The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

EVA N S TON STOR.E YotàiI find i. ,our *Strange Mc(odybas nothing whatsoever to do with music. Its themne is: "Life is a strange inelody. now light, now dark, now gay. now sad." The particular life in question 15: that of John Miac Dermott,' the gre at 0optimist, the captivating, wise-cracking Irishman, the. famonus author, Sheila MacDermott (nicknamed Gip), his daughter, tells 'th.e story of her father's life. Neil Bell. produced eleven nàvëls before he published Strange Melody., and, I say, the last is1 by far the best of the- group. Not tbat 1I'have read the others. I haven't,1 but nothing could be finer than this charàcterization of an 'incredible. mani. a giantt personality. LIBRARY of -the latest books FICTION a large selecflon NOWPICTION 11»e rentai1cha&rges are amal and. there is no dipoat requir.d. Strange Melody rushes forth ini a torrent of rich, throatv rhietoric,. stirring to laugbter. and to tears. Its author "spins:a yaril with abandon-' ment" as the Glasgow Weekly Herald, trt4y said, aniuIis a naturalborn ar-. tist when it cornes te, story telling. He paints John MacDermott with the sanie vjvid reality that joseph Conràd wrote descriptions of the sea. First as a younig art instructor, next as a starving short story writer, later as a novelist of importance, and fin'illy as a publisher and playwright of wealtb and fame, John MacDermott with his exuberant spirits and flighits of bombast is a man to thrill your soul and make you stay .up burning the mid-night oul to 'discover what the fates have in store for himn. Whether peddling his flrst novel by bicycle, or buying a steam yacht with the royal-, ties of the last, lie remains to the final curtain the same entertaining, mercurial individual. The novel is bound in eemerald green cloth with fine goki lettering. Sounds appetizing, and it is-like a turkey dinner, always more delectable %vith just the proper triminigs.-JYN.F. Supply Background for WorIcI Current Evenis )y Theodosia Paynter and G. A. GrantSehaefer. The Raymond A. liffi-11, Collipany, Chicago. Opèrettas sevenî and eight ini the chuldrenis series by Miss, Theodosià Paynter. of Glencoe and. G. A., draiit-1,3è.aefer hiave justbeen.issued, by Rayrnoiîd. A. Hbffnîan conipany of Chicago., The sixth operetta in the series, "The Beaiitv I. Conitest"' appeared'last spring. LNK~ Miss >Paynter writes the librettos for the.publications, Mr. Schaefer collabow rating as the. composer of the miusîc.ý Each.operetta-contains ful directions for staging, costuming, and dance Steps. TO-niSawcyer and Ait OIdKeitiiky i. drazvzriuy by Kari ïVocrner of are the tities of the recent pubc;ap-de»i I.Shbel IR>ss, 'hose,'1neiv book. i lications. Ait OId Kentucky Garde,in "Ladies 'of the Press"'was fnbtwo, acts, is 1based on the nîusic of Brothers the S.tephenl C. Foster, and Mr- Schaefer Iislîcd by Harperend of Septeiiber-. VlssRoss., lias tried and very successfully succeeded ini preserving the simplicity, and puriu'rites asbout the ùps ajid dinis of ty of the origîinals, adding only -con'î,oiie; njibij r;alisii. iecting rnîasures and a fewv original choruses for the sake of 'conitinûity. Social Or* ' A quotation f rom "The chiestra" of 1854 descrîbes tlhe Foster 44 4.'i ~ mnusic Knovs Russar On ';eptenmber .25 Charles Scrihner's Background for an understanding of current evçnts is provided hy two books on Henry Hoît and company's f ail list. Govcernmiieit aiid Politics Abroad, by Henry Russell Spencer of Ohio eate unjversity, gives such information about the traditions, the formi of government, the political affairs of foreign cotuntries as is necessary to an intelligent understanding of world events. The reader will have in par.ticulai' a new outlook on what lies. behindl the foreign dispatches and propagan da ini Ainerican xewspapers and magazines. c United A Diplinatic History of the Sta tes, on the other hand, is devoted to the story of America's dealings with foreign countries. The author is Samuel Flagg Bemis, probably the leading authority in the' field. He bias analyzed and interpreted the human motives, the * political exigencies and the economic. influences that have, deterniined our relations with other lands f rom 1492 to mielodies of which have heeni takenl f ront among the most popular music if the day, and arranged in ait easy and, correct miançr,. suitable for sereina4es, eveniings at home, etc." The operetta is laid ini the gardeil of Colonel .Staunitoni's homne ini Kentuckv and concernis the courtship of 'his datighiter, jeaiiie, by Richard - 'Morgan, a i school. friend of ber brother. N organ frontîis brother. the Phillip, saves debtors, arnd recovers a fainios ruby and familv heirloorn belotiging to jeanie. The Colonel is overcome with gratitude an.d conscrnts to the marriage. SThe Tom Sadwyer operetta is based on Mark. Twain's story, subi ect inatter which bas an imimense appeal for chilIdren, and at the saine timie adapts itself well to mnusic and lyrics' suich as 'Spare the Rod and Spile the Child," "A Captain on the Mississippi," "Skeletons Dance," "O, It's \Meird iii the Qraveyard," and "Plunideriing Pirates." Tomt Sawryer 'bas three acts and ini- as "Instrumental Music. the N AVE. GRE.9 91BIig., Evansfoi Mundy's publishers, Appleton-Uentury, ar~e going to be interested in Governor Landon's opinion of the new Talbot .Mundy story, "Jimgrim and AIlah's IPetce," published recently.