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1'HEsolution toý any '-and every gift prob.- lemfotbooks are the per- fect gift for al from three to eighty 1 Let our skilled, staff (yes, they really read. the. books) h felp you select- the one that is sure to please. Founfain Square Evanstoin Unïted States and, of a compreber sive plerir)d of our history is giveni a smI)e ut effective way in this nei anthology of stories compiled by Mrý Becker. The interests and activitie and mentail tenor of our mid-Westeri states during a rather broad perio< covered by "anything back of tht miotor car" are reflected in these tale. -and reflected in great variety. M rs Beckerlias a real flair' for selection' She bas resurrected much material lost inI old magazines,1 and bas used also f romcertain -books-welî, kno*n or. otherwise.--chapters whicb, car stand :alone as episodes. or stories, Thus' sbe ranges aIl tbe way froti «Main Street" to forgote suso tbeOutookor McClure's, and from a modern name sucli as Ruthb Suckovy or Sherwood Anderson to Mr. Dooley w*ith bis flavor of past days.. Somne of ber selections are cliosen lor their imaginative quality, ome for realisin sorne simply for background. But each one is wprth .whie anid &cntilntes its quota to the ultimnate effect of a book which should have its distinct value butli for old and young, in pic-. turing. things that are past or. very repidly passing. Already in the same series are "Golden Tales of the Old South" and Golden Taies of New England." -F.. Yeats-Brown ý-in a neighiborly city street., We sus-bt i realisma n-d cornmonseîîse are ~ pcttht he city myb NwY rrfireshýing enough after much of the Menion i made of the elevated and windy nonsense talked and written ýw the. Avenue; but there is also a pea- about the Five Year Plan. 8. cok who cornes out of his bouse as "The "real" plan, according to Mr. es aoeral'd of spring, with the first Levine, was based on facts ofge- wam y, anannin princess raphy, and climate which condemned d (woei utb ditd osdRssia, to' " an existence *of relative in an antique shop. ',A more exotic, poverty i the role of second-rate .C street, therefore, than most of us arc1 trlstt.pTepana sknow. ate-cry and as politi.cal roagnd In any ýcase, New York or flot,. Miss lias. ignored, naturai and historical iField has managed to make the street facts,,and excited> the Russian masses .a pleasant one. Mr. Simpson, the andalarmedthe -world with the no- I antique dealer wbo is 'devotedto bis tion -preposter. ous as. Mr. Levine n wooden! Indian princess, the. Misses analyzes it-that by, the mere im- iWilloughb 1y,1 Mrs. Klôtz, the news- portation of tçchnicalimýpler-nents and *paper woman and Mr. Twitchell, the processes regardless of their context man with the typewriter, are, amiable, in the' societies to which, they ar e f sympatbetic, but not duli neighbors indigenous, Soviet Russia could short- for Joe and Katy. When depression ly be changed into,a first-class, mod- ïdescends on the street, Mr. Simpson ern, lindustrial, state., is obliged to lose his much-prized In- 'With a fac'tuai backing which cati- dian. Joe manages to stow away withnot ihl ebuhdaie r her when she is snatched off .in a Levine. endeavors- to show the illuso- truck ,and ýfinally rescues her.- That riness of.,this vast and contagious is the plot. dream. Russian ýresources, instead of Miss~ Field's grave, humorous style being limitless, are far below *what brrngs the story to life. It is not as tbey are popularly fancicd to. be. She unusual a book as lier 'Hitty," but is relatively poor in fuels, in iron, fit is one that lier young readers wilI copper,- god, and, silver. The: great litre.bulk of ber tremendous territory lies, nortb of. the productive regionso h Tarkington Receives temperate zone. A large part of ber A. Medalgreat rivers flow nortbward into the NA. Gold ea more or less icebotind Arctic sea. Her Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize northern ports are poor and bard to -an bonor unique in the bistory of reacli, ber southern ports open on an this award-Booth Tarkington lias inland sea, shut off from the great it.st been presented with té-*,, pn v world by Constantinople and Gibral- - ý; -U ýtLU4D."%ii L wo UUier occa- a member of the Royal Flying Corps ions lias this miedal been awarded ini flirti.ng with death over the enemy's the field of fiction, in 1915 to Williami lines,. and a prisoner of war ' n Dean Howells, and in 1924 to 1£ditb Turkey, lie bias experienced many. Whlàrton.. Mr. Tarkington's latest In.bis Introduction to "Escape: A book is "Presenting Lily, Mars" Book of- Escapes of Alil Kinds" he-wbile. otherý of b is recent *noveljs are says, ý"We are ail: escapers,, men, ,'Alic.e Adams,'ý"'The Gentleman form womnen-and cbildren. Almost.every- 'Indiania;9" "The Magnificent Ambe r- thing we ý do except, the supremiest sonis," "Waniton Mally," and "Mon- Acts of enjoymient, is an escape in sieur Beaucaire." kome iiaiiiner or degree.' Mr. Yeats-Brown bas included in 1It 1 r 0 oud, and the tacl, of rock on lier great European plain, the tremen- dotis distances of Siberia, make the building of any adequate transporta- tion 'systç e eonomnically, if no physically, ,imipossible for, an in-. definite iito cre ENTERTAJNING THE ISLAND- ERS. 13y Struthers Burt. Scribners. Entertaining tbe Isianders is pro-. foundly concerned witb love-witb love .as symbolizing and merging withi the true values of life. li begins À9 MYES irngton Ave. Gre. 0227 on Hofel Bldg., Evansfon OnNovember 20 WaIt Distey's Hu e"Te nelec The Mntaineers in O aArnJ~~.r,,cA . ' o iýUstePTe noels, Thbe Mntaireens "Three Little Pigs" was publisbed. and "Festival." Hie oiginally carne in ookfor. Te frstpritin offrom Philadelphia, las lived mucli in 50»00 copies is- aleady exbausted and New Yomk, but no' pns oto thepubisersar now usbing an- bis time bêtween his winter home in other edition to press. ,So tbey're Soutbern Pines and bssuhr'ot builin' and puffn'. in Wyo minmmr om