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arrived Tuesday, August 1. to visit the J.eslie Perrys of 1127 Green- wood avenue. LISRARIES PRIVATE PURCIIASED We ýpsy the birbeit piees fi eamploes private collections . e 1,0.1. or single volumes. The Aragaàt Doks.klrs. 1557 Sedswlek, st. Lîncola 5108 l'OPU LAR BilCX, uoOrKS Ifor AàcUsi r.ding ANTHONY ADVERSE by Horvey Allen ARCHES 0F THE YEARS by Halliday Sutherand $ 7 MASSACRE, 0F GLENCOE by John Suchan$.5 Chauidler's Founfai Square.. Evanston mioud to lier iriend Julia t pvu o New York 'that appear in the Chi- cago Tribune will more than welcome this book tbat Miss Clark bas coin- piled at the requ est of so inany of berreaders. About twenty,-fiv«e of tbe letters. bave been selected, and these al'describe so well early Cbicago tbat the ýwbole reads like an excitin g story. Tbe openinig letter is dated, Octo- ber ' 27j 1854., Martha. writes. to Julia tbtbrfather bas gone to a political meeting, to be addressed by. some one :sbe bad' neyer beard of before- the Honorable Abraham Lincoln. She also states tbat ber family bave nxoved into,tbeir* new bouse on Wab-, asb -avenue, near Madison street, and adds-"We tbink we sball like it very mucb, for its is sucb a quiet residen- tial section of tbe city." On May 18, 1860, Martba writes tbat sbe bas seen a presidenitial cali- didate nominated. Sbe describes tbe, thrilling, uproar that arose wh ben Lincoln won the nomination. Martba's vivid and "personal'" description of the Cbicago fire is one of tbe best ever written, and tbe details of the city's growtb afterwards are master- fully bandled. in these letters bistory is written in such a colorful and appealing mnan- ner tbat there is flot a person wbo would not enjoy tbemi. Tbe quaint- ness, the intimacy, and tbe authenti- dity of them bave endeared Miss Clark to bundrcds of Chicagoans. Tbe older generations find niany fam- iliar naines whicb the young er gen- eration bave merely heard or read about - "Long John" Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. William Blair, Mar- shall Field, Potter Palmier, Bertha Honore, wbo later became Mrs. Pal- nier,NMr. and Mrs. William Gold Hib-' bard, joseph Medili, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Blatcbford, 'and many others. Tbe regular editioni of thé book, it is aànnounced, nay be obtained at all book stores for $1.25, but there is -a linîited edition for $3. Popular Authiors Ineluded .- " - -1- Y *_ý £--- A catLJins wAi iue a Lwo-voiJume cuc tion of plays f rom early Elizabetban days to just before the Civil war, collected by two associate professors at the. Nortbwestern university Eng- lish department, Arthur H. Netber- cot and. Virgil 1B., Heltzel, ai. by C.. R. Baskervill,. bead. of tbe Englisb department at tbe University .of Chicago. Tbe first. volume, "Elizabetbaù Plays," will be published'tbis fall by Henry Hoît. Tbe second, volume, "Stuart Plays,," will be publisbed early next year. Tbe two-volume set will be tbe most comfplete collection of.its kind and will include some of the earliest specimens of play writing. Story of Swise Boy. Helen Coale Crew, one of tbe coun- try's leading writers of- stories, for. children, bas contracted witb Harper for a book whicb will be publisbed next spring or fall. The story, for which a tâtle bas not yet been se-ý lected, has béen written for boys and ,girls, about 13 years old. It is about a Swiss boy and is aIl set'ini Switzer- land. Mrs. Crew is the author of such popular cbildren's books as "Alanina,"? *Saturday's Cbildren," "Singing Sea- meni" and "The Shawl Witb tbe. Sil- ver Belîs." H. F, Harrington, director of tbe Medill scbool of. journalism at North- western university, and R. E. Wolse- ley, instructor at Mundelein college, are collaborating on a journalism textbook for high schools. It will be entitled "Tbe Copyre4kder's Work- shop," and wiII be published next spring by D. C. Heath coxupany. Somewbat similar ini format to. "Around tbe Copy Desk," written bv' Mr. Wolseley in collaboration withi Leland D. Case, the new volume %vill be the first of its kind, and will, comn- bine texts .ýwith exercises. ý . Dean Harrington is now one ofthe most important writers of journalisin. textbooks in tbe country, b aving more tban seven to bis credit., Hisý collaborator, Mr. Wolseley, is a gra.duate of Northwestern universitN., lasting value. such as Anthony AdvuJerse (for wbicb no amount of praise is too great 1), Looking Back by Norman Douglas, and The First W'if e and Other Steries by Pearl Buick. But during one of' the botter moments of. the past week 1 read abo that proved to be s'O amulS__ inig and so delightfully refreshing ail experience that I -must pass it on. It is called Once Thcy Werc, Ricli and comcers itself witb the Scarthwood famil-Sir, Valentine and Lady Scarth- Wood; Virginia, wbo ,bas her sent down f rom. Oxford for mixing Ulp Thomnas and Oliver Cromwell in a bis- tory examination; Rosalind, who has, a penchant for D. H. Lawrence and sticky sweets; and Rontle, wbo lias a flare for the mechanical. Suddenlv, through the coliapse Of a large invest- ment trust, they find themselves utterly dependent on their own resources. Rosalind casts> aside, ber noveis amui goes i for poultry farming, Virginia takes up borse-trading, Ronnie delivers the eggs and poultry ini a motorcycle, of bis own construction . Sir VaIintine knlits, and Lady Scarthwoocl, to the great surprise of tbe wbole f amily, turuis olit to be an excellent cook. Besides this> highlly, amusing family, onie finds old Chris Tussle, th e local hlorse-dealer wbo keeps the remnains o Mrs. Tussie in a tea cannister on bis mantel-piece; Miss Penberthy, guardiaii of the morals of Flagdens End; Hum- plhrey Dykes. tbe young curate wbo vas in tbe habit of serving cocktails ini bis cottage garden after the Suiiday service -until he gave up bis' parisb and de- voted bis time to constructing hen-runs for the Scarthwood poitltry; and itnm- erous optber village characters includi.ng P. C. Copley, the local policeman. \%,1( m'as very pompllous. inthe executio i.io bis "dewty." once.They j'Vcre Rici, is more thait .good entertainnient-it is a soundp- losopby of lii e, and the. Scart1hwoods are. an -enviable, but prohahly not ail unusuaàl. examnpk of ýthe. "New Poor." HOOVER TO BE LIBRARIAN Former President Hoover is sooli JFWWYEs BOOK TO1 Gladys Hasty the immensely si Maine-"As the sold to, Warner. B 1picture rigbts in airrn iurns"-nas 1realiz ýthejrs, the motiôn 1coniti te novel.. Aine] act trbut wbih i isim-subject was the conteniporary r.ovei. cto measiare witb exactitude." citizen, whatever bis occupa- SUCCEEDS GALSWORTHY sys Mellon products: yet "kéw H. G. Wells bas succeeded tbe late tbat they, individually, have John G;alsworthy as president of the uted toward the creation of P. E . N. Club, the international or-. -a's second-'largest fortune. ganization of 'writers. h e,,..