Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Sep 1934, p. 34

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34; WILMETTE LIPS'. Septçmber 13, 1934 Miss Genevieve, Birlauf, 913 Thir teenth street, returned home Wed nesday from Boulder junction. Wis She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I S...Gaithe-r, 1318 Forest avenue, ani t.heir.son and daughter, jack and Ma. rie, for ten days. Work Quargnteed THE COOOP JGre. 2600 1726 Orrlngton Ave.I EVANSTON A COMMON FAITH: BY JOHN DEWEY Published by Yale University Press on sale at Chandler's Fountain -Square Evanston PEOPLE 0F PARAGUAY EL SUPREMO, by Edward Lucas WVhite. Latin-America, at its Most picturesque and romantic period, is ru made to liv'e again before our eyes. As in a great picture, wit h broad strokes of vivid color, the author icre- ates for us an age and a civilization which have vanishied. It is a revela- tion of the deep wells of .Iluman ro- mance which lie hidden ini the alreadv forgotten archives of Spanish-Amer- tca, and we, are moved and sttmulated by the loves atîd hates of these people of. Paraguay exactly as though 'thev were Our own fellow-citizens. and frieinds. MINIATURE MONTE CARLO S. S. Van Dine's new Philo* Vance n ov.el, "The Casino Murder Case" wiIll be published by Scribriers on Septem- ber 28. The "Casino,". which, forms the macabre background of the story. is a miniature American Monte.Carlo in the heart of New York, where large fortu.nes, as well as life and death, depend upon the turn of the roulette wheel.. d,ÇUTORj Books of L OVI Romance mand Adventure In our Rentail Lbraxr The GORD IAN Book Shop & Libr 415 4th St. WiI. 33. iCOMMENT on BOOKS. an( d Lie-f . . ls World Problems Made It was after two years as an appren- Simiple Through, Mapà tice *in the retail dry goods business A book which cati best be descrihe( Ethat H. G. Wells, desperately casting by. its titie, "'An Atlas of Current AU about for a wv of escape, secured fairs,." will: be published l)y Alfred A an offer to becomea student a9ssst- Knopf on August 27. It is a small rant in Midhurst Grinmar School at volume containing seventy-four uine. 'twenty pounds, for the first year and drawn maps of the. key -places and rforty thereafter. He determined to key problems in the world today. Or 2 die rathier than refuse this opportun- the page opposite each map is a brief 16 ity. passage outlining the most pertinent He says in his autobiography: **I and revealing facts concerning each hiad discovered whiat wvere to be for place and probletn. me for some 3 ears the two gui(lilgThe volume is divided into sever principles of miy life. 'If vo01 want sections, covering Europe, the Med- somiething sufflcieîîtly, take it and iterranean and N\ear East, the Amer- dami the consequences, wvas one; andt icas, japani and the Far East, Russia, the second was: 'If life is flotgood i-,lia and the Inidian Ocean, and enough for you, change it; tiever en- Africa. The book is the work of J. F. dure a. way of life that is duIl and Horrabin, whio drew the maps for dreary, because after ail the wvorsi H. G. Xels' "Outline of History.'" thing that cati happeti to von, if N-ot Professor James Harvey Robinson fight and go on fighiting to get ()lt,. s writes of it: "A very important con- defeat, which is niever certain to th(- tribution to the, understanding of enid-%%hîich is death and tlie end of dangerous problems which now con- everything.'" front the peoples of th e earth. Ad- The full and franik story of his life mirable for young and cid." as Mr. Wells tells it is stinîulati 11 Professor Parker T. Moon writes: and provocative. It is entitled "Ex- "Horrabin's 'An Atlas of Current Af- periment in Autobiographvý" and ixill fairs' is just the sort of thing that he puhli-sh.ed early in the faîl. has been so much, needed b3' inquir- îng newspaper readers and by stu- THE LETTERS 0F ROMAIN ROL- dents of current events who désire LAND AND MALWIDA VON graphic maps of the- world's danger MYSENBUG. Translate-i frgm the zones." Frencli b3' Thomas ..Wilson. These letters were, exchianged dur- 'Apprenticeship Proves ing the ,years 1890 and 1891 by a, Useful to Biographer younig mati of twenty-four and a womani of seventy-four; by a wonîian An apprenticeship to ant old silver- old in worldly expérience, who had snîith ini Rome tiot only made 'Marion been the friend of Wagner and Crawford, the.pouplar novelist of the Nietzsche, and a younig man, just eighties and nineties, a skillful crafts- then discovering the world. who.was mian iii. silver; it also enal)led himn to- to become the author of "Jean Chiris- 