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24 WILMRTTE LIFE July 26, 1934 y *VISITING EN.NEW, YORK Mrs. Clark N. Hollister, 1235 Elm- Wood ,avenue, and her daughtç'r. jeannette, aie returninig ifbis. week- end' from Nyack, N. Y., after a. week's visit with relatives. Before goinhg to Nyack Miss Hollister met lier miother in Detroit and they, took A week's cruise on the Great Lakes aboard the S.S. Tionesta. TYREWITR REPAIRED -RENTED CldFor and D"lvered Work Guarnteed, 172 Oerington Av. Cv. ZUS ADVENTURIES 0F TOM and BERT at A CENT'IURY 0F PROGRES By R. E.Ross 50e Asum mer mystery for children Chandier 's Fountain Square, Evanston * Rests Eyes Af t er S ewi-n g Whén hburs $peut over. a 9s.ewing ma.- ehine or embroidery trame have made 7your «eyes teel weary sand strained, simuly apply'a few dropsu-et time.t.ried MUBIXE. Wîtlal a few minutes the. tired, hea.vy feeling will have entlrely disappeared and yeur eYes will feel fresh and reted ag.. .lBIti<E hbusma.y other uses that maxe t 1dvisable te, keep a. bottie always handy. It quiekly relleves the Irrtation resultlng ftgam exkposuRre te sun, wind and dont., soothft awU.7 the beraing feeling eassed by long niotor *tri p1s4 d lu unexeelled for reduelng the mefnss sutd redueis that fo110w crying,. Y ea u use XUEINE ,treely'às it posl-. tively ýeotaius. ne beltadonua. or ethel baramful ligredients. 156 applications 0et NUBRINZEcost 'but 46e at drag aud depfflumeut stores. Write the Marine Ce., S E. Ohio St., Chicago, for a. vaius.ble freâ book on the. prliper ea; ot your cyes. - I. il COMMENT o n BOOKS. and. AUTHORS New Book Seýrie$ *A series of new and- cheaper edit ions of good books, carrying the general titie of Thse .lbabooks, will be launched by Alfred A. Knopf on August 13. These books, writes Mr. Knopf, "have been tested by earlier publication and flôt -fQuùnd wanting in*that -c urious pÉr- .manrncy s0 sought after by the wise' publisher. Not iîecessarily great books, they are very good books indeed a7ti they will be added to this series only» because 1 honestly believe that many thousands of readers will want each title in its new format and at its new and Iower price." The Albabooks xiII bc issued ini a uniform binding designed by %,%'. A. Dwiggins. The first volumes ini the series, al to be released on August 13. are: The Lie apd Mmnd of Enrily Dicki nson hy Genevieve Taggard, .-I -Hstory of Ritussiaii Literature by Prince D. S. Mirsky, In My End JIs My Beqininag by Maurice Barin'g. Travclç'iýi the Con go by Andre Gide, and Renioir by Ambroise Vollard. Later in the fall Mr. Knopf will add 10o this series M-aniuel de Falla and Spa» ish Muosic by J. B. Trend. Furth- er additions "will be made from time to ANNOUNCE NEW BOOKS Six -important books to be published by Viking in the near future, accord- ing !o_ recent announcement, are: Alexander the Corrector. hy Edith Olivier. This is the story of the ec- netric life'of Alexander Cruden. Dynjaite,- by Louis Adamic. vie story of class violence in America. This is a popular edition of a brilliant first book written four years before The Native's Reier»t and. containing 50 new pages bringing this history of social struggle up to the strikes and riots of 1934. My Shadowu as I Pass-, by Syhal Bolitho, is a novel that reflects much of that eccentric genius of modern journalism, William Bolitho. This story, ritten by bis widowv, contains excerpts -f rom his letters and. note- books. To the North, by Jeannette"Mirsky, is the story of Arctic exploration'front earliest timfes to the. present. The Fourtiil,- by Albert Halper, an.d The Fort v Days of Muzsa Dagh, by Frani Werfel, will be published ini the faîl. SALES INCREASE Farrar and Rinehart believe that the great increase in thle Anthony .4d-tzcrse sales during the last ten days bave been due to the announcement of the Motion Picture Casting contest which started July 3. There are. to be $10,00 in prizes.- Ballots may be obtained at althe Postal Telegraph offices, 'book- sbops, and Warner Brothers picture bhouses. PUBLISH, LIMITED. EDITIONS himited editions of a. new type are being planned for early publication by the Peter Pauper press of New -Ro- chelle, a series at the popular pi:ice of $2. Among the first titlès to be an- nounced are, A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman; The Select Elssays-of Charles Lamnb, The Love Poerns of John Donne a nd Kipling's Barrack-. Roorn Beilads. TO LECTURE THIS, FALL Channing Pollock, wbose second novel, Synthe tic Geffleman, was. pub- lisbed last week, will lecture this au- tumn on "How Long, Hollywood?" Mr. Pollock's regular lecture in Town hall is slated for early December. GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS A guide-lecture tour for the genenal publie, on "Plant, Life" will be pre- sented on ýMonda.y, *July 30, at Il o'clock at Field Museum of Natural- Histony. On Tuesday at the sanie hour the subject will be ."Primitive and Civjiized Peoples"; on Wednes- day, "Animal Groups," and on Friday "MineraIs and Prehistonic Exhibits." In addition'- to these special tours, there are general tours of anthropol- ogical, botanical,'geological andý zo- ological exhibits daily, except Satur- -day and Sunday, at 10 and 3 o 'clock. These tours., for which no charge is made, are open to ail museum 'visitors. They are conducted by .staýff lecturers, Il Captured -by Bandits Sven Hedin's sister and biographer, Aima ý Hedin, writes to bis publishers, E. P. Dutton and company, that ber brother f ully expected theý trouble he ran, into in Sinkiang as reported by pre,$s cisatches Jul:y il.and 12. She 'says: "6He bas met with bis life's.gneatest