Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Jul 1936, p. 36

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Mayflower By HENRY JUJSTIN SMITH For the first time the real1 story of the voyage cf the. Mayfiower and the man who navigated 'hero It took Father Eusebjo Kino 96 days to cross the Atlantic from Cadiz to .Vera'Cruz. ini 1681. This Jesuit missionary, scienist and exnlorer. travelleti through the Wilder- Y ~ ~ bas beencalleti "the last of tbe eigbteentb-centurY eccentri-cs, the first 01 the nineteenth-centuf y. pionleers."9 habit of exploring. strange coulntries. but, stayed a t home and let -the men play .. eBedouins "Foldig or Adrift in 'a Trie" A gide book te tradler travel, and a méreuof iide plitting anecdotes by Howard Vinemt O'Brien iress :of Mexico and Lower California for twenty-flve years. founding missions andi sowing the seeds, of civilization, and though lié ranketi as an expert surveveir andti map)-maker, "there is notbing iii bis reports,*' says Dr.. Herbert Eugene Bo1tom bisbiographer,,"to .indicate tbat hie hati any, inklitg.,that Californlia. was flot an island'. extending well toward ,Alaska."ý as hie showed it on the mop lhe drew ini 1685. In preparation for the writing of this In a day and age (she, was boni il 177)wen w.omen were nfotii the ~ ~ ~~ . . . the beroic roles, tHester. Stanhope lived .~. in a ruined castie on Mo4unt Lebanon for nearly tbirty.years and became the .f Chaudler's ieSf PounfeaSqua. MARSHALL FIELD$I IEVANITON STORE To maIe* your sammer menus a delight COOIK BOOKS uith imagination as the bostesi of ber uncle, Williami Pitt. makes ber departure from Englanti andi lber residence -in.. the tast, ail the more unusual.. So sp&ctacular in foreign countries did she become. that in '1813 Lady Hester Stanhiope wias crowned Queen of the Arabs under the- columus' of Zenobia's temple. Mystery and pageantry ceaptured the imuagination of this strange wonian, and she remained ini Arabia until ber death. sharp tongue and disregard for the FA conventionalities of the day set Hester Stanhope apart from women ini general. For Arm Chair Readers made ber a colorful and brilliant. pertime alienateti Traveler sonality but at the same ber roui the men she migbt have marIn Sishine and Diist (Appleton-Cen- rieti. So, unmarried andi witbout a home after the tieath of ber' uncle, Williami pre'vîlie 1Advenuretury). Anie Bosworth Greene, the Pitt, with whom she had been living, she nd CO1lr author of Th,' Loiie Winter, writes ini left I-1~ ;~~ tbe country rather than face reduced bas which style gay7-spirited saine, 'the (Apple.circumstalices. C. F. Scoggins, in PanpaJoe ton-Centur). :tells a breatbless story miade popular ber Lightheartued Jourey, Hester Stanhope in herseif would "niake" àsiy book, but added to the rne , of ativenture on the great. pamipas of - eodo rvli ranc.Gen ftrvllumeF eor vagaries and escapades of this eccentric the Argentine. In its setting of vastr.Gen volue présent the In. vigor the bas story are related events about many proniinént treeless plains, the car, people in the court of George III1. motor smnall la in daugbiter, ber andi picturesque most the of one of and color set out for Italy and the Swiss Alps. Hlester was the daughter of a jacobin of South Amierican lantiscape . tinie with Beau Love, romance, knavery.. fighting. Following for a, good paf t of tbe they- .Earl, andi moved in circles Moore. John Sir roatis, General traveleti Brummiell, speculation, and hurnanity are joined to the less fréquéntly the anti unand King, the unknown Bryon, Italy of Canning, nmuchi saw s form a tale notable for the author' yet tourist, Wales. of average the Prince hy reamietiof char withi ability to people the adventure. inclusive -The autlhor bas presented for the acters who are truly alive andi distinc- since this 'was to bc a generally "high ,Most part the later, dramatic years of many visited also tive. Visiting South America with a jaunt. tliey visitail of beloved andi known spots," roving view to regaining bis once life, but at the same Stanhope's Hester dust. time and surtshine of land that in given a thorougb picture of ors bas lac, Pamtpa father's rigbts in a, ranch. araw lad frotn. Texas, finds in the~ Specifically, the author introduces to biography of Kino. Dr. Bolton searcheti the. archives Of. Spanish America and Europe. coll ecteti over, 2.000 pages of 'Iucbi' IngIands poci î, A nw Kino's writings. following Kinn's trail j fsildetld Iarat.oh Alps Iltalianl the ini biirthplace <rom bis to Spain and over the immensenetwork '- Letter Fro>n Poi-tis," is made *froutes that lie traverseti in the New iiIp of short poemts. uith, tuo narWorld. As a result, a great funti of fresh niaferial is utillized hie forûtthe Irà,tfVes_-fhe ttlepomit and mie otl'.Teok .first timei. The hioizraphy. entitled Ri>,, of C'4ris- i llac)eillanJpblsedb tendo,,z. is illustrated with facsimiles of olti manuscripts and maps. andi pictures taken by the author on the trail. It was publisheti by Macmillan on J l V7.ondIfor-the "'Queen of Palmyra." The fact that she wvas brougbt' up in the most sôphisticateti of English societyi reigning for a season I BOOK SECTION FIRST PIMOOR The Boks TheBooks Yom 724 Orringion. Evanston ý Orrington NM00.,1 who bas récejved this mc ing won it In 1932 for J;rancix.wo:A Pageanet.> twice, Soi, book, hav-

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