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it have alreacly been bouight by .Methuen, who plan to ptiblisli it iri London this Spring. Dey THORNNWILDBR J. B P 'u.ysa- "lun My opinion Thorn- tôon, Wldées bout b o ok ~A, .modern American Don Quix. ote illed wit a fine tender irony, penc- train. umr, end vivid pictures of the coontemporary Amer- icau scene." CIIANDLEIUS F ountain Square Evanstoin !)esiqn Order and lutelli ' ence in Nit- ture. written by fourteeîi eminent scientists and compiled by Frances Mason, who also compiled the very successful volumpe Cr<'ation 13-liV I.i- Henry Fairfield Osborn, honorary president of The AmericatiN fuseum of Natural History, savs: "Mrs. Mason seems to have a genius for en- listing the interest. of mnensiof hiigh standing and 'real originality and iii- dependence of thougbt. Also, she seems to have prophétie insight into the mnovements. of biological thought, as manifested, both in ber title and ber. list of contributions." Lloyd Morgan, .McBride, 1)riesch. Oliver Lodge, J. Arthur Thomson are amiong the contributors. New Boer Novol Depicf s Semi-Urban Bourgeoisie joban Bojer, the emînent. modern ýçorwegian autlior, bias contributed one of. bis most distinguished îîovels ini The flotise ai îhc Sea: H1ere is tlhe hitherto untold stor%, of what happenled in the Scandinavian couintries when the' war brought prosperity-ot:i-the wildest speculative sort and the armistièie pricked the balloon of sces Against this ba ckground the author contrasts the lives of two men-tite honest, plodding Nygaard and the nieteoric Prani (reminiscent of Kruger). Just~ Ol/n 1t'lker ao f 'innetka, has ha<l lier fil-si volume of Poelr-v Pub- lished by the J)orrapice compani' nI Philadeiphia. Hep- book, 'Poeine (if IVyalusipiq,' is No. 122 in the (on~'porrvPocts iof Lrrz<-1 I% cCormick,, publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune. After the pas- sage of years, and after a continuing tradition of miitary historians, rang- ing from Lord \Volseley in Europe, to john Cadmian Ropes in America, and, more recently;' to Captain Liddel Hlart, the great.modern English bis- torian, Colonel McCormick now takes the challenge, and contends that Iegendary evidence'has obscured the truc geiis of our foremost -war- timie 'hero of ail American history, He does this in, hisweIl documented and c ompreheènsive volume Uly'Issi-s S. Grant. Titi Great Soldier ofaiimer-' ira. published hy D. .Appetfon-Cen- tury. company. "For the libemals," say's Colonel Mc- Cormick, "the figure of Lincoln, fils the entire horizon. This man, about wbom more, books have been written than any other except Christ, has blanketed ail, bis democratic contern- poraries. Overshadowed as a dcemo- cratic bero Grant had littie to offer' tii the aristôcrats.' Onî the oflier hand Robert E. Lee, as the son of General 'Ligbthorse HarrY" Lee, as graîîdson-in-Iaw of M.%rs. 'Washing- toin. andý as an aristocratic Virginia landiuolder, although be lost thé war, %vas aceorded every circumstance that would give him the triump i in history that evaded him in life. Children's. Classics Set. Ient nvl Additions to the Braille. Books Permission lias been given to thie Library. of Congress to put.,four more Appleton-Century books .iii, Braille, su that they wilI 'be available to0theý blind. One of these is Ivms fOr Praise ad Service, edited by H. Augustine Smith, and it is interesting to note that this volume and' a Cath- Sne wvas bonit near the littie town of Wyalusing. \Vis., whiere shie spent lier girlhoud. It is froni the ricli store of lier miemories of tItis couîntry slIe knew anid loved thiat slie lias written lier poemns. Thiey are I ile poemis, unpretent ous. andi of a quiet tone. 'l'is t)it,, eiititled -A Rail Fenice," is a goOd examlple of thîe Collection a ileisa Il'.. the children's book shelf. One -of ~h reasoils tindoubtedîry is that ilhe present day child bias so mnany more books f romi which to choose. Tie ive Lttle Peppers ,eries, for example, bas sold 2,60;,975 copie sinc the l)egifining 'of Publication. in .1881, according to recent annotîcenient bv Lothrinp Lee and Shiepard. Thiefirst, volume of the series, Pive Lýitiei Pep- pc)rs. and Ff ou. Th.ey Grew, bas sold. 1 1 10,000 Copies in three different Ryte DechieI. dge Veut. 100 Shneta end p 100 Egnvlopes........ $ 1 box w h oogram or addr... 1724 Orringion Ave., Grm. 0227 Another Fine Book ]BOUT- Halliday Sutherland bas achieved as usntogi fine a book as ber Arches of thse Years >pin A Time ta Keep, just publ'ished by Mp ~Morrow. It jis, brimnful of urbane arîec- I UiMu. dotes, strange people and shrewd'Scotch observations.