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curirent books BOOK RENTERS- Both fiction and non-fiction SOCIAL STATIONERS Bomed and pound p*pers 1724 ORRINOTON AVENUEg Orrlngton Hotel Bldg. EVANSTON Green Gr»w the Lyuss Riggs Li lacs Thsglesmorous and highly .original play has just been produc.d by tlhe The.atre Gildanden :u $2 siasfically rcie . ... Ckaudler's Founfain Square, Evansfon man,,anci oi urie value ru the artists themselves. Mr. Schoen in the in- troduction to his book states that one eeitic writes: "It is improbable that more nonsense bas been written about aesthetics than about anything else; the literature of the subject is flot large e nougli for that.' The aestheticians investigate and explore the, realms of beauty. They attempt to define andîanalyze beauty, and art,' and to enable the layman to appreciate and understand works of art. Tbey have determined upon various theories which, diagnosed, ail amount to the same thing, They analyze the art impulse, the creative urge,' and the steps in the creative process. When an artist lias painted a picture the. aestlietician seeks to iearn* why, the, artist'painted in and what bis immediate end wvas. Max Schoen flnot only champions the cause of the aesthetics butlie brings their sciencel doser to those who know, littie about it. His book îs divided into two parts : Art 'and the Artist ; anid Art and the LaymanJfHe' starts out by giving several defini- tions of -art by artists and .finally de- duces from-an bypothesis , that "a product is not an art work just be- cause it is a literai reproduction of* some object or occurrence, no matter lîow perfectly èxecuted,"-b)ut' the art' work is the resuit of the striving of the' creative mnd' "to evoke .the ideai dormant in the actual by using the actual as its medium." "The art work," .writes Mr. Schoen, "is a unique presentation, or expression, of a unique experience by a unique mimd."- This defiitiol 'of an art work leads to au interesting anialysis of thie cre- ative process and the çreative mind. The mmid of thie genius is given par- icuülar attention by M\r. Schioen. Ini the second part of. his book thieath- or begins by describing the varions theories. of beauty such as the theory of. Significant' Form advanced by Clive Bell; Psychical Distance by Dr. E. Buillongh, Objectification' by1 George Santayana, Intuition by thec Italian philosopher, ,Benedetto Croce, anid the theory of Empathv advocated. 1nnidn o11cucvurred in Baghdad. where Mr. Ponafidine was Russiati consul.. "An amusing incident bappened on the Fourth of July," declares Mrs. Ponafidine.. The Vali, or governor, after liaving macle 'liàoffiç'iaI cal o f. congratulation ontlieUnited States 1consul, came to ont consulateaëccom- panied by Tevfik Pasha. Speaking, of Amnerica,. the Vali, a rolypoly good- .natnred Turk of the old. scliool, sa id: 'By the, way, just wliere is America? I am an oid mian and have forgotten. Is it a part -of London?Y "Tevfik Paslia, evidently chagrined that the Vali should so betray bis ignorance, liastily replied: 'No, your. Exicellencey, Amerîca is ain island. A good many. years ago some English people took, a slip and went to this island. They prospered, bnilt cities and grew ricli, and soon word came to 'London that .lere were Englisli people paying no0 taxes. Solhe Eng- lish Padishali sent over zaptielis, to collect taxes. Tlie people on tlie islatd 'beat them;, killed -and drove the rest back, saying that tliey were no longer Englisli but Amnericans, and that tliey would pay no taxes to Eng- land. 'SQ the Padishali sent a slip witli soldiers, but they too, were de- feated. Thenii ilis anger lie fitted ont an armvY. When the' warships came close to the shore where, a'city was buiit 1l1ke Baghdad, right on the water, 'the governors and gen erals were sitting in an upper room drink- ing tea.. When these people saw the i ships an-d the Englisli soidiers tliey ail rose np and dashed tîcir' cups ont of the window crying, 'We' will never drink tea again until we are free'!' And they gatliered tir fgrces- niany had 'only axes and pitchforks- and beat the English and drove theni back. And that is America, yoiur Excellency."I ,THE BLACK SWAN. By Rafaei Sabatini. Houghton Mifflin. The histforical romances of Mr. Rafael Sabatini are so many, and so deservedly well known, that it is hard-- lyr necessary to' sav more of tlie ores- the author bas been supplied to the MacMillan cornpanyr by the English publisher of Welzl's book. Jan Weizl, a Czecli. by, birtb, a locksmithb b trade; decided to seek his fortune in the Far North. trav- ':eled by wagon across 'the wilds of Siberia - then on a wlialing slip to the Arctic Circle.. In bis book- hfe. teils the- story of lis arduons journev,ý' and.of howv he became a successfu 1» trader with lieadquarters in~ a commo- dious cave on the rocky* coast of. New Siberia; an island in thle Arctic ocean, where hie has niow lived over thirty years. Jules Vernie's, phrase. "The faithful narrative of. an incredible adventure". is an apt description of Jan Welzl's colorful tale, for it is one of' the strange*st stories imaginable of a man. wNho, seized by wanderlust, worked his way northto the Arctic regions, where le endured lunger., loneliness, and many dangers, but' madle a. living and became a chief amonp, the Eski- môs. white 'traders, and gold diggers. He tells. how lie adopted an Eski- io baby to save it from ,being tlirown, into' the sea. how hé e wasý storm-. bounid in a, blizzard without food for four davs,, enjoyed a host of other perilous 'experiences and was finallv *voted chief. of the, i sland,, with po%,Ver of life and death. The accouint of lis. life reveals that Jan. Welzl, the son of a shopkeeper, w-as born in a smali towniin Mora- via, now Czechoslovakia. After coni- pleting bis three years' of niilitary service, he made his way' on foot to the: nearest port-Trieste-on the Adi-' atic. There he fonnid employnient as' a deck-hand and so re-ached Port ,Arthur, whiere le,,workedl fora tume inIthe arsenal. Then ,he mioved1 on> té Irkutsk, Siberia.,- and from therýe,, laun-cled out .upon the adventurou s trayels, in Arctic regions of which heé tells. After the, world -war lieé traveled with a grou'p of EskioGsý to San Francisco. On the return triplie was shipwrecked, and silice lie camne from the New' Sibenian Islands, i. e.. froin t Rssian territorv.. and had no le is going, to do,. and lie gives a own; an amusing work . by .a writer "Stu'iw " bave ben OCm, i 'fine sun1mary of the first part of his who knows lier scetie. the flrst award of the Prix book; lie believes that that is suffici Io- A mericana, a. new prize éstabli! ent-and it is, but as a matter of Ile Broccoli asid OId Lazce of Frank the Frenchi Prix .Fmna cor iitray frm and 'technique ,ther.e Sullivan' (Liveriglit) is just as anmusing These three books 'wilI be subi- slolnd be somnething in the way of a as the titie suggests. He. is the best tle. Frencli committee which wi summarizing paragrapli or chapter. siapstick satirist now writing. the-final, choice Me y nittee. ed to- niake