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WILMETTE LIFE October 18, 1934 *LOST HORIZONe Iby James Hilton (A tier, of "G.>,dbye Mr. Clips') W- Mi£d" le LA A FI S' lit: L- BOOKS * REVIJBWS *AUT,.HORS jQ rentai Iibrary Writfing Class Opens WIhett Av. W. ~Fou rth.Season Oct. 16 CHILDREN'S LIBRARY With Seventy Members ~~~ ~ . . . The right book Wtharatyeanepogaif for everv chjld is an Wt ral.xaddpormo important addition to activities inprospect for the year, the Our large Modern, Reniai Library creative writing class conducted by THE GOBI~ James Weber Linn of the University BOOK SHOF 415 FOLRTH STREIET of Chicago for north shore- women WILMFTTE 322 writers opened its fourth season last _____________________-Tuesday mor ning at 10 in the Frenchi 'EWRTERSEep~ room 'of the Georgian hotel. Rented Having passed through its experi- 4I fer and mental years most successfully, the Ilveredclass this year wvill become established under a new name, "The North Shore O@BarffeWs Familiar Quotations" Unarid.d djton ..$1 .49 1724 Orrington Ave. ýGre. 0227 Evansion A check list of books relating to our foliti- cal and economic life. NEW FRONTIERS. $- Henry A. Wallace .......2 CHALLENGE TO THE NEW DEAL 25 Maeey Collaborators.. BEYOND THE NEW $9 .50, DEAL. David Lawrence PEOP LE AT WORK.$2 Fratces Perkins ........ PREEDOM VERSUS ORGAN. IZATION$5 Suflrand Russelli........ WITHiOUT GLOVES Frank. R. Kent....... AMERICAS CAPACITY TO CONSUME. ~$300) Drookling,çIis J tion.. THE CHALLENGE. TO LIB-> iferbert Hoover ....... On sale at Chandier ys Fountain Square Evanston Writers' Guild,"' and wviIl add the pu!)- lication of a magazine of uis work and frequent round table gatherings for discussion of manuiscripts to its for- mer activities. The course will consist of ten lec- tures liv Mr. [inn on alternate Tues - day mornings, and following each meeting the,,members will have lunch- eon together with successful writers, critics and pub lishers as speakers. At the first luncheon Esther Gould of Riley and Lee company spoke, telling of the plans of hier finm for entering into the field of adult publications this year. Early registrations have been in ex- cess of any previous season and promise a fuît quota of between 60 and 70 mem- bers, including those interested in writing bot 'h as a profession'and hobby, and a number interested in the class merely to cultivate a cnitical apprecia- tion of literature. Mrs. Herbert 1U. Nelson of Winnetka is chairman of the guild and Mrs. Paul Heineke of -Evanston is in charge of registration. Holiday Lore A CHRISTINAS HOLIDAY BOOK. By Ernest Rhys and Alice Duglish. Il- lustrated in full color by Charles Folk- ard. An enchanting collection of holiday tore. presented in a delightful format with a great number of gay and color- fui illustrations.. Poems, stories and legends, carols with and without music, folk tales and games have been contributed to this incomparable* Christmas anthol- ogy by such noted authors as John Drin kwater,; Hugli\Walpole, Kenneth Grahame, Walter de-la Mare,.Robent Herrick, John Tyndall, Theophile Gautier, Christiana Rossetti, Frank Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott in addi- tion to the famous writings on the subject which the editons have as- sembled from the work of Hans An- dersen, Shakespeare, Charles Dick- ens; Washington Irving, Robent LQouise Stevenson. Tennyson, Scott and Coleridge. 0O1d New Englànd TABITHA 0F LONELY HOUSE: A Tale of Old Concord. By Hildegarde Hawthorne. In Tabitha of Lonely House, Hiid.e- garde Hawthorne, the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne,. tells. a charming stony of.old Concord,. Mas- sachusetts, in the days just before the Civil war. Lt is a charming tale of a young girl who comes to live with an aunt over whomn hangs a mystery out of the past.. The story deals with the unnaveling of this mystery which bas made the aunt a henmit and darkenedi the. memory of Tabithas parents.. This delightfui story is. presented1 against the pictunesque, historical background of old New England. 1 Story-Book Girl Ginny Banning of the Orrington hotel in Evanston is the real-life heroine of the '<Bertramii" episodes by Paul T. Gilbert of Keiiilîworth. A new "Bertrain and His FunnY Animais" has just been priblished by Rand McNally and coklPa;13y. Hundreds of Giinny's sehool friends have been* follozeing her stor%- book adventures, and she receivecs "lait mail" from children ail over the coun try. Forthe Children LITTLE PE-AR AND HIS FRTENDS. aiiiuig wh1111 1!Dee niue o Wnitten and illustrated by Eleanore the first time the suverb collection of Frances, Lattimore. 