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WILMETTE LIFE August 2, 1934 _____________________________ q NEW MYSTERY THRILLER For the sophisticated lovêr of mystery and adventure 100 percent entetàià- ment is offered by Francis Beeding's Thte Street of fthe Serpents, recently published by Harper's. Another book Of gcod entertainment, but in a lighter vein. is Margaret Jep- son's- Via Panampia. wvhich bas just. been-, published. ADVENTURES 0F TOM and BERT at A CENTURY 0F PROGRESS Ry R. E. Ross S0c Asum mer mystery for children Chandier 's Fountain Square, Evanston eyes for old If your eyes lack lustre end tire easily, rojuvenate thei, with Marine. This I.ng-trustcd lotion imparta a youthful sparkle to duli, wcary eyces and ýmakeu theai feel ever so tnuch stronter. Marne positively containh no belle- donna -or other harmful iniredients. Therefore, you may use it freely to brigiaten and- invigorate your eyes. Also, nie it aft.r prolonged expomure to $un, wind and duat to prevent a bloodehot condition. 0 CMME NT ý on BOOKS :and AU THOR SI For Childrený The first of a series cf children's books by Paul T. Gilbert of. Kenil- .worth. Bertrant and Ilis lFunny A.-ni- rMaIs, will ,-be publisbed early this, fal bIt' Randi,',McNally and company, witb jacket a'nd illustrations by Minnie The book is a collection of short storie-s.which for the past three years have been appearing ini Childlif. ,l wvhich have proved one of the most popular features cof that magazine. Tbousands of letters have been re- ceived from parents, teachers. and children ini aIl partts of the United States and in many foreign couintries, asking for more *Bertranî stories." Some of the episodes have been fea- tured as -radio programns and by read- ers at the children's entertainîncuts at Enchaîîted island on the \V'orld's Fair grounds. 'l'lie first cf the stories. Bcrfrain and ft liqppottaiànus. w~as selected fromn 10),000() ianuscripts for inclusion 'ini tht. Child Lile anthology cf 1932. As the'lie 1roine of the adventures, there is a real little girl, Virginia (~Ginv~)Banning, daugliter cf Mr. and MNrs. Thomas Banning. for many years residents cf Vilmette, noîv resi(lilg at the Orriugton lhotel, .Mr. Gilbert bas just conipleted the mnanuscript cf another bock cntitled leii /tiits Circius Do vs.t 'The.Mdwst'Newest Mag zine,0utAug. 15 "The Midwest," a national monthly newspaper which wilI contain stories, articles, comm ent, book reviews, poetry, and criticism will be published August .15.* Its founding, the editors declare,.is, based upon the bjelief that such a publication wiIl fill a long felt ixeed in the United States, and espe- cially in the Midwest. The present staff is as follows: Editor. George E. Hoffinan, 06 Warwick road, Winnetka. formerly of Englisli départment, Northivesterin university; managing editor: John Upton Terrell, author and newspaper- man. advertising manager: Howard R.. Smith, managing editor of. Comi- merce Magazine; art editor: J. Z. Jacobson, formerly art critic for the Chicago Daily News and The Chi- cagoan; poetry editor: Jessica Nelson North, associate editor of Poetrvt Magazine; juvenile editor: Elizabethi Stewart, well known reviewer. It is the purpose of the editors, it is announcied, to present a paper trulv and typically Amnerican. 'The otîîîg writers wviIl be encouraged and devel- oped wbenever possib>le. but Nvriters of national promiînence vvill contrib- ute. The fields covered %vill be %vidé, and any subject allied with the arts will be treated in a frank. intelligentd nhanner. Criticism ivill he construc-a tive and the contents n-ill. he of thed Ilignest type oitainabie.. Re TWO NEIW VIKING BOOKS tions and illustrations,, m-ll lbc Iwo important books will be pub- ni1 general the paper will -have lished soon by Viking. one of themn peal to artists in everv divi! from America, the other f rom Europe. artisc erîdeavor. The first will bc Albert Halper's The Ftniid,-3; the second is Franz Werfel's For Sum mer Rea4 Thc For/y Pays of M1itsa Da1ih. SOMEBODY MUST, b H-alper, author of Union Sqiiare, liasGatRsa. (itn been acclaimed as an important younig Gantcoman. GIno) writer. Iu this latest book of bis 'lie :adcnpn. gives iweiglit to the helief of mnanv cnit- Year by Year. Alice Grant 1 ics that lie is ()tie cf the leading cliron- lias produced successful bocks ni iclers of. current life ini America. His bas, eigbt best sellers te ber crec 1)ecle re ibrntl alve.bocks have a nice quality abeni Its publishers rank \V'erfel's book They are happy stories that end with 'The M(wic .loun tain asid The and that everyone enjoys. Perhâ Case of Scrgcant Grisca. t is tlhe IThc Sz.th Joiirncv is the best, al story cf a little band of people w~ho I>rotcctinq 2lIargot that came o fled to a hilltcp. Mhere, sluîît off from year mwas very good. Sop,îebod4, the. world. thev tried for fort%. davs to is just ont and promises to he preserve their. lives an(l tîeir cîviliza- cf popular novels for the sumni tien in a ne%% and threatening environ- WVhen Wiuiifred Flete sudder ment. Into the iiem life they carricd home and went te Scotlaud for a their personal loves and liates; on the to prove to a gossiping neigibî plains below vas a commoji enemv, and slie could go to Scotland if she witlîn thernselves