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1724 Orringte Gr*. 0Z27 The ýForty ý,Days., of Musa' Dag4h FnÀiqZWERFEL Tildebook muat spcak for jeself. No bie.f sentencee can couvey its ecihenent, its richuesal, ha power., It neod only ho said ber. that.ià narrates the. heroîe dram. of a ýlit- tle bad of people cut off rom the oU. t preserve their lives, their heritage, and their Christian fajîli. Frai. Werfel ha. made a universel 7.atau of comme. pmapriftoe, prowess, hope and devotiom. CRANDLEI»S Fountain Square Evanstoe sney is the efflorescence of the American middit class. Hlitherto tbis -epocb bas been con. spicuousy neglected-a deiciency whicl is, now eliminated by Mr, . Branich's ex- cellent suryey of the days of cast-iron batbtubs and bathos. The'book. is pro- fuselY and appropriately illustrated by amu"sing contemporary material. In T.hey B ail the 14est, Mr. Quieti ,sets forth an epic of rails'and cities ini terms-ïfie-pr songIities, of. those vis- ioayand often piratical men whc transfornied the fronitier West into the W~est we know today. In this manner be chronicles tbe rise of our great chies beyond- the Mississippi as they sprang up aniid a sprawling. web of track. Founded upon exhaustive research, bere savome hich miust take its place as a distiniguished contribution to Amiericana. Here is a volume of permanent worth. Poems b' North Shore Woman Are Published, josephine Turck Baker of Evanston, editor of Correct English . Magazvrn, and author of many books on English, has had ber collected poems published by Brentano's under the titie, Songs of Triumph. The- volume is now on sale le .1 Trimrph <.>er Leatk. in an introduction - "Poetry ()I Od and New"-tbe author states that "The spiritual growtb of a people is reflected in i ts poetry-tbat is, truc peetry, for true poetry is emotional and- is con- ce rned witb tbe tbings of tbe spirit. It is the measure of spiritual power. It is the index that marks off the nobl-' est desires of the heart." New Novel by Laver .Partly it is the autobiography of an American. farmer's, wife, who jour- neyed forth ihto the irrigated sage-. bruh desert of southern Idaho;,it is also the story of Mrs. Greenwood's busband, family and community; furthm er it is a human document wh ich grows gradually into a sociaàl'history of the peple typical of our national agrticul- ture Offsetting a note of harsbness, cruel- ty, -andtragedy,. is a chroniicle of per- sistence and courage, and undaunted sense of humor 'wbich lends to thé volume a vigorous, earthy, epic quality that is 'to be rarely encountered in modern writing. Mrs.. Greenwood bas ber own ideas on many subjects, and as you close bier book yon, will prob-, ably exclaim, 4"whewl-" ,1ý..1..11 Nobel Peaç* Priw Winner The Nobel Peace Prize for 1933 bàs just been awarded to Sir Norman Angeli 1ssmultaneously witb the 1934 award to Artbur Henderson. The pres- entation was made on December 10 at Oslo before a- distinguished audi- ence at the Nobel Institute. In the absence of Sir Normian Angeli the prize was presented to the English Minister for him. Sir Norman bas for thirty years. as author and economist, been trying to convince the world of the madness of war. In The Grrat Illu- sion befor.e th&e World war and The U;t.ee;t Assassins in1 1932 lie, wrote of the, j'roblems of peace and wair in the modern era., In 1933, the year for whicb the Nobel Peaoe Prize bias now been awarded to bim, appeared his niost receint book, Prom Chaos toa('ont roi in wbicbh le stressed the need for ef- forts to rnaintain peace. The award of the Nobel. Prize turns the limeligbt on Sir Norman's helief s as expressed in FroiÀ Chaos ta Control. Book-of-h.-Month formed triendships wîth in his new volume, "Prom TheM Till Now.- Covering a period of over sixty _Vears here is a rich and varled book of reminiscences, written 4y a vital and significant personality and teeming with important 'events that have occurred both, in America aùd:Europe. Cutting loose from b is Massachusetts. home at an early age, Colonel Barnes first y en-' tured forth into the' West, then grad- uated from Princeton and subsequently, plunged into a world of life and letters wherein hie1 met writers, musiciansi painters, scuiptors, playwrights, actors, and social personages in the glamorous Manhattan of a day now past.' Included. in 'the volume, also, is' a fascinating, accounit of the author's ex- periences as a newspaper correspondent du.ring the Spanisb and Boer wars, and of bis active service during the World war where as, a ranking officer he was able to gather much -now that it tan be told"o information. '"Wifhfr theGates'Is Popular in New York, Sean O'Casey's lateat play, WitA- in the Gates is going so well at thée National theatre in New York that it looks as if Mr. O'Casey may realize his ambition to visit the famous art ga11eries of Europe. Up to now, he says, he had nio money for travel and London is the only great city be knows outside of his native Dublin. Mr. O'Casey came tQ America to sce the opening of his play and it has re- ceived high praise froan both the literary and dramatic critics. Bob Davis Goes fo Mexico Robert H. (Bob) Davis, noted col- umnist of the N. Y. Sun and the author of Bob Davis at Largý, eighth in bis stries of travel. books ýdepa rted Christ- mas Eve for thie City of. Mexico f rôm which point he will cover the Republie .f Mexico in sear.cb of copy for his riinth volume.le is accompanied by îis camera and will add new faces t'O his collection of pbotograpbic portraits, now aggregating more than 1.200' rt Storiem ran Bunin, winr.er of the Nobel ,e for literature i 1933, bas a new me of short stories called The hin Affair, which Alf red A. Knopf publish early in February. s Stmme .332 T ï