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Bueiâfor01C, atalo10U0 CALLING ALL STAMP COLLECTORS The few- 1937- Suand"d Postage Stamp Catalogue. goelbs on sae Sepm. 2lst-. rdr i'advanor to b uec your copy. the uneral of a great singer, a womaen-of genius, as_ told by- younýFreeman, tbe publisher. He had. long trièd to persuade ber1 to *rite a, biograpby,. but- she refused and sugqtsted that be undertake the work. !Men comes the noveL. It begins in Prague when an old scrubwoman brings ber daughter, a peasant. child, to the siniging master. His instinict and physiologicai Jcnow-. ledge tell ibi that here is the making of a great singer. New York and finds ber there in' distress. But she bas followed bis'advice. She bas lot used ber voice. He begins to teach some yrears later He, goes to Eleaitor Hallotrell Abbout, author, "Beiiig Littléie j Cbridge Whenitveryone IElieWas Big,7 in t/he dayIS w/te» shc tuai flut/e. D..'ppletont-Cè,ttury com>«>ty pu(blisted her book oit Sqtemnber 8. of bier, and she is alilbe hoped. Price $2.50 authority on stmnps and their valm&es. ssntwalfor atmp oellectoms C. HAHN FOR STAMPS 645 Lincoin Ave., Suite 10. Winnetka Opposite North Shore Station Needs memoranda. In fact, a large section New Ivrs. Meiigs Bookc of the book is taken from the suppressed memoir of the French duke Invoves Cunningham who .had been ber lover. She left The announcement by Appletonliim in the end because she was a Century that on Septetuber 8 tbey woman who beld her genius as some- published a new Elizabeth Corbett tbing sacred, and would do anytbing1 book, M.':. Meigs and Mr. Cunyuinigfor it. ham, wherein that grand and wellTbe nature of tbe woman is i-e- loved old lady is seen with a beau~, vealed to the full. To read of ber bas brought the author a flood of, triunpbs is almost to hear ber sing. letters dernanding, the "why and The narrator gathers up ber story from ail those most closely associated with hçr, often guoting froiu. *heir n'as Hig, puDlishfld September 85 Dy Appleton-Century. This cbarming record of a child-. hood spent amfong the great New England' intellectuals of the 1870'S flows sô smoothly, ecreating . vividly vanisbhed age, with a continuous, stream of the illusti-jous of the times -Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, and .even., Oie Bull-sauntering leisurelyacross its pages, that the reader cannot but-y '-jêtoits, spel, This account of childhood days in a lost period bas a grace and .fluency altogethei apart from tbe fact that nearly ail of those, Who figure in its pages stili loom 'big, even, to those who were: neyer lttle in Camnbridge. Piublished. on the. éve- of the 1arvard H tercentennial exercises, at is the timely story of a house always ,r-wge with, Harvard professors and students. Miss Abbott, daughter to a distinguished clergyman, and, granddaughter of Jacob Abbott, author of the famous Rcjlo books, is alreacly known and loved. in America for ber novels. that this simple, canidid and lucid tale of an idyllic girlbood aid the intellectual ferment of a vanisbed New England' will be the best loved of But it is fairiy safe to say 4 Thorndike Dictionary Oxford Unabridged in 13 vois. has written a new novel telling the story of an unemployed man in a British seaport. Knopf publisbed it on September 14 under the title of Tine tbKill. of 1-lmes, Hawthor-ne, Wbittier,was 'orced upon- me by niose readers. tewell and -Longfellow, wbicb be the end of A Nice Long Eveni.ng traces, Rearden Conne.', author of Shzake At to some extent, to their interI allowed Meigs to walk off Hands urith the Devil, a selection of ai-m in armnMrs. est in children. "Tbis ever-present with Mr. Cunningbam consciousness the Literai-y guild in February 1934, because 1 didn't want ber to be of cbildren. in minds lone- "rime fo KilII" some. I tbought too that it was quite in character for ber to acquire a new interest. along about that time. But it seemed to me a very definite so unconscious of tbemselves, spoke for a culture at its highest tide, a community that believed in itself, eager to perpetuate its foi-ms." Wbether one agrees with this interesting speculation or not. it ta cer- acis Beeding. f