1ortray his old teacher as the, chief tophe" and theénîost Olympian Of character ini "Marzio's Crucifix," one war-time pacifists. WVe have here -,f the most dramatic of his romances. the earliest phase of a correspond-1 Crawford's biogr apher, Maud Howe ence whtch' endured unbrokenly for 1llýIiott,. says: "Onîy a manti ho had thirteen years, until it was terminat- sat on the silversmith's bench, worked ed by Malwida von Mysenbug's death the pedal, used the tiny chisels stuck in 1903. Lt is a. strange correspond- 1)3 hundreds in pots -of santd, modelled ence. and, ini view of the ages of the strong-smelling red wax, could those concerned, it is a curiously have created the atmosphere of Mar- emotional relationship which stands, zio's studio." revealed. The value which the indi- n"yCui, .Mro rw readr wll laceon he et-ford," Mrs. Elliott tells the story of te rs will vary ini direct proportion to Crawford's rich and crowded life, and the value which lie places on Rolland itod sthe reader to the literarv as an author, for their chief dlaiman artistic circles of whiclî he and upnour interest is that they show j hi( aly - r a part, in Rome, 'Sý6- Rolnintebd reuito, Boston, and New York. Wmmamm~fl~RepairedI The biographv will be published ini *urvv~imu, eptember by Mcilu mr!oL!.u *o!al..n' navac A. A. Milne Attgeks War And Ail the Pacifists PEACE WITH HONOUR, b3- A. A. 'Miliue. XVith logic, irony àaud. of coursýe, MIilne's wit the ath'lor writes a courageo us attack on war. AIl war is. wrong. fraudulent, useless,. disas- trous. and nitist Lie:comt)letel3, me- noutîced. WVith a peu that cuts like a. sutmgeon'Ps knife to the co.re of the fester of war lie exposes the church, goveruiment. press and bm-Qh officiaIs of the political world. iç-enerals and admiraIs, armament makers and even the timid pacifist who hiesitates to take the tïecessarv steps toward a positive peace. H-e exposes their childish silliness and hypocrîsv and educes their logic to ahsurdity. No Civil War Book' "America's Tragedy" will be pub- lished in September by Charles Scrib- ner's Sons., Theauthor, Jame s Trus- low Adams, bas previously written "~The March of Democracy" and,"The Epic of America," among the most popular of our histories. America alone of the great nioderit states started f rom nothing a little over three centuries ago and had to people and subdue and entire con- tinental expanse. 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Try it Soofl Septçmber 13, 1934 34 W.ILWETTE d n d it h n Ini this process two inîfluences have b en of prinie importance, that of tlhe *frontier and tlîat of sectionalisnî. The dpresetît book is chiefly a study of the latter. It is tiot a book about tlie negro or slavery, nor is it anotîler Civil War Book." Tlhe autlior lias atteml)ted to trace froin the l)egîn- ning the rise of tlîat unhappy sec- ftiotîalisin between North and South - which iîîcidentally involved us ini the -greatest w%%ar we have ever fouglit. the first of modemn wars, anîd hiclî it would be folly to say has yet <lis- appeared. t Sectionalism, whether that of the North and the South, that of the East Iand the WVest, or, others, is still a liv- ing force moulding ur destin3-. For rtbat reason any work dealing with the historv of sectional conflicts, social, psyclîological, military or economic, is likely to arouse controversy. Mr. Adams is well qualifled by his back- ground to write without bias on his subject. His father's family was Vr 1ginian, lus mother's fronu New York, and his relatives fought i both Union and Confederate armies and navies. Mr. Adams' story of the growth and tragic flowering of sec- tionalism in America is told witlî the wvealth of incident and vivid biogra- plpical sketches of great leaders that distingu.ish aIll bis writing. New Roosevelt Book Appears in October THE ROOSEVELT OMNIBUS is the title of a large octavo volume to be publishied iu late Octoher bv Al- fred A. Knopf which is described bv the editor of the book, D)on XV hartotî. as "a ne%%, kîtd of cotîtemporary hi- ography" which attempts "a unique atîd inicomnparab)le portrait of Franîk- lin 1). Roosevelt." It consists of a hroad but rich selection'of the signifi- catît, înteresting, and eutertaiuing articles, cartoons, caricatures,: and p ilotographs of him that have been published (often in obscure or for- gotteli issues of periodicals) djuring,, the course of his life. "The result is a tnativ-dimetîsiotîed fulîîv rotned picture of him as .a mati, a citizen, atnd -a political figure, ât. varions periods of his career." 1

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