeur of their skyscra p- ers, 'and especlally of -the New York and Chicago akylinesg!) Among the factors tat the author this great azure world above!1 droning of my great bird's Fuis the vast spaces of a boundless sky. Long shafts of golden ligbt, tbe fingers of the sun,, Play bere and .there as on a hidden , h a r p .> Unbeard melodies and voiceless bymns. Tbe clouds, drift past like s hips in. argosies, Their sails peari tipt and roseate lined. A gbostly littie specter ever glides bé- S sièle, The, sbadow of tbe bird' imprest on emptiness, Wan, restless, pale andbleïk, forlorn, A spirit lost seeking eternal peace. Below the world I've known se long bas dropt away, Its clamior stilled, its dross by distance 4îeled, And only beauty left, tbe beauty of tbe bull And stream and winding mountain'road, The forests dim -and green, the far flung plain. So, up and up and up and ever up!1 It seems tbat soon a 'gate Must 'open into Paradise. Wby corne so near.' only to returu tg eartb again? The parting lias so easy been, no pin and no regr-et. pi I wish that 1 miglit see'l ifeës ending And en ter into rest up here among the Alone witb God. By Catherine S. Long (Mrs. John Harper of Evanston.). Civil war,ý the emancipation of wom- en, and the anti-alcohol movCment." The author points, out the' reasonis ivhy Commrunismn, and SocialismÏ do not: gain any, ground liere, and the only danger of the former rising ai aIl,-be says, would be "if thosc, classes, who by tlieir, very, nature ouglit to be tbe mainstay of capital- ism, turn away froiniit." Not ýonlv the public is hostile towards Coin- m isnand Socialisiîî but. the labor leaders are strongly antaganiistic. Thli book, on the iuholp.zvsa planned witb a, series of unusual and appealing backgrounds, contrasts, and final echoes whicb lend every possible force to bis narrative and an artistic unity to tbe whole. He knQws bis South African island savage.and bis vagabond, illicitly trading sea-capta.in;,"he knows bis down-at-heel Lonidon, landlady and ber ,clients; lie knows also bis modern young woman collegian witb bier lively lingo, bier ruthless, penetrating vision, and bier sound lieart beneatb. 0f suci diverse elenits'is tbe book made, wvith noôsentimentality and, witb mucb terse and forcible writing. Tbe book is concerned not at ail. with any questionof tbe value or futlity. of missionary work; merely with the driv- ing force of tbe missionary spirit in human beings, and, in this case at least, of its validity in dý:' eloping a strange, vital relationsbip' with, primitive souls. The reader looking for soniething, un- usual will find liere mucb that is inter-. esting and, appealing. EXPIEDITION LIBRARY "Green Mansions," W. H. I-tudsoni's classic story of a tropical love, was the most read single volume among mem- bers of the.Byrd Antarctic expedfition, said Dr. 'Lawrence Gould, author of ,*Cold," at the annual meetingof the Amer!caný Bookstllers' association. D)r. Gould's baker's dozen for the.expedi- tion wvere: "TPle Bible," "Browningz," "Shakespeare," the "Oxford eBook of. English Verse," and the "Oxford Book of Anierican Verse," "Green Mansions," *'Tbe Golden Book of Kai-Lung," "The Crock of Gold," by James Stephens,. "The Sea and the jungle," by H. M. Tomlinson, Galsworthy's "Fo r syt e Saga," Rollanid's "Jean Chiristophe," "The' Soul's Sincere Desire," by G lenn Clark.and "Alice in Wonderlaýncl." «4FOR kTHE FUN 0FiT .4, flew, for the' fun. of i"replied Amelia Earhart, the world's most noted aviatrix, in answer to, reporters', whly she had crossed the Atlantic. Her publishiers, Brewer, Warren and Putnam, Inc., recently announc ed that "The Fini of It" was almost on the press wvhen. its. author made lier fliglit. "We lield the press and asked lier for an extra cliapter," tbey stated. Miss Earbart's book is the story of YES Ibeit on Pl ness" TI bave been of slavery t le cause and the Il Pevople, ineir sîil ,very great the îreasury ini resident Wi Ith, their strong eiou ties, ministration, for bis renm moral and intellectual conserva- "Crowded Years," and to Lin' render a violent upheavel, which f ens for bis autobiograpby. T d shake tbe foundations of Amer- are offered annually by the life,, extremrely, improbable." wealtb club of California. îî a 1vil! il ris ad- ;ences, n Stef- medals