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meir ai uthe uuuncr nomne of ivr. and thie Shanghai notel the glamorous Mrs. Donald Royce, 423 Abbotsford and light-besprinkled roof - garden road, Kenilworth. Prior to his de- was wrecked and nine people were parture -for -Wequetoni, R a y kilied. Miss Baum, returning to ber bad returned home fronm Ca mp Ma- "Grand H.otel" pattern, tellsabu Ka-Ja-Wan. . these fine. -o- They have corne from every walk Warren and, Malcolmi Hill, sons of of life, from palaces taopiffumn dens, Mr. and Mr'. PhilIlip S. Hill- of 735 and are so closel ntewvený that Elghth street,, have, just, retundîi is impossible toleparae their dé trô a arm near Burlington, vious bea S. Tus tte ato Iowa, wbere tbeY were visiting makes -ber pattern on ce' more,. and friends. At the end of next, montb fromn it emerges a gorgeous picture, the; whole family.wMl drive to Col- of Chinese life,,an d of a city that is 1orado »rings, to- be with Calvin, made up isrnendntrao- another son, when he enrolls at Col icbaracteristics. Once the most orado college.. cosmopolitan city in -the- world 0 i Shanghai, with. its crooked streets, Miss, Suzanne Lyon, daughter of1 its kysrpers, its slunis, and RtÉ Mr. and Mrs. Earle D. Lyon, 1504,lpalasces, bolds every kind of mani Elmwood avenue, returned Monday and wornan, and is therefore the from Springbrook, Wis., where she whoîe worid in miniature. We foi- hâ spent- te mgt two montlts at y1OWv he lives aof ine different peo.. the Lyoni summer home. Until the 1pie, as tbey march towards their return of ber parents, Miss Lyon1 doom, and eacb. is entirely different1 will be a houseguest at tbe home of j romn the other and eacb bas siffer-t bier cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas 1 ed so mucb, and sucb various kinds I K. Blood, 435 Prairie avenue. i of sufering, that be is giad to die. -o-- It is inevitable that this book Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Kirtley should be comparedi ta somne of Mrs. and their tbree daugbters, Muriel, Buck's stories of Chinese life. ItS Dorotby. and Joan, 527 Maple ave- does not sufer in the comparison. - nue, returned Friday fromn an For it îs an even better book tban' C eight-d#iy motor tour tbrough Cari- "rn oe"add~ip*t her soi n a ai and Mrs. Wayne Lake avenue. ion of 3211 Mr, and Mrs. Paul Booth and their daughter, Janet, of' Indianapolis, were the houseguests o! Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Edwards, 1720 Elmwood avenue, last week-end. -a- Mr. and Mrr. George R. Bowman of 1220 Ashland avenue returned re- Uhinese cnaracter. Sbe is acutely aware of race problenis and of tbe larger implications of the war in the far east, and she manages. to con- vey, tbrougb ber nine different peo- ple, ail on their way to destruction, that tbis fateful thing called "change" belongs to the life of na- tions rather than of individuals. The plot of this story, sornetimes s0 in- volved that it is difficult fl l Antoine de Saint 'Exupéry. is an airman wvho combines rare qualities-the claring of a.-great aviator, the reflective powers of a philosopher, and the articulate expression of ani quthOQ1. The above are tbree reasons why his book, Wincl, Sand and Stars, translated by Lewis Galantiére and publisbed in America this summer, has been listed among the best sel-' lers. Ris writing threatens ta rival, the popularity af Anne Lindbergh's ;tories of! the air. Cape. He cornes frôm *a seafaring says hat trhe summer boarders are conetantly looking for strange. peo-ý pie, and it neyer. occurs ta tbem ta look into their mirrors. In bis Inn the New England Primer - value $60,000-is stolen, and by means of a lot of summer people and of Cape Cod originals, is recovered, and the reader is forced ta wonder bow so rnany people can gather together in ode smail spot. But the authors of JBy Mabél L. Robinson. Random House. Certain individuals, specific books are essentially inspirational. Louis Agassiz, organizer of the depart- ments of zoology and geology at Harvard university, founder of theý Agassiz museumn: and the summer school at Woods Hole, whose biog- raphy,, Runfter. of the Mountain Tops, has recently been written by Mabel.L. Robinson, was a cl4armed personality and born teacher,,a ver- itable- torch of enthVsiasrn and knowledge to al who came in con- tact witb him. Great Scientist This samne inspfirational spark has been struck, by Miss. Robinsoný in her life of -the mnan, in fact to the. point of making Agassiz more1 god- like th 'an buman. .Recause he was *a rare intelligence and a great scien. tist, he is excused many things - extravagance and deserting his wîfe in Switzerland to corne to Arnerica. That she apparently died of a br 1ok- en heart, and Agassiz promptly mar- ried again to forge rapidiy ahead in bis career in this country seem tao detract littie from the man's sta- ture in Miss Robinson's eyes. She sees rather bis dynamnic phys- icue, his immense capacity for work, knack for stîmulating industry in oth- ers, invaluable contributions to the body of natural. bistorv, his faculty for eiiciting large. sum's of money frorm donors for schools, rnuseums and the collection of specirnens. I!roni Switzerland. Agassiz, a Swiss boy of good fani- ily and a university education* who climbed to the top of bis profession by dogged application and sh .eer brilliance, is a fit subject for *,a, -glamnorous book.. Mabel L. Robinson, his biograph-, er, bas lost no opportunity to apply. the romantic touches at crucial mo- ments. He emerges an amazinig fig- ure, a "runner of the mountain tops" in the history 'of American education. LAmcolma oeB ve , Dl ,r'8 'i. ýevlous: mur- il