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S 1f.pired Ruted Sold C'J14 for aùA Work Omaranteed . . - -m -V ALENTIfIES , I (74 Orringtoe, Evanston Gre. 0227 Oný,ring+on Motel Suilding W Chaumd1er's Rentai Library OFFERS M.aiy cozy hourm of ro*,ding for *nowy days. The latest fiction and b e 9t setiers will be, found here. :Chaudler's. E. G. Boulenger,, noted English -authorit3y on marine life, has liere written a compréhensive and brul- liant account of the' strange, fan- tastic sea-animals which inhabit our great oceans. From the, lowest forni of' microscopic, single-celled animals up to the gigantic representatives of the mamalia, this, book. presents the whole sweeping story of the life of the seas. Besides containing an, illumninatinig survey of undersea, life,, the book in- cludes the legends 'and. myths which surround 1sea .serpenits and. other fabulous mon sters . of the deep, ýnot, omitting- the. Loch Ness m'onster which recently caused such a pother amon g certain visionary Scots. 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Dorofhy Canfield Says Nol'loMiss Ths On.e Dorothy Canifield ini the "Book of the Month Club News" makes the -following ent'hlsiastic comment on MarR2ret Deu- -lu - il resuit oi a' Wiaesp.0aa p- op any,1K1J1I> N ..P h proval, thiere are being added to spring Life in a small Vermont town, first epublications by D. Appleton-Century under Democracy and then under an Comipany, three new titles. irnaginary dictatorship, is described These, like their predecessors, are by Sinclair Lewis in his political r brought out as brand new 'novels. Writ- novel, It Can't Happen 1-ere. n'ten by sonie of the day's foremost au-. The 'treatment is satiric, the detail sthors of this paricular type, of fiction, painfully frank, and the conclusions ,fthey are' intended purely and simplY ,f or depress ing and pessimnistic.. "Toù ethose who want entertainnint and re- -terrifying, and, exaggerated to realiy flaxation. The three tities are:4 pertain to anything Americ.an," one T/he Jail Gates Are Open,.by David is prompted to. say. Yet the United Hume. 'Featuring that extrao rdina17Y States bas been drifting: farther ànd teami of: private detectives, Cardby and farther into many of theprcie Son, here is another . fast-paced4 two- 'aid prinçiples held up to ridicule' in fisted thriller by the man whoni they ail It. Cat't Happen Here. Realizing t are calling, "the new Edstar Wallace-.9 this, an authority on political. science rThis time the Cardby, at the suggestion recommends. that -every American., rof Scotland Yard,, are off on the trail of read the book. Lessons and facts a gang of couinterfeiters, who have been w hicli one fails to assimilate in any flooding Great Britain with, their wares.- other way, may1 make a vivid im- With mouniting speed, the plot, develOPs. pression if, approached through fic- as a man of mystery and îmmensewealth tion and imaginative literature. cornies. importanitly into the scene.. Lewis tps to discredit the Thte Stiars Screarn Murde, by Arthur brutality' and ignorance of dictator-', B. Reeve. The masterful author of. the ship ndaled onso oeue world fanious "Craig Kennedy" stories. The European travels of hiis wif e hitre' sets his -scientixfie detertive to solv- and those experienced by himseif ing the problem: Is it possible by astrol- must have been responsible for quan- ogy to determine who,,arnong a group tities of incident and fact in 1t of suspects. is the most likely perpetra- Cani't Happen Here." (Mrs. Lewis, tor of a crime? The occasion for ýthe knew and wrote so much aboutGer- working out of this probleni is the ayttshwsbred.fo te strange death of an old recluse, which maonty.)Tha he wbarred 'frohé, lth takes place in a veritable tower of ter- liquidation of intellectuals, imýprison- ror ini the' exclusive atrnosphere of Long Island. g ment In concentration camps, ail this Homicide Haven, by J. V. Turner.'Iland rnuch more corne to the. citizens e of the littie' town of Fort' Beulah, This is an out-of -the ordinary story for iVrot fans who are wearied of the usual grist. Te' eontir tr switnfo In the course of the deftly woven plot. h nie t Iswrte rr there are brôue-ht together a self-re&1- the point of view of Doremus Jessup, mure re n o pia n s d so ed. a lua hs frien'ds and the.5rnembers of his ,mudeedma'i dscveed aprovin- a' l. oremis editor of the cial cotistable, a retnreseritative o)f Scot- Fort 'Beulah "D-aily' Informer," a land Yard, a variety )f ' tvpicîal stnall nia nof consequence in. lus commun- tow.chrater, areire arivffierity and a person of more than: aver- 'baik robber, thugs, and a hostof other;. aeitllgne ___________The author builds up interest in the B~h ofH.astcharacters very gradually, andý the, D.grApi opcning chapters, wherein lue .mo.st D APle.toti-Cetitury cornvpany an- prepare 'a fictitious backd rop Of po-ý inouince that they will publish earlv ini the litics, tendý to. drag. Once- this nlew vear the authori-ed if e of Willianî rudoki adadtefiln Randolph Hearst. l'lie author is Mrs. teto h oe md'cer b Frenon Olerwhse ushnd as"n! sorption in the story buids up to cf the leadinig newspai»er meni of the l'f We~ Cnst s eito, hfor h~recntever - pitch. Contetnporary people, ietCofathae' So'yî' Forisco ' eal-Bu1-eve-nts and parallels rise 'froni every letin 'Xfr~ O1'l~r ; c211fl« 'ý.page. Soine of them wear burlesque es 0f recipes countries of Book Section, Firse Floor Ais» 3r4 FI.<,r,' Càicago Store cati art ist, has recently gone to 'Hono- lulu, where he is doing the illustrations for a fortlucoming book 'by Harry Carr on that.colorful place. The volume will be added ta the distinguisbed Century City series. Great Londôn Succes * . lut/i 'nv, the biography of Viscount1 * K'ehort h his fither the EarI of 1vttoin. iiluih was the December choice 1r(À the Ftigli-,h Book Society ,and otne of the- freatert Tandon successes of* 1935 ,will'be publiÈ.hed this sprtng nii America. Dramatize Novel Scribners will publish this spring' the, draniatization of Edith Wharton's fam- ans 'story E.than F rome by Owen and Donald Davis- which openied in Philade'l. phia on january 6