'Harcourt, 144 Edison material gathered together by Another delightfui story about the Henr-y Ford at Dearborn, aroiind little Chinese boy whos'e curiositv which The. Edison Institute hias and activity led him. into mischief., grown. Children who have read Litle Pear__________ will want to continue the storv about him ini this second book. There are Edit Elizabethan Play$ more scenes. of village and family P E lia btlia and Stuart Plaivs. recenit- life more games and festivals and 1Npbise y ot va dte1vA lots of funny situations. H. Nethercot and V. B. Heltzel. hoth Little Pear is no longer the o ho armeers of the North- youngest child in his. household. Hej has a baby brother,. whom lie tries 1 etr nvriyEnlsî(eatet and C. R. Baskervill of the University to take cane of as his eIder sisters ofCiao1Po.Hlze>ishe tried to take care of hini. This mean lernin a ot boutbabes.*ith the English departnient at North- He did at flrst make the awful mis- western cluring the last five years. The take of exchanging him for the ev book is the most cotmîwehensiVoý small brother of Big Head, his best collection of En*Iglish pla's. (exclusive friend, but the families soon straight - o laepae ee ulse o ened that out. And un the end, it class use., ishe who has the proud triumph of, teaching, his little brother to taik. Writes New Book Miss Lattimore's success in writ- ing and dnawing for children, rests John Erskiîîe. author of Bceo f langely in hen ability to convey1 in Arts, novel of coilege life, is also the simple words and few strokes real author of a syndicated' critical article, children in a very reaL world. released by- the ILedger syndicate of ROUNDABOUT: another Sandy Cove stor_,% by Alice Dalgliesh. Illustrated by Hildegard Woodward. Melln 1934. What happened when Ann and hen mother went to*Sandy Cove 'to live in, the little house Uncle Enos. Moorehead bequeathed to Ann.> A pleasant, well iilustrated story which children of '8 or 10 who enjoyed Bie Tea pot. will welcome. (IOOD FRTEND S: By Margery Williams P,!aineo. Lithographg hy Grace Pauli. V: Iinrg Press, 1934. When old Mn. Hicks broke his leg and had to go to the hospital, the animnais, Rosie, Rhoda,' Rufus and ail the rest, stayed on at the farm, for no one could take them aIl in and they nefused to be sepa- nated. This amnucing, matter of fact Philadelphia ini which he warnis against pampering in schools. toô manv courses and a lack of intelligent. focus on the function of educatioti. Mr.' Erskine's latest book. to b e published ini Octoher, is Helen Retires. sequel to his fam-ou,; Publication Date Postponed Alfred Neumann!'snew novel. An»- ollier Caesar. which Alfred A. Knopf had, announced for publication early this fail. will instead lie publislicd shortly after the first of the niew vear. tale, in which it is taken for-grqnted that animnais talk, is remi nigée-'nt of Brooks To and A gain. Illustrations portray, successfully, the humorous quality of book. A6 w 1 Author cf Life of Edison Discovers, 'Lest' Grandfather Though William A. Sinioncis, author. of Ifidison, His Li<c, His Work, His Genius, published thiis month, makes no pretense of being a detective in the Sherlock Holmes sense, hie is nevertheless proud of the sleuthing by which hie discovered a grandfather of Thomas A. Edison, totally overlooked by. other biog- raphers and lost to the world for two generations. The old gentleman, discôvered by researches of Mr. Simonds. was Captain Samuel Edison, borni near West Orange, N. J., about 1767. As a boy lie accompaniied Iis fainuly into exile in Canada. Ini 1804 hie married Nancy Stinipson. Their son Samnuel, Ir., was Edison's father. Samuel Senior. according to '.\r. Simonds, and as described'in the new Edison biography, wvas a colorful figure. He becàme the head of the Exiled Edison clan in Canada and fought against the United States in the war of 1812. The old homestead built by Captain Samuel is now one of the treasured relics re-erected in Henry Ford's Greenfield Village at Dearborn. .Mr. Simonds' first suspicion that something was amiss in the accepted genealogy of Edison grewv from a study of the birth records. Later an exhaustive research in Canada re- vealed the grave of the lost grand- father. Mr. Simonds' ne%%- lufe of Edison is based primarily on original sources,