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BOOKS fSr Clistmas Christmas Cards Loaders in stylé. MAGAZINE SUDSCRIPTIONS 1724 Orrington Avé.,GPs.ý 0227 Orrington ,Hifel BIdgý. Evinston 66FORTY DAYS 0F MUSA DAGH"P' By FRANZ WBR.IFEL ReleaSed Nov.,30 It'a the big ncews for lDeqçsuIer Books. First &litions for Adpaucr' Orders. CEANDLEReS lountain Square Evanston s pers Llutch came ai bought "Manhadoes- Isianci of thse 1-lills," froim wliich came the iiaine Manhattan. Iu picturesq ue, *dramatie syhelgeunfolds series *of historical, sketches,. and thereby tells, *the story of this reaakable city..-, The book, is unique for. its'intro- duction of littie known, information; for instance,, that there is evidencé of the Belgians having founlded New York; also, the French. Likewise, the name Amenica probably came from. Ri chard Ameryk, an En'glishmai,'who helped the Cabot expeditions., The. volume is filled with stirrinigperson- alities: Peter Stuyvesaiit,. Wasbiug- toFranklin': Hamilton, 'the, grea Eulsh and 'the French Genérals,. Fulton, and many others, -and the ^au- thor fias that peculiar powver of mak- ing you feed that you are in their presence. The work concludes with the year 1835, the thne of thec great' ire, wýhen Old New York was burned. ife Preceding Civil Wam QuOe Of the wittiest and most sophis- ticated books of the year is "The Sentimental Years"' by E. Douglas Branch, a social history of the twenty- five years preceding the Civil Wam. Not only, does the author preseut a gallery of signiicant personages .Of Robert Hillyer; zvjpner of tihe 1933 Pulitzer Poetry prize, wil make his initial afl>earançe in Chi- raqo 1-'idu evjening, Aovneber .ýô, w/elle he wvill give a lecture at thse Chicago W1,oena,,s club unsder aus- piresof the Chicago Teachers roi- lege. Tro Infroduco Hérr Kisch " Egon E rwin Kisch, long famous in Europe as a roving reporter, author of rnany best sellers in Germany, once, Revi.mmd by Vot MCDOr, nid Long- ago there was a rhyme written about tbree littie kittens who lost their mittens: the above story about, Gally-and Golly and Kaptain Kidd gavestbe aventres of a groupf threie littie, modern kittens at the Pair. They did flot lose their mittens as was stated in the rhyme of long ago; i fact tbey.didn't loâe anytbinig, but they rau away, causing their father and mother,, Lord" and Ladyý Sugarfoots, a great deal of worry. It ail happened carly onevig when a strange te dwarf, a gaden gnome, appeared before Gaiahad and told himi that hie would bc missi ng a wonderful thing. if lie did flot sec the fair. He practically told Galahad, hie must gzo, and. just as thé, gnome went off bie said, 'i11 sec you at the Fair after sundowni. Ask the fireflieq the way, the Fairy Police, you kniow.." So there really wasn't mucli for Gally to do or say. He wvent off for his brotbhjs, who, whpn to1d, wre de- lighted with the idea of the trip. They were shown the way to the Fair b3' the Fireflies, themselves. The littie kittens, reached, the grounds by walking, over the rocks that lay along tIhe %vater's edge,. to a big, dark pier, and thence into the Fair. They met- the garden gnome,> who had with him a hundred other littie divarfs. They ail visited the Encbanted Island, the rock garden, Fort Dearbomu. and they took a sky- inspiratlons. when rederick -von Raumer"aEuropean visitor, told his Amniicaýn hosts that he iutended to visit Niagara, he was advised to stay 't least a week, to capture its ful message. "You ill feel," said a gentleman, "quite depressed and an- nihilat.ed." And a lady added: "Thle oppressecj heart miust be relieved by tears." hf was also a day when lady poets grew in almost ev'ery bouse- hold, writing usualt-y inthe follov'ing, vein : Parnassus' top Iiever gianed reauy accepteil turee books D Kisch, 1 made an unusually'nice present1 for the first of whichl will be published the kiddies at Christmas time. in. March under the title of Chang.- The author, the former Helen Thur-. ing Asia. In this volume Kiscli bas ston, spent most of lier life in Win- written of his experiences and im- netka, :She is the daugliter of Mrs.ý pressions in Soviet Asia-Tadjikistan, Gertrude Thurstor'ôf Winnetka and Uzbekisten, and Turkmeuistau. The of the late 'Dr. H'enry F. 'rhurston, translation of the nlanuscript, made noted editor' and ivriter, and is, the by Rita Reil, bas already been received wife of Dr.. James John Monahan, and is being prepared for the printer. well known Chicago surgeon. Mrs. Monahan graduated f rcon New Trier High school and received botls Pro9jrss of Railroads ber 13. A. degrees and lber mnastem's C-- -1 )oemn by ionaro Wilkinson Over- authoi, of .Pootste1,s .on thse e, las been set to music by Russ and will be given at Mr. recit4l at Aeolian Hall ini New on December 2. -ILa I d M *1