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LIEBÂET StatIoaeWy BOOK BARGAINS, Pro-lnvenfory Sale 1724" Orrington Avé. Orington Hotel BIdg, 1 3 for $1 12 for $1 Gri. 0227 Three Good Books for. Snowy.,Days AN ITALIAN WINTER by C harles S..Brooks THE CRIMSON-QUEEN by Daniel Ilenderson THE CRIME 0F CUBA by Carleton Beols Chandler's Fountain Square, Evansfon iEnglish politics: but it is due aIso.to a diver gence of opinion concerning. Charles himiself. To certain persons. he appears. as àa noble a,'nd grateful exponent of bis kingly office, re'- ligious, virtuopus, brave, an, attractive- ly melancholy and tragic figure, mar- tyred by repulsive fanatics. Others, bowever, 'are. repelled by bis inability to see any point of viw e xcept bis' -own, his unstatesmanlike, weakn.ess, and vacillation, bis fr-equent breaking of bis pligbted word, 'and bis dulness in gauging theworld in wbicb be lived. until inexorable events camne crowding upon b is' poor,,.beNNildéred intellect and wbirled him to bis doom. In Mr. Belloc Charles bas found a spirited ladvocate wbo declares that no wiseman bas given Charles Stu- art, as- yet bis due praise' and wbo is out to smüite the, king's enemies -hip. and tbigh. Mary Queen *o .fScots is' categorically declared to be innocent of ber busband's murder. Elizabeth is a "warped, frustrated wornan, sensi- tive to the accusation of bastardy," completely dominated by the :Cecils and niulcted of hem revenues by rapacious courtiers. Sir Robemt Cecil is .possibly the originator of the Gun- powder Plot and Pyrn a possible giv- er of bribes; the matcbless Verney a trimmer, Cromwell a brutal bully. Buckingham, on tbe otber hand, is believes wnat ne writes aii points borne with telling. ows. 1THEt GLAMOROUS PAST ERIC THE RED. By Lida Siboi Hanson.' New York: Doubleday, Doran andconpany. A LOYAL FOE. By Ivy Bolton. New York.: Longmans, Green and com- ITICE ý ýna D. K FLOR- Boston: - WhistIes of Silver' wil provicie a feast. A feast, too, served Up in ad- miirable style, with side-dishes elegant and appetizing. . To drop rather hast'ily a figure that. might soon become ernbarrassing, cats here consort with sa.ints, puritans with pastry cooks, and medieval le- gends with modern life. Aimhost'every, story is preceded by a poem, miracu- lously close to it in therne or mood -àa poem of charmn,.of. exqlesite7 c raftsrnanship, witb sometimes: the tbrili of a. trumpet-peal. To set against, this delicate and s miling erudition are homneiy-tales like the poignant, story of Emiiy Bing, landiady of Pusey Terrace, and the marmalade -cat. Cats,, by the way, abound throughout the book. Tbere's nio use iii.comparing Mrs. Eden's cat fancying witb that of Agnes Rep- plier; the studies of the two, are amusingly different. Mrs. Eden's knowledge of the tribe, fireside corn- panion and "cattus'agrestis," is so in- timate that you woiider a~ littie how- she came by it ail. Illustrations in black and white by Denis Eden manage almost to sur- pass the text in bumor and, beauty. MARLBOROUGH:. 1650-1700, A Pre- Inde to Destiny. By Winston Chur- chill.1 Winston Churchill, direct- descend- ant of John Churchill, first )Duke of Marlborough, biere writes the story teiligibie to thie present generation.", This volume of sorne 200,000 words describes "handsorne Jack Cburcbill's"ý boy.bood. youtb, and early manhood. It describes tbe eail'y campaig n 1in France in. wbicb be won b is spurs. and bis part in the exciting court ini- trigues in the days- of ObCarleýs the Second and James, tbe Second. The second and final volume will follow soon. Tbe book is bas ed on a long and exhaustive study of documents., wnetner it covers tact or htionit i cornmands a double audience. The book is in reality the actul record of an African adventure retold by, Alfred Batsoni, a journalist and able st ory-teller, who drarnatizes the nar- rative and characters. It.,can itb i equal fairness be iudged as both novel aid- bistory; on both counts it.cornes out on top. Trhe days of 1911 were days of in- ternational jealousies and greed for territorial expan 1sion . An expedition was sent by termany. into. wildest Africa under the: guise of hunting big game.* so that the real. object miglit bc kept secret f rom Fran ce and E.ng- land. 0f -course, *this* was to study, the valueof terrain fromn the -stand- points of military, econom ic. and ag-. ricultural, usefulness - to determine Germany's aggression. The exploring party. consistéd of four white men.: an armnv officer, a famousbotanist, a distinguisbed g eologist, andý the- "Imaster 'of 'porters." Ninety- blacks started vwith thern as porters and la- .lorers, but they were ail driven t'a desert before, the tirne. of greatest need, by the brutality of the. leader, Major von 'Harden. Onl3 the "master Of porters". returned alive t o tell: the tale. Froîn the point of view of' stor - alone the book is absorbing, but it has more, important qualities thait those of a good yarn. Especially at this time it is more sirgnificant as a "noni-fictioni." Tbings that have haï'- penied before may happen again, and fundamentai character hias a wav oi reasserting itself. CHRONOLOGY 0F BOOKS AND, PRINTING. 300 B. C. to 1932 A. D. By Helen. Gentry and David- Greenhood. San Francisco:lHelen Gentry. * Under, marginal beads of different years from. 300 B. C. to 1932, and written in the present tense, are five or six hundred bistoricai items about printing and bookmaking. A casual readinçg of the book shows-fewer in- liam H-eyigem.-New -Y, ton-Century conpany. VS. By WiI- Month cu ii ork: Apple- cd the book, m and. beautiful. utiful country girl, resulting in the clirnax. Gina Kaus' a once great and chief defect is that she has put too The Book-of-the heavy a burden on a siender frame, have recommend- and under cover of apparent frivolity is. written simply bas dealt'out concentrated .puls of wisdom. ~XES I 'I