many cemutional con- to, -she did a grea t favor t() lier1 fiicts. SF ihad steod between ber hý SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET A dii erting bock, A l/ i tlic Skelelwus in .411 lih. Close/s. h1w Keith Fouler, will Fie.publislied next in il t Ihby Mlacaulay. It is îlot a nîvsterv but a bard-h itting, rohnlst lulariu s novel that takes the bide off a crew -cof crooks and bigbbinders w~ho fleeced the elite and would-be's. 5' ~ IANOTHER MYSTERY STORY 02 yqùRTite Crooked l.auc. hv Frances. /.rm. Noyes Hart. noted- author of The E y E S BedUa.nry Trial, will be puiblisied soon E.Sby Doubleday, Dorai Trhis is aga ~~ and tantalizing mystery. produc- is ed- an ap- i sion of 1 Iing Alicej Balcbi Rosnî an iutil sle lit. Her it themi. I nicelv iaps lier Ilthoughi out last onu lis ner. ily lei-t 1mlonth1 )r tlîat wantedt fanîily and lier clilîdren and, perbaps ivithonti quite meaning to, had made the c4iil- dreni feel that their father was a verv lîarsb ai-i unsympathetic person. M71he.1 Kav, Ijus (aughter, and bis small sou, Pell, were thrown mucb in biscompaîîv they found him te be a very differejît sort of person from the.one they thoughti tbey knew. Derek, a young neighbor, andI Doll~ a visitor, figure ini the fanîilv affairs James 'the Second, Pell's b)eloved deog, enters the scetie f requently and Elliott, the gardener, is a more or less îieceý- sary person. There is naturally a ro-j mance that ends, nicely, and wheu Winiý-i fred returns she little suspects, it is to. a made over family. The book is short and quickly read and it is, a perfect story fer a summiert a fternoon. Auna K. Whitchnrclî STORY 0F A TITAN I Big Steel, hi- Leslie Swahacker, whicb will be puhlisýhed ýoou, tells the 'tr of a titan cf industry in fieérce battles witb other titans, and cf the strangeý revenge bis passions finally took on him. FOR TIRED BUSINESS MEN On July 27, D. Appletcn-Cenurv ccmiplàtv publisied simultaneuns1v, fi f- tecît hrand new inovels. 'Ihese emhilrace-(l adventnre, detective, and ri1îvster% fic- tion, and are known as TuheTrdB.i ness .l!ain's Library. Bouind in' simiilar fiormnat and available as a set or ini single volumes, they coustituite ont. c1 tîhe most unique enterpnises of tiht prtvs- eut season and une wvbich is sure tu ht. talked about. Especially notable is the. list of authors contributing te the hi- brarv, amnong thetm being Octavius Roy Cohien, Talbot Mundy, George Gibbs. Florence Ryerson and -Colin Clenients. Bahette Hughes, Robin Fors ythe, Cecil Freeinan Gregg, and otliers. Neyer t'c- f ore lias tIiere been assemibled suich a splendid collection of light fiction, se- !ected purely for entertainmieîît, coni- (Incive tu evenings cf real, relaxation. and offering ini the variety of the novels incl u(led--seme f rank thrillers, suint straiglht adventure, others sophisticated and witty, others rattling '*westerns"- ' the perfect library fer the average busi-V nless man. BY SOUTH AMERICAN One uf the most distinguisbed liter- ary bocks cf this season is JJoly IV cd- il,sdav b My anuel Galvez. *Telling cf the souî-searching conflict cf a priest cf Bunos Aires, confronted, in the con- fessor's box, by the secrets cf lus pari- shioners,,-here is a serious artistic muas- terie.ce by- ene cf the best known Modlern novelists ini South America to- dav. To ail. those, wbo take a real iu- terest, in current fiterature, wlit appre- %iate truc beauty cf style,'an'd react to the sincerity cf thougbt cf amaniif est artist, we cominend »rithcut reservation Senorî Galvez's Hol3' Wednesday. It brings bim for the first time besfore Ainerican readers. Ir Thne Story Cove, Three Winnetka writers- who have books ini the Story Cove on the En- chanted' Island at A Century of* Prog- ress are Ruth Harshaw,, author of Reind"er of the Wiaves;- Mr. and Mr.. Frederic W. Bond, co-authors of A Little History f a Great City: and Anita Willets-Burnham, whose 'Roundl thec I'orld on a Penny bas been so thor- oughly enjoyed by many readers. Trhe Story Cove is the International Library for Children and is under the. direction of Mfartha, King, .who bas as- sembled a wonderful collection of books from many lands, which are gifts f rom the various publishers. There are stor- ies about cbjîdren of today, of theii homes. their toys and their ways oif life. To the Story Cove come parents. librarians, and teachers, ail those inter- ested ini children's reading, to beconit enchanted with the bocks on display anîd to make lists for their own tisù. Tile national holidays of the Fair are cele- brated here, and every afternoun stor- grown-ups seeni to enjoy as wt.ll. The children who visit the Enclîante(l Island and attend ail of the concessions are deliglited te find 'a cool quiet spot which is familiar te them fromn their use of a publie Iibrary, and they settle dcwn with a familiar book f riend and are soon oblivious' te ail the otitsid- diversions. Now that the admission charge to tht. Encbanted Island bas heen reinoved uantil 4 o'clock, the Story Cove wNill be busier than ever. Cbildren are thrill- ed -to find one more place open to ail as w'ag evidenced by the boy who. turned at the door'and said, "Oh, dad, if's frt.e." theu dashied across the room to gt.t a book. Wýl4M.E:TTIE ýLIFIE August 2, 19,34