and most thrilling adventures. We baâve had newvs from him only the other day about bow be and bis companions bad corne just wbere the civil war -in Sinkiang, the westernmost province of China, was at its beigbt. The rebels tried to get bold of the expedition's cars, one of tbem a gift f rom Edsel Ford. Wben my brother did not agree. he and thnee of bis men were roughly treated and threatened with deatb. It is perfectly marvelous that tbey were allowed to live. "At another occasion about 100 sol- diers surrounded their cars and shot albout 50 shots without hitting anybody. Whent the government troops camne and forced the nebels, 90 percent robbers, to retire., they had aeroplanes with bombs whicb exploded around rny lýrotben and bis men, one explosion only 100 meters f rom their bouse. You undenstand how happy and 'grateful we are that the expedition members, as well as aIl the cars, are safe anld in the best condition, and that tbey cati go *on witb thein task." r- .Dr. Hedin's ,capture by bandits ini Sinkiang is bis second adventune of this kind. He bas spent a lifetime ini opening Central Asia to the white race. He is now 69 years old. His books,, i/cross thte GobiDescrt, Jehol, City of linpceors, Riddles of t/teGobi Desert and A4 Conquest of Tibet, released for publication Monday, July 16,'- tell the stony of bis explorations ini that part of the w onld. MANUSCRIPT RECEIVED Thée manuscript of H. G. Wells' story of-his lifeý just received hy Mac- millai, presents a fascinating-appear- ance ini its lighit blue covers, and with, its many~ peu and ink sketches iiiwliiclh, by a few clever lines, -H. G." conv'eys a humorous or imaginary sceuie or pre- sents an amusing caricatusre. Mm. Wells calîs the book Jlxper-iynent j»n Auitobiography; this account of lus private, public, and literany caree r, bis fniendships and .adventure s in' main places is unlike. any other story eve-r written. I.7rpcripcniii Autobioyraphv will be publisbed ini October. POPULAft WESTERN WRITER Western story neaders will be inter- ested i Colt Macdonald's latest book, The Singing Scorpion, *which will be published- next wveek by..Covici-Friede. The sales of Colt Macdonld's previon's titles have been climbing steadily, win- ning bum a place in the fonefront of the western writers. who meet with the groups of partici- pants inside the north entrante. BAHA'I LECTURE "The New Highway. to Peace" will be the subject on which Mrs. Schah- naz- Waite of- Los Angeles, Calif., wilI speak in Foundation hall, Baba'i House of, Worship, Linden avenue and Sheridan- road, Wilmette, Sun- day afternoon, july 29, at 3:30 o'clock. The fourt.h and last lecture of theý Wédnesday evening series will be given bv Arthur Agnew of Chicago at 8. o'clock August 4. The general iubject of these four lectures is "Pour Steps- in the Better Undenstanding of Religion" Today's Best Seller Carl Carmer's Starg e Pe où .4la- bamta (Farrar and Rinehart), whicli the Literary guild is sending to its subscribers. for July, is an enchanting book. But the. encbafitment, as the author indica tes,- is that of an evil siit bovering over wa land Èhose- spell2<-.J is "not -a good spell, 'always. Perhaps the sinister magic that boy- ers above Alabamia goes back to "the year the stars fell,'" as. the conjutré wvomen i tbeir cabins along the Tom- bighee rivér insist; perbaps it is -a mat- ter of bavring three Negroes to onie white person in the Black belt. whichi is the most fertile part of the statc. M'hatever it is, Mr. Carmer's celebra- tion of beauty, which he carnies out in the true poet's style, is accompanied ,Willy nilly by a besitant undertonie of critîca1 awareness. M~r. Carmer, who is a Yankee. lias lived for six years inthe state teachi- ing at, the university in Tuscaloosa. He spent a great part of his tume visit- ing throughout- the state and keecly ob-serving the countryside and custonis. ,*The fail of ttars that over a ini- dred years ago cast enchantmient ovecr Alabama is, I think, a poetic symbol of the influence wvhich natural phenomecna and the landscape of a region . na% have upon its people., Stars felI i':î Mississippi, too, and on Georgia and South Carolitia. And- the fatefui shower set each region under a sepa- rate spell, for, though there are iniainv similarities, one need o*nly listeti to cacli state's inhabitants to realize that therc are great differences, even in sucl i mi- non matters as dialects. 'Wbile the stars worked tlieir inagic in the south thene came a year to M-\anie whien the sky wvas black witlh the iig.,' of couintless pigeons; to New Hanîp- shire came the year of the great Aui- rona Borealis; Massachiusetts slitud- dered, through a day as -dark a, init. and New York wvas visited by so greai a, sniow that it hiad not entirely iiîelted upstate by the Fourthi of July. So e- er%- state bas had its equivalent oi the sliower of stars and its ensuing eiiclîantment. Save in the big, cities whierc machines and other standardiz- inig agents have been at work, Ainerica is, still a heterogeneous country, full of amazing variance. A mounitain nises ini Vermont and those who dwell- at its feet'onl one side speak a dialect ver" diffenent f rom.that whichi obtainis in the 'valley. on the other, less than twenty mires away. Handly, outside the en- virons of New York City live a people as strange and tragic as the Alabama Cajans or the Brass Ankles of Southî Carolina. So it goes. Americans. need flot. travel' to another continent ini search of the. picturesque, the dra- matic, the veird. Those quatities, lie much nearen -to their own homes thani they conceive." july 26, 1934 4 9 WIL M ET T B. ý L 1 FE