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*.. . ..* 65C and up N ROAD, tmBARY Stataonery BOOKS fOR SALE 'OOK S FOR RElIT IC.ep abrea st Wifl th. lafeif in books. 84 îiI hile Welligtori's arny, made Ito a great extent of mercenaries, Jforged-away at Napoleon's dimninish- --ing legionàs, bringinig glory to the Crown, and people at home didn'l stop to worry. The comparison between the Eng.- lish in the 17W0s , with that same people in 'the.l93's, is strijking, Or- ganiza ion of civilians,- with a formi- dable array -o! defence preparation, was unknown, so that the century and a haif that has intervened has brought a state of -effiiciency that is impressive at any time, and is utter- ly arnazing ýin its, contrasts. TIrue enough, there was no fear from the air, but after al, it does see-m as though some of the ladies of the time might have paused long enough -to have made surgical dressings. The Young lMelbourne is, .Wlliam Lamb, second son of the Duke and Duchess o! Melbourne, a promising figure in Whig politics. He might have been one of the great men of his country, but hie feli in love with beautiful young Caroline Ponsonby, niece of the Duchess of Devonshire, and when hie married her hisi troubles began. The great houses of~ Melbourne and Devonshire werej friendly enemies, and ini the gayso cial life of thé times, their reigninz £ The latest, iield of. scientific knowledge to be predigested and presented to the layman in popu- lair styile is' that of genetics, and heredity. Arnram Scheinfield, a newspaper man and a cartoon- ist, has written anêd illustrated 'Tou and Herecty,"ý assisted by Morton D. Schweitzer. Fredérick A Stokes, company f a the pub-~ lisher. In the last thirty years much in-, formation has corne to light regard-~ ing the inheritance ,and transmission of traits in man and other living creatures. These relate to intelli- gence, and physical characteristics such as eyes, complexion, stature and blood groups. In connection with his newspaperj work, Mr. Scheinfeld did a series of! articles on prisonnconditionqns.nrct- Not Peace But a $word By Vincent Sheean. Doubleday Doran & company, Ic., N. Y. If anything, more pertinent since. the declaration of war, than upon its publication a number of weeks ago, Not Peace But a Sivord by Vincent Sheean iranks, with. John Gunther's "Inside Asia" as one, of the big cur- rent event accounts of the day. Grouped with them might be '.Let the Record Speak," the new book just written by the woman journal*- ist, Dorothy Thompson. Generalizing upon the future, as he ýoccasionally does, while- comn- menting upon happenings in Prague, Vienna, Madrid, London,' Paris an d ]Berlin,' the past yea r, Sheean makes at least one false progniostication when, he. says: "From that night on (Munich pact) 1 knew that France and England would neyer flght for anything worth fighting for: that their reulsta'nce, whÈn i ifcame, would corne for their moneybags or their empires, neyer for a principle of any consequence to the humanh race; that no pledged word, no law and no reason could henceforth count in the processes by which govern- mnents determined the fate of man- kind." On the other hand, his cl what would hehnn' pl cw o ione-to mffer anxaewy over waexpected demand for cash when you can borrow hee s very simply and pleasantly j.. and in such pravacy. Personal Lions up Io $300 ... go >pay off bill-for medical or dental care-re finance car iop other debs--vacation expenses. ~----- --- -~-~scription of, an original iquir 1mad on William. Carolineý Lamb proceed- by *the author on the prevalence of ed to ruin these hopes, by her mad musical and vocal talent in the farn- career through London drawing ilies of selected famous, nusicians roins, and by her careless mode of and singers. life which people quéstioned only when it becamne outrageous, for in those days nobility could do no Britishi Isle Observes.. wrong. Her love aff air with Lord By- 6kf% ron, then the rage o! London, rang 16h enfury .Laws through the land, and ail its wild Sibyl Hathaway, author of Maid of passion was flau.nted in the face of Sark which is published by D. Apple- ...: iizt, usioi cure was un- relieved frightfulness, ail speed, ahead, with the, object of finishingý the war quickly." ý Sheean1 spent a great deal of timne rePorting at the front. during the,, Spanish revolution' end iseye-wit- ness descriptions are, revealing,, to say the least. Pei'sonal rather than objective, the author tavored the Re- publican cause and was horrified to see F'ascismnrenil n.;.+--- qy Jews. death in Now, no are anis- ,e are so ~4OI .To& --i