Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 Mar 1936, p. 52

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CaUi for and Hill, by Madeline Darrough Horn te be Delyrerd . published by Charles Scribner's'Sonson1 Work Gusaranteef March 20. phone« Gr.. ffl-gui F 00r 1 a the Hil, the. first book -illus- trated by Grant Wood, is a collection of. boo p childreni's stories by the wife oçf Pro-, SId~ Evaaton fessor Ernest .Horn of theLniverity,.ofC Iowa. The author has sought to capture in ber stories the happy active lueé of Young. children on a Middle. Western1 farni. She lierself spent much tinie' on a > Missouri ant, and Mr. -Wood was born, on one in Iowa.- They have known each other for many years, and have col1labo- rated. te create something new iii,,chul-, LIRA! dren's books. There are eight ful-ýpage1 BtatIuel7 celer illustrations by the artist as Weil as lining paper, and jacket, illustrations.* HOWUNGThe adventures of Billand Tom on the ~TUONURY iarm are se clearly and humorously a 1',uMn depicted, that- one - can almost feel the O~7 spilt milk drippîng and taste the crisp n1f6*00 e Grant Wood was born ini Anamnosa, E ,tel Building Iowa, in 1892, the son of a Quakèr famnily. Botb bis father's and miother's1 families had corne to America in colo- H A L Lniali tues. His early lufe on the farm H A L L was a struggle against poverty and D a keen. initiation into the realities of the' lie of the fariner. His theory may be! sunmmed up by saying that art should A ~ corne out of the land and the people. t > UN Y The co-operation of Mr. Wood w.ith Mrs. Horn bas made possible a children's ' M STORE bok whch e: cs amlf with humeore America's ioreynôst artists.b In Search of G@Id Ïv ~Altbough Jean Arbuthnot and her q iranId throe friends failed to find gold inq British Guiana and Venezuela they ti ro te found high adventure and comedy. 1c rom th.é More Profit T/ian Gold, published by a, Scribner's on February 18, is Miss Ar- buthnot's tale of the misfortunes, bard- ships, and hurnan comedies that mýet the LC ~H littie, party from nl.d from valley to mounain. "In sîght 01 these" she says, I'aiter a. long day's tranp inu'pourn* ain. Iwrote the first Scène of FreedoM, Farewpell! wbhere Caesar, î Reeing for bis 111e across the mountainsP metts Servtlia in the tamï.". àNVhen Herbert Corey camne 10 sec mv. relative to bis preparation of this book., I willitigly consenteil to lend hiyîî every assistance compatible with the nature aild thie work of thé Federal Bureau of In- vestigation.. I know, of my own personal knowledge, that the author has spent counitless,'hours In assetnbing the vast amount of data included in this.-volumie, This nove! marks a distinct departure serve the higb purpose wich imipellél for Miss Bentley sbe ba.s bhitherto laid hini téorite it--to awakeèn the, gooci ber scenes chiefiy in our oWn tume and citizens of Amern1ica to the serlousness of in her own county of Yorkshire. But the crime problem in this .country.'. she'-was inspired by' today's, most startling bappenings in Europe to paint Sosays J. Edgar Hoover, director of a.-realistic picture of similarhappeninigs the Federal Bureau of Investigation, inteps-and What grew out of them. U.,.13 Depalrtmient of. Justice; in the Forewotd. to Herbeft Corey's sensa- In Preedom, Farew'ell! she brings-to: tional.'book, Pare-zwIll'Mr, Gnsc! life--red-blooded, tempestuousý, dramatic .4itericdç War os& Crimte. In this book -Julius Caesar, Pompey. ýCrassus, Cato, Mr. Corey provides the first full neciunt Brutus: 'the "realist," the general, the 'of the operation of tbe world's greatest Plutocrat, the austere'Stoic, tbe-drae' r rganization. of crook-hunters, the first. -andsho usjus wba Roan OCet composite picture of the G-Man and his. was like ini the last- century of the aledGvrm tAgns Republic-feasting, fighting, arguing lidG ermnAgts tavliig; at home, in the senate, at the J The feader is given a vilzid and àti- circus. itbentic picture of Amlerica's concen- trated war on the 12,000 public eleies who raun iot between 1914 and19. Publish New Book of The author relates for the first time thc "inside story" of bow the Fe leral Poems by A. MacL.ish Bureau of invtstigation has "c'racked ArcibldMaLeih f ewYork- down" on ,uch notorious criminaiN a4s1 City, the son of INrs. Andrcw '.\ac- the Barker-Karpis gang, John Dillitiger. Leish of Glencoe, wil bave publisbed the T.ri-State gang, Baby Face Xei son.' this monh v Frrr Rînhar -, and other publie enemies,. t.... .niiiii uy a ..ar fl.n,t..a. ana .Company a uiew book of bis poerns en.titled "Public Spee.ch." Mr. Mac- Leish is the author of "Ppemns," a book of collected verse written frotu 1924 to 1933. He is known best of al! for his historical narrative poetry published under the titie of "Con- quistadlor," whicb relates to tbe con- quest of Mexico by Cortez as seen *hrough the eyes of one of, bis fol- lowers. Mr. MacLeisb is -an. editor, of Fortune magazine,. Nine "Hon.sf' Men . Oe of the results of the iAnd aside from the autbentic, exciting. and bard -bol led story of the way thc F. B. 1 . bas "mopped up" on thesù pre- datory-criminals, the, volume also consti- tutes an important sociological. dociuent, describing the causes of crime in tihe, United. States, pointing out the etforls being made to reduce the numb*ler of criminals, and enumerating the diflicul- tie s iacing our civic, county. state.. and Federal law-en for cenient organiza'tions. The book wàvs publishedNMalrch 1l. Mencken Rewrites Work The new edition of H.LI. M.,ic'k,.,i'c Firsi Roer.-Svemst.mStoee Aiso ?filrd Floor, Chicago Store AvrK fla icA tl. I BULLY ROY MUT KITCHEN. 519 DAVIS ST., EVANSTON Antony: A Record of Youth by the iri of Lytton was published by Charles nibner's Sons on Marçh 10. The lufe Viscount Knebworth as revealed by sletters to bis father is the story of ,uth and high .spirits-and -was the ichoite theEnglisb Book Society for,Deceni- MARS FIELl COMP EVM4STOë More G Values Fr MAI I

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