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A fins sIeon of CHOICE BOOKS forAte end for th. s~-. UNUSUALS CARDS I 1724 Orriag*.. Ave.. Ov~.oe..H..U lSdg. _ r0.. S37 isted before LLUu AllA iorixisv A te as though, the country w ere some lovely person wilfuily put to death, who might- some day rise and live again. Mr. Hindus: went to Prague in 1938 to gather bis material, but he had no chance to do more than look into the. past, for Lord Runci,- man arrived *soon after, and'Mumeh foilowed, and the experÎment in1 de- mocracy whlch he was observing was snuffed out. The pictures that this writer gives, of the country as it used to be are like some, fairy. country.. Therè is Tabor, sacred city of the, Czechs, whose sidewalks were edged with tubs of flowers., where education flourished according to ýthé ideals laid down by the intellectuals of the universîties, where there was a restraint about living that made it a science. The peeffle iehe ýwere~ frugal, and knew the value of neat homes and of discipline. They had ail the qualities which would have made them into a foremnost indus- trial state, such as early Germany exemplifled. The people were highly industrious and aIso pretty acquis- itive, and the saying went that a Czech would rather work than eat. TPhe nuslities of Tabor the author. in d"Here Liés,the collected short stories of Dorothy Parker, has been collected the toork up- on which ia based the reputo ion of one of the most aubtie cand wtiUy prose tbriters of current. literatuTe. -The Vikin~g'Press i the publisher. Braun Is King Pin of ie., *e lui Foreign newspaper correspond- ents, many of themn, see so much more 'and think so much more than censorship, and the limitations of professional- journalismn will permt themn to say that evenitually, their gorge rises to explo sive, proportions that they let off steam in book form. Pierre van Paassen, who wrote Dal#s of, Our Years a best seller for many consecutive weeks. As a Dutch-born correspondent, educated as a >divinity student, who em-, igrated to Canada,-as a yroung boyý and eventuaily, after serving in the World War, feU ,by mere chance intô journalism and a ýcareer which took him -to France after the -War, to colonial Africa, 'to E thiopia dur- ing the war with Italy, to Palestine during the conflict of the Jews and Arabs, to Spain during the civil, war, and to mnany other spots on 4.globe wh.ar lumanity $s op- pressed, e n s 1 a v e d, murdered, slaughtered, and tortured. *Tapestry of Events In an artisticaily jumnbled tapes- try of current events, past history, persotial experiexices, customs, phil- osophies, personalities, and bits of conversation van Paassen tells al he bas seen and thought over a pe+ riod of twenty or thirty yearas; in foa*t uhgn he relates the tale of