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554 Brier PUCTURE F RAMI'NG0 PitgaRestored-FrameRepaiTed EtchngsPrins-P*aintinp, Ddîvery Servi ce-Estimates Fr. Phoe. UenIvrty 0770, 1729, SHERMAN AVENUE Rosai.e Roach Fassett ln$loes *Furniture, ANTIQUES AND MODERN Wall anid Foor Coverings SlipCovem: Gay T*rnr.ce Futniture 920 N. Mchigani Av*., Chicago SPUCIAL LOW'PRICES for Augusi ' Qny Edyth Diedrich's Jaus Methed of Reducinq hanci to juveniie books in the iast Ie% years, and has done so with uncom >mon success. With bis earlier attempts. Bér- tram and His Punny Animnais, ùow in its fifth ediionl,, Rand McN ally have just' brought out a'second book in. the serïes. The tâtie is Bertram and His; Pabuloùs Animiais. . Mininie H. Rouissef and Barbara May- nard have illustrated the covers and ihe text wïth ,innumnerable bumorous draw- ing's that add a great deal to'the interest of the story book. Bertramn is a littie boy, with a -baby brother Sam, a mother, and a father who. is à traverling salesman. While father is outi-of-town Bertramn is, always want- ingz and getting strange. animais that cause not a f ew, family difficlties., Fa- ther, cornes home to straighten things out. Bertram,- and Sammy,. and mammfa, and caddy, incidentatly, are a very nor- mal and for that reason very funny fami- ly-, andl tley do al*he usuaI 4uêny things that ordinary familles get themselves into. Bertram., by the way, is endowed with quite a remarkible imagination. equal only to. the imagination of Paul Gilbert who wrote the book and thought up aIl the fabulous animaIs that flertra m was fascinated with. If you don't believe in imaginative fic- tion for children, you won't be an advo- cate of the Bertram series, for they are full of it. Perfectly ridiculous, entertain- Paitl T. Gilbert, 554. Brierstreet, Kenilu'orth, .whose former venture in the field of juveiiite fiction, "Ber- tramn and I-is Funny Animais,>' met with popularity, has brought out the sieconîd ioôof th ile *erfes nde*r the titie, "J3ertram and J-is Fabuious Aniimals."~ The publisher is Rand McNalIy& Company of Chicago. Airplane in Plot A recent announcemnent f rom England stated that the British have developed a new'bombing plane which is construct- ed on geodetic principles. This happens to. be the nature of the airpiane which, Constant Xvinpli, and nine years later repeated this success when she wrote the'play. "Escape Me Néver." Randoni House lias recently brought out bier latè'st novj\el, Togethier and Apart. \ý-itb the, announcement that, future: novels b". Miss Kennedy will. appear iii Americai under tbeïr itiiprint.' !Divorce a nd re-marriage in a family ni câltured * sophisticated People is analyz-d %vith, unusual insight. in Together anid A part. 'Miss Kennedy's reputation a< an.autboress assures a piece of fiction W'ell knit. well written, and.of sustaincil, human interest. Her characters are. clear- lyý defiuied and, ber dialogue alive and' sînootb. Betsy Canning and ber busband, .Aluc( determiine upon divorce as the only solu- tion of their differences, or ratber Bet,ý\v determines; upon it, and Alec ýis forced by her into -an agreement. They -have thýree cbildren, 'a mother apiece. anld numferoius friends and associates, al f wboni eventually are swept, for one rcea- son or another, inta jthe strong play if humnant emotions which swirl .viciouslv about the breaking up of a family. .Divorce had seenied so Simple, and ~ reasýonable to Betsy. In the end. 4w,-, quite as mucb as everyone else involvécd. is inade to sufer. Shé cornes to ai realization that separation cani îîever he a quick and final solution of domiestic disbarniony. Too rnany other lives arc bound up in a marriage, especially ai marriage in which there are chilreni. 'I Wils- edge i, aid a wini ýýi. i*youU , ant story book. ..the New -Rimless Spectacle &COMPANY union. 1Betsy celberately marries money. The children shift for themselves, or- make the heartbreaking choicé of living ivith one parent or another. 'Miss Ken- nedy vbas drawn coldly, yèt compassion- ately many of the most unfortunate epi- sodes in the life of a divided family. In Heart of Congo Great Motter Forest, publislbed nlow in seven languages, is thé exciting ac- counit of Commander Attili.o Gatti's. ex- 105N. Wabash Ave. 78 E.,l o aai t